I travel for work. I 90% of the time park in economy at the airport (I think $14 per day). about a 10 to 15 min walk. A few times out of necessity to catch a flight I park in the garage (I think $24 per day, 5 min walk). Usually 2 to 3 day trips, not a huge expense.
My boss suggests I park in Off Site Shuttle parking (about $11 a day, but a pain in the ass as you need a bunch more time to plan for the shuttle). He said he does it, because it is cheaper for the company (which he owns).
One day while walking through the garage from on site economy, there in the reserved parking (closest and like $40 per day) is my boss's truck. And reserved takes planning, he wasn't just running late and needed to park in the garage to make a flight.
I just put my business card under his wiper. I never brought it up, and I haven't heard any complaints about parking on my expense reports since.
merr_99 · 313 points · Posted at 18:49:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your boss isn't very cognizant of time value of money; if he's concerned about $9 for a 3 day trip, and you're spending 30 mins each way for the shuttle, he's saving $9 for a half hour of work, and considering you're traveling via air, I'm sure your time is valued at more than $18/hour.
If I were him, I'd want my employees optimizing the reliability of being on the flight instead of optimizing the cost, because missing the flight is a much greater expense in both time and money.
Because the 10 minute walk vs 30 minute walk has no bearing on his pay because he may be salaried and in the real world it's not going to have any effect on his productivity either as far as his employer is concerned.
Here is the thing about travel...It is unpredictable. Going to the airport and there is a crash on the expressway that holds up traffic is out of my control. Flat tire is out of my control. All of the economy parking is full and I would need a shuttle is out of my control. The extra 15 min I spend at the office dealing with an issue so I can leave an travel is (for the most part) out of my control. Bad weather and flights being canceled are out of my control. TSA back up is out of my control. The damn luggage handling system breaks and everything at the airport is backed up is out of my control.
These are all things that have caused me to almost miss a flight.
When possible, I do get to the airport early, and just find a desk to work at. That isn't always possible.
Well, when your boss is making you park in the farther lot so you're not paying as much for parking, it's no longer a matter of whether or not you deserve to keep the job, is it?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:46:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Clearly no one that's answered has traveled for work on an airplane. You don't go to work then go to the airport. You go to the airport from the house. You don't work first right up until the second you leave for the airport. A fifteen minute swing on travel time to the airport for what is likely a several hour flight doesn't register as wasted time for the employer.
I know this because I literally send employees on air travel trips. I don't expect my people to work when they wake up, go to the airport, work at the gate, work on the flight, work in the cab on the way to hotel, etc.
Uhm, I work at a law firm and this is literally exactly what happens. Lawyers go to the office and work until it's time to leave for their flight, work in some capacity on the way to the airport, work while waiting for the plane, work on the plane, etc. Many clients won't pay for travel alone, the firm eats that cost. They'll only pay for the time you actually bill to the work you're actually doing. And if you're busy, you can't afford to be "wasting" that much time anyway. So please don't act so sure of yourself.
Its not about the calculations, salary is a flat rate regardless of the amount of time worked. Whether OP spends 10-15 minutes walking or over 30 getting to the airport he gets paid the same, so the boss doesn't care how much longer it takes because he's not getting paid any more for the longer trip.
7zrar · 16 points · Posted at 23:49:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Along the same line, it doesn't matter if OP spends 10 minutes walking or the whole workday, since the boss pays OP the same either way. Might be something wrong with that logic.
He put his card on his bosses windshield to let him know that, "hey, I saw you parked in a $40/day spot, and i know you are full of shit about putting up with the inconveniences of parking in the $11/day spot you said you used." Simple, effective, tactful, and elegant in a way.
No, and over all the guy isn't a dick. He is a person. Not the best boss I have ever had, not the worse. This one incident doesn't mean I hate my job, or hate my boss. I love my job, and my relation with my boss is improving. This is just an item we disagree on, and I caught him on the wrong side of his previous statement to me.
laxt · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your boss is a douche, even if he wasn't lying. Glad you caught him.
[deleted] · -103 points · Posted at 00:22:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You also said once that you won around £8 million in the lottery and never need to work again in your life, but at the same time couldn't justify spending £60 on Football Manager.
You also allegedly know the Cumbox guy even though you live in Bournemouth, according to your comments.
Something here smells of bullshit, and it sure isn't my shoes.
Stunto · 24 points · Posted at 01:10:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He used the £8 million lottery win to start his very successful company. He spends low, which explains the reluctance to spend £60 on anything. He's jet set (but parks off-site to save money), so living in Bournemouth wouldn't stop him knowing the Cumbox guy.
A hint if you ever do own a company: A boss who's extravagant with the company's money when it comes to his own needs, yet chisels his employees over a couple of dollars, is not a well-respected boss.
I don't think you would have a successful business with either the spend low or fire your ass attitudes.
If you did have a business, and you at every perceived slight you to the opportunity to "fire your ass", you would have no employees. Ever. People would quit, or get fired. No one wants to take a job that has had a lot of turnover because of bad management.
Business run on people with all their strengths and flaws. Embrace their strengths and mitigate the damage of their flaws to be successful. "Fire your ass" is not a path to success.
Oohhh boy. So in college I had this friend who was a very good pole vaulter. Seriously, one of the top in the state for his division. This was back in 2008. He tells ALL of his family, and friends, and even his boss that he was recruited to compete in the Beijing olymipcs. Well his close friends, including myself already call bullshit but when the "day" comes he is nowhere to be found. In fact, we didnt see him for a couple of days, and he started texting pics from Beijing. So we were doubting ourselves a bit. Then we were driving along the freeway, and guess whos broken down on the side of the road like 2 days after he left? Mr olympian! When we pulled over the look on his face was priceless. He stood by his story too, and said because of the time difference he already went and came back. Haha he's a fucking idiot. I still dont know what he had to gain from such an elaborate bullshit story.
Also, isn't the olympic pole vaulting competition shown on TV? Wouldn't people who personally know one of the alleged competitors be likely to tune in to watch the competition, no matter what time it aired, or at least catch the results in the news the following day?
he was clutching straws at this point. But get this, his boss (aka my friends uncle) approached me in like 2012 and asked if he really went. When I said hell no, he was like I KNEW IT!
Some people are just shitty people who enjoy the attention they get through lies. Lots of teenagers do it, especially teenage girls. Some people are immature enough to keep doing it into adulthood so they seem cool and interesting when they are in fact not super cool or interesting. Not everything is deep.
I was raised being told my Father won gold and silver in the 1956 Olympics. When I got older it occurred to me that I could look it up. Nope, just an insanely narsassitic father and delusional mother. My siblings are just now realizing this in there 50s.
I don't know about pole vaulting for sure but you gotta go a year in advance to qualify and be checked out and set up. Plus you gotta go back every month for 5 months and the last 7 months they set you up with a living quarter where you stay and train and eat there. Like I said though I don't know about pole vaulting I just know this to be true for boxing.
You also have to qualify make it through the olympic trials. The standards for the trials are wayyyyy better than your average high school state champion’s height.
Pretty good friend of mine in senior year Trained a lot for marathons and made us all believe he was going to Beijing as well. He had a solid build up so when the time came, he didn’t show up at school and we were eager to see him on TV.
Suddenly after a few days his Mom called me and asked if I had seen him. I am totally confused and said “erhm... he is... in Beijing?”
The only logical reaction to that answer from her perspective was “are you bullshitting me? Tell him to come home” and I honest to god didn’t know where he was.
I tried calling him quite a bunch of times, texted him after some research the official list of the country participants and asked for an explanation.
Turns out he just had a fight with his mom
And ran away from home and stayed with his aunt.
In our friends group this wasn’t tolerated and sure enough some of them didn’t forgive and never talked to him again. I did after a while and we’re still pretty good friends. He hasn’t lied since.
A similar thing happened to a friend of mine in college, except he didn't have to lie or plagiarize anything, just work harder.
He was writing a final paper for a philosophy class, and he had chosen a topic that seemed vague enough that he could skim a few papers and wrote something convincing. I think it was the social effects of AI or something like that.
Anyway, he's going to cite the main paper he's working from, and it was written by his professor who just so happens to be a leading voice on this topic.
Haha, when I was an undergrad someone warned me "don't write on your professor's specialty."
Really though that's bad advice, since professors love it when you write on their topic. Yeah, you can't be sloppy about it, because they'll recognize any mistakes, but they're usually pretty happy to dork out over the subject with you.... and if you go to grad school, it's all about finding a professor who is an expert on the topic you want to write about.
Any advice on how to get away with doing shoddy work in college should make you suspicious. The whole point is to come out with new knowledge and skills. This basically boils down to "how to punch yourself in the dick without getting caught."
I know your last sentence is just to illustrate your point, but if any one actually knows how to punch yourself in the dick without getting caught, please let me know. I've been struggling with this for years.
I only BS the busywork. Research papers? Na. Im paying to learn so I'll take the harder road. Paid off. A in my English class and was told by 3 professors in the department I should modify my essay for publication.
I learned some better techniques and gained epic amounts of confidence.
Had an english teacher in back in year 9 who noticed that the essay the kid was reading out was super advanced compared to the kids english level. He searched up a sentence and finished off the last paragraph for him. I have never seen a kid go so red.
I taught high school for 6 years and almost always caught kids plagiarizing. One year I had caught a handful of kids and let all of my classes know that I had a bunch of papers that would be getting zeros because of it when a kid approached me after class to ask if his was one of the papers. I hadn’t gotten to his yet, but it made it easy to check his.
Haha, the Canadian government literally did this a few years back, when they got their hands on some leaked European bank records for people who were hiding assets.
"We have the names of 150 people who were banking in Switerland, who are going to jail for tax evasion, unless you make a deal."
Needless to say more than 150 people made plea bargains with the Canadian government.
I witnessed a Professor speaking to a student about plagiarism. Turns out that the student had plagiarized an essay that the Professor himself had originally written. Student was asked not to bother coming back to class and was reported to the Dean.
One of my English professors was reading a paper a student wrote. She had a hard time following so she started reading it aloud at home, with her husband in the room. The paper was over some civil engineering project, and the husband is a civil engineer.
Her husband was reading the exact same paper that this student "wrote" at the same time my professor was reading it aloud. He almost got away it. He failed the class, his last semester.
Man... well, he was probably plagiarizing all the way through, I doubt it was his first time doing that. Most schools too will have you expelled, and then good luck getting admission anywhere else, it's like the academic version of a felony conviction.
Muphsi · 3 points · Posted at 18:57:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's best relation to what it is. You get one cheating "charge" all the schools don't want you.
I've found that to rarely be the case where I am. I've actually proved a handful of my classmates were cheating twice and they either got slapped on the wrists or nothing at all.
Specifically a female engineer I knew. They've got to keep their numbers up I guess.
Similarly, in grade 12 English the teacher starts reading exactly what the student was reading because he found where the student had plagiarized from. Made him finish the presentation too and he was almost crying the whole time.
Muphsi · 3 points · Posted at 18:58:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you're going to cheat. Atleast be smart about it.
Right? I used to get away with cheating all the time, because I was smart about it.
First, instead of just copying another essay word for word, I would look up a couple different articles in the same subject, and sort of combine them.
Then, I would take all the different articles I had looked up, and read them thoroughly. Once that was done, I would spend a little time thinking about then, so I understood basically what they were about.
After that, I would take all the infor.ation from my multiple sources and wright a new essay in my own words, with a few differing opinions of my own to throw the professor off.
And finally, to hide my trail, I would list all of the articles I got my info from, so the professor was fooled into thinking I wasn't cheating. Worked like a charm. I was never once accused of cheating.
EDIT: See? With a little forethought, planning, and a few hours worth of work, you too can cheat your way through school. And look at me now. Gilded.
But, thank you sir or ma'am, much appreciated. Have a good day.
Haha, great tip! Reminds me of one I used to use for tests. Instead of writing notes, which can easily get you caught, you just memorize everything. I got away with cheating so many times this way
Nice! That's a really good tip! Hey, we should get together and write a book, like tips on cheating without getting caught! Like, another way I would cheat, is when the professor was talking, I wrote down what they were saying when they weren't looking. That way, I could look at them later, in case I missed anything. I had one professor who saw me doing this once, but he was cool so he just pretended it was no big deal. I was like, "sweet!"
Know a college English professor and he had a student turn in a paper that he wrote. There's some funny event to go along with it but I don't remember. How can someone be so lazy that they manage to do that.
I work in the customer framing department at a craft store and there's this one woman who always talks down to all the employees. Her husband is rich and she shouldn't be kept waiting blah blah blah (She was waiting for like five minutes because I was helping another customer) and she just keeps trying to get ridiculous discounts.This glass has a scratch on it? Oh, sorry, I'll just replace it real quick. Nope. She wants to be upgraded to museum glass (a $90 difference) because I made her wait a few minutes to fix a scratch that only she could see. I'm pretty sure she got off on being a bitch because if I can't understand why she would come back several times for different pieces if I was really such a terrible worker.
Anyway, she came in one day with a painting she wants re-framed. And then emphasizes that it was her grandmother who painted it and it has such sentimental value. Also, her grandmother was a professional painter so it's probably worth like so much money.
It's a generic painting of flowers in a vase and I'm like 80% sure at that point it's not really that old. She's just playing it up so when she gets the art back she can point out a flaw in it that we caused and she can demand we give her the whole frame for free.
So I'm taking the canvas out of the old frame and she's reminding me that it's super valuable. I take off the dust cover on the back and lo and behold there's a sticker already there: Clearance: $19.99.
I wish I had a photo of her face when she saw that.
I used to work in a frame shop at a craft store too. Holy cow the stupid stuff idiots would try and pull. My favorite lady to cause issues had the worst last name... Buttdorf. She would be the biggest pain in the ass and whenever she came to pick up a painting she would never say her last name out loud, only spell it.
[deleted] · 6232 points · Posted at 15:43:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a daycare. If a child is sick they will be sent home cause we don’t want to risk infecting the whole class (generally happens anyway).
A lot parents don’t agree with this policy which leads to parents arguing with us that their kid isn’t sick when they obviously are.
My favorite time this happen was when a mother dropped her little boy off in an eye patch. Yep the toddler was wearing a damn eye patch. I ask what happened and she says he hit his eye or something. Which I didn’t really believe.
She says whatever I do don’t take off his eye patch. I pick him up and immediately lift up his eye patch.... pink eye. She was sooooo pissed at me for doing that. And she was shocked I did it.
The look on her face was so satisfying. Although I got yelled at by my supervisor for it.
Should have asked the super whether they'd rather have one pissed of parent or 30
kopecs · 1237 points · Posted at 19:33:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You arent upvoted enough for this. I take my daughter to daycare as well, and like, 40% of the time she ends up with something minor. One time, it ended up being strep throat. The god damn audacity of some parents...
Same, but the medicine I was prescribed actually tasted like bubble gum. Getting strep wasn't as shitty (literally and figuratively) as getting the flu and having to take cherry or grape flavored bullshit medicine to help with the symptoms.
Once? I am envious. I had it 3-4 times a year until I got out of elementary school. Thank god for antibiotics, my immune system was apparently slacking off.
I have never had strep in my entire life. It went around my middle school like wildfire, I don't know how it missed me.
I've had various other interesting illnesses though, like chicken pox (despite being vaccinated), a cold that suddenly turned into pneumonia (don't get that, it sucks), and mystery ulcers that resulted in a hospitalization for eight days, and eventually vanished without ever being diagnosed.
Amateurs! Until I got my tonsils out, I got it nearly every month. Then after that, I only got it 5-6 times a year. Now I'm adult, I rarely get it. I think somebody around me kept giving it back to me when I was younger.
As a thirty-something, I understand your frustration, and unsurprisingly, as a kid I didn't.
When my sister was 1.5 yrs old, she contracted viral (?) pneumonia from the daycare she was in. I don't recall all the details and would never ask my parents because it was a dark time for them. My parents unknowingly took her to a teaching hospital, she was misdiagnosed, and long story short we almost lost her. She went from being fine to being on life support in a matter of a couple days from what I can remember. I remember leaving 3rd grade early every day and saying nonchalantly to my teacher that my sister was about to die (creepy, I know... but in my defense, I was 8 y/o and didn't fully understand death or even having a sibling). I remember my parents being absolutely furious after learning about the delay in diagnosing her, which led to marital problems that continue to this day because my dad from that point forward resented my mom for trying to work and thus having to put me and my sister in daycare, after school, have a nanny, etc. I remember a counselor/SW at the hospital coming to talk to me one-on-one in the playroom at the hospital (some room with a tv and ton of toys) and she asked me if I understood how sick my sister was.
This is the first time I'm thinking about the incident in years and that's probably why I'm suddenly tearful. As an adult, I obviously resent the dick who shows up to work very clearly sick (upside to being unemployed and sick for nearly 2 years?), but when you're dealing with young children, trying to smuggle your sick child into daycare is a different level of douchiness. The potential repercussions are much more serious.
kopecs · 23 points · Posted at 02:20:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing your story. Hope you and your sister are doing well.
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 22:05:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
seriously, I went to daycare for years and never got sick. My niece regularly comes home with rashes, coughs, etc...do these people not regularly sanitize their areas?
It might actually be that their lives are overly sanitized. There's an idea floating around that we catch bugs more frequently and they affect us more severely because our immune systems are weaker these days because we don't get exposed to as much stuff when we're very young as we used to.
I wonder if that is why humans started lumping all their kids in with each other in the first place. Obviously they didn't know germ theory but they could have noticed that when raised in groups like that, more kids survived despite getting the sniffles more. If there's an anthropologist in here feel free to hop in haha
Herd Immunity I believe its called. Its why not vaccinating is so dangerous as some kids literally have to rely on Herd Immunity because of immune system failures.
Can confirm. I work in childcare and our cleaning policies are quite strict with a lot of disinfecting (especially so in the nursery). There’s a 12 step nappy change procedure with three separate hand washes and a glove change, which I find ridiculous. I stick it to the man and go in bare handed, whiz them through like a conveyer belt without disinfecting the mat a hundred times.
Science has shown time and time again that germs are beneficial to children’s immune systems and I feel like my centre’s policies don’t reflect that, so I don’t follow. But then again we can’t stop natural contamination like children drinking from another’s drink bottle, or them taking someone else’s dummy and sucking on it.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 03:37:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
just know that certain diseases can be spread via fecal matter, Hep A is a big problem on the west coast right now because of the homeless populations. I wouldn't bother washing my hands three times, but I would definitely wear gloves if it werent my kid.
That’s fair enough. For me, there’s no part of my skin that touches that child’s skin when I’m wiping fecal matter, and it never makes contact with the change mat either. I always sanitize if the mat is contaminated, but I don’t see the point of gloves and spray if neither my hands or the change mat are making contact with the child’s bottom. I do wash my hands multiple times throughout the day and use gloves to handle food, but don’t bother during changes.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 07:06:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
the 12 step process with 3 hand washing is absurd, but remember you don't see bacteria or other pathogens. I only have to wash my hands when leaving a patient's room who has something like MDRO or CDIFF, but it amazes me that once the infection has been treated, other staff don't bother to put the gown or gloves on anymore. CDIFF spores can survive for up to 90 DAYS on surfaces. I guess I'm more cautious because I see how fast infection can spread amongst people.
I managed to get CDIFF sometime about 5 years ago and wasn't diagnosed until this year, we're guessing I got it at some point when I was in a hospital after I took antibiotics that wrecked my intestional bacteria. Somehow managed to not spread it.
Meh. Hep A is incredibly mild and gives you lifetime immunity once you've had it. Better to get it out of the way at an age when nothing much'll happen.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 04:59:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you were caring for my kid and told me this, I would be a pissed off parent. Just saying. Hep A does run the risk of acute liver failure, so it's pretty irresponsible to blatantly disregard basic infection control measures. Not to mention that you don't necessarily know the other health problems these kids might have that parents don't disclose.
kopecs · 4 points · Posted at 22:21:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Idk, it makes us wonder a lot. Were about to move to Hawaii after summer, so I'm hoping our next daycare is better.
With most illnesses, you can spread them before symptoms. It may have been an innocent mistake.
kopecs · 12 points · Posted at 23:46:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fully understand that. Except we dont take her everyday. When shes happy and cheerful all week and on Friday we pick her up at the end of the day and she's miserable looking, it starts to get obvious.
What OP is saying is that maybe the parents aren't being inconsiderate by dropping their child off at daycare. Perhaps their child is sick and contagious but not showing symptoms yet so they're not aware. If I misunderstood your comment then disregard this lol
kopecs · 9 points · Posted at 02:22:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No that's probably it. I was stillaimed at the daycare. I guess if that's the case you can't really know. But deliberately? Fuck that person.
Cultural work policies need to change. I had Dad pick up sick LO because the side eyes I get if, as a mom, get for leaving work for a sick kid....
Now my former boss would never say anything but there was a definite annoyance about it. Great tiny company most of the time, but man, missing any time during the busy season was tantamount to heresy.
So...I'd both be really upset with the parents (not just the parent dropping them off) but also with the way our culture views work and how it's paramount to everything else.
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I agree. Every parent should know this. I'm sorry your kid is sick, truly, and I know you're a "busy person", but that doesn't mean I want my kid sick.
Wasn't there a fucking measles outbreak in Texas like last year? IIRC, it was caused by a bunch of antivax parents sending their sick kids to school. Then one of those kids somehow caught it, and the parents still sent the kid to school. And naturally, it spread to all the other unvaccinated kids.
Not to mention that if multiple kids got infected the media might got involved, resulting in bad PR. I think the Health Board might also be interested if that would've happened.
You sir, are what makes Askreddit what people like.
56149 · 2158 points · Posted at 19:22:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked daycare and was told to never accept babies sleeping in carseats or sleeping children at all. So if Mom or Dad brought a kid asleep, I immediately woke them up and pulled them out of their car seat. This made so many parents displeased with me but it's policy.
I used to think it was to help the kid be on a schedule then one day a grandma brought a baby asleep and he was not waking up at all. Just raise his head, whimper and go back to sleep. Immediately my boss called 911 and grandma was trying to down play "he had a rough night, he's just tired, ECT" I knew this baby, he wouldn't sleep if he thought he was going to miss out, we had music playing and kids loudly singing and dancing. In the chaos, grandma slipped out and at some point someone called the parents.
Turns out Granny had a history of giving kids stuff to knock them out when she babysat but this time she did it to a 6 month old and that's why he wouldn't wake up. I think they pumped the kid's stomach and he had a stay at the hospital. Legal actions were taken and the family moved away.
To clarify, the policy was put in place because my boss knew abusers have been known to do this. They'd break the kid's arm, dose them, dump them with the sitter who lets the baby asleep all morning then because the kid was with the sitter all day, it's easy to blame them for the baby's injury. Or worse, the baby died and they do this to blame the sitter.
So yea, to this day if I'm babysitting, I don't accept sleeping children. I flat out refuse to watch kids at their home while they're sleeping for the same reason. I've pretty much stopped doing any child care because as much as I love kids, watching parents make bad decisions on purpose, when they know better, was killing my soul.
That is truly horrible. Poor kids :( I can totally see why you have that policy.
Our daycare has a rule to greet all kids coming in regardless how early they are dropped off, just to vet their general condition before being allowed into the groups.
A system which works ok, but yet parents constantly try to leave kids with fevers, infections, tummy bugs and the like, eventhough we even got paid leave if our kids are sick... beggars belief really...
But your story that parents and carers drug their kids maliciously, just makes me shiver, talk about pure evilness...
Wtf? No. That's like saying, "I doubt he killed his wife with malice, he probably just wanted to be free of responsibility." No, that's not a reason you get to drug your children.
I mean... I wasn't excusing the behavior geez - just saying these people are usually selfish and not considering the impact of their actions. This is why I don't have children, they sound like a real pain in the ass.
ci1979 · 2 points · Posted at 06:46:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That level of selfishness is the definition of malicious intent.
I used to be friends with someone who ran a day camp at the local YMCA. He said that one of their rules was that they had to wake a sleeping kid at least once an hour, to make sure they were still alive. He said he had one camper in particular who had a medicine that made her sleepy all the time. So she slept for a solid 6 out of the 8 hours they were there. But every hour, they had to give her a gentle shake and make sure she was still responsive.
All because some kid apparently had something very similar happen - Their parents dropped them off and had already dosed them. Then they went to sleep at camp and wouldn't wake back up. Then the parents tried to blame the resulting ambulance bill and medical costs on the YMCA.
Llohr · 12 points · Posted at 02:24:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
he's just tired, ECT"
Yeah, electroconvulsive therapy can really take a lot out of you.
Once upon a time I worked for a child development center. Our hours were weird because it was the week before Christmas. This was a long time ago, so I don't remember exactly how it worked--but most of our clients were college students and our hours coincided with the college schedule. So, we were on weird hours and had very few kids in our care during this time. One mom--not a college student-brings her toddler in who is clearly sick. She told us she was desperate because her boss demanded she be at work and her husband had to work too. Our director told us to go ahead and keep him.
This poor kid was miserable. He was stuffy, feverish and just lethargic and whimpering a lot. We took turns cuddling him and keeping him comfortable. I had worked early shift--early morning to about lunch time. I got off shift and went to the mall where I had a second job at Hallmark. Guess who is there? This kid's entire family--mom, dad, and what appeared to be relatives apparently visiting for Christmas. They're Christmas shopping, having a great time and talking about where they're going to go eat. I don't think the mom even recognized me because she didn't acknowledge me at all. I was was ticked and so sad for that little boy.
Later--after having my own kids--I'd think back on that and just find myself stunned that a mom could so easily dump her sick kid at a daycare while she went off to have a good time.
That is truly awful. That poor baby. Did you guys ever call the mom on her bullshit? I wouldn't have been able to hold my tongue, she should have been shamed. What a selfish piece of shit.
We didn't. I told my coworkers and they were all livid and one of them said she'd already suspected it was something like that because the mom had previously mentioned having family in town for the holidays, and this coworker had been confused as to why the kid couldn't have stayed home with them. I told our director and she said to let it go. I had many issues with the director that led to my abruptly quitting--that is a whole other, very long story.
Um I'm pretty sure it's not so much not wanting to so much as it's about not being able to afford it. She was 100% in the wrong for what she did but let's not pretend that working parents simply choose work over being with their kids because they like it so much lol
This and a lot of jobs have very strict attendance policies. People have been fired because they've had to take off too many days due to a child's illness or unreliable child care. There's no law that says a company has to excuse someone from work because they need to take care of their kid(s).
There are a lot of things where the ethics involved in the work place is atrocious. Childcare definitely needs to be subsidized but good luck convincing people to help people pay for other peoples safety nets for children. One of my favorite parts of being salaried rather than hourly, a well explained situation to supervisor could easily mean non docked PTO, personal days and otherwise on case by case basis,as long as the work gets done(work from home). The working class are often not as fortunate to have some of those benefits. Many of those people are living paycheck to paycheck.
Exactly. Working parents have to split their sick days between themselves and however many times their kids get sick. Not to mention all the appointments/checkups. It's not easy and some jobs just don't care.
didact · 4 points · Posted at 04:32:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the illness. If it is chronic and serious, 12 weeks of job-protected leave is provided per year under FMLA. In context, pink eye or flu in an otherwise healthy child doesn't quality.
I had an employee still manage to get fired even with FMLA for his kid. All he had to do was call in and say he couldn't make it. That was still too much for him. We had a strict no call/no show policy, but I let his first one slide because I'm a nice guy. I made it as clear as I possibly could though afterwards, that he needed to call. He didn't even have to talk to me. He could call an hour or so before and just leave me a voice mail if he wanted. Less than a week later, he did it again. Then a few weeks after that he didn't answer his phone for his unemployment hearing and it became the only time I ever "won" one (they were almost impossible for the employee to ever lose). He was on his way out the door before his child got really sick anyway, but the FMLA was a good chance for him to be able to hold on to his job longer. His complete lack of a work ethic was just too overwhelming to overcome, I guess.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its not really about the cost of treating of pink eye but the cost of missing work hours. Missing a day of work can cause huge issues for ppl so I don't really get what you're trying to argue.
It’s not about affordability. If they can afford daycare they can afford a day off to take care of their kids, so that 30 other families don’t have to also take time off
I agree, if your child is sick, and you need to take off work to care for them than infect their classmates, do it. However, some people work jobs where if they don't have PTO banked and they take time off, they can be penalized. Working a full time job, the company expects you to be working a certain number of hours a week because the company provides benefits beyond paid time that may not be available or available to a lesser degree to part timers. Like I had a full timer consistently working 25-30 hours a week rather than the 40 with little or no PTO for a few months. She worked part time essentially while we still provided health insurance benefits and PTO accrued for her at a full time rate. She was fired after given two chances to shape up and work the full 40.
But if they also can't financially afford the time off, they may also be receiving benefits that help subsidize the cost of child care. When I was managing a call center, I had a lot reps from the temp agency that would request I sign the employment verification paperwork for child care assistance. Temp agency paid them $10 which is the max amount they could make an hour and still receive benefits like that.
You have to pay for child care if you want to make any money. So unless your job pays less per year than childcare costs you'll make more working and paying for care than staying home. Meaning you can "afford" it. Even if it leaves you with very little money to live on.
Also, the problem is almost never about a lost day's wages. It's about losing your job entirely due to being fired for missing shifts.
If you're too broke to take care of your kid, why did you have a kid.
And if there are a ton of bad choices or just bad luck that happened to you, so you have to make in order to make your family work, hurting other people's kids should be the lowest one on your list of things to try.
Every downvote and response you've received are from shitty people in shitty situations that they have no intention of ever fixing. They judge others on their actions but themselves on their intentions.
Some people CAN'T take off work to stay home with their sick child. And it's shitty for everyone involved, from the parent, to the child, to the caretaker to the children who come into contact with the sick child. Many parents have lost jobs trying to manage a staying at home with their sick child, and it's bullshit. Many more parents can't afford to miss a full day of work to stay at home with their sick child, for so many it comes down to being able to afford to pay rent that month or staying at home with their kid for 1 (but usually more than 1) day, that on top of having to pay for the spot at a daycare whether or not the child is there makes the whole thing absolute bullshit. I'm not saying it's okay to dump your sick kid into a pit of other kids who will likely get whatever your kid has, but sometimes the options all around suck. And I say all this as a stay at home mom who doesn't have to make any of those hard choices, but so many families don't fit the mold enough to where one parent (if it is a two parent household) can take off like that.
But it's also not that dangerous and very easily treated with antibiotics. The parent could get it diagnosed and begin treatment in under an hour at any urgent care. With the proper medicine, it starts to go away after two doses of medicine. By the third day of treatment, it's like you never had it. Makes no sense why it wouldn't be treated to the point where no one would have noticed.
eegrlN · 12 points · Posted at 02:23:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's contagious for 24 hour after starting treatment, and before symptoms show. She may have just started treatment.
I used to work in a daycare and had a similar policy. We had a parent who picked their kid up. He was shaking, vomiting, and had had a few accidents. She brought him back an hour later saying the doctor said he was fine.
I also remember one child had rubber bands in their BM . The parent made a big fuss about how it wasn’t that big of a deal and they did it all the time.
We had parents who would yell at us when their baby was sick and we told them to not bring their kid in. Like, a year old baby constantly screaming with green boogers coming out of her nose? Not happening in an infant room.
One parent was so pissed that we told her to come pick up her kid because she was obviously sick, talking about how dare we call, she can’t take off work every time she was sick (this kid also bit every other baby she could get a hold of when she could) . My manager did not care because she was badass and cared that the other children (18 babies between the 4 of us) didn’t get sick.
Good on you to lift up the eye patch! If your kid is sick- take care of them!
that's awesome. i'm picturing the woman's face as karen's face, and what a priceless look of shock! my kid's daycare has this policy, and it doesn't seem like some parents give a shit. pink eye, lice, scabies, something different every week. it's supposed to be a great daycare!
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 21:10:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was priceless. I know I shouldn’t have done it but I was pretty sure she was lying about the eye patch.
I have 2 kids as well so I know how quickly one sick kid can get the rest of them. I try but it’s hard to catch them before they infect everyone else.
Damn I can't believe your boss yelled at you. Pink eye is contagious and I know you knew that.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:42:21 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
You've obviously never worked for a daycare. Most directors only care about profit. Better in their minds to infect all the children than to lose a customer.
My son has to wear an eye patch because he has a lazy eye. I had to bring a doctors note for his teacher haha. I don't blame her, I actually appreciate it because it helps keep my son healthy, but your story just reminded of it.
My personal favorite from my work is when a parent brought in their child with spots all over their hands, feet, and mouth, with a 101 degree fever and when we told them they had to go home it was “they’re just teething”.
Yeah. No. That is textbook Hand Foot Mouth. Go home.
When I was working in daycare the same rules applied for us as well as the kids. So one time I walked out of a job because I had a stomach bug and couldn't work. My boss got furious with me because I wouldn't come in and couldn't find someone to work my shift. She didn't want to work outside of the office.
Anyway, I politely quit via email and said that she wouldn't want a bunch of angry parents when I infected them all working sick.
She was such a bitch about it when I applied for EI later in the year from being laid off from another job (if you don't have enough hours they will count your working hours from a previous job) and told the EI case worker that I quit because I couldn't get time off for a wedding. I didn't get my EI and I hate her.
I know. When they called me to tell me they believed her and not me. I told them the whole story and the guy who worked my case said it wouldn't have mattered what the reason was, the fact that I left without notice makes me ineligible for EI. This was 9ish years ago.
Other side to this story: last year, my kid's daycare made me rush home from work at least 4 times to pick up my kid because they were "sick". Usually it was that she had diarrhea, or was vomiting, etc. My kid was then banned from their daycare for 48 hours and couldn't come back without a doctor's note, which means I had to take time off work and pay for a doctor visit.
My kid got a clean bill of health from the doctor.
Every. Single. Time. Of course, I still had to pay for the days my daughter couldn't attend.
The 5th time they tried to pull this shit, I read them the riot act. I told them that I would comply, but that if the child is perfectly healthy again, I will be suing them for all my costs - daycare I paid for and couldn't attend all those times, doctor costs, tests, babysitter, etc.
One or two false alarms I can understand. Could be an honest mistake. 5 makes a pattern that can be proven in court.
They cut it out after that. I don't know why they would keep doing this, my only guess is that the daycare worker in my kid's class had it in for me - they know full well how difficult and expensive it is for parents to lose daycare access for a few days on short notice, and must have enjoyed the power trip?
I know in my country - it's a policy that they can't return for 24 hours after a vomit or diarrhea, and no doctors note required unless there's an outbreak. I can't speak for other countries or what not - but it's because educators aren't doctors and you can say "Oh it's teething/constipation/whatever" but I'm not legally allowed to accept that because I can't prove that.
To be fair, if she had been telling the truth you could have risked causing potential pain/distress to the child or even damage to the eye by removing the patch.
Satisfying as it is to catch someone in a lie, if I were your supervisor I would have done more than just yell at you.
(edit: me dun spell gud)
56149 · 94 points · Posted at 19:31:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If a CHILD is that medically fragile, then a daycare wouldn't and shouldn't let them attend. The liability of injury would be too high. Plus if it's that bad, he would need pain pills and a doctor's note or something. Eye injuries are taken pretty seriously in child care.
It could be as simple as another kid could have just as easily lifted the patch. If it needed to stay covered, he wouldn't have been safe enough to be at daycare
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 21:16:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you that’s was my reasoning too.
I do agree that there was probably a better way to handle it. Like getting my super involved. I was so burnt out at that daycare I just didn’t care if I got fired and I was pretty sure she was full of it.
I scratched my cornea when i was a kid and my eye was red and doctors told us not to remove the patch under any circumstances. I was still allowed in school as it wasnt a contagious infection. Couldve easily been the same scenario. If a non-medical professional removed the patch and it caused a problem, im sure that would be lawsuit worthy.
She shouldn't have lifted it - but her next sentence should have been "Okay - so unfortunately without a doctors letter clearing the child for care, I can't accept him. I can't guarantee his safety with an eyepatch, nor that another child (or himself) won't take it off. Sorry" and sent him home.
If she had been telling the truth the child shouldn't have been there anyway. If the eye could have been damaged by removing the patch the kid would have been at home or even a hospital.
DMCFRS · 21 points · Posted at 19:27:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup, this checks out, once I hurt my eye pretty badly and was forbidden by the doctors of seeing bright lights. If I didn't "comply" I would probably get opaque scars, which would have impaired my eyesight
It does, and if your eye needed such careful care to heal properly a daycare setting would be far, far too wild environment to keep it safe. Besides a daycare carer should never put in a medical responsibility situation (except in emergencies of course). Best place for any injured sick kids is to be with loving family carers or parents and be pampered!
I can't believe nobody in the comments has asked your medical credentials for identifying the difference between an eye injury and pink eye (which with a casual glance by an untrained observer would appear identical.) So I am calling bullshit. I get that parents will try to pull this kind of thing. But the reality is that daycare workers really have no choice but to accept a parents claim or require burdening the health care system with the need for a note. Day care workers should not be playing doctor and diagnosing children. Policies should be clear. If a child has redness in the eye and the facility decides that pink eye is means for removal (which is medically controversial) then a doctors note should be required for readmittance. Not an average worker diagnosing on the spot.
OP shouldnt have even touched the eyepatch in the first place, and sent them away since it would be a huge safety issue. There's no need to prove pinkeye or not, an eyepatch at a daycare is going to come off at some point, and if the parent insists that could cause injury, the kid shouldnt be at the daycare.
My son (our first child) started daycare in January and within about 4 weeks contracted conjunctivitis (what you across the pond call pinkeye, I believe).
No big deal, I took him to the doc, confirmed it wasn't serious and got some drops for it.
Next day I phoned nursery to check with them, as I assumed they wouldn't let him in with it (knowing it is quite contagious). They said it was fine to bring him in but if he had any medication they needed to see the PIL.
I was a bit surprised but also relieved as my wife and I both work, so not being able to put him in daycare would have been a huge pain in the ass for us.
Damn. You could have lost your job if she hadn't been lying. Eye injuries (and the healing process) are no joke. Which is why the toddler probably wouldn't have been in daycare if recovering from an eye injury.
Still, be careful when questioning medical things like that.
I agree. Parents can be irresponsible as fuck, sometimes, and I wouldn't be surprised if one has ever tried dumping their kid off at daycare with an injury like that. This situation should have certainly been taken more seriously
My family has been sick a solis and distinct dozen times this year. A dozen!! All because of people bringing their sick kids to daycare at church. My kid even developed asthma from all the chest colds. You can watch the damn service online! We've started skipping church, which sucks, just so we can be healthy again.
You can always tell, too. You walk in and there is one or two kids losing their minds screaming. A mom is muttering something about teething as she walks away.
this happens in the kindergarten class I teach so much. One boy has lice, parents don't tell anyone. boys wrestle on the carpet. now 3. boys have lice, first mom doesn't see the problem as "we're treating it at home" but now 3 boys have lice and I'm getting yelled at because one mom was too stubborn to keep her 5 year old at home for 2 days. I don't get it. But it made a hellish week of teaching
That's great and all but you for sure should have been fired.
All of you people downvoting me seem to forget the kid could have had a serious issue and negligence could have made it worse and put the company liable. Grow up.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 21:13:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually agree with you. I totally deserved to get chewed out and probably should have been fired. If the child had a legitimate medical issue I could have made it worse.
But the parent should have notified me of what the medical issues was if he had one. Then we probably wouldn’t have accepted the child anyway.
While this doesn’t justify it I was pretty sure she was full of shit.
The "real world" keeps insisting that if an eye injury is that severe then daycare environment, which is essentially a bunch of little kids with zero idea of discipline and care about each other is NOT a place for a child with this kind of trauma. Because, as stated multiple times above, the patch would have been lifted 5 minutes after the child is taken in. By other children or that child him/herself.
Your reasoning could have worked in other situations. Not this one.
"Most redditors" are also people who have their own children, had baby siblings or nephews/nieces, work in daycare or have general observations becaus ethey have probably saw kids not only on pictures. Don't discard it only in favour of your own opinion.
Parents can be stupid, though. Suppose the parent didnt even think about how dangerous it could be, the child's eye was really injured, and they still brought them in hoping the daycare would take them? If that was what was actually going on and OP did what they did, this story would be on r/TIFU instead. OP should have turned the parent and kid away because of the safety issue of an eyepatch that can't be moved. Nobody should be removing eyepatches like that after being told by the parent that it could cause injury.
It's a funny story about a lady's BS getting called out, but it's definitely not one that anyone should ever reenact themselves. OP risked legal action and possibly harming a child for the satisfaction of calling a lady's bluff, when it wasn't even necessary to do so.
Agreed. If I were on the OP's place, I would probably just send them away without looking under the patch. But I can also see where the pattern "claims there is a serious condition - cannot provide any diagnosis or description or reference - acts as if caught red-handed" just spells BS and you just know it's fake.
But that's us and then there are professionals. A friend of mine works in daycare and also has a blog (closed, invite only) where she describes her experience there. She claims that there has not been a single case when a parent who showed up at daycare actually admitted the child is sick, even if it's obvious - they always try to present it as less of problem thn it actually is. So when a parent comes in the morning and says that the child has a serious condition (not in advance, not in the file, not via the supervisor or doctor's office, just while dropping the child off), you just know 100% it's a lie.
maybe it's professional burnout, but maybe the intuition you develop when working there.
It's a funny story about a lady's BS getting called out, but it's definitely not one that anyone should ever reenact themselves. OP risked legal action and possibly harming a child for the satisfaction of calling a lady's bluff, when it wasn't even necessary to do so.
What if under the eye patch was no eye but just a hole because they eye was gouged out? How bad would you have felt?
Iokuas · 6278 points · Posted at 15:31:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a grocery store. One of my coworkers was constantly calling in sick, claiming she had one illness or another. Management couldn't just can her for it as it was a union shop, so she had protection unless she could be caught in a bald faced and indefensible lie. One Friday I get called in to cover her shift because she called in claiming she was very sick and needed a kidney transplant. On her next shift on Monday she's wandering around with gauze wrapped around her stomach and back claiming that she had that kidney transplant on the weekend. That she had been so sick that they rushed her into surgery and put her at the top of the transplant list! When she does it to me I stop her and say "Isn't the recovery time on a transplant at least a month or two? The hospital shouldn't have let you out." Realizing I've caught her in a lie she rushes to the front desk, claims she shouldn't be here and that she needs to go home or she'll pop her surgery stitches. A few days later she was fired when she couldn't provide proof of the surgery, she tried to sue but no lawyer would take her case. It was hilarious.
oRac001 · 2980 points · Posted at 20:40:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How detached from reality do you have to be to think you can fake a kidney transplant and get away with it? Wow.
Rapiero · 184 points · Posted at 23:31:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was probably thinking about appendix removal. Still takes a week to start moving properly but at least it's completely feasable.
Er... when I was college, a classmate of mine had his appendix taken out during the weekend and he was back in class on Monday because he didn't want to miss anything.
Ya I just got mine taken out a few months ago....definitely not stocking shelves the day after. I went grocery shopping the next day, but I was also high as fuck on Percocet and completely incapable of working. I did buy a bunch of weird incompatible ingredients though!
For a week it will be difficult to go to a sitting position from laying down because they cut through your ab muscles. I know because I've actually been through the procedure rather than because of some hearsay from a friend.
Lol dude check yourself. You started with the er stuff and now you are calling me the dick. The ultimate dick move is to try to label someone else as an asshole or a dick.
Lol you are rich dude. You started with the pretending not me. So you bring this shitty energy and then you try to blame me for starting it so you can be the victim. You first insinuated like I was making up that you need a week off work, when I in fact know from first hand experience that's what the doctor will give you and you need 3 weeks to be able to workout normally.
So you've started both the acting like it was made up and being a dick and now you are pretending as if I did so you can be a little victim, grow up dude. Some bitch tactics you are using.
????? I didn't say you made it up. I did NOT call you a liar. And I'm not making up my story like you implied. I just said I know someone who went back to school a couple of days after their appendicitis surgery. That's it! I didn't say he was fucking running around or doing anything other than sitting and being heavily medicated in class! And then you come back with some snarky comment when I was just fucking sharing what happened with my friend.
Did you know that... crazily enough...people can have fucking DIFFERENT experiences than you and they can both be legitimate? Fucking insane, right? It's almost like not everyone is literally you.
crazily enough...people can have fucking DIFFERENT experiences than you and they can both be legitimate?
Lol I know that you don't. You were the one starting to undermine what I said then when I did it back you go princess mode and start blaming me for starting what you started. I only returned your energy, so take responsibility for what you started and stop pretending to be a victim. You got a problem dude.
Not to be "that" person but he really didn't imply or call you a liar. He was basically saying that his friend was so concerned about missing out on anything important in class that he went back after three days. There was no sarcasim or snark or attitude in any way shape or form. You definitely went full blown asshat because you projected your own attitude and meaning on to a completely innocent, "Hey let me share my friend's story about what happened to him" type of comment. Or maybe after hearing about how long it took and normally takes to recover from that surgery he thought "Dude my buddy is a badass for pushing through like that. Thanks for sharing your experience because otherwise, I never would have known just how much badassery it really took for him to come to class. I just thought that was normal!" You read WAYY to much into a throw away comment that wasn't even that serious.
Exactly why would anyone make up something so complex and easily disprovable? If you say diarrhoea no one wants to know any more than that and won’t want you to risk leaving the house and shitting yourself
Sometimes when you just get away with shit all the time you start to push your boundaries just to see. I had a girl skip high school chemistry claiming it was her period. Eventually she skipped more and more until she was bleeding 20 days a month. She got the answers for the tests from a gay bff or hardcore friendzoned dude in a earlier class. But our test was different from theirs for the mid term and she ended up getting a 0 or a 2 or some other comically low score.
Well my girlfriends husband is almost certainly faking cancer. And she and I both know it. She's never seen any hospital papers because he says he doesnt want her to worry, but she knows whats up. Never consistent with his "treatments." She hasnt been to one doc appointment... she just laughs and shakes her head. I'm proud of her for her commitment to playing dumb. I couldn't if it were my husband. Just why lie?
How could he think that would work? Nobody tells their wife "Oh babe I have cancer, don't worry about coming to the doctor with me though I'll be grand"
Yeah, just go with a burst appendix or a tonsillectomy or some shit? You have to be something special to think you can get away with faking a kidney transplant.
I think some people get a kick of adrenaline or something similar when they pull crap like that. The kick comes from thinking that they might get caught.
I had a co-worker who told us she couldn't come in because her dad died. Problem is, she had left her Facebook logged in on a company computer(which wasn't allowed in the first place), and we watched her messenger conversion with her dad, telling him she was staying home because she was sad about her boyfriend.
I know I'm four days late to this thread buuuuuut...
I dated a pathological liar when I was young and dumb. All kinda of ailments and medical issues and whatever. With the help of amazing friends, it only took a couple weeks to see through the monumental bullshit (I was incredibly naive/gullible at the time and was blinded by the sex) so sometimes people just do it because attention (that was my theory, at least).
So it isn't necessarily simply being dumb, sometimes it's jut plain malignant desire to be in control of the relationship.
"Probably a dumbass black lady". There is zero reason to say something like that. I'd get it if you were simply telling a story and described one of the people in it as a black lady, but what you said is just racist.
What really gets me in cases like these is the outlandish nature of the lies. Like, it's not enough to get out of work, it's not even enough to get sympathy, one has to have the topper of all toppers. Just claim you ate some bad fish or something. Nobody's going to ask for proof that you were shitting for four hours straight.
If it was a union shop the union would have provided her with representation. Happened to me when I was fired for supposedly giving alcohol to a minor.
If it was total bullshit the union may have said to get fucked too. To kick up a fuss over such bullshit might stop them being taken seriously about real issues, and possibly even lose them members like the other staff who had to cover all her shifts. I'm Australian though so maybe unions work different there.
Yeah, that’s not true. Just like a lawyer has to represent you even if they know you are guilty, unions appeal almost all firings “automatically” especially if you ask. That’s why there’s usually a period between being hired and being in the union, so you can get fired for cause or apathy and not have to worry about fighting something meaningless.
I went into the liquor store attached to the store I worked at on break and legally bought some alcohol. While walking outside to my vehicle, the clerk saw me talking to one of the maintenance guys, who was outside collecting carts. Since I purchased some items which weren't my "norm", mainly a bottle of Rum, she went to her boss and eventually to our management and stated she was suspicious of the sale and saw me place the alcohol in this kids car. We(maintenance kid and I) were both "suspended w/o pay pending a investigation" and a week later both fired.
The kids mom was our Shop Steward and we both fought the firing. We had a lot of things going for us, mainly, by ABC(the government agency in NJ that regulates alcohol sales) rules, if you suspect an underage purchase, you are to either deny the sale and/or call the police, neither of which was done. I also tended to park in the same place in the "employee area" every day, so it was easy to prove with pictures taken over a few days that there was no way the clerk could have a clean line of sight to my car, due to the massive amount of neon and other signs in the store window and also that even at 10pm at night(we were 24hours), the parking lot always had enough cars in the rows in front of the doors, which included handicapped spots, to block a clear line of sight to the employee parking area, which was far away from the customer area.
So if they tried to bring it higher, the liquor store and the clerk would have to admit they allowed a suspected sale to happen and didn't alert everyone till a week later, which would have meant a MASSIVE fine, because like most busy places, they had a strike or two on their record anyway.
We were both re-hired but I shot myself in the foot by filing a grievance for back pay missed during the suspension. Management made my life hell, like scheduling me on afternoons for 4 hour shifts on the weekends, and our store was in a beach town and I had just moved 35 minutes(on a day w/no traffic) away, so any little extra traffic put me in danger of being late, which was a fire-able offense.
I haven't faked sick since high school, but puking was always my go-to. No one wants to see that shit.
Iokuas · 7 points · Posted at 00:49:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In retrospect I'm pretty sure there was something actually wrong with her, some kind of mental or emotional condition that caused her to act out in the way she did. She was constantly calling in sick with a myriad of strange and wondrous symptoms. "I've got an ovarian cyst! I need to go in for surgery!" or "My doctors think I have brittle bone disease! Call Iokua to cover my shift!" She pulled the kidney transplant excuse in June, prior to that I covered literally every shift she was given from January all the way to May of that year. She called in sick for five months straight, and our inept, worthless management couldn't find a reason to fire her until I handed them one on a sliver platter.
I've known people like her. I had a rough childhood, and bounced around a lot in my late teens after leaving my bio home. I knew this kid who was in the same situation as me. He would claim to be a psychic. Even going as far as to giggle at nothing, and then when the side-eyes began, he would say something along the lines of "Oh, so-and-so from the civil war era just told me this hilarious story."
It was insanely sad.
I always wish people like this the absolute best. I hope she finds her way.
I used to be somewhat similar. Never to that extreme. But I was passable pretty, and would flaunt everything I had. For a long time I drowned my emotions with male and female attention. I also loved to write song lyrics in my arms, and was a huge emo chick.
It took me a ridiculously long time (I was probably 20 when it clicked, and I had been dressing for attention since like 14) to realize that people would like me without being weird, or eccentric. I didn't need a gimmick. Just needed to be genuine.
Had a coworker like this a couple years ago. Took a week off with very little notice because he had a cyst of some sorts in his esophagus and needed surgery. it was “some new type of procedure” that left no scarring or marks of any kind. He had a raspy voice the day he came back. That was, until a customer approached him and none of us were in his immediate vicinity (as in, we were about ten feet away within obvious earshot). Raspy voice changed to normal without hesitation, then back to soft coughing and throat clearing.
He also “pulled a hamstring” one day. Same premise as above. Would limp around while talking to us, then shift back to his normal gate for customers like some off brand Keyser Soze. Only kept that one up for a day though before forgetting or realizing it wasn’t worth the charade.
My favorite over the course of two years working with him was his exit from the job. He had a fascination with guns and claimed he wanted to be a cop. Well wouldn’t you know, he managed to get a highly coveted job at our city’s prison as a member of their elite SWAT team (not a real thing). He talked about it nonstop during his last two weeks. Cue time to come in for his last check, wearing a uniform shirt for some local building supply company, tried using the envelope to casually cover the logo while chatting.
So many odd stories came from the short time I worked with him. Each one created and reported to us as complete truth.
I'll do you one better on the faking being sick. At the place I used to work at, not a union, this girl for some reason added the store manager on Facebook. She tried adding everyone for some reason. Anyway, she called out sick a lot and asked to leave early when she was there because she "wasn't feeling good" and it was always on the weekend or on a Monday.
Well remember how I said she added the store manager? Well one day she calls in sick and I am called in to cover her shift. It's a slow day and my store manager was working with me but was on his phone. He calls me over "Hey, look at this shit" and shows me a selfie of her and her friends at the park with the caption "Enjoying this BEAUTIFUL day at the park!"
So my boss commented on it "I thought you were sick?" and she promptly deletes the selfie. She some how didn't get fired for it but he cut her hours drastically to where she only worked one day a week for 3 hours. She ended up quitting because of lack of hours.
It's likely your boss did that to get her to quit on her own instead of firing her. If he had fired her, she could have filed for unemployment. If she quits, she can't file.
I'm not 100% certain on this though, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Honestly, wait until someone who actually wants to make a fight of it shows up.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 23:17:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work with someone like this. She has been able to call in sick and claim she had many surgeries for the last 8 years. She has had so many shoulder surgeries but no scars! No stitches! Nothing! We are union members, so this girl has been able to get away with it. I think she has a friend who works in a doctor’s office. Management hasn’t figured out how to fire her.
Not condoning this in anyway but actually the turn around for a kidney transplant can be very quick. I knew one woman who went home six days post op. But you wouldn't want to be going back to work.
In a way it's almost a shame that the story isn't true because I know a few doctors who would like to take a look-see at that particular miracle of modern science. Never mind a few patients who would love that story to give them hope for a quick recovery.
Iokuas · 7 points · Posted at 00:29:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Going home six days post op is one thing, going back to work where you spend eight hours on your feet slinging groceries and carrying things for people is another thing entirely.
I had an acquaintance that would lie about stuff all the time and ask for money to help pay for it. She asked everyone for money to get her car fixed once and took a trip to Vegas, so we were all a little wary of her antics. She was in our dart league, and we would use the money we raised for a party at the end of the season. She said she had stomach cancer and asked if we could give her the money instead, to help pay for treatment. We all basically told her to fuck off and that was the end of it, she didn't ask again. About a year later, her cousin called me and asked if I was going to her funeral. Turns out she really did have cancer.
How do you know no lawyer would take the case? Sounds like something only a person very close to her would know.
Iokuas · 5 points · Posted at 23:48:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my former coworkers was her boyfriend at the time. He dumped her during the whole thing, but hung around long enough to get some information on how she couldn't find a lawyer.
This is a fine example of when a stupid person does not realize how incredibly stupid she is. Frankly, it sounds like drug addiction lies. I love it how the "stitches" are the issue in her mind! First of all, surgeons work Monday-Friday, so they would've had to call in a transplant team to do this work over the weekend. You wouldn't call them until you have the results back from her work up, which I doubt could be done in 24 hours, especially on a weekend. But let's say it could. After surgery, you're in the hospital 4-6 days. You can't drive for the first 3 weeks. You have to avoid others and control germs for the first 3 months, especially. Not only that, you have a bunch of doctor's appointments for the first month that allow you to do nothing besides sleep and go to the doctor.
As someone who HAD a kidney transplant, I was only in the hospital for about 5 days. I went in for surgery on Thursday, and they let me go home on Tuesday.
Iokuas · 2 points · Posted at 02:42:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, but were you back at work on Tuesday? Not being hospitalized is not the same as being strong enough to work a job that requires physical labor.
What a dumb thing to get fired for. You're not payed for your time sitting at the house nor spending money goofing off intown. . .and you're sure as hell no payed to have some major surgery. Way to go for calling them out and good for you.
An old manager was suspended; it was meant to be a secret, but her manager had a big mouth and we all knew. When she was coming back, we were advised that she would be telling us she had been sick in order to save face. She told us she was sick all right...
Apparently she'd had a collapsed lung from sudden onset pneumonia, and had been in intensive care on a nebuliser for the last two weeks. Because we already knew it was bullshit, we all started asking the most ridiculous questions and expressing surprise because "nebulisers aren't how they normally treat a collapsed lung". Having committed to such an elaborate lie, she just had to go with it but it kept on getting more amusing.
If she'd just said "I had a nasty chest infection" we would have just gone along with it...
laxt · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah.. hospitals tend to have paperwork for their life-saving surgical operations. Makes it much easier to handle the payment.
When she does it to me I stop her and say "Isn't the recovery time on a transplant at least a month or two? The hospital shouldn't have let you out."
Yeah, this was my first thought too. I have a childhood friend who had a transplant when we were like 10. She couldn't come out to play for a solid month, because she was basically stuck in quarantine the whole time while her body adjusted to the anti-rejection meds. I also remember her nightly dialysis, while she was stuck on the waiting list.
Also, they don't actually put the transplanted kidney where your others are - They put it down below your waist, near the front curve of your hip. The incision is just above your groin. Unless they have a good reason to do so, they'll just leave your diseased kidney where it is. Putting it near your hip helps, because it's a shorter path to your bladder, and there's less stuff they need to move out of the way.
I'm a librarian and I'm actually very proud of this one. Back then I was in charge of the cinema and music section of my library. This guy came with his son and asked me where to find our Puff Daddy CDs. We have one and I show him on the shelves where to find it. Then I was called in another place of the library and go check on my colleagues. On my way back to the music section, I see him coming out of the library and I don't know why (maybe he seemed dodgy) but I have a feeling something is wrong. I go check, the CD is gone. It's not appearing on his library card, so he didn't borrow it. I have a look if he didn't misplace it but it's not there. The guy just stole the fucking Puff Daddy CD, WITH HIS 8 YEARS OLD SON. FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARY. WHERE YOU CAN BORROW IT FOR FREE. At this point I do nothing because we have no proof, and no security camera. A few weeks later, the son and his sister (8 and 10 years old) come to the library again and borrow some CD. I'm watching them and to my knowledge, they didn't steal anything, and I don't want to confront them because it would break my heart to have them stopping to come to the library because of their father bullshit.
But this whole story still bother me. So a few month later, I decide to try something. I still had the stolen CD barcode and I just decided to add it to their library card, as if they borrowed it. Worst case scenario, they say they don't have it and I apologise and say that it's a mistake from the library. A few days later they arrive, take some documents, return some, and just before leaving I proceed to explain them that they still have a document, a "Puff Daddy CD" that they need to return. The look of panic in their eyes and incomprehension was just delightful. They didn't say anything and a few days later they came back with the CD. I don't really care about Puff Daddy, and we could easily have replaced it, but just for the principle, it was one of my greatest victories.
The best part of that one is not that they were taught a lesson not to steal, but rather they now probably think the library has some "magical" method of knowing when an item leaves, even if it isn't properly checked out. "They got some sensors or sumthin'!" Which means they'll likely never do it again (in any library) due to the futility. Nicely done.
At my Walmart at least, the only things that send off the alarm are things that make the registers "click" because they have the actual system that the door uses to detect theft. A stunning amount of people think that if I don't scan that specific bar code, it's gonna set off the alarm. We can't afford to investigate every theft, it's impractical. We only care about electronics and expensive things.
My retail store is set up like a loop (think Ikea) and people often want to make another pass before checking out but the way they ask us (at the till) while holding a 0.28€ eraser if that won't set up the alarm is funny.
I don't want to dispel them of that idea of magical anti thief alarm on every damn product, so I tell them that as long as someone is at the till it's good ;).
When I first worked at a library, I asked what we should do if we see someone stealing something. My boss said to call the police if we were sure, but otherwise to let them go. It's not worth getting hurt to chase them down.
Similar story at my library a rather notorious patron couldn't check out on any of her family's cards they were all blocked by fines. So she breezes through our exit when the staff is all busy and keeps going when the alarm goes off. I just finished helping the other patrons and then added them to her account.
A few months go by and she's in collections (our library will report people to collection agencies but only if you owe more than $30 and have actual missing items not just fines). So she comes in and insists that she never checked those items out and that we couldn't prove it was her. Apparently not appreciating that her second argument undermines her first.
My boss stood firm because we knew her so a few days later the items came back in completely stripped of anything identifying them as library materials (barcodes, RFID tags, the library DVD cases) and she still insisted that we shouldn't have put them on her card. When informed she was going to be charged $2 to for the missing DVD cases, barcodes and what not she claimed that they had been checked out to her that way. We just said no they hadn't.
On the one hand it was nice to call her on all her bullshit but on the other hand it was a little frustrating that she'd never acknowledge it and just kept trying more and more obvious lies.
I worked at a convenience store a few years back. This lady comes in late night, walks over to the beer coolers. I keep an eye on her through the CCTV. She grabs a tall can and sticks another in her coat pocked.
She comes over to the register and presents me the single can. I give her a moment to give me the other one but she does not. I scan it twice. She tries to protest about that but I told her it's for the extra one in her coat. She makes a face at me and gives it up and pays for a single beer and leaves kinda huffy about the whole thing.
I told my manager about the incident the next day and she was banned for a week.
The weird thing is that if you have a compelling need to steal a Puff Doodley CD you can do it at home!
Just check out the P. Diddley CD from the library and put it in your computer CD player at home.
Then you can rip the entire Sean "Poofy" Combs CD and convert it to MP3.
You can then also burn several copies of the Puft Addy CD. One for you and two for your kid.
Then you return the P. Diddlerooni CD back to your library the next day no harm no foul. Just the issues with you, your conscience, ASCAP, and the Copyright Office.
But the library gets its vintage Shaunie Combover back in just a day, while your iTunes library grows and you have three sweet new CD-R's of P. Diddit for your car.
At my small branch we have some notorious thieves who will get stuff in on hold and then just walk out with it. We use this method fairly often. Best thing was, recently we got a call from a lady saying one of the thieves lived with her and he had a massive collection of CDs stolen from the library.
Although I would probably come to the same conclusion as you did in this case
It seems tantamount to a police officer planting incriminating evidence on a suspect because of a hunch.
I think it’s more like a police officer telling a lie to get you to incriminate yourself. If they had not borrowed (or stole) the puff CD, they’d probably be very confused. Instead they likely had the look on their face that your dog does when he chews something and you get home.
I helped an older woman who mistakenly rented a room in her house to the most evil family I've ever met. She offered the 2 rooms and private bathroom to the family of 4 because the house they were renting caught fire and they were forced out into a hotel. She just wanted to help. Took them dinners out to their hotel and all the insane things you'd imagine the nicest person in the world to do.
So they stabbed her in the back. Never paid rent. Abused the hell out of her laundry machine and ate her food.
So I went over one day and could hear the toilet running from the hallway. They didn't give a shit about wasting water. So I grabbed a recorder and knocked on the door asking if I could come in and check on the running toilet. The mother just banged on the door back at me so loud it sounded like she was going to break the door. Then shouted at me through the door about how she was going to bury the old woman in the back yard.
She eventually let me in, I fixed the toilet and moved on to other projects around the house. Figured that was over with. NOPE. About 15min later I see a cop car in the driveway. Ok, this is bullshit, but I guess I should go talk to them.
Cop sees me coming and as soon as I was within ear shot he starts lecturing me about how illegal it is to harass tenants. I stopped him and said "you're yelling at me without even asking for my side of the story. Would you like to hear what actually happened?"
So I played the recording. He spun around and unleashed hell fury on this woman for lying to him. All while I stood there smiling at her from over his shoulder. I'll never forget that feeling of actual justice in the middle of a 8 month long nightmare.
Malonik · 306 points · Posted at 02:54:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate to ruin what was a story about justice served.
Yes, they were removed. Although, in court they lied about the rent and had their children lie to the judge. They claimed she offered them housing if they'd attend her church.
The fuckin judge sided with them and they left without paying anything. But at least they left.
Nicest woman in the world never got them to sign a lease. Everything was agreed on verbally.
because you can't just throw people out of their living situation without due process. They had to be evicted. Why the judge ever thought this old lady, who had other roommates who paid rent (huge house and all her kids were gone) would ever exchange rent for church attendance is beyond me. They fuckin asked her if they could go to her church and went once.
And when she started the eviction process they went and got free legal advice from the city. Their first move? Postpone the first hearing for no reason other than to delay the process and force us to take a day off work for NOTHING.
This is not a happy story other than that one instance.
IANALawyer, but it sounds more like they were squatters than tenants to me. And squatters do have rights, but I’m pretty sure those rights don’t include police protection from harassment.
No, the people in the story were just assholes. They were renting from a woman, and the area was occupied and owned. Squatting refers to people living in an unoccupied area or building for an extended period of time without owning it, and sometimes this can lead to the squatter gaining legal ownership.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 08:48:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's fucked that people can just occupy your property and get legal ownership for it
Squatting is for pretty specific situations where the property is abandoned and nobody else uses it. Where I live you have to have openly occupied (and improved) the property for 12 years (33 years for crown land) without anyone asking you to leave before you can lay claim to it.
If it makes you feel better, it really doesn't happen much anymore. It's super rare that someone gain rights to someone else's property just because they squatted.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is way more fucked is the banks and development corporations who intentionally leave houses abandoned in inhabited areas in order to blight them out. Banks foreclose on huge amounts of houses and then leave them abandoned for decades. Any individual person who did this would rack up ‘blight fees’, but the big entities that do this don’t have to worry about that because they are in bed with politicians. This also keeps individuals from ever acquiring those houses, because the blight fees, and back taxes, stay attached to the house. (The city often ‘auctions’ these houses off to unsuspecting people without disclosing that there are $100000 in fees and taxes attached to it. If they don’t pay the fees in a year the city takes it back and does it again a few years later. It’s a fucked up scam that assures that individuals can never acquire property.)
Anyway, eventually you end up with these ghetto communities with half the houses uninhabited because they’re owned by banks and large corporations that can just ignore the blight fees and back taxes because they have big money and politicians in their pocket. Eventually the politicians wave all of their fees and taxes in the interest of ‘cleaning up the city,’ and they come in and demolish everything and put in high rise lego condominiums. This is a 30+ year process that destroys entire communities and causes untold suffering, and it’s all just a scam to take houses and property out of the hands of individual people and into the hands of corporations. The only way to fight it would be for real people to just move in to those houses and fix them up. Otherwise they’ll inevitably be used as trap houses by gangster pimps anyway.
Wow I didn't know that... Me and my fiance have been looking to potentially buy a house soon, and I see lots of bank owned properties for sale for very cheap in our city. I didn't realize there would be large fees associated with the property just because they are bank owned... Why are there fees and high taxes on these properties? (Forgive me, I'm young and naive lol).
(Edit to fix a typo) Sorry this is coming so late, but I was just now reading the thread. Even though the property is owned by the bank, it still has property taxes, charged yearly by the govt for use of the property, due. As the last user mentioned, there can also be blight fees, charged to the bank for having an eyesore abandoned house under their ownership. Often times, if the property is sold, all financial obligations tied to the home are transferred to the new owner, like if you buy a car with a lien on the title. And yes, it can happen without your knowledge.
For some reason, right up to the end of that story, I thought the recorder in question was a musical recorder, like the instrument, I just had no idea why the hell you needed to take one with you to fix a toilet.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 13:36:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
OP was going to drive the evil tenants out with shitty recorder music.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats depressing that you had to deal with the family of cunts only to be so quickly judged and had a go at by a cunt officer.
rrh058 · 1941 points · Posted at 17:18:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was around 15 years old and had a package delivered to my house. My crackhead neighbor came over, paced back and forth in front of the door before smoothly opening our gate, coming to the door, and picking up my package. I opened the door as she was walking off and she turned white as a ghost when she heard the door open. When I asked her WTF she was doing with my package, she explained to me that she was going to protect it for me, that she didn't know it was mine (?), before I demanded she hand over my package and leave.
I snapped at this lady, which was abnormal for shy little 15-year-old me. I was furious because what was inside that package was a gift for my mother, who was at work at the time. I'll never forget that.
It's unbelievable to me that it's normal to just leave shit outside in the US.
Here I'm the UK (at least everywhere I've lived: "largeish towns/cities" ), if it didn't fit through the letterbox, or you didn't designate a safe drop-off spot (usually only doable for specific couriers) you're shit out of luck and have to reschedule or go to the depot. It's a pain in the arse. But all my shit would get jacked otherwise.
In the US, if no one answers the door, you leave the package at the front door. And you (the mailman, FedEx, Amazon, or UPS person) leave the house. They’re not going to take the package and come back another time.
Can you specify if I got your question wrong? Are you saying that if your package was stolen, will the company/service send another one? To be honest, I don’t know but I feel like you’d have to have proof that it was stolen.
A couple weeks ago, I had a package that required a signature on my mail route. I rang the doorbell, and left a notice as they weren't home. An hour later, when I was in my next neighborhood, the customer found me, got out her phone, and showed me a video of me writing up the notice on her front porch. I was a little creeped out.
She had a package she needed to sign for. I tried delivering it when I was at her house, but she wasn't home. She found me in another neighborhood, not near her home, and wanted to pick up the package from me right there. The video proved she was the right person and she wasn't just some random person.
9100 · 7 points · Posted at 23:19:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fellow Brit here, when couriers leave my deliveries behind my wheelybin, behind my fence etc. I'm always tempted to say I never received it, either get two of the Items or a refund.
But then my morals take over and I can't do it.
I just returned to my route this week after doing a different assignment for a month, and the people doing it while I was gone completely screwed everything up. I'm dealing with constant complaints about missing mail and different packages. My manager knows it wasn't my fault but I still have to deal with it.
I'm in the U.S and recently had a new TV delivered to my house. I answer the door in my underwear (I sleep late and woke up to the doorbell) The guy asks,
I put on pants, he gets the TV from the truck, slides it through my door, and thats it, no signature.
So yeah, if you ever want to steal a package, just break into someone's home and say "yes" when the FedEx guy asks if you are any given person. You don't even have to wear pants.
This one trick works for stealing most household goods too!
Police hate him!
9100 · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I saw a courier knocking on the door of a neighbours house so I went over to sign for the delivery. The driver said I could be anyone, fair point so I get out my keys and open the door then go to sign, and he says I didn't come from inside the house so he still won't leave it.
Oh yeah let me clarify, im sure there's a lot of postal/delivery workers who actually give a shit about protecting the customer. Im just surprised there aren't more rules within the company to enforce it on those that dont care
In Aus if a package is delivered by AusPost we can use the tracking number (all parcels are tracked, no extra cost) to choose whether we want it to be taken to the post office for pickup or left somewhere safe. We can even leave a note asking them to leave it in a specific place. This is a godsend as I commute an hour each way for work, and the post office near my house is only open during business hours.
If something is posted using a private delivery company then we are usually SoL.
Maybe my local branch/postie is just really good, but AusPost for me are far more reliable than TOLL or whatever else. I'm in Northern Beaches Council area.
Toll is fucking horrible, moved to aus a few months ago. Bought something online with toll express shipping, 2-3 day delivery... 7 days later I finally got the package, delivered to my next door neighbour... only used till one other time, my package got taken out to delivery in the wrong part of Victoria and delivered back to Melbourne about 150 kms from my house, stayed in the Melbourne facility for another 2 days before re delivery, I've never encountered retardation on this level before. Also had a friend send their phone in for repair, took toll a week and a half to get it there, and his phone took another 3 weeks to be delivered back on express delivery.
UK here too, sometimes our packages are left outside if we aren't home, but mostly left with the neighbours. Sometimes it is just taken to the local post office to be picked up, but I don't think I've ever had to reschedule a delivery. It's interesting seeing the differences.
The "post offices" are basically small convenience stores that have a post desk where they will take outgoing parcels etc for you (also have tax forms and shit like that). Sometimes they also function as things like amazon drop off points.
But in my experience, royal mail parcels which you aren't home to receive won't go to one of these post offices.
Instead they go through depots which serve a larger area (e.g. There is one in the city center in my city). This is where you'd have to go to pick up a parcel. Or you could use the info they put on the "we missed you card" to ask for redelivery.
9100 · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's because you are in a city, and the same applies to larger towns. If you are in a smaller area then your parcel is dropped in one of the local post offices.
My post man is nice enough to hide the package somewhere on the property and shove a note in the letterbox.
9100 · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is not true at all. I have had packages left on the doorstep, down the side of the house, on the bin, in the bin... basically anywhere but in the hands of the receiver. I found one on the bin round the back behind a locked gate after 3 days. Another one left it on the back doorstep with no note so it was there for a week. Then there's this guy.
similar story, my landlord lived in the building, she had her own deck and door way. her boyfriend was weird, he’d sit on the deck all day with no shirt on and just watch everyone. there was another entry way that lead to the other apartments and the mail boxes.
i got a package sent to my moms one day, it had my name on it, it was a bath and body works package and said it right on it. my mom dropped it off in my mail box and called me as she was pulling out, literally just “your mails outside your door”, i went out to get it and he was in the door way carrying my package out, i yelled “ hey that’s mine” he just stops and puts it down and says “oh thought it was mine”. i called my mom when i went back inside and she told me he’d watched her drop it off. what the fuck a 45 year old man wanted with 17 bath and body works body sprays is beyond me.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 20:50:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This actually happened to me by accident, I took my neighbors package thinking it was mine (was expecting delivery on same day) and when I took it home, before I opened the box, I read the address and the door number was wrong so I put it back in the mail room in my apartment. I felt really embarrassed
One of my staff (who is unfortunately family with the owner so he's not getting canned anytime soon) is the biggest liar I have ever met. We'll call him Jim.
He lies about everything, regardless of importance. He's been caught in lies multiple times and really just doesn't care.
If someone is sick, guaranteed he will be off the next day having "caught" whatever someone had. My whole department is female (5 females) except for him. One day almost all of us were suffering from some horrible period cramps. Everyone was complaining about the pain but no one said it was because of their period, because it's usually pretty obvious why.
The HR department has a wonderful supply of meds and so I had to empty their stock of midol and heat pads. Some of the staff was teasing that they will bring chocolate as a peace offering before entering our department.
The next day he emails in that he's sick and he caught the horrible stomach bug all the ladies in the department had. He's so sore he can't move, has a migraine, blah blah.
Word spread quickly and Jim has forever been mocked as the dude who had to take time off work for his period. He won't be let go but he does get his pay docked when he flakes off like this. It was worth it to be able to make fun of him forever.
Whenever I got in shit as a kid, my parents would always say "really Chelsea? Wow..." In this mixed tone of amusement and frustration. I have severe ADHD (so does my father) so I got into a lot of trouble.
Bonus story: the first time my mom said this, I wrote my brothers' names on the wall with Chapstick which bled in. My mom gave me multiple times to confess saying she wouldn't be mad and I dug my hole deeper. I pointed the finger at everyone then finally at my youngest brother. My mom yelled "really Chelsea?? Wow!! Younger brother can't even spell!!!" (He wasn't even 2 ha) 🤷
When I moved out of a house I had been renting years ago, the landlady decided that she wanted to keep my security deposit. We had been on friendly terms for the 5+ years I had lived there, she even invited me to dinner parties at her house. I had been a model tenant, so I don't know why she turned on me aside from pure greed. When I persisted in asking her for the money she started making up reasons to keep it, claiming that she had to do costly cleanup of some mess I allegedly left.
By luck, before things went sour I had arranged to store some furniture at the property until I was ready for it. When I went to retrieve it, it was obvious that the property was exactly as I had left it, and the details of what she had claimed were entirely false. She had no answer when I confronted her with this fact, and she finally grudgingly paid up. I still see her around and she tries to act like nothing ever happened, but she is dead to me. How someone can let a little money trump all reason and integrity is beyond me.
Similar thing happened to me when the house I was renting. We were told by the landlords when we moved in that we could treat the house as our own and decorate as they were moving abroad indefinitely. A few months later we find out we’re having a baby so by email ask permission to decorate the nursery and they said yes and are really excited for us. Not long after baby is born the landlords decide they want to sell the house, annoying for us as we’d decorated this beautiful nursery and baby hadn’t even slept in yet! Whatever though, shit happens and we find a new place. Before we move out we ask if they need us to redecorate back to the original room as it was in our contract that the house must be back to the way it was when we moved into it. The landlords say no as the house is sold so we don’t need to worry.
Months go by and we’re still fighting for why our deposit hasn’t been returned. Lots of shitty excuses and eventually it comes out that it’s because we decorated the nursery and it wasn’t what they thought it would be. They expected it to be pink or blue and the new owners weren’t happy with it (what?!) As we had all evidence that they allowed us to decorate THEN told us we didn’t have to put it back to the original state they pretty much folded when we threatened them with legal action. Cunts.
They expected it to be pink or blue and the new owners weren’t happy with it (what?!)
As someone currently home-hunting right now, I'm going to chime in with you on calling your ex-landlords on their BS. The new owners know how to operate a paintbrush, and if the landlord didn't paint every room themselves, the new owners are probably expecting to do so. Unless you did something like paint the ceiling neon green I don't think most would care -- and that case would mostly be because ceilings are kind of hard to paint.
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 21:26:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always take tons of pictures when you move in AND when you move out.
She likely spent the security deposit years ago. She probably thought you'd forget to ask for it back if you'd been her tenant for so long or something...
But yeah I agree it was shitty of her to ruin a friendship over a little bit of money :(
it 'feels' beyond me too. it blows my mind how shitty people are all the time. but then i see in my own life how easily it can happen. gotta try and stay centered
In a large business meeting, boardroom style. Something went wrong on a project my company did. The executives were nervous as hell because we were being blamed for a failure and the client was demanding we pay for it. The thing is I was the project manager for this job, and had recently been promoted. I warned the client about a potential problem when the project was underway, but they chose to ignore it and press on. Now that it was failing they wanted us to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix it, and our competitors were already about to take the next multimillion $ project.
So the clients manager outlines his case and asks when he can expect us to fix it for him, assuming we'll just cave in hopes of getting future business (that's my company's MO). They even said our on site Rep should have caught the problem so this whole thing was our fault. Our project manager clearly didn't know what he was doing otherwise he would have caught this. My boss was about to respond, but I gently interrupted. I basically said "I was the on site PM and did catch the problem immediately I have a few documents for your perusal". I had with me the printed email exchange where I warned about the problem and advised how to fix it, as well as the clients very clear response that they thought it was worth the risk and wouldn't change anything. The clients face turned red. He looked at my bosses and said they should have told him who I was. We wound up paying for the fix anyway in exchange for being awarded the next project.
This kind of thing happens constantly in my business, though usually on a much smaller, less grand, and less public scale. My entire job is CYA.
That's why before I became a consultant, I was the guy who did everything at the company I worked at and thus it was harder to craft lies because I had a view from every angle. If they blamed somebody or a department, odds are I was connected to them during the operation and knew the truth very well.
Some wise asses even tried to re-do their lies like three times. I just kicked them up to the GM and she tore them a new asshole.
Yup! I learned this the hard way when I was fairly young and inexperienced.
Story time:
I worked for someone as their 'assistant'. My job was told to me as just filing, scheduling appts, answering phones/emails/vm's, etc. She was tasked with setting up another similar office site in a city 2 hours away.
Well it wasn't long before it was clear she wasn't really doing her job. I kept getting calls from the other site asking where she was - she had a client waiting; when I'd track her down, she always had an excuse - 'I thought they cancelled, they called to cancel, the office told me they cancelled, I thought it was tomorrow'. Like - not even creative/varied excuses.
She was rarely in town where the office I worked in was - but when she was, I would hear tons of stories of her and her new boyfriend's adventures - he was a cop and worked nights - so she really could only spend time with him during the day (ya know, when she should be working).
It became clear to her boss after a few months that the new office wasn't up and running as well as it should be by then. And I suddenly got my first (and only) 'write up' over something she never told me I was supposed to do. Apparently, my actual job - according to what she was telling me at this point - was to 'manage and grow' the office I was at, get new clients, visit clients, etc. None of which she had ever said before. Prior to that point - I was only told I was her 'assistant' and given assistant tasks. So in this moment it was clear shit was hitting the fan and I was the scapegoat. But I confirmed this while picking up vm's (I guess she forgot part of my job was taking her vm's? It was something she had me do from the start - all day, every day) and picked up a message from her boss telling her 'not to worry about u/embracing_insanity, we'll deal with her and all the issues she's causing'. She was telling her boss she couldn't get the new office up and running because of 'all the trouble/time' she was having to spend on me and my mistakes, etc. All of which was a complete lie, of course. But she even went so far as to go back and literally falsify notes in files, etc. But the worst part was - I had no way of proving enough of it to do anything about it.
Thankfully, I was friends with someone from my previous job, where we had all three worked together and was actually how I ended up in the position. She had left that company and come back about year later seeking me out to come work for her. I took the job because the other company was pulling out of state. My friend was now working for that previous company's competitor. I called her to vent and she ended up getting me a position there - so I gave my two weeks notice right away. My boss obviously knew I knew what was up - and she told me not to worry about coming in for my final two weeks - but I'd still get paid.
Side note - when I talked to my friend about what was happening, she said she wasn't surprised. She had actually taken over the marketing position after she left and when she would contact clients based on the notes in their files, she kept getting told time and time again that what was noted never happened. She had not been in contact with the clients for months, or had never been there, never called, never talked to the people, etc. So apparently, this was her MO.
Anyway, even after leaving, I was just so angry that I couldn't prove all that she blamed on me wasn't true and it ate at me for a very long time. It's one thing if it were true, I own up to my mistakes no problem. But to be blamed for things I didn't do - that just really upset me so much more than I expected.
BUT...it was that very experience that taught me to CYA - ALWAYS! And from then on, I was meticulous at doing so. Excellent, thorough record keeping, saving emails/correspondence, getting things in writing, etc. Later on in my corporate career - it really saved my ass more than a few times. Obviously, my former boss wasn't the only shitty person who tried to blame their mistakes on other people.
I actually gained a reputation for my CYA record keeping and people would often come to me when they needed prior emails/files, etc. for something. And usually - if we had ever worked together - I'd have what they needed. Another plus - people stopped trying to blame me (and even my team, by proxy, as other teammates were saved from this same fate via my CYA records) for things we didn't do. I guess people didn't like being in the hot seat when the spotlight shifted back to them after it was clearly supported the BS they were trying to pull was just that.
CYA - is a MUST. It's absolutely worth the time and effort and has saved me countless times in both my professional and private life. It's sad to say that, but it's true.
Yes, I've gotten to the point where my CYA reputation precedes me. I have a classic style big green construction log book where I write down my official activities., as well as a small black moleskin notebook in my back pocket. No one knows just how much I put in that, but they do know that if they have a question about something someone said in a conversation I was involved in last April then I will have notes on it.
Yep. Recently had a customer bitching about how a tool was setup, and how dare we take liberties and change the functions of it and that it was messing up their production.
So I sent her my archived email with her name on it, my bosses name, my directions name, all telling her this was not a good idea, and we highly recommend against it.
I guess it was worth the risk to the company because they had it fixed for free.
Idk if I could continue working for a company that would operate with those issues.
Yeah it's complicated. We actually paid 1/2 the repair cost and took it off the top of our bid for the next project. I didn't do that project as I'd been promoted above PM, but it had similar issues. Can't stand dealing with companies that operate like that but it's not often my call
Most companies will absorb something like that for repeat business. If it leada to a new cobtracr it's often worth it
AT1787 · 32 points · Posted at 19:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I spent time in consulting and the worst was when the client sabotages their own project by being negligent, then proceeds to blame the consultant.
Though, sometimes for nefarious reasons, the consulting firm will create a low-balled quote on a project to beat the competition, making inflated assumptions on how the client will add additional resources to the project (rarely happens), then when things screw up, expand the scope of the project and send in a revised proposal.
I fucking wish my boss would take a page out of your book, since he’s a PM as well.
He’s been overselling our project to many departments, to the point that a couple plant managers have managed to catch on to his BS and are literally calling him out mid-meeting these days. Even the regional director who’s like his best bud is berating him these days due to the project’s multiple delays. It’s pretty embarrassing.
CYA? I’d be damn impressed if he can even remember half the “features” that he had invented in his mind and told the upper management team about.
Attaching previous emails is one of the most satisfying moves I get to make in my work life. Starting a second, third, fourth, etc. email with the words "As I previously stated (attached)...." is the fucking best.
I document everything at work. Everything. It's because of situations like this. I had someone question a decision that was made a few months before. "Why would we do that? Who said we should? That doesn't make sense and we would never agree to that." I simply responded to his email by saying it was a decision made months ago BY YOU and I attached the email he sent months ago saying to move forward with the decision and why we all agreed to that decision. His response? "Oh okay, well that makes sense." Siiigh.
We had a client go lie about the type of contract we had to our local team (our team was site-based) and got the team to do the job which are not part of their contract. When I joined, I refused to and he point blank lied to my manager that I wasn't willing to do any work at all.
Fortunately my manager was someone whom I worked with for 5 years at that point and he knew how to handle shit like that.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 18:35:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I learned CYA as a corrections officer and I do it constantly now in tv. When sales coordinators tell me an advertiser doesn’t mind breaking separation between their ads (advertisers usually require a certain amount of time between ads. 15 or 30 mins for example), I’m sure to save and usually print these emails. Sometimes they try to call to give these instructions or instant message on skype, since they’re not actually going to contact the advertiser to really see if they’re ok with changing the separation time.
If I ignore separation, it will come back on me and the first question I’ll be asked is, “do you have confirmation to break sep for [advertiser]?
This is the whole freakin reason outsourced project management is a thing. Gives ya an extra layer to pin the blame on when shit goes south because you were forced to start with an unreasonable budget and unrealistic goals.
Just hire outside contractors. Win/win, contractor makes $$$ (in theory, anyway), and (usually) no one gets fired.
That’s why I stick with testing, not PM work. I still have to document the snot out of everything, but I rarely have to deal directly with an angry client.
I like dealing with difficult clients. The reality of it is if you're good at it then it's easy, but to everyone else it seems very hard. People think my job is hard, but in reality I've had time to watch most of the World Cup so far. My real work is in decisions, not tasks.
A good PM makes everyone’s job easier. A bad PM can destroy an otherwise straightforward project.
My line is that I came back to work after my mat leave so that I wouldn’t have to be anyone’s mommy for 8 hours a day. Being a PM for my team is more parenting than anything else. :)
smmstv · 6 points · Posted at 22:25:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why I get everything in writing. My boss likes meetings and "sorting it out face to face". That just leads to a he said she said situation. IT told me to clear out my emails recently. I refused. I had a situation come up and if I didn't have the email from a former manager from 2013, I'd look incompetent.
He was the boss of the boss of the highest guy I worked with in the field. My contact in the field (who was the guy I was emailing) was also in the meeting and was cringing every time his boss spoke.
He had just bashed me without realizing I was the guy he was bashing. We did introductions, but I had a new job title, and others present knew who I was. He didn't. I think his response was due to embarrassment and an unwillingness to accept blame for a blunder.
223am · 1 points · Posted at 12:57:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was there because it was my project we were discussing. My defined roll in the meeting was to make sure they didn't get away with any falsehoods since I was the man on the ground. Also, my direct supervisor knew what I had printed out, though apparently he didn't tell the other executives.
makkynz · -59 points · Posted at 21:01:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No offence but this sounds unprofessional on your part.
Relying in an email convo and continuing on with the project knowing that this problem could arise is immature.
Some more detail: there were days of conversations and discussions about this issue. Verbal, phone calls, emails. In the end I wrote a concise email stating my case to cover myself. The client responded with his lack of concern. That's not immaturity, that was doing my job to a T.
I come from a small-ish town. Brother made it the MLB. Was at the grocery store with my dad (who was wearing the MLB team’s jacket at the time) - checker says to us “you know I helped that kid get to the majors.” My Dad just politely pulled out his ID and told him to check the last name. Checker just laughed embarrassingly, immediately shut up, and gave us extra monopoly tickets for our time.
Edit: to clarify, my brother made it to a non-local team, so my dad wearing the jacket is what sparked the conversation.
I know this can't be that common but just last month had a similar thing happen to me in the grocery store. My daughter signed an NLI for track and it was kind of a big deal in our small town. Had the cashier tell me all about how she did this and that and if it wasn't for her, the girl wouldn't have "made it". Never saw the woman before and am 100% certain I was the one buying those shoes and getting her to the team bus at those ungodly hours for away meets.
Congratulations to your daughter! I'm a former college athlete and it was some of the most trying times of my life, but it helped shape me into who I am today. Tell her that no matter how much a coach might push their sport to be the number 1 priority, school is the priority. Can't participate if you don't have the grades for it.
If it wasn't for her drive to do athletics, she may not have stayed in HS and taken the GED route. Crappy small rural school district, from the "wrong side of the tracks", and first generation HS grad added up to a lot of BS. She's really thriving in uni now. Deans List and all that. I'm in absolute AWE of this person ! Tears, That's my daughter. :-)
Honestly it was the same for me. When I started to get looks for college baseball, my grades were sub 2.5 GPA through sophomore year. Baseball made me work much harder and I ended up with a 3.6 my senior year, in addition with a good junior year, and it raised my GPA to a 3.02 when I graduated.
It's obvious she has a great support system. That's all you can do for her now. I remember being yelled at by coaches for stuff that wasn't my fault and it was my parents that were my encouragement. Good for you.
I work at a grocery store, and every spring we do Monopoly tickets. Monopoly has given me PTSD. Your mention of Monopoly tickets made me panic slightly.
For all you know he did help your bro make it. Could have given him a "little something" extra if you know what I mean. Might not have wanted to tell your dad about the after practice BJs
sebrebc · 11081 points · Posted at 15:30:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At work one day a co-worker started telling me and another co-worker a story about being stopped by the police.
He went into great detail about how he stopped at a gas station for a drink and there were two cops standing out front and nobody else in the parking lot. He gave the cops a wave, being nice, bought his drink, and left. Less than a hundred feet down the street these same two cops pulled him over. They told him that they smelled weed when he got out of the car. He asked the cops if they could smell it now, standing next to his open window, they said no but it was obvious it came from him. They asked if they could search his car, which he angrily let them, telling them he wanted the cops to climb through his hot car to find nothing. While one cop did the "Search" the other cop told him to calm down, he looked nervous. To which he said "I'm not pissed, I'm angry. You didn't smell weed, you smelled a shaved head and tattoos." The cops found nothing and let him go about his business.
THE LIE:
It was MY story. It happened to ME months before and I told that story at work back then. He even quoted me, except I said "Long hair and tattoos". A few minutes into the story my other co-worker and I start giving each other the side eye, realizing he was literally telling me my own story. I think he realized it towards the end because he quickly finished up the story and left without ever mentioning it again.
We never brought it up either, I had such a bad case of second hand embarrassment for the guy. Plus everybody else already heard about it and he was forever branded the liar.
On boyfriend's account - I've had this happen. I had some hip pain when I was about 13 and got an x-ray and the tech asked me if I was pregnant and I said, "No, what?? I'm only 13." and the tech said, "We always ask, because we didn't ask a 12 year old once and she was. . . ". A few years later I told my friend the story as an interesting anecdote and she repeated my story back to me a few weeks later. I was like, "Oh what were you having x-rayed?" and she said she didn't remember and I just nodded and let it go.
I have a friend who does that, but he honestly has such terrible memory that he thinks those stores happened to him.
It's really sad to see his crushed face when I keep needing to correct his childhood "memories"
[deleted] · 271 points · Posted at 20:13:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same I have a really good friend who would absolutely not lie and steal stories.. but sometimes he remembers my stories as things that happened to him.
Trikids · 169 points · Posted at 20:17:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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I will try to hold onto this stuff. The sheer amount of stuff that slips through is driving me crazy. I'll be telling a story, and somebody will chime in "Well no, actually..."
I don't even argue anymore.
My wife will see things and say "Hey, doesn't that remind you of [seemingly precious childhood memory I told her about]?" And it doesn't. I'm drawing blanks at every turn. Seems like pretty much my whole life from age 8-16 is completely gone, with a tiny handful of exceptions.
I definitely don't sleep well, that might be all it is.
Ah.. huh... That sounds like me. My friend just sent me a text bringing up some big inside joke we apparently had as teens and I seriously cannot remember what the heck it means. I had to ask her. I'm so embarrassed.
Don't be embarrassed, it's just a thing about you. There are plenty of worse things you can be. I've begun to rely on my bestie for her accounts of our high school exploits - at first it did kind of bug her that I couldn't remember all our silly inside jokes, but all it took was some reminding. Now she glows whenever I defer to her, I may not remember it all but my trust in her memory makes her feel as important to me as she is.
I know that feeling well. Except it's everything before I was around 12-13. There's one or two memories from before that, but otherwise it's blank. Only memory I have that I know isn't original back then, but actually a sorry told to me, at least is a story about me told by my parents to I've added in.
Source confusion! Our brains don't worry nearly as much WHERE we got the memories and habits we learn/remember as the tidbits themselves, so it can be embarrassingly easy to "lose" the fact that a story came from someone else, but remember the story and assume it's a memory thanks to a vivid imagination.
I mean.... if it was something when you were really young, the memory is surprisingly flexible sometimes. But if it's going on as you get older and older, I feel like that's probably some sort of bad sign.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 21:42:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s only old stories from childhood or early high school. Really only a few. Ya I think his brain has just integrated them as his own lol
Memories are like that... I have a few "memories" of stories I've told so many times I don't know if I'm remembering the story or some lie I made up as a child
The effect most of you are experiencing is something that’s highly linked to mental suggestion. In an extremely lucid state, you tend to visualize things that are told to you and in some cases can cause you to imbed what was told to you into your long term memory and any term that defines when the memory was made will slot it into the specific area where that years memories are held. Being told the story happened when they were thirteen is enough to make you visualize the experience from the perspective of your thirteen year old self, tricking your mind into mixing it in to where all the memories of where you were thirteen are located. It’s a thing that’s actually very common.
General terms such as my dog, my house, my room, etc can simply be filled in with what you remember about those things at that age and so when you try to remember this false memory, it explains why you can’t remember much of the details. Your mind is tailoring the experience to your memories in order to make it so that it as closely resembles other memories.
This is what dejavvu is, no? Your brain fucks up and instead of putting a new memory into the "this just happened' pile it sorts it into the" remember when this happened?" pile... So you feel like you're living a memory. Holy fuck that is scary as fuck now that write it.
I have epilepsy and sometimes get deja vu. It's VERY weird, at least how I experience it.
It's like I'm zoning out into a daydream and as my mind wanders, whatever I'm thinking about feels really familiar. So I try grasping for more details and zone out a little more like you do when you're trying to remember something. But suddenly I realize that I'm not remembering a real thing, it's just like a dream I'd have while asleep. Then I start getting really anxious because my brain is confused about reality and then it either stops like slowly waking from an actual dream or I have a seizure. I was afraid I was going legit crazy until someone realized I might've been having seizures.
Yeah. Basically, if anyone has ever described something vividly while your in a lucid state, there’s a chance that your brain will write it into your memory and even though you know that you’ve never done anything similar, your mind will tell you otherwise, no matter how ridiculous.
The feeling of deja vu is when we recognize that we’ve never done anything like what we’re currently doing subconsciously, even though we have memories of doing it. That weird feeling you get is your brain going oh shit and wiping the memory due to self preservation. The mind doesn’t want to risk the body copying what happened in this false memory from muscle memory due to possibility of injuring yourself by reacting wrong in the current situation.
That’s why you can never repeat the feeling of Deja’s vu from the same act even if you have perfectly recreated the circumstances.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s basically your brain realizing that it’s fucked up and it goes into damage control. The brain doesn’t like when things aren’t right and goes to extremes to correct itself. I can give you an example. Look up brainstorm vs green needle and get back to me. It’s a great example of the lengths the brain will go to make sure that it’s information is correct. Simple things such as audio reactions, how you perceive depth and distance, how your brain fills in the things outside of your vision, whether your aware of them or not, and many other things get f’d up almost all the time and the brain has to constantly fill in the blanks or correct it’s mistakes and some things are just lost in the shuffle.
Edit: the brain doesn’t always destroy the false memories but it’s more often than not that you lose the false memory after experiencing something similar enough in he real world. Some people do keep the memory and others can actually recognize when the original false memory was made.
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zdakat · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If deja Vu is when the memory is deleted,what is it called when you see something you shouldn't have been able to see before,but the refference remains?
I don’t know. I know what your talking about and have experienced it but deja vu is merely a feeling of doing something very similar based on a mistake your brain makes. What your talking about is more along the lines of recognizing something in the real world that you saw in a dream or living the real life equivalent of something that your mind made up.
Are you my friend? If not can I take your stories too anyway? I never remember things and get my proudest moments corrected "that wasn't you, that was JFK" or "you didn't cross the Rubicon, that was Caeser" I'm only kinda kidding it's usually "no, that happened to me not you"
So there was this one time that I was walking down the street and a car lost control and did a complete flip and landed on it's wheels in the opposite lane and just zoomed off without hesitation.
I actually have a pretty awful memory, and I have at least told these stories to people “about a friend of mine” and it turned out to be that very friend to whom I was telling the story. It is good fun. I love my awful memory.
Just kidding. It’s pretty awful to basically gaslight yourself forever.
I hate doing this, but I kinda love when people do it to me. I like seeing how they've reimagined the story. I especially love stories that people tell me over and over, even stories from their own lives. And the stories change very slightly each time as their memory blends stories together and otherwise sucks at filing
I feel like we all have at least one friend like that. It used to drive me crazy because my friend is stubborn and gets defensive when I would correct him. It was to the point where even when I would correct him he would still forget. I can’t wrap my head around how someone’s brain can function with such a drastic memory issue. Still love him, though
I used to tell stories to friends... And then halfway through it they'd say "... Eh... Yeah, i was there" or "yeah, that's me(when talking about a reply someone said)"... I guess I'm just so caught up in the moment I forget the details and...??? I dunno... But now I'm worried its not a normal thing lol
My mom tells me things I told her like an hour before. She’ll be like, “omg whiskeycrotch did you hear about Yada yada yada????” And I’m like, “mom. I literally told you that two hours ago”. “Oh, sorry”. And she always sounds so crestfallen but I don’t want her getting credit for my stories and discoveries and theories!!!!
Sometimes love means hearing your stories again 10 minutes later... ❤😁
d1rron · 6 points · Posted at 22:55:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Memory isn't nearly as reliable as people like to think. But also, if he's anything like me he might see your stories visually in his head, and so when he thinks back on it it's that scene that replays in his head and he forgets that it was just because he also "experienced" it in his head while hearing the story. I often second guess memories because my memories of stories are similarly vivid. Luckily so far all the major memories have been corroborated by other people or evidence. I've had a strange life though, so maybe that's why I sometimes question it. Lol
It's become part of me saying "not sure if it happened to me or someone else, but...". I really get confused when something happens to a friend, while I am there, cause I remember it, but it didn't happen to me.
bg-j38 · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a tendency to tell friends stories that happened to them, but I can't remember who told me the story. So like someone will say something and I'll be like "Oh yeah a friend of mine, I can't remember who, had this thing happen to them." Invariably I'll get the "Yeah, that was me that that happened to." We always laugh at my shitty memory. At least I'm not claiming the stories as my own!
I have a similar friend. If any of us tell her stories she tends to repeat them back to us, but not as if they we hers to tell, more like she was there when usually she wasn't. And when we point that out she says something along the lines of "yeah, but you told me about it right after" or "but I was the first person you told" when usually that also isn't true...
This is me. And I'll just kind of supplement memories out of nowhere? Dreams I suppose? It's terrible.
One time I vividly remembered getting one jacket at a secondhand store with one friend, and a conversation surrounding it. Recount this in passing for something else, to another friend, who gave me the jacket. His feelings weren't hurt about it, more just completely confused.
Oh no! Sorry about that. I didn't know you knew her for that long I thought it was a newer relationship. Have you mentioned to you S.O. to have her tested?
Is that a sign of dementia? My mom does this horribly. She'll recount "memories" of mine and thinks that she was there with me, when i know for sure that I was alone when these stories took place.
What if she was one of the pigs and is making sure he remembers before getting her vengeance?
nesfor · 19 points · Posted at 20:36:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My doctor told me they had to start asking about pregnancy at 11 years old. Basically when puberty starts and it becomes physically possible to be pregnant.
Student radiographer here, we're taught to start asking at age 15+, even got a whole lesson dedicated on how to ask it in the most discreet manner without the parents overhearing.
I’ve had this too. We have this one friend who like to tell random fibs about nothing important. We don’t know why, but our best guess is he thinks it’s making him fit in.
One night we were having a casual hangout, about six friends at my house, including the liar, just sitting around talking and sharing stories. I don’t remember how we got on the topic, but liar starts telling a story about how his mom is a nurse and how the other day she was helping a patient who managed to get some billiards balls stuck in his mouth. Then my bf goes, “Dude, that story is a joke. I saw it on reddit last week. I told it to you yesterday.” His face just dropped and he went, “oh, really?” Didn’t say anything else all night.
I honestly somehow once misremembered a story my friend had told me about his school as one about my school. Not out of malice, it had just got scrambled in my brain.
It might just have been a "borrowed memory". In OP's case it was obviously a lie since the story was presented as something that had happened on that day. But Your friend might have genuinely believed in the memory, complete with visualising. I had this once and caught my own self, then corrected myself. It was a concerning moment, to realize just how illusory memories can be.
My sister does this all the time! Shell tell stories that were actually my life and i cant figure out if shes lying for the attention to pretend these things happened to her or if she honestly thinks these are her memories. Its usually not worth bringing up or correcting so i just sit by silently at this point
I've done this, kind of. More like when I tell someone's story back to them saying "my one friend was telling me..." and the I'll embellish or fill in details I don't remember. It's less embarrassing, more funny when we realize I'm telling their story back to them lol. Probably because it's obvious that it's an honest mistake.
yiliu · 2 points · Posted at 00:35:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your friend probably didn't deliberately steal your story. Study after study has shown that our memories are pretty dodgy, and one thing they sometimes do is conflate other people's stories with our own. There are plenty of examples of people remembering the plots of TV episodes as events that happened to them personally. Some significant percentage of Americans vividly remember watching the first WTC tower fall on live TV, even though there wasn't a live feed. Your brain reaches back and finds fragments of a memory, and stitches it back together, putting you in the title role and making pieces fit. And yet they always feels solid, concrete, and accurate--because your brain tells you they are.
I've...done this. As a high school kid I copied someone else's story about microwaving a hamster. I have NO idea why I did it and would never do the same again. Rush of notoriety I guess as an outcast kid?
I had a friend who would always insert herself into my stories when we were teenagers. I'd be talking about something that happened when I was six, and she would chime in with "Oh I remember that, then I did XYZ!"
I called her out on it in front of our friends by saying "No, you weren't there, it was a family holiday in a different country."
Don't just nod and let it go, people who lie like that are jerks and may even steal from you. (I know this from experience, i felt (and still feel) like an idiot after realising how many lies i believed)
I think it's called a "synthetic memory". OP's fibbing coworker may not have genuinely believed it was their own, but they actually may not have been sure, and were just making conversation at that point.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:31:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's actually a real thing where people will be told a story by someone else and at some point become convinced that it happened to them (or that it didn't happen to them, but they were actually there rather than hearing about it later). Memories are a funny thing.
I like telling other people's stories, and quite often I will be telling a story, and mid-way through realize I am telling a person their own story (essentially the same thing this guy did only not claiming it was me). And even then I am embarrassed as hell. I don't think I could even work there anymore if I got caught doing something like that.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:19:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats different. Youre telling that persons story and i assume youre saying ‘and then HE said’ instead of ‘and then I said’
Youre not stealing stories. Youre just sharing. Thats different.
My point it's embarrassing when that happens, I can't image how embarrassing it is when you're caught telling it as your own.
--cunt · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This used to happen to my best friend and i. One of use would get halfway through a story, the details would get kind of murky and then we would ask the other one "wait did that happen to me or you???" I've told a lot of her stories just bc I've heard them so many times I literally forget who they happened to.
A past boss of mine did this to me once while I was working on his painting crew. A unique and interesting guy that I met changed to a customer he painted for "a while back" and other details changed slightly to fit his life but the story was the same. No one but me caught it and I kept it to myself, but it rubbed me the wrong way. For other reasons as well as this I left his company right as busy season started, and started working for a competing company
7in7 · 6 points · Posted at 20:10:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who does this... I actually commented about it a while back. But he'll always own up at the end of the story, explaining that everyone enjoyed it more thinking it happened first hand..
One time he told some story to the original storyteller who realised halfway through. Hilarity ensued.
holy shit, I had a coworker do this to me not that long ago. he told me a story about hooking up with a chick. he started telling this story as a brag. but by the point in the story where the specifics started to sound pretty familiar I interjected. "wait, no, stop. this is my story. carnival, dennys? birthday? you're lying. this is my story" he would not stop insisting it happened to him. we were waiting for a meeting to start so by the time he finished the story the meeting had started. I couldn't tell you what that meeting was about because I couldn't stop thinking about his narcissism. he tried acting like he was a player but him and his wife have been together since middle school.
I'm so glad you shared this story. I'd never known there were people like this until that day and have never heard of another instance in which this happened. we need a name for this. I don't feel like "GOD DAMN DIRTY STORY THEIF" is accurate enough for the resintment and embarrassment I feel for these people.
This is a common memory error that happens to humans. From the book "the Invisible Gorilla": "
"I Sat Next to Captain Picard"
About ten years ago at a party Dan hosted, a colleague of ours named Ken Norman told us a funny story about sitting next to the actor Pat- rick Stewart (best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek and Charles Xavier in the X-Men films) at a Legal Sea Food restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The story was prompted when Chris noticed that Dan had a small figurine of Captain Picard perched next to his television screen. "Can I buy your Captain Picard?" asked Chris. Dan said that it was not for sale. Chris offered five, then ten dollars. Dan refused. Chris eventually raised his bid to fifty dollars — for reasons that escape him now — but Dan still refused. (Neither of us remembers why Dan refused, but to this day, Picard has not left his place amid Dan's electronics.)
At this point Ken told us that at Legal Sea Food, Patrick Stewart had been dining with an attractive younger woman who, based on snippets of overheard conversation, appeared to be a publicist or agent. For dessert Stewart ordered Baked Alaska — a choice that stood out in memory because it appears rarely on restaurant menus. Toward the end of his meal, another distinctive event happened: Two members of the kitchen staff came out to Stewart's table and asked for his autograph, which he readily granted. Moments later, a manager appeared and apologized, explaining that the "Trekkie" cooks' action was against restaurant policy. Stewart shrugged off the supposed offense, and he and his companion were soon on their way.
The only problem with the story was that it had actually happened not to Ken, but to Chris. Ken had heard Chris tell the story some time before and had incorporated it into his own memory. In fact, Ken felt so strongly that the memory was his, and had so completely forgotten that Chris was the original raconteur, that even Chris's pres- ence when Ken retold the story did not jog his memory of the way in which he had actually "encountered" Captain Picard. But when Chris pointed out the error, Ken quickly realized that this memory was not his own. This anecdote illustrates another aspect of the illusion of memory: When we retrieve a memory, we can falsely believe that we are fetching a record of something that happened to us rather than someone else. "
Wrong. It's MY story. I told that story on Reddit (including someone stealing it) months ago. You even quoted me except I said "A green afro and a pink moustache" back then. You have been rumbled.
At work one day a co-worker started telling me and another co-worker a story about being stopped by the police.
He went into great detail about how he stopped at a gas station for a drink and there were two cops standing out front and nobody else in the parking lot. He gave the cops a wave, being nice, bought his drink, and left. Less than a hundred feet down the street these same two cops pulled him over. They told him that they smelled weed when he got out of the car. He asked the cops if they could smell it now, standing next to his open window, they said no but it was obvious it came from him. They asked if they could search his car, which he angrily let them, telling them he wanted the cops to climb through his hot car to find nothing. While one cop did the "Search" the other cop told him to calm down, he looked nervous. To which he said "I'm not pissed, I'm angry. You didn't smell weed, you smelled a shaved head and tattoos." The cops found nothing and let him go about his business.
THE LIE:
It was MY story. It happened to ME months before and I told that story at work back then. He even quoted me, except I said "Long hair and tattoos". A few minutes into the story my other co-worker and I start giving each other the side eye, realizing he was literally telling me my own story. I think he realized it towards the end because he quickly finished up the story and left without ever mentioning it again.
We never brought it up either, I had such a bad case of second hand embarrassment for the guy. Plus everybody else already heard about it and he was forever branded the liar.
I had a buddy try to insert me in to a story while he was telling it to me. Uh, no buddy, I was NOT there the day that you claimed that the one hot chick was totally coming on to you. I was in a different city. Maybe he confused me with someone else, but he was known to be full of shit, anyway. I'm sure his wife would have loved the story, though.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds of my friend in high school who showed us song yrics he wrote and they were almost identical to Civil War by Guns & Roses. I guess he didn't count on a bunch of rockers in guitar class recognizing a super popular song at the time…
I told my ex a funny story about my friend having a crush on sonic the hedgehog as a kid and a few weeks later he repeated the story in front of me whilst drunk as his own story when we were having a group conversation about childhood crushes. I didn't say anything but he told the story word for word and said "my friend..."
He had never even met my friend.
You could save yourself in this situation by slowly starting to exaggerate and then passing it off as a bad joke. I'd rather be known for my shitty sense of humor rather than for being a liar.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:35:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, the real thing to do is to not lie.
Although it is entirely possible for someone to do this accidentally and actually be convinced that it happened to them. Humans aren't great at remembering things. The problem with that is that even if you claim you genuinely thought it happened to you, most people won't believe you and will assume you're still lying.
I have a friend that developed a reputation for “stealing memories”. He would listen to histories and had such a good memory that he would correct you if you told it a different way.
Apparently the memory was very selective, because he would not remember whether or not he was actually present during the event, but would totally recount the tales down to the tiniest details.
There was no malice though.
I have "that guy" at my work too. I told a story of a guy accidentally hitting a game warden with his ATV. Few years later "that guy" starts telling the same story to a group of people I was standing with.
There's a guy where I work that does that almost. He makes up all kinds of lies for no reason. He also likes to tell you back things you just said. He also likes to take control of everything and push everyone out of the way. He also likes to show off. He also likes to flirt with every woman in the plant. He also talks a whole bunch about useless stuff. He also shakes his head no and looks pathetic every time he looks at anyone. God I hate that guy.
It's possible they really remembered it wrong and thought it happened to them. It's scary how malleable memory is, and a lot of things can influence it. There are even people who admit to crimes they never did lol.
I’ve been the liar in this scenario, but it was an honest mistake. A while back my best friend told me a story about something funny that had happened to him. Years later, I repeated his own story back to him, but in my version the funny thing had happened to my husband. I genuinely thought I remembered my husband telling me that story as something that happened to him. But it obviously wasn’t a big deal in this situation, my friend just thought it was hilarious.
Liitke · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a kid at work who has done this at least thrice to me. I dont know if i get angry or sad..... angry that he stole my story or sad that he thinks so little of me he can't even remember im the one who told him. He is such a compulsive liar it's incredibly frustrating.
Remembering other people's stories as your own is actually a common memory mistake. "I Sat Next to Captain Picard" is an anecdote in the book, "The Inivisible Gorilla " This anecdote is basically the same - a friend tells another friend an entertaining story that happened to him. They say " [It] illustrates another aspect of the illusion of memory: When we retrieve a memory, we can falsely believe that we are fetching a record of something that happened to us rather than someone else. " So, unless you havereason to think they're being deliberately deceptive, the kid probably isn't lying to you - they are likely just more suceptible to this memory malfunction than others.
Liitke · 5 points · Posted at 21:15:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well besides stealing stories he literally lies about everything. While your information was interesting i think hes just more inclined to be a dick.
Things hes lied about;
Working at several jobs. (Didnt)
Owning a car. (Moms)
Owning a house. (Gfs dads basement)
Having a miscarriage (i know his gf unless he was cheating)
Purchasing items at work (i did)
Singing in a band (his brother does)
Being drug free (does meth)
He has a forge and makes knives (think he just watches a show)
His mom saved red lobster a million dollars a year by putting one olive in their salads instead of two (common american airlines story)
Similar but not anyone stealing my story. A friend of mine was once telling me how someone in her friend group had so much crazy shit happen to him. She told me one of the stories. It sounded familiar. Then another. It didn't register until I went onto TIFU and realised her friend was bullshitting her reddit stories.
Why do people do that?
Ive had a friend who told a story that I was present in, and added new things to it that never happened and that he never said.
I had another friend try telling me he saw a baby in a hot car, so he threw a rock through the window, and I was able to finish exactly what he was going to say next: "but the window was down" How did I know? Because its an Anthony Jesselink joke.
Why do people try to pass things off as their own and/or add things?? I dont understand.
Its more satisfying to tell stories that actually happened, doesnt faking stories about yourself make you feel LESS interesting because you know it didnt actually happen? Like you must be a boring person if you have to use your friend's stories to seem interesting.
This happenes to me sometimes. I think certain things happened to me, when in reality, they happened to someone else. But i always clarify it happened to someone else once i remember who it happened to
FYF69 · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh... had a co-worker do that to me a few years back. Can't remember the story I'd told (I'm decades older'n him), but he re-told one of my old stories. Just when co-workers were busting out the "Hey, that's really cool man" type shit, I said "Yeah, I told you that story months ago." I'm kind of a plain speaker these days.
He at least had the grace to look embarrassed.
Llohr · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have literally done this (told someone else's story) without realizing it until part way through. Not that I didn't realize I was telling someone his own story, I didn't realize that it didn't happen to me, until something didn't feel right; I couldn't remember details that I should have been able to remember. I stopped, and asked of the group, "did one of you guys tell me this story? I think this is something I heard."
Alcohol may have been involved. Still embarrassing to think about.
I had a roommate steal a secondhand story we had heard from a mutual friend my freshman year of college. It was about our RA and it was initially told as, “hey guys my friend told me he saw her at a party flash somebody!” When it was retold suddenly the ex-roomie was the person who saw her at the party. 😂 It was so cringe.
Had a buddy in the Marines like this. He became known for telling some tall tales. But one that stood out was him repeating a story that one of our Sergeants had told. Apparently, he had a vial of LSD taped to his leg at a club, it busted, and absorbed in to his skin, and gave him a fucked up trip. I have no inclination to believe that story when the Sergeant told it. But when he repeated it, I was just like "Oh brother..."
It's pretty crazy how you catch a person lying 1 time and then all of a sudden everything you and them have ever done or said together all comes together! Like you can instantly tell what's a lie and what's real
This reminds me of the time I was stopped by the police.
I stopped at a gas station for a drink and there were two cops standing out front and nobody else in the parking lot. I gave the cops a wave, being nice, bought his drink, and left. Less than a hundred feet down the street these same two cops pulled me over. They told me that they smelled weed when I got out of the car. I asked the cops if they could smell it now, standing next to my open window, they said no but it was obvious it came from me. They asked if they could search his car, which I angrily let them, telling them I wanted the cops to climb through my hot car to find nothing. While one cop did the "Search" the other cop told me to calm down, I looked nervous. To which I said "I'm not pissed, I'm angry. You didn't smell weed, you smelled a short fat dude." The cops found nothing and let me go about my business.
Omfg very similar thing happened to me too, me and my best friend were at dinner with a couple other friends, one of them starts telling a story that my best friend told me and we just looked at each other like WTF?? The most embarrassing part is he obviously forgot that she was the one who told him and he didn't even seem to notice that everyone was just giving each other the side eye. How and why people do this is beyond me
I love it when people do that, it shows people actually listen to you.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 22:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do that sometimes (repackage stories as my own) because it's way more engaging to tell a story in first-person than to be like "so my friend one time" or something oblique like that. I don't think I've ever re-hashed some else's story to their face, though. That would be so fucking embarrassing lol
When his ex girlfriend sent me a picture of a pregnancy test...but couldn’t hold it up to a daily newspaper. She broke and admitted it was fake... Queen of Douche
hiyeuh · 1002 points · Posted at 21:29:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck that shit. I had a girl do the same thing. Found out that she lived in so many places because that’s how she makes money. Fake abortions. It made my heart hurt and my dick feel sick.
And are you saying you can't be in a situation where you don't have a free 500$ hanging around? I certainly did not when I had to go through an abortion.
No actually, I think OP was agreeing with you on the same principle but with different words. She's saying not having 100K is one thing (not enough to raise a kid) but not having $500 is even less than that (not enough to do shit) and even more of a reason to end a pregnancy.
I'm American and have always lived in the North - Washington State, now NYC - I think abortions have always been available to me and my lady brethren. It's in the South and parts of the midwest/biblebelt that have trouble with access. I'm glad I don't live in those areas.
Welcome to Reddit! Something you'll commonly find here mentioned again and again is that American healthcare for the poor is absolute shit. Some places won't let you abort at all! If that surprises you, just wait until you hear how well we take care of our combat veterans!
I know you posted this a while ago, but I thought I would answer your question.
Most doctor's offices will do payment plans if you can't afford their services.
Also, if you have insurance they usually just have you pay the copay ($20-40 depending on your insurance) then will send you a bill for what insurance didn't cover.
hiyeuh · 1 points · Posted at 13:44:33 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had it. She told me it was 700 though. I thought of myself as a good guy though so I should just pay it. Got the money out and everything but her friend, who is also my friend, filled me in that day before I gave her the cash.
I heard that if you yell into the vagina for the baby to leave it will sometimes go on its own accord. And if that doesn't work you can always slide an eviction notice in there.
I am not trying to be a dick honestly. Watch out for girls that ARE TOO INTO you ya know what I mean they miight be scammers. OR they are your soul mate....fuck it dont take advice from me
There's an app when you can make "stickers" from pictures. I made a sticker from an ovulation test, which almost always shows two lines and good gosh, the amount of people who've used it in pictures holding them. I always think it's funny because it says "Lh" all over it where pregnancy tests are "HcG".
No. They're for public use. I submitted it to the gallery and others can use whatever I make. Perfect strangers making fake pregnancy announcements with an ovulation test.
Edit - the app is called PicsArt Photo Studio: Collage Maker & Pic Editor. If you search pregnancy tests, you'll likely find mine in there. I've gotten a dozen hits on it or so.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:14:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a long distance ex tell me she thought she was pregnant. She was on the 3 month shot, it was REALLY fucking unlikely and her reasoning was garbage. I asked her if she took a test. no.
I asked her why she was even be telling me if she could just go to the store and find out. She goes, checks, texts back that she took a test and it was negative. I told her to send me a photo of it. She tells me she can't, it's in the trash already. So fucking dig it out! Oh, uh... I'll just go buy another one. Why would you do that? those things are expensive, which you would know if you had actually gone and bought one in the first place.
You can get them for a dollar at the dollar store and you aren’t supposed to read them after five minutes and rely on what they say (not just the dollar store ones).
She was on depo which is one of the most effective forms of BC outside of sterilization, we had a fight and she was using that as a way of getting to me. she was a toxic and abysmal human being who thanks to years of abuse at the hands of her ex was incapable of being anything but dependant on the person she was romantically involved with, and unable to make even simple life decisions for herself. She was a shell of a human being who refused to get therapy and thought the idea of getting her pregnant would keep me from breaking up with her. My only regret is not leaving that relationship years earlier.
Just so you know, a pregnancy test actually isn't valid after a certain amount of time- like if she took it and threw it away and you asked to see it 20 minutes later, and it had said "positive", you may have called her a liar. But outside of the time frame for that particular test, the result can be different. It doesn't happen often, but it could. Just in case you ever find yourself in such a situation again lol. The girl should 100% go buy another test.
She was on depo which is one of the most effective forms of BC outside of sterilization, we had a fight and she was using that as a way of getting to me. she was a toxic and abysmal human being who thanks to years of abuse at the hands of her ex was incapable of being anything but dependant on the person she was romantically involved with, and unable to make even simple life decisions for herself. She was a shell of a human being who refused to get therapy and thought the idea of getting her pregnant would keep me from breaking up with her. My only regret is not leaving that relationship years earlier.
I wasn't trying to say she was in the right whatsoever, and I'm glad you got away from her!! I'm a girl, and i had an ex that tried to convince me to stay by saying I was probably pregnant (???), people will desperately grasp at anything to "keep" their partner sometimes. I was just referring to the part where you said she should just get it out of the trash. Just thought I'd be helpful and let you, and anyone else who may read it, know that you can't rely on a pregnancy test that's more than a few minutes old.
And just to give you a laugh with a funny ass coincidence, I'm currently 35 weeks pregnant with my son. I was on the depo shot AND using condoms 😂😂 luckily my partner and I are happy about it lol. You are correct though, it's supposed to be one of the most effective/foolproof.
I wasn't in doubt that it was negative, i was in doubt it ever existed. it didn't she never took the test because she knew she wasn't pregnant.
Yikes! Those are some odds lol
Glad the two of you are in a place where it works for you!
Ohhhh, ok. That makes sense! And yeah, I didn't find out for a while because I don't have regular periods and once the symptoms started it was flu season, thinking I had the flu made more sense than being pregnant 😂
Fenbob · 12 points · Posted at 23:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a girl I was temporarily seeing. Who did something similar. She sent me pictures of pregnancy test, saying all kinds of shit like she had morning sickness. Even sent me pics of her sick one morning. To “prove it”
In the end I just told her I’m shooting blanks so fuck off lol.
I believe it has something to do with how people ask to take pictures with a copy of today's newspaper in the shot to prove its a real and recent picture you took yourself.
I’m in complete agreement with you since I’m unable to have anymore. Babies are too important for some of us
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:46:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion/ This is the website for the National Abortion Fund with funding by state. Give her this info if she happens to need another abortion. 😑 This is also valuable info to anyone else out there who is unable to pay. They offer accomodation assistance as well if there is long distance travel to the clinic.
Not the point... if they don’t cough up the lie, they will find SOMETHING or someway to validate. I mean, when you knew her tubes were tied, that makes it easier to figure out it was FABRICATED
I caught my mom eating my Halloween candy when I was little after she told me it wasn't her. Getting new candy from the store because of it was pretty satisfying.
The dad tax is fine when you know you’re paying it, having the tax man break down your door while you’re at work and pawn your computer is fucked up though.
I am allergic to peanut butter and I used to ask for non peanut treats, but my dad used to tell me to get them anyway so he could eat all of them. We had a pretty good system going on there for a few years.
I had to struggle with this so called "dad tax" for quite awhile, even as I supplied groceries and such. I feel in hindsight it's just a narcissistic excuse for someone that feels entitled to everything they see just because "it's in my house." I don't resent my old man for doing it now because I would probably do the same thing but I want my "son tax" for all of those lost Publix subs I lost :(
My parents just took the bag at the end of Halloween night and stashed it somewhere for their consumption. One year I hid it before they could get it and I managed to make the candy last over twice as long as they ever did. They never took my candy again.
The Parent Tax. Five candy bars of their choosing, per parent, from every child, every year. Even when I got old enough to take my little brother out on our own (I was around fourteen) they still charged this "fee" for letting us go in the first place.
We pretended to grumble, but we always paid up. We were dirt poor and loved our parents.
I knew my ex wife was cheating but didn’t tell her that I knew..
Took her out to dinner and I casually asked questions about who she had been spending time with while I was at sea, she barely worked so she had to spend her time doing something.
She failed to mention the guy that had been staying at my house for nearly 2 months, the guy she had to call the cops on just to get to leave because I was coming home in 2 days... soooo I slid her a copy of the police report that was filed for the incident and watched as she crumbled over the fact she had been caught, and I didn’t have to say a word.
Divorce court was even more satisfying, in case anyone was wondering.
The short of it is, between her dad, text message transcripts, her garbage attorney, and her less than palatable attitude vs mine all combined to swing in my favor in the courtroom: I owed her nothing and paid her nothing in the end. I got to keep the vehicles, and she was given the debt she had acquired on frivolous purchases (without my say in any of it), I walked away free but of course, heart broken.
Her dad at one point told the courtroom of a conversation he overheard of her and the guy joking about finding a way to kill me to collect my life insurance. I feel like that was a pretty substantial point.
I honestly do chalk this success up to the fact that from the moment I found out of her infidelity to the one and only day of court, I kept my cool best as possible. Key words “best as possible”. I wasn’t 100% the entire time.
My uncle, an abusive, lazy, piece of work of a man ruined his second wife's credit (she came from a wealthy family) by charging about $50k of debt to her credit cards. They had two very small children together, and he did this before running off to marry the woman that would become his third wife. He visited my aunt in the hospital, who was there because he also set her house on fire with my two cousins in it; The only reason they made it out is because my oldest cousin (this was before I was born, he's 5 years older than me) woke his mom up (he was maybe 3 or 4 at the time) to tell her he smelled smoke.
He never forgave my mother and grandmother for showing up to court and testifying to him being a terrible human being and I heard him murmering about it a few times under his breath as a teen if my mom and grandma's didn't give him something he wanted. He kept on saying stuff like, "What about family?" and, "I'm your son!" My grandmother just shook her head and told her she raised him better than that and that him being her son didn't cancel out the fact that he broke the law and almost ruined an innocent woman's life and killed his own children. My aunt (she's still my aunt, whether they divorced or not -- she was very kind to me as a child and it pisses him off that I still consider her family, and he reminded my mom frequently throughout my childhood to have me stop saying that) was too afraid of him to press charges -- he'd filled her head with all kinds of lies that he "has friends in high places" and knew alot of people on the police force and used to be a cop himself.
Literally the only job I've heard of my uncle having in his entire life is a stint as a bellhop and a "stay at home dad" (he always left my cousins with our Maw-maw so he could go down the street and sleep with our neighbor -- yes, he was married at the time). His current (third) wife is a lawyer and supports them completely... Pretty sure she's still with him only because of sunk cost fallacy at this point.
A bit is an understatement. He absolutely is a sociopath. Like I'm not sure I've ever seen him have real emotions other than being indignant (because some random person that has no reason to listen to him isn't listenimf to him), smug(because he genuinely thinks he's smarter than most people) and angry, which he then begins to act on. Haven't spoken with him in years and I don't plan to ever again if I can help it.
I'd say I'm shocked he was allowed around me as a child, but my mother was also a narcissist too, so :/
Narcissistic and sociopathic traits have quite a bit in common. If someone's a sociopath, there's a near guarantee that they're also a narcissist. I'm not sure if it works vice-versa, but I don't see why it couldn't.
Psychopath/sociopath, narcissist, and the drama queen one (I think it's called histrionic personality disorder, or better known as a drama queen (where the phrase "hissy fit" comes from) overlap in many areas and share many traits. Kind of like... fruit, I guess. ie, apples, oranges, pairs and grapes are fruits, but each is unique.
And yes, I just compared psychos, sociopaths, narcissists and drama queens to fruit. Because they're fruitcakes. :)
I haven't had this happen to me, but I don't care whether my family members are family are not if they commit a crime. If they do, I'll hand them over to the law without batting an eye. Justice will be done. I've told my family that if I commit a crime, I must be handed over to the authorities.
That's just the right thing to do. Idgaf if you're my child, my cousin, father, anyone -- if it were a total stranger doing something illegal, there's no question about if they should go to prison, so it should be no different with someone I know committing a crime. Just because I love you/am related to you doesn't make you any less a criminal. It would break my heart as opposed to some random guy committing an act and getting jailed for it, but it would have to be done.
Yeah, but unfortunately, some families still protect people who should be tried. It totally hurts emotionally to hand them over, but it's the law we all agreed to live under. Morally, we're doing the right thing. Hopefully, they're not sent to prison, but to a rehabilitation center. I know prisons are inhumane in many countries, including the U.S.
to some people the "right thing" to do would be to support their kids no matter what, and I don't think that's inherently wrong. maybe not a defensible opinion, but it's a different value system
That's a very disturbing sense of "right." If you defend your child when they're wrong, how will they learn to do right?
you might be picturing under 18 children, but this situation involved a woman that is definitely in the adult territory. if a parent raises their kid right, unconditional support of their adult child isnt necessarily disturbing. teaching kids in their developmental years is a different story entirely
I'm speaking, of course, in reference to the story above. If your child is in some sort of danger, it's understandable to jump to their defence no matter the cause. If they're not in danger, defending them when they're wrong can be developmentally damaging.
Again, I'm not necessarily speaking about the story above in some of my replies. I assumed people would be able to figure without an explicit statement, but here it is.
Yeah, that's what infuriated me about an episode of George Lopez. When Benny said that it didn't matter if George killed someone, and she knew about it. She'd still claim to any reporter that he was innocent. Because that was her son. And that's what you do for family. This is the same Benny that said that you "Don't screw family". Silly me, I thought that it was wrong to screw ANYONE.
I know that Benny was meant to be a despicable character. But they usually show her in that light. In these cases, it was more of a "This is the way it is" type of situation. And it annoyed me. For a show that wasn't afraid to tackle the societal double standard of how people view the "Male student-female teacher relationship", I would have expected better.
Also, if you got married, your father in law probably treats you like a son/daughter and feels like you're part of the family. If you're in a serious relationship with someone who's close with their family, this happens.
Yeah that whole "family first" mentality needs to be replaced with "Do what's right". That's how we see families standing by a rapist/murderjng/pedo/abusive relative.
TNS72 · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My family all love my wife. I reckon they'd take her side even if she was the cheater...
lonnko · 7 points · Posted at 00:04:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents would absolutely support me. I probably wouldn't ask them to testify if I knew I was in the wrong, but yeah if my parents sided with my ex I'd be pissed. And unless my (hypothetical) kid did something heinous, I probably wouldn't side against them either.
I love my daughters more than I can say, but I overheard one of them chatting with a guy about murdering her husband to collect his life insurance, I don't think I'd defend her in court.
Llohr · 10 points · Posted at 02:33:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex's parents were on my side, right up until they got the idea (from her? I don't know) that I'd take their grandkid and move away never to be seen again as soon as we were divorced. After that they fought for custody on her behalf--she didn't want it.
Her dad probably knew him well too and I'd have done the same thing too actually ( even the least fair person can't deny supporting the poor man on a to-be planned murder)
You know I wonder about this sometimes. I don't have kids but obviously I can see how a parent would side with their kid no matter what. But is there a line that is drawn in the sand? What if your kid is a total piece of shit?
Honestly I think theres a lot that can be forgiven but I'll be damned if I'm going to standby a criminal and enable them.
Exactly. There's a fine line between forgiving and enabling. Some parent's let their love blind them to the fact that their child may not always be a perfect angel.
If I had cheated and was getting a divorce because of it, I'm pretty positive my mom would fully support my ex. She loves me, but I seriously doubt she'd sit idly by while I blatantly acted like a piece of shit.
He was. He couldn’t stand it anymore. He vented to me quite a lot after he finally let the cat out of the bag. I guess he had enough. He wanted away from her. I can’t claim to know all the details since I wasn’t there. Just know what I saw.
You would be correct. He had come to stay with us when things had kinda fallen apart for him (personal life) so we all had a pretty good bond. We also were happy he was there so she had family now for when I went out to sea and it wasn’t just my family that she had.
Without his assistance I would’ve been stuck giving her 1/3 of my paychecks at a minimum.
Military policy is very clear on spousal support until actual divorce. With his written statement I was waived of the requirement to give her anything.
She did make it quite a mess for me. It was not easy until divorce court day.
Navy. Submarine duty. I am 33 now and this divorce was when I was 27, but I’m sure you can relate when I say some of life’s events are ones you don’t forget!
mtmo94 · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you haven't seen it yet, here is a video of a man catching his fiance cheating. He also keeps quiet about it, and the reveal that he knows is so fucking satisfying. I'm happy things worked out for you, despite the shitty part about your SO's infidelity.
Sued a bloke for not paying his mortgage. He filed an application claiming he’d never been served with the court proceedings, and he’d just found them in his front yard. He also managed in two pages to set out eleven separate claimed defences to the claim. Oh and he also claimed he didn’t speaka da good English.
Something didn’t stack up. So I ran some Court file searches, and discovered he’d defaulted on another mortgage a few years earlier and filed the exact same affidavit back then. Even included the exact same photos of the court documents supposedly lying in his yard.
Hoo boy would I love to be able to confirm that. But sadly, that is not what happened. We told him what we’d found; he suddenly got back his English skill set and offered to pay my client out; my client took the deal. Collections officers are driven by the returns on their loan book, not whether their debtors go to prison.
How much time can you really get for purjury? I honestly don't know much about that but I'm movies it's just short term. I know movies what a great sources.
Gyrgir · 18 points · Posted at 23:27:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the jurisdiction, the type of case, and the offender's criminal record. Perjury in US Federal court has a maximum sentence of 5 years imprisonment, but IIRC typical sentences for someone with a clean record who is convicted of perjury at trial are more like 12-18 months for perjury in a civil case or 18-24 months for perjury in a criminal case.
And of course, each state has their own rules. California, for example, has some provisions scaling the penalty for perjury based on the potential and actual consequences of the lie. There's even a provision allowing the death penalty for perjury if the perjury lead directly to an innocent person being executed, but I don't think that provision has ever been used.
I can confirm that I deal with crap like this all the freaking time (in bankruptcy court (although generally not THIS blatant) and I have never seen anyone get any time for anything.
Thank you. It was one of my proudest moments in professional practice. Running the court searches was not at all conventional and when it turned up his prior affidavit...OMG so excite.
I read the other comments, it would appear that he got away with it and so when he went to get another mortgage elsewhere I assume it wasn't on record or listed as a conviction. Wouldn't look like he had done anything wrong, no reason not to give him another mortgage.
Ehh; it’s pretty funny for a certain sense of humour. It’s from the 80’s and it’s about this group of foreigners taking an English language class. Speaking for the languages in there that I know; the foreign languages they speak and the terminology they use is very accurate and fluently spoken by foreign-based actors. You can kind of see the classes progression as they learn more English throughout the seasons. It’s a pretty wholesome show, riddled with minor jokes that can be missed; and, as most 80’s shows are, it’s totally family friendly.
drarch · 1135 points · Posted at 16:19:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I played college basketball, and one of my teammates had a chronic condition with the truth.
My first summer, we were roommates, and I always suspected he was stealing my clothes. At one point, every player received a custom pair of Jordans in our school's colors. But within a week mine went missing.
A month later, I noticed my roommate/teammate was wearing a pair of Jordans. Later in the day we were in a gym and I waited until we were all relaxing, and he had the soles of his shoes facing forward as he sat.
I told all of my other teammates what I suspected, and approached him. "Hey, have you seen my Jordans?", "Naa, I already told you. Now leave me alone", "Then why is my number written on the soles of the shoes you're wearing?". The team equipment staff had predicted some shoes might go missing, so they had marked each pair.
I made him take the shoes off right there, since I couldn't trust I'd get them back at the end of the day. After that, his nickname on the team was Simba, for being the Lying King.
EDIT:
One more story, since people found the first amusing.
We had an athletic trainer whose job it was to make sure we were taking care of our bodies. If we got hurt, it was his responsibility to make sure we were getting treatment before and after every practice or game.
My teammate/roommate had sprained his ankle earlier that week in practice, and the rule was if you weren't with the training staff getting treatment, then you weren't really hurt. Skipping treatment, but saying you were hurt, was a huge no-no with our coach.
I was in there for my own injury, and the trainer comes up to say "Where's your roommate? He was supposed to be here 30 min ago, and practice starts soon." I didn't know, so the trainer calls him.
Over the phone, my roommate tells our trainer that he's just getting out of class on campus, and it'll take him at least another 20 minutes to get back - so no time for treatment.
The trainer hung up the phone and stared at me with an incredulous look, "This MF-er just told me he was on campus... I called his room phone".
Hey, you seem like someone who would genuinely give someone a chance for being truthful. What a shitty person to be surrounded among! Hope you find supportive crowds in your environment soon!
My wife lived with this girl who was told she could borrow any clothing at any time from their third roommate, who will continued to sneak in and steal them often. She was caught several times. Some people just like to steal
Once had a person work for me who would always call out and use her past health problems as a crutch to miss work all the time. One Monday she called in, gave me some generic illness excuse and said she couldn't get out of bed. That morning another department had a breakfast meeting at ihop (ihob) and saw her there eating breakfast with her friends looking like she was in perfect health. The picture evidence sent to me was oh so satisfying.
[deleted] · 2267 points · Posted at 16:34:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Somehow she did not, my superior was furious about it and approved her termination but I think the person who had the final say on it literally said: "Well just because you're sick doesn't mean you can't eat". She did end up getting transferred to a lower position though, she is still with the company.
I called into work with lupus when I was 18, I had been at the beach partying and was sunburned and hungover. Should have spent a little more time researching my illness. It was a very strange environment when I returned to work the next day obviously sunburned. No one said anything, and I pulled employee of the quarter a couple times at that franchise after said incident...
I once called in and said I couldn't get my mojo rising. Boss understood, and I spent the day drinking and playing tunes. That recharged me enough to give that hell hole about another three months.
Mojo Dysfunction Syndrome is a terrible illness and should not be joked about. Thankfully there's medication to reduce symptoms but when you use it if your mojo won't stop rising after four hours you should call your doctor
The leadership team I work with does this and I appreciate it to no end. My manager will see that I'm reaching the end of my rope and tell me to take a long weekend, and I'll cover him if he needs the same. It makes a world of difference
Yeah. My workplace simply has "Personal Time". No questions, no expectations. It's there as sick time, but if you have an unexpected transportation issue, fine. If you need a mental health day, nobody is going to police it. The time is limited, but generally adequate. And if you have a further issue, it's pretty easy to get vacation time approved for that use instead.
This is what worries me about these type of stories. I have a cocktail of chronic conditions and there are days where I'm bedbound but the next day I could be fine. If anyone ever took photos of me out, or told on me for being out, and I got sacked for lying I'd be fucked. So I feel like I can't enjoy my good days through fear of being called a liar and losing my puny income.
Edited because of the curse of predictive text.
HA! my now wife, but girlfriend at the time took 6 months to travel the world... the first gift I received from her upon her return was a t-shirt with Dr. Houses face and "it's not lupus" under it.
In your case, due to the TV show house, calling in with lupus and then showing up with a sunburn the next day probably looked more like you knew no one would believe it and you just wanted a day off. I mean, its never lupus, except that one time it was, and everyone knows that. Probably would have got the same reaction if you claimed to have a 24 hour bout of cancer.
That's a lie that no one actually thought that you thought you were getting away with.
I had a coworkers farewell one night and I was feeling a bit off but nothing major so I still went. I didn’t drink at all because I was starting to feel worse during the night. I left pretty soon after the meal ended. Came down with a full blown fever that night and called in sick to work the next day. When I got back my manager reamed me out about how stupid I was to go out with coworkers and then call in sick. Like, 1 it’s possible to get sick overnight and 2 if you’re going to be all “you were out with coworkers I know I checked” maybe check how I seemed? what time I left? was I drunk? If you’re going to make a judgement call
"Well just because you're sick doesn't mean you can't eat".
This can be true, most companies where I live have a policy that states you cannot return to work within 48 hours of vomiting/the runs, so you could be puking your ring up at 6am, be fine by 9am and still have take 2 days off.
That's why most people I know lie and say they have a migraine or something instead.
I'm lactose intolerant, with IBS, and this policy would ruin my attendance at work. Nothing I have is contagious, but I doubt company policies like this account for chronic illnesses that have these as symptoms.
Final-say-person is kind of right about that? I was home sick for two weeks with a bad back ( I have chronic back pain ) a couple of years back and during that time a co-worker who lives in the same city took pictures of me carrying grocery bags home to my flat. When I got back to work, I was called into the office and was asked to explain the pictures. I asked them how else I was supposed to get groceries, or was I supposed to not eat for two weeks? I live alone. Just because I don't look sick doesn't mean I'm not in pain.
I have Chrohn's disease, I never really LOOK sick unless I'm having a real bad flair nearing anemia. Wannt me to show you my torn up, bleeding large intestine to prove I'm suffering boss?
They didn't say they were sick, they said they "couldn't get out of bed". Unless that bed was in an IHOP, the reason for calling out of work was a lie.
Had similar thing happen with guy claiming he hurt his back at work (young guy maybe 20/21) my boss walked into the gym at the local fitness center and the dude was playing basket ball, HR said boss wasn't a dr so couldn't state one way or another if guy was hurt or not so they let it go. Kid ended up quitting a few weeks later saying he needed a new start and eat going to go move to Hawaii with his cousin and start new life away from his ex. Last I saw that hadn't happened.
aslum · 12 points · Posted at 22:06:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
FWIW if I'm sick I'm much more inclined to get one of my friends to drive me to some restaurant where someone else will make food for me than make it myself... Though even more inclined to just order delivery.
Moxz · 6 points · Posted at 05:07:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
not trying to tell you how to live your life, but you should try to avoid public places when sick, especially grocery stores.
That being said, I get it. Your house isn't a prison.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 22:43:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I could see this as a logical excuse for someone who doesnt have a bad rep for calling in. I called in sick (I actually was very sick) and decided to do my shopping while my daughter was at school, (shes autistic and an absolute pain to take to the store).
My boss was off that day and caught me walking out of the store. But luckily he knew about my daughter and understood the circumstances. Also my attendance is amazing.
I was a supervisor of a company alongside one of my best friends for years, and there were two employees that were good dudes, but super shitty employees. It took two goddamn years before they let them go, and I’m pretty sure they only did it then because the company was bought out and had new owners with higher standards.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 05:22:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My manager who had it out for my tried to fire me for "faking sick" because a coworker saw me "out galivanting at Wal-Mart" when I was "supposedly sick". I live alone and had just come from the hospital... I was waiting for a prescription and picking items up from the pharmacy area that I would need that were non - prescription, as well as saltine crackers and ginger ale. I told her she could see my hospital note, but that being sick doesn't mean you can't leave your house for medical attention/ medicine and if she pursued it she could speak to my union rep. She dropped it.
It might be that she does have some issues from time to time, or sees and doctors and lies to him about it, so she could still be “suffering” from a disease and the boss just didn’t want to risk a lawsuit for firing her
I wouldn't justify firing someone for using a sick day for any reason. Now if she'd already run out of PTO and was still calling in sick, I still say fine. But if she gets caught lying about it then, then yeah.. that's a stern talking to, at least.
Had a similar experience with a co-worker. Always called off with excuse after excuse. Called in one day saying her mother and grandmother were killed in a car wreck and she wouldn't be in condition to come in for a few days. Her mother and grandmother showed up to surprise her and take her out to lunch that day.
Thanks! Someone told her what happened, and she just never showed up again. The boss wanted to give her a chance to explain, but she assumed she was fired and we just never saw her again.
Yep! We all felt terrible for her, and a few people even offered to stay late and pick up extra slack so she could be out longer. We were all pretty pissed when they came in to surprise her. At her, obviously, not at them
I'm more upset that she called out of work to go to Ihop/Ihob. Like...if you're going to play hooky then make it worthwhile. Not some shit breakfast place.
I worked at hotel when my boss was fired and I was suddenly in charge of a whole lot while waiting on a replacement boss. There was older guy who worked room service who took off unexpectedly at least twice while I was in charge because "his wife died." I felt so bad for him the first time, suspicious the next time. I mean... It's possible to have two marriages and in death in that span of time. But later new boss was telling me the guy's wife had just died and we went to HR. He had apparently used this excuse at least four other times in his 14 year employment.
I think he lied. I believe he lied. But I also like to think there's an outside chance that marrying that guy is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do!
I was always suspicious of people randomly calling in on a Monday, like could you have not given me a heads up? I think she was just hungover from Sunday day drinking.
If I feel sick over the weekend I usually just hope I'm better by Monday. The one time I let my boss know on Saturday that I wasn't feeling good and would keep them posted about Monday it was super awkward and I didn't even end up needing to miss Monday.
A (now ex) coworker of mine had a bad habit of calling out during our busiest season. One day she calls out 10 min before the start of her shift saying "My mom's really sick, sorry." Later in the day, she posts a picture of her and her bf on facebook having a fun time at Olive Garden. The kicker is that she's facebook friends with our manager, who got super pissed off.
I had a coworker and her husband who did have health issues. The problem was she lied about how bad they were about 75% of the time. She blew up when I stopped filling for every little non emergency. She lied to higher management on a weekend I tried and couldn't get off. He was "recovering" from a medical procedure when they went drinking.
A few years later, I took a weekend off with an understanding that I will not be called in to cover her ass. I wound up unexpectedly in the hospital confined to a bed since I was a fall risk. According to her, that wasn't an excuse to miss work.
I had legit felt sick to my stomach one morning so I turned down my boss when she called to ask me to cover someone that day. I recovered in a few hours. That afternoon, my brother, who also worked there, suggested that I come partake in the BBQ lunch at work. I questioned it, considering I told the boss I was sick, he reassured me it would be okay, and I stupidly trusted him. Next week I was fired "for other reasons".
axnu · 5 points · Posted at 20:28:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a manager, it seriously pissed me off when people would not show up and not even bother calling in sick. I mean for Christ's sake, if you don't feel like coming to work today, just shoot me an email that says you're not feeling well.
A woman who worked for me called in sick, and relayed what she had which I knew she was suffering with and that she couldn’t even get out of bed. I was a cool boss, no problem, take the day off and let me know how you feel tomorrow. She was also too ill the next day she said by text. Whatever. She worked for me in that I managed the store, but not the company. There was nothing I could do so I just tried to be nice.
Then a colleague from the adjacent store told me she had seen her living it up at a local food and drink festival on the day she said she was sick, and then she decided to play on it and have another day off.
When she returned I feigned interest in her illness and asked her about it, and she lied to my face as well. I asked her how the food and drink festival was and she told me she went for an hour to get out of the house. From the story I heard, I knew it was a lie, but I always tried to be the bigger person and move passed it, told her if she ever did anything like that again, to just tell me. She continued to tell me she was out for an hour or so. Maybe two. I told her, and the team, that if they wanted to go somewhere, I was always doing my best by them. I didn’t have the power to give them paid days off, but I could cover for them where I could and was always telling them to leave early. always. I reckon all of them in my time there got about 2 or 3 paid hours off a week and that mounts up. This wasn’t even extended lunches or breaks either, this was “go on then, go home.” That’s about two days pay for free a month.
And then she put the pictures on Facebook. Genius. She put pictures from the food and drink festival she went to to get out of the house for an hour on Social Media, showing her there all day, worse for wear. It’s a shame as it was a bank holiday weekend and she was needed, and she left a lot of work for her colleagues who wanted to be out too. She didn’t really last much longer than that.
I’ve told friends this and they said I was a pushover, but the truth is I was really fine by it. I worked in sales and still had personal targets. If I was the only one there, I was making money. I didn’t care for the lying though.
In my team meetings, I usually had at least one stock photo to discuss an idea. When I had news to share for someone on the team, (e.g. promotion), I'd show a blurred version of the picture while setting up the situation.
While I probably wouldn't do this for real, it is fun to think that is how I would out the person.
fjsgk · 3 points · Posted at 21:22:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once I had an employee ask me the Wednesday before labor day if we had the holiday off. It was a retail chain store so no. Then Monday morning when she's scheduled to work she calls out with some excise about being sick. She was always calling out for one reason or another. I told her to go ahead and take the rest of the week off to feel better.
Meanwhile my lungs spontaneously collapse and the one day it was bad enough for me to call it and ask to go home they gave me flak about it. Like, if it gets any worse I could end up in the ER but fuck me I guess.
I often eat out at fast food places when I have called in sick at work. Just cause I have a cold doesn't mean I can't walk. I also go out and buy groceries can coz I have to eat.
LPT: when calling in sick, do not leave your home, except to go to the doctor, pharmacy, etc... if you need to go out, don’t shower/groom and look as disheveled as possible. That way if you are spotted, it will be more believable that you are ill.
I've only ever worked jobs where a co-worker's absence was a huge strain on everyone who did show up, but in jobs where you can work from home or have long-term projects, I think everyone, especially Americans, should take every damn sick day they can get away with. Our system grinds us into overstressed shells while Europeans take month-long holidays. And our productivity is still only marginally better.
I had an employee once come into the office for her shift complaining that she was very sick to her stomach and that she didn't think she could do much work. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and told her to go home and get some rest.
A few hours later, I got a photo sent to my phone from another employee (who was off that day) of the supposed sick woman at a nearby casino, still in her work uniform.
I feel like this is a number 1 sign of a compulsive liar. Lying about fairly low-stakes, illogical stuff. We assume people lie for a reason, to get something. Compulsive liars lie for no reason.
It is low stakes but a high chance of getting caught, at least one person at the party absolutely knew who took the photo. As a former compulsive liar the first rule is to manage your webs.
[deleted] · 969 points · Posted at 18:54:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How is the first reference to r/wooosh downvoted, the second upvoted, and the third downvoted??... Does this mean my comment will be upvoted due to the pattern?
I also used to be a compulsive liar, but (ironically) I would lie to "cover up" truths that I thought people would think were lies. For instance, nobody would believe I set my alarm for pm instead of am, so I would lie and say I was late because my phone died. Or nobody would believe that I ran into a high school friend in the Target parking lot, so I would lie and say I took so long because I had to stop for gas.
Then I woke up one day and realized I was a liar, and it didn't really matter why, and it was incredibly stupid. Sometimes it still happens, but I've pretty much kicked the habit.
I don't know about OP but I used to also be a compulsive liar. I did it mostly because I was bored and the other reasons have since faded from my memory. But I remember there was a certain point where I realized two things. I was way too good at lying and it didn't benefit me at all to be good at it. And the second was that I was bored of the whole thrill of lying and seeing what people would believe.
Don't you worry about the amount of people who think you're a total scumbag as they knew you were lying but didn't call you out on it because they couldn't be bothered? If someone seems too gullible then they might've just silently decided you're never to be trusted about anything.
Yeah - I used to work with a compulsive liar. I never confronted her because I didn’t think it would help. So maybe she thought I believed her crap. I found it insulting every time she came out with something and expected me to act like I believed it.
I totally agree. I end up with a lot of friends who are 100% compulsive liars and my guess is because I never tell them I know they're lying. A lot of them have a low amount of friends but they're fun to hang with.
They must think I'm the most gullible person in the world but I just smile n nod through their bullshit stories and feel like they're pathetic. I think I have problems and need to stop doing that now that I think about it.
I can't really say 100% that EVERYONE believed all that I lied about, but I know a fair number of people believed me. I never really told extravagent lies per say though. So none of the, "I ended up in a fighter jet after being invited by so and so" more things that would be feasible. There's stuff that is clearly bogus, and when I was in the situation where I was lying constantly I never strayed too far into that territory.
Thankfully, that point in my life is long gone. I'm considerably more honest not only to others but also to myself. The people that have stuck around me at this point have likely seen enough of a change in who I am now. I'm sure there's some people who might see me as dishonest or a liar. But I try my best to not lie. White lies here and there, but usually no more than the average person.
That's because it's not a sudden transition. It takes years and years of constant attention to stop doing it, and it gets better very slowly. I used to lie compulsively. I still do, only not nearly as much. The thing about compulsive liers is that they tend to lie without thinking, and breaking that habit is hard because you don't think about it. You never have a chance to catch yourself in a lie beforehand.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 22:36:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Something that may help is to take a breath before every sentence. I use this to get my thoughts in order, getting rid of 'um's and other unnecessary words.
One of my friends used that to help break his habit, if he was around someone who knew about his habit, he'd stop after saying it and say "Sorry, I lied" before continuing on with the truth.
zyice · 19 points · Posted at 19:31:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He could be lying about the former part >.>
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 19:43:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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zyice · 10 points · Posted at 19:44:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My bf was like that. He would say he's at Subway then comes home with a fresh Burger King cup and I ask why and he starts lying even more about how subways line was too long so he left and had to go to Burger King but is now really upset cause he wanted subway..
But he had told me before he was almost done with his sub so I call him out on that and he flips out saying I'm being mean to him. I just really don't understand that way of thinking cause its totally pointless.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:24:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Does it feel bad to you when she calls you out? Has any part of her actions ever caused you to tell the truth or do you just keep lying and hope she doesn't notice?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:29:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I could call myself a mostly honest person, maybe sometimes innecesarily honest. I live a really peacefull life, no explanations to give to anyone cause they cannot caught anything cause theres nothing to discover. Cant imagine my life constantly lying
I feel just as peaceful, if not better, when I lie. I make very bad desisions and I like to keep that secret so I lie to cover it up. I also almost always get what I want and sometimes lying helps. Less than once a year it may cause a slight problem. Actually, I can only remember twice since I was a little kid.
Wow you must be pretty good at it. It has completely changed my boyfriend's life from being a liar. He lost all of his friends and a lot of his family from it. I'm pretty much his only friend and it almost killed our relationship many times.
I think he's trying to get better. We haven't had any problems in a while.
Sometimes all I have to gain from it is looking better, or just feeling better. Like if I get asked what I did this morning I would likely lie and talk about how I made breakfast and what not rather than talk about being on Reddit.
Honestly I'd say I was a compulsive liar when I was a really small child. I told my preschool teachers I was born in Texas (very much not true). I have no idea why I did that. I also just liked telling stories that obviously never happened. I grew out of it.
There is, but if the king heard then they’d be in trouble.
Kep0a · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people just start lying. I catch myself doing it sometimes if it makes a conversation flow better(?) just on small things. Nothing negative. It's a bad habit. I think some people just start to take it to the next level.
Are you really a compulsive liar if everyone believes your lies?
pmabz · 56 points · Posted at 19:02:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you tell me why people lie like this?
qjakxi · 214 points · Posted at 19:07:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Half super restrictive parents, half not popular when growing up. Lying in both those situations can help you. Then you learn that lying is almost always helpful in your life. Cool stories and not getting in trouble can cement you into lying even when it isn’t even needed. It’s more like a habit than a medical thing.
I have a friend that lies about stupid stuff... I noticed a few times he'd lie to other people about something that I was present for...
Like, he and I were driving to a festival and we encountered a traffic jam around construction. Now he is an electrician and works on municipal infrastructure. There was one of those programmable electronic construction signs. He actually uses them sometimes in the course of his job so he knows about them... I joked that we should stop and reprogram the sign to say, "festival cancelled, turn back now, hippie" we both laugh and I never think about it again until....
Months later we were at the same party and we are in separate conversations, but I over hear him telling the story of getting to the traffic jam but this time he actually hopped out of the car and reprogrammed the sign.
I never brought it up, but he's lied like this a few times I've noticed. Nothing really important, just tall tales.
RE5TE · 34 points · Posted at 19:40:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's funny because some of the time the other person just thinks "yeah right" and goes on with the conversation. No reason to point out what is probably a tiny lie, but now you know that person is an idiot.
You need to get rid of these kind of people in your life. If you're noticing these lies you're missing a ton of lies that you just didn't catch
I've learned the hard way many times to get rid of these kind of people because it's never good. They are very self-conscious and tend to be the type that will throw you under the bus.
Also there's no way to get them to stop doing this. They have to figure it out on their own
Actually I've been friends with this guy for nearly 20 years... He's actually given me a place to stay when I needed one. He's happily married with kids and well liked by a lot of people besides myself. Every time I've noticed these lies, they are really embellishments of stories that are not really important, just tall tales that make him or the situation out to be a little more exciting than they actually were. It's weird... I trust him with a lot otherwise.
Good for you for looking past small to medium personality flaws. Reddit seems to think if you have a friend that lies occasionally you should cut all contact immediately.
But I would not say that constant lying is a small personality flaw.
These people tend to lie to you and to other people, and about you to other people as well. They tend to think that they are in a movie and the main character.
If you're okay with being a supporting actor then everything will be fine
Don't you know? On Reddit, everyone is a monster. People can t have flaws. If someone lied about this story, they are probably going to rape your grandma.
Reddit has a really bad habit of telling people to drop important relationships in their life based on one flaw that a person has shared. No one is perfect and everyone has their flaws, and when talking about flaws that's all you're hearing, never the full story. He sounds like a good guy, and I know of similar people who like to embellish or one-up stories. It can be annoying but it's not toxic or anything.
I think it may be because a lot of people see superficial similarities, and make associations with bad situations they've experienced. My friend is a genuinely good person and I trust that he would never lie maliciously.
My hubby and his buddy are like that. They get together and tell stories to amuse one another, and everything is embellished by at least 30 percent, ie: "I won 3 grand at blackjack" when he really won less than 2 grand. Once, hubby and I overheard his buddy telling an amusing anecdote about mistakenly showing up at a gay bar for an AA meeting, and it was my hubbys anecdote, word for word.
Me and my friends have stories we tell, Everytime someone tells it something gets added. We just go with it to see how crazy it gets. What's hard is when people, oh yeah so and so told me this what about this part, and I have to add more to make up for what they told this one person haha
I'm wondering if he's actually aware he's not telling the true story. Memory is a strange thing. Maybe the way this guy packs and unpacks some of these memories it just shifts from what would be cool if it happened to remembering that's what happened.
How were you able to stop? My long term boyfriend is like this but I think he's getting better.. But honestly I just stopped fact checking him so I don't know. I'd like to have some ideas if it starts to ruin our relationship again.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 19:45:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you! It will be helpful in terms of long term relationships. When I discover that someone is a liar, even if I like them and their lies haven't explicitly harmed me, I'll work them out of my life. I value honesty too much to accept that behavior.
No, "literally everyone" doesn't lie. I'm extremely honest and will only lie to keep someone from getting hurt if I absolutely have to.
Example: I overhear a group of strangers talking shit about one of my girlfriends and she asks "we're they talking about me??" And I say "no they we're talking about someone else." Sure, that's a lie but it's not ruining anyone's life and its keeping from ruining my friend's day. I don't consider myself to be a liar at all.
I'm not even close to a hardliner about it, I accept that people lie and have valid reasons for doing it. I should have clarified that it's pathological liars I won't tolerate.
RE5TE · 14 points · Posted at 19:41:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're not as good as you think you are. Other people just aren't pointing it out.
I second this. I know a compulsive liar at work. He lies about the most ridiculous, stupid things. You can't be sure he isn't telling the truth on occasion, but we all know he's full of shit, and no one believes him. But no one calls him out on it - why bother? It's not worth the breath to confront him.
The trick to a good lie is to convince yourself that it is the truth. Then, you might as well be telling the truth. Forget the finer details in the backstory of a lie, just like no innocent person has an alibi ready, no good liar has the backstory ready to go as soon as the suspicion kicks in. But make no mistake, there must always be a believe able and researched backstory (small inaccuracies can completely ruin a good lie, a good lie must always have bits of veriable truth in it). It's kind of like when an author writes a character they flesh out their backstory first, to determine what their personality is like and how and why they react to things like they do. The whole thing might not be included in the finished product, but to write a believable character the author must know what makes them tick.
Your first sentence is not true, that may be why you were a compulsive liar, but don't try to pass it off as that is how all compulsive liars are made.
Pathological lying is a disorder. It can be by itself or caused by other mental health issues.
I have one personal story. Sometimes an abusive situation can cause someone to grow up a compulsive liar. I know someone who was a compulsive liar due to this when she was younger but after therapy she has gotten a lot better.
kosmor · 18 points · Posted at 19:06:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Consummate liars and pathological liars both are addicted to lying, like others are addicted to stealing, for instance. Theres no real need or call for it, but they do it anyway.
Not necessarily true. Growing up in my house, telling the truth about anything resulted in a physical fight, so I just learned to lie my ass off to avoid it.
Very easy for people to become like this if their upbringing regularly taught them that the truth would only ever result in punishment and the act of honesty itself had no redeeming effect. Basically teaching them honesty causes negative consequences.
Honestly, I just don't care. I'm pretty good about making my lies not about other people and things other people can't disprove most the time so, many people actually think I'm pretty trustworth. I only see the negitive affect of lieing when I start telling people the truth. I'm going to see a friend I use to see every day for ~2 years tomorrow for the first time in months because she got mad when I stoped lieing about something and only now is willing to start talking again.
I also don't connect with people feeling wise so when other people are upset, have opinions about me, or whatever else, I probably won't notice but if I do, I probably couldn't care less anyway.
I just realized that I had to go back and check to see if was actually a lie or not. Originally typing that comment I considered saying we haden't even talked in that time but that wouldnt have been true, and the whole point of that comment waa not lying.
We stopped talking the 28th but that conversation was about the lieing and how telling the truth after leing made it so she can't trust me and how that's a serious problem for her because of a bunch of personal crap and what not. I told her realisticly I wouldnt stop lying and it would just be a lie to say I would.
Now I let this frend know I lie a lot, but I try to not lie as much to her as I do other people. She has known that for a long time as it comes up every so often but about 2 weeks before our last conversation for about 2 months she told me that she knows I lie because I tell her I do but she can't tell when I'm lying to her so she asked to know something I lied to her about.
Before this I told her the mostly truth about something and I regretted letting her know so I told her that that thing I told her wasnt completely true. That was true but then I lied about what part I lyed about. She still doesn't know that was a lie. We were out at the time and she immediately demanded we stop what we were doing I drop her off. I couldn't talk her out of it and its odd for me not to get what I'm going for. We stop talking.
Jump to the 28th she breaks the science and that ends with her saying we should only hang contact each other when we are in groups with other people. I say I think its better we don't contact eachother at all and we end it at that. I thought and am still kind of thinking that would be the best for alternative reasons. At this point I cut contact with her and everyone who would probably talk to her including most my other friends.
About 2 weeks ago I apologied and said that I may not see it but I am in the wrong exc. ( I just went back to check that and accidently reacted to a messgae and she called me out for searching back in our conversation and is now demanding why)
Anyway we talked very lightly a few times since then and yesterday after not talking for a few days she said. "What are you doing Sunday night?" I said I dont know, she said "Group dinner at caribou. Cheesy fries or something" I said sure after debaiting if I should or not for about 10 min.
Thanks for the reply (not sure why someone downvote you). Very interesting meta conversation to have.
I wonder whether it is cathartic to talk about it, especially since you are still sort of maintaining a lie of some kind with her and have to actively think about it when you are with her (I presume?).
I'm not sure what it means to be cathardic. After I said sorry I told her that I wouldn't continue to lie to her but that I would not correct any lies I've already told her and I would still lie to everyone else so things I say to other people around her may not be true.
When I'm lying its not like I really need to think about it I just do it like any other conversation.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some have the desire but not the will. Younger-you might be torn up about the personality flaw, older you might have mellowed in to accepting the flaw. Better to mellow in to correcting the flaw and accepting the consequences, but some people can't manage to do it that way.
Right, I don't understand why people would want to be "better" people, at least not better in your sense, however I do want to be a better person. For me that means having more control, having the most, being smarter, being stronger, being #1. Things that many other people feel are better qualities, I feel get in the way of their success or what they want.
Think of life without gilt, you have probably been gilted or pressured into things you would rather not do. Like my sister is currently buying a part to fix her car window because our grandparents gilted her into it, it doesn't bother her that the window doesn't work, it bothers her that she is disapointing her grandparents. If I was in the same situation, I wouldn't care at all what my grandparents were thinking, I would did the window if I wanted to or I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel stress or anything negative, and to me, that's better, so thats what I want.
What makes you want to be a better person? How does being a better person benefit you?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:12:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
None taken, its been brought to my attention that this is actually probably the case. I defiantly have a personality disorder, or a few, but I have not been properly diagnosed, other then when I was brought to a counsuler in grade 3 where they said I was showing signs for something, so I can't tell you exactly what it is.
If I was to guess, I would say it's OCD and possibly borderline personality disorder.
The thing is, I fail to see the things that are able to diagnose me as problems, and I think everyone else has them but doesnt admit it.
What makes you think they know? My lies are nothing crazy, and if I do make a lie thats a little out there I have fake proof for it, there is never anyone else that could disprove the lie, and the lie isnt the main thing and the main thing is even crazier then the lie.
Damn dude. I feel like you’re getting the short end of the stick imwith downvotes (not that that actually matters) because everyone wanted to hear from a compulsive liar, but no one wanted to hear the truth about it.
It’s pretty fucked up how it works. I probably would have ended up one if I was better about keeping multiple stories straight as a kid, but as it stands I couldn’t remember the lies I told growing up. As such I stick to the truth as often as possible.l, but I’d be lying if I said being capable of sounded completely confident when telling a bold faced lie hasn’t helped me in my career or schooling.
Yeah, I find that if you have a quality people font like you get downvoted if you are being reasonable or not, but what ever.
I lie enough I have a harder time remembering when I tell the truth. The thing is, I'm always thinking about how I could lie. The other day as I was at work I was thinking about how I could lie to one of my friends who I don't normaly even talk to on a weekly basis about how I was being given something out of a pile of numbered things and it just so happened that the the way the first numberes in the pile lined up matched my banking number. There is some truth to that.
Also a former compulsive liar. Shit was embarrassing and tough to get over. It's a reflex you have to battle consciously and constantly.
People who I would speak with about it would always ask, "Like, why lie about that?" I didn't know why I would lie as my natural instinct to almost any question. Or why I felt the need to be dishonest in the first place.
Once I spent some time on those questions I had a realization. I lied all the time because I was in trouble a lot as a kid. I wasn't a bad kid or anything, I either broke minor rules or didn't do what I was told. I also hated homework and decided I was just not going to do it, ever. This would lead to accountability conversations with my father. Being a working man however, he couldn't be constantly involved, although he tried to be.
I would have to demonstrate I had done my homework to him, daily. Obviously my goal was to not do homework. So I would conceal assignments from him and do maybe one or two things. This lead to more trouble. These conversations were also very confrontational, not enjoyable or helpful at all for me. They purely served to ensure I was not going to kicked out for under performance. So kid-me hated these talks with a passion, and I knew that if I didn't have the right answers for my father when he got home, I would be in serious trouble. Even if I had done the homework, I still had to have this talk daily because I couldn't be trusted.
I realized doing the work didn't make them stop, so the only option I had left was to try to avoid them. Lying didn't always work, but sometimes, it did. Sometimes it only delayed the meeting, which would then be worse once discovered I lied. But delaying it was still a win for me.
Telling the truth had no shot of helping me, lying at least had a chance. So, I started thinking in the mindset of having to deceive in order to escape my problems because so far, it was the only thing that produced results.
It bleeds though, it's not a skill or a power that you can just turn on when you need it. It infected ever area of my social life and only at the end of my teenage years and early 20's did I really start to realize I had a problem that I needed to deal with.
It took years of hard work and concentration to start catching myself wanting to give lies as my first answer and to shoo those thoughts away. Today, my default reaction to normal questions is normal answers. And I'm quite proud of it, even if that sounds lame.
If you're not a compulsive liar I hope this provided some insight into the mind of one, and that you'll approach their problem a little differently. Believe me, it's perfectly surmountable. They know they lie. Help them get over it. If you are a compulsive liar, I promise you, you lie too frequently for people not to know. They think less of you for it, and life is better if you work to overcome that reflex. Being honest starts with being honest with yourself. Try.
I only understand that relationship from the side of the liar. What I can say about being on that end is: Being called out didn't help the problem. Having unscheduled discussions about honesty, not in response to a suspected lie but as more of an exercise for the health of the relationship were extremely beneficial in becoming honest.
I had a partner who was instrumental in helping me get over my problem. They approached me as someone who was on my team and understood that what I was doing was not from a place of mal-intent.
They helped me believe that whatever was the truth was what they wanted to hear, and was in fact preferred. It sounds strange writing that out. But having someone you care about tell you that you'll still have their love no matter what the truth is, and then asking for it, can be an incredible tool to make you feel safe.
I was able to establish an "honesty sanctuary" with that person. Once I felt I could start telling the truth to that person, I was able to take that confidence to others, and soon it becomes habit.
Also I'm a doctor now. I can say with intense certainty I would not be if I hadn't figured out how to be honest; most importantly with myself. I'm also marrying that person soon. :)
Best of luck.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 19:15:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
any advice on dealing with a friend of mine who's a compulsive liar?
What sort of lying are they most frequently guilty of? Denial? Embellishing? Making things up?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
embellishing, making things up. He actually has acknowledged it many times.
Ihlita · 3 points · Posted at 22:51:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Call them out on it. Gently. Don’t ask why they do it, because a compulsion is hard to overcome, but do let them know there’s no need for them to lie with you.
They’ll probably be embarrased and deny it, even avoid you for a while, but if they appreciate your friendship, then they’ll want to stick around with you.
Get a different friend. Honestly. These type of people are sociopaths. That or they're very self-conscious. Either way results in a not good ending for you.
There's no way to stop someone from being a compulsive liar they have to do it themselves. You are just an extra in the tangled lie of a movie they are producing
It is low stakes but a high chance of getting caught
It's not exactly this clear-cut. For the narcissistic liar, he or she can discard people at a whim, making up stories for why they're better off without all those people who "persecuted" them.
What this kind of social predator wants more than anything is not connections with high-powered people nearly as much as a group of loyal, enthralled and enamored people who will buy any bullshit they spout.
This is far more valuable to have, because with several people backing up your stories, you can move mountains. Literally. Some very powerful people are, and have been, blithering idiots who just kept lying until people believed them and they couldn't be stopped.
I lived 21 years with a father who was a pathological liar and had narcissistic personality disorder. They are not easily predicted, and in many ways are lacking many traits that make us human.
As someone with a compulsive liar for a (soon to be former) sister in law, this is exactly right. Lies about things that don't matter whatsoever. All the time.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:09:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, 100% my ex. He would just say anything for seemingly no reason, even if it were the most mundane of things. He actually told me he did this, stating he didn't know why. Then he told me his therapist says he has "sociopathic tendencies", but didn't think he was a sociopath. After years of gaslighting I had no idea what to believe :(
Same here. She told me her dog died a week ago. I said I walked past her house yesterday and her dog barked at me. Without skipping a beat, she said "yeah funny story, the day after he died we got another dog that looked just like him." I didn't believe her but whatever. Later realized she's been cheating on me pretty much our entire relationship.
Jesus. And I thought my bf was bad for texting me randomly to bitch about how expensive the vet had cost when, in reality, he didn't take her and was just given some medications from his boss's dog's last visit. I was just confused because I didn't even know his dog was sick and the lie was so pointless.
Yeah I had a co-worker tell me that he used to be a pathological liar. I already had some trust issues with him, but after that I didn't trust him at all.
Yes! I have a good friend who does this. Shit like, "I got this cutlery at a great sale at such-and-such a place" and then her husband will later say it was from a different store. Neither store is especially impressive or anything--like JC Penney vs Khols--so not trying to look better or anything. But she'd talk about the sale, describing other stuff she almost bought specific to that store. But then she didn't correct her husband when he said somewhere else, and when I clarified with her later, she said the same place as him. And it's like, WHO CARES, this is so inconsequential, but then why the story?? It's like being gaslit.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 19:10:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, this reminds me of my stepsister about a week ago. We went to a gaming convention and were about to play guitar hero (which she's never played before), one of the guys running the event comes over to offer tips and opens with "have you guys played guitar hero before" and before I could say anything she goes "are you kidding me? Guitar hero has been my life as long as I can remember!"
I'm just stood there with my jaw on the floor waiting to watch her bomb so incredibly hard. I refused to tell her how to hit a note and let her look like a mug for the whole thing.
That’s exactly right. Until a few years ago I used to be a compulsive liar. My lies were just that: stupid little things. I’d add details to my stories to make them more interesting, straight up say I did things when I didn’t. It was never to hurt anyone, I honestly couldn’t even tell you why. But I could tell when people knew I was lying and that’s when I felt the need to double down I guess. Lying destroys relationships and trust. I learned the hard way that I don’t need to lie to cover up my mistakes, I’m better off just fessing up. It’s like a cycle. If you lie then you’ll always have to keep lying to support other lies, but if you always tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything you lied about, and life is easy.
My life is better now and my friends are more genuine and I can trust people and people can trust me. Also it turns out I don’t need to lie to tell great stories. You always have good stories to tell if you go do fun stuff with good friends!
I won’t say I hate them; but I strongly dislike them. I knew a girl like this. She was nuts. I mean she had batshit crazy in her rear view mirror. Skinny white chick that went to cosmetology school with me. She told everyone she was raised in Kenya and didn’t know she was white and not black until she moved to America at the age of 13. Also spent half the year broadcasting she was a virgin and the other half telling ppl all her favorite sex positions and in particular really loved anal. Oh yeah she was also part Chinese and that when her baby brother was born she was the sibling that basically cared for him since her mom was terminally ill and her dad didn’t like him and as a result her hips widened and her breasts grew and began to lactate—all because she was the oldest girl and the most proactive in his care.
I absolutely could not disguise the look of disgust and eye rolls whenever she opened her mouth. Which was constantly . She was not a quiet girl. She constantly overshared and volunteered completely bullshit stories that no one gave a fuck about hearing . Especially in the middle of a class lecture.
I don’t get it. Do these ppl believe their own lies or do they just want attention?
You could’ve introduced yourself to new people as a compulsive liar. I’d find that interesting and probably would talk for awhile wondering what’s true and what’s a lie.
It just fucked up my life eventually & relationships w/ everyone I loved, including my family. It just all adds up into one big mess. I think it came to a point where I just had to stop cold turkey b/c the consequences were too great
I am not an expert, but I'd guess it has something to do with how it feels good to do something and get away with it. Could be some kind of adrenaline addiction, coupled with habit.
One thing I know for sure, humans always have a reason. Our behaviour is governed by very simple impulses at a foundational level. We do everything for pleasure, to avoid pain, or to have sex. So this behaviour should fit into one of those categories somehow.
They do lie for a reason. Those reasons are usually never good, but it's never "just because." She wants to look good in front of him, and she decided to brag about something fake relating to the newlyweds, as it would be more glamorous than anything real. Shitty reasoning, but still
Maybe the reason is to get people to think they are more impressive than they really are. That wouldn't be "no reason." It would just be a really pathetic reason.
That reason would make sense, and maybe in OPs case the person pretending to have taken that photo was trying to sound impressive, but it just seems so weird. A fairly high risk (being in the home of the people who could prove you wrong so easily) with so little to gain (hey, nice photo!).
This is how we know that Paul Ryan is a compulsive liar. During an interview a few years ago, he casually lied about running a marathon in under three hours one time. It wasn’t even the topic of discussion. He went out of his way to lie about it. Of course, he didn’t know that those records are tracked and he was quickly proved to be lying.
Absolutely. I used to be a compulsive liar, and I would just make things up constantly. My logic is that I didn't hurt anyone and it made us have more fun together (because I was pretty boring otherwise and we'd have nothing to discuss) so I'd just make things up.
I don't think anything. I just never knew how to spell that version of chaulk (chalk? chok?) Either way you're doin a great job and I'm super proud of you bro
It seems like it's without logic or reason, but really people compulsively lie because it brings attention. This is why I call out people I've known to be compulsive liars every time I catch them doing it. Negative association to their lies is one of the only ways to slow their roll.
In a way they did lie to get something. They had been hoping for praise to boost their ego, "OOOOOOH, wow! You!! You're so great!" blah blah blah. Agreed it's a giant red flag of an ego driven type with low self-esteem.
Yeah people like that honestly baffle me. It's like their mind works in ways that I just don't understand, it's really incredible with the shit you find out that they lied about. And they're so fucking good at it, it's uncanny.
morreo · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I heard that compulsive liars hear themselves lying and they want to do it but for some reason their mouth just wont stop.
I think people are complicated and have many reasons (not saying they are logical in fact they are often completely illogical) to lie about something. If you could get this person to be honest and give you a totally truthful play by play behind the thought process of their lie it might not seem as out of the blue or random as we all thought. It would still most likely be sad though.
I agree--I think all people, compulsive liars and just regular mostly non-liars, sometimes lie for complicated reasons. But a sign of being a compulsive liar is lying for no reason (no person gain) about things that don't matter.
My ex once lied about having a job at a sporting goods store. She literally made up her days and coworkers. When I went to visit her at the store, nobody knew who I was talking about.
She also completely made up a friend, made up an email address and made up times they hung out. So dumb. Completely inconsequential stuff, that just makes her look completely crazy.
Spot-on. I have to compulsive liars in my family, one of them is my grandmother. It pisses me off how often she lies about trivial stuff with no reason at all.
Even if nobody catches him on 90% of the lies all it takes is one categorically wrong thing said and everything said up until that point will come into question. Most won't even try to get that person to admit some of the things he said were lies, they will just assume anything that he can't prove probably is a lie.
I had a friend who was a compulsive liar. Lied about the strangest stuff. One that sticks in my memory is that when she found out I love the Game of Thrones books told me she had just read the lastest one and I could borrow it if I wanted. I was like "oh no that's ok I already own A Dance with Dragons"
"No thats old I mean the lastest one stupid, Winds of Winter"
I got really excited, how could I have missed this books release? I would love to borrow it! Always evaded me when I asked for it so I spoke to my local bookshop to see if they had it and they just looked at me like I was crazy.
I asked her about it, she denied ever saying it. Which she would often do to me, she gaslighted me hard and made me think I was crazy.
Compulsive liar here. I used to lie about literally everything, but after years of therapy I've managed to curb it to the most illogical, low-stakes things. It's like the nicotine patch of obsessive fibs. Never something like that though, the first thing that would come to mind is that the real photographer could be obviously credited somewhere.
My ex husband is a pathological liar. He's a mess. I found out after years of lies unfolded. But I've witnessed these conversations and it's so uncomfortable. They're always trying to make themselves look food to everyone.
My best friend is a compulsive liar. It's so hard to explain to other people that she's not doing it maliciously or even to accomplish anything. It's a compulsion.
I've called my friend out on lies before and she, swear to God, either has no memory of the lie or has no idea why she did it.
I'm a cashier and I lie just to make conversation. It's really amusing when people ask you about the intricacies of being nose-blind or having "naturally short hair" that doesn't need to be cut.
Note: This is one of two times I will lie on purpose. I'm usually very (brutally) honest with people
I don't consider myself a compulsive liar but I do tend to lie to strangers when I usually don't lie to anyone besides little white lies that they can't fact check or would have a incredibly hard time fact checking.
Lets not be hardcore boy scouts and completely demonize lying as much as your sunday school teacher does.
Lying is useful. I like to strangers all the time because I don’t want to deal with them, I lie to coworkers because its work and you cant share something that would get you fired, I lie to family so they don’t freak the fuck the out.
Compulsive lying is bad when you can’t control it and it is limiting your function and hurting your relationships.
anosu · 3 points · Posted at 19:39:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I might lie for no reason. Although I've made my utmost effort tell the truth and nothing but the truth. With some exceptions of course.
haksli · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
IDK man, my friend sometimes lies for no reason. I concluded that he lies because he wants to feel superior. Basically, he feels that he made you believe in something that is not true.
I'd assume it is less about having other people believe a lie that isn't true, and more about People believing the lie in the first place. He wants to feel superior so he makes up stories about how superior he is right? That screams insecurity to me if that is true.
haksli · 3 points · Posted at 20:38:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it's more like "I have this pc game called [some made up name], and in this game you do [some description]". And that's it, that's the lie.
Or,
Friend: "can you borrow me your joystick?"
Me: "sure. Why do you need it ?"
Friend: "I want to teach my gf to play Fifa. She never played any games and she wants to try."
Me: "okay, no problem".
Later, I found out that he borrowed it to play with his friend.
But there were some seriously hurtful lies. He called me and asked to borrow my guitar. I couldn't because I wasn't home. I casually asked him why he needs it. He told me that he wants to play it to his gf (who lived in another city). I asked him "did she come to visit?". He said, no, I want to play it to her over the phone. Later I found out that he and some mutual friends wanted to hang out and play guitar, but didn't invite me. We know each other since pre school.
Sorry to hear about that man! He doesn't sound like much of a friend if he does all of that to ya!
I'm not sure if it's in your nature but you can always try to call it out next time. I mean, does he actually have a girlfriend or does he just make that up to be shitty and use your stuff under false pretenses?
haksli · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This situation was 6 years ago. He doesn't do that anymore (that I know of). He does have a girlfriend. I know her fairly well.
He does sound like a shitty friend. But, in our community, there are worse people. A lot of them are overly critical insecure individuals who only get along with individuals who are "copies" of themselves. This results in cliques nobody exits or enters. People like that, they rarely leave the community. While people who are different are outsiders and get shut down by cliques. You may know them, you may have a fun conversation with them, but you will never get invited to hang out with them.
My friend group is made entirely out of people who are outsiders. So, I kinda have no choice when it comes to friends.
Oh trust me I know what you mean man, I had a similar experience growing up in a small Midwest town. Glad to hear your friend has grown, I know I had my fair share of crap when I was younger.
haksli · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's sad. You know all these people. You are related to them. But you don't belong there. So you say "I may just leave and go live in a city, people there are more accepting". But when you do. You realize how difficult it is to be alone in the city. And you realize that you don't really belong there either. IDK about you man, but this is the tl;dr of my life. But hey... I accepted this.
Man I'm still at the stage where I haven't moved to a city yet but I definitely already feel like im on the same path. I hate it because I really love the beautiful location (black hills are gorgeous), the close knit atmosphere, but it is incredibly toxic when you don't fit in with the mesh.
Large cities leave me feeling uneasy because of the insane driving and all the extra lanes and loops. I didn't even know what a round about was until someone explained it to me. Plus I've heard city living can be pretty expensive so without that support network... ughh.
haksli · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's true. Once you leave, you start missing certain things. Life in the city moves too quickly. People tend to care less about you and just stay "in shallow waters". Which I get, because there are too many people. It's impossible to spend your energy on everyone.
I first tried with a big city, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Everyone rushes somewhere, because it takes too much time to reach anywhere. People have no patience. They yell and fight in trafic. You can feel the nervousness in the air.
So I switched to a smaller city. A nicer and calmer atmosphere. Best decision of my life. The downside is, there aren't that many things to do.
When I was a teen I was a friend's with someone I didn't know was a compulsive liar. She stirred up a mess between my mother and I because she claimed to be upset that my mother told her mother she had a boyfriend. I believed her and confronted my mom. Later on I started putting 2 and 2 together and figuring out that a lot of things weren't adding up about her other lies. I cut off contact with her ASAP.
Not for no reason. Compulsive liars usually have low self esteem and lie to gain favor with the person they are conversing with. Making up skills or adventures they haven't had is their way to gain (pseudo) self worth.
Yep, I have a friend that has issues with that and he will lie even when he has literally nothing to gain from lying. Like ask where he went and he'll say he went to McDonald's, when really he went to Safeway.
Well weddings aren’t really that low key. Depends on how you look at them and how many you’ve been to. I used to work catering and DJ’ing for weddings and I’ve learned that weddings are like 80% low key people just partying and the other 20% is a very serious ceremony which only lasts 15 minutes but will be forever remembered by the bride, groom, and whoever paid for it.
I say this because when I was DJ’ing I worked with this guy who was janky as fuck as an assistant. The bride wanted us to play “Canon in D” as she walked down the isle. A humble request. Well my boss pulls out this CD player that looked like it just came from a pawn shop, dusty and dirty as shit, gets the CD from the bride and then the ceremony starts. This was in the summer outdoors so the CD player was hot, the only excuse I can think of. The bride gets the cue to start walking down the aisle and we cue up the CD, but the CD player is such a piece of shit that eight seconds after the song starts the CD player just stops. So we just kept replaying the first eight seconds of Canon D while everyone is looking at us with death stares and the bride slowly walks down the aisle. We played it like five times until she got to the alter. One of the most embarrassing moments of my life.
We went on to play the reception and I couldn’t believe the bride or their parents didn’t come and tear us a new one.
I know a guy like this but it's always so obvious to people who aren't slow.
He will download songs off YouTube and pretend he made them, along with using midi files and saying he composed them himself
Some of the more really boring shit he lies about is pretending to know the guy who makes the dancing line game. One he took a screenshot of a level in dome beta version he had, told everyone it was his drawing, then when the update came out, told everyone that his idea got "put in the game"
My point is, what compels people to make up this sort of crap?
Someone said they knew my favorite Portland, OR, AM radio talk show host in a bar in Brooklyn. I asked how they knew about him since they had never been to Oregon, and they shrugged and said they couldn't remember. It was only the next day that we pieced everything together about how much he had lied throughout the evening.
My first gf was a compulsive liar which I unfortunately found out too late. She had this fairly popular pink flip phone, and on that phone was a preset background of a cat under swing. She told me that was her old cat. Boy my surprise when I saw that back ground on another person's phone ( same pink flip phone) hey where did you get that picture of the cat? Oh it's just one of the preset backgrounds you can choose...
I’ve always believed that a compulsive liar is just someone with nothing to converse or chit chat about. Instead, they just fabricate most of their lives to have something they believe is interesting to talk about.
My mates gf is like that! My friend has a habit of taking poetic licence with stories but they always stay along truthful lines. The gf will tell a story that you might have even been therefore and the whole time you'll just be thinking "no.. these things didn't happen"
Yeah I once asked my friend if he had returned his textbooks yet ( we were in college), he said yes, but then the next day he said he was going to go return his textbooks. When I asked him why he told me he already returned them he just said "I don't really know."
Slightly unrelated, but one of my buddies is exactly like this, and a side effect is he never backs down even when he and all of us know he's wrong. He once pointed out a "Porsche Camaro" on the road and it took two google searches on two different occasions to get him to admit it wasn't a Porsche Camaro, just a Porsche roadster.
Imagine if there was a community of relatively anonymous people that could discuss a myriad of topics and situations. That would be so crazy. They'd probably lie like all the time, especially if there was some kind of point system.
NukeML · 23 points · Posted at 18:40:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If such thing were to exist, I bet some people would probably give out points without even trying to figure out if it's a lie, and take away points from things they don't like to hear even if it's true!
I bet even a sarcastic meta analysis of such a platform would be appreciated enough to accrue these proposed "fun units", (FU's for short). Someone should get on this idea.
I already did. I’m the guy who invented Seddit. It made me super rich and have like... eleven friends. They want to hang out all the time but I’m too busy teaching the Navy Seals a new karate I invented using a scroll I found at Bruce Lee’s grave on top of kilamunjaro while I was surfing on top of a lava flow.
Sometimes I'll joke around with friends. A song will come on or something and I'll say "you know I actually helped write this" and they'll look at me like lol shut the fuck up streetbum and I'll have a chuckle to myself. I'd never try to actually pass it off tho.
My ex had some friends in college who would lie about their names and where they were from at parties, then make fun of all the "idiots" for thinking they had different names.
Got a mate who's a compulsive liar.
Was talking to him about it in a drunken dmc and he said he has no idea why he does it. Just happens. He mentioned that the more bizarre or impressive the lie, the more likely hell feel the urge to say it. Nowadays he's pretty straight up. After knowing a guy for 15 years you tend to figure out what's good and what isn't which may have inspired him to open up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People lie about everything allll the time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“oh we go way back, I actually took that one photo of them by the fountain you may or may have not seen”
And a total waste of a good opportunity for fun, too!
You could instead make up some slightly bizarre, but believable story on your connection to the bride and groom which might create some weird aftermath!
E.g. if you know the groom was abroad for a year after high school or while in college back in the day, you could make up a story on how the two of you tried to found your travelling dog grooming business in that period of time.
"Yeah, I know it sounds weird, right? [laugh] You're not the first one to give that reaction. Didn't work out in the end, I think that's why [groom] doesn't like to talk about it nowadays, but anyway, that's when [groom] and I became close friends." ... "Lemme guess, he's still sugarcoating it as 'going abroad' for the year because he doesn't want to explain the dog grooming thing? Oh my, maybe you shouldn't mention this to him, it's his wedding after all."
Worst case: Some people think you're weird.
Neutral case: Your friends will learn about this friend/family member that they'd rather start drama than being courteous on their wedding day.
Good case: Some time in the future, a friend or relative of your friends will tell them they've known about the "going abroad" lie and the travelling dog grooming business for years and that day will take a bizarre turn!
My best friend growing up was like this. For a time, I thought it was just our thing to make shit up, but as we got older I noticed him doing it to everyone. I became paranoid of being seen the same way, and adopted a radical honesty approach to life. He still a compulsive liar, and I genuinely believe that he believes the vast majority of his lies. He often places himself in other people’s stories and swears he was there.
I’ve been to a shit ton of weddings, used to do catering and before that DJ’ing. I don’t get why people would ever lie about working a wedding. Pictures are being taken all the time. The service is heavily judged. People remember who was there and what they did for them. Lying about working a wedding is just someone asking to get in trouble.
Not really, people are putting too much though into it. He’s a photographer and they were chatting at a party. Doesn’t take much to see she just thought she could impress him. People lie all the time about dumb shit to impress the opposite sex.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I lie to strangers all the time just for fun. Only people who I know I’ll never talk to again like when I’m getting a haircut. Hopefully it never comes back to bite me in the ass.
We took one of our foster dogs down to the Cincinnati pride parade today, there was a photo shoot for the foster company.
We were walking with the photographer and shooting and she needed a hand holding the reflector so I grabbed it and helped her out.
A little bit later she is talking to one of the other ladies of the foster group and mentions I shoot some of the foster pictures of their bios and website.
She asked me who I was and I told her then started apologizing profusely like "if I had known who you were I would have asked you for ideas and not had you just holding a reflector".
She got all flustered, it was sweet.
It was also a massive confidence boost as I tend to really undervalue myself.
I’ve sort of dropped away, but I love portrait photography and once took the photos for my neighbor’s “welcome back” party after he was lost at sea. Was pretty cool seeing their delight at my work.
iOgef · 9 points · Posted at 19:06:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s no particular need, especially for someone exhibiting this kind of attitude; lying about unimportant things is one of the first symptoms of an attention seeker and, generally, of a compulsive liar.
Yeah, the fact that they didn't say anything to this woman in moment, and waited for the perfect happenstance moment for the truth to come out seems very unlikely.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 18:49:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think a quick, "that was my photo, it's not cool to lie" would do some good and wouldn't start an argument. She'd probably be very embarrassed and it might stop her from trying that bullshit in the future.
My point is that people are very unlikely to not point out when someone is lying about stealing their work to their face, and then the reveal from the friend worked out a little too perfectly. I just agree with the other commenter that it seems like a fake story, you're also entitled to your opinion about it.
To be fair, he/she was probably quite surprised at this too. I know personally there was a time where something kinda similar happened, and in my head I was screaming LIAR but I was just too surprised to really think out an appropriate response and whatnot. Totally possible that within the few seconds it took to register what she was saying, the host came up and introduced the photographer.
That was awesome. I would love to know what the woman said if anything.
Something similar happened that involved me. Before I retired I worked as a scenic painter and have worked in all of the theme parks in central Florida. While working at Islands of Adventure when it was under construction there were many workers there from various companies. Electricians, carpenters, etc. plus other scenic painters like myself. Me and a coworker had just gotten off from break and were standing around near a mural that had been finished the day before. Two girls who worked across the park on a different crew were standing there not far from us and one girl was telling the other one that she painted the mural. My coworker laughed at her and told her she was full of shit. He pointed to me and said, "She painted that mural not you bitch. Go back to where you came from". The girls turned and walked off. LOL. Yes I really did paint the mural.
My wife and I are on our honeymoon in Tahiti. While in Moorea, we made a point to wake up early and scout out a decent area to take some time lapse of the sunrise and snap some pictures and such. It was pretty much the other side of our resort. An elderly lady we met next door to us and became Facebook with stole the picture from our Facebook and posted it on hers with the caption “the view from our hut.” I don’t really get why people do this but it seems common.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 20:05:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Ah that is funny, Here in the metadata it says it was taken by a cannon D55, Much like this cannon D55 I have in my bag here. Small world, your cell phone must actually be one of those new cannon D55 camera phones! Weird because I thought for sure it looked like an iphone.."
Sometimes people lie about the most ridiculous things. Even if you weren't the photographer and said to the future bride "oh I love that pic that so and so took you guys" she would have also been caught in a lie. Why lie about something like this?
I'm an amateur photographer, but I also do photoshoots for people (mostly my friends). I did an engagement shoot with this couple I knew, gave them the pictures and thought nothing of it. There was this one picture of them at a fountain at sunset, and it looked magical.
A few weeks later, I was at a dinner party. I was talking to this other woman, just usual chit chat. I asked how she knew the couple. She told me that they go way back, and that she actually took that one engagement picture 'with the fountain' (the couple had posted the pictures on Facebook).
Naturally, I was surprised. I asked her how she took it, and she 'just used her phone and happened to be in the right place at the right time'. I have nothing against taking pictures on phones, btw. I didn't really care as the pictures were a personal favour.
Later, the future bride finds me and the woman talking, and introduces me as the engagement photographer. It was a deer in the headlights moment. I loved it.
I was talking to a guy who said he photographed models for magazines like Maxim another things. I told him I was looking for a portrait lens and ask what he uses he then says he uses the kit lens and says you'd be surprised at what you can get.
Well that's true to some extent I know that he's not taking these high-end photo shoots with a basic lens and that's when I knew he was a liar.
What a coincidence! I too know the couple, and I they hired me to take their engagement photos that day. I shoot exclusively with super-telephoto lenses, so I was stationed a mile or so away on a rooftop, but I managed to get a really nice shot of them at sunset in front of a fountain. Took a bit of work in post but you can see the result for yourself on the couple's facebook page! They really loved it.
I know a guy who did a very similar thing. Posted a photo on instagram of someone laying in the snow from above. He claimed it was a drone photo he took. I thought it looked really familiar, and realized after a few looks that it was a semi-famous photographer's photo and this guy stole. I tagged the photographer in the comments and the photo was taken down in less than a half hour.
Your restraint is admirable. I absolutely hate when people take credit for other people's efforts, especially artistically. How you managed not to call out this pathological woman is beyond me. What a lovely lesson in taking the high road. Way to be a grown up, you definitely earned that moment.
I was in a student self portrait exhibit for my University and when I went to see where they placed my painting I found it to be placed in the most prominent spot possible on the wall leading to the exhibit, visible from stories of the University's Central building. I was astonished that I got such a good spot and taken aback as I said in front of this 8x8 foot representation of my face. As I stuff there some guy can up and asked me if he likes good painting. The exchange went as follows:
Me: oh you painted this!? Wow...
Him: yes (sounding very impressed with himself)
Me: oh why did you paint a picture of a girl for a self portrait show.
Him (realizing the discrepancies) oh.. I'm, it's my girlfriend, you know... She means so much to me.
Me: wow I'm really confused because this is me, if you look, and also I painted this.
Him (muttering quietly) wrong girl...
As he proceeded to walk away.
Now the portrait want realistic, I will say, but it was very obviously me once you know and I definitely didn't look like him.
She probably just didn’t want to seem like a stranger at the wedding
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:10:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What I love the most about this one is you didn't even call her out, she was called out by a third party so not only does she know that she's the asshole, she knows that you are not. That's awesome, good for you for taking the high road.
Later, the future bride finds me and the woman talking, and introduces me as the engagement photographer. It was a deer in the headlights moment. I loved it.
If she was quick she would have said “oh I know I was just fucking with him a minute ago saying I took the picture”. People have to work on their lying.
Is your name Derek? Because there’s an Edmonton radio statio called 102.3 Now Radio and they just read your post word for word saying someone named “Derek” sent it in lol I only listened for about 15 minutes but they read at least two more from this thread. I don’t have twitter but if I did, I would have put them on blast!
I'm impressed at your restraint!....I wish I had that much control over my mouth, I'd have called her out in a second; but your admirable silence ended in the ultimate "beam me up, Scotty"moment .....brilliant!!!!
I loved that you kept silent about it and just let the truth naturally unfold. You got hella confidence keeping that ego to yourself and not letting some petty lie interrupt your satisfaction in your work. Kudos.
Honestly, that's how I started. I still mainly photograph cityscapes, and I started with my iPod camera. Having a DSLR doesn't make anyone a better photographer; it's what they can do with it.
I like the saying "the best camera is the one you have with you" I have my cellphone with me 100% of the time while my DSLR is at home hanging in the closet 😀
jujapee · 5990 points · Posted at 15:12:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-wife’s attorney.
A year had gone by with no settlement in what should have been a very simple divorce (no children, no remarkable assets or property.). Instead, it had been nothing but lies, harassment and threats from this attorney who had just recently got her law license back after having it suspended for a year.
There was a lot of stuff that had transpired, but the last straw was when I begrudgingly agreed to pay $1,500 in legal fees to her attorney because I just wanted the nightmare to end. After she got the cashiers check, she claimed to have “destroyed” the check because it wasn’t made out to her and instead it was made out to my ex as ordered by the court. A few emails followed as I cancelled the cashiers check. She tried to have my ex cash out the check while demanding another one in her name or else...
After a year of nonstop threats and lies, we had had it. We filed sanctions against her. It had been 3 months since the incident and they weren’t producing a settlement as ordered and when they finally did on the day of the sanctions hearings, it was more of a criminal document to implicate myself than a settlement. She had filed counter-sanctions against me for filing sanctions against her. That made use file a second order for sanctions against her because she basically tried to extort me by saying that she’ll lift her sanctions against me if we pay her $5,000.
For the entire year and a half at this point it had seemed like my ex and her crazy attorney had always gotten their way and that their consistent harassment and lies had been rewarded by the courts. I was shocked when at the sanctions hearing the judge started with a few simple questions to both sides and then immediately tore into my ex’s attorney for 15 minutes. I mean tore into, like yelling at her and telling her how much of an embarrassment this is to the court system. It was surreal to me.
What was even more surreal to me was when I got the judge’s ruling 90 days later. It was a document written by the judge who meticulously reviewed our case and basically wrote a 35 page thesis on it. It called out all of the lies from my ex’s attorney. It was unbelievable to see on paper by an impartial judge, calling out my ex and her attorney on all of their lies and their abhorrent behavior.
My ex had to pay back the legal fees, her attorney had to pay me $2,000, which means she had to report herself to the state bar. If she didn’t, the judge did it for her anyways by mailing the entire ruling to the bar. Last I heard, she made her law license “in-active” and moved to another state to be a waitress.
Edit: TL;DR: ex-wife’s attorney wastes a year and a half lying and delaying a settlement; gets called out in the end and has to pay me.
the judge started with a few simple questions to both sides and then immediately tore into
In my case, the judge remained calm. An employer let me go, on the spot, because he heard I was talking with another potential employer (small-time; no non-compete or NDA or anything). I filed for unemployment since it would take about a month to line up the new job. I followed everything per protocol, but they still contested my claim - I don't remember now what the bogus reason was. Had to sit in a session with my old manager and a judge. I had a lengthy speech planned, but about two sentences in, the judge repeated what I said (in question form) and gave me a look that I interpreted as "stop talking now." I answered in the affirmative, and he ruled in my favor.
I quit a job due to feeling unsafe in the workplace and they said since I left I couldn't get unemployment. I contested, an had a heating scheduled with my old boss literally a block from where he works and he didn't show. I had this whole big schpiel planned but I didn't even have to talk because he didn't come.
I think that qualifies as a dick move. Makes sense though I guess. I hear it's just not worth the hassle to contest it. Maybe he thought you wouldn't call his bluff and give up just as easily...
Yup. Lots of people will just roll over and go "well shit, they're contesting my unemployment. Guess I won't get it." It's extremely common with constructive dismissal cases - That's when an employer intentionally fucks with an employee to try and get them to quit. For instance, if they cut a worker's hours from 20 a week down to 4. It still counts as being laid off, (so you can file for unemployment,) but many people don't realize that. They just go "well I quit, so I can't file." And the employer will contest any attempts on the same grounds. All the employee actually has to do is show up and go "yeah, they slashed my hours because I was sleeping with the scheduling manager's crush," and you'll get your unemployment. But so many don't do that, simply because they don't realize they can.
Yeah, I was lucky I had friends that told me I could still file. I was complaining I couldn't because I quit (hostile working conditions) and they all urged me to apply anyway.
When I got divorced we "shared" a lawyer because it was amicable and we just agreed to keep our own stuff and move on. I was getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan in less than a week so I'm anxious to get everything done before I leave. So I get emailed the finalized divorce documents and my ex mentions my half of costs was around $2000. What she didn't know is she had forwarded me the whole email chain with the lawyer where they discussed final billing. Turns out the total amount owed was actually about $800. So I replied and said I'd be paying $400 and explained her mistake. Her reply was simply "whatever. I don't care."
I literally haven't said a word to her since that email. 7 years later people from my home town tell me absurd stories she spreads about me. She has some issues to work through and I wish her the best.
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 00:19:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
in her defense we got married WAY too young. i mean we were kids and kids do stupid shit. but hearing 3-4 years later she's still trying to convince people I'm abusive makes me laugh. even to the point where i was engaged again she told a friend of my fiancee all her made up stories and to "warn her". I think she was just trying to overshadow or justify her cheating.
I think she was just a really shitty person. This is the kind of thing that shitty people do. If you wish her the best, then good for you. But you caught her lying to try and milk money out of you, and she spreads rumours that you were abusive, among others. Yeah, gonna go out on a limb and say that she's a rotten person.
By lying to themselves and everyone else about their skills and intelligence and barely getting through law school, probably at a less-than-reputable school.
True. My ex can barely figure out her life and doesn't seem to understand anything you tell her but was an honor student in high school. Life finds a way I guess
Until one day at a tiki party, you meet that one guy from back when, and he wants you to clear this project for him so he can start getting customers, and then you go to the toilet and get eaten by a T-Rex. It sucks.
xPofsx · 2 points · Posted at 00:07:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The flip side of this is my aunt's custody case. Her ex is a piece of shit. My aunt is a nurse who'd had to work 2 jobs to pay the bills because her ex wouldn't work. She eventually left him because duh.
They have a son who at the time was in his early teens. My aunt wanted to move out of state to live with her older daughter and her family and to start her life all over again. To recover from the financial devastation of her marriage and her ex, and all that shit. Her ex didn't want her to move with their son. Note that her ex was supposed to be paying child support, but he was not. He hadn't paid a single penny. He'd gotten remarried 6 months after the divorce to a woman who hated my cousin and wouldn't let me cousin into his own fucking house. And my ex-uncle just let her get away with that.
Anyhoo, my ex-uncle gives the runaround on custody hearings to let my aunt and cousin move out of state. It was so bad, that when they finally got into family court in front of a judge, the ex's attorney approached the bench and told the judge and my aunt's attorney that his client (the ex) was intentionally sabotaging the custody hearings. The judge immediately ruled in favor of my aunt.
Depends on the state. May do wage garnishment, or some jail time. There may be other penalties.
Lyrle · 7 points · Posted at 01:55:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most states deny State-managed activities like hunting licenses. Some States revoke driver's licenses. Wage garnishment is the big one, though. Some people move from low-paying job at a small company to low-paying job at another small company quickly enough to evade the garnishing, but that takes real commitment to being poor and unstable.
Jail is really rare - not only can a parent not make wages to be garnished while in jail, it costs the state money to house the person and eats a spot that could be holding a violent criminal.
mxwp · 62 points · Posted at 16:34:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So satisfying. Using a throwaway, but I had a case against someone who stole from me. Since I was going through a divorce at the same time, I was feeling my petty oats and went in to court to give a victim impact statement. The judge listened intently, turned to the person, and proceeded to call the person out on their bullshit story, and called out the prosecuting attorney as to why there weren't more charges. The person had to reimburse me, my soon-to-be ex, and even the bank. He also apologized, but I just said he was only sorry for getting caught. My victim advocate person said they have never seen a judge be like that before. I wish I had a transcript.
Yes, I believe she sold her house and used the money to pay all of her remaining debts because her current “office” address is now an apartment in another state.
Wow I'm happy to hear it worked out for you. That sounds like an absolute nightmare. Props to that judge, you don't exactly make friends by exposing the fraudsters or malicious people in your field
I’m a lawyer in South Australia. We have some incredibly onerous regulatory standards, because the Courts and the Law Society are very concerned with not ‘bringing the profession into disrepute’. If a lawyer swindles their client, we have a fidelity fund set up to make good the loss to the client. If a lawyer acts in a manner which brings the profession into disrepute, they can be struck from the roll of practitioners.
It’s not to say that lawyers all act honestly, but when they don’t, the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner gets all up in their business and sometimes takes away their business.
My attorney talked to me in great length in her office about the duty to report other attorneys for misconduct because behavior like what we were experiencing is what makes the profession look bad in the public conscience which is why the state bar and the courts take it seriously. For each of our sanction hearings, the judge cleared out the courtroom and locked it out from the public. She explained in the last hearing that she didn’t want the public to see what was happening in the courtroom because it was embarrassing and would “make anyone else lose faith in the justice system.” I was amazed by that. For the year and a half up until the moment she yelled at my ex’s attorney, I had in fact lost faith in the justice system. It wasn’t until I got the final ruling that it was fully restored, but I’m still cautious by how easy it is to abuse the system.
So in case your curious, even in California of all places, the state bar and the courts take misconduct and abuse seriously. Also, my girlfriend, who I met after my separation and endured much of this drama, even being threatened with a subpoena to testify against me for absolutely no reason, is a beautiful Queenslander so good luck in the State of Origin tonight ;)
EmEmAy · 12 points · Posted at 21:05:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dude, this belongs in /r/justiceserved too. That judge has restored my faith in humanity.
I envy you. My ex dragged our divorce out for five years, firing her first attorney that agreed to work for free for her after he let her know that what she was trying to do was illegal and immoral. The second was the stereotype of the sleazy lawyer (I’ve worked with lawyers for most of the last decade, and of the hundreds I know, only a handful are dirtbags). Long story short, she was given everything and I was literally left homeless (lived out of my car for a year and a half) with the judge’s last words to me being, “she’s a mom, you can’t be surprised by this.”
It’s worse than I’ve described. It’s also why I am single now, and terrified of having another kid. Her affair started before our son’s first birthday, and during the initial separation I realized our son may look at the timeline when he is older and blame himself. I shared this fear with her, and she said point blank that he is exactly why we ended, an that we are to never tell him that.
I thought it was her fucking my best friend that ended it, but apparently becoming a mother and people not seeing anything else did it.
So, yeah, I’m not going to tell anyone that they should have kids or get married. People can literally change overnight, and it’s terrifying.
Ugh. And I thought my friend's divorce was bad. He found out his wife had been secretly seeing some guy for over a year while she was married to my friend. She was trying to divorce him to marry that guy. Fine, whatever, right? He gets a girlfriend during the state-mandated 90 day waiting period for a divorce and his (almost ex) wife finds out and loses her shit and refuses to sign the divorce papers. The explanation she gave him was that he "doesn't deserve to ever be happy again" and she's going to refuse to sign the divorce papers just so he can never get married again because he'll still be technically married to her.
She wasn't try to reconcile or anything. She was living on her own and all that and didn't want to be with my friend anymore, she just wanted him to be miserable. Keep in mind, this relationship he was in wasn't moving towards marriage or anything, they'd only been dating a few weeks. But, for whatever reason, she lost her shit over it. She was completely convinced if she refuses to sign anything relating to the divorce, they'll be married until one of them dies.
This friend of mine is someone I met online and he just stopped logging into any account I'm aware of for him,s o I never found out what happened with his crazy ex-wife. They could still technically be married now (over a decade later) for all I know if she was really serious about that never signing anything.
If you're wondering about the guy she was supposed to marry, he apparently broke it off after he found out how crazy she was acting during the mandatory waiting period. She apparently blame my friend for "forcing me to act crazy and ruining my relationship" so I think she was doing this as revenge.
Aatch · 7 points · Posted at 05:25:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I was curious about this and it looks like "not signing" isn't really a viable plan. It makes getting the divorce harder, but it looks like there's two options in this situation: uncontested divorce and default divorce. In either case a judge just rules in the uncooperative party's absence. As far as I can tell refusing to sign just delays the process in return for giving up your ability to present a case in court.
I'm really wondering if OP's ex-wife might've been a victim as well. Getting a divorce is a significant event, and that was likely their first time going through the process. She really could've been unaware of the games her lawyer was playing with OP and his attorney.
That was actually my concern and I reached out to her behind our attorneys’ backs to try to mediate with her directly. The majority of our issues (left-behind items, insurance, etc.) was solved with my ex and I texting each other directly. Any time her attorney got involved it was over-the-top accusations with ridiculous threats (ex. When my ex needed the title to her car signed over to her, instead of delegating with me, her attorney showed up to my work with a FAKE subpoena addressed to my manager threatening my arrest for vehicular theft.) At some point when I realized they weren’t going to settle I sent my ex a link to her attorney’s profile on the state bar website which had her history of being suspended and I warned her, “Your attorney is taking you for a ride.”
Wow, well that at least has to add to the satisfaction of watching the attorney get chewed out
smmstv · 3 points · Posted at 22:28:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know I read so many stories on here about people's ex husbands or ex wives making their life a nightmare for no reason. It felt good to see someone who pulled that shit get what they deserve, for once.
Can you post more? I’m not sure if it’s legal or if it hurts your case or anything. Isn’t it possible to find it online or something? This is incredible to read!
Last I heard, she made her law license “in-active” and moved to another state to be a waitress.
Sounds like a "voluntary" resignation under threat of disbarment. Good work!
Aero93 · 2 points · Posted at 00:06:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why I'm afraid of getting married in US. As a matter of fact, I am more and more thinking about moving back to Europe after 20 years of living here.
The average divorce isn't a nightmare like that. It's always the egregious cases that stand out to people. And in general, a lot of panic. A lot of people insist that divorce is like what Judith Harper did to Allen.
And it's not like Europe is necessarily better, depending on which nation. I know through a friend someone (American woman) who had a child with a French man, and moved to France with him. When they separated, she was pretty well handcuffed to his whim. I think her not being a French citizen hurt her, and she basically had to hope that he would agree to amicable terms for split custody.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:08:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good judge. Glad things shook out in your favor. An attorney who has already had their license revoked is a good indicator of a scumbag ofc but it also means that they are probably having a hard time getting business and will do anything to keep the lights on.
I was in a bar having some beers when I feel a tap on my shoulder. It was a guy I went to school with. I didn't really hang out with him back then, but decided to catch up and share stories anyways. At one point he mentions sleeping with a girl I knew very well, a girl I knew for a fact was a virgin until after she graduated. I just kind of nodded and let him go. Then, I said something along the lines of "oh, I actually know her very well, we'll have to hit her up, she comes out and drinks with me all the time!". He turned white. The look of horror in his eyes was great.
My sister is a really cute blonde. She's heard of plenty of wild nights she's had that have never happened. Some guys are just ass holes who play pretend a lot.
slanid · 209 points · Posted at 17:41:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same. I was really “mature” looking in high school, can’t even remember all the stories that were made. The rumors got so bad that a counselor called my mom and told her She might need to talk to me about sex.
Yeah, I left my high school because of all the rumors and subsequent catty bullying and what would've been slut shaming if it were true. It really hurt. I was so unpopular anyway. I think the guys talked about me because I was a 34DD by sophomore year. It pushed me into being a total prude. I ended up waiting til my late 20s when I was engaged.
I took my 13 year old to be properly measured and buy her some quality bras after she had outgrown all of hers in the past year. 34DD-DDD depending on the style. I’m a 38B so I have no idea what she’s going through. Bathing suit shopping for her to have a modest and appropriate suit to wear to camp was a struggle because she’s not big on showing a lot of skin. We finally found a one piece that was high enough in the front that didn’t show cleavage and she got a pair of shorts to wear over it. But man I hope she doesn’t have trouble. She is pretty good at deflecting attention and doesn’t purposefully attract it. I just worry because that’s my baby girl.
It's awful being 13 and having 40 year olds hit on you, even if you're good at deflecting. I'm sorry. She'll get so good at ignoring it that she'll eventually struggle to see it when she wants to, and that hard exterior goes a long way to repel good, appropriate guys, too. There are restraining bras if she's interested; mine took me from a 34DD to a 34C in high school, but it hurt.
Same! I was attractive but purely virginal until I was 27. I didn't even really get frisky until 25 or so.. but I heard I had plastic surgery and get around! Now I'm old and divorced and I hope rumors are still around.
I'm still only up to 4. I have one finger left on my right hand. I was hoping to "not be able to count on one hand" as people had accused me of. Happy to catch up lol
Guys made fun of my sister for having a flat chest for a long time (called her biccie tits which was a play on our last name as well as saying she was as flat as a biscuit/cookie).
When she sprouted double D's one year, she was suddenly being called a slut (she absolutely wasn't).
This guy at my high school made up a story like that about a girl that was with us when a bunch of us cut school together.
Then after a couple days of him bragging she went up to him with two other girls and acted a bit flirty... When his guard was down the two girls grabbed his arms and she told him to stop spreading lies and kicked him in the balls.
Edit: Grammar, I hate typing on my phone and that damn autocorrect.
Wasn't there something going around about how that's a dangerous thing to say because it gives the lied-about party the opportunity to say anything about the liar's 'performance', kinks, hangups, physical imperfections, etc?
The year I was expelled from school, a kid with my same name started. A few years younger. It’s a small town, and he was apparently a scumbag. I was crazy and did crazy shit and had wild adventures, but I was not a piece of shit. It was six or seven years before I found out this guy existed. I just kept running into people that knew me and not him that had heard horrible shit and needed to tell me off.
For a while I carried around a folder with my military paperwork in it just to show that I was out of the country for most of his exploits. Still here stories about how I was in prison from time to time.
Ugh when I was a teenager I had friendships ruined because people started rumors that I slept with certain girls. The girls would hear the lies, think I started them, and then stop talking to me. It was extremely frustrating
A close friend of mine told me there were rumours that went on for two years that we were sleeping with each other during university. I hadn't heard about it but he told me this two years after we graduated since we were talking on a simar topic at the time.
He said the rumour was BS and it would be stupid to tell me if I wasn't in the loop anyway. I'm quite glad I didn't hear it - ignorance is bliss. And some people just love to gossip and make up gossip.
What's worse is it isn't possible to really track gossip to its source. People really do forget where they heard information from, so if you begin playing the 'where did you hear this from' game you will usually run into several dead ends. And the originator might not even have been acting maliciously, but might have actually thought sex was going on, and, teenaged being teenagers, though it was okay to talk about with others
Teenagers are the worst
Aatch · 13 points · Posted at 05:32:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The problem is when "do you think him and her are having sex?" turns into "him and her are having sex". The person that "started" the rumor isn't even aware of it. This is one of many reasons idle gossip is bad.
I lived in another country for a bit, and after I had come home I heard the rumours about how I slept with this older guy who I had only met a few times and hardly talked to. Felt super embarrassed that people thought that of me considering I was 18 and he probably in his late 40s. The friend who asked me about it refused to tell me who had told her. I thought it was shit that the rumours started up after I had left and couldn't defend myself.
Same thing happened to me in highschool constantly. My husband actually took my virginity, but to hear all the guys at school tell it, they’d all had their way with me. They had him convinced for months I was lying, even went so far as to tell him I was actually a lesbian to deter him (his ‘best friend’, who apparently was angry at him for being the new guy and asking me out because supposedly he and I were a thing before husband came along? Strange. I never even knew lol)
Anyhow, husband and I had sex several months later and he finally believed me because there were ‘telltale signs of virginity’
20 years later and I realize, had I had any parental guidance or actual life experience I’d have dumped him for not believing me. My daughter has been dealing with similar since as early as 4th grade. Fucking 4th grade! She’s now a knockout of a teenager and gets it tenfold now. She takes literally zero shit though.
Wait I’m confused, why would you have dumped him if he didn’t believe you? If my best friend said something to me about the girl I was seeing is at least consider it. Especially based on how long we’ve known each other.
A woman tells you she's a virgin and is adamant about it. A dude tells you otherwise. You don't believe her, essentially saying she's lying about her sexual past. What does she have to gain from that? And what does that say about your trust in her? Why WOULDN'T she dump you?
but to hear all the guys at school tell it, they’d all had their way with me. They had him
THEY. Not one guy, multiple people seemingly coming to you and telling you the same things. Apparently uncoordinated. Sounds like they were pretty adamant about it to, and to be honest it would be a weird thing for them to lie about as much as it would be unexpected for his wife to lie about it.
What does she have to gain from that?
Huh?? Isn't it obvious? I've known several girls who have lied about their sexual part for whatever reason, friends of mine even. Some feel ashamed of stuff they did, some are afraid partners will care/be grossed out/feel inadequate, etc. That's not really a question.
The real question is what do those several guys all have to gain from it?
And what does that say about your trust in her?
It certainly doesn't say anything outrageous or wrong about you. You're acting like some total stranger said something and the guy ran with it. Except it wasn't, it was multiple guys with seemingly nothing to gain all telling him over and over that they all slept with her. That's not exactly something you can just brush off easily.
Why WOULDN'T she dump you?
Because it would be a fucking severe overreaction to something like that lol. Jesus, where do you all get off thinking you should tell people to end a relationship over something like that? Requiring your partner buy what you say unflinchingly and unquestionably, even in the face of MULTIPLE people he knows telling him otherwise, or else you dump them? Get the fuck out of here with that.
People aren't perfect. If you're not perfect, you sure as fuck shouldn't expect the person you're with to be perfect either, and dumping them for being human/not swallowing everything you tell them not is the height of pride and arrogance and hypocrisy. Good God, some people.
Let me clear it up for you a bit with as few intimate details as possible. He was the one sleeping around, so he leapt at the chance to have something to throw in my face in case he was caught. He finally admitted it years later, and also admitted that the reason all those guys were saying that was because I was on some ‘top 10’ list of ‘unattainable girls to bang’ that was scrawled in an ISS stall so everyone was scrambling to say they were the first. He also knew full well they were only saying those things to him to deter him, because they were pissed off id gone to school with them my whole life and never dated anyone, but started dating him not long after he moved to our town. A real immature shit show I was completely unaware of because I kept to myself and had no part in any particular social group. All I knew was that out of nowhere, every guy in the school seemed to suddenly start sexually harassing me, pinning me against walls, fondling me, shoving my hands down their pants, the works. He was manipulating me, and used my insecurity over proving my innocence to his advantage because he was a punk kid.
Shouldn’t have had to add all those details to get my original point across. No one should stay in a relationship full of constant volatile unfounded accusations. (I did actually edit to add more as you were responding.) The barrage of outlandish stories that no one could corroborate besides the story teller, should have been a clue, but in highschool a virgin can be labeled a slut for the rest of their days because one boy claims he got a BJ. It’s disgusting. The dude knew my nickname in my family was ‘Prude’, I had already told him I’d been considering waiting until marriage, he knew I’d never had a boyfriend or interest in dating prior to him, and knew I was so terrified of my family that i never left my house. So where were all these sex romps taking place? It fucked me up for a long time. I have since re-raised him and he is a completely different person, but my god how awful highschool is for a kid suffering from a rumor.
As for the ‘finally believed me’ That’s what he said at the time. It was years later when we were reconciling and rebuilding he admitted the rest. I think at the time he used that as clout so he could be sure everyone knew he was actually the ‘winner’
If you want strangers over the internet who know nothing about you and your situation, yeah you do kind of need details to get them to see the full picture. The ones you initially gave were not enough to get the point across.
Either way, I'm glad your husband is a better man now. And to that point, do you really wish you left that relationship back then, assumign you and your husband are presumably happily married with nice children? That was my original point. He was a little rat back then but he's reformed into an apparently good guy. Bailing on relationships over one fixable thing isn't good advice.
I have had this happen, as well. I apparently acquired a nickname in high school that really makes zero sense, since my parents were very strict and I was never allowed to go to parties. So when I found out years later, in my twenties about this nickname, I was genuinely shocked.
During uni I was in a long term relationship, very comfortable with people but apparently treating the opposite sex as the same I would same sex was too much and rumours would fly.
People are stood and love to hear juicy gossip whilst there's the evil people who like to speculate and make up complete bs.
_klk_ · 11 points · Posted at 17:50:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I relate so much to this! I've lived in the same area since I was 9yrs old, over 30yrs....naturally I run into an old school-mate or friend from my late teens/early 20's. Many times male friends have asked "did X sexapade happen? Cos that's what he told me " and I've been horrified it was even a question!!!!
Young boys tell terrible lies, when it comes to 'conquests'!!!
Ive had girls tell me we slept with the same guy as a point of bonding...
1- I never slept with that guy (in one case I gave him a ride home because his car wouldn't start). He's apparently just gross and creepy and we are both now realizing that.
2- just ugh. Even if I had, having the same dick inside you shouldn't be the basis of a friendship.
I went out this Friday, and went out for a smoke break, and they're were these three girls out there. I'm just chilling, and this one girl tells me, "We don't really have any beef with you, from when you tried to hook up with Nick, so we had to be salty for a bit, we've all been there with him," and then is all smiling and shit. To which I'm like, "who tf is Nick?" And then had to explain that I'm gay. Like 10 minutes later, I realized who Nick was; he's this scrawny, drug addict who tried to grind on me while I was onstage singing karaoke (Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll), and I shoved him to the ground (not intentionally, he was so fucked up, he lost his balance, besides, nobody likes Nick), and that's the whole extent of our relationship.
A long time ago a guy from my friend group and I made out a few times while we hanging out alone (he lived at the party pad). Last time was when he started to get his hands in my pants and I stopped him and left.
Then I hear how I tried to have sex with him and he turned me down lol. 🙄
Back in the 90s young guys HAD to lie about this stuff. Otherwise people questioned your sexuality or they just called you a loser. Its definitely mote ethical to say you'd had sex but not give any names...but of course that was never as convincing as naming a real person.
I've heard about my slutty life in high school... I (f) never knew about it though. Why people feel the need to make up lies about sleeping with people. Of course some of these lies were made by other girls.
I once told this guy I was into him and he turned me down. No big deal, he wasn’t interested. Three years later I find out that he told everyone we’d had sex.
Why, sir? Why lie? I was completely willing to actually have sex with you, you could’ve said the same thing but had it be true. I don’t get it.
It sounds like you dodged a hell of a bullet. That's close to Ted Bundy "Win back my ex-girlfriend just so I can dump her and come out on top" territory.
BGYeti · 7 points · Posted at 18:59:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a former friend like that, always talked about hooking up with the different girls at our school while being a fat stoner. Now some of them maybe if they were desperate or maybe that was their thing who knows but one he lied about I know for certain because he had no chance. She was huge into fitness, easy 9/10 and knowing her well enough and knowing who she had dated I knew her type well enough to know it wasn't fat stoners obsessed with WWE and even in her most desperate of hour he would not make the cut by miles. Knowing his perpencity to throw a fit when called out we all just humored him with lackluster responses hoping he would pick up we didn't care and that we knew he was lying
Had a guy tell a friend this who told me. I also knew the girl was a virgin and told her immediately by text and the guy who told me kicked me out because he was in a frat with the liar. Fuck frats.
[deleted] · 165 points · Posted at 16:12:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bro, I hate to tell you this but you can’t know for a fact who was telling the truth in this situation.
Dude, there’s no shame in picking up Brad’s sloppy seconds. Like, I’ve totally banged Angelina and Gwyneth Paltrow. I don’t like to brag about it because I’m totally humble like that, but I’m also not ashamed that Brad had them first.
I'm just saying a girl claiming to be a virgin to a male friend sounds like the type of lies I heard in high school, just as much as the guy lying about having sex.
Maybe if they're interested or something. OPs friend is a lesbian though, so I don't see a reason she'd lie for all these years about being a virgin in highschool.
Guys lying about doing things w/girls happens too often and it's crap. The whole "you can't know for a fact who was telling the truth" is their motto...
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:15:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, he could have busted her cherry himself. Also, OP says she came out as gay later, which lends more credence to the whole virgin thing through school. At least, highly unlikely she slept with a man back in school.
You can totally bleed during sex if you aren't a virgin. If you're still nervous and not aroused enough you can tear a little, or the hymen can tear if it didn't before. It's something you could kind of guess at, but there's really no way to know for certain.
Not like that you don't, not unless something has gone horribly wrong. If your mrs bleeds like that during sex either her period started or she needs a doctor.
[deleted] · -37 points · Posted at 17:30:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
U seem to not want to entertain the idea of your friend lying to you. Girls lie all the time about being virgins, (not saying she did, just pretty common, guys lie about a lot too just saying it’s pretty regular for a girl to tell people she’s never fucked anyone) and you say she’s gay. But to be honest idk if I believe that. It kinda seemed like you just threw that out there after the fact to defend that you were correct. Also, no offense , most guys wouldn’t want to start a rumor that they fucked a gay chick. Also, just because she is gay doesn’t mean she always was .. lot of ifs and buts , but the fact still remains, maybe he wasn’t lying
Yeah he should trust a guy he barely knows, who is happy to boast about sex with to a person he isn't close with. Over a person he knows well?
Even IF it was true. It is so tacky to mention it to someone you barely talk to and pointless. That it seems more likely he lied compared to a friend who is gay and has probably discussed their sex life over private conversations.
If you feel the need to boost intimate details to acquaintances, you probably have little going for you and are full of shit.
You sound like you've never had a healthy relationship with another human being. If it's something you don't understand, you just assume it's wrong. I knew she was a virgin because she was gay and didn't come out of the closet until after high school due to fear of her parents disowning her.
But go ahead, keep thinking I got friendzoned, because apparently there's no other alternative to you're limited view on relationships.
Yes. Thank you for your indepth analysis based on two sentences. No one asked for a reason. Stop trying to justify your friendzone-ness. It ain't that serious lol
I had a boss who kept on getting angry at me because, "I wasn't doing what he told me to do."
Finally one day, I decided to start writing down exactly what he told me, dated it, and kept record of it.
Then one day came where inevitably, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Exactly what you told me to do."
"I NEVER TOLD YOU TO DO THAT!"
"Well, I have it written here..." pulls out note card "On 5/22/16 -- you told me specifically to do this task, exactly like this, and never do it any other way."
I finally won. I started standing up for myself a bit more in the office, and I was respected for it.
My boss is the EXACT SAME. He is an abhorrent micro-manager and consistently changes the goal posts on jobs that I have set up for the day or week. He also has totally unachievable time scales to complete really tedious jobs.
I write every menial, stupid task he runs by me in a diary. So when he changes his mind (which he inevitably does) I have it in writing.
It’s also great to be able to file out my list of tasks in order of urgency and put his dog shit requests at the bottom of the page because they are always, always not important.
“Where are you on task A?”
Because you told me to do task A on Friday and marked it as non-urgent. I wasn’t in Saturday or Sunday, it’s now Monday. I HAVEN’T EVEN HAD THE CHANCE TO START.
Always stand up for yourself in a professional manner! Good on you!
RoCon52 · 1224 points · Posted at 19:16:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boss got mad at me for turning in a two weeks notice to the 3rd in command and tried telling me I couldnt do that and I was like
"But you weren't there and neither was second in command so I told 3rd"
She told me
"You should have just texted it to me"
I'm like really? You would have been ok with me TEXTING you that I'm quitting?
xdq · 538 points · Posted at 21:11:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sent my manager a text once saying I was going to be late, which he didn't have an issue with. The director got wind and told me "text messages aren't a valid form of business communication!" Which is strange because he would often text my personal phone (not my work number) with requests varying from can you go to X customer first or we need coffee for the office.
I started to ignore or at least not respond to his texts but saved myself for what I knew was coming in the next week or so - an important delivery and set-up for a large order requiring an early start.
As expected, late afternoon one day I got a text, along with the other engineers, to be in 2 hours early to receive delivery and start seeing up (the director lived 5 minutes from office but was always last to arrive.)
Not one of us did and when we turned up a exactly 9am to a rather angry director unpacking boxes on his own I took great pleasure in reminding him that text messages aren't a valid form of business communication.
Had that happen at a chain grocery store. I gave my two weeks to my team leader. Owner comes and says it doesn't count because I didnt give it to him. My response was "I played nice. You either accept that two weeks I gave in writing, and have time to fill my position, or I'm walking out today and not coming back". Fuck that. You were nice and played by the rules.
A [weasel word] amount of people believe that it's illegal to leave a job without giving at least a two weeks notice. I'm guessing some bosses rely on that assumption to try and squeeze just a bit more juice out of someone on their way out.
Once in a shitty restaurant job I was waiting while the back manager is on the phone. Was just gonna let him know I was clocked out n heading home. Front manager walks by asks me what I'm doing, tell him, he says "okay, see you tomorrow."
Back manager finds me seconds before I walk out the door and starts to berate me for "going over his head." What a little bitch.
I never went back and I heard he lost that job shortly after.
It's not like you have to give notification at all. Now yes, it's pretty shitty to do it that way, and would likely affect your reference with them, but the notification is essentially a courtesy.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 21:36:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ya I really wanted to give her two weeks notice not only to guarantee myself another paycheck but it's the right thing to do.
It's a new vegan restaurant in town (our only one) that has been doing very well and has been very popular since they moved to their new downtown location so I would have felt bad leaving them with only one other night disher.
Don’t know where you’re from but where I live your notice has to be “unequivocal” in law terms. As in, black and white and made in a sure manner. I can’t accept notice if you’re between two minds but also, I would not accept a text. It’s really inappropriate.
Business owners who think texts are okay will also bombard you likewise on your personal time with work related bullshit. I do not respond to texts or emails from my boss outside of work, ever. I’ve learned to switch my phone off and advise my staff to always speak to me in person for serious shit.
Shit we must have the same boss of a different industry.
She told me task A was the most important, but to always help specialists for anything.
Get backed up in legal stuff helping and kept her updated on everything (she doesn't like to be updated, but she wants to know everything we do.) We had a meeting last week and I got a reprimand for not doing my job. I called her out on it and she said "it seems like you're blaming me for all of this."
I told her I have notes of all our conversations on paper and via email. Her response was "I didn't say that." I need money, so I decided to let it go. The remainder of that week was infuriating.
People like this will ALWAYS shift blame onto others if they are in fact found at fault. My boss actually is incredibly aggressive and exudes this jittery, uncomfortable aura that just makes people baulk.
However, in an instance of true “confrontation” whether good or bad he backs down immediately and talks over me to make me stop taking whilst also shifting blame elsewhere. He has the single worst people skills I’ve ever encountered in another human being. He’s vile.
I use email and chat (most offices use Slack or another chat program) to document things like this. Like, I try to avoid in-person conversation as much as possible, and initiate all instructions-type conversations or questions over chat or email, and then I repeat back what they said in my own words to be sure we're on the same team. And I send them updates at non-annnoying time juncures, like, "This is what I got done today, so if there's another priority tomorrow, please let me know."
Any face to face directions should be followed by an email to your boss stating what you understand are there directions and asking for a reply if you misunderstood. Then you have a paper trail.
Had a nightmare or a foreman kinda like that. He would not let anyone else look at the blueprints and he would rattle off heights measurements and what he wanted done at a mile a minute. If you forgot one of his directions he would get upset and yell. He was known for making apprentices cry.
I started carrying a notebook and anytime he started rolling I would say “Hold it” and reach for my book and pencil. He would stop and smile and then start rolling with his list. Another way I got the best of him was as soon as gone I would go check and quickly check the prints. That way every time he made a mistake I was able to call him on it right away.
He was a nightmare sure but after a bit he started to respect me more and I ended working with him for a couple years. More than that he started to trust me and share the prints .
For me, I’m a retail and ecommerce manager for the same company. The owner likes to think he’s very “hands on” but really the only responsibility he deals with is the stores instagram, paying wages and bills.
He loves to scribble ridiculous longwinded notes to himself. Most of his bullet points include my name with a million question marks ( meaning he wants to ask me where I am on something) and also tasks that he knows I’m currently doing so he can chase me up on them.
He genuinely has no idea how to run his business. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be hilarious. It makes him feel important to micromanage me. I get that. However his scribbles give me a great fucking laugh because they read as if written by a child.
I had a boss like that. It was my first real job out of college and I thought that's what my life was going to be like until I retired. Get out while you can (and still have a soul).
I tried this with a boss once. She would constantly berate me and tell me that if I can't just REMEMBER what she says to do, I must be stupid. Then when she says I'm doing something "wrong" I would show her my notes. She said she never said those things I wrote down, because she "didn't sign it."
After that, I would write down her instructions and ask her to sign my little notebook, which she only did once. After that, every time I asked, she was "too busy."
I always had my boss e-mail me her requests, processes changes, or just things she wanted me to keep track of. Nothing more satisfying than getting yelled at for a six month old project and being able to go "Actually...I have your email here..."
My boss never does anything by email so there's never a written record, he also makes a ridiculous number of mistakes. I on the other hand always keep a record and on occasion make a perfectly acceptable number of mistakes.
There's nothing juicier than a project with a huge problem followed by him firstly flying off the handle about how simple it is to avoid said problem, followed by a general forgiveness and a "it's okay, we all make mistakes", followed by me proving that it was in fact actually his fault. Again.
Exactly, I had a boss like that for 5 years, after quitting, I can’t figure out why I stayed so long. Must have caught some kind of Stockholm syndrome or something.
For me, it was just kind of comfortable. I knew what was going to happen every day at work and knew I could handle the worst of it. Going to a new job, you don't know if it's going to be worse and you don't want to risk that.
That's how a lot of jobs treat their workers, especially at the lower end of the spectrum. Publix has actively done that to me and folks I worked with.
The German people failed to stop abusive relations from their own government, and this resulted in World War 2 for example. Instead of saying "hey fuck this you can't just take over and alter our government", they allowed Hitler to rise into power and then they let him get away with more and more shit.
Eventually it was the militaries of other countries - in war - that were necessary to stop that.
That's an example.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:54:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s usually the kind of job where they pay you just enough to keep crawling back for the BS.
Illegal in 11 states and a violation of many companies’ policies. Also unlikely to actually help you out unless you’re suing for wrongful termination after the fact.
That’s a big exception. Medical- and finance-related companies are going to have a lot of restrictions for that reason. Most any contractor company will have to comply with security audits and have to limit that as well.
Looks like it's twelve states. Very good point regardless. And I'm unclear how that works if it's a conversation via phone, Skype, etc., involving two people in different states with opposing laws.
The rule of thumb is that it follows the most restrictive state. Essentially, if I’m in California and you’re in Georgia, I’m going to sue you in California for the illegal recording, so you’re defending in the state in which that practice was not legal.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:12:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I record all my call through an app. That is sooooo useful, because people think what they in person or on the phone doesn't leave a paper trail so, unlike with mails, they always try to deny saying anything. That's when I pull out the recordings.
My first job at 16 was at a pet kennel. The owner sat up front while myself and one other person was in the back with the dogs. We would let them out into play yards and get them some exercise and let them go potty before putting them back in the kennel and getting another dog.
Well one time I'm out with a small dog in the play yard and I have a ball, throwing it and what not. At one point the dog obviously wanted to lay keep away so there I am on my knees trying to get this ball back from the dog. Who's having a blast, by the way.
Owner comes up and says "you dont work by sitting".
She also didnt believe down time was ever a possibility. If you were at work, you should constantly be working. No excuses.
Recently I read somewhere on here about a person being gaslit by their boss and that situation sounds very similar to what you're describing. Hopefully you're no longer working with this person.
Oh hell no. It was a hair salon, I was just the receptionist, and boss lady was the biggest narcissistic, mean-spirited bitch I've ever met. And I was only there for about a month. She decided she didn't want to continue paying for a receptionist. She planned on convincing a retired friend to do the job for free. No clue how that went. But for some reason she got this idea that she couldn't fire me or let me go. So her solution was to VERBALLY BERATE AND HARASS ME until I quit.
My only regret is not spraying her in the face with very hot water when I had the chance.
oberon · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd be curious if you couldn't sue the company for a hostile work environment.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be able to legally record your conversations even without informing your boss. Though I imagine that won't make them happy. Either way, an audio recording is kinda hard to deny.
[deleted] · -49 points · Posted at 21:02:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a guy with the same complaint about a male boss somewhere else in this very thread.
Also, based purely on that post, I’m very confident in saying the vast majority of situations in your life that you’ve blamed on the existence of women had more to do with you just being the kind of person that you unfortunately are.
I would love to write everything my boss tell me to do, but how to establish its credibility. If I show the boss later what I have written, what if he claims that I wrote it wrong or it's not what he said?
Like another user said, make them sign it, or initial or something. Read it back to them and get them to agree that's what they're asking you to do. They'll make you out to be an asshole, but do not back down.
Some good suggestions in the replies already. Write it down, repeat back to them exactly what they said, get them to sign it, etc. In that same vein I would suggest emailing the list to them saying something like, “This is the list of things you have instructed me to do. I have listed them in the order of priority that you have to me. Please reply and confirm that I’m not missing anything.” Or something like that.
Email it to them as a follow up on your improptu meeting to clarify exactly what you are supposed to do, if they don't respond take it as confirmation, if they do and change their requests you got clarification on what they want and a time line to prioritize requests. You can also set the email as a task in MS Outlook for follow ups. Also if they don't have time to respond then you don't have time to prioritize their tasks and you were "waiting for confirmation before allocating your limited resources so as not to waste company time"
-Source- BI Analyst supporting multiple departments with about 30 managers, directors and VPs constantly asking for random crap that they think is the highest priority in my world just because it's the highest priority in their world.
p1-o2 · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Then you tell him to prove it because he has none and is a little bitch who won't fire you anyway. Start looking for a new job so you can make his life even harder.
Thanks for our chat earlier. Just confirming your request to do X, Y, and Z.
Thanks again,
$YOU
Now you’ve got a time-stamped record of you putting it all on the record.
Managers who are building a case in order to fire an employee for cause will often do this as well. We'll also take notes of our conversations with the employee and email the notes to ourselves for time-stamping reasons.
Everyone has had one of these bosses. I hope you had yours when you were young. I worked for a guy who would strategically forget anything not written in an email, and also not have read any email which he didn't reply to. In the end I only did my important communication via email, in the format of "Hi AwfulBoss, Can you approve $20 for purchase of necessary lab equipment? Also I am planning to take 3 days vacation on these dates and I am assuming the product does not have this feature. Please let me know if this is a problem." Of course he replies with an Okay for the $20, no mention of vacay or features. If he tries to assign additional urgent tasks for the period that I'm out, or he insists that what I deliver is insufficient, I bring up the email. Eat shit.
Fucking hell I worked for a chef that was like this, you are a genius for documenting. I just ended up screaming "THIS IS WHAT YOU TOLD ME TO DO, YOU OLD FUCKER" luckily in a kitchen that's usually a normal way of speaking to each other.
Edit: he'd respond with something like "oh fuck you, you millennial idiot" I honestly liked the guy. He was a bastard and so am I, it worked.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 19:14:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did this to a coworker. She would demand I do something one way, then forget the next day and scream at me that I was doing it wrong. So, I wrote her an email and asked that she write down exactly what she wanted me to do.
That’s the last time she ever spoke to me, thank God.
I had a boss like that and I would argue with him about it all the time. He eventually fired me for being a kind of shitty employee. I was young and there was a culture of corruption that I fell prey to.
When he let me go he told me I had been one of his best employees and one of his worst employees.
He rehired me a few years later (he was a softy that believed in second chances). By that time I had turned over a new leaf, and was taking a lot more pride in my work.
Whenever he would ask me why the hell I was doing something a certain way, instead of saying "You told me to do it this way last week", I would ask "How would you like me to do it?"
Two weeks later he gave me a raise, and a month after that he put me on salary made me a manager.
Just before she retired, my aunt was in a very similar situation. She got a new boss who used to pull this kind of stuff all the time; on many peoples’ advice, she started requesting her instructions via email. When the boss couldn’t or wouldn’t comply, my aunt retired, then came back as a consultant...making just as much (or more) money per hour. I hadn’t paid close enough attention to the end result, but I remember how stressed my aunt was when telling these stories about meetings that didn’t exist or projects that were moved. Because of her stories, I request everything in writing, citing my ‘poor memory’, just to avoid having this happen to me.
I had a boss like this who also had a law degree. She also threw her staff (including me) under the bus regularly. I started sending an email after all our meetings saying “per your instruction in our meeting I will....”.
I was in the same position at my last job. I wrote a tone-neutral email with all the written communication (email, text, slack) discussing how I was receiving contrary directions and was finding myself unable to meet expectations. I got a very hostile email in return, and was let go. I still don’t know what I could have done- I was set up to fail.
I instead recorded every crime my boss committed while working at a Jimmy John's, so worst case I could tell the owners and they could look at the security cameras. Every line of coke he snorted in the back, every coke deal he made in the back, every time he applied an order he took to someone who no longer worked there to avoid getting taxed while pocketing the tip, etc. Turns out a couple other employees secretly did the same when the time came for a mutiny lol. He was a total piece of shit and we even told him to give us raises his last day or we'd tell the cops. Good times.
Well, terrible times and then one good time. If I wasn't making 20-25$ an hour delivering on a bike I would've quit straight away.
My ex boss used to send me out for his lunch order. Whatever, I'm on the clock and I'd grab something for myself. He'd get pissed that I didn't bring him a soda some days when he didn't specifically ask for one (he sometimes didn't want one) and claiming he told me. I started voice recording whenever I got his order so the next time he called me out I just played back his own words in english to him.
He also once told me he wanted "two #2's from mcdonalds." I went there. Ordered it. Came back with two "two cheeseburger" meals. He gets pissed and threatened my job saying that a #2 is standard at all mcdonalds, he travels all the time for this company and knows it's so, and it's always a quarter pounder meal. How can he trust me to take care of our clients if I can't even get the CEO's lunch order right. What kind of service am I giving. Bla bla bla. A week later he sends me for 2 #2's again. I ask him "What is a #2?" "Quarter pounder." Cool. I go, take a photo of the menu, and bring it back with his fucking burgers. I show it to him before I hand him the sandwiches and he responds "Oh, I just bet you were waiting to show me that." YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT YOU GREASY FUCK, YOU THREATENED MY JOB OVER A FUCKING CHEESEBURGER.
I need to do this with my boss. He drives me crazy. He asks me to do something and then before I’m halfway done, he yells at me to do something else. So on so forth. Then he gets pissed off about all the unfinished stuff. I’m so tired of being subject to whatever his whims are that hour
I have a similar boss. A good way to do this whenever possible is by email. Something like "Just wanted to clarify the points regarding our conversation about X earlier." You can even add an addendum about if no response I will continue XYZ. No way they can say you made it up.
Hey thanks for that. But very honestly, my boss was just a bit ADHD. He always got himself in trouble with clients because he would make hasty decisions and then forget he made them.
Had a rather important paper to write in grad school (required for graduation) that wasn't going well for me. I had an encouraging meeting with my boss about the content and structure of my paper. He told me to have a paragraph/subsection on each type of analysis we were gonna do on something as a major portion of my paper. Thought it was kinda odd, but he's really good [and my advisor] so I took his word for it. He even wrote it down like that in a sheet of notes he'd always write as he was talking and give at the end of the meeting.
Turned in a draft and said I was still struggling with the intro (specifically making my work seem important), got an angry email for a meeting. Got the whole 'why the hell did you do lay this out like this... You have clearly no understanding of...' and so on for one of the longer meetings we'd had. There was no arguing it. I knew it had to be redone after many sleepless nights and I could have dealt with that, but dude continuously tearing me apart for something I had been told to do made me realize I was miserable and led to my decision to leave
Y'all need to start using OneNote. Has this wonderful feature that allows you to take notes when recording the audio. Later, it will "point to" the audio portion (minus 5 seconds backwards) in your typed notes while they are talking.
ikcaj · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boss used to lie to her bosses and say I was the cause of all the problems she created. Fortunately they eventually got wise and she got fired. I’m still here and shit’s running great. Fuck her.
Oh man I had a boss do something similar one time. I was going out of the country for a few weeks so about a month or two in advance I had a conversation via text and briefly in-person with my manager at the time to get the days off. She approved them in writing via text. The week before I fly out comes around and lo and behold she scheduled me on the day before I was due to fly out, which I specifically requested so that I could prepare and take care of last-minute errands (which I told her). She tried to tell me that we never discussed that and I never told her and went as far as screenshotting our conversation and sending it to me, conveniently cutting out the part where I asked for that specific day and explained why.
So I screenshotted the entire conversation, complete with the part where I asked for that day and she said that it was approved, and sent it back to her. She never apologized or admitted her mistake/lie, but instead told me that in order to get that day off now I needed to do some impossible task. I sort of tried to find someone to cover and just didn't come in instead, and I submitted my two weeks that day.
Literally the exact same as my first boss out of college! I worked for some shitty ad firm that did furniture commercials for rental stores across the country.
My boss, “Rick the Dick” as we called him, would always complain to the employees that they weren’t following his instructions on projects even though they were.
So I literally started writing down what he would tell me to do in meetings and would have him sign it. Next time he bitched about my projects I just showed him the list with his signature.
Of course being the grade-A douche cake he was meant that he immediately denied having ever said those things and that I misinterpreted what he told me. Thankfully I’m no longer working in that shitstain of an ad company!
My old boss wouldnt have cared if I had a video recording of him telling me to do whatever I'm doing. He just liked to make people feel insignificant to cover for his own incompetence.
I had to do the same thing two jobs back, but even then, my boss would say, "Well I don't care what I said in October, it's February and you should know to be doing X instead!" I ended up quitting after a year. Real shame, too, because I absolutely loved my work, just not the CEO of the company.
cso39 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wish I had thought of that! I had a boss like that at my last job. I stayed completely stressed out all 3 years I worked there. He finally fired me so he could hire someone for a position that he made up in a job that didn’t need one. I should have quit way earlier!
xAlvyx · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I make my boss email me the task or write her a follow up email with the task description in it so it’s dated and in writing.
My direct manager is like this. My inbox from her is usually:
Email @ 10am: No media should be bought through emails at all. Everything should have a buy sheet attached before contacting reps.
Email @ 2pm: I emailed [rep] and bought two spots in the awards show next week for [client] and we can figure out traffic later.
Email the day before the awards show airs: Why are you asking me about traffic? I already told you it should be [ad] when we set it up.
Since they hired an assistant for the media department (aka for me), we’ve been calling her out more and backing each other up with emails. She is not happy, and I’m not sure how long until she snaps lol
Huh. I did this exact thing with the same kind of boss and it eventually led to a series of epic blowups that led to me quitting in to keep my sanity. Your results may vary.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss like that.
He'd tell me to do stuff (last minute of course), then yell at me and forget he said things.
Then once i was asked to update a spreadsheet to grab some data and asked me to get xyz. I wrote it down, repeated it back to him for confirmation, got confirmation.
Well, he starts in during review and asks why I added a tab in the spreadsheet for something. He rants and raves and asks when he asked for it.
Pulled out my notepad and said we literally has a verbal conversation about it and I confirmed it with you...
He was a burnt out asshole though so doesn't surprise me....
LOL i used to work with a guy who started bringing a recorder to meetings with our boss, because he would do the same thing. Never got to see him pull it out on him but i heard he did.
I'm gonna have to start doing that with my boss (or leave this place because he's unreasonable). He's old and losing his memory and doesn't listen well and then gets pissed off about it.
Im supposed to have flexible work hours. That's the main reason I still work where I do. Sometimes I'm just unable to be around other people so I often change up my schedule.
Couple times my boss tried to add more hours by telling me that was my idea. After the third time I told him we are going to take notes that we're both gonna sign. Only did that once, but he never tried to add hours to my schedule again.
I had a similar type boss. When someone in a meeting called him out on this, he replied with no irony “That may have been what I said but that’s not what I was thinking.”
When I was a student worker there and was lady who would do this. Itd be like 10 minute apart too.
“do this like this”
does it like that
10 minutes later
“wtf are you doing who told you to do it like that”
shows completely different way
later the managers who actually know how to do it show up and tell you that she doesn’t know what shes talking about and both ways are wrong.
(she was higher up than normal student workers so you’re supposed to listen to her but she was a normal worker so she didnt know the correct way for student workers because we had different sets of responsibilities)
What’s more surprising to me is they admitted they were wrong (you didn’t say but I assumed ).
I’d have thought they’d just say you wrote it down wrong
Oh man I have to start doing this. My boss is garbage at training. Just garbage. We had a couple girls who he taught the new register system mess it up, and I was like “oh it looks like they were just tryin. To check their numbers” and he said “why the hell would the need to know what we’re making?” And I’m like “maybe because you have told us to keep an eye on our numbers for our goal?”
I had to do this with my grad school supervisor. Every meeting we had was basically her tearing me a new one for doing something she had told me to do. I learned pretty quick to write down and date everything she told me to do, and repeat it back to her to clarify it before I left her office.
I applaud you and I am so proud of you for finally standing up for yourself. So many people just let stuff slide and let people walk all over them. It makes me happy to hear people who DON’T just put up with this.
Great story.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“I would never tell you to do that.”
Guys behind him are snickering because he told me to do exactly that.
Hated my former boss with a passion. What a stupid worthless lifer.
Sounds a lot like my coworker.
First thing he does after being late EVERY day is a lengthy sitting on the shitter and when he's not, he's on his phone.
Worst thing is he works directly with customers and sometimes he's nowhere to be found when clientele arrives and my other colleagues and sometimes me have to find him asap, while staving the customers off.
Also, in his line of work it's really beneficial to speak English to some degree, yet he often has to ask me to translate, even tho that's not my job at all.
I told him many times to improve his English and how to start, like watching series he likes with subs and later leaving them out or English subs -> dubs on non English series or whatever, but he always gives me silly and nonsensical reasons why he doesn't want to and can't. He basically is to lazy, at least that's the impression I get.
He's a nice and chill guy in private, but I'm so fed up with his bullshit work attitude as a coworker.
The best feeling in the world is to be working at an entry level job where corporate takes their job super seriously and then have a manager or boss harass you then you threaten to go to corporate with proof of events time stamps and co worker signatures to prove you wrote it down at the time of the event and watch them fucking quiver, I did this and emailed my GM and basically said hey this manager is harassing me, here's a scan of my notes with dates and times and quotes from the manager, if this dosent change I will be going to corporate. I got an email within 5 minutes of that email telling me to call work and got apologized to a bunch and said it won't ever happen again and that I can always go to my GM for anything I need and from this day forward that manager dosent as much as look in direction any more
I hate when bosses do that.
They'll forget what they told you and after months of doing it the way the specified, they'd be like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" and you'd say "The thing you told me to do since 2 months ago..." and they'll act like its totally unacceptable "NOOO, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO IT LIKE THAT" then they change how they want it done right there as if you should have read their mind 2 weeks ago when they changed it but didnt tell you
At my previous job, I had to start taking notes in my Google calendar for every task I did. This included breaks, phone calls, trips to the fax machine, documents printed, forms filed, etc. Everything.
I was so worn down from being treated like I did nothing all day or that I was doing everything wrong, that I originally started doing it to prove to myself that I was being prodictive and effectively managing my time. Then I realized my boss could view my calendar, so I started making it as detailed as possible, even going so far as to include bullet-point notes and quotes from conversations with her about the various projects she unloaded onto me.
If my boss ever demanded to know what I had done all day or what I had done that day for a particular project, I'd read the details from my Google calendar, and then add "daily schedule review with Susan" during the minutes she was interrogating me.
This was absolutely neurotic bureaucracy, but it was satisfying to see her struggle to find things to nag at me about. I don't miss it.
aw fuck. My old boss was like that too. Not all the time or in a mean spirited manner, he just had terrible memory. So annoying to be told do X and then. I never said to do X, do Y. As if I'd randomly made up an incorrect procedure. I started writing it down too. Only way to have a claim on it.
This reminds me of the night fill job I had at high school (working for a department store after hours stocking shelves). Supervisor hated me. At the end of every shift we would have about 15 minutes to tidy a bunch of shelves and she always picked something like rugs for me to tidy...which was always a fucking mess...and then whinge that I had taken too long to do it. Eventually shifted me to trash pickup which was supposed to be a slight yet paid the same for doing 1/10th of the work.
This burly biker dude I used to work with went on vacation with his wife once. They’re in a shop getting outfitted to go boat/parachuting(wtf is that called?). Kid getting them setup let’s a causal “shit” slip in conversation. Bike dude responds with “HEY watch your fucking language around my wife!” Kid about shit himself before dude told him he was messing with him.
Growing up I had a very anti swearing stance, to the point of if someone swore I’d tell them not to, over time I cared less, but I’d still tel them to not swear because pretending to care is a little funny.
Getting the school bus home I somehow managed to make friends/acquaintance with some grade 10-12 students on the bus while I was in grade 7. One of the highlights from the bus was saying don’t swear, and one of them yelled “fuck” In a silly tone. It was such a fun bus until they all graduated
yatsey · 9 points · Posted at 23:37:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd team up with my friend next to me. I'll out down my whole deck and say "twelve threes" then he'd put down a card right after it so no one had time to call bullshit on me
Have 4 sevens in hand, put down 8 cards, including 0 sevens, "4 sevens"... sucks for the next guy who needs to put down sevens! Clearly its not BS, as anyone with a seven would have called you on it!
Had a friend that put down 4 8's, no one calls him out so he must have them all. next turn 4 8's, everyone looking at each other suspiciously but again no one calls him out. Next turn 4 8's, one guy had enough and called him out to reveal 4 8's. Dude dropped 12 cards like it was nothing
The rules never explicitly forbid this to my knowledge, they also don't forbid hiding cards and pretending to be out, you've just got to be a really good liar.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:53:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not like there are official rules of the game. There's hundreds of slight variations. Partly because people make up new rules if they think it makes the game better, partly because people forget the rules when they're teaching it to someone for the first time.
It's in the spirit of lying and in the spirit of the idea that the players must be acutely aware of the plays each other are making; that being said, it's so easy to place two cards lined up together down and announce "1 ____" that if there were like money on the line or something I'd definitely try to enforce that rule
Nah arguing your point is way more fun. Also if you explain that away at the beginning then everyone does it and suspects it. Best to just play it close to the chest for as many games as possible and never tell anyone what you’re doing.
Even sneakier, call cheat on someone then hide a card in your palm and drop the card on the pile as you go to call them out. If you do it right, you can flip over your card and make it look like they cheated to everyone else
The trick is to put the fifth/sixth card under the 4 cards(or however many you're claiming to put down) so if someone calls bullshit you can flip the other 4 legitimate cards and lie about not putting down what you said. You just have to make sure not to do it too often and make sure you hide the other cards well.
Yeah, but you only claimed 4 cards, they should only flip the last 4.
schai · 3 points · Posted at 00:03:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I suppose. Someone would have to suspect that you placed down more than 4 cards. And if we’re talking serious strategies here, you should always check that the number of cards matches. Easy way to call BS.
I haven't played that game forever, but we always played where you could do that. The name of the game is literally "bullshit". Of course you can bullshit in more ways than one
Zreaz · 6 points · Posted at 21:57:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew the girl next to me was about to win once, so I just put down my whole hand. She was in such a rush she slammed her final card on the pile and shouted her call before anyone could say anything.
The look on her face as I showed my empty hands was fantastic.
Ah yes. I never got caught doing that. That’s the real art of bullshit: calculating what cards you need coming up and unfairly dumping all the superfluous cards yet not ever being penalized.
my favourite move. I remember when my sister introduced it and I realised there were more ways to cheat than just lying about what cards you had. The whole world opened up!
Yeah but when you make your declaration, you're making two declarative statements: Quantity and face value. The game says other people have to call you out on your lie.
Yep, the fun part is flipping the cards over, at which point someone has to take them. Most people only flip the number that the person said unless it really looks like more cards than they said, and even if you flip over more, the only one who can really call you out is the person who played right before you.
So, say 2 or 3 if you are really dumping all 4 of a number. You'll be the only one who knows where they all went when someone picks them up, which could help you for at least a couple of rounds.
Also fun is when people know you have a set of cards (7s in this case) and you lay down your 4 sevens but they are actually four totally different cards.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 20:02:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Since there are 13 different face values, and 13 is prime, the game will go around 13 times before a given card will come back. I guess you could be timing your win that far out, but that's hard.
Yeah. The right way to cheat at bullshit is when you have the right cards, put your trash cards underneath so that if people call you out you still win.
Plan ahead for what "real" cards you're going to need and with a small amount of luck you can win.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bullshit is played sequentially though. If you play sevens (whether you did or not), the next person plays eights. The person before you played sixes. So unless there are 13 people playing, it's not going to be the same number when it comes around again.
But why do that. You still have to get rid of those 7s. And it will take a while for you to get back to actually give it away. Or you have to Bullshit again. Why not just play the correct cards there.
Yeah. But you won't be playing sevens again for a while. Probably 10+ turns. So you'll have to Bullshit with them. So why bullshit twice when you only need to once.
You can but you'll be bullshiting When will you be able to play 7 again with out bullshitting? If you're on 7. And say you're playing with 4 people. You're next turn is J. Then 2. Then 6. Then 10. Then A. Then 5. Then 9 then K. Then 4. Them 8. Then Q. Then 3. Then finally 7 again. That's 13 turns. If youre playing with 3 people it will be 9 turns later.
So why if it's your turn and you have four 7s why would you not play them? Get rid of them while you can because you will have to Bullshit using those cards. Why use cards to bullshit when you can just play them.
I'd say it's cheating because once the cards are in the pile, how could you prove the lie? For example, if i say i put down 3 sevens, but i actually put down 3 sevens with a four underneath, even if bullshit is called, only the 3 sevens get checked.
Then you just gotta go on the honor system that the person who played before them would own up to whether the card(s) underneath were played by them or not.
Person A takes their turn and says they put down one 5, not lying. Person B takes their turn and says they put down four 6's, but lays down 5 cards. Person C calls bull shit. They check to see four 6's and one 2 following. Person A says they truly put a 5 down and flips the other card to reveal his 5, proving person B was bullshitting.
I always played where you could do that. You have to remember how many cards everyone has and watch them actually take the cards they're gonna lay down.
I was playing BS during a field day type thing. Some special needs kid is going ballistic, he ran into a pizza table screaming "PIZZAOHOHOHOHOHO" and everybody was watching. I put my entire stack of cards into the center and said 2 kings. The next kid quickly took his turn, before I announced that I had won. It wasn't counted since I had used outside distractions, but it was fun nonetheless.
My favourite thing to do is put down 4 other cards in your hand. If you’re playing with battle-hardened bullshit players, they’ll know that you wouldn’t be lying about putting 4 down if the 2 before were legit, so you get away with it and have 4 more sevens to play next round.
You put down 3 sevens, and tell yourself they aren't sevens while you're doing it, to cause your body and face to give off as close an approximation to your "bullshitting" micro-expression profile.
Anyone who sees you play 4 knows you have the 4, because anyone with a single seven in their hand could call you, so they instantly know that what actually happened was the other guy that put down 2 was lying. But if you put down 3, anyone paying attention will know that either the 2 guy was lying, or you were, and if you actually had 3 sevens, you could have called the 2 guy, but you didn't. This contributes to the plausibility that you made a simple fuckup, and tried to bullshit 3 cards down when 2 were already laid, because your play retroactively legitimizes the other guy's bullshit play in the minds of the other players.
By the time someone's mind has done a broad approximation of this reasoning, their instincts are already telling them not to pass up this opportunity to bullshit you, especially if it's the next person in line to go and they don't want to contend with the pile.
If you have all 4 sevens put down random cards and say 4 sevens. Then when its your next turn say 4 sevens again, no one will call your bluff. And then next turn actually put down 4 sevens amd someone will call bullshit.
I used to pretend to not know what number we were on, like I got distracted. It'd be on sevens and I'd put down two sevens but say "two eights" and someone would of course correct me "We're on sevens" and I'd reach for the cards to take them back, everyone would be like "hey no take backs!" so I'd mumble "fine... two sevens then..." Someone would inevitably call Bullshit and boom the whole discard pile was theirs. It only worked once per game, and there had to be some new people playing, but it's never not worked.
M_-X · 17 points · Posted at 19:41:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always put down extra cards. I would call two sevens, but put down a couple extra cards. The trick is to make sure your top cards are legit, that way when someone calls bullshit, you only have to flip the number of cards you said you put.
They played it right. If you're completely boned then you play two cards and act confidently. You just have to hope that no one has 3 or 4 of that card. If they do then you were likely fucked no matter what.
Lol we played this in middle school with a friend's "deck". The game went something like "3 queens", "bullshit", *cards are flipped showing it is not bullshit. Problem was my friend calling bullshit had 2 queens. How in the fuck....
Not easy to play when your buddy mixed 2 decks up and never bothered to count all the cards.
A similar thing happened to me while playing poker. It was a family vacation, and we were staying at a cabin in the mountains. My dad came back from the pub and we decided to play poker with my brother. We played the version where we put a card on our head. I looked at the card... something you are not supposed to do- and knew I had the ace of spades. Apparently, my brother cheated by getting the ace of spades from another deck. So when we put it on our foreheads, my brother and I cracked up laughing. My father, didn’t even process that we both had the exact same card (probably because of the alcohol), and immediately folded.
I once had that happen to me with different cards. I called him out and he actually did have two sevens. Turns out we were playing with more than one deck.
Now I want to make a special Frankenstein deck for this game. Take like three decks, shuffle them together like twenty times, and then get rid of 52 cards so that you have a double sized deck. But no one would know how much of each card there is.
iftair · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
L3dpen · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister and I quote bugs bunny at each other all the time, and this one is the go to for when we think someone's cheating. Everything about that scene is perfect, I swear.
This only works if you don't have a screwed up deck. I found this out one time when I had all 4 aces and someone put one down. Turns out they weren't bluffing. The game got real interesting after that.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have one better lol. Someone put down three kings and won the hand, when the next person went to shuffle, one of the kings was a different color than the rest.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was playing with friends once and we were all drunk. My friend played 5 of whatever number/face card we were on. No one caught it and he won the game. Legend.
bbrk24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember one time someone said “five aces” and put down six cards. 🤔
My favourite way to play the game is when I have four 7s, say I'm putting them down but put down other cards. Catch the next player out in a lie and then keep repeating the cycle. It gets to the point where they know I didn't play them and have to put them down for real.
When I have four of something, I always just slide the pile to the person about to put down that number, and say "don't even bother". Super satisfying every time.
So many times during a game where it's a group of friends drinking and bullshitting while we play I used to straight up say I was dropping FIVE of something and nobody notices.
This happened every Thursday with my grandma, mom and aunts, playing Continental. Only one aunt stayed honest every Thursday, and consistently got mad at the cheating, yet the tradition remained until my grandma passed away. Good times.
When I joined in though, it was satisfying enough playing a secondary game in my head of who’s cheating. Good times.
One time I played I was joking around and laid my whole hand down and said "12 kings"... but the person after me was so excited to play their 4 Aces they immediately laid down their cards, resulting in me winning haha
Whenever I play I have a team of like 6 guys we get ONE new guy. We get to the point where in one rotation the first guy will have an actual card next turn then as fast as possible we all put all our cards down and the last guy puts one card on top that is and actual card the new guy calls BS and takes the stack. The 5 guys that got out leave and the last guy is out next turn. Remember teamwork makes the dream work or in this case its a coordinated strike agent one dude. either way its a lot of fun.
Realistically, in the game "bullshit", if someone plays four of anything they're less likely to lying. They've likely got 4 of them. By that point people's hands are full and the deck is gone. It's just a matter of emptying your hand.
I fly by the seat of my pants and if I have the of something and it is my turn, I'll "play" three 6s. Which means I'm dumping a few cards so that in a few rounds when it comes back to playing 6s I can go out. Assuming I haven't been busted on some bullshit. Like dumping cards. Lol.
This is kind of random, but last summer I was at a Domino's with some friends just eating pizza and playing Bullshit, we were the only people there at the time, and mid-game a father with a little boy walks in right as I'm about to call her ass out, and instead of calling bullshit I started with the 'B' sound and ended up making more of an explosion sound.(My "friends" also ordered pinapple and ham pizza, not relevant but I thought I'd share that crime)
Pretty inexcusable honestly... I'm a single mother and I took my car into get serviced post Thomas Fire. I expected that my cabin air filters were full of crap and soot and I didn't want my kids breathing that so I popped them out and replaced them myself before taking the car in. I get TO THE DEALERSHIP when it re-opens and say "I need the oil changed and a once over." About three hours later, I get a call that says "Man. You need a new timing belt, a new starter, and...cabin air filters." I was like, "Oh really?!" I said, "I'll be right there because I want to see what they look like..." and the guys actually showed me some really black filters. I pulled out my receipt for the filters bought the day before and said, "so ...were you going to put dealer filters in or just leave in the filters from PepBoys that I bought and installed yesterday?" He was toast. I asked about the timing belt (because my car doesn't have one...it has a chain) and said, "So...can you show me the timing belt issues?" He took me to the car and popped the hood and then started looking for something that wasn't there. I told him he could just stop right there and get the manager. The manager was sort of annoyed and insisted there must've been a mistake and my guy must've called the wrong person..until I pointed out that he took me to the correct vehicle and that my name matched the paperwork the guy had been holding. He offered to do the oil change for free but by that point I just said, "No, I'll take it somewhere I trust."
I had a shop try to tell me they needed to replace my cabin filter mere days after I'd replaced it. Told them, "Huh, that's strange, because I just put a new one in." They came back and told me they double-checked and it looks fine after all. Yeah, no shit.
These kinds of shops have some of the scummiest people. One time I took my car in for something (had a coupon for whatever it was). Guy comes out with a little tray of black liquids and says I need to have my oil changed as well. I said "oh really? Because I changed it yesterday."
I dated this guy off and on for about a year. Things didn’t always add up but I was young and dumb and made excuses. During that year his mom passed away from pancreatic cancer, he relapsed and then went to rehab, and after he got out he moved a few states away for a fresh start near where his grandparents lived. We decided we were done at that point but he still emailed occasionally and a couple times he’d randomly show up on my doorstep saying he was in town and needed to see me. After one such surprise visit I emailed him and said that I couldn’t keep doing this and to please not come by anymore. A year or so passed and I got a bug up my butt one night to google him. And found a baby registry with his name on it. Looked up the baby mama on Facebook and found pictures of them together living together just a few hours away and during the time that he and I were dating. I was able to determine that when we first started seeing each other they weren’t together, but when he was supposedly in California and missed me so much and didn’t want to be with anyone else he was actually just a few hours away with her. The kicker - his mom was still alive too. It became clear to me that he was a pathological liar and I’d basically fallen in love with someone that didn’t really exist. Here’s the satisfying part - literally the next day he showed up on my doorstep. The first thing I said is “Where’s W (baby mama)? Does she know you’re here?” His face dropped, he started stammering making excuses that I didn’t know what was really going on. He even insisted that his mom was dead. I felt like I was in a girl power movie moment as I told him to get the fuck off my porch and never come see me again.
A co-worker briefly dated a guy but broke up with him when he was demeaning to her over her career. The last thing he said to her was, "I guess you and I aren't made of the same stardust."
A couple months later, she checks his Instagram and lo and behold -- 'our little miracle has been born, with photos of him, a woman, and a newborn infant. She did the math and realized that the whole time they were dating, he had a knocked up girlfriend he never mentioned.
I guess they weren't made of the same stardust after all!
Klutche · 1072 points · Posted at 17:56:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just feel so bad for the babies born into these situations.
I knew someone who insisted his baby mama name the baby girl a specific name because he loved it so much. It was the name of the woman he was cheating on her with during her pregnancy. People are gross sometimes and I hope that baby stands a chance in life despite her garbage dad.
Wow. What a shitty thing to do to her mom as well. It would suck to think of that every time you said your daughter's name. Hopefully time and good memories would make the association fade, but that's still a heinous thing to do to someone.
That's beyond the pale!!.....every time she says her child's name she'll think of his betrayal for quite some time.......cruel, psycopathic, almost!......
My kid's dad tried that one with me - but it was a girl he had a massive obsessive crush on. He thought I didn't know. I gave him a look and just said "I already have a cousin with that name". We broke up not long after our daughter was born cause he went and fucked my best friend (at the time). Trash...
Good you had the sense to cut it off! Big up you girl! Too many try to hold on to no-marks! Only prolongs the inevitable.
"No-marks are formed, no produced!". Ain't no changing him!
My bio dad did this to my mom for me. We didn’t know until he left her when my sister was a baby and it was way too late. It wasn’t even him who told us it was her.
I knew how you may feel, hence my reply. Ur comment disappeared b4 I could read it all, dunno why? Just know 'victims' always feel guilty for their perpetrators crimes at some point.
I repeat, IT WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! NOTHING!!! That's a statistically proven fact! Always remember this!
Wow you knew my parents. :/ Roxanne here not named after the song about a prostitute but named after my dad's "best friend" who it ended up he was having a affair with. Welcome to my life. And thanks for sharing that information with me mom. :/
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 01:20:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
*Yeah. My dad abandoned my family, hooked up with his secretary, and named their daughter after myself and my younger brother. It's really gross to know that he gave her our names, and I still dont know what his motivation was for that.
I don't want to give too many identifying details, but a friend had a baby with a guy she was in love with. He convinced her to name the baby something really stupid. The initials spelled out something he thought was funny and it was just a weird name to begin with. (I.E. Tatiana Imotep Tyler) that's not it but you get the idea hopefully. Turns out he was cheating her her during the pregnancy and left her right a month after the baby was born. She ended up legally changing the baby's name to something better.
So many kids get a shit hand before they are even born. My nieces best friend's mom secretly used heroin during most of her pregnancy. She's a good kid, but it's so heartbreaking to see her struggling with basic things, and there's nothing we can do to change it. It makes me cry if I think about it too much.
It makes me sick to think I was almost this woman; I was pregnant, but lost the pregnancy (due to circumstances out of our control). Hardly weeks later, I caught him cheating with his coworker. I can’t even imagine what might have happened if things had gone well with my pregnancy (we were planning on moving states, etc., it literally makes me sick to think about).
I'm sorry all of that happened to you. I have a friend (friend of a friend, really) who had a boyfriend who is just human trash. He has a great many faults, many of them having to do with the way he treated her, but he cheated on her and then broke up with her when he found out. Shortly after she found out she was pregnant. The little girl is a month old and he has no idea she exists.
Twats say the stupidest shit. The guy who stalked me, the last thing he said when he saw the police coming after I called them "I guess I have no choice but to run home and flee".
I was freaked out at the time, but looking back that stupid line is hilarious especially because he was caught immediately and did not "flee".
You never know what’s going on when a baby announcement is brought into the picture, it’s very possible him and his baby mama split and since your co-worker (as you said) briefly dated him, maybe he didn’t feel like telling her about his expected child.
There’s a lot of really obvious lies in this thread, but I think it’s pretty ignorant to just assume this one is a blatant lie.
A co-worker briefly dated a guy but broke up with him when he was demeaning to her over her career.
I wish more women would walk away when this stuff happens. I know someone who is constantly like this to people and they keep taking it from him till they finally go "i had no idea he was like this..." even though he had been talking down to them for years.
ctadgo · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s sad. And you know he probably met someone else right after you.
[deleted] · 1826 points · Posted at 16:43:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man my first boyfriend was like that. Told me he was going to stay with a friend in England for a small vacation- told me the guys name and entire backstory of their friendship. I said cool have fun! Long long story short I found out he was cheating on me with a woman who lived there (well technically he cheated on her with me? They were together for 2 years before we started dating, had no idea)
After we broke up I went undercover with a fake profile and talked to him, flirting and what not. We talked about past relationships and he made up a story about his ex cheating on him and how he could never do that and on yeah he was single and did I wanna hang out. I revealed to him it was me, called him a fucking liar, sent the conversations to the other woman he cheated on me with and then blocked him out of my life completely :)
over_m · 361 points · Posted at 18:14:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry this happened to you, mad kudos on how you handled the a-hole. Good on you for having the patience to keep the ruse going and for busting with it, especially sending to the other woman!
[deleted] · 47 points · Posted at 18:54:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks! I honestly felt she too deserved to know since we were both lied to (she didn’t know about me and I didn’t know about her) no bad feelings towards her at all.
I caught my ex cheating on me. I had gotten suspicious after he told me he would love to have a threesome. Me, him and another woman. I don't swing that way and I was put off by his suggestion and told him so. I decided to put a key logger on our shared computer to see if he was doing anything he shouldn't have been doing. It wasn't long before I got my answer. He had been in a lot of adult chat rooms (we had AOL at the time) including chat rooms for swingers. He had been looking at a lot of porn which I really didn't have an issue with but he also had been chatting and emailing another woman.
I found out exactly when and where they were meeting and of course what they were doing, I even had her phone number and name. It didn't matter who she was. I didn't know her. She was someone my ex met in a chat room.
My ex had been put on night shift for a couple of months and I knew what night he was hooking up with the other woman. I waited for a while then I called him. He works in a theme park so the time I called it should have been pretty noisy there. I called and it was completely silent. I didn't let on that I knew anything and asked him how his night was going. He sort of quietly said "good". I said, "it's really quiet there tonight. Where in the park are you working?" He hesitated and said he was on his way home. I asked if he was sick and he said no. Oh. Hmmmm. While I was waiting for him to come home I printed out all of the emails and chats he and the other woman had together so that I could show him that I knew he was cheating. Oh and I forgot to mention that while he was on his way home I sent a text to the woman and told her who I was and asked her if she had been with him. She said yes and she said he never told her he was married. Figures. I wasn't mad at her.
My ex comes home and is behaving strangely and I wanted to know why he left 'work'. He didn't respond. I handed him the print outs and told him I knew where he had been. He lied about it for three fucking hours to my face. I was absolutely livid. How dare he lie to me when I had proof and the other woman admitted being with him!
We didn't speak to each other for a week. He had to work on the following Saturday and I didn't so I was doing household stuff. I normally never did his laundry but on that day I didn't have enough of my own stuff to wash and I saw a pile of his jeans by the washer and decided to wash them. I always check pockets. I reached in and pulled out two of those 'key' cards used at hotels. On the backside was a Dominoes pizza place with a number I didn't recognize so I called it. I asked if there was a hotel near by and the guy said yes. Bingo. It was in another city about an hour from where we lived. It was where the other woman lived.
Sorry this is so long. My ex came home from work, I had made dinner and we sat down to eat. I then slid the two key cards to him and said, "would you like to explain these?" He said no. I told him I wanted him to move out as soon as possible. He eventually did.
I think one of the important take aways from this and the other stories I’ve read in the thread is that the blame was put where the blame was due. Not blaming the other woman, who had no idea either, but blaming the lying, cheating partner. And sticking up for yourself; I don’t know you but I think it’s awesome and I’m really proud of you!
Thank you very much. Yeah there was no reason for me to get angry at the other woman. She didn't know me, I didn't know her and she was just looking to hook up.
Sounds exactly like my ex. Caught with overwhelming proof including the other girl admitting it, and he still denied it and tried getting mad at me for accusing him.
'Mental gymnastics'. I like that! That's exactly what it is though really. My ex didn't get mad at me for accusing him because he knew he was caught. The interesting thing about this is that when I kicked him out of the house he didn't go to that other woman. He found someone else. I've seen her on Facebook. I'm not one to judge but when I showed her photo to my adult son my son swore it was a man with long hair. LOL!!!!
You're very sweet to say that but I'm not amazing. I usually trust my gut on certain things and even though I don't like to be suspicious of people, my instincts are usually right. I wasn't sad about finding out that my ex cheated on me. I didn't shed any tears over it at all. I was more furious about the lying than anything. My ex gravely insulted me by lying to my face when I had the proof of his infidelity in my hand. I don't appreciate being lied to.
This exact same thing happened to me, girl from England and all. Over Christmas he had to go visit his grandmother and I figured we would keep in contact but his phone was turned off. I emailed him asking what was going on and he said there’s ZERO service and no home phone in this remote West Virginia hovel he’s in. I was suspicious. I started digging around on pages of his tumblr friends and find a girl from England with new pictures of them together from the day of and day before. It wasn’t a super serious relationship and luckily he has never contacted me but this was only a handful of the insane shit he lied about. He also had a kid supposedly with one of the women he had screwed over, had tons of past girlfriends who hated his guts and one girl with a restraining order on him.
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 20:58:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cheating is cheating it unexcusable but the posing as someone to bust your ex for cheating on you while you were together is weird. He'll bust himself he doesnt need his ex doing it. No condoning cheating in any way but also no condoning stalker esque behavior under the guise of getting back at your ex.
They cause 'em! Go, Superchicks! Walking calmly away as the fireball roils into the sky behind her ...
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 18:53:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More just sick to my stomach about how far gone I let myself be misled / manipulated. This was the eye opening moment where I finally realized I don’t care and don’t need that in my life. Plus I have a pretty good imagination so I’d like to think lots of bad stuff happened afterwards :)
This shit happened to me with a guy I dated for 2+ years. He was in the army, so the majority of our relationship was extremely long distance. We met when we were only 18 & he had just enlisted. About 2 years into the relationship, I could feel things start fizzling out. He was acting really distant, but it was hard for me to pinpoint what was wrong, particularly because he was then stationed on a base thousands of miles away from me. He would disappear for weekends at a time, saying that it was for something to do with his army training.
Eventually, I got extremely suspicious of the situation and did some hardcore Instagram creeping. Turns out, he had met this 16 year old girl online months ago. She lived only a couple of hours from his army base, and all those times he "disappeared" for army training he was with her. The night that he asked her to officially be his girlfriend, he was texting me behind her back, telling me that I was his soul mate and he couldn't wait to ask me to marry him.
I sent screenshots of these messages to the "other woman", but she was a lovestruck 16 year old who didn't want to believe me. She forgave him, and they got engaged over the winter break of her senior year of high school. It broke my heart.
You always hear about the unfaithful military wife/girlfriend, but if there's one thing dating someone in the army has taught me, is that military guys can be just as grimy, if not worse. Years after this, I ended up coincidentally meeting and getting engaged to a navy veteran. He told me similar stories about his less-than-virtuous navy buddies. According to him, these types of sagas aren't exactly uncommon when it comes to military guys.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 18:55:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people have to experience it unfortunately. I warned the woman my ex knocked up (she got pregnant while he and I were still together) that he was a worthless sack of shit but to her I was just the "crazy ex that was cheated on" I told her if she ever needed a character witness against him for custody to contact me. I keep her unblocked and him blocked jic. Last I saw her she looked worse than I did when I was with him and according to our old work no one respects her because she stays with a man that cheats on her. He is so blatant about it that even they know. It's nuts.
You say the two of you were 18 when you met and the relationship lasted 2+ years, meaning you were both about 20yo at the end of the relationship. So, did he meet the 16yo around the time you two met, at 18 y/o, and was messing around with her the entire/majority of the relationship? Or did he meet a 16yo towards the end of the relationship, when he was 19-21-ish y/o?
He met the 16 year old when he was about 20. I'm pretty sure it was statutory rape, but that's an entirely different story I don't want to get into. It really bothers me, because she married him when she was BARELY legal (like she had quite literally just turned 18). Then, a few months after the wedding, she moved to Europe with him because that's where he got stationed next. So, she's a young teenage girl with barely a high school diploma, separated from her friends and family, on an entirely different continent, with a predatory guy who was cheating on her for the first couple of months of their relationship... it's really dark and makes me worry... but it's not my problem anymore.
I mean, the military isn't some virtuous force for good that the government tries to sell us so we will willingly sign up and/or send our children off to die. It's a job. And it has the same makeup of human strength and frailty as any other job in the country. Source: military family, engaged to military at one point, friends with current and former servicemen and women, all of whom have seen it inside and out and are honest about what the military is an isn't.
You dodged a bullet. Glad you're not the one with his kid.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:39:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’d basically fallen in love with someone that didn’t really exist
This is both the best and worst part about falling in love with a liar/manipulator. Worst because wow, what a waste and betrayal. Best because it means there’s nothing left to cling to. It’s easy to let go of something when you know it was a fabrication, especially if you’ve ever felt the real thing.
Good on you for calling his ass out, btw. I bet that was so satisfying!
I don’t get why people don’t care to warn the other person. They say they don’t want to “get involved” but like... you not wanting to get involved could lead to a poor person wasting their life with a pathetic lying fuck like this dude. No one deserves to be in the dark. So sad.
It's because even when you try to warn the other girl the lying douch has already told her about you as a "crazy ex who wants to break us up". So when you call or text she flips her shit on you instead of the liar. Has happened to me twice. Now I cover my own ass and don't worry about warning people about the train wreck they're involved with.
My ex did this! He said he had a son named after him, and whenever he would break plans with me, it would be because something with his son came up. When I got pregnant, suddenly he's serious about being with me and his son dies. In a car crash. 3000 miles away.
When I gave birth to my son, he wanted to name him after himself. I said no way, we're not naming my son after your dead son. His brother heard that and fell over laughing. He never had a kid.
Why do they do this?! I was on the other side. I dated my college boyfriend for three years, and lived together. I found out he cheated on me with one of my friends while I was studying abroad and broke up with him. He lost it and left our apartment, and when he came back he told me he had enlisted in the Navy because there was nothing here for him without me anymore.
He moved out onto the couch until he was supposed to go to basic, but I got very sick and ended up in the hospital. He slept in a chair at the hospital every night and took care of me, and we got back together. He said he would be going to officers school in Florida the next year, and borrowed my car to go to meet his recruiter weekly. He moved to Florida in September and we did long distance until he told me he was going to be stationed on a submarine to do nuclear and I told him i didn’t want to wait three years for him to come back, and broke it off again.
Turns out, that was a test, he was never in the Navy, he had moved in with his parents at the naval base in Florida, and every meeting with the recruiter was actually at his original side girl’s apartment.
What gets me the most is she lived the next street over, he didn’t even need my car. Apparently he would hide it to keep up the ruse.
_lvlsd · 5 points · Posted at 18:40:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first and only girlfriend was like this. Constantly lying to me over and over again. I only dated this girl for 2 months, and I know I should have most likely been suspicious from the get-go, but at first she lied to me about being in early stages of some sort of cancer (I forget the exact details because I’m just trying to forget the entire relationship honestly). And then, a few weeks after dropping the cancer bomb on me, in hopes of trying to get me to stick around I’m assuming, she claimed that she got pregnant. However, when she sent the photo of the test, my friend did a reverse image search and found the exact same photo on google.
I dumped her almost immediately after and have never wanted to go back to dating since then.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:46:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Relapsed to drugs? Some of my best friends were addicted to drugs and they would tell the craziest lies to people for no reason. Never understood it but I never called them out on them because I felt bad for them and you would just get used to it. Would take a picture in front of a random expensive sorts car and use it as a profile pic and claim it was a new car they bought until they couldn’t keep the lie going. Weird things like that. ALL THE TIME.
Yeah, cocaine. He supposedly started using again to cope with his mom’s death. But considering his mom was still alive I’m not sure what the truth around that was. Probably the rehab part to explain why he wouldn’t be around for awhile.
Dammmnn, that's crazy af girl. Good for you for telling him to fuck right off! One of my friends also fell in love with a pathological liar as well. Moved to north carolina from cali to be with him, told her all sorts of crazy shit that his family constantly supported! Anyway, while they were engaged, an ex of his reached out to her and spilled the beans about everything. Shit went up in flames. She moved back to cali and had to spend some time figuring it all out. Shits horrible man. And dangerous! Anyway, glad you are out of there!
imlow · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
get the fuck off my porch and never come see me again
I had a friend who was engaged to a girl for a year who was going through chemo. So he took care of her kid and supported her financially, only to find out that she had never had cancer.
Sounds about like my ex. Off and on dated for about three years in college. First person I had sex with. He claimed cancer at one point to explain his balding and why he couldn’t connect for a few weeks. And the two sisters were just his roommates, but that he wasn’t supposed to bring overnight guests around.
Welp, one of the sisters was his fiancée. She found out and emailed me. I emailed back everything about our relationship, including the awkward “Nope- no STDs”. He tired to offer a paltry apology via email. I chewed him out and ccd the fiancée our exchange. What an ass.
I feel ya on that. Many, many moons ago I met a dude who was the sweetest (and damn good looking) and I would’ve totally taken him home to meet my mama. Said all the right shit, it was on and off for a few years.
Come to find out (after I had a hunch and I was bored at night) that he was living with a girl / yada yada. Next time he texted me ‘hey baby’ I immediately asked him ‘how’s XYZ doing?’ And he stopped texting me.
Unfortunately he had her profile blocked from me on Facebook so I couldn’t email her / etc. would’ve been some gold.
Wow. So sorry you had to go through that. Glad you were able to figure things out. He sounds like a sociopath -they enjoy playing games with people and manipulating them, makes them feel powerful. Talking that way about his mother is unconscionable, but that fits with being a sociopath because they lack one. But you took his power away and made him leave with his head down and his tail tucked between his legs. Good for you!
I didn’t the night I found out about everything, but after he showed up I went back online the next day but her profile was gone. One of the things I yelled at him was about seeing pics taken of him with his “happy little family” on her page while he was supposedly in CA pining away for me. He had zero social media himself so my guess is he made her either delete it or make it hidden.
Not calling you a liar because I'm sure situations like this happen way more than they should for people but the timing of your story is oddly perfect.
Your ex hadn't shown up or contacted you for a year and suddenly the day after you Google him and find out about all his lies he happens to show up at your door so you can tell him off?
I’ll admit the timing was insane, but absolutely promise this really happened. That’s what made it feel the most like a movie moment, the fact that I could perfectly tell him off so soon after finding out.
What a coincidence, that after a year you look him up find all this stuff about him, and then miraculously he shows up on your door step the next day....
Shitbird employee I used to manage called off and I knew he was bullshitting. Said he was sick as hell until I showed him and the GM his facebook had checked him into about 6 different bars during a bloc party... at the time he was supposed to be working.
There's so much social media around these days you'd think people would be aware not to use it too much when lying. I really don't understand how it's that difficult. Honestly I think it's kinda embarrassing. Tbf I'm not a big fan of posting publicly in the first place but I'm aware of what people can see and what I don't want them to see
I was a supervisor at a grocery store and there was this hopeless kid that I tried to help for months. He just didn't get it. I am a very compassionate person and even though he was a screw up I was constantly giving him advice and trying to help him be a successful person. One day I let him go home because he was feeling sick. He came back into work hours later with a bunch of friends to pick up his paycheck. Unfortunately for him my manager was there at the time and fired him for it.
Cogeno · 3 points · Posted at 16:31:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in my fast food days, I used to work between two different restaurants (it was basically the same staff at both stores). We had one guy call in sick for an overnight shift at one store, and then showed up wasted at the other store later that night.
That's why your social media needs to be set to private. I may not fake call in sick, but if I ever do to go to a concert on something no one at my job will be able to see it.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:22:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Irealized I had him dead to rights, and dropped it right before mine would've gone off. He missed out on the Remington 9mm Golden Sabre JHP experience by a measure of either milliseconds or a tenth of a pound of trigger break
Could I get this is a more Englishy English?
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 01:57:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interesting stuff, thanks for the explanation! I have absolutely 0 knowledge when it comes to gun/cop lingo or anything like that so that bit was pretty indecipherable to me.
Goodness, this reminded me to turn off my location sharing on life 360 for my sales team circle. I really am going out of town, I'm just leaving later in the day than expected.....Reddit saves the day.
One of the guys I work with once called in sick. A co-worker was sent out to get more reduction labels from another store about 20 minutes walk away and saw him ambling down the road off his face with a six pack of cans. We were all mad at him cause he left us short for closing so we told the manager lol
Lol I read a story on here where a girl called in sick from her restaurant job and proceeded to take her friends out to said restaurant that night. Imagine going to work for dinner after you called out a few hours ago
Had an employee a year ago drop her shift like an hour before she was supposed to come in due family drama (which seemed true). This had happened a lot recently but my mgr gave her one more pass because something was wrong with her dad.
By the next day, word had gotten out that one of our business owners saw her prominently in the news coverage of the Pride parade from that day. Many of my coworkers are all about that life, but they don't tell half-truths and fuck everybody else over on a Friday night shift for it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:20:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Urrrrghhhh this has been happening with one of my coworkers. She calls in on so many long weekends she's scheduled. My manager and I were getting suspicious because one time she called in and another coworker of ours said she was talking about a party the day before. So said manager kept track of all her sick days (she has 14 this year. And we are only allowed 10 for the year). After another day she called in sick, she came in, seemed fine and started talking about hanging at a friend's house the night before. Stupid idiot. Right in front of us!!
I had similar, where an employee stayed on her shift just long enough to grab her payroll advance check "so she could make rent", then insisted she had to go home sick (I wasn't her direct superior so it wasn't my decision to let her). Lo and behold her public Facebook is covered with pictures of a party and her brand new Xbox, which cost the exact amount of that advance. She lasted just long enough after that for her replacement to be trained.
chylde · 1 points · Posted at 13:35:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
While I know sick time is for when you're sick, I feel businesses can't do anything about what employees do during their sick time unless they see the employee in person because Facebook is their own personal site separate from work
The best times are when you've got other people standing off to the side so you can give them a little glance to see if they've caught on to the bullshit
[deleted] · 2103 points · Posted at 14:50:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Roxeigh · 931 points · Posted at 16:10:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My husband and I. It’s my favorite when we can do it to our parents... cast a glance at each other like “You catching this bullshit?!”
My mother is a pathological liar, his mother is an entitled WASP who once said she “couldn’t believe that (his grandpa) wouldnt give her money because “she deserved some of his money for a down payment, that’s (her) inheritance you know!!” She was standing between us and I damned near had to scrape his jaw off the floor as he looked at me. I think He was less shocked when I told him I was pregnant!
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 23:26:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They were joking that 'our parents' makes it sound like you and your husband have the same parents.
My brother and I have an entire schtick for it.
"Hey do you smell that?"
"Oh yeah I smell that too, what is that?"
"I think I've smelled this before."
"Yeah this is definitely bullshit."
"Yeah. Smells like bullshit to me, too."
I swear, i do this with close friends and coworkers too but its on another level with my brothers all together. One microsecond glimpse and we're all aligned. I love it.
Saw a bunch of random kids in the my condo's pool a few weekends ago. I walked up to them and asked if anyone lived in the complex. One kid said his uncle did. I said, 'Well your uncle should have told you that pool is not open yet. I would go to the hospital because your skin will start burning in about half an hour.'
It wasn't. Also even if it was they were random kids from the street who jumped the fence and entered the pool and lied about knowing someone.
[deleted] · 36 points · Posted at 17:41:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is one of those weird examples where my 'chill' self and my 'straight' self have a pretty intense argument.
Why the fuck do you care if those kids were in a pool.
The fuck were those kids doing in his/her goddamn pool.
jtet93 · 17 points · Posted at 18:17:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it boils down to the behavior of the kids. If they’re being loud/obnoxious, doing anything dangerous, or breaking any laws (underage drinking for instance), I would want them gone. If it’s just a couple kids splashing around? Meh, whatever.
In a pool the water is "shocked" every week or so by dumping a large amount of chlorine into it, after which it's unsafe to swim in for about 8 hours. To reopen after a winter it's "double shocked", literally double the chlorine.
Swimming while the water is shocking can cause chlorine poisoning, which isn't fun.
axnu · 7 points · Posted at 20:40:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few years back, after digital cameras but before every phone had one, I walked out to the parking lot and saw that someone had scraped the bumper of their car across mine when they were pulling in. It was really obvious it was them, since there was a mark on their bumper and a big streak of red paint from their car on mine. I just happened to have my digital camera that day and did a little photo shoot, which I sent to our company's security department to find out who owned the other car. Turned out to be this Russian computer programmer from the floor above me, and by the time me, him, and the security guy were in the parking lot, he'd moved to a different spot. He swore up and down that he didn't do it, his car was nowhere near mine in the morning, etc., etc. I let him go on for a while before I showed him the pictures. Then the security guy and I shared a knowing glance.
Best when there's a lot of people and they've all got this "lol yeah rigth..." smirk but are all trying their best not to laugh because they've all noticed each other reacting to the BS at the same time, though the one speaking directly to the person has the hardest time because they're right in front of the bullshitter.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do this alllllll the time. I also do it before saying shit to fuck with people, or saying stuff that destroys obnoxious assholes. The "The Office" type camera glance look is best shared between great likeminded friends.
I had a flatmate that used to make fake phone calls to boast a little in front of us, pretending she had lots of friends and a couple of suitors. It was painfully obvious she was faking them, but she was very stupid and thought she had us all convinced. So one evening, while she's on the phone with this "boy", a friend of mine takes my phone and calls her. Her phone was on silent mode, but it lit all up and vibrated. We pretended we didn't notice, she froze, she pretended to finish the call; then she left the room with an excuse, and while she was just behind the door I saw her checking the phone to see who called and then glancing at me with pure hate. I smiled back. She couldn't see it cause he was hidden by the door, but my friend, the one who actually called, was laughing his ass off. But she thought I was the only one to know her "secret". From that time on, she did everything I asked. Which was good, cause she was a real pain in the ass, and all I was ever asking her was to please tidy up after herself and please, please to look at her own hygiene (she very rarely showered. Not only was she really stupid, she also had a lot of behavioural problems, like showering once a month or something). Before that episode, it was impossible to ask her to follow the rules of living together.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit like this make me hate people.
Tell anyone at all about anything which sounds "slightly unbelievable", they look at each other and smirk.
The good part is that they get home, get curious, look it up and whaddya know! The weird guy was actually correct and knows his shit!
There is this guy in our friend group who makes up lies every time we see him, so we just made up a hashtag between the four of us that’s called #thingsthatneverhappened” and we’ll send it to our group chat when one of us catches him bullshitting.
I work at a nursing home. We all side-eye each other when one of the old people says something... notable. Sometimes it's a good something, sometimes it's bad. But numerous times a day we do the side-eye thing. It's the small things in life.
Everyday in History, except it was to the narrative of “Mrs. Riley is drunk again.” We found her many flasks on multiple occasions. She was a 7th and 8th grade teacher.
Guest lied to me that he paid for two nights and wouldn’t leave the room. Made me go through this giant ordeal of calling all the front desk employees and double check all their work.
He threw a huge fit calling me a bitch, stupid cunt etc, he jets out of the parking lot and the police I called pull him over and take him in.
Coworkers and I still play it on the camera and laugh about it.
Yessir. I have a friend whose oldest son just go out of jail and he was telling me that they actually have to pay something like 40 dollars a day to recover costs in jail.
It's not fucking bullshit, its real! Its called Pay to Stay. It was ruled against by a local judge in some counties of Utah but others, like Utah County still practice this. According to the Utah County jail site: "Consequences of avoiding paying debts include: initial collection notification after first 30 days, follow-up collection notification after 60 days, final demand collection notification after 90 days and possible submission of account for legal action. Any account that is past due is subject to tax garnishment."
http://www.co.utah.ut.us/dept/sheriff/Corrections/famfriendsorientation.asp#paytostay.
This is why like every single hotel requires a CC on file now. "Oh you want to stay but not pay? Too bad we will charge your card or you can leave by checkout today."
[deleted] · 71 points · Posted at 18:14:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Go through choice hotels, you can request a late checkout without getting charged. Also, some of us do housekeeping and the longer you stay the longer we have to stay which means by the time you’ve left that’s another room we might get to or not have the time, so then we have a dirty room we can’t rent to anyone.
Yes choice hotels is my go to. They have always been lovely. I broke down once and was stuck in a town I've never been to, but Choice let me check in at noon for no extra charge since they had a room ready, and then while I was waiting for my car to be repaired the next day they let me stay until 2pm. I was so very impressed. No extra charges.
Choice is honestly one of the only franchises that is doing well, they have several different hotels at various prices and amenities so they’re trying to appeal to everyone. Normally if someone gives me their story and they seem genuine then we try to help them out as much as possible. I know it sucks when you’re stranded somewhere.
e30kgk · 5 points · Posted at 20:42:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only problem there is that you have to stay at a Choice Hotels property. I would much rather leave a Hilton at noon than stay in a Quality Inn until 3 PM.
Trust me, we’re not happy about it either. Anyone who pays with cash is usually a local and they always trash the room. The only thing we can do now is ask for a cash deposit to keep it from happening as well as a license and plate number on file. We can make up the price, so if I say the room is 64 dollars and we need 100 cash deposit that you’ll get back in the morning then they’ll usually bail.
natlay · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had a guest try to get a free room for his buds by asking to switch to another room in the middle of the night. Said they didn't like the view. I told them the only available room was one floor directly below (on the eighth floor). They said sure. I gave them the keys, and when they brought back the keys for the old room I went up there with my master key and flicked on the light. "I'm sorry gentlemen, unfortunately your friend has only paid for one room tonight. I'm afraid I have to ask you to vacate." They sheepishly pulled on their pants and left.
Guests try this move all the time, we have a few different buildings on the property, but I always go with my master key and investigate. We have to anyway to make sure nothing was stolen or to turn lights off etc. I’m sure they were so butthurt about it, thinking they had tricked the system lol.
Last week, I had a douchebag try to cut me off at a zipper merge. His lane had ended about 2 car lengths back, but he drove on the shoulder to try and get between me and the big rig in front of me. Yeah, I wasn't having it, so I didn't let him in. Eventually the road started to narrow, and since I'm angry at him but don't want to murder him, I let him in.
He thanked me by flipping me off, so I flipped him off in return. For the next 5 miles, we continued down the mountain and I kept a larger than normal buffer between us, just in case.
The very instant the second lane appeared, the guy waved "bye-bye" to me and gunned it. Took off like a rocket. And then immediately put on his flashers and had to pull over to the side of the highway.
I have no idea what happened, except all of a sudden the undercarriage of his car went dark, like something was under his car. Maybe when he gunned it his front fender came off? Not sure. But you bet your bippy I did a Nelson point-and-laugh "HAHA!" at him as he pulled over.
It made my fucking day. Hell, I'm still happy about it and it was more than a week ago at this point.
you bet your bippy
I laughed so hard I snorted.
One time I told a guest to stop running in the pool area, he then proceeded to mock me, I rolled my eyes and returned to my desk, I sat there watching on the cameras and sure enough he biffed it so hard.
I spent so much time laughing before I went in there to ask if he was alright. I had to call an ambulance because he fell on his ass so hard.
The next morning at check out he limped to the front desk. He sprained his tailbone (which I’ve done and believe me it’s painful) he checked out and threw a donut in his car seat while his wife bitched at him the entire time.
I laughed so hard that day I swear I got abs from it XD
I'm just going to say, it's kind of mean not to just let someone in, ya know? I mean, what, it only sets you back like eight or ten feet, and maybe your transit time by a few seconds. Letting someone in, in a situation like a zipper merge is just being a courteous driver. After all, you'd want someone to let you in, right?
Nothing to do with the caught lying topic, but on the subject of playing it over again and laughing about it...
I worked at a call center and we used an automatic dialer. I can't even begin to describe how wild this thing is. It doesn't seem like much, but it's really quite special. The thing is, though, they patched it all the time and one day something went incredibly wrong. Our call center was focused on automotive calls. One day in the middle of my call a cacophony begins. I'm now on the line with about 8 people (4 custos and 4 agents). Not all of the agents are from our business. Somehow the mothership scrambled calls even between businesses.
So I'm trying to tell my customer that probably there is a giant wrench in the works and we'll just get back to him later (which would be appropriate given the context), but some stranger is trying a similar thing about dye uh bee tus testing supplies, a third operator quail ed and went quiet like a deer in the headlights, and almost verbatim I heard another voice saying much the same as me. John from down the hall. I turn and make eye contact. "...JOHN?!?!?"
Our calls are all recorded, but the glitch didn't affect the recording because it's just grabbing my line and my customer's line even though the call was an 8 way cluster-fuck. Playing my incredulous "...JOHN?!?!?" basically became a hobby for a few weeks.
Hello fellow hotel worker. I feel your pain. Guests lie all the time and it sucks trying to explain to the frustrated normal guests the “stupid” policies we have in place to protect ourselves against the crooks.
I work at the front desk of a hotel. My favorite are when guest say something like “well the reservations agent in the phone promised me I’d get this upgrade and these amenities and blah blah.” I usually let them talk for a while and then tell them “well I’d be happy to pull up the call log! All of our reservation calls are recorded, so I just have to confirm that that was actually promised.” And they usually back down with a “oh.. you know.... it’s not that big ‘a deal. You don’t have to go through that trouble....”
Oh god, people are the worse! This lady booked one of the cheapest rooms we have and because she’s a choice member(which just means you acquire points and you can use those points to get a free night or whatever, but it’s not actual currency) she figured she could upgrade to our jacuzzi suite.
She threw a fit when I told her no, which she then proceeded to tell me how awful I am, curse me out on the phone and tell me all other hotels do that for her.
I politely asked her which hotels. Only one was part of our franchise so i gave them a call with her on the other line. I asked about her and as soon as I said her name the dude on the line sighed and went “oh man, her? We never do that for her unless she pays extra.”
I patched her through so he could say the same thing. She said “fuck you both and hung up.”
She arrived 45 mins later and walked up to the front desk like nothing had happened. She was sweet and asked if she could upgrade to a jacuzzi suite, I told her she could if she wanted to pay extra. She did. What the hell just happened.
Probably pulled over for traffic reason (he said he high tailed it out of there). The cop was called to settle the dispute probably, not to arrest him. Possibly could arrest him on fraud.
Couldn't you just charge his credit card again for another night? Seems like that would be easier. Say he didn't leave by check-out time so that's another night.
I was just talking about that. I’m at work right now actually. I told my coworker 95% of our costumer base is either impatient people or liars. Do they think we haven’t seen this game before? Do they really think they’re that clever? It’s honestly insulting when they try to come up with some bogus lie. I swear it’s like all of our customers are fresh off the turnip trucks.
Heavens no, this is what happened, this particular guest checked in like 12 hours before check in, when that happens you get charged another night. It’s a time thing. We explained this to him prior to check in and he still agreed.
Another thing to mention the night person who checked him in scanned his ID without looking at it and it wasn’t even his ID, it didn’t even look remotely like him. He also paid cash and is a local, the main reason the police got involved was because he was acting violent and once they found out who was actually staying in the room, their interest peaked. He has a warrant for his arrest.
An unmarked cop car was pulling in as he decided to illegally peel out of the parking lot, the cops pulled him over for that and as luck had it; it was someone they were looking for. The police came in and told us with these huge grins. We all had a laugh.
ohnobad · 386 points · Posted at 16:03:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best friend and I decided to be roommates in college, and our closet was shared too. For girls that usually means we will inevitably borrow each other’s clothes, since it’s all out for display, so we agreed we to share as long as we asked the other person before wearing a piece. I quickly realized that she was taking a lot of my clothes without asking me and leaving them in her hamper, which wasn’t a big deal because I’d just take them back. I started going home some weekends and when I came back items of clothing would go missing, so from then on I’d take pictures of my drawers so I could tell if they’ve been moved around when I came back. One day she was packing to go on a road trip and at the last minute went into the closet and pulled out some of my clothes and quickly stuffed them in her suitcase hoping I wouldn’t see. During her trip I texted her asking if she knew where those clothes were and she said she had no idea.
I kept quiet through all of this until one day I had enough because she had taken one of my favorite shirts, wore it while I was gone one weekend, and shoved it back covered in stains. I also found more of my things moved around, like makeup, toiletries, and even my GoPro handle had been taken off the camera and put back poorly. I have terrible anxiety so it took a lot to confront her, but I pulled out the shirt and told her it had been moved from its position and stained. She denied it and said she’d never touch my things without asking me because “she’d never do that to her friends.” I proceeded to show her pictures of my closet moved around, how I have been tracking my things, how I had seen her specifically grab my clothes at the last minute before a her road trip. She was dumbfounded and flustered, and continued to say how it was an accident or she’s too shy to ask. I told her I had been watching this since November (it was April) and the look on her face was so satisfying. Eventually she said “sorry I won’t borrow your things anymore” which was fine, but made me realize how cautious I have to be from now on.
Girls have weird friendships. Especially when it comes to clothes.
When my roommate said, "hey are those my boxers?" I was like "i dunno, you want them?" , he said "no that's cool"
Or more recently I let my friend borrow a tie for a wedding cause his was comically small. The next day he said " I accidently packed your tie cause you forgot to ask for it back" , I said "ok"
Incredibly so (I realize how late I am to responding here). Some thrift stores (like if you're in LA or Portland or some major city) will charge a pretty penny for a vintage tee. I've seen some go for $120.
Raiquo · 5 points · Posted at 10:44:53 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That might be your particular experience, but I knew a guy who was a flagrant clothing thief. Every time he stayed over, something would go missing, especially the goddamn socks. The worst part is his feet were about 1/3 longer, so they'd be fucked after he wore them. Called him out several times, all he'd offer is "oops?" and offer his version of a 'shy smile' which was really him just tryna get away with it. At one point he said he might as well keep them since they won't fit you anymore. Nope. Give em back. I don't care if they have to be thrown out now, you're not going to keep shit just because you took it.
Point is, it's not a "girls's thing", boys can bag you're shit too if you're not careful.
nhexum · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:33 on July 18, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but guys call eachother out - That's the difference. OP let her shit get ran for months before she finally said something.
Raiquo · 3 points · Posted at 02:44:39 on July 20, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stooooooop generalizing by gender! Holy fuck. Did you learn sociology by watching the disney channel? "all men do it like this" or "all women do it like that" sounds so fucking obnoxious, and it just isn't true.
Both men and women act petty, both men and women act straight-forward. Maybe you personally have seen a tilted dynamic or maybe you're just comfortable with your cognitive biases; regardless that does not mean the whole of society is as black and white as you are presenting it.
nhexum · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:32 on July 20, 2018 · (Permalink)
every comment in this chain, including your own, confirms my generalization. that doesnt make it a fact. Dont take so much offense to a benign comment deep in the context of a particular thread
thanks! Yes, she did and said she’d stop borrowing my things. Sometimes people have a lot more nerve when they think you’re naive/oblivious and I’ve learned the simplest thing to do is just let them know you’re not.
Good for you! I'm glad she reined in her behavior. I have noticed the same thing -- when you let people know that you're on to them, even in the subtlest way, they seem to amble off in search of easier and more unwitting victims.
That’s true, though I hope it makes them second guess their judgment. My roommate was horribly embarrassed and probably won’t want to risk this type of encounter ever again!
Ex girlfriend told me she was going to a "girls only" pool party with some of her fellow waitresses from the restaurant she worked at.
I had felt something weird going on for a bit and had put a lot of effort into making that night a surprise "date night". I worked that morning, while she worked in the evening. While she was at work I cleaned the whole apartment (that we shared), cooked a fancy surf and turf dinner with filet mignon, lobster tails, butter pasta, expensive wine, etc. Also rented a few movies I knew she would like. So when after dinner she suddenly told me she was going to this pool party at around 10 pm (!!!) and I couldn't come I was pretty exasperated and knew something was not right.
Noticed she was putting her phone face down every time she received a text about this party. While she is putting on her sexiest bikini to wear under her clothes on her way over to this party I decide to look at the phone and it's some dude from her work (under the name Angela in her phone), telling her he can't wait to see her, can't stop thinking about the other night, etc. Scroll down a bit and they even said they loved each other. There's not really a worse feeling in the world when you are in love with someone and they do that to you.
She comes back into the room and queue one of the worst nights I've ever had as she blames all of this on me not proposing to her quickly enough (we were 22, relatively poor, and in college and I did want very much to marry her). She trashes the apartment, breaks the screen off of my laptop, cuts up a few of my favorite shirts, and breaks MY phone after going through it looking for some sort of justification for her actions and finding none by throwing it at the wall and stomping on it. But hey...it was satisfying knowing that I wasn't going crazy and I learned some valuable life lessons.
Dodged a tactical nuke. You can survive an airstrike but everyone dies from the nuke and she would have gotten an achievement for it which is arguably worse
My ex cheated because I wouldn't marry her while still in college and because I was "emotionally cheating on her" with a friend for moving in with him because she didn't want to move in with me unless we married...
[deleted] · 2392 points · Posted at 17:17:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ll never realize why the ones who cheat are the ones who go crazy.
You wonder if your bad unconsciously, not by direct choice. No one sane chooses to do something malicious because they are the bad guy, the antagonist
ci1979 · 7 points · Posted at 06:12:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pro tip - people who are the ACTUAL baddies don't ever ever ever wonder if they are the baddies. It sounds like someone mistreated you and made you believe you are the baddie.
Not necessarily true- there are a lot of people who will do something they know is bad if they think they won't get caught. It's not uncommon either :/
My ex wife constantly thought I was going to cheat, and once went through my phone while I was in the shower. I got out, she was crying and yelling and berating me for texting with my ex. Whom I was and still am good friends with, and have no romantic feelings for. I helped her plan her goddamn wedding for fuck’s sake. Anyway, she pulled up the message that had her so hurt, and it was literally the two of us talking about how much we loved our partners and discussing pet names and I was explaining how I don’t recycle certain ones that don’t feel generic enough. Feels dirty to call someone else by a pet name that felt unique to an old lover.
That’s what upset her. That set her off. I no longer allow anyone to go through my phone. Even with nothing to hide, people that want to find shit will find a way to convince themselves they’ve found something.
Fast forward a few years and my marriage ends because she was fucking my best friend. They ran off, and are expecting a child together now.
Lesson learned: Never stay with someone that doesn’t trust you. Having to constantly prove trustworthiness isn’t trust, and I no longer tolerate that.
That’s exactly my feelings about it. If you can’t trust your partner, then they either aren’t trustworthy or you have trust issues that need to be worked out before getting into a relationship. I’d be willing to bet it is the former far more often than people want to admit. Too afraid of being alone to work out their issues before taking them out on others.
No idea. My mom's ex-husband was cheating on my mom once with some tramp who knew he was married and had kids. He beat the shit out of my mom when she found out. They stayed together after this for whatever the fucking reason. They're divorced now though.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 21:29:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have to be pretty mentally unstable, immature, or just plain idiotic to ever cheat in the first place. Especially in a stable, otherwise healthy relationship, it just shows you're not firing on all cylinders because you're only sabotaging your own life, it's pretty much inevitable you'd get caught anyway. Mentally normal people don't cheat in my experience lol
Yes. It’s everyone else who is wrong , not you. Keep telling yourself that all the self destructive and malevolent things you do aren’t indicative of serious issues you have to work through, what’s the worst that could happen, after all?
Someone else linked to the wiki page about cognitive dissonance. That’s exactly what the people downvoting you are experiencing. You’ve stated an uncomfortable truth, and that’s their backlash.
Uhh plenty of folks cheat whom are mentally stable. Monogamy isn't for everyone, nor even the natural state of being for ceetain folks. Some folks are in shitty marriages that they stay in for financial reasons ot because of children. Some folks are stuck in a dead bedroom and it isn't fair to deny your partner intimacy.
Another guy chiming in. Never cheated before. Cheaters aren't crazy. It's not that black and white, and people have different needs that society shuns.
[deleted] · -11 points · Posted at 21:44:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually, I'm right, sorry but I'm right. So, you're wrong, sorry but, you're wrong x3
I'm right because if someone cheats, that doesn't mean they are mentally ill.
Cheating is obviously wrong. Obviously.
All I'm saying however, is that it is part of life. Genes, reproduction, etc etc etc.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:07:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not saying cheating = mentally ill. I'm saying, the reason a majority of cheaters are crazy is because the cheating is a result of some mental instability, especially if there's no "good reason" for it. No healthy person self sabotages in such a destructive manner. If they're cheating and not crazy, then they're incredibly immature or selfish. I still wouldn't go as far to call them normal though.
Selfishness. They hold cheaters to be scum (cause who wants to be cheated on?) but they also want to hold onto their mental picture of themselves as a decent person. Outing them as a cheater challenges that and they will do anything to avoid accepting it.
"Anything" involves increasingly escalating excuses, screaming, violence, deflection, etc. All that matters to them is fighting their way out of the corner that brands them as a "cheater", i.e. "scum".
protip (not actually a pro) if you are a guy, dont do that (leave if you need to escape violence). Certainly file a claim after getting a lawyer because the situation is he-said she-said and the courts favor women in domestic situations
fjsgk · 218 points · Posted at 21:26:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My step brother was in a long drawn out lawsuit with a woman a little while ago bc she kept accusing him of beating her up when really she would just bang her face against shit to set him up. He was only believed bc he had video evidence of her doing this and video evidence of her hitting him.
Man I really hope she got put away for a long time. She isn't just fucking with his life but also discrediting every real victim out there. Pathetic person.
false accusers barely get convicted. especially when they are women.
[deleted] · 64 points · Posted at 23:06:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude some bitch did this to my boyfriend a couple years ago! He was arguing with her boyfriend about something fucked up they did, and because she knew they were completely fucked and in the wrong...she goes to her car and starts smashing her face in the dashboard.
Then comes back and says she’s going to call the cops because my boyfriend beat her.
There was like 5 witnesses so we all got to tell her she’s retarded, but holy fuck. I bet she’s successfully done that to people before.
I’m a married woman and I really really do feel sorry for guys actually wanting a good woman and finding manipulative bitches like this, where the #me too and social media are also being taken advantage to utterly destroy a good person. Anecdotal of course but three guys I’ve known have gone through the crazy and false accusations, with one losing his job and almost his family after spurning advances (b/c married with children) and others needing me to sign affidavits countering the claims of the crazy
I feel like sooner or later we're going to wind up in a big brother type world with surveillance everywhere. But not necessarily because the government is watching us, but because people need cover their ass everywhere they need to go.
I have a shit head neighbour that moved in last year. At first I thought he was an inconsiderate dick head, but now I know he's a drug-using, loose canon that is a threat to the whole neighbourhood. I'll be putting up video cameras all over the place after the last shit he pulled (doing a burnout with his truck across my property, leaving marks all across my driveway and peppering my front entranceway with rocks that are beside my driveway)
I’m in a shitty situation right now because of exactly that. I should have left when I had the chance. Chose to stay and fight. Now she’s free and my life is ruined.
mic569 · 13 points · Posted at 21:50:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know this doesn't in any way dispute the truth of your statement, and that's not my intent, but I do have a personal anecdote to the contrary.
A former friend of my wife whose boyfriend at the time lived very near our house unexpectedly showed up in our back yard one night while we were hanging out on the patio. She ran over barefoot and looked flustered. We asked what was up and she told a tale of how she and her boyfriend got in a fight and it got violent, of course making herself out to be the victim. We convinced her to go to the police. Turns out, the boyfriend already called the police and told a very different story. She wound up spending that night in jail, because she had no idea she was effectively turning herself in for battery. So sometimes the police can side with a man in these situations.
smmstv · 10 points · Posted at 22:20:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've known people who've worked for police departments, and while their may have been an "official" policy, the unofficial policy was to always take the man. I think at some point after years on the force, these officers have to realize women can be physically abusive too, but maybe it opens them up to less possibility of allegations of mistreatment. Who knows.
LOL that's a pretty optimistic outlook you've got there sir.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 23:08:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s not true. My ex called the police and accused me of beating him when I threw him off of me. I was able to easily prove it was him so he got taken away. They put me in handcuffs for a minute because they were going to take me to jail but I convinced them to listen.
Disagree. Not sure what country you are from and I'm sure you're basing your comment on some sort of knowledge or personal experience but in OP's example it would be pretty clear that the female was responsible for whatever disturbance has occured, given that it's all his property that's been damaged. She would definitely be arrested in order to be questioned. Whether or not she would be charged would be a question of any other evidence available.
Unless you're in America, you'll probably end up being shot.
Anyway, domestic abuse runs both ways. It's not ok for a guy to be domestically abused. We need to get away from gender stereotypes.
No, but things will most likely backlash on the victim (humiliation, discredit, refusal to believe, etc). Plus, out of 1000 rapes, only 6 rapists actually get convicted
I understand why you would think that but false accusations are a tiny tiny portion of all the rape accusations. While I agree that we shouldn't condemn someone without a strong burden of proof, rape remains the only crime where the victim is systematically doubted, even with medical proof.
Fair enough but again the point I was making is that both men victim of domestic abuse and rape victim are often stigmatized and blamed after the denounce their aggressor.
If the police get called for DV, someone has to go to jail. And usually it's the guy.
dyam · 62 points · Posted at 20:06:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, someone does not have to go to jail. Most times, they just order the “abuser” (usually the male, even if he’s not the abuser) to leave the premises.
My dad called he police on his ex wife(while they were married) because she was hitting him and he ended up with a DV charge and going to jail for a few days. She’s honestly such a shitty person, my half siblings still have to deal with emotional abuse from her even though they’re in their mid-20s. Most of the time the police side with the woman for some god forsaken reason even when there’s proof they were in the wrong and it’s honestly really shitty.
Someone else posted the example of the law, and while it definitely sounds fishy, there is a decent reason for it: a lot of times people change their minds quickly about having their abusive spouse/significant other arrested, and they may decide to tell the police it was a misunderstanding or some other reason for calling to protect that person. So you got someone who is already being violent and hurting another person, and the victim just called the police: there’s a good chance the other person is even angrier now, so there’s a good chance the victim is in even more danger if the police leave them alone. It’s not a perfect system, and unfortunately the men are usually targeted, but it’s made to protect the victim from retaliation.
In my state, if you call the police about a domestic incident between a male and a female, the male always gets arrested regardless of the severity of the incident and regardless of which party is the aggressor. The correct thing to do is record the incident and hire a lawyer.
Congratulations! You found out she was a crazy liar before you put a ring on it. I would have enjoyed the hell out of that dinner for two — me and my dignity.
She acted like that hoping you would hit her or physically restrain her so she could justify her retarded behavior. "He was getting physical with me, that's why I had to leave him."
Based on what she did to your shit when you confronted her (& the fact that she was lying, cheating scum anyway), you totally dodged a bullet, man. Imagine being married to.. that.
Aw man your surprise date night sounded so nice!! You obviously put a lot of effort into making this, and this is just shitty you had to deal with cheating. I'm so sorry about that!
What the actual fuck. My heart breaks for you dude, you deserve so much better than that. I'd love someone to make a date night for me, or treat me with the level of attention and courtesy that you displayed.
I hope you find someone who can reciprocate your sanity and love.
Girlfriend said she was going to hang out with one of our mutual friends. Around this time, I was beginning to worry about her friendship with this sketchy dude that had entered our circle of friends.
That same night, I took a walk through town while she was gone. I ended up seeing her car parked on a street in front of a house. I got a closer look to make sure it was her car because our mutual friend doesn't live in this area.
I approach the car and I definitely hear my girlfriend and previously mentioned sketchy dude laughing together through an open window of the house.
Now this part isn't something I'm proud of- and it's super illegal- but I had the car's spare set of keys (in my bag I sometimes carry with me) at this point. I unlocked the car, started it up and drove back to our apartment without her being any the wiser (I'm assuming, anyways- she never talked about this situation after it happened). I pulled in front of our house and straight started packing all my shit and moving it into a relative's house while she's at that fucko's place. A couple friends ended up helping me move extra shit, and I was fully ready to move into the relative's that morning.
Wow I got mad reading that. I hope she encounters as much misfortune in life short of physical injury. Maybe she'll come out a better person on the other side
I went through something almost identical except I broke her laptop after she smashed mine and our phones survived. I know this isn't true about all people but in my experience (must stress this is anecdotal) most servers I've worked with and known, regardless of gender, are cheaters. Along with my own that ended in eerily similar circumstances to yours (she was going to a pool party, too!), I've seen so many relationships end because of the rampant philandering in the restaurant business.
I had a similiar situation a week ago of seeing the text messages and realizing the truth. You’re seeing the thoughts/feelings, not the way she’s presenting them to you, not the way you’re imagining them, just the raw truth as it was never intended for you.
That sense of dread washes over you and turns to a pit deep in your stomach. There’s nothing like it.
Stories like this piss me off because that girl deserved to get her ass beat that night, but you couldn't touch her or you'd go to jail and she'd walk free.
Holy shit. That really sucks man, I'm sorry to hear that, but at least you were able to take something away from it. I'm guessing she didn't pay for the shit she broke, though.
Wow that's just awful. Sorry things went so south for you that night. I do have to ask though, why did you allow her to do so much destruction? Obviously you were in a bad place and would have preferred her not to trash the place, destroy your laptop and your phone and cut up your clothes. However all of that does not take place over 5 seconds. Why did you not stop her before she kept escalating the damage?
All that stuff she broke is worth like five grand. That lesson in choosing the right girl and trusting your instincts will last you a lifetime and save you years of misery.
Tbh, it sounds like you dodged a bullet on this one. So much better to find out the kind of person you are with BEFORE you get married. Just imagine 4 years and two kids into a marriage and she does something like this to you. Doesn’t make it any easier right now but probably saved much heartache down the road. Most cheaters will always cheat.
That's called abuse. Often times when men abuse, they beat you up. When women abuse, often times, they destroy your stuff or chuck a wine bottle at your head.
You seriously dodged a nuclear warhead with that one. :/
I can't help but wonder what her endgame was though. String the other guy along for fun until she got the proposal she wanted from you? If she wasn't happy, she could have left. No need to cheat. :/
Did you sue or try to get paid back for the shit she broke? Laptop, phone, even shirts can all be pretty expensive, although if you were living on a budget I wouldn't expect it to be a huge amount of money. I dunno much about law, but it seems something filed through a small claims courts might've been worthwhile.
herbys · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A broken phone, a laptop and a few shirts are a small price to pay for saving the rest of your life. And imagine the life of the other guy now, married with a crazy, lying, unstable b*tch. You dodged a bullet.
I can’t imagine the feeling! If my SO ever did this to me I would most likely shut down. Stop eating, working, cleaning myself. How did you get through this?
Man fuck girls that just go bat shit and trash everything. Learn to act like a decent human being instead of like a fucking animal. Idk why but this shit really pisses me off, I don't have any personal experience with anything like it.
That is fucked and not ok - would mess up the life of almost any guy - but I think you should read this - I know I'm a random internet stranger but I think it will help you make sense of a few things (particularly around female psyche) and also a way forward. Hope this helps.
Women like that will call the cops and claim you raped them or some bullshit and the worst part is they will be believed. No need making things worse as long as she's gone. These fuckin losers down here like "Bro I would've never let my girl do that" Bro you've been single because your a douche that's why. Gtfo
In the situation posted that woman wasn't "his girl" anymore, she was nothing.
How does protecting my property from being destroyed by human garbage make me a douche? I'm actually kind of interested how you're going to try to spin this.
What OP should have done is kick her out with her car keys and phone. After that tell her to fuck off and have her parents come over to pick her shit up.
Oh wow. Your reaction to discovering the lie was beta as fuck.
Normal
(entry-level) reaction would be to put all of her shit on the street and somehow lock the door so that she can't get in.
Or if you can't lock the door, go to a friend's place with all of your stuff while you find a new place, and never contact her again.
The only reason I wouldn't burn all of her clothes in a dumpster fire is because that's still illegal and that bitch ain't worth suffering any further.for
I had a really low serial number $2 bill (something like 00000100), crisp, new. I showed my cousin while he was visiting one day. It went missing afterwards. A few weeks later, was at my cousins house and noticed it hidden while he was tooling around his his closet looking for something. Lost my shit, he denied it, insisted it was his and that my uncle had given it to him. Uncle came in wondering what the ruckus was about, and I was able to tell him the serial number without looking at it.
I got it back, but the bastard had scrunched it up in places.
Fuck you, Brandon. 40 years later I'm still not forgiving that shit!
U can probably go to a major chain bank and get a crapton of them.... My best friends dad does this every new years and hands them out to my church peeps like its candy
I was 16 and was seeing a girl who I had some doubts about. She would make up the most insignificant lies about stupid shit but it wasn't malicious so I let it slide, until things escalated. Her dad had a friend (John) who had cancer. We went to visit him 200 miles away and he looked really bad, she acted like she didn't give a shit. About 2 weeks later we were at a party and she started crying about how John had died and she was absolutely devastated so I comforted her. About a week after that I went to dinner at her parents and her dad said "I just got off of the phone with John and they're saying he's reacting well with the chemo" Her face dropped, and she couldn't look me in the eye, but I knew I had her, so I finished my dinner and went home. I phoned her later and told her not to call me ever again or I'll tell her dad about her lie. She didn't call again. I still don't know what happened to poor John
Edit for a bonus lie I remember her telling me about a month before the John incident
She told me she was in the school play in the lead role of Romeo & Juliet, and she needed to kiss the guy in the finale and was i ok with it? We didn't go to the same school so I didn't question it and said it was ok. She made a noticeable job of telling me how considerate she was being in asking my permission. I just thought it was another lie. After i broke up with her, her friend told me my ex had kissed a guy in her English class. They were studying Romeo and Juliet at the time apparently. I'm glad I got out of there when I did.
I’m in a situation with a girl that has lied about everything. It’s not a good situation and due to the circumstances I can’t just be done with her unfortunately. A lot of her lies seem to be geared towards having control over everything and she’s more than likely a pathological lair.
Can confirm, if she lies about a lot of little insignificant shit she's a pathological liar. She may not even be up to anything, it's just a (shitty) defense mechanism. Source: Was/still slightly am a pathological liar
My FIL has cancer. He’s been fighting for years and has had a tough go. My SO tries to help as much as possible. He was going over every Sunday. He already works 6 days a week so he doesn’t have a ton of time to begin with. He would mow his Dad’s lawn, helped him turn his garage into a shop, watch the race with him. Then he skipped a day because the kids were sick and his dad pitched a fit. The next week he had an appointment with his doctor and told us that this was it, they were stopping chemo. My SO felt horrible. A few weeks go by and we realize he’s still taking his pills and getting radiation. This has happened 5 times in the last year. My SO skips a Sunday, they fight and then we hear it’s the end and he’s dying. He’s gone so far as to tell us he’s only got few weeks left. When in reality his tumor markers are the best they have ever been. My SO is over it all now. We go over but for maybe an hour once a week with the kids. I just don’t get how you can put your Son through that over and over again. But your right, it’s gotta be attention.
yup. had a coworker, found out i lived right down the street from him so we started hanging out and becoming good friends. one day he comes over and starts sobbing about how he just found out he has liver cancer - like, real tears, shaking, etc. as i comforted him i started to cry a little, too - he was saying “i’m so scared! i don’t wanna die!” and all that. but at work over the next couple weeks he’s acting completely normal around everyone else so i eventually ask how the cancer thing’s going. he admits to me he made the whole thing up, apologizes and can’t give me a reason why he would make that up. i straight up told him i didn’t wanna be his friend anymore, lol.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 17:32:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my friends actually lied about having cancer and went bald the next day. So many of us believed it and for the next week there was a shit ton of shit, like cards and stuff and then he was caught with the lie.
dude didn't have friends for the next 3-4 months before slowly transitioning back
dubov · 6 points · Posted at 16:36:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm listening
moth07 · 3 points · Posted at 17:54:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like the answer is not attention. I've met a couple of people like this and it's just weird. I really wish I knew why; is it an addiction? A symptom of some deep disorder? It seems to often serve no purpose.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 21:04:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Former compulsive liar, it was very hard to stop and i still catch myself lying from time to time about stupid stuff like how i cut my hand, but it was a learned survival mechanism from growing up in an abusive household. So thats one possible answer
That sorta makes sense. Like you don't feel your truth is good enough so you always have to make something up, even when the truth would have been a better explanation or given you a better excuse.
No, I think its more than that. My ex DIL would just make shit up, even when it wasnt necessary. Everyone who knows her knows shes a liar so the outcome is, like Peter and the Wolf...nobody believes a thing she says now.
It was like she couldnt accept herself or her life as it/she is. I almost think she believed some of it...also whenever she was called on it she would get viscous, really really nasty piece of work.
Stonn · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not that I cry for attention but I'm one of those girls that cries when I'm stressed out. Not sob, but my eyes just make all these tears and I overflow. I hate it, and my brother always makes fun of me.
One day was an extremely shitty day, boyfriend problems, school problems, I was exhausted. It was finally the end of the day, and all I wanted was to drink a glass of milk. I get my glass and start heading into the living room when the glass falls from my hand and spills all over the floor. I broke down and just started crying. Then my brother came in, saw me on my knees, crying over my spilled milk.
Hahahhaha I'm sorry but that's hilarious. I'm a stressing crier. Like if a really small, insignificant thing is bothering me and then another thing happens I stress the fuck out and occasionally cry. Ive gotten better at controlling it. I remember one time I was working drive through, cashing out orders, handing out food and drinks. I think I was already having a rough day and when I hand the lady back her change she goes "this isn't right." And I was confused like then what did I do wrong? But she just gave me this look with her hand all stuck out with the money and it really upset me because I was already preoccupied and now I had to figure out how I messed up the change in front of an already displeased customer. I'm not good at math on the spot. I started crying and had to go to the crew room to collect myself. It sucks because it's just how I naturally respond to certain situations, and I really can't help it. Some people get mean when they're stressed, lethargic, or they blank out but I cry and that's seen as really unprofessional crying at work. But in fast food you see everything and experience all sorts of personalities so it's whatever. I've just had to learn that it doesn't make me weak, it's just how I cope sometimes. Ive probably only cried 3 times in all my jobs but it's a really embarassing situation
I have a friend who cries when she's angry. I haven't seen her sob or get hysterical, but she gets really flustered and teary eyed if she's angry. Which I've always thought was a weird way to deal with anger. She's pretty tough and handles pressure well, she has been the art director for three separate student films all the while doing her day job as an editor in a tv studio that churns out daily soap operas and she has to edit for almost 10 12 hours everyday. I would crumble under that crunch. I've never seen her cry when she's sad, which she rarely is. But for some random reason she cries when she's mad.
I used to be like that, the only thing that really changed was getting in a situation where I'm not angry a lot. It's a physiological reaction, not really a conscious choice
Yeah being able to control your anger and calm yourself down before you start crying is the only way to avoid it. I'm still a teen but I've matured past my angsty stage so I'm able to I just try to keep my cool.
I have been there! Usually it's when lots of things build up and one thing pushes me over the edge. As I get older it's easier. I read something about how tears contain cortisol, so it's like you are trying to rid yourself of that stress hormone and that's part of why we cry. Not sure how backed the study was, but it makes sense.
I had a friend in highschool who was and is a real asshole. One time we were all partying and not paying enough attention to Chris for his liking. He huffs and puffs, throwing a cute little tantrum, upstairs to his room and then fifteen minutes later he reappears back downstairs and he had shaved off all his hair and eyebrows, looking upset. Doesn't say anything, just brooding. We all knew he was full of shit and just cracked up laughing. So he went and cried to his mom instead and she came screaming in like, "WHAT DID U ALL DO TO CHRIS?!!!" Hahah, fucking nothing, he did that shit to himself lol
I had a birthday party once as a kid and my friend fucking ruined the party. She showed up with a spiky hair clip to my birthday... In a super bounce/bouncer/jumper thing. My dad was like, "No, you have to take it out." She starts crying. Takes it out eventually so she can go in and leaves it on the deck. It falls off the deck, breaks. She cries again. Bitch ruined my birthday. As an adult I'm sure she did the same thing.
Super annoying but there is most certainly a deep underlying mental process that is driving this and she may not be able to gain control of it. It is tough but if you managed to encourage her and get her to go to therapy she might be able to untangle the experience that is causing her to behave this way. It more than likely had something to do with how your parents raised her and how they responded to her when she was a child relying on her amygdala to guide her because the prefrontal cortex was not yet formed.
Hey that’s really interesting! Can you elaborate? I was just wondering what childhood experiences could lead to attention seeking behaviours in adulthood.
I'm not the OP, but I have some issues with attention-seeking at times. Through therapy, I'm told it's a result of emotional neglect and invalidation. Emotional neglect occurs when the caregiver doesn't respond to a child's emotions in a way that makes the child feel validated in their feelings. Maybe this is because the parent works too much to deal with 1st grade drama, or the parent is uncomfortable seeing their child upset, or (worst case) they actively resent their child and want the child to stop bothering them altogether.
My mom, from what I've concluded, just couldn't handle the emotions I expressed because when I was sad, she assumed it was because she was being a bad mother. Her protection against self-criticism was ignoring any bad thing that happened to me. For example, when I was 11 or so, I felt that I was depressed (I was). When I told my mom, she laughed it off and asked what an 11 year old had to be depressed about. I kept telling her and she wouldn't take me to therapy, and whenever I was upset about something, she told me I was being too sensitive. So I started attention-seeking by telling my friends I was cutting myself. I never actually hurt myself, just claimed that I did. One of my friends told her mom, that mom told my mom, and I finally got to see a therapist. This made me assume that the only way I'd get help or care was if I was in crisis (hurting myself, threatening to commit suicide, etc). It also manifested in things like, I WANTED to contract a serious illness or break a bone just so I'd get the attention I wanted.
This same thing can also happen in adult relationships. I've been in relationships where the other person doesn't soften or take me seriously until I cry. This means that it's ultimately easier to go straight to crying/threatening/lying for attention, than taking the risk that people will ignore you or laugh at your pain.
Of course this usually backfires into a "boy who cried wolf" situation, where freaking out about everything causes people to ignore you and consider you manipulative (which is true - it IS manipulation). That's why it's important that people who were emotionally neglected - even if they weren't emotionally "abused" or if nothing negative was technically said - see a therapist. Therapists are trained to be emotionally validating and accepting, which in and of itself can do a lot of good for someone who thinks they need to express a huge amount of pain just to be heard.
Hey, just wanted to say I've had experience with the same sort of thing as you so it was a relief to see someone else put it down in words. I also had a lot of casual neglect and invalidation from my parents. At some point with my peers I definitely picked up that the only way to get help for the feelings I couldn't cope with (anxiety, sadness) was to make it sound really dramatic or painful, I'd cry a lot or say I wanted to hurt myself. Most people just distanced themselves but it was damaging to people who did stay and felt they had to help me... Therefore accidentally enabling me and trapping me in that loop.
I still sometimes feel a lot of guilt over it since it was manipulative and hurt people. But as you say it was the result of emotional neglect - it was behaviour I'd learned to cope with feelings I'd never been taught how to manage.
I'm more sympathetic to individuals who show attention seeking behaviour than most because of my past, but I understand why people have very little patience for people who act how I did.
Unfortunately all you can do sometimes is establish good boundaries and hope they seek therapy eventually :(
This means that it's ultimately easier to go straight to crying/threatening/lying for attention, than taking the risk that people will ignore you or laugh at your pain.
Hey! Thanks so much for you reply. It definitely cleared it up, I was thinking originally physical abuse would play a large role in later manipulation and attention seeking, but your explanation made way more sense to me. I’m really sorry to hear you went through that, it’s crazy how one’s childhood can really affect us as adults. I hope life is amazing for you now!
My son is 12 and is extremely quiet and stays to himself. I'm the same way due to autism. But this is a good reminder for me to assure him tomorrow that if he's ever sad or feeling depressed, that there is nothing i would find too difficult to do, in order for him to feel better.
Definitely! I would've loved it if my parent said this and then followed through. Other good ideas are giving options (like, "Would you like a hug?" "Do you want to talk about it?" "Can I make you something to eat?" "Do you want to sit on the couch and watch a show with me?"). I don't know if these suggestions work for you and your son, but I know that's what I would've liked. It shows that my parent put thought into what might help me emotionally.
Oh nothing. ponchikee mentioned Attention which is a name of a Charlie Puth song which is basically him getting one over on a girl who acts like ponchikee's sister. But considering in the song Charlie Puth doesn't mention a girl's name, I had to improv.
When my great grandmother was 92 she fell into a coma. We were waiting for her to die. Last rights given. I didn't want to talk about how I felt, and didn't really know how to explain it, so I simply told my friends she had died.
Then she woke up. I felt terrible. I had told people she knew that she was dead. (I visited every Sunday and often brought my friends).
But then she actually died a few days later. I didn't know what to say.
So there you go, I lied about my great grandma dying and I still feel bad about it.
This may not help you feel better. I think you were just trying to cope with it. Its hard to deal with deaths. Some people go into denial, some into balls of snot for weeks.
I actually had a chance to visit my grandmother on her final days... seeing me really made her happy everyone knows I was her favorite.. but the the Sunday before she passed on Tuesday, I was supposed to visit and decided to watch degrassi even though I knew I could record it and I was getting high off of my moms anti depressants because "I was having difficulty with all of it"... then Monday came. And Tuesday came and my mom told me at lunch time that my grandma passed... I spent all of my Christmas vacation with her, and I loved it even though it was very hard... but I still blame myself for not visiting her that Sunday.... its been 7 years now since she passed and I think about her almost everyday
I have almost the exact same story with my grandfather. He had cancer for 3 years. In and out if the hospital, was finally doing better. So when he went to the hospital again and I had a school dance to go to. I told my mum I'll see him when he gets home. I received a call halfway through the dance. He had already passed and my mum came to pick me up. I still regret not going right away. He raised me in the absence of my father and I couldn't even be there for him in his final moments even though he'd been there for me during my first.
That feeling is probably one of the worst I have ever felt so I know exactly what you feel... but you can bet your sweet ass he loved you so much.
I can go into detail about my somewhat Shitty childhood but all I NEED to say is that my grandma was always the one to put clothes and shoes on me and get my school supplies....
Its so dumb being a teenager and thinking everything lasts forever lol.
After my grandma passed I became obsessed with making sure I personally said bye to anyone I was hanging out with when it was time to go telling them I love them and to be safe. I still do to this day...
Don't know if I'll ever fully recover but I do cherish the good days I had with her and everything she taught me, and you should too 💕
Same.. well, not entirely. But my granny was dying, I literally wanted to move in with her. But I respected that she was very ill and didn’t need half the family constantly with her. I was in her house the day she died and the day before (the day before too, but I spent it with her) she was asleep, and I didn’t wanna disturb her. Had I known, I’d have climbed in beside her.
It’s been 9 yrs and I swear, I miss her more as time goes on :(
You were respecting what you thought she wanted. There's no reason to blame yourself for trying to be considerate of her. That was nice of you. We all feel gross and irritable while sick, imagine what you may feel like if you're dying? Everyone is different but I could imagine some people not wanting to be bothered and/ or seen like that.
I feel like that too, I wish she could've seen me graduate or met her great granddaughter but at least I know she is always with me..
That’s very true, I never thought of how she was dealing with her own upcoming death (I imagine she was terrified) and the bombarding of family. Like, she actually had to ring friends (we rang others but here were some she wanted to personally ring) like how do you ring your friend and tell them ‘I’m dying’ ?
My cousin was getting married three months after, it was such a loss, and she’s had 6 more great grandchildren.
My last day with her when I was going home she made such a fuss over me (granted I was 25 at the time lol) telling me how much she loved me etc (she’s not like that with emotions - we’re very stiff upper lip lol) and it was as if she knew she’d never see me again. I was telling her to wise up, and that I’ll see her soon :(
Seriously, I'm sure it was very difficult to have to do that. Especially if you say your family is not very expressive of emotions, she was probably all "omg what the heck guys, stop with the pity. Jimmy, wipe that fucking snot off your face" lol, you know? Everyone has their own way of dealing with these huge inevitable and uncontrollable events of life.. it may have been very difficult to get waves of affection and knowing that your time is almost up...
She took the opportunity to tell you how much she really cared about you, I would do the same. I think sometimes we forget that things do not last forever that's something we should always keep in mind
I thought about my Nanna every day for 10yrs when she passed. Similar tale, i wasn't there when she died either!
16yrs on, I know she wouldn't have wanted me to see her that way! I too was 'her favourite ' and spent more time with her than any of her grandchildren......she loved me for that, as did yours! I only ever think of the good times we spent together these days! Time heals all wounds my friend, 'happy memories' will come to you too!!!
Thank you. It makes me very sad I wasn't there, I always wish I was. But I have to take comfort in that she loved me just as much even if I had I gone that day..
I have a worse story which may make you feel a bit better....
My great-aunt May was dying from cancer in a hospice myself and my sister were visiting daily in shifts so she was never alone, even though she was in a coma. We had promised out parents we wouldn't leave her side as they were abroad at the time and felt awful they couldn't be there.
The inevitable time came and we were informed it wouldn't be long (death rattle) so we phoned her best friend of 80yrs Liz, so she could be at her side .....it was awful Liz was at her side, begging her not to leave her, my sister was next to her, sobbing overcome with emotion. I was at her other side, gently stroking her hair as I had done for the last 24hrs (it seemed to bring her comfort) remaining calm and strong, so we didn't all fall apart.
I thought she had took her last breath so gently placed my fingertips on her eyelids to close them......it wasn't like the movies as there seemed to be so resistance. So I respectively used a little more force.......suddenly her mouth and eyes shot open and she furiously looked me straight in the eye for a second, then faced Liz and my sister and mouthed something, unfortunately they couldn't make out what she was trying to say, and then she was gone! I gently closed her eyelids, just like in the movies....
It haunts me at times that most likely she was saying "I'm not dead yet". I can almost laugh about it now as it was almost slap-stick! Auntie May was an incredible lady who liked a good laugh, so she'd appreciate the humour of that moment, I'm sure!!
Thankfully neither Liz or my sister noticed and are none the wiser!
You were preemptively grieving. You will still get the douche chills whenever you think about this, but in reality, you were protecting you. And that's nothing to be ashamed about.
We went through the same thing as my great great aunt last year. Luckily my family is all warped and have a twisted sense of humor bc we had a morbid laugh at the whole thing later.
I honestly don't know. She just wasn't right. Her family owned a very nice Italian restaurant and she was from a nice part of town. She had 3 older brothers and was the only girl, very much the princess. I think she just needed constant attention. Fuck all that. In my experience the best relationships are based on honesty, first and foremost.
jcb088 · 4 points · Posted at 17:49:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Theres this woman I work with, her cube shares a wall with mine. She is just.... soaked in this shit. Every day she will tell stories about how she knows famous people (and they're always different, with different people, in different ways, different connections), she constantly has to tell stories about how she sassed others when they were wrong (in little ways, like dealing with someone at an airport, or the DMV, or her condo association) where she always puts them in their place.
She also is a total conspiracy nut, to the point where she's dedicated to the idea of conspiracies more than any single conspiracy. She constantly doesn't understand the world around her (literally every time someone needs any piece of information about her for anything she goes full paranoid) and just..... constantly has issues with everything everywhere all the time.
Her and I get along great (I'm good with computer related stuff so I help her occasionally and she's good with microbiology so I ask her for help with customers) but holy crap I cannot stand her. She is so far gone that I don't think anything will ever make her be a well adjusted person.
There comes a point where lying is so integral to a person that you just realize you can't unfuck them up. Its always co-workers because if they were anyone else you'd just not be around them.
Could also be that they are compulsive liars and couldn't stop even if they wanted to. Many people mentioned in this thread look like they could easily fall into that category
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:14:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was um.. 15, my great grandfather died. I had met him 2 years before, first and last time, and he was sort of brain dead and unresponsive. So I wasn't super attached.
I was a garbage student and on that day, I messed up some homework or essay and didn't turn it in. I froze and blurted out "uh my great grandfather died so..." and the teacher let me off the hook and was so sympathetic and I sorta sat there looking melancholic (the guilt helped).
So I didn't lie about him dying but I did lie about caring
Possibly, but it's not really a consistent BPD trait. Though everyone's different, compulsive lying is more in line with HPD or NPD since it's a self esteem issue. Those with borderline personalities may lie impulsively to cover up something to avoid feeling hurt or attacked but compulsive liars tend to have different motives. Histrionics and narcissists on the other hand, lie for the attention (all publicity is good publicity) as it gives them a momentary boost of self esteem. People can easily be compulsive liars without definite personality disorder too.
A lot of people are misdiagnosed with BPD. Someone with bpd is more likely to blow up if you catch them in a lie, because they have no emotional regulation. Attention seeking isn't a major motive of those with bpd, they just truly believe the world is against them, and take great strides to prevent it which comes across as attention seeking to those who don't understand them.
Op said she didn't react, which is not really characteristic of BPD. Crying at a party for attention Is more narcissistic or histrionic than it is borderline.
Attention or sympathy in the moment I’m thinking? Friend of my sister’s lied to her high school (and friends? Not clear) that she’s gotten pregnant and had an abortion. Very weird.
As others have already answered, attention. I struggled with this a lot. I always felt I was boring and needed to come up with exciting things otherwise people wouldn't be interested in talking to me. In my case, it wasn't about NEEDING attention but rather feeling like I had to make these things up in order to converse with others. I'm sure most people don't even realize they are doing it. Once I became aware of what I was doing it was just a matter if trying to curb the habit.
Honestly? I bet she was sad and upset but didn't have a good reason. She felt like she had to justify the crying/need for attention and used that. She might have been depressed or had anxiety, though lacked the maturity to just say "I don't feel well and don't know why."
Some people have a compulsion and can't help it. I had a friend with it growing up. Never anything friendship-breaking but I could never trust him. I didn't know the importance of trust until I grew up.
Had one of those compulsive liar friends/acquaintances when I was in high school. You know lying about silly inconsequential things. I think in his case he just wanted people to like him. He was overly concerned with what people thought about him, and that was his way of dealing with it.
Xunae · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people just compulsively lie. I knew a girl in high school who told us one day that she had gone to LA the previous night and come back.
LA is about a 6 hour drive without traffic. She claimed she had left after dinner. You know, maybe she managed to get back in time for our 7 am class. I suppose it's possible, but like why?
I've read that, when it comes to kids or teenagers and they are in a difficult situation or perhaps low self esteem, they lie as a coping mechanism to make themselves look good. I know a girl that bullshits more than I've ever imagined, I don't even know if I should believe her that her parents divorced for that very reason. It's sad and it's most likely because she was born with some kind of muscular dystrophy, but I can't stand her anymore, and most people at school who know her seem to have realized her lying as well. Good thing high school is over and I don't have to deal with her again, hopefully.
Some people are terrible socially and have nothing to add to conversations. To prop themselves up and have things to talk about without deafening white noise they'll lie impulsively to try and seem like they have things going on in life.
I had a girlfriend similar to this (she lied about having cancer and various other things I also just let slide), but after studying mental health diseases I suspect these type of people have borderline personality disorder.
Because showing true grief demonstrates that you have the ability to make meaningful connections with people. Faking grief for attention on the other hand is pretty much proof that you can't.
One makes shit up on the spot for little to no reason. Another does it to look smart. And another does it to impress me.
I feel like it's a pride thing. They always want to have an answer. The one that tries to impress me I feel has a crush on me and wants to like the things I like. She does this with other people too but mostly me.
The other one I know also liked me and wanted to impress me.
And the other was intimidated by me I think. Because we would argue about stupid things.
Insecurity, and a fondness for the other person makes the most sense but I don't know. I'd love for a psychologist to weigh in on this as I'm just guessing.
That's something all three would rarely say. They would usually say I don't know when they didn't want to answer.
When my father died, my brother's girlfriend told me my dad was like a dad to her. She'd known him less than a year, met him only once for 36 hours, but he was like a dad to her. Uh huh.
When I openly doubted it, my brother chimed in and said, "No, really, she cried before I did when we found out." And of course my immediate thought was, yes, because then it's about her crying and you comforting her in her time of loss, and not the other way around.
I didn't say that, though. What I said, was "And when your dad eventually passes away, you'll realize how stupid this statement was."
Fortunately my brother is no longer with her, but she still wrecked my relationship with him.
Nobody is fine. That's the underlying truth you don't see. You're not special. Nobody is and if you allow yourself to age enough without offing yourself, you'll see that not being fine is actually just fine and that you can go on and you can keep smiling. It just takes some time is all. Now suck it up buttercup put on your big girl pants and go make something.
His dad is sick. His dad’s in the hospital. He’s back home. He’s at the hospital. He died. The hospital lost his body. Wait, he isn’t dead! (Dad surprise!)
She still dated and almost married him after all this. He stole from her numerous times and convinced her to buy a $6000 wedding ring. I’m glad it eventually ended, but goddamn, my sister was gullible.
She was (and is) prey to all of the above. A dangerous combination. It has led her to have two kids with her husband (not the lying man) in order to keep him interested in their relationship.
I know someone who, among like over 10 people that all know him and each other, lies similar to this person. We all agree on it too and he would do it about the most meaningless things. It is so easy to see through because whenever you ask about more detail, he moves on to something else.
Yeah no yeah, I was just in Zaire the other day with Marilyn Monroe, yeah no yeah, it was like, there was like seals there we went to Cape Town, Swaziland afterwards and let's just say yeah, me and Bill DiMaggio we watched the Pigeons fly east to the capital of Swaziland, Green Buffaloes. Yeah no yeah, why would I lie?
Had a similar thing happen to me. An ex came back into my life as a friend, claiming to have changed and whatnot and "at least let's be friends" so I accepted. A few weeks of friendship later he texts me about a friend of his who apparently died the day before.
I consoled him but something in my gut said it was a lie. So I went onto every single one of his friends' social media accounts: no mention anywhere of RIP or anything, which teenagers typically do. Finally find the "dead" girl's account: she tweeted THAT day. I confronted him and told him to never speak to or call me again.
I got a message from my then girlfriends phone claiming that it was her friend, and that my Gf was in a bit of a state because earlier that day, as they were stuck in traffic or something, she saw a guy shoot himself with a shotgun by the side of the road.
I was like "that's fucked up, etc." and asked the "friend" how she was doing, and she said she was fine and didn't see anything because she was "looking at a deer" and that I shouldn't mention any of it to her parents.
Cut to the next day, I was having dinner with her family, and she was upstairs ill or something, and her dad started telling us how they were stuck in traffic (or whatever) and they saw a guy walk into the woods with a shotgun. And that was the story.
I never mentioned anything to anyone about it because I was pretty young and more concerned about the fact that I had someone who was willing to have sex with me, but she or someone had barefaced lied to me. I still to this day don't know if it was even her or this nameless friend who even messaged me. But she was and is an odd one, so I wouldn't put it past her.
I worked with a guy that would lie about everything for no reason. I once mentioned I liked Dota2 so he claimed to be a huge fan so I added him on steam. Literally 0 hours played, never even installed, if you asked him questions about it he couldn't really answer and would change the subject. What a pointless thing to lie about, he also claimed that he worked on a farm and the farmer had a grenade launcher to protect his farm.
It must be some kind of compulsive disorder or something. It’s like, what the hell are they thinking. It ruins talking to them because you never know the truth from false so you stop caring about it all.
Simowl · 8 points · Posted at 16:43:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Knew a guy at college who said he had cancer. Eventually turned out he had a very small, benign tumour that he wanted more sympathy for I guess. Also found out his sister has had cancer, so... dick.
Had a friend in high school that would fake cry in public all the time for attention. I got bored with it and would just stare at her or walk away. Her boyfriend said he didn’t like me because I was heartless, just staring at her crying like that. So. Annoying.
My dad had an employee who would tell you it was raining as the two of you looked out the window at the scorching sun. He was telling me about a guy we both knew who was "planning to quit his job and work for your dad". He "needed the money" because he was about to get married.
My girlfriend and I had been to the guy's wedding, 6 months earlier. His new wife's family was loaded. And he loved his job.
I dated a guy like that in my early 20s. He lied constantly about unimportant things and more often than not I would call him on it. I told him he can lie to all of his friends but not to me and it worked for about a year, only with a sporadic lie peppered in that I would always catch. But of course pathological liars can't change and he ended up lying to me about something huge. I was devastated and asked him if he thought he could ever stop lying and he (funny enough) said "Honestly, no." So we broke up. I still enjoyed our relationship a lot because he was funny and sweet but it just couldn't be anything long term.
Similar thing happened to me! I lived in a different part of the country while I went to uni so I didn't know many people but ended up dating a guy for about 4-5 months, we were exclusive, spent a lot of time together (at least every other day) and he had a friend "Shawn" who was diagnosed with a rapidly progressing cancer. Boyfriend goes AWOL for 7 days, didn't hear a thing from him so figured he was ghosting me for some reason and went on with my life... day 7 comes around and he messages saying his buddy passed away from cancer and he couldn't be around people so he went camping in the mountains to grieve and then went to his funeral... we ended up drifting apart shortly after anyway and he moved out of town for work. Fast forward a few months and he comes back to town and we meet up for a drink. He's sitting across the table from me and we're just catching up and then he mentions "Shawn is doing a lot better now, his treatment is working"... so I said "Shawn who died when you fucked off for a week miraculously came alive and is beating cancer now?! Awesome for him!!" He turned bright red and stuttered something as I got up and left... ignored his multiple rambling explanations via text for a few weeks and never heard from him again... "Shawn" is still alive and well and cancer-free though I've been told by a mutual friend!!
TL;DR: boyfriend goes AWOL for a week, says it's cause his friend died of cancer, months later forgets the lie and tells me that same friend is in remission and is doing great. Up yours, bud!
eofox · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a little kid (4-12) I would make up stories about everything for no apparent reason. I didn't go so far as to use or take over someone else's memory or experience. Anyways, in high school I finally got to the point of being fed up with it and started trying to say things like "wouldn't it be best if" or "in a dream I had last night" and tbh since then it's gotten to a point where it's a complete non-issue. Any fake stories I tell I preface with the fact that they are fake and it would just be neat, interesting, or strange if they occurred. No pity for lies though, they fuck everything up for everyone.
Dated a girl in high school for a few weeks and didn’t really know her that well.. she told me her dad had cancer and I was giving her my sympathy and asking about his condition for about a week before she said it was a joke. I still remember how baffled I was when she just nonchalantly told me he didn’t have cancer like it was funny.
I was just like “yeeaaahh I don’t think this relationship is gonna work”. Seriously don’t know the thought process behind that one.
Much less significant but similar. My parents like to play up other people’s woes to get sympathy for themselves. It could be someone they met once, but if they hear of some hardship they are going through, suddenly they are heart broken for their dearest friend. They called me up once to tell me my absolute favorite family member (hard to come by in my shit family) was dying of cancer and wouldn’t make it much longer. Could be any day now. My husband took off work, we loaded up my brand new baby in a vehicle with no AC in dead heat of a southern summer, and drove HOURS to visit this aunt. An Aunt is never forgive myself for missing last days with. We get there and my Aunt is so well she’s prepared a southern feast. We get home to find my husband lost his position to another guy for taking time off. My parents knew what we had to go through to get there. I got zero apologies for that and zero sympathy for the lost income. My aunt is still alive 17 years later.
There is this guy who joined our group of friends a while back. He had told some us that his mother was dead.
Several months later he casually mentions going to see his mom that day. We all just kind of looked at each other.
We asked some other friends and he had told several of them that his mom was dead too.
He lied about so many things over the years. Later he was taking rent money from his roommates for months and apparently not paying the rent. He kind of fell off the radar for awhile after the fall out when they got evicted. He wasn't sketchy in the typical way. He was just so so stupid.
He was just the worst.
katarr · 2 points · Posted at 13:36:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
FYI he fell off the radar because he went to jail.
I had an ex like that. She lied about her mother dying, having cancer, having her inheritance embezzled, and even being pregnant. Swore up and down and was furious when I kept calling her Bullshit. She took me to meet her "family friend" who would vouch for her.
The family friend turned out to be her therapist, who promptly told me I had just been along for her psychotic episode.
I work with someone who lies about shit like this all the time. From the littlest shit that no one would bother to verify to blatant lies about other people we work with. She does it just to have something to gossip and talk about. I don’t understand this mentality and it makes working with her REALLY difficult.
Props to your 16 year old self for having the wisdom and self respect to dump her, if she lies about shit like this who knows what other things she would have lied about.
bazoid · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in high school who I strongly suspect was a pathological liar. He was smart enough not to lie about things anyone could verify, but he just always had these really unbelievable stories, about meeting famous people and whatnot. Other people who knew him suspected it also.
A couple of years after high school, we were still in touch occasionally, and one day he texts me telling me his dad died. I hated the fact that my first reaction was to wonder whether it was true. I looked in the local news for an obituary, looked on Facebook for family members sending condolences, but never found any mention of it. Still, there was no was I was going to ask him whether it was true, and I really wanted to believe he wouldn’t lie about something like that. So I still don’t know to this day.
S2R2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know she made up a huge lie about why you two broke up right?
Omg I know someone who lied about having cancer....fooled even her family. She would go to pretend appointments, come back with fake bandages...was wheeled around in a wheelchair at times because she was "weak." Our church had prayer meetings for her....people made her meals....gave her money for expenses.
Fast forward almost a year later she was caught embezzling at the company she worked at and during the trial she admitted to the court she wasn't honest about her cancer; fully confessed that she made it up and was never sick
I felt terrible for her daughter. She was probably 19 at the time and when her mom went to jail she moved far away.
Funny thing is that the woman admitted to lying about cancer for a year but would not admit to embezzlement. She was found guilty though anyway.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex lied to me about his grandma dying once when he was actually just out drunk , and then i saw an envelope from her on his living room table. I'm like wtf was your plan????
Should have told her dad. You weren't going to ever date her again either way, and if no one holds to the truth she'll just keep living in a world of lies.
I know this might make me seem like a heartless bastard but if I was at that diner and learned my gf had lied about a relative dying from cancer I would have brought the whole "I was told this during this event by your daughter that he died" idk if that's just a way I'd instantly want to rub it in or something, but I for sure would have broke off the relationship at the end of the dinner if not right after talking to the parents about it.
Edit: fixed some words
My old Boss told me that the kid before me got fired for a lie like that. Basically kid called saying his dad died and won't be in for a few days. A couple weeks later the dad calls the place for some reason and I could only imagine how that conversation went.
Valoid · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, so she lied about John dying for no reason whatsoever?
I had a friend in high school who did something similar. One day she claimed her friend had died by suicide the night before and then 3 weeks later she was talking to another friend about her plans that night with the supposed dead friend.
Although knowing her the friend was probably made up, not just the fictional suicide.
She also told me on 4 separate occasions she had just lost her virginity to whatever new boyfriend she had.
Oh, and for over a year she claimed she was dating this guy that none of us really knew and it turned out that she was lying about that too.
John moved to Portugal and sells hash on the beach. His cancer's basically in remission now. He's getting some sleeve tattoos done a little bit at a time, he's getting pretty good at backgammon, and is learning to garden by volunteering with the parks department.
Very small chance John had previous abused her and it showed as the constant small lies as her way of coping. Her control over the world. Maybe why the total lack of affectation when visiting him and the follow up catharthis if him 'dieing'. Also this is a Reddit armchair diagnosis so most likely she was also the Boston Bomber.
TLDR; Tech support tells kid he is going to be arrested.
I was working in tech support at an ISP on the afternoon/evening shift. It is a smaller ISP so tech support all sits in one office about a stones throw from each other. In the evenings there are only about 12 people working until about 7pm when it drops to about 7 people.
We got a call one night from a kid(sounded about 12) who was using a deep voice trying to get info on an IP address from us. This isn't uncommon for kids who are gaming to call tech support to try and get information so they can DDOS someone they are mad at. The first person he got followed protocol and asked if he had a warrant then hung up(We can't give out that type of info to anyone without a warrant). Same thing happened to 3 other people over the course of about 15 minutes before he changed up his act.
I got him at that point and he said that he was agent something-or-other from the FBI and he needed info on the IP address(have you ever heard a 12 year old try to sound like an adult?). I played along and asked him if he had the account info he was looking for. He panicked at that point and said I should have it and John in customer service should have sent it to me. I informed him there isn't a John in customer service(They worked in the same office as us so I knew them all). He was quiet for a few seconds before he tentatively tried another name and I told him I know that person. He got super excited and it was kind of funny listening to him think he was getting through. I asked him for the account info because that person had not sent it to me and the kid hung up.
The next few attempts were the kid pretending to be one of my coworkers and telling people to give him the info. Granted this was at about 830pm and that specific coworker had gone home at 7. At that point we were getting annoyed and just hung up on him whenever we heard his voice.
As 9pm rolled around, one of my coworkers was very upset that she hadn't gotten him yet, she had this whole plan on what she was going to say to him and was super excited a few minutes after 9 when we all heard her yell accross the office "I GOT THE IP GUY". We all went on break or put calls on hold to come listen to what her plan was.
The kid was pretending to be our coworker again, which was very funny for us because the person he was talking to sits right next to the person he was imitating. She acted like she was going to give him everything, he gave her the IP address he wanted info on and she got him to sing like a bird on what he was looking for. After about a minute she said "Thank you sir, we just finished tracing your call and I am required to inform you that a member of the FBI will be swinging by shortly to pick you up to answer some questions". We could hear the kid flip out for a few seconds over her headset and then he hung up.
We all lost it, that was the funniest thing we had all seen in a while and we didn't hear from him again.
619sxb · 103 points · Posted at 17:03:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Love the story... I wonder what and where that kid’s persistence has gotten him in life now
That's a very simplistic view of the situation. There's a dozen and more situtations where it could've played out exactly like the OP described it. For example
The ISP might've been using grey IPs and the kid wanted the client's internal network IP. This, of course, raises an important question about how the kid wanted to exploit it next. But a) maybe this happened in a small town with monopolized internet access which means the kid is on the same internal network or b) 12 y.o's are not exactly the masters of strategical planning so there's a good possibility the plan just wasn't fleshed out past the initial stage.
The ISP used dynamic IPs and the kid wanted to match the IP used at a particular moment with the IP used at the current time.
No offense to OP but phone tech support is often an entry level job requiring no IT expertise whatsoever. Most major ISPs have the lowest ranking operators just cycling through pre-written standard questions and solutions which fix 80% of the issues. If those don't work, clients get transferred to the actual IT guys. So, even if OP doesn't quite understand DDOS/SWATing/whatever, it doesn't make the story automatical bullshit.
Troj03 · 2 points · Posted at 00:59:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So, Op is faking?
ciucco · 3 points · Posted at 23:56:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even though he didn't get what he wanted, it makes me so happy that young kids are still starting out doing social engineering. If this didn't scare him too bad, I hope he gets better at it.
This one is comical. And other than being a shitty job, my old job cleaning retail centers was almost always good for a laugh when it came the crap ass workers the company would hire.
Guy who didnt have a license, a car, and was certainly too lazy to walk the 4 miles to work (i rode my bike 9 miles every damn night, and yes, it was UP HILL to this store where i was working, though i got to coast for the most part on my way home)
He was driven to work, everyday, by his grandmother, who was probably late 60s, or early 70s.
Second day of work he says he needs a week of because his grandmother (the one who drove him to work) was sick and in the hospital. ok.
Then his grandmother shows up AT THE WORKPLACE, to buy herself some new slippers that the location had on sale.
With him in tow. He saw me, and the look of realization on his face was glorious. Company was sucky, and would fire people for lying about why they missed work...but for some reason would take weeks to fire someone who was a repeat 'no call no show'...
Anywhere I've ever worked would tell you to walk the 4 miles and get your ass to work. If you're not fat as fuck it isn't that far to walk. I've had bus journeys to work at places that would take longer than a 4 mile walk.
that was my thing, i was riding a mountain bike, UP HILL, and since i worked there for voer 2 years, thats means i rode my bicycle IN THE WINTER, THROUGH FUCKING SNOW STORMS.
i had perfect attendance. 110% in fact. I never missed a scheduled day of work, and often rode in on my days off because yet another new hire decided to just not show up.
Reminds me of my first real job at a fast food place. I had a co-worker who was nice but a total flake. One time she was late coming back from a break and the shift lead told her off for it. She claimed it was because she was talking on the phone to her mom who just told her her grandma died and did a stupid fake cry. The lead was like "well, I had no way of knowing that. Next time pop your head in and let me know you need a few more minutes." After the co-worker went into the back to put her things away the lead mumbled about how she's always late coming back from breaks, so what's her excuse for the other times? She was always asking me to cover her shifts for her. I was going to school full time, so I didn't really want more hours but I took them to be nice. Later, she bought a car she couldn't afford and BEGGED me to give her some of my shifts so she could make payments. So, being nice one more time I gave her some of my shifts. She calls me the day before one of them and begs me to take it back. I was tired of her shit at this point, so I told her I couldn't because I already made plans. My plans were to not deal with her shit anymore.
on one occasion at this job, i had four coworkers no call no show, and instead of just saying 'fuck it ill do the best i can' i just stayed late.
A 9 hour shift became a 14 hour shift. the next day, the same thing happened. then the next.
3 days in a row, i, a single person, did the job of a 5 man crew. I was so fucking tired by the end of that weekend that when my boss told me he needed me to come in on my day off, i actually had to refuse. He got pissy but i informed him that since the company does not apply unapporved overtime until the pay period AFTER period it was worked, and i just worked 3 14 hour shifts and thus had almost 10 hours of overtime, i was too tired.
I must have been nine or ten. My friends and I were all going through the same doll phase, so we would bring our favorites to each other's house and play.
As my friend was leaving I noticed a few of my dolls missing. She was holding them hostage in her doll limo, I just knew it. As she was walking outside I casually said, "oh I think you might have grabbed my doll on accident." Flustered she checked her limo and pulled out my dolls.
Got you.
She also stole some of my dolls clothing. I searched her room when she went to bathroom and stole it back.
I was in middle school, around 8th grade and me and my best friend Lindsey became friends with her new neighbor, Sam, since she was the same age as us and didn’t know anyone yet.
Anyways, we started hanging out and having all the sleep overs at Lindsey’s house but me and Lindsey started noticing that some of our clothes would always be missing after these sleepovers. Mainly jackets, tops, some jewelry, but weirdly, a lot of underwear. Well we decided we didn’t really want to bring it up cause it was embarrassing and weird to call her out without proof and we also kind of wanted to believe maybe something else was happening. Like maybe it was Lindsey’s older sister messing with us or something (even though she had denied it when we asked her).
So we go through like 10 of these sleepovers and hang outs, until as we were packing up to leave one day, Lindsey notices a brand new zip up hoodie that was like $40 is missing (this is early 2000s, it’s a Hot Topic hoodie, and we were like 13yo so $40 was something she had to save a long time for). This pissed her off cause it wasn’t cheap hand-me-downs anymore so Lindsey kind of flipped. She starts rifling through her closet and asks me and Sam if we’ve seen her hoodie. We both say no but she wasn’t ready to let it go. So Lindsey says “look I know it was here last night since I hung it back up, do you guys think it could be in your bags? Do you mind if I check? I just really love this hoodie.” Now she knew my stuff had been missing too so she knew I was on board with this tactic so I immediately said yes and mentioned that I couldn’t find a bra I’d brought this morning either so I wanted to see if we could find the missing stuff.
Well, as this dialogue is happening Sam is obviously freaking out. Her whole face has changed and she’s started saying “let’s look in your closet again, or maybe we could check the laundry room downstairs” but I’ve already opened my bag and Lindsey’s already explained that it couldn’t be downstairs since both things were with us the night before. I think this is when Sam realized she was gonna have to open her bag cause she knew she was caught and couldn’t come up with a reasonable lie.
So Sam unzips her bag finally and right there on top is Lindsey’s hoodie. Folded up. And underneath it is my bra and two pairs of Lindsey’s underwear she hadn’t noticed were missing yet. The air in the room was awkward to say the least. Sam goes “I don’t know how those got in here, that’s so weird.” Me and Lindsey didn’t really want to call her out, we just wanted our stuff back, so I say “huh, weird...well, I guess I’ll just take my bra.” She passed our stuff back and leaves to go home. Right after she left me and Lindsey agreed no more sleepovers with her and if we hung out with her it’d have to be at her house or somewhere public, like going to the movies, etc.
In middle school, a close friend of mine stole $40 out of my dad’s wallet & then stole my Nintendo DS with several of my games. I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it now, but I was heartbroken at the time. I couldn’t believe she’d steal from my family and me until I actually saw the evidence when I slept over at her house the following week.
She had my DS charging, partially hidden by clothes, and my games. As for the two $20s, she was always broke so the fact that she miraculously had $40 in her purse was enough for me.
Looking back, she probably stole most of my nice things that went missing because they’d “disappear” all the time right after interacting with her
A close friend of mine in middle school stole my new camera I had gotten for my birthday, some clothes and also some jewelry. I totally understand the heartbroken feelings. Middle school sucked.
My son had a, what he thought was a really good friend... And I thought so too. He was having it really rough for a 10 year old. Didn't have anything nice, always coming over in holey clothes and it wasn't even Sunday. He slept over a lot since it was better than staying in his mom's bed. Dad was a druggy and in jail. We would hand down clothes, feed him, take him places with us. We find out from the kid who is crying they are moving since his dad is getting out of jail... Not true, they were just being evicted because the mom wouldn't get a job and kept doing drugs herself. He stayed over one more time and we made it a fun night. Next day after he leaves, all my son's ds games and DS are gone.
My son was upset, why would his friend steal from him? I said while it wasn't right, he has nothing and knows no better. I'm not happy about it just like you're not, but it's just a thing. Remember the happy times with your friend, not this stupid thing he did.
I replaced the DS as by this time they were selling cheap used at GameStop and replaced the games which was more expensive because Mario and Pokemon.
DCF was called multiple times, but because DCF never does their job... Meh, nm.. that's a rant for another day.
I had a friend do this to me once when I was a kid. It was a Virtual Boy (dating myself here). I told him "If you had just asked I would have given it to you." He looked like I slapped him in the face when I said that and then started crying.
take the battery cover off and go to the jeweler and for $5-10 get their name or even full initials engraved to it, thats how i caught out the friend who stole my DS and i saw it at their house. asked in front of their parents where they go it, the case all games etc, parents got a bit interested, cos why wouldnt i the best friend know they had a DS when i almost always had mine with me...
told them i thought it was mine, they got mad cos our kid doesnt steal rah rah gunna ring your parents, told them fine, but dads also gunna say take the battery cover off. so they did, and i got my shit back, a full apology from my as of then former friend and a lift home and my parents apologised to, cos they thought i lost it and had grounded me the week earlier over it.
You’re right, that was kind of confusing. What I meant was I should have realized she was stealing from me sooner because my stuff would go “missing” shortly after she saw it or used it. It all lead back to her
No, her family was upper middle class. She wasn’t going without which made it even more odd that she felt the need to steal stuff from us. And the fact that a lot of the stuff she took, she had similar items in her own wardrobe. I guess it must have been compulsive and just out of her control. I’m sympathetic to whatever reasoning, it just sucked that I lost so much stuff pretty quickly. After that though, she never really ~had~ the opportunity to steal again but I’d like to think she never did it to anyone else but I don’t really know.
It’s like a risk-taking high. I grew up really poor and would never have stolen from my friends, but I had really high empathy for a kid. I think it’s something that some kids will do whether their family has money or not. Part of it is developmental stages and testing boundaries. Your friend probably felt bad after getting caught and maybe she grew a little. Kids are still growing.
You guys did the right thing by confronting the behavior. There’s no need to escalate the situation by shaming her unnecessarily or whatever, I’m sure she was plenty shamed by having her secret revealed. It’s all part of growing up, for some kids. I didn’t steal but I did other stupid shit!!
Yeah, after that we never had any issues with her and still hung out. She also seems to have turned out fine. She’s getting married and built a house and has her dream job so her klepto tendencies when we were kids obviously is not representative of who she is at the core. She’s a good person who made some dumb decisions as a teenager. I don’t hold any malice, it’s still just one of the weirder things I had a friend do! I’m really glad you gave insight from the kleptos point of view in a way because we all make mistakes
One of my friends from high school told me she was in the witness protection program. I didn’t believe her but pretended I did because she was new at our school and I didn’t want to embarrass her. We just kind of never talked about it again. I wasn’t the type to make up crazy stories, at least not at that age, but you never know what someone else is going through. We’ve been friends 25 years and I’m just never going to mention it to her. We were just kids. :)
I wonder if she even remembers it. Another girl came to our school and told us that she had gone to so many raves in New York City. All her cool raver friends threw a huge rave for her when she moved away. This was really impressive because we were only 13! We found out from her best friend that raver queen girl had lived with her grandma in New York for a week the previous summer and hadn’t had any friends at all. Kids just say stupid stuff to make friends. I wouldn’t want anyone to remind me of something that stupid I said back then, lol.
Ive struggled with being a klepto, especially when I was younger. Its not even thrill, its "I want it, so why shouldnt I have it?" I never stole from stores or anything, and I mean... ya gotta be more slick than that, sam.
A child stealing like this....it's rarely about the "things" they are stealing (as opposed to the kid who steals a single item- that's usually about the item). Kids act out when something is bad/wrong in their lives. It's almost impossible for a kid to not act out if going thru some kind of issue in their lives. It's a subconscious alarm bell.
You got to think "how would I feel if they took something I owned?".
In my general life I always try to think about how the other person feels. This helps a lot in controlling anger and jealousy. If someone upsets me I always try to think about how they feel and I give them the benefit of the doubt.
That means when someone cuts me off I just think "maybe they're really late getting somewhere" or "maybe their boss is a giant ass and they just got yelled at for an hour over something out of their control".
People are very complicated. Life is really complicated. You never really know what other people are going through. People usually act a certain way for a reason.
You also need to ask yourself "does this matter". Is it worth my time and energy to pursue? Will this ever happen again?
My final life philosophy is "do to others as you'd wish they'd do to you". If you don't want someone to treat you a certain way then don't treat them the same way. This also works the other way. Instead of saying "I shouldn't do this because I wouldn't want to be treated that way" you also need to think "I should do this because I would wish someone would do that to me". That means if you would want help when struggling to do something, you better help someone else when they're struggling. If you want to be recognized at work for a good job you did, then you better tell your Co workers and boss good job when they do well.
Following these rules really helps your life. It makes you calmer, you spend some time thinking about what you should do which stops you from making impulse decisions, it helps you stop wasting energy on things that don't matter, and it strengthens the relationships you have with people.
One of the best ways to gain favor with people around you is by offering them help with things. Even small things.
It takes time to start doing these things. Eventually after doing these long enough it becomes second nature to you. My life is much better off now that I take time to think about what I'm doing and what others are doing.
Thank you! I've really noticed that things start "to go your way" when you are empathetic, and help out others. You end up happier and people want to be your friend. Word gets around when you're a nice person.
Another big thing (that I'm honestly still pretty bad at) is not procrastinating. A lot of the time when people say "why does bad stuff always happen to me" is because they didn't do something that should have been done a long time ago.
My GF is notoriously bad at pushing things off. Then when the time comes to do it, it takes longer than expected, issues pop up, or time runs out.
Then things start to build up. Eventually you have a bunch of things you should have done all at once.
If you just do things in a timely fashion then things don't build up. You have plenty of time when issues pop up. And you feel less stress.
I'm still working on procrastination myself. I run a manufacturing business currently and I have a ton of stuff that needs to be done. Some of the things are stuff that I've never heard of, or just don't know how to do at all. It's easy to push things off when you say "well I don't know how to do that". But you need to fight through it. There aren't many excuses in this day and age. We have the internet. You can look up anything. You can look people that can help you. You just need to sit down and try.
Failure isn't the opposite of success....
It's part of success.
EDIT: the best way to learn is to fail. There's nothing wrong with failing. In fact you learn and remember thing better when you struggle and fail first. The hard part of any project is to sit down and start. Excpecially when youre not sure what you're doing.
I would suggest thinking of a project that you've always wanted to do. Something you want to make or accomplish. Look it up on the internet and do it yourself. You can start with something easy. Look up tutorials and plans online. Spend and hour or two a day on it. There's nothing better than the feeling of acomplishing something.
Learn to paint, learn to program, buy a kit to build an electronic, make a kite with your kids, do any project with your kids. Start a garden, learn to replace your oil in your car or replace it's breaks, lean to carve wood, buy a cheap 3D printer and make items or art with it.
All you need to do is go to Google and type in "how to do Blank*".
Check out the first link that looks reasonable, then check the second link, and the third.
If you come to a problem then go back to Google and type "How to fix Blank"
Life is really rewarding when your striving to lean and do new things.
If you're into electronics or want to learn, a really great thing to do is to buy "the Elegoo super starter kit" it's on Amazon for $35 I think.
It's a kit with a bunch of electronic components and a small programmable computer the size of a grahm cracker. It comes with a lesson book that teaches you have to do projects. It's actually really simple. It teaches you how to do basic coding.
Coding is simple. It's basically do step 1, then do step 2, then do step 3. Ect...
The Elegoo is an offbrand of an Arduino. Go to YouTube and look up "Arduino projects" with this Elegoo super starter kit you can literally make anything. It super cool.
I made a device that uses an inferred motion sensor and a servo motor to turn on and off a light switch when someone enters a room. And it turns it off when no one has been in the room for a long time.
I think one of the problems I used to have is that I would have been okay if someone stole something of mine, save for a very few special things. I always kinda saw possessions as disposable or temporary. But I do better with inpulse now lol
What's one man's trash is another man's treasure. Just because you don't hold value for a specific type of item dosent mean another person dosen't as well.
I work with my own demons. It really easy for your brain to trick you into thinking this or that is ok. There's always excuses. With thinking diseases like what you and I have, your brain is a master at twisting the facts to make half truths, and make things sound right when really they're wrong. It's a hard thing to catch
Because that’s how the person who owns it already feels about it, so you have to take away their happiness to achieve your own. It sounds like you are struggling with empathy. Most adults will avoid behaviors that make other people feel bad. Empathy comes naturally to some, others have to learn and try harder to be empathetic. I’d argue that it’s worthwhile to learn.
That you wouldn’t steal from a store shows that you know it’s wrong. What’s different about stealing from a friend that makes it more permissible to you? I think there is a thrill in “having” that which we have not earned, but I struggle to see it from your perspective because I can’t get past the hurting people part.
I find that when the dumber parts of my brain request permission to do wrong things, I can sometimes override it with the front part of my brain.
Look at it this way: Lizard Brain loves comfort and gratification. Lizard brain wants sugar, drugs, sex, possessions, anything that releases dopamine. That’s what Lizard Brain eats. When we feed it, it gets stronger and less responsive to the other, more responsible areas of our brains...
...like Front Brain. Front Brain knows right from wrong, it considers consequences, it plans for the future. It alerts us when we are doing something we know isn’t the best thing. If Lizard Brain gets too strong, we stop listening to Front Brain because the connections physically weaken. This explains most self-destructive behaviors, like addiction, and it’s why it’s so hard to retrain our brains. We have to rebuild those physical pathways in our minds.
When you “control impulse”, your cerebral cortex is taking control away from Lizard Brain. You can notice this struggle happening inside you once you recognize it for what it is. Lizard Brain is the one telling us we deserve it, it’s been awhile, maybe just this once, I’ll stop tomorrow, etc. Front Brain is rational. The more you listen to Front Brain, the stronger that connection gets, and it gets easier to make the better decision.
Knowing this has really helped me in my life in so many ways. I hope others see this and can benefit from it as well.
A long time ago when I was in between getting my own place I rented a room from a girl who I met that worked at my favorite Italian restaurant. She seemed pretty nice even though she and I didn't hang out together.
My boyfriend at the time and I had just bought new bicycles and were riding them down the street from where I lived. I saw the girl's car and said to my bf, "hey there's whatever her name was". I also said, "holy fuck she's wearing my goddamned sweater!!!!" I was so angry. She never asked me if she could borrow my clothes and I didn't even know her that well. When I saw her the next day I confronted her about it as she was standing in her bedroom doorway. I looked past her and on her bed was another one of my articles of clothing. I told her I was moving out. There's no way in hell I was going to live with someone who helped themselves to my stuff. She also used to eat the food I put in the refrigerator without asking me. She got all upset because I was moving but fuck that shit.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:04:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe. I live in Florida. This girl never tried to tell me what to do because she was nice. She just didn't respect my things and I guess she thought that everything was community property. She thought wrong.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:10 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just went to a really nice lake house to swim for an hour with some friends. The owners kid(early 20's) got into my car and stole $150 out of my wallet.
You really just have to be careful around people, regardless of the neighborhood.
I had a friend who stole a bunch of my clothes when I was like 8. She'd claim my mom gave them to her, except they'd be my nice new clothes and we weren't well off enough for my mom to just give my clothes away. When I asked my mom she told me to just leave it alone, cause my friend had less than I did, and if she was stealing my clothes then she probably really needed them. Except we were broke too, so I'd lose my new clothes and they didn't get replaced. I stopped having her over at my place and only hung out at her place after that.
Edit: Her name was also Sam, hah. We stayed friends though, but don't really hang out anymore as adults.
I had something similar happen too! When I was in third grade, I started at a new school, and there was a girl that, right off the bat was super nice to me. She “helped” me unpack my backpack every morning. I was 9 and just happy someone was being nice to the new kid.
About a week of this goes by, and suddenly I’m leaving one day, and notice the little emergency phone my parents had given me was missing (one of those phones that could only call your parents or 911). I freak out, tell the teacher and am mainly afraid my parents will be mad at me for losing it.
The next day, I come in and over the loud speaker, the assistant principle says “(name of teacher) did (name of student) bring OPs phone back today?” Needless to say it was super embarrassing for everyone. I never let that girl “help” me again.
Similar thing happened to me without the justice boner!
Had a best friend when I was like 11, we did everything together. Every weekend was a sleepover etc.
Anyways one day I was at her house and something or other of mine rolled under her bed and I went to retrieve it and right at the back was my motherfucking make up pallette. You know the kind of cheap shitty make up wheel you get as a preteen. Blue eyeshadow and all. Just sat there under her bed.
I was shook. Hurt.
I hadn't even noticed it was missing from my room, so the theft must have been pretty recent. I had no idea what to do so I just took it back and no word was ever mentioned on the subject.
I was pissed because my family had NO MONEY when I was growing up. Single mother and dad paid like £30 per week for me and my brother. And she was easily upper middle class and didnt want for things. Her whole bedroom was decorated in posters that came from magazines costing like £5 each.
Later on, at another sleepover, we decided to pierce each others ears. Took precautions (sterilising etc) and gave each other a few top ear piercings. Yah looking back it wasn't smart but we were kids so whatever. When the mother found out she blew her effing top. Blamed me, despite the fact that it was her daughter suggesting it and that I'd had mine done first! I didnt force my bestie into anything and in fact was just going along with it but yah I'm the spawn of Satan corrupting her baby.
So in summary I wish I'd called these bitches out on their behaviour but didn't. Kid me definitely didn't have a spine.
Ps if your maiden name is a fish and your first name begins with S I have literally never forgiven you for the things you and your mother did and I hope you bloody suffer for how you both treated me. When I see you mother in the grocery store I go as far out of my way as possible to avoid that bitch.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:40:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ill admit I did something similar when I was a kid. My friend had some cool Lego pieces that I wanted for my astronaut kit so I stole them. He asked me later at my house if the pieces belonged to him and I denied it so he didn't make a scene about it but I could tell he knew.
But now he's in prison for meth and armed robbery and I have cool Legos still. So it all worked out.
I stole a button from a collection a kid had brought in for show and tell at school. No one called me out on it and I don’t know why I did it, haven’t really stolen anything else except a fork and a napkin from a restaurant in my early teens.
I had a friend in first grade who wanted to borrow my Barbie kid sister doll because her Ken and Barbie needed a baby for a game she was playing. I hesitantly let her borrow it and was like "please bring it back to me tomorrow." She wasn't in school the next day because her family moved! I am 32 and this was 26 years ago and I still remember Barbara!!!! I STILL REMEMBER!!!!!!
I once let a neighbor "friend" play my Gameboy while we were all hanging around a mutual friend's house. I walked home and completely forgot he still had it. I went back to the mutual friend's and he had already gone home with it. I cried all the way home and told my parents.
My mom and adult brother went to the kid's house to get it back, but the little shit had convinced his parents (that don't speak English) that it belonged to him. He finally gave it up after my mom threatened to call the cops, but I didn't get my Pokemon game that was with it back. I found out later that kid had stolen my other brother's Gameboy months before and still had it.
My older sisters friend stole my DS when I was younger.
I had Pokémon Emerald on there, was a DS Lite, back when they still had GBA slots. Couldn’t get past That one volcano town (Forgot the name) I was 8. Sisters friend was 16. He said “Let me get it for a couple days, I’ll pass it for you and give it back” obviously this sounds like a good deal to an 8 year old. Never saw that guy again.
I’m 16 now, trying to get a job. Applied to about 5 so far, no responses. I hope I get one, I want to be able to finally complete Pokémon Emerald. I can’t afford a DS Lite right now, I think they’re about $40, but my family is pretty poor. But I’ll surely be getting one if I get a job, I miss Nintendo products, that DS was the last Nintendo product I’ve ever owned.
I had an almost complete collection of pokemon cards and some cunt stole half of them right out of my binder. Never found out who it was or when it happened. Only realised years down the line when I went to look at them for nostalgia's sake and all the rares were gone.
Well I was around 13 at the time, it was a Nintendo ds cartridge, and the only pokemon game I had. Words can't describe how I felt, and how much I wanted to kill that son of a bitch
KWBC24 · 24 points · Posted at 16:58:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of middle school, back when Bionicle first was a thing, this one kid who I thought was my friend STOLE my first gen Tahu, (The red one), I confronted him on it and he said that it was our other friend that took it and then booked it out of my house. Its been 18 years, and It still burns me up. Fuck you Shane, you illiterate bastard!
Rough. I had a friend that borrowed my book and when I asked for it back she blithely replied "oh no, that's my book that I let you borrow." I merely recovered my property one night when her family hosted a party.
I had some people over to my apartment several years ago, a few days before Halloween. It was a few close coworkers/friends I knew very well, and a guy who was new to the group. We all work at the same large company but in different buildings on the campus.
Anyway, I had pulled my box of costumes out of my closet earlier that day so I could choose one for the upcoming festivities.
After they all leave I go back to picking out a costume and notice my banana suit is missing. My mind immediately goes to the new guy, but I had no proof. I was annoyed but figure I’d just let it slide rather than make a big deal out of a $10 banana suit.
Halloween comes and goes, and of course Facebook is plastered with pictures of people’s costumes. Guess what this guy dressed up as? A banana. I sent him a message saying “are you finished borrowing my banana suit? I’ll come by your office this week and grab it.” I swung by every day until he finally brought it with him and gave it back.
When I was around 8 my mum used to make me hang out with my mums friends daughter who was a few years older than I was. At one point I took a PS2 game to her house and ended up leaving it there. I didn’t tell my mum about it because it didn’t seem important. The next time I saw this girl I asked her to bring it with her the next time she came to mine. She never did, I don’t think she wanted to keep it/steal it I think she was just lazy or forgot.
Anyway the next time I was at their house I brought the game back with me. About 5 minuted after we get home my mums friend calls my mum and starts kicking off saying I’ve stolen this game, calling me a thief and such. Luckily my mum being the sensible person she is still has the receipt for this game and politely but firmly schools her friend on how to approach these situations in future.
I was this kid once. My friend had a really cool oversized pencil and being young and stupid I took it and hid it in my hoodie. Just before I left, she said “I know you have my pencil. It’s alright, you just have to give it back.” That’s gotta be the kindest way anyone’s ever called me out; I gave it back immediately and never took anything again. She and I don’t get along anymore for unrelated reasons, but that always stuck with me.
Yea, I remember being so angry about it. When it came down to confronting her about it; I handled it level headed and as friendly as I could. We remained friends for a bit but also drifted for unrelated reasons.
I only had one Barbie and she only had one dress. I went to play dolls with the new girl in my apartment complex. That little bitch tried to take my Barbie’s only dress! I physically took it back from her and ran home as she was screaming to her mother that I was stealing her Barbie’s dress. My mom was so mad.
I went to summer camp once. A kid saw my drawings and loved one in particular. He kept asking if he could keep it, but I really liked it and wanted to do more based on it.
Came back later and my drawing was missing. I looked through his stuff and found it. I stole it back and hid it. Guy comes back, casually looks where he had stashed it and his eyes get really wide. He pauses, then hurriedly looks through his stuff again and again and again, each time more frantic than the last.
"Need some help finding something?" I ask.
"No I got it, thanks."
He looks a couple more times, then sits down and sounds like he's about to have a panic attack.
I just slyly play my gameboy and relish his predicament from the corner of my eye.
Years later, we are friends on Facebook and I post a photo of my drawing. I like to think he's seen it.
luf100 · 12 points · Posted at 17:45:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened to me too! My grandparents used to buy me these little plastic cats and dogs that I would use as pets for my Barbies. They started going missing and one day I found one of them at my friend’s house on the floor in her room with the tail cut off (wtf). She gave me some BS excuse about borrowing it to make some surprise for me. Didn’t believe her for a second (the tail was cut off... was the surprise that she ruined it?) and that was the first time I realized I wouldn’t be friends with her for much longer. I was in like grade 2.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:43:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I had a friend I liked to play with Pokemon cards with (although we didn't play the game right, we were young). Had her over for a sleepover one time and I found some of my cards missing after, rudely enough a few of my favourites.
I went to her house while she wasn't home - just her mom - and said I forgot something last time I was there. Checked her cards - yep, found mine. Took them home, thanked her mom for letting me in, and never had her over at my house again. We still played on the playground but she was just a selfish type of person at that age.
My dad had given me a ride there when I told him what happened, he was honestly probably more upset I didn't tell her mom what happened too, but I just wanted my cards back, I didn't need to get her in trouble. Honestly kids are pretty simple and forgiving, just don't steal from each other?? :/
My little brother had this friend who borrowed a huge stack of comic books. We got the comic books for him for Christmas and he read through them really fast because he was super excited. Well fast forward to a few months later my brother asks for the comics back and the friend claims he never borrowed them but it turns out the kid was bragging at school the next day about selling all of them.
I had a friend like that when I was about 10. He and I were basically attached at the hip for a few years. But every time I went to his house to play micro machines I would notice a few missing. I'd ask him, he'd "look for them", find them and say "sorry, I must have accidentally grabbed them when we picked up". I'd go to sleepovers at his house, set my wallet next to me when I went to sleep, and when I woke up it'd be gone. We'd look for it in the morning and he'd find it in another room. "My cat must have grabbed it and thought it was a toy". Yeah? Did your cat grab the fucking $20 that was in there, too?
I got a leather wallet with a silver eagle on it once, and same shit. Set it next to me at night, woke up in the morning and it was gone. "Are you sure you brought it?". Yes, fucker, it was right here. Never found it. A week later the dick was using a leather wallet with a silver eagle on it. Haven't talked to him in like 20 years. He just moved one day. He moved back a couple years later but I never saw him again.
God this makes me remember when I was a kid and this one friend who lived across the street would come over to play with me and she always walked away with at least one or two of my toys. It was kinda obvious it was her because the toys would always go missing on the day she visited and it was always toys we'd played with. I also found one of my toys in her room once, recognized it from a specific scratch it had. I didn't get to catch her in a lie or confront her or anything bc I was a kid and didn't really think of how to do that but I'm super curious of what she'd say if I confronted her about it now lmfao
Haha. I was furious someone stole my stuff. I had to say something. I told my mom about it and she was going to make a big deal out of it. I told her I would deal with it and I did.
Similar thing happened to me. I lived in a neighborhood with people considered lower class when I was younger. Not dirt poor but struggling. About half the houses there were one story houses.
I had some friends that started taking my toys. I don't remember how it started. Maybe I forgot to take them all home with me, maybe they hid them. My mom was the one who started to notice I wasn't playing with all of my toys. I didn't have a shit ton of toys so it was obvious to her when some we're missing.
I told her that I couldn't find them either. I also told her the only place I took them to was this friends house. I was too naive to think that they would steal them. I just though they were missing. I was pretty young. Preschool to kindergarten ages.
So my mom goes over to their house and talks to the kids parents. Dosen't accuse them of stealing, just says she thinks some of my toys are over at their place. So they let her in and she finds some of them in the kids toy bucket. Of course the kid tells the parents again and again that they're really his toys. And they believe him. My mom was furious but didn't make a scene about it. What else could she do? So she left.
Thinking back on it, how could the parents not know what toys they bought him. Wouldn't they think "hey I don't remember buying him any of those toys and this parent is saying she bought them."
From then on my mom would write my intitals on the bottom of my toys in permenent marker.
After some time passed and things blew over I started hanging out with that friend again. And I started taking my toys over there again. Of course as you could guess my mom and I started noticing that thing we're missing. Some toys were missing that I didn't even take over there. He must have taken them while he was at my place. I guess he got more brave at stealing because he got off clean free the last time.
So my mom goes back over to the kids house and talks to his parents again. This time they're quite a bit more mad because this is the second time my mom has come over there accusing their kid of stealing. They try to tell her to go away because their kid isn't a theif and told them he wouldn't steal.
She makes a big scene about that and demands to go inside and look for the toys. They really didn't want to let her in but she was pretty mad and basically forced herself in. She went to the bucket and started pulling out quite a few of my toys. Of course the kid said that those were his and his parents backed him up on it. Even said they remember buying them for him. That's when my mom turned all of the toys over and showed them warn permenent marker markings of my intitals on the toys.
She yelled about how she knew the kid was a theif and she put the marking on the toys because she knew it was going to happen again. She grabbed the original toys he had stollen too and went home.
I was mortified that she made such a huge scene. I was young and still wanted to be his friend still. I was too young to realize how much of a big deal this was. I didn't understand the concept of money, or how much things costed. My parents worked hard to be able to afford the toys they bought for me. Toys cost quite a bit of money and my parents were damn sure they weren't going to let a brat steal their hard work, time, and money away from them. They did the best they could to ensure I had a happy childhood. Made sure I got the toys I wanted. I wish I realised that when I was younger. But I figured it out eventually.
Other things similar happened in that neighborhood that ultimately led us to move away. All of the neighbors around us we're toxic people with low morels.
The same kid who was stealing my toys threw my new bike down on the ground. My parents got mey first two wheeled bycicle. My "friend" was jealous. Him and all of his friend would jump off their bikes when they wanted to stop riding and allow the bike to roll for a bit before crashing to the ground, because they were cool. When I would get off my bike and put the kickstand down, they got mad and threw the bike to the ground.
My parents saw my bike laying on the sidewalk and yelled at me for it. They taught me to always use the kickstand. I told them what happened and they yelled at the kid's father. He ended up getting beaten for it.
Another time my parents got me the rarest and the coolest transformer toym it was a while tiger or something. You could transform it between being an animal and a robot. I took it over to another kids house on the first day I got it. I was showing him how to transform it and before I could finish he grabbed it. He wanted to do it by himself and didnt want to be told what to do. He broke it within seconds.
My parents found out about it because I ran home crying. They went to the kids house and his parents couldn't care less. They basically said "oh well too bad". My parents wanted them to fix it or buy us a new one and they laughed in their face.
Tons of other stuff happened too. Like older kids burning a hole through my shoe with a magnifying glass while holding me down.
I'm so glad parents moved. I probably wouldn't be the person I am today if I spent my entire childhood hanging out with people like them.
My friend's mom used to babysit me before and after school. One day, we were playing Barbies and she had this one Barbie that I really wanted so I sneakily popped it in my backpack. But then when my mom came to pick me up, her mom saw it and gave me a look. I remember saying, "how'd that get in there?"
I still remember it so vividly lol. The guilt was real.
My mom once left $20 out for my older sister for something and I took and hid it, and I've never come clean. I tried to rationalise it because my sister stole so much of my money over the years but that's another point of guilt.
Anything with theft is a point of guilt for me.
This is turning into a confessional. I just remembered I stole a muffin or cookie or banana bread from my uni's cafe once when I first started because there was no one there to take my money and I got confused, thinking that maybe it was somehow free. I gave them a lot of my business later but never paid for that baked good.
Same thing happened to me when I was a kid. Had this girl come over after school and we were playing with our dolls as you do at that age.
That evening when we dropped her off one of my favourite dolls fell out of her coat.
I was in the car and saw none of this but my mother was. This girl stood there looking down at my doll and said "Oh, how did that get there?" My mum went and took it back and said something about it being ok, accidents happen, probs because she was still just a kid herself.
I was pissed when I found out. Bitch tried to steal my favourite bratz doll!
Damn this reminded me of a dumb kid lie I remember. I must have been like six of something and had some cool looking Magic the Gathering card. I didn't play or anything, I just found the card somewhere and thought it was badass. Everyone was into pokemon at the time.
I showed it to this kid I sat with on the bus on the way to school and really talked up this card, like "look it's some sea monster thing I bet it's really powerful" and he seemed pretty impressed.
Then on the way back home from school he pulls out the same exact card and goes "oh I forgot to tell you, i have that same card!" And I looked and mine was gone. I got so pissed and he kept trying to say it was his but "he'll let me have it if I really want since I lost mine" .
Ha. When my older sister was in middle school she had a sleepover. A bunch of her stuff went missing, and she tried asking the girls, all of them feigned ignorance but one looked super guilty. When the girl was out of the room, my sister found all her missing things hidden in the guilty girl's pillowcase. So later on, when everyone was back in the room, my sister "fell back" against the pillow. She said, "Ow! Your pillow is so lumpy and uncomfortable!" Then she picked it up so the open end faced down, and aaaaall her missing stuff tumbled out. The guilty girl made up some excuse (I don't remember what she said exactly, this was just over a decade ago) and then had her mom come get her.
When I was a child my US Army father was stationed in W. Germany. We lived in a small German village near the base. I had a little German friend, "Andrea", who would come over sometimes, and I'd go over to her house. In her room where we were playing I found a roll of 100 US stamps. She had zero use for American postage. She claimed my father 'gave' them to her. I found a few other items in the house that were from our house as well.
I asked my Dad why he gave stamps to Andrea, and he blew his stack - he'd been looking for those stamps for over a week. Long story short, I had to get all the stuff back, and Andrea was never allowed inside our house again. Andrea's sticky fingers got her banned permanently not just from our house, but from everyone else's.
Spart_ · 12 points · Posted at 16:59:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See the thing is, as a child it was fun and gratifying to steal for me. I don’t know if there is anything wrong with me but it was. It still kind of is but I have a lot more self control now since I do a hobby that is dependent on every part of the chain. If someone steals my shit I would lose it. But I don’t know if it’s something wrong with me or if I am actually just a piece of shit. Am I a recovering kleptomaniac?
Its thrill seeking for you. Everyone has something. I didn't hold it against her. I just kept a close eye on her around my stuff. She was still my friend.
I've got the same problem/question. Any time I get depressed I get the urge to steal. Never anything more than a candy bar and never from anywhere but a soulless corporation. It's still wrong though, and I feel terrible about it. I rarely go through with it but anytime I'm really low the temptation is there and it freaks me out.
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 15:17:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dads family is from Cuba. He moved to Spain to get out of Cuba, and then relocated to the United States when he was nine. I got him a 23andme kit for Father's Day. I need a Y variant to add more detail to my results!
Once I had my liquid paper stoñen from me. I recognized it by the bite marks I had left to it. I asked to borrow it and he never asked for it back, so I recovered it.
I hated it when you were younger and family/friends might take something, had a tennis racket go missing after my year younger than me nephew came over. Went over there house the next week and there it is, my brother denied it to. A year or so later I was about 12 and he took my computer to fix, I was fairly new to computers but could do some basic installation yet my mum and dad told him to fix it. It went out with a 700mhz celeron (yes this is a while back haha) and came back with a 500mhz one...conveniently what his spare computer was at the time, what a wanker.
When I was 9 or 10, I was hanging out with this girl Charlotte who lived up the street from me. I got called downstairs by mom or something,and when I went back up Charlotte was like “oh I forgot I had to be home.”
She’d stolen my entire savings of change from my top drawer, including my prized silver dollar.
I never talked to her again. If you’re out there, Charlotte, I hope you really needed that money.
The only time I ever brought my yugioh cards out of my room and to some kid's house I knew somebody stole my blue eyes white dragon. I'm still salty about it all these years later.
DUDE. A girl I HAD to play with as a child (her mom babysat me, this girl and I were in the same year) stole my fucking Betti Spaghettis!!!! (They are bendy dolls, long limbs.) Nobody ever fucking believed me. She hid them under her bed. This girl and I also had the same Barbie rollerblades, which I kept pristine but she ruined. She swapped out her shitty ones for my perfect ones when nobody was looking and my parents didn't believe me or care.
I get it, man. Don't steal dolls or toys. It ain't right.
Hahaha. Jesus! "No, but Santa is always watching," would be a good reply if she believed in Santa.
092200 · 5 points · Posted at 22:43:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me! My friend would always want to “trade” Bratz dolls with me whenever I had one she wanted. I’d always refuse and she wouldn’t push it so I figured we were good, even though my stuff started going missing after a while.
She started calling my house and asking to talk to my little sister instead of me...which was weird, so my mom stayed on the line and listened to their conversation. Turns out she was convincing my sister to steal my stuff for her! She would tell my sister what she wanted and my sister would put it in her bag and bring it to school with her.
I don’t blame my sister because she was really young at the time and we were much older, but lmfao she was so shady and I never really trusted her again.
'I must have been nine or ten' and you're noticing stuff like that and had the confidence to call someone out on their thieving. More guts than me, a 21 year old man.
I had a sleepover with a friend in middle school. I noticed that whenever she thought I want looking she'd swipe something of mine and put it beneath my bed under the blanket, I suppose to stick in her bag later. I wasn't sure what to do but after awhile I just went to the bed, lifted the blanket, exposed the treasure trove and silently started putting everything back where it belonged. She sat there with her eyes down the whole time, neither of us said anything. When she left the next day I couldn't find anything missing.
On the opposite spectrum and not satisfying at all, I once kept up a lie about getting a Nintendo 64.
My birthday was coming up and I wanted one so bad and my mom hinted that she'd try to make it happen. But as a single mom and being poor it wasn't for sure.
Well my friends were all getting Nintendos and I'm so excited that I say I'm getting one too on my birthday.
Day comes and my mom drives me into the city to get it but she didn't have the cash and her credit cards all get. declined. She even tried them again at another store with the same result. It was a shitty day, because I didn't get what I wanted, had to think about how poor we were in public, and I felt mostly bad for my mom going through that trying to make me happy. So I drop it.
Fast forward to the school week and my friends excitedly talk about gaming and want to come over and play at my house. I was too embarrassed to say I didn't end up having the Nintendo because we couldn't afford it so I avoid making plans with my friends and keep that up for a few weeks. They keep talking about goldeneye and waverace and stuff and I bluff about playing those as well. Finally my best friend at the time confronted me & called me out as lying about having the Nintendo but I still keep up the lie and we get in a small fight shoving each other and I ended up avoiding them for the short remainder of the school year. It sucked and I was just so embarrassed about being poor.
School lets out for summer, my mom married and she convinced my new step-dad to get me the Nintendo. Over the summer my old friend and I made plans to sleep over at my house and he came over and we played all night. I sort of pulled off the lie I suppose but I never said "I told you so" to my buddy because I was ashamed and he could have figured it out anyhow and didn't say anything. So I saved face kinda and it ended up not terribly. Not poor anymore and my mom was awesome.
In elementary school, all of my neighbors had legos; but some had better sets than others. When we’d go over to each other’s houses, we’d occasionally swipe a cool character or brick. Over several years, I think I ended up with more stolen legos than ones that actually belonged to me, which felt bad.
I got the last laugh though, in the form of the Boba Fett minifig
Idk if they were playing with Barbies because there are lots of kinds of dolls with crazy accessories, but Barbies in particular have tons of stuff like houses, pools, cars, restaurants...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend who did this with my Pokémon or yuhioh cards. Found them in the bottom of his bag. Of course nobody believed me and would say that it was probably an accident.
Ohhh, similar thing happened to me. Unfortunately for me she had like 3 older siblings, while I had none, and scared me didn't want to tell our parents about it. :(
Similar story here, but with pokemon cards. Another kid on my street came over and we played a couple matches before I had to use the bathroom for a sec. When I got back he suddenly wants to leave, and something felt off so I check my deck right after he left and sure enough, couple rare cards were missing. I called his parents and they made him turn out his pockets when he got home, and yep there they were.
He tried to say they were his but his parents didn't take, cuz I named off the exact cards he had in his pockets, so he then says "oh whoops these aren't mine" and that he "accidentally" slipped them into his pockets "out of habit".
I stopped hanging out with him after that.
Also had a kid at school get into my backpack inside my locker (no locks allowed on lockers because drugs) and steal my whole deck right before he transferred. I'll never forgive you Clifford, my grandma bought me those.
Oh sorry. At first she denied seeing where my dolls were. It took me confronting her in the driveway and making her check her stuff to show that she was lying.
Is your name Laura? Because there’s an Edmonton radio statio called 102.3 Now Radio and they just read your post word for word saying someone named “Laura” sent it in lol I only listened for about 15 minutes but they read at least two more from this thread. I don’t have twitter but if I did, I would have put them on blast!
When I was like, 6 or 7, I had a "friend" who convinced me to give her things she liked. I am the youngest of 4 and was a major doormat so I just kinda let her take things. It only stopped when she wanted something that wasn't mine. I think one of my sister's caught her taking something and my parents put an end to that "friendship."
I took my car to the dealership for an oil change. I knew a brake light was burned out I was going to change it myself and save the $40 they charge. When I went to pick up my car they said they did an inspection and I needed new brakes and air filters and a new transmission, you know the works. I said "everything else is fine?" Seeing that they said the lights were all in working condition. They said yes so I went out and stepped on the brakes and said "is the brake light working? Because if it is not working it means you didn't really do an inspection right? You wouldn't lie to me to try and get more money would you Greg?" Turns out my oil change was free that day.
I had about 150k miles on the car and at a dealership they will upsell you a transmission because most people will buy one.
My most favorite time working at a part store was the time a customer came to get some car wash stuff and while I was ringing him out I said "need a new engine today?"
And he said yes. And he bought an engine. He said he had needed it for awhile and didn't realize we could order entire engines.
I made that joke like once a day for three years. He was very confused lol
p1-o2 · 58 points · Posted at 19:16:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You may be hopelessly lost but I think you're just hopelessly awesome.
Wait a minute was this like a general auto parts store or one with a garage? Because I didn't think an Auto Zone would order one. I'd be delighted to be mistaken though.
You might as well trade in your vehicle now! It would be unethical to allow you to drive off the lot in your old car.
Come check out this brand new Malibu for $26000. We can lease it for you for only $340 a month. You need a safe vehicle for your family right? Do you even care about them?
No bull some ass hat said that shit to my mom once when she was looking at an older car that was on their lot. Like why would they be selling an unsafe car anyway?
__i0__ · 21 points · Posted at 18:44:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not since I got life insurance on them. What exactly does she need to do to trigger this explosion you're concerned about?
Even just 2 out of 5 and I can retire.
hahaha I wish the transmission on my car could be replaced for $2000
try owning an old bmw. The prices they charge for that shit is ridiculous and half the time they can’t even fix it right. Even the dealership itself usually fucks up
If there's anything I know about German engineering from dealing with German-made machines daily, you can bet that there is a certain precision to its manufacture, and that's it's hopelessly complex.
Apparently that was a problem with their tanks in WWII as well. They performed way better than anybody else's, but replacement parts were too specific, which is a logistical nightmare in a large scale war.
Heh no shortage of parts for what I work with. Just interestingly complex design decisions.
For example there is a process that requires a corner to be squared up for some tooling to operate on it. Later designs this one company figured out just put the squaring boot at the front of the tooling carriage, one cylinder to raise it and the servos pull back until they meet some threshold of resistance where it is considered squared, then it can be clamped and the boots drop down out of the way. Their earlier design involved having this complex bullcrap built off to the side, 3 cylinders for one boot. One to pull in for squaring, one for raising up and down, and one to move this whole assembly out of the way for the tooling to come in. Two hall effect sensors right under the boot which was spring-loaded, to make a determination on when it was squared by measuring boot travel. Sensors for home position on all 3 cylinders.
Or another one, which does its squaring with the clamps which hold from the side instead of the top. The piston inside the cylinder rotates 90 degrees then pulls back and holds. There are two tooling heads, one stationary and one moving, to size up for the job. When machining starts, the moving head locks its position motor and the clamps flip up and pull everything in. The moving head table is pulled closer to the unit during this (there is a gap left before hitting start, it takes up the gap) by the clamps, until it trips a sensor, then it backs just the tooling up a bit to square it up after squaring up the tables. Ridiculously complex compared to this old American-made machine we have.
Yeah idek. Basics features on other cars are hidden under like 5 panels that are only accessible after dismantling the entire engine or some shit. Tbh they probably do it to make you want to take it to the dealership so they can charge you more. Or because they just like being overly complex as a way of saying they’re smarter
“You’ll need a new air filter, that’ll be about $30 to replace and it’ll take about 15 minutes to replace it.
Oh yeah also your transmission is busted! It’ll cost about $3,000 dollars and it should only take about 5 days to replace it. You know how these things go.”
Castun · 10 points · Posted at 20:38:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oil change places want to charge almost $100 on the air filter and cabin filter, meanwhile I can get both for $15 from Amazon and it's a 5 minute job.
You can even get permanent ones. But yeah, never take the air filter. The price you pay the mechanic to pop one in is not worth it.
I had a permanent filter in one of my old cars and the fucking lube tech at Jiffy Lube came out to show me "my" air filter and that for $40, they could replace it. Yeah no, dude. Mine is red and just needs to be washed out and oiled.
My SO changed my air filter for me and when I got my oil changed like a month later they tried that crap on me too. Showing me an old nasty air filter saying it was mine and I needed to get it replaced. No thnx bb
Castun · 8 points · Posted at 21:01:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, most cars the engine air filter it's as simple as popping the hood, popping off the cover marked "Air filter", and pulling out the old one and putting in the new one.
Cabin filter can be a little trickier, but it's usually hidden in the back of the glove box. I had to YouTube how to remove the bracket without breaking mine.
L3tum · 8 points · Posted at 18:51:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are brake filters even a thing? O.o I'm a motorcycle guy so no idea
I got a good one for mechanics, so growing up I've been helping my dad work on cars since I was 5 I'm pretty prfficient except for electronic crap. Well we had this 94 F350 needed a new wiring harness and a new sway bar take it to the dealership up the road we know the owner, it's there for a bout a week we only took it cause my dad was gonna be outta town for work for a while, my dad calls asks me to check on the truck cause he hasn't heard anything I talk to the service manager first he says oh yeah we did this, this, this, etc ok cool call my dad to let him know but in my way out I see the truck so curious me u go take a look harness is cut up the old sway bar is still on and all the work they said they did was bullshit still on the phone with my dad I inform him he hangs up I walk back in the service center he is yelling so loud that all the customers can hear him I'm laughing my ass off looking crazy all in all the work was done for free plus some extras.
I mean you should definitely change the air filters but shouldn't pay more than 10$ to have it done. Air filters are cheap and the easiest thing to replace. Don't forget the air filter behind your glove box too.
WTF is a brake filter? The little screen to keep debris out? No. A brake filter isn’t a thing.
Transmission replacement is like $2500 and takes 6-8 hours. And you wouldn’t get customer approval first? So much bullshit there.
Do mechanics get commission, or are they getting pressure from their managers to flat out lie to people? I've known some cool mechanics but I feel like that profession seems to draw in shady people the most
Not to mention that if they do a good job of upselling needless repairs their bosses are impressed and it can be a metric by which promotions and raises are handed out.
Worked in a few mechanic shops through college, had one guy tell me his brother in law works in the shop at a Canadian Tire. They are paid a flat rate, charge goes to the customer and the job. If a job gets quoted to take 8 hours, but it’s done in 3, the techs still get paid for 8 hours of work.
The shop I was in last summer had you log hours per job, so the company would charge accordingly. This was in a large machine shop though, it might work differently.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 16:47:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This makes me so damn happy that my dad is a mechanic. He does all my work for me if I buy the parts and get him a case of beer occasionally, so I don't need to worry about BS like this. I can also call him, tell him the symptoms, and he can tell me if someone is ripping me off.
I took my car in to Jiffy Lube for the required Texas inspection and they failed it because they said my (factory installed, completely standard, not very dark) window tint was too dark. Confused, I said "but when I brought it to this exact store one year ago, it passed without issue." The guy said "yeah...that's the thing. When you park in the sun, your tint will get darker over time." I just stood there thinking "did this guy just tell me my car got a suntan?" Took it to a mom and pop down the street and it passed without issue. Told the owner, and he laughed and laughed and laughed. Said there was nothing close to illegal about my tint and no, cars don't fucking suntan.
LOL, thanks for that laugh, I needed it! Luckily I am not out in public where I would look crazy laughing out loud while reading something on my phone! But really, “your tint gets darker over time”, what the hell?? I wish you would have responded out loud though lol!!
scothc · 7 points · Posted at 18:32:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my car to the Ford dealership for an oil change and mentioned there was an odd sound coming from the wheel area. When I came back they told me I needed a new control arm, and I'd have to buy the whole kit, be about $800. I took my car instead to a family friend 2 hours away because it'd be a bit cheaper from him. He called me after 20 minutes ago wanted to know why I thought the control arm was bad and I told him that's what the Ford dealership told me. Turns out the arm was fine, but I had a bent rim that was making the noise.
Your mistake was going to a dealership for an oil change!
scothc · 3 points · Posted at 20:06:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know. I had a Ford 500 at the time and I was sick of garages telling me they had never worked on one before so I went with the dealer that time. Learned my lesson
He said his car's "trunk" is in the front of the car, where the engine would normally go in most cars. Sounds like an old Volkswagen, which has an air-cooled engine in the rear.
Can you explain why if the brake light wasn't working they didn't do an inspection?
New driver, and not a car guy, but I'd like to save myself a few bucks in the future.
I’m sorry, I’m going to have to call BS. I have worked at multiple dealerships as a mechanic and I have never heard of anyone just upselling a new transmission. I could see a “transmission service” but never a whole transmission. Nobody is going to just buy a transmission if they didn’t come there complaining about it.
Tbh having worked at a dealership doing oil changes I 100% would have noticed a leak or transmission issues before I noticed brake lights, simply because those are always easier to check when doing an oil change.
Though when I did the only time I would write stuff up is when I felt it was nearing catastrophic failure, because I knew if it was minor the service writers would play it off as the absolute worst.
Just playing devil's advocate (disclaimer: I'm a lead tech for a dealership).
Is it possible they could have missed the brake light and you really did need some of the other stuff? My quick lane guys miss stuff on occasion because they both think the other person checked it.
Also, it would be very strange to attempt to upsell a transmission with no issues or concerns. You're sure it wasn't some type of transmission service? There are shady people everywhere, but for all the techs I've known I haven't seen one try to do something like that.
I put off getting an oil change for the longest time because my dad had always taken care of that stuff and I was terrified of going in and getting scammed.
Luckily, the men were super nice and didn't do anything but what I asked for. My car is kinda old and not in the best shape either, so I wouldn't have known whether to believe them or not if they told me something needed to be replaced.
Guy I knew took his car to the dealership for the second time for work they didn't do the first time, but said they did. He hired people to watch his car every minute the service dept was open for the entire week they kept it. It never once moved, but he got the call telling him it was good to go. And the bill. This was the same dealership where I looked at a car on my lunch hour one day and asked the salesman what time they closed, wanting to return with my husband to drive one. He said 5 pm. Yeah. They really closed at 9. Guess who called the owner AND bought elsewhere?
Ooh, car mechanic stories. I bought a camper van that had two batteries, one for starting the engine, and a smaller auxiliary under the driver seat for the camping fridge and stuff. The auxiliary was dead when I bought the van, so I took it to the garage to have it replaced (probably could have done it myself, but was lazy and they told me it would be cheap).
Anyway, when I come back to pick up the car, the guy is acting weird, so I pop the hood and see a brand new battery under there. I tell him I wanted the auxiliary replaced, not the main battery. He starts telling me some fairy tale about how in this model, the auxiliary is actually the one under the hood, and the main battery is installed under the driver's seat "for some reason".
So I move the seat forward as far as it will go, and together we gaze at the twenty year old piece of junk battery that was in the space below it. It was tiny, and there were actual cobwebs all over it. So, in my calmest voice I say "How incredible that I managed to drive onto your yard just powered by this. It must be a really good model".
He told me they had a couch where I could wait while he fixed this mess, for free.
As a mechanic this shit pisses me the fuck off. Why the hell would you cheat a potential life long customer? Not only is it shady as hell and looks bad for everyone in your field and makes your company specifically look like shit but you lost so much more money once you realize that before the cheat this person may be coming back to you time and time again to fix their car. Now they're going to the competition. That's not even getting into the moral aspect of jt. Some people can barely afford oil changes and you're gonna try to make them pay out the ass for things that are just fine on their cars? Fucking disgusting.
For real. A couple years ago, my car's engine was having a tough time turning over on start up. I took it in, the shop said (whatever thing) needed to be replaced, and it'd cost about $800, but I could take it to the dealership down the road and they'd fix it for free since it would be covered under warranty.
Just because of that honesty I still go to them for everything.
Exactly. In my experience people reward honesty with loyalty. And now that shop has a life long customer who will make them plenty of money over the years and you know you are getting treated fairly. Win/win.
I have AAA and love the guy that has come out to my house twice. He's a young guy but seems to know his shit. He did a test on the alternator and starter and showed me that those things were fine. It was the battery and the terminal. I could clearly see the terminal wasn't good. I bought a battery from him since he carried some in the truck and, he drove over to the nearest auto part store and bought the terminal and put it on. Triple A is the way to go.
AAA does road side service, but they'll come for non-emergent things too. I had a dead battery I couldn't jump and obviously couldn't get it to a shop so they came out and replaced it for the price of the battery.
Warning on those batteries: if it dies in warranty they are absolutely horrible about replacing it. You need to be ready to raise hell if it's dead and not just in need of a jump, because they will put you through it. From what I saw online their battery service sucking is a really common complaint and my experience was actually on the low end of how frustrating they can get.
I loved them and got a battery from them because of it. About a year later my battery died, called them, they jumped the car then had me run it for a bit to get the battery charged again, I was completely happy. Next day it dies again, this guy says the same thing and when I argue says that their tester thing says the battery is healthy but I can take it up to Sears to get tested in a machine thing and if it's bad they'll replace it. So I go up to Sears, pay for a test, battery is bad. Next day it dies again so I call up AAA, person on the phone says that they'll replace it no problem, but when the guy gets out there he first says that he can't replace it without proof that I bought it from them. When I manage to find the original receipt he refuses to replace it and instead just cleans the nodes and keeps showing me that his equipment says the battery is fine and when I show him the paperwork from Sears he says they aren't within the AAA system so he can't take that (despite the last guy specifically sending me to Sears).
So at this point I call my dad (who was the policy holder for the AAA account), and he magically manages to get them to agree to replace it. Knowing him there was probably yelling and threats to cancel the account involved. An hour later they send out a tow truck from a completely unrelated company with the wrong battery... But luckily tow truck guy was great and just called in the right battery from another tow truck while we chatted for a bit then replaced it. His battery tester thing (he tested it while we were waiting, after reassuring me that I was definitely getting a new battery and he just needed it for paperwork) showed the same results that Sears got, so no idea what was up with all three AAA guys.
The second battery has lasted long enough that I think it's out of warranty now, but when it dies I'm just having them jump it and going somewhere legit for the new battery.
I'm only talking about replacing a bad battery that can be jumped under warranty. In every other situation they're amazing (which is why we still have AAA despite that experience). When I originally got the battery they were great! They tried to jump my old battery, couldn't, and replaced it with one of theirs for a great price (which sounds like what happened with you).
The frustration came once their battery went just bad enough that it was dying multiple days in a row but not completely dead yet. Which is apparently common with them.
Edit: And to specify, a warranty that's under AAA. They're happy to replace battery you have to pay for but once their warranty says they have to replace it for free things get squirrely.
Exactly. You pay a once a year fee (mine is $100) and when your car breaks down they will tow you. If you have a flat they will come and change the tire, try to start your car, etc. You can't use it all the time though. I think you can use it four or five times a year.
only slightly related but i feel strongly about honesty in this aspect. i work at a local petstore and we sell this 'betta water' bullshit by the liter for $4. whenever I am talking to people about bettas I always make it painfully clear that you can go to walmart and get a gallon of distilled water for less than that. people respect not being cheated
The shop I used to work at would automatically check any car for recalls since one time a decade ago they charged someone for a fix and then found out later it was a recall and felt so bad they refunded the guy.
I'm not a mechanic by trade but know a lot about vehicles so I tell all my friends that don't know much to give me a call if they think something is wrong with their car. If it's something I can fix, I'll do it for a few beers and a good conversation.
Had a friend who's car was making a strange noise but it'd only make this noise in a turn or hitting a bump. He took it to a mechanic and he told him his rear diff had leaked out all its fluid and the teeth were toast and he'd need to get a new differential. This seemed strange as his car still moved just fine!
Looked under the car to see if I could find signs of leaking and there was nothing and there was no stain on the ground. I pulled the plug and it was still full.
While I was under there I noticed he didn't have his spare tire under his car and that thing that holds the tire up was able to swing around and was hitting the sides of that spare tire well and that was the noise we heard!
Imagine getting a new fucking differential just to find out you just need to hang your spare tire back up! I was beyond pissed!
Yes. High viscosity gear oil. Limited slip differentials also require a friction modifier. And it should be changed periodically. Service interval is usually between 70k and 150k, but I like to do it every 50k so I can inspect the fluid and make sure I'm not seeing any metal shavings or anything. $25 in gear oil every 50k is a hell of a lot cheaper than a new differential.
[deleted] · 43 points · Posted at 18:02:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really really don’t like going to the mechanic. I don’t know the first thing about cars. I’m sure there are plenty of honest mechanics, but how am I supposed to tell the difference?
Honestly with modern social media these days you can look up reviews for shops. Look up some local shops and find some with a lot of good reviews. Take it there and see if it works out. Get a complete inspection done and if you think they are cheating you take it to their competitor. Get the same inspection done. Talk to the mech if you can and have them show you what's going on. If they can show you what wrong with your vehicle and explain it all fairly simply you found yourself a decent mech. Once you've got them try to take it to that mech every time. It's mutually beneficial. He gets return sales from your car and you have someone you can trust. Plus in my opinion and my slogan if I ever start my own shop is, you have your personal doctor why wouldn't you want a personal mechanic? Someone who knows your car inside and out. Who you can take it to and know they're gonna treat you right. Your vehicle is usually the second most expensive thing you own outside your house or apartment. You need someone who can keep it running and safe for you and whoever you are driving with.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, great advice - thank you! I’m moving to a small town soon, so hopefully one of the two mechanics in town are honest so I don’t have to go out of the way.
I went there exactly twice in my life. After the battery story, I thought "well, I'm sure they learned their lesson" and took my van there because I suspected the starter motor was failing. They proceeded to leave it out in the rain overnight with the roof open, and then said they tested the starter and it was fine.
Well, you can imagine my face when I took the camper to go on vacation the week after, and on day two, the starter motor died. I never went to that place again.
Never really is in places like that. That guy isn't screwing you because he wants to, he's screwing you because he's set up to screw you by management (incentives, bonuses, berating, etc).
The communication between the office and the mechanics in that place was just broken. After the battery story, I saw the mech get handed a printed card by the manager that said "I need to check back with the office about my tasks before starting work" and I was like, wait what, you have these things ready printed, just laying around?
Now that I think about it, there really were a lot of red flags that should have told me to take my vehicle somewhere else. I don't make the smartest choices at times.
hrbrox · 22 points · Posted at 18:08:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why the hell would you cheat a potential life long customer?
Not to mention all of said potential customer’s friends and relatives! You can bet your boots anyone who has identified that they’re being ripped off by a garage is going to immediately warn everyone they care about not to use them.
Plus, they're going to figure it out the first time they turn on the car. You're out of a job before they're out of the parking lot. Honestly, I wish that mechanics who lose their jobs to the increasing computerization of cars go in order of most to least stupid so these nimrods lose them first.
Where do you work? I left my former mechanic because EVERY SINGLE TIME something else came up that needed fixed.
I went to a new place, and they have fixed everything at a cheap price and nothing is ever "broken" a few days later. I will continue to go to them and I tell EVERYBODY I KNOW how awesome they are.
I work at firestone. It used to have a bad rep but the company is really turning it around. Incentives for mechs to go to school and get their certs. Fixing cars they fucked up at no cost to the customer. Things like that. They really are trying to be the best of the best in this business. I'm not usually a company man. Actually I usually can't stand every company I've worked for but it seems like Bridgestone is really trying to do right by the customer.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:22:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents went to the same shop with all of their cars for 25 years until it was bought by new people. They went from an honest place that did great work and didn't try to upsell, to constantly making shit up. I used to drive an hour and a half back home to go there specifically because of how great it was.
The final straw was when they incorrectly installed my new brakes, so one of them literally fell off my front left wheel on the highway. Lost the business of 4 people and 7 cars in a single day
I'm not good with cars to be honest so I'm not 100% sure but the top of the caliper came off and tore up the inside of the rim really really bad. When it happened there was a loud bang and my car shook and bounced really badly haha
Yep. Wheels, suspensions and brakes: you put them back together 100% or you don't even consider touching them in the first place because one missing (or under/overtorqued) bolt and you may very well end someones life.
Used car dealer here. Same for us. Why mislead customers and then screw them over when they find out you knowingly sold them a car with serious issues? You lose that customer, everyone they know, and hurt the industry. I hear it all the time. "so and so shady dealership sold me a lemon, waved the AS IS buyer's guide in my face, and now I'm terrified of car dealers and I'm going to buy my next used car from that new website that delivers you a used car sight unseen just so I don't have to deal with a salesman."
I had a place near my office replace my brakes. About 10 months later I went for a new battery and they told me I needed new brakes. So I asked how long the new ones would last, after he asked me a few questions about annual mileage etc. he told me that they would easily last a few years. When I reminded him that I got them changed 10 months ago he started telling me that there must have been something wrong with the batch or something.
After getting a second opinion (where they said the brakes were fine), I told absolutely everyone I knew with a car that lived near that place my story. So not only did they lose my business, they probably lost it from a bunch of other people too. Not sure if it was worth it for them for the sake of a €150 job.
Man I used to work at an auto parts store, and occasionally deliver to shops. So much shady shit. I've seen a Tire place order two shocks, when i show up with one box and he questions me:
"Yeah, they come two in a box for this truck"
"Awesome! I charged them for two already, more money for me!"
"... I need a signature and a shower"
I've seen a muffler/oil change place forget to put the new oil filter on, and take the car on the "test drive" around the block. "eh, put the filter on and fill it back up. It'll be fine, they don't need to know."
I've seen shops charging customers for pads and loaded calipers.
I've seen shops doing "premium" oil changes with our house brand shit oil.
I learned to work on my own car, because there was nobody left I respected.
Hey man if you know your way around a car being a mech can bring in some pretty good money if you're interested. Plus you can be the change you want to see in this industry. That's what my dumb ass is trying to do.
You don't need any training or certs. I got my start at tires plus and I had no tools or knowledge to my name when I started. Didn't even know how to do an oil change. They have shop tools for all the simple things you will be doing but eventually you are gonna want to sink some money into your own. There is colleges and whatnot you can go to to learn and there are straight up apprenticeships in a lot of dealer shops. Pretty easy to get into and you can get a feel on wether you are gonna like the job or not if you just hop into a firestone or tires plus gs (general service) position. Like I said in a previous comment there is a lot of money to be made in mech work. For instance the lead mech in my shop works probably 45-50 hours a week and he averages about 80-90 flat rate hours in that time. At 25 bucks an hour that adds up really quick. But if you have any interest in the job just go apply to a local shop. I think any chain shop has beginner tools that you can use to start with. Hope this helped m8.
Also to add on to my other comment Bridgestone will pay for a lot of your schooling if you work for them and send you to their own classes as well. Also payed for. Bonuses and raises for when you get your ase certs. Like I said I'm not a company guy usually but Bridgestone has always done right by me.
Thanks for the info! I started learning basic car stuff in H.S. when I witnessed a friend's mom pay $60 to a neighbor to do a brake job and realized I could save a lot of money learning to do stuff myself, and I discovered I actually really enjoy it! To get paid to work on cars sounds like a blast to me, but I've never had the balls to apply because I haven't had any formal training and feel really underqualified. Maybe I'm wrong.
Yeah dude like I said. I didn't even know how to do an oil change when I started. They'll teach ya everything ya need to know. But it is a fun job. Gotta have tough skin tho. Fairly physically demanding and most mechs have a very dirty/ruthless sense of humor.
I’m a lifer for my mechanic. The whole shop is awesome folks, and Maggie, the really friendly shop pooch is a sweetheart. But what sold me on the place is that they always explain every bit to me, give me options, and typically give me a heads up on future fixes that aren’t needed now, but may be needing on another appointment.
I’m no car doc, but I have done minor repairs. The owner has called me up a few times on a diagnosis to let me know that the fix was something well within my ability, and doing it myself would save me a few hours of shop time, plus allow me to learn a new area of the vehicle. He’s still happy to do the job, but likes to give his customers the option.
Fantastic garage, great people, amazing ethics. It’s folks like you and he that help make car repair a less painful issue.
My mechanic is a friend of over 25 years. He's going to retire soon and while I'm happy for him, I'm not looking forward to finding a new mechanic when the time comes.
Exactly all of this. My SO is a huge car fanatic and he's got some pretty unique/pricey toys. He drives well out of his way for a small shop with 3-4 guys and I'm not kidding, their cranky ole' granddad, lol. He adores them and always tips well because they charge decently and tell him the truth with that he does and doesn't need. Even with all the expensive stuff, he's more than happy in this tiny garage and takes all his car buddies to them as well. Loyalty for life.
Haha I work at firestone. In some areas it's still kinda shady but the Bridgestone brand is doing a massive overhaul of image and quality. They pay for their mechs to go to classes for learning ase (automotive service excellence) and once they get their ase certs they give them a raise and a couple hundred bucks. The company really wants their mechs to be the best of the best and for everything to be done right. And if you can show that a mech did something wrong 10/10 (that I've seen) they'll pay for it outright. They're a multibillion dollar industry and fixing a car for a few hundred or even thousand out of their pocket is worth it in their mind to make the customer happy and preserve their image.
Exactly!!!!! I have two stories, the first was my 17 year old niece. I’m trying to make sure she knows enough about her car to spot bullshit, so o take her to the auto shop I had been going to without issue and sent her in alone. I wanted her to be at a known place to be able to do it herself. The guy had serviced my car for 3 years. She needs an oil change, they change the oil fine. Then tell her her brakes are dangerous and she really needs to replace them for $200 right now. She comes out crying to me that she needs brakes and they don’t want her to get the car back because it’s so dangerous. I walk into the shop and say - show me the brakes on the car. They back pedal a minute and say they are just ready to be changed soon and she should think about it. (I’m female but have a really good don’t fuck with me face) I take the car to my dad after buying new pads so he can help teach her how to change them herself, it’s kind of a right of passage in the family. I should have checked them myself because they were almost brand new. The mechanic not only lost my business but everyone I’ll ever meet.
Good story... there is a local tire shop down the street from my parents house. My parents Have literally been customers for 40 years. I have been a customer as long as I’ve been driving and my nieces and nephews are going to be life long customers as well. Had someone steal my tires. (Literally the whole thing.) the tire shop found rims that would fit my car and came out and installed them all at my house 20 miles away. Only charged my 10 bucks a rim because they were used and the new tires. No install or delivery fee. Installed them and then let me come by the shop to pay on my way home from work. I also refer every person I’ll ever meet to this tire shop.
Yeah my fiancee dad is a mechanic that owns his own shop. He'd never pull shit like this. My fiance told me a story a few years ago about an employer he had. For the life of me I can't remember what the part was on the car but a lady came into the shop with a minivan and needed the part replaced. My fiance notices that it was just loose and needed tightened up and that fixed the issue. He went and told his employer and the guy said "I don't care. Just replace and bill the lady for it because she'll be none the wiser". He reluctantly did as told, finished he work day and never returned. The guy that owns that shop now has 2 different shops in the same town. I hate people like that. I get that they need to make money but if you get found out about stuff like that then eventually youll end up with no customers.
I had a real shit time trying to get a problem fixed on my last car. It was a couple years old and suddenly it would stop accelerating. Which was really bad. I'd had it cut out making a right on red, I'd had it cut out on on ramps.
Eventually I just started being the most cautious driver because I couldn't count on it to keep moving. Which led to lots of honks and people wanting to get out and fight.
I kept trying to get it fixed, but kept being told it was my fault, that I put in a remote start when I bought it and that's what is causing the problem 2 years later.
Well I got the remote start company to look at it and they made sure it was all good. Still happened.
So I get them to remove the remote start. Still does it.
So now the dealer tells me that it's just how the car is. That it can't be expected to run like their brand of cars, since this was a rebadge.
Which is fucking horse shit. Why would a company spend the money to rebadge a car that has serious safety issues and would ruin their brand?
Eventually I got them to keep it for 3 days and they still swore up and down they found nothing and couldn't do anything. They said they'd take the car apart and reassembled it and found nothing.
I was pissed. I ended up going from the garage to another dealer and making a deal to trade it for a new car twice the price. Terrible idea probably, payments are more than my rent.
Worst part? They fixed it when they took it apart it seems. I don't know if they fixed it and lied, or just accidentally fixed it and didn't know. But for the entire time between when I ordered the new car, and when it was delivered it never happened again.
As far as they told me they never fixed anything. So I'm not sure if they fixed it by accident, or just wanted to keep up the bullshit "there's nothing wrong with it" act
As someone raised by a single mother I definitely have a soft spot for people in your situations and will help them out as much as I can. I hope you find a decent mech willing to work with you.
I tell everyone who can listen what places got me good service and what places ripped me off. Cough Symons tire = awesome.
Fountain tire = OK but get those quotes in writing.
Other local shop wanted 2x what fountain tire was charging for an intake gasket replacement and 'you should replace a bunch of other stuff, like your ignition cables while we are in there!' (Without ever opening the hood.. without realizing they did that shit last time I was there and I knew changing the cables did not require anything to be removed to be done)
Dont worry. They just make guys like me value our good mechs that much more. My guy is close to my house and I can take back roads if the truck is limping their. (95 f350 dually. Shit breaks.) Hes fair and takes me around my truck on the lift and breaks down what I can do next on my time and what he will do next time I come in for something else. No crazy charges and a full rundown before he does work unless I just say to fix it.
Eventually the truck should be amazing again and potentially pull wheelies.
This is so true. People really value a good, honest mechanic and tend to be very loyal. When I was young and poor I found a great place that I could trust and they'd tell me what needed to be fixed but also what could wait. I stayed with that garage for 20 years until the owner retired.
Hahaha. Mechanics are pretty easy pets to be honest. Just feed and water them. Keep them in your garage and every once in a while buy them new toys (tools). Make sure if they're being good to get them a 6 pack as a reward.
I do the basic stuff myself. Oil changes/spark plugs/brakes/alternator/diff fluid.. Recently changed the cv axle, so that was the biggest job I've done. Definitely keep my mechanical pets in As best shape as i can.
I tell you, I need to get an oil change but I'm afraid to because I know how these places are. I've been to them before. You need this, you need that and the other thing. No I don't. They want to sell you an air filter for twice the price that Walmart sells them for and tell you there are other things that are 'wrong'. Those people make commission on all that extra shit they try to sell you.
Seriously, having grown up with a mechanic as a father, worked as one myself, as well as my brother working for him now we're all very aware of what a lot of people think of mechanics. So many people have zero trust of mechanics and are even flat out afraid to go to one for fear of getting ripped off. Treating customers right and building trust is a major part of being successful in that business.
Same boat as you. Pops is a mech and I'm learning all I can in hopes i can open my own shop and treat people the way they deserve to be treated. Hope it all works out for you.
I worked front end at a mechanics shop for 3 years and when I took my car in for a tune up before a big road trip they still ripped me off and replaced my reusable oil filter with the cheapest one they could find. I really don't trust any shop now.
Man, I wish I could have you work on my car. I think I've been to every shop in my area and can't find an honest mechanic.
I grew up with my dad fixing cars with my uncle who was a mechanic. I don't know much, and what I don't, I run by my dad. So I usually have a good idea of what needs attention one way or the other. I've gotten referrals, reviews, etc., and they all suck.
First highly recommended mechanic couldn't figure it out and just said "the light will just go out".
Second guy, fixed the problem, after having my car for a week, told me my car was a piece of shit and I should junk it. My rotors were magically warped when I drove it off.
Last guy fixed a problem, affordable price, fair, but he has moved on.
I can only assume that it's because my car is 17 years old, and they think I'm clueless. It's been a good car though.
When the car is running, the alternator is proving electrical charge for the car (and charging the battery). The battery is only used for starting and operating the electronics when the car is off.
All the wiring is hooked up to the battery, yes. The alternator is belt-driven by the motor and hooked to the battery as well (on a heavier-gauge dedicated wire).
Think of it like this: before you start the car, you can listen to the radio and shit, right? Pure battery power and you’re slowly draining the battery. When you start the car, that sucks out a massive slurp of battery juice to power the starter motor. Once the car is running, though, the alternator makes more voltage than the battery (14V+ vs the battery’s ~12V), so the alternator’s power takes over, both running all the electronics and recharging the battery.
If your alternator dies (or, if you wanted to experiment with this, you disconnect the wiring from it), you can actually drive around just fine for quite a while. Of course if you run the headlights or a huge radio amplifier or whatever, you won’t get as far. A few years ago (when I was younger / poorer) I had to leave my alternator broken for a few months until I could afford it — i would just keep the battery on a charger whenever it was parked at home. I still commuted every day with it. (Note: this is potentially not great for the battery. Lead acid batteries do not like being drained down too far.)
Interesting. I thought everything ran off one big battery (or smaller batteries chained together), but what you’re saying is that there’s a separate 12v system to power just the accessories?
In my Zoe at least, yes.
Some of the conventional accessories are driven from the motive battery (rear window defroster, heater/AC) but all other non motive systems are all 12V! Radio, lights, alarm etc etc.
I think it's easier to sort out simple systems like heaters to scale up or use different voltages as those provided by a motive battery, but since everything else, (bar commercials) use 12v systems, why reinvent the wheel?
AFAIK, the ignition coil only needs power from the battery at start up as no power is being generated by the alternator yet. Once the engine is running you could remove the battery and it would keep firing.
This is why you can jump start a car with a dead battery; all it needs is the initial jolt of electricity to get in motion, after which the alternator will provide enough juice to keep things running as well as recharge the battery.
I got one too. After my last car blew a piston rod, I bought a Mercury sable that had a working a/c, which was a big selling point as my last car didn't. So the brake line in the rear had a hole in it, so I took it too Firestone to get it fixed, and they did, but they also said that both sets of shocks in the back were pretty much dead and it was resting on the struts mainly. They wanted to charge around $1200 to do both, but they said I had probably a month until it was a very necessary repair so I took it to the mechanic my dad uses and turns out only the back left shocks are broken, and he's only charging $300 for it.
I had a similar issue when I took my motorbike in for its service and MOT (I’m from the uk).
Now there is only one Yamaha accredited mechanic shop that’s an reasonable distance from me (about 20 minutes or so), so I regularly went there when the time arrived, first with my 125 a few times then one time when I rocked up on a 600. Now I just bought it and it was second hand, but the dealership/garage I bought it off of were based about an hours ride from where I lived so that and the the fact I had been frequenting a smaller more local garage I went to the local garage.
when I bought the bike they had done some work for me, new tires chain replaced oil changed usual stuff done to make it road worthy and operate great. Now the MOT on it was due a few months (now I’m not very knowledgable in all the paperwork stuff and when it was meant to go in and stuff so my dad dealt with that and if I recall correctly I could get it done now or just do it when the time came) this was tail end of the school year so we decided to do it ourselves later cause then I’ll be finished school and then when it comes round again I won’t have to try and fit it in with school I can just go do it in summer break.
So anyway the time comes up I go to the local garage and they do the MOT I’m sat in a nearby cafe and they give me a ring and say (me is me and dg is dodgy guy on the phone)
Dg - hiya mate done the MOT but we can’t pass it
Me - oh right why not (bit confused because it’s partially a new bike after having most of its parts replaced)
Dg - basically your chains buggered and the cog (I forget the technical term) is about to be dead so we’ll need to replace that for you
Me - okay give me ten minutes and I’ll pop over (knowing full well that it’s practically new and I have all the paperwork in my jacket pocket where I keep all my bikes documents)
Dg - cool see you soon mate
He hangs up and I finish my tea and pop over.
He’s telling me all this stuff how it’s going to be expensive etc to fix and that it’s gunna take the rest of the day so I’m thinking about how I have to call him out. So I just play dumb and show him my log book where I keep all the info and stuff that’s been done on the bike and say
Me - Ermm I dunno I just had it replaced etc before I bought it last month.
He promptly looks it all over goes oh right that’s one of them new ones I don’t know about them just looked a bit wrong sorry.
I paid for the MOT went home and never went back there again and just took the hour drive to where I bought it from then onwards.
ROFL... reminds me of when my truck battery started getting weak... started turning over slowly despite just being charged but would still start.
I go to get it tested just for kicks and giggles. "Your 800CCA battery is currently reading..... 40CA.. Err... How did you even start the car??" "I don't know, but if it only takes 40A to start can you replace it with my cordless drill battery? :P"
Ooooh I brought my car in to get new rear tires. I got a call about an hour later saying “hey your car is all wheel drive. You have to replace all 4.” I know for a fact my car is not all wheel drive as I had to sacrifice that option to get a manual. I told him no, he was wrong and to just do the tire change as instructed. He insisted, no no it is all wheel drive. It‘s skyactive (I have a Mazda), it’s definitely all wheel and you really have to got two more tires. I yelled at him at this point to stop wasting my time with info about the engine and to do the damn rear tires as instructed and hung up. His manager apologized when I came back. Jackass.
I really should have. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time for it. I really did figure this was just a level of intense stupidity mixed with “well this is a woman and she doesn’t know” attitude. It was Costco so I don’t think they really get to see any extra cash if they try to bleed me for bullshit stuff. Though I guess they get to bill their mechanic hours. Who knows.
I’ve only had wonderful experiences at the Costco tire center. One time we took our car in to get the tires replaced because the guy at jiffy lube said it was time while they were doing an oil change. We took the car in and the manager straight up told us we had at least another 6 months on those tires, and sent us away. It probably just varies by location like any other chain, but we really respected that move and ended up taking out car back there when it was time.
Try telling that to r/mechanicadvice. I posted once questioning something a known shady shop tried to pull on me and got reamed for suggesting a mechanic would lie to me. Updated the post the next day with proof from other shops that I was in fact being lied to. Crickets. (I had also worded my original carefully so they wouldn’t assume I was coming there with an accusation or assumption)
Oh the stories I could tell, but try this for size - ‘Your clutch is going, and you will need a new flywheel, say £1100’ - took it to Clutch4u, manager spent 20 minutes listening and rooting around, then said ‘not a problem’ and didn’t charge me a penny. Sold it 3 years and 90,000 miles later, same clutch still working fine.
Yep, I got one place that does all my inspections for free and other work they do cheap, including a few exhaust leaks fixed for free. they don't do everything and have sent me away when its over their head, but I would much rather have them do that then screw it up.
gyffyn · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here, the place i use mostly isn't great at electrics so complicated bits they'll send me to another guy!
Sold tires and services for awhile, this is too true. Had so many customers that went from coming in because they had a coupon for a cheap oil change to im selling them everything they need for all their cars because i was straight with them.
My favorite was a dude with an Audi RS4, came in for an air pressure check. Free service. Its a sweet ride so im checkin it out and notice his tires are almost spent. Theyre UHP tires in some ridiculous size like 245/40/19 or something so maybe 2 companies make them and theyre not cheap, $300 a piece not cheap. I price them through us and check all the online retailers. I go tell him what i found, hand him the price sheet and hes blown away at the cost, thinks im scammin him. Tell him i checked multiple places and he can save a bit buyin online and have them shipped directly to us for installation if hes willing to deal with a little extra hassle. He left and i guess got another opinion which confirmed that i was telling the truth. So a week or so later came back appreciative of my honesty, bought the $1300 tire set for that car and started bringin all 3 of his super nice cars to me. $10k at least over the few years i was there off a pressure check and being honest.
mipon · 8 points · Posted at 21:55:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People do business with people, not with companies.
Exactly. And he'll probably recommend your place to other people as well without you even knowing he was the one that sent them. :) Just got to love people like you who are honest and upfront and see the value in it, good shit and I'm happy you had that good mood experience.
Exactly. I work at a bank, and our policy is always "get the customer the cheapest option possible (that's appropriate) because if we don't our competitor will". Not what you'd expect of a bank right? Probably guessing more "get as much out of the customer as possible", but lifelong customers are worth far more than a quick upsell.
I wouldn’t call it “honest.” You can never give a figure as specific as 6 months for a tire. It very well could only last 5 more. There are too many variables. The tire was nearing the end of its lifespan, so it was entirely reasonable to suggest changing it. And the closing rate for getting people to change their tires then and there is high enough that it is significantly more of a return for the business than sending them away and hoping they come back months later when they “need” it. Hint: they likely won’t return.
Edit: Saw you said “at least 6 months” and altered response to handle that statement instead of what I first read, which was just “6 months.”
The 6 month in the future customer might not return but telling that story to friends/family/colleagues might make others want to check out the place as well. The potential return over time doing this way of business might be worth more than a single tire change once.
That said, I do agree it can be a bit iffy to cheap out on tires and give an estimate on something like that since it can be dangerous to drive around on worn out tires.
It MIGHT be, but a business has to operate on a reliable/repeatable selling structure. Sending someone away and hoping they bring back business is a one-way trip to going out of business, or constantly operating in the red.
I work in sales for a large, multi-state roofing company, and the reason our smaller competitors can’t get anywhere is twofold:
They don’t ever ask for business at the time of the roofing estimate.
They give “honest” assessments of the roof to the customer, and thus create no urgency for their service.
Put simply, if you don’t ask for their business then/there or demonstrate any need for your service to the customer during the appointment, you will fail 99/100 times. The auto industry is no different. A roof that “has two years left” might make it two years. It might not. It’s perfectly legitimate and ethical to suggest getting it done before the time is up, AND it’s far better for business.
To be honest, roofing sounds a bit more like a niche market and not as much in demand or frequent as cars. The company needing sellers alone suggest this being true.
Also, one thing is what's ethical to do and another is saying "the roof won't hold and you need to get it replaced now", as opposed to "the roof might hold for up to two years but I would have replaced it now to prevent a more costly result later on if it doesn't".
Car sales I would say is different in the sense that you have a lot more random people coming by on a whim, word of mouth and so on. I'm not saying it doesn't exist in the roofing business but it's a lot more specific and not really something the general consumer would know very much about.
Cars on the other hand is a much easier conversational topic since people usually know at least something about them or have a car themselves they take care of on a daily/weekly basis.
The return business for an auto shop will be a lot more frequent than roofing will. Someone replied me to that they had been up front with their customer who ended up coming back with 3 more cars in a short amount of time, I don't see the same happening with roofing as much even tho I don't doubt it can happen there as well.
This seems to be more of a huge sale vs. several small ones over time kind of thing. I might be wrong tho.
Yeah from a perspective of profitability, that doesn’t work for businesses like JL. Do you have a background in business development?
Your model doesn’t really work. I promise you that Jiffy Lube asks for additional business every appointment, that their salespeople (yes, they are salespeople) are trained to do so, and that x percent of people consistently give them additional business at said appointment. This is why they raked in 5 billion dollars last year. There is also no reason why they wouldn’t get repeat customers from doing this. As long as the service is executed properly, some people will indeed come back.
Which doesn’t even address that Jiffy Lube does not rely on repeat customers. They have a rewards program and quick service, which brings some people back, but they mostly rely on new customers who need last minute oil changes to bring in business. They get people in the door with convenience, and upsell them for additional business. That’s a repeatable, scalable model that has allowed them to grow into a multi-billion dollar company.
It IS true that local shops rely a lot more on repeat customers, as their customer base is people who live in proximity to the shop. But Jiffy Lube sells service and convenience with no appointment necessary - there is no shop loyalty.
Indeed. I guess we just looked upon things from different angles. Myself living in a small town at the moment has probably skewed my view a little bit from the big picture kind of things when I entered this thread/topic but you're absolutely right about that. It all depends on the business model, location, availability/need etc.
I don't really have that much of a background in business development but I started an IT company with a friend 3 years ago (that I very recently sold my shares due to the stress/responsibility that comes with it, figured I'm more of a 9-5 kind guy).
We started out in a landscape office environment with a lot of other businesses. Everything from self employed writers to salesmen and product designers were there so I saw everything from how new private businesses to established larger scale brands how they did things on a daily basis for a little while.
It was interesting to see how they built networks, clients and maintained customers and employees. How already established businesses that came to us chose to handle us and their clients again which we sometimes had responsibilities for.
In the end it depends what gives you the most profit over time. Sometimes it's just selling a bunch since the demand is high, other times the demand is low and business relations are fragile so you need to be more careful than you'd like.
Supply & demand and all that jazz. I don't think either of the ways we talked about when it comes to conducting business is "wrong", it all depends on whether or not it's the right course for that particular company.
I worked for a big blue electronics company. My sales manager was so busy reading the fucking score card and raping customers for services while giving them heavy discounts on products. Trying to up his national scorecard while never cracking open his profit and loss report to see he was losing more money than he made. Fucking moron.
tang81 · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just had this conversation with my wife. She doesn't understand why I get my cars inspected at a ghetto garage. It's because they understand I do my own work. When something is wrong, they take me into the bay and show me what needs done and why.
Probably because most people don't catch them when they cheat you, so it's a win for them to cheat you. To me a mechanic is like a wizard, I don't know if he's lying to me or not.
But once you figure out you've been had by a friend or co-worker or something telling you "holy shit, you shouldn't have had to do that all that with your car" you probably wouldn't have went back there. And you also won't recommend the place to friends/family which in turn makes the place not only lose you as a customer but other potential future customers as well. They'll lose money over time as a result.
I took my Tacoma to a local mechanic because it has 180,000 miles and figured I would get my clutch changed out while I had the time and money. The guy told me to come back in 70,000 miles.
A repair shop was recommended to me by a friend. I took my car in to get new brakes. An hour later the mechanic called me and said “your brakes have plenty of brake pad remaining and should last you another year or so.” I was totally surprised at his truthfulness. I asked how much I owed him for checking the brakes and he said “no charge”. I recommended his shop to everyone I knew.
To be fair, if tires last 10 years then six months is getting close. I would appreciate being warned in plenty of time, rather than running the tires bald and skidding off the road in a rain storm.
Zediac · 58 points · Posted at 16:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tires aren't good for 10 years. Don't trust them after 5-7 years. After that they lose traction, dry out, and start to crack.
Costco has been really good to me too. About a year after moving away for college, I went into a local place to get my tires rotated. The guy convinced me I needed 4 brand new tires because mine were too worn to be rotated. Luckily I couldn’t find the lug nut key thingy to take them off.
A few days later I went to a Les Shwab (chain tire place) and the guy said that my tires were too worn to rotate but fine through winter at least and that he would feel bad replacing them.
Next summer I went to Costco to see about my tires before a 600 mile trip and the guy said I’d be fine making the trip. I kept them for a few months after that then got them changed.
The guy at the first place definitely wanted to take advantage of the fact that I didn’t know shit about cars and was a 19 year old girl in college far from my parents.
Similar to when my husband took his car in because he thought X might be a big problem, and to change an iffy light. They told him nope, the potential big and expensive issue is actually just fine, and we can swap out that iffy light for $15. He got that done. And they have been his go-to mechanic since then. Honesty and service gets loyal customers.
Most places require the techs to upsell the customer on something. If they don’t do it often enough they get fired. Some places aren’t as hot on that idea.
I hate to break it to you, but if you only have 6 months left on tires then the guy at Jiffy Lube wasn't really wrong in telling you you need new tires. 6 months is a very short amount of time considering season and climate changes and the fact that on average tires need to be replaced every 5 years. Most shops also just eye them out so if he did in fact just eye them out and was within a range of 6 months than that is fairly accurate as well. Not to mention as the tread wears down your tires they do not perform as well. So even if you do in fact have another 6 months, they will be less safe to use compared to when they were newer. All in all its fine that you waited, but over 6 months I really don't believe the jiffy lube guy was trying to take advantage of you. if they were only 2 years old then that would for sure be a dick move on his part.
Yeah, I went to an independent tire shop and the guy looked at the tire I wanted to change and was like "that tire still has some life and it's in better shape than the ones I have right now". He basically didn't try to sell me a worse tire for a quick buck.
In fairness, an extra 6 months on tires doesn't necessarily mean that they shouldn't be replaced. Basically once your tire tread drops below 40%, there is a noticeable difference in handling and stopping distance, meaning that if you had to make an emergency stop/swerve, your tires might not have been up to to the task.
Most epople replace their tires when they are below 15% tread, I always replace mine once they hit 25%. The extra $70 of treadlife wasted is definitely worth the peace of mind knowing my metal death machine is equipped to save my life.
That could easily be a matter of perspective. If the jiffy lube guy always guesses conservatively and the Costco guy is liberal with it, they can both be right
I had a similar "women must be stupid" moment when I brought my car in for an oil change; two techs tried telling me my timing belt needed to be replaced for about 5 minutes when I told them my car has a timing chain, and if they had bothered to Google my cars make and model they'd have seen that. At least I got my oil changed for free that day.
Ooooooh you reminded me of when I used to bring my car in to the dealership for oil changes. The technician said “oh you’re up for a timing belt change. Want to schedule one now?” I was like no bc I had that changed about 30,000 miles ago and I know it’s not due for one. She argued with me saying that she couldn’t find it until I told her the year and month to look at it. “Oh yeah. Here it is. Well you’re close enough anyway. It’s good to change it before it goes.” That was the last time I brought it to them.
Ceddar · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooooooooh I got that too. The fucker was so unconfident while trying to peddle that bullshit at me. Said something about my car exploding. I told him I literally have no money except for the oil change and that got them to shut up. It was a lie but telling them there was nothing more to squeeze got the to just do the fucking job. I get better service at the fucking walmart
I work at a Costco tire center and can unfortunately confirm it was stupid. None of those employees make a commission, most are paid hourly, and most of their tire centers don't make money. Mine was #4 in our region of the US and we were still 50k in the red. They are there to come close to breaking even and "buy" your time spent in their store. Tech was most likely stupid but with good intent. Wanted to make sure he didn't ruin an awd system, and that was his main concern. A complaint is about a million times as negative as a sale is positive there.
Thanks. It’s infuriating bc as a woman I feel immediately on guard whenever I go into any car place. Your comment is exactly why I choose Costco an BJs for tires, bc I’ve suspected what you said. I acknowledged later that it was good intent but seriously when it’s just as easily googled to verify, it wasn’t worth the argument he was putting forth.
Your right, but he doesn't get to use Google. He uses whatever the program database they happen to have. And once in a very long while it is wrong about a particular option or trim etc. On his end, he probably gets 10% of his customer base arguing and saying something that flat out isn't true. (You can fix that flat, it's just a tiny whole in the sidewall; it's your fault, you guys didn't call me when it was time to rotate my tires; no one told me I didn't have a mileage warranty if I didn't rotate my tires). His default knee jerk reaction is to reaffirm what he thinks is correct. The program said all skactives are 4wd, so they are in his head. In 99% of these situations he will probably be right. But every once in a while, when his "tire bible" is wrong he will probably look like an ass as he did to you. The fuck-up if anyone here in my mind, would be on costco. It should be part of his training to learn how to tell what wheels are driven. It isn't that hard to look under a car and tell if it's 4wd, especially if the tires are off. Unfortunately I don't know of any tire place that does this, so your best bet is probably still costco since they are more likely to have the most experienced employees due to the pay scale.
You don’t have to have time. You just have to let them think you do. I guarantee it would get handled quickly.
Tomble · 5 points · Posted at 23:04:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex, who was technically minded and had degrees in engineering, took her car to a mechanic after researching what was causing an obscure issue. She was telling the mechanic about the problem, and he would reply to me, standing next to her. I had to say "look, I don't know anything about this" and literally turn my back on him. The problem got solved but I could feel her frustration.
Oh I know. I was shopping for a car and had decided that I wanted it to be a manual so the sales guy was showing me different cars. Now this was earlier in my years as a driver so I didn’t have a huge amount of experience with the differences in stick in foreign and American cars. The one I was test driving had a shitty ride, like you felt everything and no matter how smooth you tired to shift everyone in the car felt it. I say everyone because he insisted on coming on the test drive with my mother and me and made my mother sit in the back to boot (I’d been there the day before with a guy friend and we’d been tossed the keys from across the room). The guy tried to tell me “it’s a sport clutch!” when I asked does this car normally have such a rough ride. He then insisted that I pull over and let him try.
I didn’t buy a car from him that day nor did I pull over.
Being a woman and having ANYTHING to do with cars is generally a headache.
When I worked at Costco a few years ago there were no extra benefits for upselling, but most of the tire people, particularly in the busy seasons, were literally just random people from other departments, so this person probably just incompetence.
__i0__ · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not changing tires, just working the desk. They have a program where you plug in the year, make, and model and it gives you the tire size for the vehicle as well as the speed and load rating that will fit in the tire. The employee then goes to another program and it tells you which tires we have in stock and the quantity. The ones who actually install the tires have to take training courses that will give you michellin certification to install tires. The people actually installing tires have their pictures posted on the wall of the tire centers. They are the only ones allowed to touch your vehicle.
I think most cars everywhere are autos these days. Few years ago a buddy tried ordering one of those Harley Davidson Ford trucks from the factory and he wanted a 1 ton standard and they told them they don't make them in standards anymore. He was pissed!
I tried Costco tires once for getting a plug put in a tire after running over a knife in their parking lot. We waited for hours and the techs were shitty the whole time. In addition to being pissed I was disappointed- I really like Costco and had expected their tire service to be up to snuff with the rest of their stuff.
I was a Supervisor in the tire center and have dealt with things like this. Unfortunately the tire techs/everyone are mostly trained by Costco at Costco. They all get paid the same rates as cashiers so it's not like they were trying to get more pay just for two more tires.
Most likely it was lack of knowledge and someone who thinks they're always right.
I feel like the employee just didn’t know any better, and was looking out for the consumers interest in this case. I don’t believe Costco employees get kickbacks for upsells. They don’t charge enough for that.
It also may have been less insidious than that and that the technician was trying to insist upon you doing what was best for your car. Turns out he was mistaken, but you have to figure he gets 9 ignorant people who don’t want to do necessary repairs for every one like you.
Yeah and that’s what’s annoying when you actually know your shit. I was telling the guy to check for himself and his basis was that I had skyactive written on the back of the car.
There are three tire places in the college town near me. TireWarehouse, VIP, and this place called 'Chuck's'.
Well, i went to Chuck's and he quoted me 100 bucks a tire for a fucking minivan. Even though the tires were listed as being 32 each. "Well your lugnuts are frozen in place." Which was bullshit, because i had rotated the damn tires myself a few days before to get maximum use out of them before i got my check.
TireWarehouse quoted me 25 a tire, but then after i got inside they had my tires off (i was getting 4 tires) they tried to upsell me to these super expensive tires for 'all wheel drive minivans'. I have a fucking Toyota Sienna LE, in a 2 wheel drive, because i couldnt afford the down payment for the all wheel drive model. then they try to tell me my radiator is shot (just replaced it after i bought it, because the sales guy actually helped me out by selling me a car that 'needed some work'. He shaved like 4 grand off the total price, and the thing only needed about 1k in parts, and none of them were 'life threatening').
i told them to put the tires back on, the old ones (made sure to specify) Took photos of my car before i even got into it (which pissed off the owner of the place) to make sure they didnt try to claim i had stolen something.
Went over to the VIP place (they sold the VIP parts but the tire/muffler/etc garage was separate) They charged me 174 for 4 tires, and they replaced my third catalytic converter (the van has 3 total) and most of my exhaust.
guess which of these three will be getting my business from now on?
25 buck tires seems ok for like a golf cart, or a couple wheelbarrows. Where I am, tires are about 80-120 per, and thats for normal ones. Performance tires can easily run you like 1000 for a set.
1000 for a set? I just quoted out rear tires for a Mustang that was traded in and they were around $1200 for just the rears. They were Pirellis, but even those are far from the most expensive you can buy.
I just replaced all 4 wheels on a 2015 mustang GT. Got michellin pilot super sports and full set was just over $1000. They were larger than stock as well. Canada way too expensive
Also, the pirellis are really bad wheels for the all seasons, I wouldn't get those
I was thrilled to finally get rid of the stock pirellis that can from the factory
The Pirellis are bad for any season. Hockey pucks in the winter, hockey pucks in the summer. PSSs were the way to go. I run the Nitto NT555G2 for a summer tire and it does well enough, far better than the Pirellis could ever hope to be.
I got almost no traction with them and they didn't last worth shit. Treading gone by 23k miles and I heard mine lasted much longer than a lot of them do. I could never do hard accelerations without them slipping all over. I'm loving the PSSs though! I can still get them to slip on a really hard acceleration but for the most part they stick a lot better and regain traction much faster. It's amazing to me that Ford includes the shitty Pirellis as a stock tire for a car that's rolling out with over 400 HP and ft-lbs of torque. They must be paying Ford a fortune (or offering their wheels for next to nothing) to get those added as the stock option.
I've not done summer tires before but they would be incredibly fun. The problem where I live is that winter is long and then it rains 75% of the days throughout the entire spring and well into summer so I'd get a lot less use out of a second set of tires. : (
My old truck cost me $200 per, but those were load range E, 285/75R16. I'm sure my tires for my ranger will cost me more given the tires I'll put on it
I paid approx. $900 CDN for my winter tires + rims, though maybe there was a bit of a markup due to the Hyundai Accent apparently having weirdly small tires.
When I had my WRX and had to replace tires, ouch... I was frugal and still was paying over $150 per. So glad I bought the warranties on both sets (all season and summer) because less than a month after buying them I drove over bent aluminum wires at a construction site and got the double punctured ones replaced for free.
Almost $2000 CAD for a set on mine. Continental 245/40R19 94H (130mph speed rated) I replaced the rear tires a couple months ago and dropped $986 bucks.
i only had 250 on me, the price per tire before the mail in rebate was 94.99 (still low cost really) and i couldnt afford that. Not with the money i was making before (and not now that im injured and out of work)
If it is technically possible to get the tires at that price, then it's probably not illegal. Offs still a bait and switch, but probably not the illegal version.
I had a toyota tercel and my tires were 30 bucks each cuz it's a dinky (but awesome!) car and has dinky (and inexpensive) tires. My stepdad has a truck - a bigass truck - and each fucking tire is like 250 bucks. I get it, though, because those tires are about 8 times bigger than my tercel's tires were. Have small car, pay small prices, laugh when tall/large people try to get in them. Win, win, win.
ndrdog · 4 points · Posted at 18:04:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bait and switch. They have some garbage tires that they can stand to put a loss-leader price on. They use that price to get you in the door, then try to upsell you on everything, including buying different, more expensive tires.
Firestone complete auto care shops have a sale once a year where you can get their brand tires basically at invoice price. You end up spending about the same you would ordering from tirerack but imo it's way more convenient since the tires are already at the shop.
I had Discount Tire pull the trick of removing my tires then telling me they weren't legally allowed to put them back on even thought they were perfectly good. Ended up spending $700 on a set that wore away in 8000 miles because they weren't built to handle the suspension setup nor the weight of my A8L. They also kept insisting that I needed an alignment done at the place they partner with, it was $300 more than what the dealer charges. I showed them several papers that the dealer did the Audi inspection and found everything perfect as well as multiple alignments to be sure it's perfect. Discount Tire also, when I told them to put on the Audi recommended tire wouldn't let me, then proceeded to charge $200 more than the dealer price. Those tires are $1400 at the dealer ($350 per tire). Fuck Discount Tire.
By that point i would've put the tires on myself. And sue them if i could figure out how (bait and switch, extortion?). Don't forget to leave a review on the most popular database of GPS located services (google maps) detailing their upsell tactics.
If you cave they will keep making money off it, keep doing it. Never ever cave. This enables them. Makes the world a shittier place.
The local dealer put out a notice to not go there.
And I don't trust that car if it's not on a lift
Zediac · 15 points · Posted at 16:32:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where do you live? Or was this 30 years ago in the US?
Today the shittiest, Walmart special, dangerous when new, tires for 205/70R15 (the smallest that a Sienna LE ever used) are $50-60 each. Good tires for that size start at $90.
People, don't cheap out on your tires. Your entire 3,000-5,000 lb vehicle rides on a few square inches of contact patch through your tires. They're extremely important in keeping you safe and alive. This isn't like getting off brand ketchup. Your tires really, really matter. Buy decent tires.
You really should spend more than $25 on tires. My bicycle tires are more than that. They’re your only point of contact with the road and tires that cheap are garbage.
the tires were new, i thought it was a sale, they failed to tell me they were 25 AFTER a mail in rebate. But i was like '25 a tire for new Goodyears?, fuck yeah'
thankfully their attempt at upselling only further convinced me to not use them at all.
I would never trust a $25 tire, especially when you depend on stopping distance and handling to potentially save your life. Not all tires are the same. I've never found good tires for less than $70/tire, and I usually spend $90-110/tire for a high quality tire.
the tires would have been 25 after a mail in rebate, which they failed to tell me when they quoted the price, then of course they tried to upsell me to a more expensive tire, but 'it also has a mail in rebate for 50% off!' which would have cost me about 150 per tire, even WITH the rebate.
I specifically go to my mechanic for oil changes and small shit that I could probably do myself to save a few bucks because it develops a relationship where I feel like I can trust him enough to work on my car. Sometimes when going for a tire change he'll call me up and tell me he noticed XYZ needs to be fixed and I'll know that he's pretty good. .Other times I'll specifically walk in and say "hey when you do my oil can you check XYZ because I'm hearing this noise and I think I might need to replace [expensive part] and at the end of the day he'll tell me that everything was fine and that I shouldn't need to replace that part for a few more years and the noise was just [insert super minor problem]"
Had a mechanic like that, with my old '74 Pontiac, i was working to restore it (my first car as a teen, 16, my mom bought it from a guy who was cleaning out his uncle's estate. paid 1k for a car with an original engine that only had 10k miles on it, engine could have sold for around 1500 to the right buyer).
If i had a question (not being the car savvy teen the jocks were) i could call him up, hed come over, show me how ti fix it myself, then make me do it a few times to make sure i had it down.
Hes the one who taught me how to do the spacing on the spark plugs, and how to change out a Master Cylinder and break lines. He retired a few years back, or i would use him for EVERYTHING. Even with the 80 mile drive.
My wife got her tires changed at this place called Pepboys, because they had a years free rotation and balancing plus you got one out of the four tires free. Every time she went in for a rotation, the following day the same exact tire every time would go flat, a rim that they had tried to get us to replace before and we said no every time. After like 4 times I told her let’s just take it to Walmart, got it changed, payed the money, hasn’t gone flat in the two years since.
pepboys is one of those franchise deals, and sometimes their franchise owners will shit like that. I never use pepboys because my mother went once, and they told her she needed new shocks, but the ones she had were less than 2 months old.
4 days later, one of the shocks blew out, and when the insurance investigator looked at it, there were fresh tool marks on it, and the failure was caused by a torn up seal of some kind (i was like 10, so details are hazy)
Shit i drive an econo shitbox with practically bike tires and I get $100/tire tires but I do my research beforehand and already know what tire im gunna get before I go in
This year, but they were quoting me what the price would be, after i mailed in a rebate. I dont do those mail in rebates, because 9 times out of 10, by the time the rebate gets to where i needs to, it has already expired.
There is a guy that keeps coming into where I work, I really wish he would go to one of our competitors :(
He came in yesterday and just kept asking me if I could setup his wifi and 'new' tablet. Sure we can do both of those things, might cost a bit though, especially going to his house to setup a wireless access point. Then he goes on about how this guy down the road said he would do it for free. I really wanted to just say 'Then why are you here in the first place if someone already offered to do it for free, now off you fuck.' but apparently that is bad customer service, even if he has come into the shop I work at many times over the past half a decade and never bought a thing.
Have done this at a Firestone tire shop before, was awesome when he thought I couldn't leave because he had my tire off. I dropped the spare from underneath the truck and put it on right there in the bay with my impact and drove the fuck off into the sunset. I originally just wanted a tire patch and then he said I had two holes and the tire tread was less than some bullshit then he said I needed two tps sensors the price ballooned from 20 to over 50 dollars. I ended up going to Luis tires speaking some Spanish and had my tire fixed for 12 dollars plus the tps sensors work fine fuck those motherfuckers.
I will never go to Firestone bc this type of bullshit is rampant with them. Every time my family brought in tires they would claim at least one needed a patch or needed to be replaced or some other bullshit. They did some shady work on my sisters car and it wouldn’t even run after they did whatever they did. I will pass up Firestone every single time.
Don't know why you got a down vote you are right on the money with Firestone being one of the worst offenders a simple Google search and my own personal experience will confirm this. Edit: my spelling.
I had to do this last week.. Out of necessity. Called for a quote for brake pads and rotors all the way around. Told me it was gonna be around 350. They call me at two o'clock right before they are closing. And said it was gonna be more around 1,100. (I knew I prob needed one caliper, but they refused to do just the one side.) I said I'm.coimng to get their car and they told me they were closing and I'd have to get it Monday ( it was a Saturday). I said i was on the way now L, and I was getting my car back today. Went to Walmart bought a new jack. Went to act zone and bought parts.. Saved 600 and got a new jack by doing the job myself... Learning light duty mechanic work can save you and your family thousands over the years. Well worth it.
Once a brake shop told me they couldn't do a realignment unless I got a new axel(?). They quoted me for 400$ and I told them I couldn't afford that currently so I'll just go somewhere else. "Ok ok well we can do the alignment as best as we can" as I was trying to take my keys and leave. 0 problems with alignment since then. Fuckers.
Mikav · -7 points · Posted at 16:06:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
just read a bit of the manual and act like you know your stuff, like when was the last oil change, usually they will be scared off from trying to scam you thinking you actually know your stuff
of course, don't tell them how your engine takes fuel to the data supplier that's connected to the matrix, because that would probably make it worse
It scares me too so I listen when people tell me about their cars. Im pretty sure I could change my own oil but don’t and I’ve definitely changed a few head and taillights on my own. I think it’s always best to educate yourself on these matters.
Find a trustworthy mechanic from someone who's mechanically inclined or from the internet. Trust them but never trust anyone who's changing your oil or tires when they try to upsell you something. Just say no thanks, you'll have your regular mechanic look at it.
Oh I knew it was cluelessness at play when he was reading the back of the car and thinking it was referring to all wheel drive. Most Mazdas actually will say if it’s all wheel drive. I just know mine isn’t because it was stick shift bc I was both told this by Mazda and saw that it wasn’t available if you “built” your own model on Mazda.
I would have said okay, do all 4 tires, but I'm only paying for the ones that get power to them.
tang81 · 5 points · Posted at 17:34:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had that happen to me at Pepboys. I was there waiting for the tires to be put on. Desk guy told me it was AWD, its FWD. We argued for few minutes. I told him if he could point out the rear axle I'll buy the most expensive tires they had for it. If not, he had to give me 10% off. We go outside he looks. Gave me 10% off.
Oh man. That reminds me of a story. I had a slow leak in my passenger rear tire. I’d have to add air once a week. Then every couple days. I was both busy and lazy and never got around to taking it in to see if it could be patched. But I’d been dealing w this for weeks and weeks. (Dumb I know).
Had a road trip coming up. So I took to local neighborhood place first thing in am to take a look and while you’re at it, please rotate tires and change oil. Terrific. Get call little while later. Guy tells me mechanics says there is no problem w passenger rear tire. I say there absolutely is. I have to air it up every other day. Check again.
An hour goes by. Different guy calls. Tire is fine. Can’t find leak. I tell him there absolutely is leak. Please check again. I’m getting pissed but I’m stuck at work and nothing I can do about it.
Yet another guy calls back. It’s the mechanic. Condescending as can be. ‘I personally checked that tire and guarantee there is no leak.’ That’s when it hit me. I ask him ‘did you do the tire rotation too?’ Full on record-screech stop. Tires had already been rotated. He’d been checking and double checking the wrong damn tire.
The bullshit sales tactic that you have to replace all 4 tires on an AWD vehicle every time you change even one tire just pisses me off. Unless you are driving perfectly straight down a perfectly straight and flat road, your tires are almost never rotating at the exact same speed. That's why cars have differentials. If a couple 32nds of an inch difference in tread height made any difference, then surely putting a donut on and driving to a tire shop would destroy the drivetrain.
tldr: Tire salesmen are trying to sell tires. Don't believe their bullshit.
Edit: Do your due diligence and check your owner's manual, of course. Thanks to /u/troubledbrew, who definitely doesn't commit unspeakable acts of sexual violence against adorable kittens, for pointing this out while calling me names in the process.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this why all wheel drive cars all self destruct any time they turn left or right, because those wheels are rotating at very different speeds every time the car turns.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 22:47:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you show me any manufacturer's recommendation that all tires need to be replaced as a set because it will cause drivetrain damage? Why would Toyota include a donut spare in my AWD car if a fraction of an inch difference of tire diameter would be dangerous? How is it that a very slight difference in tire circumference could cause damage to a modern car when in fact the wheels are turning at different rates every time the car is turning or the road isn't completely flat? The only place I've ever come across the recommendation to replace all 4 tires at once is from tire salespeople or from people who have been lied to by tire salespeople.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:25:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Incidentally, page 576 doesn't say your should replace all 4 tires at the same time. Just that you should drive slow when using a donut.
Edit: You'll note I'm not resorting to name calling. I'm just having a discussion here.
Edit 2: I also never generalized all tire salespeople as liars and cheats. Only the ones who lie and cheat. I also don't have a habit of telling at people at the sales counter. I have a really great tire shop that I go to. If I'm lied to by a salesperson, I don't make a big show of it, I just shop elsewhere. But, you know, whatever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
cbelt3 · 3 points · Posted at 17:25:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At that point I say “cancel the service “ and drive away in your car. Because this kind of crap is based on an “upselling” requirement imposed by management. His manager “apologizing “ is bulllshit. It’s the managers fault.
I know there has to be good, honest mechanics out there, but they seem really few and far between. I do my own work, but a friend of mine bought a new car and had it for few months when he took it to a shop for an oil change. They called him back saying he needed all new fluids, a battery, air filter, alternator, and four new tires because the existing ones “all had dry rot.” He has only ever had experiences like this with auto shops, and calls me to verify the work every time. It infuriates me that people like him who aren’t mechanically inclined get taken advantage of.
Had the opposite thing happen. I know nothing about car mechanics so when my car started make very loud rumbling sounds, I thought I needed a new muffler. Took it to a Jiffy-Lube, which I had been to before. Mechanic took the car, came back in about 10 minutes, and said, "No charge." "But what about replacing my muffler?" "No need sir, we just put the pipe back together. It had come a little loose...." I'll keep going back to that place until the day I die. He could have charged me for a new muffler but didn't! Honesty keeps the most customers.
Being a woman, I constantly have mechanics telling I need this and that. Now I'm not a mechanic or car junkie so I have no idea how to do alot of repairs myself but my dad made sure I was equipped with basic skills such as oil changes, tire changes, fluids all that stuff.
For warranty reasons took my car to get an oil change as well as all the air filters and a few other things. 2-4 weeks later engine and gas cap light come on. I need a new purge valve so I take it in and it happens to be at a certain mileage where they automatically change a few things. Tried to tell me I needed another oil change, air filters, basically everything I had them do last time I was in. Told the tech they already did that stuff just the valve and a tire rotation please.
His only response instead of just checking their records and the car itself was but it's at X mileage.
Someone else finally took over and other than a cracked belt everything else was fine.
Yeah that’s around he time I got the “Becky why did you ignore me in math today!!!” Messages haha. I had to convince so many kids I wasn’t their age or whoever they thought I was.
Similar to a recent experience I had at wal-mart tire & auto center...
TLDR: wal-mart said my tire couldn’t be fixed but turned out they tested the wrong tire (that had no issues) so they got caught lying red-handed
Accidentally ran over a nail at work. By the time I was off work the good local tire shop was closed so I apprehensively went to wal-mart as it was the closest and most convenient choice.
I told them there’s a hole in the front passenger side tire. They said they’d check it to see if they could repair it. They said the location of the hole prevented them from being able to fix it so I’d need to buy a new one. Kind of a bummer but no big deal. Got a cheap $60 tire. Here I’ll note that it was dark and parked outside when it was finished so wasn’t able to see the work.
The next morning I get up for work and see that not only is the front passenger tire flat again but now I can see it’s not even a new tire!
So I go back and tell a horrible worthless employee what happened. She apparently has them check the (unnecessary) new tire on the driver side which obviously has nothing wrong with it. She comes back and says they can’t find anything wrong with it. (At the time I had no idea they were checking the wrong tire) So I’m thinking, “WTF?! I know what a flat tire is!!” So I have her get the manager and he says the same stuff “they can’t find anything wrong with it”.
I’m getting extremely angry. At one point though throughout his bullshit I heard the words “driver side”.
I was like, “Wait, you’ve been checking the driver side??? Duuude, this whole thing has been about my passenger tire.”
He then realizes that they’ve been caught lying and says he’ll take care of it.
So all he did was put a new tire on the passenger side as well (about $60 in value).
I played it cool knowing 1) I’ve gotta get done with this stupid situation so I can’t get back to work and 2) I’ll make a formal complaint later.
Here’s the kicker...Later I email a formal complaint with all of the details and guess who I get a call and message from?? The very supervisor that I was trying to complain about smh
I eventually just let the whole thing go because it was stressing me out and didn’t have time for it.
I know it means nothing to a rich corporation but I’ve made a point to not go there again and haven’t since. I’ve also made a point to tell as many people as possible which is why I took the time to type this lol
When stuff like this happens I take it to their twitter department.
I had an issue with HR Block and like you will not return. They did my taxes and after a month I got a letter from the IRS saying I owed them paperwork. I call HRB and said what the hell? I get some girl who leaves me a few mumbling messages on my voicemail before I finally meet with her. She tells me I’m missing a health insurance form. I contact my health insurance and asked for said form. My insurance tells me I’m not entitled to this form but rather a different form. I send form to HRB with the info my insurance gave to me. I didn’t hear back from her for over a week so I sent an email asking what was going on. I got a snide remark telling me I called the wrong insurance provider and there was nothing I could do if I didn’t call the right one. I was shocked because I had called my insurance provider and she was telling me to call someone who wasn’t my provider. I did anyway and they confirmed that I didn’t have an account with them, then said that the form I needed was exactly what my own insurance had given. I wrote back to HRB bimbo and summarized this exchange. Again I received another snide message saying that she already told me who to call and since I wasn’t calling the company (that I already told her said they couldn’t help me) she couldn’t help me.
Oh I was lit. I fired at HRB twitter and lodged a complaint.
I wrote back to her and told her I wanted a new agent to help. When she said another agent would say the same thing I told her that she clearly wasn’t reading what I was saying and was at most rude and at best incompetent.
It took the new agent all of 5 minutes to figure out what the problem was and I was out of there in 15 minutes.
Took my car in for an oil change, was told the tires had dry rot. Had no idea what that meant so I looked it up. It was an actual thing, but it wasn't dry rot on the tire, it was fracking gravel dust.
You know I think it’s standard practice to do them all at once but of the comments I’ve gotten on this only one dude said it was ridiculous that it would actually fuck up the drive train.
This isn’t really an area I’m strong in, im basing this on the amount of replies I got here saying you DO need to do all four. So I would say do all four and keep one as a spare. Then also make sure that you’re rotating your tires every other oil change or so.
I took my car in for a recall a few months ago and when they were done, the tech showed me a printout with all the things I "needed" to have done with my car. One was something to do with the transmission (I've forgotten exactly what at this point) and I say "Well I shouldn't need that as the transmission was rebuilt this year" and the tech goes "oh well nevermind about that one then" and crosses it off the list! Like bitch, why should I believe any of the rest of it now?
He should have gone with the obvious, a let you beat your head against the brick wall of stupidity... instead of trying to create a need...
Tech: We looked over your car, it has four wheels, you need four tires.
You: Just replace the back two.
Tech: But you need to have tires on the front, we can’t let the car leave without front tires.
You: I just want two tires.
Tech: You can’t drive with just two tires, you need four.
You: I know I need four tires, I just want the two new ones on the back.
Tech: You can’t have just two new tires on back, your vehicle has four rims, therefore you need to have four tires.
You: Put the old tires on the front.
Tech: We don’t install old tires, we only carry new tires.
You: I know... put new tires on the back.
Tech: You’ll ruin the vehicle if you try to drive it without front tires.
(Infinitely dense variations of the above continue for an hour) until...
You: (banging head against wall) Fine. Whatever. Give me four new tires.
Tech: (Charges you for six tires).
You: Why am I being charged for six tires?
Tech: That’s what you wanted.
You: I only wanted two new tires.
Tech: For the back. When I told you that you needed tires for the front, you said you wanted four new tires. That makes six tires total. We don’t accept returns on tires... have a nice day.
When I worked at a passenger tire shop, customers could hold us liable for their transfer cases if we didn’t explain doing two tires on an all wheel drive would destroy it. It’s not a sales tactic. He thought your car was awd like the rest of them that aren’t sticks and was worried you’d have a few thousand dollars in damage to a transfer case that you would try to blame on the shop. I’ve been yelled at by pricks that don’t understand that a million times. I always called customers when I thought we would fuck up their car with two tires. Just a guy worried about doing his job right glad you got to feel so big though.
UF8FF · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I feel like this is more the tech being ignorant, not outright trying to swindle someone.
Yeah that’s got to be annoying. It’s people like that who fuck it up for people like me. But when I say “no my car is a stick shift and that model has front wheel drive” it’s annoyingly when the answer is “it says it on the back! Skyactive!”
Except it was a manual, which is painfully obvious when you get into the car and it has a clutch? And it always says somewhere on the car that it is 2 wheel and not all wheel. If he was doing his job correctly he would have seen it.
Source: Backyard mechanic for 6 years. Kwik Kar Lube & Tune mechanic for 2 years
Im simply implying that the person who bought the car said he gave up the i-ACTIV system when he got a manual. And besides Im inclined to believe that the skyactiv didn't have all-wheel drive until 2013.
Powertrain or drivetrain should be used in lieu of engine in this context. Being 4 wheel drive has nothing to do with the engine. In general it pays to buy all 4 tires, usually you can get a 10-20% rebate at the time of sale and free road hazard warranty, free lifetime balancing and rotation. I do not sell tires for a living. I paid $550 installed for 4 premium 18” all season tires recently, consumers normally get ripped off on tires.
cdot2k · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a body shop guy tell me that he fixed Mazdas like mine all the time and that mayching the metallic red wasn't an issue. He called it a three stage paint to prove the point and I knew he either hadn't done any or has been doing them wrong.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a rare model of Volkswagen passat with the 3.6L v6 motor but most are the 2L turbo.
Took my car in because it was making a terrible noise. The shop tells me it's my turbo but a new one is on the way.
I told them thats interesting because my car does not have a turbo.
It’s just a type of engine. Years ago dodge did the same thing with one of their engines. You’d think it was the second coming of Jesus the way they talked about it.
What's sad about the manager apologizing is that I can guarantee you that he's the guy applying the pressure to his guys to do that crap. I worked in cellular sales for 9 years and the managers secretly loved if they got complaints about employees overselling. Sales like this work the same regardless of whether it's tires or electronics. Always about getting you to add more in and making you think it's necessary. Managers, however, will always step in, shake the customers hand and do the "I'm here to make sure you're taken care of, I'm so sorry about your experience and we'll make sure it doesn't happen again" but really, they're just in a position to use that role to the advantage of the team and sales growth. If you're ever really upset about the sales techniques, then just know that the the Manager doesn't really give a shit as long as the employee isn't actually caught doing anything explicitly wrong/corrupt and otherwise they have no problem covering their employees asses when something comes up with a red-flag. Telling someone that to get the best deal they need to buy a XYZ, our outright telling the customer that something "comes with it" when it doesn't...they don't actually mind their employees doing that. They only mind it if the employee is stupid enough to do it in such a way as to draw attention to their shady practices. Additionally, District Managers don't really care either. They only care about making sure store managers are properly covering their asses and resolving the issues expediently. They expect a bit of what they call "Churn" (basically overall losses from these types of sales). Very few people in the chain that have the power to actually stop it actually care. They have integrity teams in place to help enforce fair business practices, and the people with power who work with sales directly merely tolerate those guys.
Yeah! That’s why it was so frustrating! I was like guy o know for a fact it’s not AWD. I was told that when I bought it, go online right now and check. The manuals DO NOT have AWD. “Yeah but, skyactive!”
My car's a jeep with two wheel drive. (My uncle special ordered it and we bought it from him several years later.) People have tried to tell me it's 4 wheel drive because it's a jeep. Nope I think I'd know if the little jeep I've been driving for 6 years would have fourwheel drive or not thank you.
Well that sucks as someone who knows next to nothing about cars and tries to be easy on anyone providing me a service... i hate how few people/professions you can just trust.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it's hard to find a good mechanic in a Sea of scammers. When you do find a good mechanic, you stay with that one for life. It's like searching your soulmate.
The place I absolutely trusted didn’t do tires unfortunately. I needed them done because they were almost bald and I had a big move to prepare for.
Since it was Costco and I figured the kid was just an hourly worker, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and did the change.
vic06 · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ask your trusted mechanic for a reference and once you get to the tire shop start by telling them who sent you.
Jaci_D · -2 points · Posted at 16:42:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
my husband and I both have MAZDA his is the skyavtive, not sure about mine. Freaking love our cars. He has a 2012 in the skyative blue. I have a 2018. God we love our cars.
I like mine and it handles well in the snow but it really feels cheaply made. Probably bc only 5 manuals were coming into the country at the time I bought mine and they were all the base models. I won’t do that again and will most likely go with a Subaru so that I have more manual options.
I had a cold air intake on my Jeep, and every time I went to have my oil changed (instead of doing it myself like I normally do) they tried to sell me an air filter because mine was “super bad, like really affecting my mileage.” If there was anyone else in the lobby at the time, I’d loudly call them out for trying to take advantage of people after I asked if they’d actually looked at it and made them sheepishly admit they hadn’t.
Last time I got my oil changed the mechanic tried to tell me that my windshield wipers were bad. I had just replaced them myself like a month ago. I told the mechanic this and he was like "Well I mean....uh.......... I'm just asking because we have a deal going right now.."
I mean, thinking shadily, but how do people go into these lies without a solid escape plan? I mean, at least go with "oh, you had the Honda, I was thinking the Hyundai," or something.
Try going in for an oil change with perfect wipers, declining the air filters they told me
I needed, then having them come back saying my wipers need replacing. Told them I’d replace them myself... no way they were damaged. Motherfuckers must have sliced the blades hoping to get some extra cash from me.
Manse_ · 65 points · Posted at 17:24:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've had this happen, but with a K&N filter and not an intake. They said I needed a new filter because the stock one was bad. After a minute or two of them trying to upsell it, I told them to go actually look at the car and they noticed the giant "STOP. DO NOT REPLACE FILTER" sticker that comes with every K&N.
Oddly, the best service I've gotten in my small town is at the VW dealership. They have a 5-10% markup on parts, but any big problem I've had lands me a free rental car and a competitive quote on the labor.
I worked front end in a shop for 3 years when I was younger and got a tune up before a bug road trip. Guess what they decided needed to be replaced? Now I just don't trust any shop because if they'll rip me off and put in a shitty filter instead of leaving my expensive one in, who knows what other people will do.
xixi2 · 31 points · Posted at 16:26:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, I never went to the same place twice. This was at almost every single one I went to, in different states even, although this was pretty infrequently since I normally change my own oil. They don’t make a lot on the oil changes, they make heir money on upsales like transmission/radiator flushes, wiper blades, air filters. Most people who take their car in to have the oil changed don’t know any better so they can really get taken advantage of if they don’t know better.
Disclaimer: Before someone tries to tear into me, I do realize that this is a broad statement and not true in 100% if cases. It comes solely from my experience with vehicle repair/maintenance places (dealerships included). I’ve done almost all the work on my own cars my whole life, I understand the need for preventative maintenance, and I understand that many people don’t have the “car knowledge” to do it themselves or refute their claims. But nearly every time I’ve had my vehicle worked on (even just an oil change) I have had to call out a technician for trying to sell me something they know I don’t need, or for flat-out lying to me.
As a Chrysler technician at a dealership, I honestly barely check people's air filters or anything like that unless they have hit a certain mileage interval (usually around 75/80 and 100,000 miles) and I definitely don't try to sell someone something they don't need. There are plenty of cars coming through that do need things (air filters, brakes, whatever) that there's no point in trying to upsell things the customer doesn't need.
Wish you worked at my local dealership. Took a Dodge Intrepid in to them to get serviced after just buying it from a friend. Oil change and whatnot but also to make sure everything was ok with it. They came back to me with a whole list of shit that had to be done or else catastrophic mechanical failure was imminent. About $1200 worth of shit. This was nearly 20 years ago. I didn't get any of it done because I couldn't afford it. It had about 50k miles on it. It had about 260k on it when I finally had to park it because the front end was shot. Never got any of that shit done and it was still running well. Recently bought a Chrysler and it's doing some stuff that has me concerned but that same dealership is still owned and ran by the same bunch that was running it then. Seems like everybody knows somebody that's had a bad experience with them. Can't even think about going back in there.
__i0__ · -1 points · Posted at 18:59:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Help me with the economics. 5 quarts of oil and filter is $27
Unless you make negative dollars, at $15 an hour you come out ahead if the oil change only takes you an hour.
To say that most people do it because they don't know any better is ignorant.
It cheaper and way faster to get it done for you and oh yeah you can't change your own oil in an apartment parking lot
I get it that you might like doing it, but it's not a reason to feel smug about it
I think you are getting a little over excited about this, don’t think the guy was trying to be pushy about it but anyway- if you are buying the high quality, synthetic, good-for-15,000 miles oil it is easily $80 at the maintenance shop or $30 from Walmart, (not even counting if there is a sale.) I have an older higher mileage vehicle and buy the good oil for it, and to me it’s worth the 10-15 min to save $50. That’s just me tho and no judgement if that’s not your thing
I would say most people don't know enough about their cars to refute things. Of those people, the ones who do it themselves are usually far more knowledgeable than those who take it in. That said I generally take mine in cause it's like 5 bucks over the cost of oil.
I’ve changed my oil in my apartment parking lot. I live in Florida so I wake up really early in the morning to do it when it’s not too hot. But it’s doable
Unless they have rules agaisnt it you can. You're right that's it's not worth doing if you're using standard. For synthetic it makes a big enough difference that it was worth doing when I lived in an apartment. I just got ramps and I'd lay down cardboard if any oil splattered out. If you're familiar with your car you can have it done in 20-30 minutes.
If someone pulled that on my Jeep I would say "has it improved my mileage? That would be awesome considering it's a 97 Wrangler with the 4.0 engine. I'm lucky if it hits 20 on the freeway."
Yes, due to the increased airflow needing to use more fuel to keep the A/F ratio correct. These guys were always just trying to sell me a new stock filter.
That is not correct. There airflow doesn't magically increase to produce the same power level. The only way what you are saying is true is if you are generating more power by hitting the gas pedal harder.
There is potential it could change the sensed amount of air and therefore change the air to fuel ratio until the system can compensate for it (and it may not compensate at full throttle) but that is something completely different and could be better or worse in any given model.
Do you operate your car at full throttle (power) all the time or do you often aim for the same power and acceleration in daily driving?
More power + same efficiency = more fuel
Same power + same efficiency = same fuel
44hp = 44hp with the same efficiency and AFR. Most people aren't driving around at full throttle and comparing the mpg of two different requests for power is pointless.
Im not talking about daily driving. All I was saying was cold air intake works by bringing in denser air. You seem to be having an argument with yourself.
cas201 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh gotcha.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 17:45:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We bought a used Jeep and it developed some issues shortly after we got it, but we bought the warranty for it. Took it to the Jeep dealer and they were actually really nice and showed me the exhaust manifold they had to replace and that whoever owned it before us had apparently done their own work on it and used regular hardware store bolts instead of heat resistant ones. The warranty refused to cover it and the dealer really made an effort to work it out with them, but they wanted to talk directly to me. Called them up and they explained under the plan I purchased this work wasn't covered, I read them the coverage under our plan from their brochure that definitely stated they were supposed to cover it and the call got escalated to a manager who said I was correct and he apologized for his employee. They ended up covering everything, but the fancy $50 bolts. I guess covering the parts was ok, but the bolts to attach the parts was just too much. Shortly after that we moved to a different state and had it inspected at another Jeep dealer. They gave me a quote for $3000 in repairs that it needed, and couldn't find the leak in my tire with their dunk tank and tried to tell me it was normal to have to air one tire up every 2 weeks. Took it to an independent mechanic and they couldn't find half the stuff the dealer said was wrong, but did find additional things and only charged me $700. A year later I temporarily moved back in with my parents and my dad finds the screw in my tire within 5 min of looking. 😐
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 15:46:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It restricts air flow if it’s clogged with debris. It can affect your mileage up to 2-3 mpg, which on my Jeep was a significant change. Your engine is basically an air pump, and the more freely it can pump air, the more efficiently it’ll work. Blocking the intake makes it not able to move air as well. It’s why you have to change the filter every so often (see your owner manual or just google it to see how often), and why you can get a bit more power with different air intakes and exhaust modifications. My aftermarket one I had, even when clogged, would not do this, and I loved to call them out on it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah I see. Thanks for the explanation.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That lack of power at high RPMs also means a lack of efficiency. Because the car is designed under the assumption that the engine will be able to provide a certain amount of power, it will respond to a lack of power by increasing the RPMs until it is providing enough power. Unless you are trying to drag race with it, you will probably not notice a drop in performance, but you might notice it making a bit more noise when you are trying to get up to highway speeds or taking off when a light turns green. That bit of extra RPM to get the car moving translates to burning a bit more gas.
Thank you for calling them out in front of others! I bet you’ve saved other people.
When I brought my first car in for an oil change (I bought it brand new) I knew nothing about them trying to up sell. And I was pretty young and naive. While waiting in the area, a man asked me if this was my first car, etc. And I gladly told him it was. He warned me about them trying to upsell and that it’s a lot more expensive there.
I thanked him and didn’t think they would truly try, it being a brand new car, but prepared what I would say if they did (I’ve got anxiety and trouble saying no or standing up for myself when on the spot). And sure enough, they brought in my air filter, that was pretty much totally white. And told me I needed a new one. I was ready and declined it. I always appreciated that heads up from that man 🙂
Before I started changing my own oil, I would only go to a shop that showed me the filter before trying to up sell me. On that note, There's a small chain store in my hometown with an autozone across the street. They didn't carry air filters. If you needed one, they'd walk across the street and buy it.
And to be fair, the filters they tried to sell me were the same price I’d pay if I bought it myself, so they’re not gouging people who actually do need them. They’re basically giving a free install, which again is fine if you don’t know enough to do it yourself and actually need it. But lying to me to get money from me? I should have said okay just to see how far they’d take it.
I don't understand how someone can look at a Jeeper and think, "Yeah, this guy doesn't know what's going on with his vehicle." Do mechanics not know most of the work done on our modded out Jeeps was done by ourselves?
A lot of people have a lot of money to throw at a Jeep. For a lot of people, if they turn the key, move that lever in the middle to the D, and it goes forward, that’s good enough.
Yeah, but those folks buy Commanders and Patriots. A Wrangler's just uncomfortable enough that it's typically bought by people looking for more than just a daily driver. Even if you don't install all the mods yourself, you're still invested and educated enough about it to actually know which mods you want and why.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:56:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It does have a filter, but it’s much more free flowing, made of cloth instead of paper so you wash it instead of changing it, and most importantly not something they’re going to replace at an oil change spot like they would a stock one.
Went to jiffy lube for an oil change, had an old car, been taking it there for years. While I was waiting for my oil change to finish, they gave me the rundown on my car. Turns out that my transmission fluid was overfilled by a quart, and I needed to deal with that then and there.
"Really? A quart over, are you sure?"
"Yeah, checked it myself, so what I recommend is-"
Interrupting "-Because I have taken my car here every three months for the last 3 years, and not once have I ever touched my transmission and not once have I had a tech mention that to me."
"Oh, uh-"
"I still have all the paperwork in my car if you'd like to check, if it's that bad to be over I'd hate to call corporate and tell them how I've been driving with this problem for years with every tech saying it was perfectly fine until just today"
"Let me just go check that one more time, just to be sure..."
Why do people frequently return to places that do sub par work or lie to them?
Im a dealership tech for a luxury brand. We had a customer recently come in on a tow truck, with their car just absolutely covered in trans fluid underneath. They said they were on the interstate and it just started smoking and having problems maintaining speed, so they pulled over. Customer had not been to the dealer since the car was sold, now at 61k miles.
We finally get it cleaned enough to determine that the fluid came out through the transmission breather tube, which would indicate its over filled. We ask about recent maintenance and they tell us they had just left "their mechanic" after having the transmission fluid replaced.
So I check the level, and it's almost 5 quarts over filled. So we tell the customer this, and to adjust the fluid level, clean it all up would be $x amount.
He says he will just take it to his mechanic because he will do it for half of that.
Yeah, he probably will. He might also end up burning your car to the ground due to his incompetence, but at least you saved $100.
BeXmo · 322 points · Posted at 14:16:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have let him " do it" and then ask what the heck you're getting charged for if there's no radiator !
As a former Jiffy Lube manager with some inside info I can tell ya this...they don't require their techs to have ANY automotive background, all the training is computer based, and they have a person each day who is dedicated to upselling customers with various services and/or parts. There's a labor cost that person needs to hit each day to turn a profit or risk having corporate reps fire them due to low performance. Hence all the "buy this, you need it" behavior.
I dont understand this. Its stressful on the employee, stressful on the manager, and stressful for the client, even for management having a high turnover of employees. Why make a business model where everybody gets stressed out?
The employees came up with it on their own to avoid verbal warnings that could lead to termination. Given where the shop was (downtown in a large-ish city) if one customer was sure they were being duped it didn't really matter. They lost one person's business but there are literally thousands of others to take their place. My shop catered mostly to people in the computer tech or nursing field so we didn't usually encounter anybody who knew a lot about auto repair and maintenance.
Really poor on the company's part to force workers to basically lie and pressure people to do BS just to keep their job. not a good way to treat people who are just trying to work a job.
Quadip · 10 points · Posted at 17:46:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can understand upselling but making up non-existing problems about your car is just lying.
Another shop near mine went so far as to keep old air filters and burnt out light bulbs around to show customers the "condition" of their parts to complete the sale. Other times they used the old parts because the tech didn't know how to get the filter out in the first place.
I'm sure it's part of it. My car has two oil coolers at the front of the car so there's lines that have to go from front to back. My BMW motorcycle has a flat motor and only takes five quarts.
it also has a lot to do with how many oil controlled systems the motor has. a lot of cars have high capacities now due to stuff like variable cam timing.
It's a trade-off between increasing oil life and lowering system capacity. If you downsize the tank/reservoir, you're looking at warmer oil temps on average, so shorter oil life.
I work in hydraulics, and every 10C above 60C (in terms of average operating temp) cuts your oil life roughly in half.
And they also used snails against burns, doesn't make it a good idea in the 21st century when basically the whole world has a standardized measurement system.
Lots of older motorcycles are. They rely on airflow over a cylinder head that has huge fins like the heatsink on the cpu in your pc.
Cars can be only air cooled though often they had oil coolers. So the engine did not have any coolant, but the oil itself went out to a heat exchanger (radiator) to cool down.
I do not know of any modern cars using an engine without coolant but I am sure they exist. Something super cheap sold for $3k somewhere with a tiny engine. Porsches (911s) on the other hand could be pretty damn fast despite being air cooled, which is super impressive, but of course they switched to water cooling about 20 years ago.
There are also some drag race cars that have no coolant - either an original engine with cooling jackets filled in with cement, or a custom engine without any cooling jackets whatsoever. These tend to fire up, warm up a bit, do a quarter mile pass, pull back around, and turn off. If you tried to street drive it it would pop of course.
Most people don't have the ability to fill water jackets in with aluminum - in fact, I don't know if it would ever make sense to do that, as it'd probably compromise the integrity of the engine block and heads.
Cement is cheap enough, easy enough, very strong, and works, so that's why people do it.
Porsche 315 and 911 prior to 1998. Probably other examples of mid or rear engines cars as well but I’m not certain about all of them not being water cooled
My beetle sure didn't. I wish I still had it, it was the most fun little go cart to drive. And so easy to work on. I remember when something weird was going on, my dad and I removed the entire gas tank in the parking lot, pulled out the Barbie doll head that someone put in there, and put it back on in about an hour and I was on my way! I was a teenager girl with no prior experience and it was easy as pie.
Every Porsche before 1997 was air cooled (which really meant your oil was your coolant), and many Volkswagons were also that way. With the rear engine constraint it was most like an older Volkswagon beetle or a Porsche 911.
It could have also been a Corvair though, or a few other old timey cars that are obscure enough to be incredibly unlikely.
I would bet a Corvair, or possibly some European economy car. Everyone knows that Beetles and Porsches are rear engine and air cooled, there's just no way any mechanic could possibly make the mistake of opening the front trunk looking for the engine. The Corvair is still pretty well known but it's nowhere near the level of the Beetle and Porsche, so it would at least be understandable for someone who isn't familiar with classic cars to think a sleek American sedan would have the engine in the front.
Wow guys I think this is my most upvoted comment! All because I had a brain fart and completely forgot air cooled cars don't need a radiator. I had a 996 Turbo that was the first water cooled 911 so I should know better. Thanks for all the answers and nobody even made fun of me, this is so un reddit. I think we can safely assume it was an air cooled beetle or Porsche though hopefully they weren't getting the Pcar serviced at Jiffy Lube. Someone also mentioned an electric car, also a possibility, though the guy at JL would have to have been a true idiot in that case
Iokuas · 345 points · Posted at 15:25:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jiffy Lube kid tried to tell me I had "so much water in the line" when I went in for a quick change and that they'd have to do a complete flush and a cleaning and so on, showed me some white shit on the dipstick. So what do I do? I tell him I'll take it to my mechanic to do it because I don't trust a 16 year old kid to do any actual work on my car. My mechanic not only charged less than the Jiffy Lube would have, but he also didn't even mention there being a problem.
Places like jiffy lube and the dealers are great for business. Everytime a customer comes in with a quote from one of them I know right off the bat they won't argue about the bill because even if everything they have on the list needs to be done it will still be cheaper. It's one of the few times you can hand someone a 2 grand bill and have them say thank you.
Similar story. This was over 15 years ago now, but I took my car to some random chain place near my college for an oil change. The guy tried to tell me I needed over $1000 in work, car wasn't date to drive, etc. Told him not to do anything, and I drove it 90 miles to my dad's mechanic. Dad told his mechanic to do whatever we needed to just to make it safe. He was able to find a minor oil leak, which I think was like 20 bucks to fix. Literally nothing the other place said was wrong had a problem.
I went back to the place near college and threw an absolute fit to the manager, and told all the people in the waiting room that they were getting ripped off. I felt better, but looking back I probably should have filed some sort of formal complaint somewhere.
Formal complaint would have been good, however I think it's awesome you went back in to give it to them. As if students don't struggle enough with finances as it is, bunch of jerks.
I had moved to a new town where I didn't know anyone, but Big O tires was a block from my house, I could actually push my car there, which I had to do on occasion. But every time I took it there something else bad would happen.
At first I chalked it up to being a '99 Pontiac POS that I had bought at an auction, but then I took it in for a tire and it came back just pouring oil, so I decided next time to take it to this guy I had met at work. This guy was covered in skin grafts from being burned really bad. I was complaining about how Big-O screwed me over, blah blah blah. He says "Yeah, I used to work there as a teenager, some other kid decided to play around with gasoline, ended up "accidentally" pooring it on me and lighting me on fire. They didn't have a fire extinguisher where they were supposed to, and it took way too long to put me out. My workshirt was some kind of fabric that melted to my skin and they really thought I was going to die there for a while. To add injury to injury I had to take pain medicine called fentanyl. I was 19, burned over 3/4 of my body and severely addicted to pain pills for five years after that."
I was speechless. Even if they had never done wrong to my car, after hearing that story I really hated Big-O. And I felt really bad for complaining to him about how badly they did me wrong.
I think we’re all on the same page. FUCK JIFFY LUBE!
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:32:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People have no idea how easy it is to do your own oil change. You don't need to have a huge set of tools just a few wrenches. But instead they'd rather go to jiffy lube and complain when they get up sold by a high school student and pay out the ass when all it takes is 5-10 minutes to do an oil change.
Not defending jiffy lube here, because there are way better shops thatll do oil changes for 20$ vs the 100$ that jiffy lube charged me, but sometimes its just easier to take it into a shop to do an oil change, where at least for me, I would have to go out buy the oil, come back, do the oil change, then find a place that will take my old oil. Sometimes, its just easier to take it in and get it done in one go, instead of driving to possibly 3 places. But jiffy lube sucks because they are nowhere near a competitive price point like other auto shops out here.
Same here. Did the math and turns out I only saved like 10 bucks at the end. Why go through the trouble and sweating in the heat and save so little money. Besides, I get to support local business this way that pump back tax dollars into economy. Win-Win imo
I’ve found that a lot of dealerships do oil changes for only about $5-10 more than the cost of buying everything myself. Plus, since it’s a dealer, they’re less likely to fuck it up and if they do, can and will actually pay for it.
The dealership where I got my Cherokee has a reputation for being sketchy, but I evidently got the one car they sold for a fair price (asking price was like 300 above kbb value, I knocked it down to the specific number it gave) and it qualifies for their free oil change program.
I know some people actually drive quite far to get their cars, so this won't help everybody, but see if you'r dealership has promotions. I get free oil changes for the life of the car, and the only catch is I have to drive maybe 15 minutes, as opposed to 5
Guys like you never mention what a bitch it is to change the oil filter, or that you need a strap wrench for it that most people don't have, along with something to raise the car up safely, something to hold the old oil and somewhere to take it after. Fuck you, fuck your 5-10 minutes.
__i0__ · 4 points · Posted at 19:09:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is someone who has clearly tried to change oil before.
You think I'm going to lay under the $15 plastic blocks I drive up on while i wrench on the oil filter, avoiding a mouthful of oil?
Its 10 minutes to find the tools, 30 minutes to the store, 15 minutes to find the RIGHT tools, 30 minutes to get it lifted, 25 minutes to drain it and change the filter, 10 minutes to fill it, 5 minutes to clean the spillage, 30 minutes BACK to the store to dispose of the oil, all that to find out I drive a Nissan leaf that doesn't use oil.
Good day to you sir!
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 19:15:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Filter is supposed to be hand tight, bud. If you're tightening with a band wrench you're doing it wrong.
EnaBoC · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Way to avoid every other part of what he said. For the record, I have a fumoto valve, it literally DOES takes me 5-10 minutes with my ramps. And I STILL prefer taking it to the shop cause my time is worth more than the $10 I'd save.
__i0__ · 3 points · Posted at 19:02:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Help me with the economics. 5 quarts of oil and filter is $27
Unless you make negative dollars, at $15 an hour you come out ahead if the oil change only takes you an hour.
To say that most people do it because they don't know any better is ignorant.
It cheaper and way faster to get it done for you and oh yeah you can't change your own oil in an apartment parking lot
I get it that you might like doing it, but it's not a reason to feel smug about it
If you have whitish stuff in your oil it could be caused by taking really short trips in your car and not giving the engine time to warm up and evacuating all the moisture out. Its pretty common on hybrids that only use the engine some of the time. If the stuff is still there after a long trip then it usually means your pcv(?i think) System is malfunctioning or was it evap
Iokuas · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My average trip is around 10-15 minutes. So it could be that.
They shook a black vile of sludge at my wife telling her that I needed my transmission fluid replaced. The entire transmission had just been replaced a month earlier under warranty... That entire industry is criminally dishonesty.
Depends on what make and model of car... If it has a sealed transmission then yes it is going to be a PITA to check the trans fluid. But many cars have a transmission fluid dipstick which makes it very easy to check.
I never said that was basic maintenance. And replacing transmission fluid isn’t that big of a deal considering the fact that you don’t need to change it often. Maybe difficult the first time but after that it shouldn’t be an issue for anybody. People these days are too hands off to learn to do anything themselves and they end up wasting so much money over it
I don’t trust people to change their brakes, let alone correctly. While it’s noble that people should know how these things are done, sometimes it’s better just leaving it to the professionals. I’m glad that yearly safety inspections are mandatory in my state for that exact reason.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 17:33:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What no it doesn't. Almost all modern A/T cars come with a transmission dipstick. Only M/T has a check plug below the engine somewhere.
Almost all modern 2010 + A/T cars do not come with a transmission dipstick. Most of them require removing an overflow plug when the transmission fluid is in a specific temperature range.
That's not the case at all. Most all AT cars have a dipstick up until about 2006 when auto makers decided that was a problem. Most auto trans vehicles today do not have a transmission dipstick, and have either a check plug, or a special service tool required for checking fluid levels. All Toyota, Lexus, Nissan, Infiniti, BMW, Mercedes, and other European vehicles in the US have followed this for 10h years now, and most American cars have followed suit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah ive seen that with some dodge cars. They have a tube, and no dipstick, you need a special graduated dipstick, and you set the stopper to the correct unit according to the manual, and check it.
Its all to keep people from fucking with things that don't need their help. When we went to type WS fluid, they claim its a lifetime fluid and needs no replacement. So it doesn't have a stick, just a check plug, a set of instructions in the manual, and you need a pump to get fluid in the trans.
The engineers said that people would unnecessarily check and adjust fluid, add some incorrect or terrible quality fluid to the system, over fill it, under fill it, and generally do more harm than good. So they made it harder to do.
Also ASE master/Lexus Master/former Nissan master
You work for an oem?
I’m not talking about just fluid levels. You also need to check for water ingress, and metal shavings, you can’t check that with a dipstick. Edit yeah talking about manual transmission. Forgot automatics exist.
Well, it's not quite that simple. Porsche SE is a holding company that owns 50.7% of Volkswagen AG, but Volkswagen AG actually owns Porsche AG (the automotive company), which is a subsidiary of Porsche SE. Source
It's a bit misleading though. When someone hears "Porsche owns Volkswagen", they probably think Porsche the car company owns Volkswagen, which isn't true. It would be like saying Mercedes owned Chrysler, when really Daimler was the one.
Meh, if you say so. VW only took control of Porsche AG as part of the deal that saw Porsche SE take control of VW. Pretty common way to structure something,,,,take control of the parent and essentially roll you other holding into the company you now control as part of the deal.
Porsche being part of VAG is relatively new, as porsche was an independent company up until 2012. Air cooled designs like the 356, 550, 911 and so on were pure Porsche. That being said, the VW beetle, Karmann Ghia, 914, and Thing all had Porsche influence and design, as did most early Volkswagens.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:36:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t think that’s right. Porsche designed the first VW car as well as the factory to build it. They’ve been pretty intertwined since day one. Many Parts were even interchangeable in the 60s
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:06:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See, I wonder. Wouldn’t it be obvious to someone that the engine is in the back? I’m no car person or mechanic or anything and still wouldn’t open the front of a Porsche expecting an engine.
Ugh fuck JL. I caught them in a lie about them replacing my oil filter. The car was literally inside for less than 9 minutes. And then they shut the doors on me. Before even going in,I asked if they had time, if not, totally okay and I'll come back another day. They said no, no come in.
I go across town to another Jiffy Lube after they refuse to answer my questions and said they were closed.
I call the corporate office and no answer. So I just start blowing their facebook page and Twitter with my story. That got their attention quickly. They call me and hear me out. I tell them they can verify my story right now and this other JL location but I don't trust nobody at this point so I want to watch them do it. They agree.
What they don't fucking know is that I scratch in initials on my filters (when I change my own oil usually, but didn't have time this time) to ensure I'm not scammed like this.
So the manager is there now and talking to corporate on the phone. Sure as shit he pulls the filter off and not only is it the ones they don't* use but I tell them to look for my initials. They see it's an old filter and then I show them my initials. So they see I'm not lying.
I was livid. Pissed because they thought they could get over on me because I'm a female? Fuck them.
They refunded me of course and offered to redo the oil change but I said there's no way I'm letting them work on my car again. Had their PR team trying to get me to remove my reviews of them for weeks.
If I wasn't so god damn poor at the time, I would have sued their ass for fraud or at least have got a lawyer.
When my son was going to one of those places I sent him a pic of what his air filter is supposed to look like. The one they showed him wasn't the right size /shape.
Also he got 2 new tires, the guy wanted to put them on the dead axle, not the drive. I told my son that the better tires ALWAYS initially go on the drive axle, only rotate if the other pair are in similar shape. You do not want tires down to almost the legal limit of tread on the wheels that are under power. That guy wanted the nearly done tires up front so he could sell him another set of tires in a month. Putting the lower tread on the dead axle while they still have enough left to be safe will push off buying another pair a bit longer. Guy said I didn't know what I was talking about, kid told him I'm a trucker with my own truck who does 110,000 miles per year.
This doesn't apply if you can see the top of Abe Lincoln's head when you put a penny head edge in between the tread grooves!
I failed as a mother, I thought I had taught my son about the penny tread test before this...
On an American penny the space between the top of Lincolns head and the edge of the coin is roughly 2/32 inch which is the legal minimum. If you can see the top of his head when you put that part into the groove in your tread your tires need to be replaced asap.
You might not have a tread gauge but most people have pennies somewhere
Upside down, so that the top of the penny (where Abe's head is pointing) is touching the tire. If you can see the top of his head, your treads are worn and you need to replace that tire.
I drive a mid-engined car that has both a front and a rear trunk. I went in to pick up some brake pads for my car and they offered to do a free inspection on the vehicle so I took them up on it just to see what they'd find.
He came back telling me I had low engine oil and would need to replace all my oil as a result. There are only two problems with this statement of his:
1) My car shows engine oil level on the gauges every time you put the key in the ignition before you start it up, I knew my oil level was fine
2) I watched them "inspect" the car and he hadn't actually opened either the front nor the rear trunks (the dipstick is in the rear trunk).
So I went and asked him to show me what the oil level was at on the dipstick and the guy walks up and opens my front trunk. He spent probably a minute looking for the dipstick before I showed him the oil level by turning the key to the on position.
Jiffy Lube is the worst. Went there for an oil change. I was the only one there, so it didn't take long. The tech comes in and says I need a new air filter but everything else is fine. I say, I do? Can you show me my filter? He leaves to go to the garage and perceive to come back with a very dirty and very worn out air filter. I told him that's not my filter because I just replaced it myself the day before. He apologizes profusely he says he must have gotten it onfused with another customer even though nobody else was there. Are then asked if you checked my windshield wipers which I know needed to be replaced because the rubber part was peeling off. He said yes they look fine. So I take him and his manager out to my car to show them how badly worn my wipers are. The manager then says oh you need a special tool from Jeep to remove these wipers and that they can't do it there. So, I pop off both wipers to show no tool is needed. At this point I asked if they're even actually changed my oil considering I've caught them two lies now. I said I'm not paying for anything but they refused to give me my car keys back so they said if I have a problem I can take it up with upper management but I need to pay now. I ended up paying and getting in contact with Jiffy Lube's upper management, but they never reimbursed me. Told them I never come back, but they didn't really seem to care. Jiffy Lube is a dying brand.
Dudes for my last oil change tried telling me that my air filter needed changing by taking some pine needles from between the hood and windshield of my car (park under a pine at home, don't care to clean my car), and just throw them on what looked to be an otherwise fairly clean filter.
Uh, no dude. I'm not that dumb, and I'm fucking poor, so I ain't doing anything but the oil change anyway.
He stared at the place where he thought it would be -
The space that he hadn't expected to see.
I'd tricked him and trapped him.
I'd captured him, caught.
'Good heavens,' he whispered:
Andy: Black goes on the red. With the...If we...Positive...it being a motor drive, it's probably down.
Kid: He seems bad at this.
Andy: You want to do this, Junior? I didn't think so. Sorry. It's been kind of a long day at the...mechanic store. (Andy places connections wrong, smoke and explosion set off) Aaaah! ...Uh, You got a leaky spark tube.
Woman: What?!
Andy: So your car's totaled. Uh, you're just gonna want to get a refund on that. Or my guy could do it. He's great. But uh, I can't do that for you. I work exclusively on motorcycles.
Hah! You went to Jiffylube. That was your first mistake. I work im that line and they single handly gotten more customers to us than our coupons. There are reason why Jiffy is cheap, its because they don't know anything and won't teach any of their staff. Good example. They use an impact gun for your drain plug downstairs either stripping the plug or crossthreading it so it'll leak and won't claim responsibility
BrrToe · 3 points · Posted at 18:26:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That explains my steering fluid leak from 10 years ago...
Oh they sold you a power steering fluid flush? I hear all the time about those yet we being the 'experts' don't do it. That and brake fluid have a ridiculous long life and only really needs to be topped up once a while.
BrrToe · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a very similar experience at a Jiffy Lube; my first and last experience. The tech came in with this absolutly filthy cabin filter. He went on and on about how dangerous and unhealthy it is to breath the air coming through this disgusting filter. For a mere $40, he could replace it for me.
I kindly let him know that it there was no way that was my cabin filter. I had just replaced my filter a week prior and it was half the size of the filter he was showing me. His face turned red and he went back to the service bay with his tail between his legs.
Is anyone else reading these comments with the voices of the Tappet brothers from Car Talk in their heads? Because I sure am and it’s very entertaining!
As someone who worked as a lube tech for a while after high school, there is a good chance he is being pushed by management to upsell since the employees are judged based on how much extra BS they can sell over top of the oil change. I always hated suggesting this stuff to people but if I was ever caught not doing it then it would come up in my next raise meeting as a reason not to give it to you. “Get those sale numbers up and we’ll talk.” It honestly felt like working a commision sales job without actually getting a commision.
The problem with quick lube shops is that they're fundamentally not profitable if ran with any semblance of integrity. You can't charge $20 for an oil change all day, not upsell people services they don't need and hope to keep the lights on.
In my opinion they should be illegal since they're scams, they hurt the image of the trade as a whole and they give people this expectation of a super cheap oil change that independent shops can't match. Their other services are awful too since people see the same name for a service at a quick lube place and an independent thinking they're the same. But it turns out the quick lube transmission service is $150 to drain 3L out of your pan and the independent flushes 12L with a circulating machine (or do multiple 3L drains when that's not possible) for $300 yet the independent shop gets bitched out since they're charging so much according to the customer who's used to those scam prices.
That doesn't sound satisfying. It sounds like you caught a conman in his shit and the result was he was like "oh, you got me, lol" and continued to con people like your family and friends.
One of my friends used to work at Jiffy Lube. He quit because corporate got onto him about not selling enough things like radiator flushes and transmission flushes.
Not jiffy lube but I went to get my oil changed at a quick place, and they start telling me how there's something wrong with my tire I better get it checked before I get in a crash and didn't I notice the tire pressure light was on its the one with an exclamation point?! They didn't even do tires so I guess they were just stupid? Because there's absolutely nothing wrong with my tire, they even mentioned which one it was, wtf.
No. Traction control is the car with skid marks behind it. They more I look at car warning lights the more I think they really should be updated. Like the check engine light, what the fuck is that thing? That is not an engine.
Cobek · 5 points · Posted at 16:30:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They insisted I needed a new serpentine belt but I just had my father, who works on cars every weekend, looking over it and he saw nothing. Still haven't changed it and it's been 3 years since that oil change. Wish it was easier to change oil on my 2002 Ranger but it's just in a weird spot so I have to deal with con artists.
Similar to this, my parents bought a Nissan Leaf, and the dealer gave them a coupon for a free oil change, even though it didn't use oil.
My mom convinced them to give them something they could actually use.
Got one of those coupons too. I still wonder where to stick that coupon.
Electric cars will be the death of these companies. No oil changes, no oil filter, no gas pumps, no gas filters, no radiator, dead simple transmission (it’s a single gear on the leaf), etc.
I guess they will have to make do with tyre, cabin air filters and windshield wipers. Or they could move into the battery recycling business i guess.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:44:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only reason to go to a Jiffy Lube is to clown the worthless employees there. Calling them out on their BS is hysterical.
Most electric cars have a small radiator to cool the motor/batteries, and some have a second cooling loop dedicated to cooling the batteries and charging circuit.
OP probably brought in an old air-cooled, rear-engined VW or Porsche.
As a technician, take it from me when I say 90% of car repair places/car dealership service departments are complete scams. Nothing is more valuable than a mechanic you can trust.
Aomory · 9339 points · Posted at 13:24:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not completelly relevant, but I doubt such a specific thread would come up anytime soon. I caught someone who was trying to convince me I was lying.
When I was little, my mom was driving me to school. We went the more rural of the two possible roads, and on our way we saw a wolf, so we stopped the car and watched it from a distance for a little while.
I told this to my aunt recently and she didn't believe me, because this isn't and never was a wolf area. My mom, even though she was with me, didn't get involved in the argument.
The argument was at a standstill at that point. I claimed it was a wolf, she claimed it was a jackal (which are not in this area either, but it's maybe a bit more likely). With all the wonders of modern technology, she opened her phone, googled something, and gave the phone to me: "Does that look like what you saw?"
It was a scrawny thing with a pointy nose and red-brown fur. Definitelly not. "Well of course you didn't see that, because that's a picture of a wolf."
Before she could take her phone back, I read out loud the title below the picture from a news article it belonged to: "Pack of Jackals found in Southern Serbia." She furiously took her phone from me and was too embarrassed to keep arguing, so I won by default.
I will claim that was a wolf I saw on my deathbed.
What a stupid reason to erode your niece or nephew’s trust and respect in you. Although you’d probably had that ruined long before.
Aomory · 2541 points · Posted at 14:39:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, she used to be this pretty cool aunt, but recently she reached middle age, so she's just become a real pain in the ass. Looks down her nose at everyone, always thinks she's right, humilliates my sister who's not on intellectual par with her... I hopefully knocked her down a peg or two with that one, because she didn't talk to me for the rest of the day, even though it was my birthday picnic.
humilliates my sister who's not on intellectual par with her
Wait a second... am I misunderstanding something here, or is she literally bullying her own niece? Because if she is, that's a really shitty thing to be doing.
My aunt bullied my little brother for YEARS. I was very young at the time as well, so all this is what I've been told over the years.
She's always had elaborate fantasies and stuff growing up, and one of them was being obsessed with the BeeGees. When my brother was five, she was talking about him like she knew him personally, almost like they were in a relationship. My brother later asked my dad why she hadn't invited Barry (lead singer of the BeeGees for those who don't know) to thanksgiving dinner. My dad explained that she didn't really know him, and that she was just a huge fan and such. So, the next time she talked about the band, my brother, being 5, said "Barry doesn't love you" trying to be helpfully blunt, as 5 year olds are. She was PISSED. She was rude and just kind of mean to him for years after that, doing things like picking favorites and "forgetting" birthday presents for him. She only started to be nicer when he was around 18 (he's 21 in November), and when my mom gave her a tongue-lashing when he was around 12 (It would have happened sooner, but there's always been a sense of pity for her lonely bitter life).
As my friend once described his mom, "I love her, but I certainly don't like her."
Hey man! Just sharing cunty aunt stories! So my dad’s twin sister always hated my mom. Who knows why, my mom is a gem and really really sweet. Personally I’ve always thought my aunt had some weird thing for my dad cause she’s crazy af, and was jealous of my mom, again cause my aunt is crazy af. So anyways when my aunt had her third kid, she was born 3 days before me. My aunt has always compared the two of us and has hated me cause I’ve always done better in school and stuff than her daughter. I also get along really well with my mom. This one time we had a joint birthday between me and my cousin cause it was so close, and my family got her a bike or something like that. My aunt got me two shirts from a thrift store that didn’t fit and one smelled bad and was stained. They always claimed to have money troubles, but they didn’t. She even spent 10k on a nose job she didn’t need but claimed she couldn’t afford her son’s braces.
Anyways I received a lifetime of bullying from this woman until I was 16 and my dad died of cancer. This was my aunt’s excuse to never talk to my family again. 9 years later haven’t heard a word. Good riddance if you ask me. Haven’t heard from her kids either except her one son who I actually really like.
Similar thing happened to me! Except it was my dad's whole family. They were always crazy so we weren't super close but when my dad passed (I was 14) I wanted to make an effort to be in their lives. Cut to going out to dinner with all my aunt's and the one cousin I'm close with pulls me aside and tells me to not waste my time as her mum had told her "Jim was part of the family, not her" meaning I was basically dead to them now that the glue that was my dad was gone.
I'm 26 now and haven't spoken to them since that day, my life is definitely better for it. I don't even understand how someone as amazing and caring as my dad was grew up with those fucking psychos
Agreed. I was fragile enough at the time, didn't need that toxicity. Thanks for the kind words :)
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 21:07:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm appalled to read all these bad aunt stories, but I can contribute too, so I might as well tag in. Granted some of these stories are a lot worse than mine (so in advance, I'm very sorry to hear about your shitty experiences).
My parents had me in high school, obviously relationships aren't always perfect at that age; they had issues, broke up, and my mom raised me. My father was kind of absent and kind of a shit when I was born, from what I've heard, but he's gotten a lot better in the last few years since settling down, marrying, and having other kids. I'm happy to know him now.
I think part of it was that the family thought my step-dad, who is to this day still an awesome dad, who's been around since I was born, was trying to "interfere and steal me away from them"? I always got that bullshit vibe from them. But it was certainly never true - my parents never interfered with my family on that side, and let me make my own decisions. I just happened to be a kid, and I never really thought about phoning people, cause I had friends and school and internet, etc.
My aunt told 12-year-old me to contact her again "when I was ready to apologize and talk to [dad] more." She cited off all this bullshit about how he worked "so hard" for me when I was a kid. It's been over a decade and I haven't spoken to her at all. No cards, no calls, no Facebook messages. I told my mom and she said it was ridiculous of my aunt to do, and that "she's the adult, she can make the effort, and she shouldn't act like a child." I'm still kinda salty. But I talk to my father usually every other week still.
It still makes me salty as an adult because I find other family members pulling similar shit; I moved away, bought a house, got engaged, all the life stuff - but I don't talk to a lot of my family regularly because a lot of them were assholes, even I could see that as a kid. But now that I moved away, they expect me to always phone and tell them what's going on. If you care... come visit. Call me. I don't have time or money to come see you. You're the adultier adult, make the effort.
You don't need em, you sounds like you're doing great :) Obviously family is important but when you're in a fucked up family it quickly makes you realize they're just people. Family is about the bond
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 23:49:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree wholeheartedly and thank you, appreciate the reassurance :) a lot of folks don't understand how there's a line you gotta draw, even with family, and just think you're being shit
I was legally adopted by my step father at a young age. So I knew him to be my dad and called him such.
Now, I’m not particularly close with him or his side of the family. But I hate almost all of them and haven’t spoken to them in years.
I was berated by his mother for calling him by his first name (because that’s how my brother and I address our parents) because “he signed the adoption papers so you should call him dad”
They made fun of everything I wore.
His sister was the first person I told that I was being abused and she said it was my fault. She was a teacher and was required by law to report it.
They were just such bitter hateful people. When I had to stay with an aunt who was actually nice they talked about how I was such a freeloader.
But hey, my life is on track and I’m doing really well. And not a single one of them will be invited to the wedding I’m having soon. Which I’m sure they’ll be bitter about.
I'm so sorry ❤️ I felt a little awkward at first, after my dad died. But his siblings (and mom) were never awful like that to me. They're proud that I'm his daughter, and my babies are his grandkids. If those nasty people had any sense, they'd have treated you the same.
My aunt got super religious and told my mom (who married a Jew), that my week old baby brother was going to hell for being Jewish. My mom didn’t speak to my aunt for 10 years.
If you haven't House of Yes, you really should. There's a relationship in the movie that sounds a lot like what you describe between your father and aunt.
Your aunt sounds like my sister. She too has elaborate fantasies and made several blogs about them. Blogs filled with literally thousands of entries. Bullshit lies about our parents performing at the Grand Old Opry, lies about Patsy Cline coming to our house to visit, lies about seeing a space ship, lies about everything and anything. She used to live in California and she wrote this long blog entry about how she and her younger son were in a movie. Never happened. She wrote about seeing and talking to ghosts and she even claimed that she's been a psychic medium since she was two years old. Well that's news to me because I am older and I don't recall a damned thing about that ever happening! Back then my parents didn't know what a psychic medium was.
I believe that my sister hears voices and sees things that aren't there. When she was a kid my parents took her to a psychiatrist who said my sister was schizophrenic. I had no idea what that meant back then and I had actually forgotten about it until I started reading the insane blogs. My parents couldn't afford for my sister to be on medications so my sister went her entire life without it. She is in complete denial too. Last I saw online she is on Plenty of Fish and is using an alias because she ruined her reputation completely by doing some shady shit. She dyes her hair jet black (she is a ginger) and put in her profile that she is a member of the Algonquian Indian tribe from Canada. When I read that I laughed my head off. No one in our family is from Canada and no one is part of any Indian tribe. LOL.
I believe that my sister hears voices and sees things that aren't there. When she was a kid my parents took her to a psychiatrist who said my sister was schizophrenic. I had no idea what that meant back then and I had actually forgotten about it until I started reading the insane blogs. My parents couldn't afford for my sister to be on medications so my sister went her entire life without it.
Not in the least. My sister made my life a living hell when our mom got dementia. My sister harassed me so badly while I was trying to take care our mother by myself and instead of offering to help me, my sister made my life extremely stressful. She told our cousin that she was going to do everything she could to stress me out as if I didn't have enough already on my plate.
I had to move my mom in with me and out of her own home because it was too dangerous for her to continue living alone. My sister would post in her blogs that our mom was able to continue living alone because the last time she saw our mother she "seemed fine". Well my mother wasn't fine. Her condition deteriorated quickly and had I left her in her home she would have burned it to the ground most likely. This was just the tip of the iceberg with my sister. She threatened to kill me (in her blogs), threatened to have people walk in front of my house carrying signs, all kinds of weird shit. I reported her to the authorities but they said they couldn't do anything until my sister actually physically did something to me. That never happened because my sister is a fucking coward. We went to court and she cried like a baby to the judge. The judge told her to act like an adult and stop whining. My mother passed away and that was the end of my sister's harassment.
My sister could easily get treatment for her problem (s) because she has VA benefits but she is in denial.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:58:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorta the opposite happened to me. A lady I knew as I was growing up, an Aunty like figure, had a secret she kept the entire time I knew her. When she was younger, she actually was married to Barry Gibb! Back in the 60s before the Bee Gees were famous. I didn’t find that out until after she had passed away.
My mother's aunt really hates her, for whatever reason. Woman wore black to my mom's wedding, and convinced her (aunt's) sweet sister to do it too. They claimed they were in mourning for their husbands, which they'd both legitimately lost fairly recently. Later on, when my grandma's alzheimer's was making inroads, they took her away from my mom (who was the caregiver at that point in time) claiming my mom just wanted grandma's life insurance and was committing elder abuse by faking claims of alzheimer's. Karma got them in the form of Grandma the next morning.
Nymaz · 2 points · Posted at 00:22:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aomory · 47 points · Posted at 17:49:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She often low key makes fun of her for being a bit on the dumb side. It's too low key for my sister to notice, but we usually try to interrupt her before she goes on a roll. I've also stopped being friends with her because no one bullies my sister but me.
people suck. I've cut contact with a lot of my "family" long ago, for this reason. I don't care if youre related, I don't have time in my life for your shitty attitude.
Ugh, sounds like my aunt. She was in a bad accident 2 summers ago and my dad and I dropped everything and spent a lot of money to travel to where she was, because that's what family does. She was mad my dad didn't bring them clothing (her daughter did) and when he paid for a hotel for her after she had been discharged but her family members hadn't, she was mad it wasn't nice enough. 2 weeks ago I phoned to tell her I was pregnant and her response was, "yeah I heard from your grand father." Cool. So glad you like your family.
for whatver reason, my dads siblings don't like my mom. Dunno why, but it's always been pretty obvious that we're an afterthought. Any major decisions that had to be made? THey'd tell him what they decided on. At family gatherings we were the ones that you made small talk with 'cause you had to, my two cousins are clearly favored over my sister and me, and looking back at conversations I tried to have when I was younger, it was plain as day that their interest was clearly feigned (which was disappointing. I thought she was so cool).
Oh well. Grandma passed alst year so theres not much reason to communicate with 'em now.
Exact same thing here! My aunt is SO mean to my mom and I started calling my aunt on it. Now her argument is that we don't visit our grandparents enough because we live 40 minutes away and see them twice a month and they live 6 houses away so she sees them every other day or so. Like seriously, get over yourself. My cousin asked my dad for money for her wedding, which my dad happily gave, and them he didn't get an invite because she didn't want my mom there. He was devastated.
That happened to my cool aunt, later in life. My brother and I had a falling out with our parents, but when mom died my brother ran into the aunt at the funeral who loudly accused him of being there just to get money from our dad. Such a cunt.
mvl90 · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is your aunt my aunt???
Aomory · 5 points · Posted at 17:25:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every aunt settles into one of the few archetypes at some point. Some are the cool aunt that gives you extra snacks, some are the aunt that comes in, drinks everything, and is then asked to leave, and the third is this petty lady with little happiness in life apart from making everyone else less happy.
Yo dawg, thankfully this person isn't your mother, but you could always swing by the raised by narcissists sub for more stories of people like your aunt.
Aomory · 4 points · Posted at 17:42:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God no, the whole argument gave me my fill of narcissism for at least a few more months until the next family picnic.
She honesly used to be pretty cool, would send me and my cousin to the shop in the morning and give us extra money to buy candy.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:29:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE?! Ive got like 3 50 somethings in my life who fit this description
Aomory · 0 points · Posted at 18:41:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, just a poor person who once had a really Shitty roommate, and now lives with family that dont seem to know the difference between my stuff, and the stuff meant for the whole household (because the tupperware with my name on it isnt obvious enough you know?)
Raichu7 · 680 points · Posted at 14:31:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most adults.
I got told off for yelling at my younger sibling to get away from the water because I saw an alligator in Florida and told I was making it all up. They were allowed to continue playing by the edge of the water.
Seriously, people think because urban areas aren't completely flooded swamps that gators never snake their way in. I grew up in New Orleans, and even residents would doubt me when I said I occasionally saw gators in City Park, where I used to run every day. There's so many canals funneling into that city from the swamp and alligators are very stealthy. It'd be impossible to get rid of them.
What the hell? In Florida, if there is a body of water even slightly large enough to conceal an alligator, you should pretty much always assume there's an alligator in there. There usually is.
It doesn't matter if dogs are on a leash. Did you hear on the news about the woman here in Florida who was walking her three dogs near a lake and was attacked by a gator? The dogs were all on leashes. The gator came up on shore quickly, grabbed one of the dogs severely injuring it and grabbed the woman too. The other two dogs ran off. When trappers killed the gator and opened it up they found one of the woman's arms inside. They found the rest of her elsewhere.
Don't walk dogs close to any body of water especially this time of year.
The stupid thing about this is, the woman didn't want to walk her dogs around the lake or pond in her neighborhood because of a gator. So she goes to another area and dies.
Depends where, if it was near the everglades (or any of the swampalnd of the side of the interstate) they're bonkers. There are alligators on the bike paths there and shit dont get me started on the water. If it was Miami Beach, or some other such beach in Miami, Sarasota, etc... I can see their point
A pond at a golf course, and we were tourists so we had no local knowledge to know which areas are worse for alligators. But trying to protect a sibling who was too far away to hear them speak normally is still no reason to tell a kid off for shouting and lying.
I live in Florida and I can tell you for certainty that any body of water have gators in it. A woman was recently killed by a gator when she was walking her dogs near a lake. The gator grabbed one of the dogs then pulled the woman in. When the trappers opened up the gator they found the woman's arm. They found the rest of her elsewhere.
Aomory · 146 points · Posted at 14:43:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was little when I saw the wolf, around 7, but this argument happened on my 21st birthday picnic this year, so not so little anymore. I see where my narrative might have confused you, though.
Chaost · 3 points · Posted at 18:47:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think I didn't clearly state that I saw the wolf (or whatever it was, honestly) when I was little, but this argument happened last month on my picnic.
When I was little, my mom was driving me to school. We went the more rural of the two possible roads, and on our way we saw a wolf, so we stopped the car and watched it from a distance for a little while.
I told this to my aunt recently and she didn't believe me,
Pretty clear
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Idk, their comment seemed like I forgot to switch from past to present. Thanks for quoting me, I haven't seen my own comment since I wrote it this morning...
They assume anyone younger than them knows nothing at all. They'll argue the wrong side of anything until they're blue in the face because age=respect in their fucked up heads.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:28:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister got into it with my stepdad over whether lions were bigger than tigers as kids. He's also a narcissistic asshole so there's that.
one of my dads ex-wives was insane. she was abusive to both of us, but consistently accused me of lying, about literally everything. to the point where i ACTUALLY lied to make things what she deemed believable. she was around from the time i was 5 til i was 13. like cmon, what does a 6 year old have to lie about that warrants screaming at them? apparently everything.
to this day im a really honest person because being called a liar fucks with me, and i dont want any reason to be called one.
I did. My sister and I are 16 years apart. When I was in my 20's, I was getting sick of hearing my sister (like 8 at the time) wasn't doing her work in school and getting low marks. You see... I had the benefit of this not being my kid (and she was my stepmoms first and only child) so I didn't have baby blinders on. And I thought she was getting a little too good at manipulating.
We sat down to dinner and my sister weaves a tale of how her teacher didn't tell her this and didn't tell her that which was why she didn't have her homework done.
About the moment when my parents started questioning how often this happens was when I stepped in... and started arguing with an 8 year old. Asking more and more specific questions for details. And watched this 8 year old start to switch details and then shift into plaintively saying "I don't know!". You don't know? You just said you did know.
Anyway, parents shut it down and now the kid's in high school pulling the same shit and my dad sends me cryptic texts about needing to talk to me about her.
Because I'm a hardass and I love that little asshole. She definitely got my dad's genes. I'm just as stubborn as she is... which is how I know her tricks. Ha!
But still... I was an adult woman arguing with an 8 year old over box spaghetti.
Most of the people answering you don't have children so their answers are... Let's say biased. The truth is that all adults argue with little kids. Little kids are arrogant little pricks and they absolutely love to argue. So arguing is just a natural state of development.
Hey, I saw something I initially thought was a wolf a couple of weeks ago, but then I realized it was more likely a coyote.
Aomory · 47 points · Posted at 14:52:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I saw it a long time ago, so I might have warped my memories to make it look more like a wolf, but I'm pretty sure it had a grey coat with something resembling a mane around the throat - a thick winter coat wolves usually get. Jackals are more of a reddish brown and very skinny, while coyotes (which we don't have at all in Europe as far as I know) have more of a sandy yellow coat and are even smaller compared to jackals.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 16:58:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Coyotes and wolves can look very similar to each other and there's no specific color for a coyote. Coyotes are usually smaller and solitary.
Aomory · 5 points · Posted at 17:23:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I googled it properly after everyone left, and yeah, from that distance, I could've been any of the two, plus memory manipulation, because I was 7 and I thought wolves looked cool, so it'd be awesome if it was really a wolf. That said, I would love to say it was a wolf, but... yeah, memory manipulation. All I know for sure is it was a greyish colour against the snow and that it was alone.
(Not arguing with your story). Ok this is funny but I saw a coyote that your post has now convinced me was a wolf. It was huge (like almost as tall as a Great Dane) and definitely grey. I looked up images to see if there were different species or something to account for our descriptions varying. And I stumbled on news and science sights discussing the confirmation that grey wolves are returning to California after nearly a century.
I assumed coyote because those things are super common here (lost 3 cats in our two block area in the past 3 years)
So not only were you right about your own wolf story, you convinced me that I’d seen a wolf too.
Aomory · 6 points · Posted at 17:30:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm not sure at all, because memory manipulation is a thing, and I didn't know what jackals were when I was 7. All I know for sure is that it was a greyish colour and it was alone. It must have been bigger than the average dog, otherwise we probably wouldn't have noticed it.
For reference, jackals are about as big as a Border Collie, while wolves are about as big as Great Danes if not bigger.
I'm glad wolves are coming back into your area, though! American wolves usually avoid humans, but please stay safe when you appreciate them. :)
Around me we have some big coyotes (there are no wolves here), but some are cross breeds from farm dogs. Those crossbreeds can get quite a bit bigger.
The coyotes get fat from the wild turkeys and lots of small game. Little dudes are smart too. Will wait on the side of the road and watch for traffic, look both ways before crossing...and often wait around blind corners or dips where road kill is common.
I've seen dogs that look like wolves. Some wolves aren't very nice looking and some look kind of scruffy and skinny. Much like a coyote. Some wolves are huge and gorgeous.
This reminds me of an interaction I saw once while waiting tables last summer. One of our cocktails had a basil leaf garnish, and a younger girl (maybe 15) asked "Aunt Karen, what is that leaf? Looks like basil..." Aunt Karen replied "no, it's definitely mint." So the girl looks at the cocktail menu and says, "oh, it says they use basil..." and then just goes on to continue another conversation with another family member. Well, since Aunt Karen is never wrong, she picks the garnish out of her drink, smells it, and proceeds to say that "No, this is definitely mint." Then she throws the leaf to the ground, on the patio...
It's like she just couldn't be corrected by her 15 year old niece. And for the record, it was basil.
Replying to you because I also had to prove I wasn't lying as a kid.
When I was 7 or 8 my mom called me into the living room and accused me of stealing $20 out of her purse. I had never stolen anything, purse money included, and honestly I wasnt allowed to go anywhere to spend it anyway. Both my parents laid into me really hard. She insisted she knew it was there, and now it wasn't, and that my older brother would never steal, so it must be me. I cried and insisted on my innocence. After about an hour I was dismissed.
A few hours later, my father called me into the living room. "Your mother has something she wants to tell you," he said. She was sitting down, sheepishly looking at the floor. "She looked like she was lying, though," she said. My father kept pressing her to tell me whatever it was, but she wouldn't. Finally he said, "Apparently your mom gave that $20 to your brother yesterday and forgot. Say you're sorry."
She never did say she was sorry, but repeated again I shouldn't look guilty of I'm not. 20 years later I can still feel the relief of that accusation crumbling away.
Aomory · 9 points · Posted at 18:31:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That actually sounds horrible...
The whole argument kept going because one of us was wrong and the other tried proving they weren't, despinte being accused of being wrong.
But that's just childish, not admitting you're wrong. Even worse, "You looked guilty." Or "You shouldn't have looked guilty." Any kind of resistance can be interpreted as looking like guilt!!!
I'm glad your father was the adult of the situation, because I doubt your mother would come up to you to admit that herself.
You might never read this I want to point out that I don't it was by accident that she pulled up a picture of a jackal.
She wanted you in a Lose-Lose situation.
If you said 'yes, that is what I saw' she can respond 'hah! That's a picture of a jackal!' and if you said 'no' then she wouldv continued insisting you didnt know what you saw, which is what it sounds like she was doing with you.
Either way, I think it was a calculated attempt at deceiving a child. Not cool, good on you for catching on.
Aomory · 6 points · Posted at 19:24:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha-ha! I read this cause I've been refreshing my inbox for the past (insert time since original comment) hours!
Yeah, that's actually what I thought of after I posted the comment. She's actually pretty smart, and I wouldn't put it past her to attempt a trick like that. Looking back, I might have been a bit too observant for her.
I have a similar story. Only with Tim Curry. This was almost 15 years ago now. No one believes me he visited our tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. But God damn I will take that belief to my grave.
Aomory · 7 points · Posted at 17:44:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those stories are the best to have and the worst to tell because no one goddamn believes you!
Wait, there was a wolf on your deathbed? That's unsanitary and dangerous.
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 17:43:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was trying to eat me and then my granddaughter brought a hunter who killed it. I had a little bit of allergies with all the fur it left on my lovely comforter, but I was fine, thanks for asking.
Dangerous? Well it wasn't her deathbed for nothing
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:26:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 18:38:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here, people think they're smart until you actually tell them a fact or two. There are no racoons or coyotes in Europe. There are very few jackals in the south. There might be some isolated packs of wolves hiding around, though.
Honestly, Europe has so much nature and as much as we claim to have charted it, god knows what else is hiding all around us.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly! I had never been outside the States before then so I loved being out there! Even found a giant, calm hedgehog that let us pick him up and hold him(with gloves), it was the cutest thing!
Aomory · 4 points · Posted at 19:03:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went on a walk once, which is rare for me to begin with. On my way home I passed a huge hedgehog. I immediatelly called my dad to bring gloves and a bucket. The poor dude was actually pretty old and probably got tired going up the hill. We put him in the bucket and put him down a bit deeper in the forest. He sniffed around for a bit until he got out of the bucket and wobbled along.
Hedgehogs are awesome and surprisingly nice for an animal whose defence mechanism is to hurt you.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:12:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aww, I'm sure the little old man appreciated the help!
Aomory · 5 points · Posted at 19:22:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He didn't seem to be bothered by me picking him up at all. He was surprisingly heavy, but didn't start curling in a ball or try to bite or scratch me. He was quiet too. We gave him an apple from our orchard, but he didn't take it. I left it where I dropped him off in case he changed his mind and came back for it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah the one we picked up was so chill! Maybe they're used to it or don't see us as threats?
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 20:41:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Either that, or more like "Yeup, this thing is big and smart enough to know my defence mechanism. Life is meaningless anyways."
Nah, I bet they know a gentle hand when they feel one.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but foxes are small and even the gray fox doesn't have the same kind of pelt as a wolf. I don't think I've ever seen or heard one on the continent, though.
Same thing, my grandmother on my father's side was super petty and refused to concede that as a 7 year old I could repeatedly beat her at poker...
I even got triple queens. Straight. Dumb. Luck.
When my dad was little (like maybe 10) he came back from the weekend to his class excited to talk about how he went "spelunking" (exploring caves) with his parents. The teacher told him "spelunking" was not a word. He argued and got in trouble. Came home crying to his parents that he was embarassed and punished in front of the whole class. Parents (my grandparents) had to call and ream the teacher out for putting my dad in a time out and calling him out for a "fake word"
When I was little, my mom was driving me to school. We went the more rural of the two possible roads, and on our way we saw a wolf, so we stopped the car and watched it from a distance for a little while.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's... eerily how it actually went. We stopped and admired it and quietly asked him questions like "Hey, what are you doing here, buddy?" and he just stood there for a while.
How do you know there will be a wolf on your death bed?
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 17:41:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you even read Little Red Riding Hood? Wolves probably come up to the elderly all the time and wanna eat them, that's why we put so many of them in homes where they're more protected than in the middle of a forest.
It was a scrawny thing with a pointy nose and red-brown fur.
Depending on where you live, wolves can appear pretty different, pulling up a random image of one online is a piss-poor test, even if she did get an actual wolf. Up where I live in the North East US, our wolves are a bit bigger than average, but in some regions they can be surprising small and lean.We also have some monster coyotes up here, guess they interbred with the wolves a while ago and more folks from the midwest would never think they are coyotes and assume they're wolves. Sorry, bit off topic I suppose.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, I love these discussions. :)
The picture was that of an emaciated dog/fox mix. The snout was pointed and the skull continued just like that, something a wolf's skull definitelly doesn't do. Their snout is pronounced like that of a dog's, and their skull is more square. No matter territorial differences, I doubt a wolf would have that kind of snout (we're talking about the picture here).
I had a pretty similar problem one time! I was on my way back from my (ex) girlfriend's house, who lived pretty far outside the city. there's only one road to the area. it was late at night, and I pulled over because I saw eyes in the bushes. I turned my car towards them, and low and behold there was 2 bears in the forest. this was maybe 10 minutes from the city, and when I told everyone about my incident I was laughed at and ridiculed. no one believed me, until other people started reporting bears in the area as well. felt great to see the look of defeat on other people's faces when they heard of other people seeing bears so close to the city!!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is the best feeling ever! I'm glad it got proven for you!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was a family picnic, so it was a lot to do, sadly. She's the host, so she had to do a lot of running about and she missed the start of the argument anyways.
Her using a picture of a jackal and using it as a pic of a fox.
That's just an immature thing to do. You actually reading her source is an awesome thing to do.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Using it as a picture of a wolf, you mean? And I think it was actually by accident. She probably googled something like "Wolves in Europe" and clicked on the first image that seemed right. The way that Google works, the article the picture was from probably used the phrase in one way or another.
Yeah that's what I mean. Sorry, I'm half in the bag rn
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Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Coyotes are only seen in North America, though, so unless one escaped a zoo or was a stowaway on a transocean ship just to trick me into thinking I saw a wolf, I doubt it was a coyote.
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Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 23:01:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just from a quick search on Google, it was either a Gray Wolf (common to North America and parts of Eurasia), or it was the Eurasian Wolf (also known as a common wolf) that is native to northern Europe and the forest and steppe zones of the former Soviet Russia.
So I believe you, and there isn't enough evidence to suggest that a migration wasn't capable.
And also shout out to OP who is responding like a boss!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I googled it properly that night too, and there used to be wolves around my area, but decades ago. Jackals could have migrated as well, but that's from the south of Europe, so wouldn't that be a bit harder than an animal coming south?
Also I'm getting a lot of comments, so I might as well respond, right? I have nothing better to do, and everyone deserves that little number next to their inbox. :)
From what I would imagine, migrating north would probably be worse if they weren't already accustomed to coldness, but I don't live in Europe so I couldn't say.
Thanks mate! You da man!
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I think it would be easier to develop a thinner coat than a thicker one. If nothing else, they would groom eachother into thinner coats, but frostbitten paws are frostbitten paws.
Confess, you are here with friends, it wasn't, right?
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly no idea. Memory manipulation is a thing, so I'm not sure about the details at all. All I know it was a grey-ish thing with thick fur and it was relativelly big.
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 18:36:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup, but pride was on the line, which is an adult thing to fight for!
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Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't even fine print, lol. Nowadays, when you google a picture on your phone, the title of the picture is pretty big. That's what makes it funnier.
This reminds me of a story from when I was a kid. My mom is a wonderful woman, and almost always trusted me unquestionably. However, there is one occasion where she refused to believe I was telling the truth. Now note: I told my fair share of lies growing up, so it’s funny that she believed many of those but not this one.
Anyway, my friend lived on a golf course, and one evening we were playing around near the putting green. A small red fox approached me, and stood still about 20 feet away just looking at me. I started talking to it as if it were a pet and it didn’t seem threatened at all. To test this I rolled my golf ball toward the fox and the fox actually picked up the ball in its mouth, walked toward me (about half the distance between us), and then dropped the ball and looked up. It then walked away, and we continued playing as if nothing strange had happened. To this day I regret not trying to pet it.
When I told my mom, she insisted I just saw a fox and was exaggerating about the rest. To this day I joke with her about all the stuff I got away with growing up (sneaking out, drinking my parents’ booze, etc.) while it was the fox story where she really put her foot down. She tried convincing me I must have imagined it but I’m positive I saw that damn fox!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is the inverse of The Boy That Cried Wolf.
"Look at all these lies I'm telling you!" Seems legit.
"Hey, I saw a fox and we played fetch." Yeah right.
I've been in these arguments with people where they seem to firmly believe they are right about something that is highly improbable, and in the end all I can say is "Well, that sounds unlikely but I guess there's no way to know for certain (and in this case I'd say).... Maybe it was a dog, and maybe it was a wolf, and if it was a wolf that sounds like a really cool sighting!" I would also hope that the person would be able to consider the notion that they could be wrong about something they are remembering from when they were a child.
Additionally, if wolves aren't indigenous to that area then I would have to agree that it was also likely not a wolf but an animal that resembles it, although I couldn't agree with any part of how she handle this discussion. More than likely, it was a breed of dog that is very wolk-like, like a husky mix. It makes a lot of sense that a dog would have gotten out and been roaming around. You said you were little, so it's reasonable to assume that with child-like delight and fancy you made up your mind it was a wolf.
In any event, kudos for being quick enough to catch the writing on the page and calling her out. Such a petty move to try to be "right" by your aunt, especially since she knows full well she wasn't right and was lying and that means she was just doing it to one-up her niece/nephew.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your comment is very good. You picked up on a lot of things I had to explain in later comments:
the whole argument was silly and just two people defending their pride (I admit)
wolves haven't been seen in these areas for decades
more than a wolf or a jackal, it was probably a big grey dog
memory manipulation. Little me sees big dog, little me is very small, so big dog seem even bigger dog, big dog must be a wolf, gotta tell everyone at school I saw a wolf.
Why didn’t your mom say anything? Seems a little ridiculous to let someone talk to your kid like that when she saw it too.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She wasn't around for the start, and she had a lot of work to do for the picnic that was still going on. She also knows her sister can be quite a bit narcissistic, and that her daughter can stand up for herself.
When I was dating my wife, she was living with her best friend, who was 20 years older than her. That made her 30 years older than I am. She was a notorious egomaniac. There was an article in the paper that day about a mountain lion that had been seen on the HS football field, and that the Sheriff's Office had used their helicopter to help track it down.
"They probably used a FLIR," I said, referring to a Forward-Looking Infrared Radar. Her friend asked what it meant, and I told her.
She laughed her ass off. "You don't know what you're talking about," she said. "I'm amazed they (the sheriff) can even get that thing in the air, they're so backwards out here." (We live in wine country, in Northern California.)
I turned the page of the newspaper to continue reading. Big article: "SHERIFF CREDITS NEW 'FLIR' RADAR IN HELPING TRACK MOUNTAIN LION."
Man that felt good. It wasn't a lie, of course, but it just felt good to clear my throat and show her the article.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my god that sounds amazing. Was your wife around? If yes, how did she react?
I had a really similar, but not as contentious experience! I was living near Seldovia, across Kachemak Bay from Homer, Alaska. Not out of the realm of possibility, but not exactly wolf territory. I jumped off a little ledge on a hike and scared the shit out of a scrawny wolf. I watched him go around the beach for a while before disappearing into the bush. When I got back home, my friend insisted it was a coyote, pulling up picture after picture. Yada yada yada, I left for a better job and not two months later he's posting pictures of the same wolf howling at the same place with a bunch of #howlatthemoon #wolf #myjobisbetterthanyours type of tags.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please tell me you reminded them of the time you saw the wolf and they didn't believe you... Please?
I had a similar thing happen that’s not directly relevant to this thread. When I was around 10 one of my older cousins struck and killed a homeless man with his car. Their were no legal repercussions, I think the police decided the guy was suicidal. Fast forward 30 years and we are at another cousin’s house (nobody from his direct family is there) and conversation comes around to killing people with cars somehow. I mention the story about our cousin and my dad just tears into me saying I’m making up ridiculous lies and what have I been smoking (I am sort of the black sheep of the family because I smoke pot, I was not high that day) and getting everyone to laugh at me. Later I called my brother who absolutely confirmed my memory of our cousin. I don’t know if my dad was never told or if everyone else in the family had chosen to conveniently forget that embarrassing history.
VONZ87 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Better yet...be sure to claim it was a wolf.... on her death bed
A kind of similar thing happened to me. I live in a tropical place, but it’s a very urban area, one of the largest cities in the world. We don’t have much natural area left, but there used to be a rainforest here, and there are a few patches left. Behind my neighborhood, there used to be one of those small forest paths, but there’s been construction going on the past few years.
Anyway, we see lots of capybaras and, possums but not much else. One night while walking my dog, I saw a large animal with a long thick tail. I did a quick google search and found the animal’s name (Irara), I’m 100% sure that was the animal.
No one believed me, not even my mom. I told the security guards at my neighborhood and they said it was probably a possum (it wasn’t).
They still don’t believe me to this day and it’s so frustrating.
I had strep throat, so I called out sick to work. I was sick two days. My new manager called me and and said I had a pattern of abusing my sick time, and that I would not be paid for my sick time. She explicitly mentioned that I always called three days in a row, and that I had exceeded the acceptable amount occurrences for the year. This was in October, I had a sick kid in February for one day, she started in June, so where was she getting this pattern from? I had three days over two occurrences for the entire year, both with doctor's notes, well under the five occurrences (each with up to three days sick) that HR puts a soft limit at.
Unluckily for her, I knew our schedule tracking system and how to get at my punched/missed hours, and I knew our policy regarding sick time and how abuse was handled, so I printed the policy, my last four years of attendance (along with my coworkers). I sat down with her, and she reiterated the accusation of abuse. I pulled out my last year, with two calls on it. She said the pattern was from before she started, so I pulled out the previous four years and the policy (10 occurrences over four years, remember that HR calls violation over 5 occurrences within one year). She said that I had more sick calls than anyone else, so I pulled theirs out too, and I was actually on the lower half of occurrences. My sick bank was near capped out. How would that be possible if I was a flagrant abuser of the system?
The backpeddling started. She said that she never said I wouldn't get paid. I pulled out my phone and played the recording for her; she thought my number was a landline and said I wasn't allowed to furnish cellphone messages while at work. I told her I get paid or I quit over hostile work environment, which would mean a very easy unemployment case, which would actually have to be payed out by my employer in this case. Which would mean my manager would be cooked.
I got paid for my sick time, and she made the next three years absolutely miserable for me. So unhappy story overall, but I still remember that one time.
Edit: typical blah blah blowup comment. I stayed 3 years because I had a position that paid okay, had incredible benefits, and paid for me to go back to school to better myself for a new position. Two years of certification
education meant I had to wait an additional year before leaving to avoid penalties. Sometimes we have to put up with a little crap in order to build something better. It puts hair on your chest.
And yes, HR should have been involved from the very moment I got that phone call. At the time, I actually thought it was HR prompting the call, so I thought I was up against both my manager and HR, and the sick pay seemed symbolic of my whole career. It was without a doubt the thing I would change if I could go back, but I know going forward that it was a valuable experience either way.
Yea I wouldn't have confronted the manager over this but gone straight to HR for the manager violating company policy. Doubt that will get the manager canned but it will establish a paper trail and will keep the manager off your back or at least doing things entirely by the book.
I basically did that to my district manager. He cut my hours over something petty, claimed that's the reason WHY he did it, started shit talking me, and then acted very smug about it. So I wrote a detailed email to the regional manager including screenshots of texts about the incident claiming he was guilty of retaliation and bullying. The regional manager talked to him and now the my DM leaves me the fuck alone.
They side with whatever the law says and then whatever is cheaper for the company. In this case a slap on the wrist of the manager is cheaper than unemployment claims. Plus it's a black mark against the manager which could then be used to give the manager a smaller annual raise if at all.
This is my choice too she could have explained all this with n HR rep in the room. That way when she gets nasty you’ve got her documented already harassing you specifically.
Yeah but that is because you are a total asshat that doesn't follow chain of command. I wish people like you did not fucking exist. I know im being a bit blunt and hard edged, but if you have a problem with someone, you grow a fucking sack and confront that person first. In this case, he did what he needed to do. Since she made his work life miserable after confronting her, then for sure I would go to HR. Retaliation policies exist at most work places. Don't be a fuckass, follow chain of command.
Retaliation polices mean squat when it's kept in the dark. I have done in the past what you have prescribed. I was being given my boss's workload on top of my own duties so that he could play computer games at work. I was doing both of our jobs entirely. When I took my grievances directly to him, he quickly had me written up with HR on false accusations, told by HR to either accept those charges in the PIP or be fired on the spot. Two weeks later I was given the option to resign or be fired for lacking to follow the PIP. Luckily I had found another job by that point.
By going to my boss first, it gave him the warning to get rid of me with his tracks covered. How do I know it would have gone the other way? Because I was nice and petty and sent all of my documentation, with my former co-workers signing onto what happened, to my former employer's HR. My former boss was fired and I was offered my my old job back, which I declined. The benefits of being the friendly IT guy who made friends all over.
HR has a purpose. It may be to first protect the company, but secondarily is to act as protection of their human resources and to act as that anti-retaliatory buffer between you and your superiors.
Except theres no record of op having this meeting with their boss so theres no way to prove retaliation, and if you think the boss is going to be honest about the interaction after lying about the sick time then I have some sweet property on the moon to sell you. Hr was the right call here.
cdc194 · 5 points · Posted at 19:43:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me, I'd do what I imagine most employees do when they have a "boss" instead of a leader or manager, which is to do just enough not to get fired, and nothing more. Being an asshole to your subordinates is a great way to sabotage your team's overall productivity.
That would be a step. But if I was told to do something by them that was blatantly wrong, I would do it to my damndest and refer back to her instructions.
With a robust policy like that, I'm willing to bet HR would not have been thrilled to know what your manager was threatening. Probably could have had her fired or at least written up
Yeah for having an answer to every scenario she threw at him that day, he dropped the ball on the follow up to the entire fucked up situation. Could have covered his ass instead he let the bitch push him around for 3 more years.
I am offered "tuition reimbursement" from my company every year for my higher education, so every time I take money from them, I have to work at another year or else I pay the money back. I tried to get the manager fired and was quite close, but never was fully successful. Therefore, I was stuck working for shitty manager--although just recently, I got away from him!
I assume u/Manleather had a family, no competitors in the area, etc.
Sometimes it is harder to quit a job than people let on.
Very intuitive. Had a family, mortgage, and more than enough good outside of work to compensate for the crap experience. Also took advantage of tuition reimbursement to get some graduate education for two years, which meant I had to stay an additional year to avoid repayment penalties.
But yeah, sounds like we have had similar experiences haha. Happy to hear you think it worked out for you in the end though, as I think mine has/will as well :)
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 19:30:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss claim I had been more than 15 minutes late a ridiculous number of times. She was wanting to get me fired because she wanted to give her friend my job. I asked for a list of dates that I was late, and she had it already.
Turns out it was a list of the times I called in to say I might be late. Company policy was that, as long as you were less than 15 minutes late and you called at least 30 minutes prior to your shift, it was not an occurrence, so every time it looked like there might be a chance I might be a little late (traffic, running behind) I called in. On none of these instances was I 15 minutes late, and on every one I had time-stamped proof in the form of email replies that I was working less than 5 minutes after my shift began. I forwarded her list and my proof to the owner asking why my manager was writing me up for being excessively late when it was clear I was there? She got chewed out and left me alone for a couple of months. Thing was, my manager was frequently significantly late, which is how she didn't know I was actually there.
That ending was kind of funny. For a brief moment, I thought we might have a similar manager, as we have a similar policy (no call before missing start= no call, no show; later than 15 minutes is your monthly warning, unless already late before, than it's an occurrence; calling but still making it= technically nothing, just a close call).
I told her I get paid or I quit over hostile work environment, which would mean a very easy unemployment case, which would actually have to be payed out by my employer in this case.
FYI, it's actually really hard to prove a hostile work environment. My last job was a hostile work environment, completely with a nurse superior to me literally assaulting me (misdemeanor assault, I wasn't injured). I quit and tried to collect unemployment from WA, and they said that because I had quit, even though it was a hostile work environment, I didn't qualify for unemployment.
I am considering suing the company for this, because I'm friends with the director of nursing at that facility and she told me she wanted to fire the nurse but the company owners woudln't let he. In fact, they didn't even let her write the nurse up. She got away with it scot-free.
Honestly, if you're at the point of threatening legal action, you shouldn't threaten it. You should just let the Manager pull their crap and then legally roast their ass.
It wasn't worth the legal trouble honestly, and it would have burned more bridges than it would have been worth in my industry. But she needed to know what the actual stakes were.
You have access to files that contain other employees sick days and you use them for your own case? And you just record sensitive conversations with your phone and use them against your manager? Where do u live? Because where i live (germany) all of this would just be highly illegal and would cost your job in the end. Just asking because im curious.
That's complete bullshit. There's eleven states that have two party consent laws regarding recorded conversation. California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire Pennsylvania, and Washington. In every other state you only require consent from one party.
If I could do anything differently, this would have been it. I feel like the following three years would have been better, or at least could have requested a transfer.
The correct solution is to go over her head to a manager above her or HR. You get to keep your job, she gets fired. You get excellent r/prorevenge material.
It sounds like your manager, for whatever reason, already had a personal issue with you. Managers have their favorites, and we've all worked with those people who are best-buds with the manager and get away with abusing attendance, and it's not even uncommon for those managers who try to balance their appearance of being soft by trying to be overly "by the book" with employees that for whatever reason they don't like.
In any event, if this were happening to me I'd have try to make a case for retaliation with HR by finding some way to document the mistreatment. This is also why you should have gone through HR as well. So let this be a lesson to anyone reading this. Work with your HR department, but do NOT abuse it because if they suspect that you might be trying to play both sides they will stone-wall you. If your HR person visits your office, then be sure to be friendly and create a nice, memorable impression. HR is really about protecting the company by protecting the employee, but they aren't necessarily an employees best friend. The best reason to go through HR is to protect you from being retaliated against and to serve as a record keeper, and also to clarify proper policies/protocols etc. Secondly, I've suggested to people to find casual ways of mentioning to your manager that you'd like to know the HR contact information just to verify some policies, in other words a subtle threat to your manager that you are aware of your rights but you haven't called yet. If you aren't confrontational or combative when you suggest this, they might get the hint and change their tune.
I replied to someone else that if I could do anything differently, I'd have HR sit in on that meeting with that evidence. It would have made the following three years much, much better. I was young and thought I was a hotshot, lone wolf cowboy dude.
Not everyone lives, not everyone learns, I'm happy when I get to do both.
M_-X · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like to imagine you were holding a large scrolled piece of paper which you unravel in stages as she tries to backpedal, sinking further into her seat. You loom over her, a single light swings, the roll fills the entire room, your denouncements echo throughout the building.
I got paid for my sick time, and she made the next three years absolutely miserable for me. So unhappy story overall, but I still remember that one time.
Ah, a wage theft attempt and retaliation for it. AMERICA!
12 actually. As an American, I felt fortunate. I usually floated my cap, but did have a surgery that put me out briefly and might have bankrupted me otherwise.
I do, but we're talking unplanned sick time. I'm even salaried and work for an enormous company that has insane benefits. I guess something has to give somewhere? Idk!
You messed up. You shouldn't have made your case right then and there, you should have made her write you up with the reasons and then take it to the Dept of Labor.
Everything in those three years had to come from her in writing, or email. My work email backed up to my personal email after removing sensitive information- there's still enough in it to get the gist of the conversation.
It wasn't worth a huge fight. It was a stepping stone in my career anyway, and it taught me a lot about documentation and when to make a case.
Everything in those three years had to come from her in writing, or email. My work email backed up to my personal email after removing sensitive information- there's still enough in it to get the gist of the conversation.
It wasn't worth a huge fight. It was a stepping stone in my career anyway, and it taught me a lot about documentation and when to make a case.
You missed my point. The goal wasn't to turn it into a huge fight, the point was to extract a very lucrative settlement quickly.
People complain about their a-hole bosses all the time, but then when you say here's how to snap the org back to reality, they always say the same thing, "Aw, I didn't want to make it until a big thing." Okay then, all for another heaping helping of a steaming pile of poop and don't complain, then.
You assume any kind of settlement would be a risk-free guarantee, and at the time, it would have consumed energy that would be better spent on furthering my career and hobbies. I have no doubt I could get an amount, but the cost of that would be to essentially drop out of the field I'm in as no one would hire me afterwards, which wasn't worth it because I actually kind of like what I do.
It would be a Pyrrhic victory in short, if you'll accept the analogy. The work itself was still worthwhile, and I got a lot of good benefits. It just so happened that I had a miserable manager for those years.
Doubt it. No one would care. Probably no one would even know about it, your employer wouldn't be able to share it, and spreading that information doesn't exactly make them look good in any case.
People let companies walk all over them, they don't understand their power and imagine all sorts of doomsday scenarios. Bad managers that lie to people deserve to get thrown in the meat grinder.
Statute of limitations is tricky with this. Because I have taken tuition assistance, I have informally 'accepted' the environment, and I had. Corporate side, however, there is not one. This can still damage her personal career.
She either just didn't like you, or maybe she got bad information from someone who didn't like you (like someone else told her you were abusing sick leave). Probably the former based on the next three years.
This is actually what I think happened. We didn't have any formal contact really until that moment, except for some introductions. I don't think she came about that opinion alone, my department did have a bad reputation for sick calls. I think she wanted to make an example, she just chose the wrong target. Which is too bad, a little collaboration might have actually meant a lot of good for everyone. Instead, everyone lost.
You are a genius for recording the call and printing this all out.
But one thing really annoyed me :
She said that I had more sick calls than anyone else
I would have just answered that "yeah, maybe I got unlucky and got sick more often than others. And you will blame ME for that ?". That's honestly so fucked up. I would have wished her to throw up all day and night for three days in a row before she comes back and dare to tell me this again, as if it was an offense to get sick. Fuck this kind of people.
You get sick (it sucks), and they blame you for that. That's so wrong on every level.
And fuck her for making the next three years miserable for you. I would have been so pissed and seeked revenge if I was at your place. She wouldn't have liked it.
Hope you're in a better position and company right now.
I can. It's "She's got proof. I'd better back off. I'll be careful in the future, and I'm going to make her life miserable as long as we work together."
Cujoc · 0 points · Posted at 16:48:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Before desktop publishing, I was in my 20s, an ad designer for a local department store. The boss was out, and a co-worker (who had been there many years, and was jaded and grumpy all the time) was put in charge for the day. I brought an ad to her for approval, and she found some nit-picky thing that she wanted adjusted.
I knew that it was just bullshit on her part, so she could feel powerful. I took the ad back to my desk, worked on something else for a while, then brought it back absolutely unchanged. She looked at it and said "Oh, that looks much better!", and approved it.
I never let on that it was the exactly same version she'd rejected earlier.
I'd sent him a deck that we were going to present the next day, and he nit-picked the hell out of it. We were on a business trip, just got off a really long flight, and I didn't want to fight it even though I knew his revisions were bull. I revised the file and sent it over. Unbeknownst to me, in my sleep-deprived state I had sent the unrevised file again. He checked it and went "See, isn't this so much clearer?" while pointing out the parts that he thought I had changed. I realized when I saw it that it was the old file, but I let him keep talking for a few minutes until he checked another slide and saw it unchanged, and he realized that the file was unrevised.
I hated working for him, and that was pretty much the only revenge I ever got so it felt great.
DKM_Eby · 1923 points · Posted at 16:47:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This kinda happened at home with my step-mother when I was a teenager.
"Hey, can you please go clean the upstairs bathroom today?"
"Sure, no problem."
15 minutes later...
"All done!"
2 minutes later...
"Hey, can you go spend about another 10 minutes up there, it doesn't quite look clean enough."
"Uh... okay."
I go upstairs, and literally spend 10 minutes making noise. I turn the taps on and off. I hit the bathtub and tap my feet on the floor, mostly just sitting on the toilet seat reading a magazine.
When i was little i hated taking baths. One night my mom told me to go take a bath and get ready for bed. I just ran the water in the tub and acted like i took one.
I came downstairs to say goodnight and my mom was like "Thank you for cleaning the cat poop out of the tub". Our cat had shit in the back of the tub and i didnt see it. My mom set me up. I had to go clean it and take a bath after that.
Thank you! That was a long time ago, maybe 30 years. I have 2 cats currently. One is a stray that we took in and we didnt know she was pregnant ( i thought she seemed too young. She was really tiny) and she had 3 babies but 2 were very weak and died shortly after. We still have the 3rd one but we might not be able to keep her. Shes a little badass!
A long time ago. My bf loves everything robin hood and he made me watch it. It was pretty funny. Was Leslie Nielsen in it? Thinking back it reminds me of something he would be in.
It has the Blinken/Abe Lincoln joke in it :) hm no Leslie Nielson but similar to his brand of humor! It's a Mel Brooks movie and Cary Elwes stars as Robin Hood
My cat won’t get near the tub, and has never went outside the litter box.
My cats have never gone outside the litter box either (even when I’m behind on cleaning, so I really love them for that) but one of them absolutely loved the tub at the last place we lived. That bathroom had some nice acoustics, especially in the tub, and she would just sit in the tub and meow and make noise. I’ve also found her sleeping in there, presumably because it was the coolest place in the house cause our ac sucked.
Not the OP but I had a cat that used my bed as a litter box until he was like four months old (even grosser than it sounds) and then just started using the bathtub and tbh I wasn't even mad cause it was so much easier to clean the tub than my freaking bed. He figured it out eventually... most of the time.
Our cat is about 14 now. After a recent move, he used our bed for a litter box twice. While we were asleep in it. He's not allowed into the bedroom anymore. (and we replaced the mattress)
My cousin is about to turn 14 and doesn’t understand why he needs to shower every day (he stinks to high heaven). Recently, he spent the night with my mom and aunts. He was told to shower and after a short argument, he stormed into the bathroom and turned on the water. He was in there maybe 5 minutes before he came back out, hair slightly wet, and declared that he was clean. He hadn’t even walked fully into the room and my mom could still smell him. He tried to tell her that he used unscented shampoo, but of course, she didn’t believe him. He was not happy when he had to go back in and take an actual shower.
Lmao well he tried :) i was a lot younger than 14 though, because by the time i was 14 i was boy crazy and i showered like twice a day. But my bf's son is 17 and when i met him 10 years ago he was exactly like that. No showers, only games. Then as soon as he started liking a girl a couple years ago i noticed him getting haircuts and showers, so maybe your cousin just doesnt really care yet.
Its like when you have cats and your nose gets used to the smell, or when people smoke cigs they cant smell it on themselves. He might be so used to it that he really doesnt think he needs one.
Or at 14 it could be a symptom of depression, but hopefully not.
Unfortunately, my uncle isn’t one for hygiene, so his son figures he doesn’t need to be either. This poor kid has actually been told by classmates that he stinks and it does not phase him one bit. From what I understand, he finds it funny.
When I was little, I would take a bath but just play with my bath toys and not wash anything. One time, my mom peeked in after about a half hour and asked if I had washed. I looked her in the eyes and told her that I had. To which she replied "Why is the water crystal clear? If you had washed, it would be a little cloudy". My mouth just dropped and I had nothing to say back.
From that point on, I would grab the soap and slosh it around in the water to make it cloudy before I played.
I'm a little confused how someone can reach over to turn on the tub and not notice a turd in it. Unless there was a shower curtain covering the whole thing and all you did was sneak an arm through for the water without even looking inside.
Yea shower curtain, plus the poop was all the way in the back, and i probably didnt even put the stopper in, i just let it run so she would hear it. I was a stupid kid.
I once accidentally left a piece of paper on the floor after cleaning my room.(Was 10) not a full piece, just a small, easy to look over thing.
Stepmom saw it. I had to stand in a corner for 2 hours.
She’d also routinely have me carry glass rocks (Grandfather worked at glass factory, glass rocks were basically scraped out of the furnace, we got a few.) across the yard. They weren’t sharp, but to a 10 year old, they were heavy. I would carry them back and forth through the yard for hours.
She also washed me. I took a bath one day, she said I still smelled dirty, so she washed me. A grown woman, wiping 10 year old me down with a soapy rag. I was fucking humiliated and crying.
I’m sorry that it turned into a rant, just needed to vent about it I guess.
I’m 16 now though, she’s broken up with my father. I’d love to see her come back and try that shit on me again.
I think the thing that pissed me off the most (Yeah the bath thing was straight up harassment I’d say, but I can’t bring myself to feel all that offended by it. I don’t have many feelings other than anger and laughter) was my PS3.
My dad worked his ass off to get me that thing for Christmas. But then she came. I never got to use it, she’d lay on the couch all day watching Netflix. Not even shows that we both liked, stuff she liked.
In the end, I never got to play my PS3 that much, my dad had to sell it to make rent. Would have gotten it a lot more before then if she hadn’t of taken it.
Time is the most BS measurement of work I ever had to go by. I used to get less clean becuase I was dragging my feet. But I clean, wipe down, and sweep my kitchen now in about 20 minutes tops.
Edit: now that I think about it, my actual job pays me for how long I take to work still though...
I wonder if it's a psychological bias, like she was expecting to see it cleaner so she did.... or maybe some leftover water from the cleaning evaporated and it looked better.
I'm pretty sure sometimes people doing this don't mean to be mean, they are really tricked into believing it's better/cleaner, even if nothing changed.
After all, our perception is weird and fucked up most of the time.
An advertising producer that I used to work with did something like this.
He was doing a commercial for a major airline, and they wanted to use an A-list celebrity for the voiceover. The celebrity charged thousands of dollars per hour, but he nailed the read on the first try, so my friend let him leave in order to save money.
The next day, people from the ad agency called and said they "wanted to hear all the takes," to make sure they got the best one. Well there was only one take, and my friend panicked.
So he called the sound engineer and asked him to create a tape with that take over and over, with the engineer saying "Take 1" "Take 2" etc, so the agency would think they were separate takes.
The agency picked takes 2 and 5, with 7 as a possible alternate.
Dittos. Once upon a time a long time ago I was a cop for a little while. The day shift lieutenant every so often felt the need to make sure everyone still knew he was in charge, so he’d pop a surprise inspection at roll call.
Thanks to the uniquely fanatical culture of the Marine Corps and my prior service with some particularly fanatical Marines I took particular pride in keeping my firearms absolutely immaculate and perfectly maintained, so it was especially insulting to be dinged on inspection for a bullshit demerit for having a dirty gun.
He reinspected the next day to make sure we addressed any “deficiencies” found in the inspection, and was effusive about how much better my gun looked than it had before, and didn’t I feel better about properly taking care of my equipment.
Yeah, I hadn’t done a damn thing to it. It hadn’t even been out of the holster since he inspected it.
Asshole.
[deleted] · 46 points · Posted at 16:17:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've done that with clients who would request a revision, then another revision back to the original. The next time they requested a revision, I'd just change the filename.
Some co workers of mine were in the same situation! Old crotchety manager that just likes to tell people what to do. I work at place that sells cards and party items. They were making paper plates with a dark skinned cartoon on it. The brown color was always really hard to make. They knew they made it right and had to have manager approval because she rejected the last one saying it wasn’t right. So they printed 3 different samples but they were all the same color they made. Sure enough, she came up, looked closely.. this is right one. Use this one. They laughed about it and told me the story years later. She ended up being forced to quit when I started. Happy ending.
I wonder if the fact the he already read it before, made it "clearer" the second time... so he thought you changed it, when in fact he just needed a second pass to understand some things.
Did this in college once. Turned in a paper. It failed. Was told to re-write a bunch of it. I didn't have time and honestly was kind of lazy so I didn't. Turned it in again completely unchanged. It passed.
They may have just gave you the credit for trying. I did this once with my professor, but was truthful with them in advanced that I didn’t have time to change anything. She originally gave me a D on it but ended up giving me a B.
Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if the teacher didn't have the original and had no clue what OP wrote about the first time and what was wrong.
I've had plenty of teachers admit that they grade harder at the beginning and then more lazy at the end. We had a professor that we would always look at each others answers when we got the test back. Most of the time people would get graded differently for the same answer. Sometimes he didn't even add the grades up correctly, and this was for Finance Majors.
One of my teachers straight tells us he won't read any assignments he gives us and will grade only based in if you sent something. I know one guy who sent a blank file, but almost everyone do them properly...
Passing classes in college is just a matter of trying and doing the HW. If i had focused on that I wouldn't have been to stressed about test and everything.
At my university a TA or GA marks the paper first and if they allow you to redo it, it will be marked by the actual professor the second time. The TAs were probably trying too hard and failed you but the prof thought it was fine, it’s happened at my school many times.
One time for a humanities class I got my rough draft of my paper back with a note saying that it would take a lot of work to get it up to snuff. Well, I was studying engineering and didn't have a lot of time, so I just fixed the most egregious stuff and resubmitted it. We resubmitted with the rough draft rubric attached, and she wrote next to her original comment "I must've been in a bad mood when I wrote this" and gave me a solid B.
I had the opposite happen. Wrote a 12 page paper, was told it was too biased. Rewrote the whole thing giving the opposite side, the side she clearly supported, more back up and resubmitted it.
Was told I hadn't changed anything and got a D. Fuck that professor.
Exact same thing happened with a teacher of mine back in school. Went to her with my assignment, she gave me a load of bs about what I needed to include that was already in it. Went away and came back with no changes and she said it was now much better. She still only gave me a B and I’m pretty sure she had just decided that was going to be my grade regardless of what I’d turned in.
I knew a guy in high school who had to read Angela's Ashes and write a book report. He didn't read it. His first paragraph had some information about the book that he picked up in class. The next several paragraphs were about the best pastrami sandwich on rye he'd ever eaten. He went in detail to describe the pastrami, the mustard, the bread. He described how it tasted, how he remembered everything about the experience, and how sad he was that he was never able to find or make a pastrami sandwich on rye quite like that first one. Then, for good measure, he wrote two or three more sentences about Angela's Ashes.
He got an A-, and the teacher wrote 'good examples' on top of his paper.
I did this too. I didnt fail though. I got a 70 on a first draft. Was too lazy to redo it because I was studying for finals and figured at least 70 was passing so I submitted the same exact paper and got an 89.
My brother once missed the deadline for turning in a paper. A week later he turned in the same exact paper his friend did. My brother got a better grade.
Same thing with me. We had a philosophy class where, instead of a final exam, we had a final paper. It was a pretty lax class, so the final paper was only like a 2700 word requirement. This paper was assigned to us halfway through the semester and, with about 3 weeks left in the semester, he had use turn in a rough draft of what we had so far for a grade (and to make sure people were actually working on the paper) with at least 2100 of the words and an outline of what else we wanted to do. I had already finished the paper completely, so I turned in the whole thing.
The professor gave us all grades for the rough draft as well as a projection of what he felt the paper would be graded as if the rest of the paper was of the same quality as the rough draft part. He gave me a projection of a C. I already had a guaranteed C in the class no matter what and a C was enough for me to get a B in the class, so I just did nothing with my paper and turned it in the exact same as it was with the rough draft. When we got our final grades posted online, I had an A on the paper.
This guy didn't have any TAs or anything either, so it wasn't a situation of one person grading it the first time and another grading it the second time.
One of my classes was marked on 3 assignments. The first was handed in, and we all got our marks. For the second assignment, we noticed that we each got the same mark as before. Some classmates realised that their papers were in pristine condition, and didn't even have creases near the staple... as though they hadn't been opened and read. One classmate revealed that she hadn't even submitted a paper, because a family member had died in an accident... yet she, too, received a mark.
We, as a whole class, wrote a letter of complaint to the head of school, about this incident, and a number of other issues. Publicly, there were no repercussions for the professor, but he'd been outed as a lazy liar.
Oh, and we received marks for our final papers. Most people did rather well...
[deleted] · 1381 points · Posted at 13:26:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Last year I was doing carpentry for a boss with less experience than me. Overall he was an alright boss but he has this weird obsession that his lines were the straightest in the industry, and even though I did 99% of the actual work, he would always show up in time for the finishing touches, stand well back, and ask me to make microscopic adjudstments for several minutes until he was happy. "Drop that a sixteenth... move that a skinny eighth.." and so on.
One day it got to be too much, he asked me to lift one side of a fence board by "just a little, not very much at all" so I just bent over, tapped it with my pinky finger, and stood up. "OK good he says".
Another time he stood across the street from a front porch and asked me to move a deck board by a 32nd. He writes my checks so I have to go through all these motions but that day there was another trade present and this guy yells out "Bwahahaha there's no way you can see a 32nd from over there you JACKASS" and goes inside. My boss turned beet red and didn't have any more adjustment that day. I was choking down my laughter so hard I nearly pooped.
I work backstage in a theater, & someday I’ll write a memoir, but we have something called a French Alteration- if an actor asks for something to be taken in 1/4”, you take the costume away, leave it in the Wardrobe room for a while, & then bring it back to them & tell them how much better it looks.
I had a design project in college with an idiot teacher who I knew was full of shit. After you handed it in and got a mark, you'd get feedback on it and we had the option to use the feedback to make adjustments and re-submit it for a new mark.
I got a 75 but all the instructor said was "looks pretty good". What the fuck do I do with that? So I resubmitted it untouched. My mark was bumped to a 90.
There is a whole realm of psychology related to this. Basically, people want to feel like they have been heard. For sales, lots of processes suggest suggest sending proposals and saying they are 60% done, even if you're finished. Then use the back and forth to invest the buyer in the proposal even if nothing material changes. There is also an old story from product design where an artists manager always changed one thing in anything he submitted. His next assignment was a chess set for a computer game, so he made the whole thing, then added an ugly duck on the Queen piece that didn't match at all. Sure enough, the manager insists he remove the duck, and it will be great.
Same thing with my boss. Apparently the copy I sent him had used commas wrong all over the place. "MAKE SURE YOU EDIT BEFORE YOU SEND NEXT TIME" said the email. 1 hour later I sent the same thing back to him, "better, but be more careful next time." Totally a d$%$
When I made radio ads I would get this all the time. "Oh the music is a little quiet could you turn it up?" Just add "REVISED" to the file name and resend.
I had a micromanaging boss who sat me down to lecture me about mistakes that were slipping through the cracks. My opinion was that we had a very low margin of error for the amount of stuff that was coming through the office, but she wasn't having it and blamed me for all of it. I started copying her on all my emails. I didn't do anything differently, just let her see what I was doing to make sure everything was working correctly. She then complimented me on the improvement in my performance.
Alfred Hitchcock did that exact same thing for the shower scene in “Psycho”. The censorship committee threw a fit over the shower scene, saying it was too graphic for the audiences. Although he never showed the knife entering the girl, they still said it was too gruesome.
Hitchcock left and came back the next day. He didn’t change a single thing. The censorship committee then approved the scene, saying it was less gruesome than before
she found some nick-picky thing that she wanted adjusted.I knew that it was just bullshit on her part, so she could feel powerful.
This is a daily thing at my job. So infuriating how pride has to creep in to every waking moment of these middle-management types’ shitty little lives.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:44:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sadly don't remember who this was, but I heard on a podcast about a guy who worked either as a music producer, or a sound designer for film. When the producer or director would say that something was missing, but not be able to put their finger on what it was, he would tell them to adjust this potmeter until it sounded right. This was a bit back in the day so he had a custom built mixing desk he had assembled himself, and when doing so he installed a knob for this purpose, not connected to anything. It's really easy to fall for the placebo effect when doing sound; most sound engineers you talk to will admit to having adjusted some effect until it sounded good only to notice that they had forgotten to turn it on.
Bhima · 4 points · Posted at 16:59:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work with a boss like that. After working for him for a couple of years I discovered that more than one of my coworkers would leave little flaws in the work (excel spreadsheets and the like) for him to complain about and correct and this tactic would often prevent him from sending back a perfectly good document for "rework".
When my boss does this ether he has forgotten his original vision for the piece or he’s really just looking for more options. Ether way I’m getting paid, and often we end up using the extra options for something else.
Similarly, if he starts talking about something he has an idea for and I’m between projects I preemptively start working on the thing he’s talking about because I will invariably be asked to work on it a month down the line.
That sounds like all of my EPRs/performance reports.
Got my EPR emailed back to me from the Chief of my squadron with a few areas highlighted that he thought needed to be changed.
One of the sections he wanted changed was my job description. The job description isn't written by me or my supervisor, it's written by my flight leadership. Anyways, I didn't change anything and just sent it back to him a couple days later and, lo and behold, it passed no problem.
To this day I don't understand why he even bothered. He was retiring soon anyways so it's not like he needed to justify what he did all day.
Similarly, my middle school art teacher chose favorite students. In her eyes I was made of gold, while one of my good friends was nothing but an awful delinquent who had no talent. She took her piece up to the teacher and was told it was hideous and had to change pretty much all of it. Frustrated, she came back to the table and gabbed (in all fairness, she wasn’t a very ‘good’ student). About fifteen minutes later, I grabbed her untouched drawing and brought it up to be met with praises about my overflowing talent and artistry; it was perfect, I’m getting 100% on the project. I flipped it over to show my friend’s name on the back and wordlessly went back to the table to finish up my project. Of course, she then had to give my friend 100% because she had just exclaimed to the class how wonderful it was. I don’t know how I managed to stay on her good side after that, but it was pretty satisfying.
lol. i tried something like this on a boss who came off as real disinterested when approving quality...figured he was just picking random changes to look like he actually was caring... only to get the reply "this is exactly the same. You didn't think i was actually looking? huh? well i was. That really did need to be fixed, and now it's to late. NICE. "
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 13:21:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When designing something for a difficult client, I was introduced to the concept of the ‘fire plug’, an easily changed element that the client will instinctively piss on, leaving the rest of the design unscathed.
cbelt3 · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a boss that would pick until he found something. We decided he did that so he would feel useful. So we would leave an obvious error in the second page of every report. Then print the whole thing again with the error fixed. He would go over it, find the error. And then.... We would have all day to fuck around “fixing the problem with the design”.
Something to consider from possibly the other side of the story: I worked with a team of idiots and fairly frequently they would come to me for a document review. I always gave a full review, noting every correction that was required. Inevitably, they would make half the corrections and leave the other half of them untouched and resubmit. Eventually I just have to sigh and say "Looks great! Thanks." when I'm really just thinking to myself, "I gave them the corrections, all they had to do was make the updates as indicated... but I guess this is the best they are capable of producing."
I had this problem too with my last boss (marketing/fundraising)! When I was first hired she rejected everything I wrote, returned it covered in literal red ink like I was back in high school or something.
It got to the point where I thought I was going to be fired by the end of the first month. Finally I was so fed up that the next time she gave me an assignment, I dug through her archives on the shared network drive, called up what she had written for the same press release a year before (annual event), and just adjusted the details.
She ripped to shreds - the tone was wrong, the word choice was poor, it didn't capture the spirit of the company. That was when I knew it really has nothing to do with my writing skills.
Ironically...I stuck with it, and with time she learned to trust me. We ended up as friends, but man those first months were bad.
I had that happen at my last job. I worked at a dry cleaners anx was pressing a blouse or something. My manager looked at it and told me to fix the hem or whatever. Honestly, i forgot about it. I fixed something else on the shirt and never touched the hem. She comes back and says "the hem looks perfect!" I laughed about it later, but was mostly dumbfounded at the time
I did that with my graphic design teacher....I knew what he wanted me to do was bad so I didn't, waited a day, and showed him again...except I told him I didn't change anything and he was shocked. He never questioned my ideas after that....
I used to do that. My stupid new boss told me to change an advertisement for M$ that would breach a few rules in the advertising of their brand. It would have lost us the account and cost a fucking huge amount.
I went to the big boss because my boss wouldn't listen. Turns out that he and my new manager were best mates so he also wanted the changes.
I rand the head of the department we were doing the ad for at M$ and told him what was happening. I gave him both bosses telephone numbers and then I went to lunch.
My mobile went nuts about twenty minutes later but I ignored it.
Handed in my notice when I got back. It was a great job until those two started and they had friends all the way up. No way I would ever win so I left on my own terms.
Kinda/sorta similar: for my honor's thesis I had to receive IRB approval for my ethnographic research. I submitted a proposal that was a copy and paste (with minor edits) by my advisor from a previous IRB proposal with a very similar level of sensitivity and cultural group. That proposal was granted approval quickly, yet mine was rejected with a laundry list of edits and questions.
I resubmitted it over and over after adding their edits, and it was rejected for 7 months. I finally just resubmitted the first one that I originally sent and, what do you know, it was approved. Along with their approval they also attached a "see, it wasn't that hard wink wink" message to their email.
I would have let them know after my presentation if I wasn't nervous they may retroactively pull their approval and cause my thesis to be invalid or something.
I'm a theatre technician. I can't tell you how many times my director has said the sound sounds bad. Or to make it rounder, or curvier, or some other rediculous instruction. I'll usually change the gain my like 1db and say how's that. He thinks I'm the only one who"speaks" his language
This is why you should make a single subtle but noticeable error, so that the person approving it has something to point out to make them feel smarter.
This is a daily occurrence for mixing engineers in studios around the world. "Can you make (insert random sound/instrument) like 1 decibel louder?". Sure, here you go (pretends to move fader). "Yeah Perfect!"
scsm · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would do that ALL the time when I used to do production for radio commercials in a medium sized market. Client would want it louder here, different music, etc. I quickly learned they just wanted to sound like they knew what they were talking about. So I would send them the exact same file and get it approved 100% of the time.
I used to do a ton of soundboard work, and that's something I did all the time when the stage noise mix was good and someone wanted something adjusted. I'd act like a turned it up or down and they'd say "sweet thanks, it's perfect."
I sell suits. My tailor does this all the time. They just like the power trip/ attention
O2C · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With some people, you need to leave an obvious (but easily fixable) mistake in that you somehow "overlooked". That way they can feel better about themselves, useful and/or superior by pointing out said misstake.
My advisor teacher used to do that. I'd send her the first draft, she'd correct it, I'd send her the second draft, she'd correct the same things she herself had written before. So I'd just tell her I corrected it and send her the same version.
Had a music teacher like this. Composed a song as one of the assignments...he told me to change a part of the song "because it will sound way better"...I didn't do it and played him the same song again about 20 minutes later, and this time he was all about it. Even asked me if I felt like it was better "this way"...
Last semester I didn’t want to actually do the civics assignment so I basically copy and pasted another report I had done for English (I made it about why drugs(and I mean hardcore shit) should be legal) and I got a fucking 7/8 (IB grading system it’s basically an -a or +b)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the fuck is satisfying about that? They never even knew they got got
Have used this trick regularly when annoying clients ask for deliberately pointless minuscule changes to an artwork proof (moving something a few millimetres or pixels, making a colour 1% darker etc). It’s often just so they feel self-important or can justify their job. Just send back the same artwork and voila, they love it.
A photographer once told me about a technique he called a "hairy arm". It isn't quite the same, but similar. He sometimes leaves a model's arm hair in the picture so that the customer will ask him to airbrush the hair away. The customer feels that they have contributed expertise, and he only has to do something he was going to do anyway. This is reserved for people he thinks (or knows) will be picky for its own sake.
I do graphic design, I printed out something and showed it to the client and they said they wanted it less burnt orange color. Left and brought it back 5 minutes later and they were like "this is perfect"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A web design trick I learned during my short and brutal time in the field was to make the logo about half the size you actually want it. Because, no matter how big your initial logo is, the client will always want it bigger.
I had an NCO order me to write a 5k word essay on informing my chain of command about appointments after I got a last second appointment change before PT. I called him a dozen or more times to tell him before having to just go to PT in BDUs. He scolded me for not letting him know, with his phone hanging around his neck showing 20 something missed calls (not all me, it was an old flip phone, I’m old.) He said if he doesn’t answer, that’s on me and ordered I wrote the essay.
I didn’t HAVE to do it. While something NCO’s do often as a punishment or whatever, it’s not something a soldier has to do. It also wasn’t the first thing he tried to order me to do, it was his second choice.
Anyway, I wrote less than 5k words about a fictional character named kahlua jack and how he got fired from his job as a golf ball. It was ridiculous and filled with run-on sentences and infuriating grammatical errors. I gave it to him, and posted copies all over the motorpool. He never reacted, so I asked him during formation what he thought of it. He said he felt I’d learned my lesson and if I messed up again, he’d make me right another. The platoon’s laughter was better than heroin.
Lpt: hairy arm- strategy - to counter such persons, do your regular job, fuck up something obvious on purpose, have boss point it out to feel important, fix the issue, deliver, everybody happy.
Had similar things but less malicious. Boss would always change his mind, then later on decide on something else which would inevitably be the first draft. Mostly just did one and claimed I changed it, or at least kept the 1st one and handed it to him as the 3rd.
This is really common and almost SOP for design, in my experience. I’ve had design jobs in which I’ve worked with people who’ve told very similar stories. We built walks and snacks and coffee breaks into the workflow to replicate the experience of stepping away and taking a fresh look
Did a similar thing with a paper in school. Got it back with the comment that it was good, but too long. So 2 days later I handed in the exact same thing, except this time it was printed doublesided. Even got bonus point for being so quick about it :)
Been there. I run random specials (it's a bar/cafe) when I'm bored. I've written them all down and illustrated the plating in my notebooks. A good portion of our updated menu was "my boss' idea." I no longer share my intellectual property to be named something lame and not vaguely sexual.
I did this when I did a girls makeup for prom. She was convinced that the eyeshadow was darker on one eye and I told her that no, it isn’t but she persisted so I just used a clean makeup brush and she thought it looked so much better!
Want quick approval? Make it flawless apart from one glaring error. I believe it's called the arm hair effect. The approver picks up the error and all is approved. People gotta validate their position.
Oh, it was all about control, and her not feeling powerless.
On my part, it was about not needlessly redoing a hand-lettered headline just because she thought she saw a tiny flaw in it.
I did that working for very fancy brands. When searching for color for a branding i printed some color twice on the chromalin test print and deeply enjoyed seeing the team trying to decide which one of the “warm rich purple” or “slightly blu-ish purple” they preferred.
Reminds me of ducks, intentionally stupid features for decision makers to comment on so they can feel like they're helping without ruining the actual product:
This started as a piece of Interplay corporate lore. It was well known that producers (a game industry position, roughly equivalent to PMs) had to make a change to everything that was done. The assumption was that subconsciously they felt that if they didn't, they weren't adding value.
The artist working on the queen animations for Battle Chess was aware of this tendency, and came up with an innovative solution. He did the animations for the queen the way that he felt would be best, with one addition: he gave the queen a pet duck. He animated this duck through all of the queen's animations, had it flapping around the corners. He also took great care to make sure that it never overlapped the "actual" animation.
Eventually, it came time for the producer to review the animation set for the queen. The producer sat down and watched all of the animations. When they were done, he turned to the artist and said, "that looks great. Just one thing - get rid of the duck."
I had an awful coworker that was nit-picky. Unfortunately, she was also extremely detail oriented, so there would be no resubmission of the original. She would get hung up on the stupidest things, like the cell formatting of an internal-use spreadsheet. The cell is bordered by thin lines instead of thick and don't line up nicely with the unrelated cells frozen at the top? Literally unusable! And she will pause and "fix" it then bitch and moan about how we "don't know how to use excel."
Here's a good one: I'm in the military (British army), my dad bought me a nice gshock watch to say good luck when I was in training, about half way through we go on exercise, coming back on the coach everyone is always tired and sleeps the whole way back, I take my watch off at the beginning of the ride, put it in the top of my daysack but I forgot to zip it up, obviously it falls out and I forget about it, the corporal does a sweep of the coach and asks if anyone lost a watch, I didn't think so, so said nothing, another lad goes, yep, looks at it and says it's his. We spend the weekend sorting kit out and I realise I can't find my watch, I feel shit that I've lost it, Sunday night I head to the showers and the showers are literally a big box with about 10 shower heads, plenty of lads in there, I see the guy who claimed to lose his watch and say 'shit that's my fucking watch!' he's adamantly saying it's his, got it recently, it's a common watch, his mate says he's only just started wearing it, the guy will not admit he stole it, i say 'if it's 100% yours you won't have any problems showing me the inside?' he gets really defensive, the others in the shower tell him to prove it, he gives in, on the inside of the watch is my initials and the last four of my army number my dad had engraved for me. I snatched it out of his hand, called him a fucking thief and threw his towel in the shower and walked off while everyone got pissed that they share a room with a guy who steals shit.
TL;DR friend found out GF was cheating on him to start a 6+ hour car ride she couldn’t escape from.
Not me, but a friend of mine was just starting a long road trip to drop his girlfriend off after a trip (6+ hours) and they stopped at a gas station at the start where she ran in to get some snacks and use the restroom but left her phone there.
Up pops a text message from a guy saying something like “You back from your trip yet babe?”
She comes back and he had enough time to compose himself to calmly ask her question after question slowly circling closer to the point where she realizes the jig is up and then he gets to go off on her as she tearfully admits to everything over the next several hours.
I never want to be cheated on, but if I ever had been I wouldn’t be opposed to them being a captive audience for several hours.
I was thinking about my lying ex when I realized so few of the comments in this thread were about catching a cheating ex because it's not satisfying. You want so badly to be wrong.
This. And even if you’re dumb enough to reconcile and continue dating and then it happens again. It really doesn’t get better.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:16:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was actually reading through this for the same thing, as I dated a serial cheater, and caught her several times. The final time I had the last laugh. But I will say, I thought 99% of them were horrible, saving the last 1% for that final time. But in retrospect, that final time, about a month ago, was just as bad as the others.
You wanna be wrong cuz that shit fucks you up forever. If someone so much as is slightly later than they said, my trust in them is gone. I mean i respect people and I give them a chance for redemption cause I know its me, but like. I cant trust my judgement in people anymore, i think most people are bullshitting me. Fuck cheaters, especially the kind who threaten you with violence towards yourself of themselves if you leave them because of it. (I guess i have a type)
I hate that aspect most of all. I want so badly to trust people, but every relationship I have the cynical side in me ruins by worrying about cheating. I don't want to think about it, but it's there, and it makes it so hard for me to put myself out there.
I've been both guys before. No matter how you cut it, the whole situation is fucked. I think I'm pretty conscious of it now, but sometimes maybe too skeptical. Plus side, knowing the pain, I'll never put someone else through that. That's a pain worse than dying I found.
To some? Sure. To others? Nah. I see it as a "well. Shit. That's done. Goodbye and I don't think I wanna ever talk to you again" because if someone is rubbish enough to not breakup first then they can suck the fat end of a tube and stick it up their ass. Cheating is usually unforgivable to most people and while you can love them, and that shit hurts, it's better knowing that you're better off without them and going off to find someone else in the world who will love you right.
That comes after. I was talking about before you're certain they're cheaters. The guy in the top comment said his friend and gf lived 6 hours away. I'm sure he had his suspicions and there were times she wouldn't answer him for unreasonably long periods of time or other suspicious things. While those things were happening, before he had the proof of the text message, he didn't want to believe the signs that she was cheating. He said to himself, "I'm sure she's just taking a nap at noon on a Tuesday, that's not weird behavior", and "yes, I believe that she dropped her phone in the couch cushions at 10 pm and didn't use it all night".
I caught my ex right before the physical cheat. Like in the flirting, testing the waters stage. That shit makes you sick. Catching someone betraying you is one of the worst feelings. I'm feeling it now and it's disgusting. Especially! After you've told them how awful you think cheating is.
In the same boat. Dated a girl for a year and went to college while she was still a senior in High School. Everything was good and one day she all of a sudden became really distant and hard to talk to. Broke up with me over text and started dating someone in her grade within a few weeks. Maybe not explicitly cheated on, but it seems obvious that she had become involved with this other guy and had to break things off. No worse feeling in the world. This was about a year and a half ago and i still have cripplingly low self esteem, still cant stop taking drugs to numb that pain, and still wonder what I did wrong.. Cant imagine what it feels like to actually know
You didn't do anything wrong. It wasn't the way you acted, it wasn't your dick size, it was just the other person being like that. You got a bad apple, my friend, it's not your teeth, it's not all apples.
Cut down on the drugs. At least stick to booze and pot.
I got gaslit a lot about it. Asked all the time if I was cheating, if I had someone else waiting, accusing me of flirting, dressing and working out to look sexier. (Which was for my ex's benefit)
Wow that's a great way to put it. Thanks for the nice words kind stranger and all the same back to you. No one deserves to feel that way. The pain is certainly beginning to subside but I'm sure I still have a long way to go.
Was dating/friends with my ex for 5 years. A couple months before she broke up with me she thought i was cheating on her, cuz one of the guys she was talking to said it might be happening. (the guys i knew about were depressed/cutters like her but i never met most of them, and she said she was only talking to them to support them, which i don't have much reason to disbelieve.) the guy in question (iirc) she said she wasn't interested in, and while she and i were dating he would try to give her expensive gifts and she would have to find a way to turn him down. (according to her. I never witnessed it)
Within like 2 weeks (it may have been longer) of our breakup she was with someone new, (who turned out to be a massive asshole, or so i heard). The breakup was poorly explained by her, eventually (read: a couple years later) she told me she just didn't love me anymore and just didn't know the words to say it at the time. I handled the bread up almost as bad as she delivered it. Took almost 5 years to let go of the last of my feelings on the matter, but i still get angry from time to time when i see reminders of her. Is this normal, reddit? (or within accepted parameters? Lol)
Also bojangles, if it helps: while i was dealing with this breakup i focused on some of the same things and now i can't properly remember what was actually happening at that time. I do remember when i could finally relax and let go of the last hangup though: i finally realized (and said aloud) that what she did no longer mattered to me (not that i was Facebook stalking her or anything like that. It was just a constant back of the mind thing i couldn't figure out for the longest time.) I hoped she'd be happy but it didn't matter anymore if she was or wasn't. And i wasn't willing to keep sacrificing MY happiness for nonsensical extra anxiety/depression. i will likely never know the complete truth of what happened then but it doesn't matter now. I haven't found anyone new yet but I'm hopeful. I'm tired of being alone but I'm doing better than i have in a while. I've got several new friends, more niblings (thanks reddit!) than i can shake a stick at, and a couple shots of fireball on the weekends if i have a particularly tough day, assuming my roommate hasn't drank them on me lol.
If you want to talk feel free to message me. I can't promise immediate replies but i will as soon as i can.
yep, only way to deal with a cheating ex is to tell them it's over for good and leave with a smile on your face - and absolutely no social media posts or texts about it.
you can cry or punch shit when you're alone, but this is the only way to go out with any dignity.
revenge or petty punishments just make you look even more pathetic.
slanid · 21 points · Posted at 17:43:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It feels like it’s feeling better, and then you realize you’re just repeating the subject for hours because you’re trying to make it not real. Feels like shit when you come down from your adrenaline high of catching them, and then you wanna die.
Hell I would've just ditched her at the nearest bus stop or airport with her stuff.
h2k2k · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree... I mean, you want to know and have to know but it doesn't feel good especially if you're married with kids like I was. Way better to be cheated on when single but still hurts so bad.
Would have felt great to stop at another gas station, let her out and make sure she takes her phone, then message her saying you know about the other guy and leave her ass stranded.
I mean, it probably wouldn't feel better at the time, but you know it would feel better when you got to tell the story to your friends who were supporting you through the breakup.
It certainly didn't make me feel better. But I wasn't the one holding him captive for a few hours...it was the other girl. She had him on the phone telling me how fucked up he was for cheating on me AND her at the same time with each other. We both thought we were his girlfriend.
I wanted that call to end so badly but I didn't want to leave her to deal with him alone.
sucks worse being the captive, when you know telling the truth "i didn't break it off with you sooner because i was afraid you'd react exactly like this" will make them freak even worse...
But if you don’t put forth consequences to what others do to you, people will take advantage of you with ease. In the context of this story, what OP did wasn’t necessary, but I would avoid setting out to be the “nice guy”.
That said, I'm gonna follow thru on my responsibilities. If I told someone that I'd bring them home safely, I will assume that they depend on me to get home, so I'm gonna follow up. I would hate to have someone trust me with their safety, and after I abandon them, something bad happens to them.
Yeah, she broke her partner's trust, but he doesn't have to be malicious as a response. To me, that's not justice; that's revenge.
Edit: spelling
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:13:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, I wouldn't ditch her on the side road, but I wouldn't definite just come back and let her at a hotel or bus station
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 20:08:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think “evil” is a little strong; maybe “petty.” He would’ve left her at a gas station. She wouldn’t have been in danger or anything, just horribly inconvenienced.
Fear is an individual thing. I'm a 6'4", 220lb man, and I would feel really unsafe if I was abandoned at a random gas station far from home. I could easily be robbed. If I was a woman, I would fear a lot of other things, so I guess you're just less fearful than me.
C'mon, this really depends on the specifics of the situation, which we aren't working with. If you know that she would be highly inconvenienced, but realistically could find a different ride, then yeah, that would be my response.
If you were straight up marooning her, then no, a dick move regardless.
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 18:47:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The bitch should have thought about that before she betrayed his feelings and trust so she could get fucked. She deserves to be treated like an asshole because she is one.
If I were him, I would read the text and hand her phone from a ever so slightly cracked window juuuust enough for the phone to slip through. After taking a screenshot of the text, to make sure she is aware, of course. Sometimes actions speak louder than words, there really is nothing to say at that point, IMO.
Yup. Look up bus routes, give her money for a ticket, and leave her at the bus stop. (That way you get to dump her without feeling like you left her in a dangerous situation).
I hate unnecessary conflict to the point that I would have probably continued with the trip without mentioning it, and just before dropping her off at her place, I'd simply state that I knew everything, and she could collect her stuff whenever she wanted, but that we were over, no questions, no discussion, no backpedaling.
Was this 6+ hour car ride to drop her off along his way, or out of his way? Also, either way, wouldn't the much better revenge be kicking her out and driving off, leaving her 12+ hours from home after having to call her sidepiece to come pick her up?
Everybody saying that they would have left her slut ass at a gas station 6 hours from home.
Being cheated on is absolutely crushing. I’ve been there. So while it’s so tempting to leave them in the middle of nowhere to fend for themselves, there’s usually that little something in you that still has some sort of emotion for them. At the very least you want closure. “Why did you do it? Am I not good enough? How long has it been going on?”
They may have ripped your heart out and held it aloft like an Aztec offering a sacrifice to the gods of pain and heartache and despair, but it’s such a sudden and devastating blow that shifts your worldview, keeping them in the car for six hours could almost be comforting, even as nauseating as it is. Hell. You may still be in denial. Again. Closure.
At the very least, you can take the high road. Come out on top in that relationship and win the breakup.
Or. Maybe. No. And just dump their ho ass in the middle of the desert. Whatever helps you grieve, I suppose.
Yeah when he told us this he said by the end of it he went through every stage of sadness and came out resolute. He was such a joy to be around after that and shortly thereafter met his now wife.
At the very least you want closure. “Why did you do it? Am I not good enough? How long has it been going on?”
They may have ripped your heart out and held it aloft like an Aztec offering a sacrifice to the gods of pain and heartache and despair, but it’s such a sudden and devastating blow that shifts your worldview, keeping them in the car for six hours could almost be comforting, even as nauseating as it is. Hell. You may still be in denial. Again. Closure.
So keep her in the car for an hour, say your piece, and then drop her off 5 hours from home.
xPofsx · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was thinking every scenario you mentioned. I was also thinking the most likely place for her to know people is at either end of the 6 hour road trip.
That's why I think the best move is to drive her halfway. Gets your closure and leaves her ho ass in the middle of nowhere.
If you're still feeling empathy you can tell her beforehand and let her start trying to find a ride. "I'm only driving you as far as barstow"...after you get your closure, of course.
If you do, it's likely that your SO already knows or will ask you at least once.
That being said, some people never use those kinda words and then seeing them getting texts like "I miss you babe" can be pretty shocking. So in that way, it's probably different than your position. I wouldn't sweat it too much lol
Nothing in OPs post or comment history suggests they are female. But at the same time they have not identified themselves as male, I just happen to default to he/him.
I suppose it could be either, but I have not met too many males that referred to their guy friends as 'babes'. Its usually girls who refer to their friends as bebes more often
a-r-c · 3 points · Posted at 17:42:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I never want to be cheated on, but if I ever had been I wouldn’t be opposed to them being a captive audience for several hours.
could also just dump them off at the next gas station
I had to stop in the middle of an interesting to break up with a girlfriend. It was happy easy though a 3 hour drive and no infidelity, butt it was the worst drive I've ever had. There no way I would have been able to sit next to a cheater for 6 hours.
Holy crap, this same exact thing happened to MY friend... Except it was his wife. They were on a road trip to pick up her kids from their dad's house, she ran into the gas station, and her boyfriend texted her. She had her phone on her, and she texted back about how she couldn't stand being around her husband, couldn't wait to see the boyfriend, etc etc. Except, she texted all that to my friend, her husband!! Oops, made for a very uncomfortable trip, and a fast divorce.
Had something similar happen about three hours away from home on a 7 hour trip. I told her to call her parents, unload her stuff and we'd talk everything out while they came to get her. Initially her dad was verrrrrrrry grumpy with me but as soon as he heard my side of it and put the picture together from knowing her, he apologized for making me late. Got up there and everyone was shocked I was by myself, even though half of them knew she was stepping out on me.
Trust me she wasn’t sorry, just sorry she got caught. Put a million bucks on the fact that she texted the other dude soon as she got outta the car “yeah I’m home babe”
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:10:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds terrible for all parties involved. If I found out I had been cheated on the last thing I would want to do is spend 6 hours with them. A captive audience to be mad or sad at doesn't sound even a little appealing.
I kind of oppose that because even though they were an asshole to you, there's always an implication that you could do something crazy with them in the car. Like driving it off a cliff or something. It also just feels like you want to humiliate them, or put them in an uncomfortable situation for a while, which seems 100% unnecessary. If i found out my SO was cheating on me, I would never want to see them in my life again. That person would be dead to me, I wouldn't want to spend another second near them.
I found out my ex was cheating on me while at download with only him, he was the driver and decided we had to leave early after I found out so I missed out on the festival and had a super fun drive home...
personally if i was him (the victim) i would have made some excuse to pull over get her out the car and just dump her there and then, she can find her own way home.
if you cheat on me you are dead to me and your welfare is none of my concern.
With my luck, I would be the one cheated on, and after confronting the vile female, I would also be the one left one the side of the road for getting mad about it.
This. I literally just finished a conversation with my ex where I was ACTUALLY WILLING to patch things up after she cheated. Thing is, I ended up breaking up with her for losing her shit that I was being mad at her.
I think even after a situation like that, I would still like to take them home just because I would never forgive myself if they got abducted from the side of the road or something like that, no matter what they did to me
She was dating the type of guy who forces his girlfriend to choose between hours of captive punishment or being stranded on a roadside far from home. Cheating is bad, but she's still the victim there.
Lol he drove her cheating ass all the way to her dorm room 6+ hours away. You think she should be able to cheat on him after years together and he has to keep his mouth shut?
Actually I just read your username, so it might check out
Heaping misery on someone for hours is cruel and pointless. What would either of them gain from that interaction?
HCPwny · 25 points · Posted at 17:43:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not like he planned on seeing a text message from the person she was cheating on him with. I'm sure that was number one in his list of shit he wanted to deal with that day.
Closure. The man used the time to get her to admit it herself so he had no doubts about what was going on. Having someone admit everything and try to explain their side however bullshit their reasoning is still gives closure to a relationship. Had you heard this the other way and she got stranded after receiving that exact text you would have still taken her side. He is the victim unless he is somehow forcing her to stay, which it doesn't sound like he was in any way. She could have asked him to stop at any point, I'm sure he would have obliged.
drive back, always. find a bus and send her home, if that's an option. drive in silence. have a more productive and less damaging (for everyone) conversation. there's always other options.
So you're suggesting that I pay for her bus ticket? And if they wanted less damaging then maybe they shouldnt have fucking cheated in the first place. Considering that's what started the entire issue. Personally I believe if you're going to cheat you should realize all the fucking consequences that go along with doing one of the shittiest things you can do to the person you claim to love.
you're hurt and you want to justify hurting her back. i get that. betrayal is hell.
but, really, what were you hoping to change with six hours of beating that dead horse? did you think she'd love you more for that? did you believe it would repair whatever damage in your relationship led to her cheating? did you think you could change the past by yelling? what did you actually change?
btw, if you're also now saying you could've dropped her at a bust station and knew she had no money -- i.e., she was really dependent on you -- then your choices seem more malicious. is that what you're saying?
A few things, one he was probably indenial or at the very least irrational and just acted before thinking. I dont think he even had a thought about the 6 hour drive. It wouldn't be malicious.
And yeah it'd be torturous and shitty to sit and have that uncomftorable conversation for 6 hours. But at the same time, keeping your composure for 6 hours; heartbroken, is just miserable for him. How is that at all fair to him to just burden that misery extensively while she gets a blissful ride home.
At the end of it all she shouldn't of cheated, most people would of just left her behind to fend for herself. I'd say him talking to her about what was going on was the least shitty thing that was done in that car ride.
IME sitting next to someone in pain is painful, not blissful. yes, she shouldn't have cheated, but that ship had sailed. they weren't "talking": he was shouting and she was crying. yes, he should definitely leave her her fend for herself, after (since he says she had no money or means of transportation) he makes sure she's safe and sound.
I'm sure that's how he put it to his friends, and maybe it started out that way, but no way for 6 hours he just screamed and she cried.
It was probably bursts of anger with lingering silence, tears, and questioning.
Edit: The thing is that we just weren't there, there's a lot of context that's missing. It's pretty hard to make assumptions like that when you can only read the situation at the surface
You think that being found out cheating deserves an amicable response from the person you were in a supposed committed monogamous relationship with? Cheating causes emotional harm, whoever is cheated on will question everything about theirselves and their self-worth for a long while. Cheating is never justifiable. Not ending one relationship to start the next means you have already put yourself above BOTH other people, leaving one in the dark and making the other wait for you or limiting how they can interact with you to keep seeing each other.
I don't disagree about cheating: it should end the relationship. Within those bounds, there's many other more useful responses than yelling at someone for hours. That just compounds trauma with trauma.
Seems more that she made that decision herself. What should the guy have done, not say anything for the next 6 hours while he’s in dread? That’s ridiculous. He could have very easily told her to get the hell out as he’s under no obligation to continue taking her if he doesn’t want to.
cancel the trip and take her back. put her on a bus. drive in silence. but six hours of yelling at someone -- exhausting and pointless. won't change what's done, they're not going to come back as a couple from the cheating, and she's not going to love him more for six hours of captive abuse.
I see where you’re coming from, chances are the 6 hours of yelling is more hyperbole and a lot of it was in silence. I can’t imagine how exhausting 6 hours of argument would be. That being said, I’d say that driving her still would be too kind, even in silence. Dropping her off at the bus station would also be too kind. The best choice was really to leave her there after confronting her, no argument needed, and just move on. He has to deal with the truth, the betrayal, the whirlwind of emotions, she has to do the same to a certain extent and find her own way home. Unfortunately, as is common in these situations, you’re left with two victims.
abandoning anyone (but usually especially a young woman) on a roadside is irresponsible. the people in this story are kids, so she probably didn't have money or a lot of worldly knowledge. both would make her vulnerable. the guy had all the power: he was literally in the driver's seat and had the more righteous position. he could choose to act with maturity and kindness, even excluding the possibility of forgiveness.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 18:55:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man, somebody left you at a gas station after you cheated on them, huh?
happily, no. i've been trapped and arguing, i've started arguments with people who were trapped, i've bullied people who were weaker than me because i was hurt and and wanted revenge -- or just because it felt good (for a minute), and i've argued with people when i knew the relationship was really over. in retrospect, those were all bad scenes and i could've made them better.
A co-worker was a military retiree who claimed to have been everywhere.
Someone might say, "I spent a week in Cambodia..."
He'd say, "Yeah, I was there once. Stopped over on my way to Thailand."
We figured he was bullshitting most if not all the time, so we started inventing places. "My cousin is traveling in Argentina, and he's at this mountain village called Burritosalsa...."
HIM: "Oh, yeah. We did a joint military exercise with Argentina back in the 80s and stopped off there."
When I worked fast food we had a customer like that. Every time he came in it was a story about his travels or things he bought. Anything to show how rich he was. None of us really cared and just played along because it was the quickest way to get rid of him. One day he comes in talking about his family up in Seattle is snowed in and he has to fly his private plane up there to get them. (In retrospect that part doesn't make much sense either.) I pulled out my phone and checked the weather and told him it was around 60 degrees in Seattle. He mumbled something about the forecast being wrong and left.
Seattle, of all places? Like at least make your lie more legit and actually select a place that would have had a large snow storm! Lol
Edit: I realize Seattle occasionally gets snow, I mean in the context of the current weather conditions at the time of the lie. Like, choose a city that actually has snow in it to make the lie plausible.
For real, though: Two inches of snow paralyzes Pacific Northwest cities. Hell, a half an inch can shut down Portland, especially once it turns to ice. We just have a mild climate and don't usually get snow.
Edit: This only applies to cities west of the Cascade Mountains. East of there it snows more frequently.
Chicago checking in, and honestly it's not that big of a deal. Everybody slows down, you do a few brake checks before you get out on real roads to judge just how slippery it is, and you adjust. It's only when it's been snowing overnight like crazy and you know rush hour is going to suuuuuuuuck that you even really get cranky about it.
Sadly not everyone does those things. Lived in Saskatchewan all my life and you would think people here would figure out how to drive in the snow. Nope.
mtmo94 · -1 points · Posted at 21:30:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few years ago where I live got hit by 2 feet of snow then another 2 feet 2 days latter. I was still running service calls while the snow was full on blizzard. With wind and drifting I had 8 feet of snow between my wife's car and my service van. Walked out to shovel snow after the second storm hit. Could not believe the snow was up over my wife's car. Then the boss calls and tells me I have a service call. Um. Going to be a while.
The difference with the snow on the west and east in Washington is that western Washington gets wet snow that freezes overnight, while over east they have dry powder that is easy to drive through.
And seattle has many hills, most of which have a body of water at the bottom. High stakes if you the wrong black ice patch!
Daneth · 9 points · Posted at 18:48:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair it's super hilly. I could get away with driving in snow in the Midwest, here it's a different story.
feioo · 6 points · Posted at 19:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I learned to drive in snow on the east side of the mountains, where it's generally flatter. So when it snowed here in Seattle this past Christmas Eve (a miracle in itself), I was charged with chauffeuring all the family members who couldn't or wouldn't drive in the snow. The hills really were a game changer.
Daneth · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My car got stuck in the February snow (I'm on the Eastside, not sure if Seattle got that one), I had to abandon it on a hill near my house and walk home. First experience driving a rwd car in the snow, 0/10 would not recommend.
Depends where you are. Big city's where thousands of people commute for work and pleasure? Everything is shut down. Rural foothills, farmlands and wooded towns? Business as usual.
For sure. Lived in Vancouver, BC. An inch and a half of snow prevented me from getting to work one morning. Even the busses were getting stuck in bus stop lanes, people with bald summer tires sliding around everywhere. I had to walk back home in fear of my life over a snow flurry.
Damn does it really not snow that much despite you guys being even more up north than the northeast? I know half an inch can paralyze the Deep South, but I didn’t think it’d do that to Washington and Oregon as well.
Yep, the city is built on a hill and it just turns to ice almost as fast as the snow lands. Second part, is we don't get much snow so we don't have the equipment for removal, we mostly just let it sit until it warms up.
feioo · 4 points · Posted at 19:48:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Technically Seattle is built on six hills (used to be seven until they regraded Denny) - just to make the snow thing more difficult.
We don’t have much snow removal equipment. And it snows at 31, warms up a bit, and refreezes into black ice. Add dangerous roads to a hilly city with no snow-driving skills and some arrogant Jeep owners and it’s a recipe for disaster.
feioo · 4 points · Posted at 19:44:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We're technically more north than the northeast in general, but our climate is actually a lot more temperate, at least on the west side of the Cascades where Seattle and Portland are. The mountains trap the warmer air coming off the Pacific and keeps it on our side. Snow is often a 1- to 2- day a year experience, so we don't tend to have a lot of public services prepared when it happens. And like others have mentioned, hills. We have lots of hills.
I have seen people stuck on a slight grade unable to get purchase to drive even a few inches; or slide into a gentle ditch on the side of the road...and be stuck until it thaws. It gets that wet/icy/slippery and no snow tires or chains can even help. It's just not the same kind of snow as most people in other parts of the country consider snow.
I’m like an hour away from Seattle and in 2011 we got like 8 inches of snow at my house and school was canceled for what felt like 2 weeks, it was honestly amazing!!!
Did it shut down the city and cause a state of emergency like when texas got snow?
Dokpsy · 7 points · Posted at 17:56:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was no joke. Some areas got an entire quarter foot! It was still there in the morning! It didn't go away! We couldn't reasonably be prepared for that much snow!
Meanwhile in Massachusetts during the blizzard of February 2015 which left us with 5-6 feet piled along the sides of the roads: "You comin' to work today?" "Yeah be there in like 15 minutes"
Nothing these bullshitters will just walk away rather then face the truth. They are boring.... at least most of humanity already realizes they are boring and accepts that.
"Oh did you think i meant Seattle Washington? No! I meant Seattle, uh, Siberia! Yeah Seattle, Siberia! Plane is going to have to refuel mid air on its way across the Pacific and get a new crew in both Honolulu and Oahu!"
I'm guessing that Seattle was "in the north" from wherever /u/namey___mcnameface is, and everybody knows that "the north" is cold and snowy at all times.
Euchre · 15 points · Posted at 17:02:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In geographic terms, Seattle is quite far north, above the 45th parallel (runs through Oregon south of Portland, btw), which is north of most of the temperate climates where most humans live. However, people don't realize just how temperate the Pacific Northwest is, despite its geography. Even in Oregon, people would say "Isn't it so cold up there?", and if I liked them I'd say no - because fuck having all those damn extra people I don't like moving up there.
I'm not disputing that it is pretty far north, but it also depends where the story takes place. If you live in California, Seattle is to the north, but if you live in New York you would consider Seattle "to the west" even though it's still much further north than NY (NYC is about the same latitude as very northern California).
For somebody on the east coast, if you ask somebody to think of a northern city, they aren't going to bring up Seattle.
We've had snow twice, but also had a really terrible ice storm that fucked us hard for an entire week. And Seattle's power infrastructure is so fragile, if a fly farts we lose power. Now imagine what a terrible ice storm did.
It's almost like a compulsive liars don't think their way through their verbal diarrhea. I remember I got who wants claimed that Obama was a secret Muslim, that he was born outside the United States, and was pro-choice. When confronted with these, he denied all of them, video even dence be damned
It would make more sense to say that they were trapped in an artisanal raisin shop during a storm that would stop and start on rotation every couple minutes and sometimes turn into hail.
Yeah god, lived in Seattle all my life and while the city may get shut down because we aren’t used to snow at all, it has never been snowed in as far as I know. Guy should’ve chosen his locations better.
actually select a place that would have had a large snow storm!
"Dude, my family was trapped in their home in Atlanta because of a huge blizzard!"
The question being of course whether there was a blizzard of blizzardic proportions or whether it was just two inches of cold white fluffy terror raining from the skies that prompted a state of emergency.
Don’t listen to these people. Seattle gets hardly any snow but travel to eastern Washington? That’s where the snow is. Your point stand. People should not associate Seattle with snow.
Even in the continental US, it could have been as early as 10AM if OP’s on the west coast. It’s Saturday, that’s not a terribly unreasonable time to wake up.
G-III · 0 points · Posted at 17:14:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like my old boss. He had been in the reserves for a short stint. He would pull up videos on YouTube of war movies and stuff and be like, "You see these guys? They're the ones who save the seals when the seals get in trouble. I was one of those guys."
I'd always just acknowledge him with a grunt, because I can't imagine the reserves get called overseas to save the seals very often. Pretty sure he thought I was stupid because I must not understand the gravity of his statement. I understood alright. I just didn't care.
My husband was in the army and had a fairly distinguished military career. Most of our casual friends and neighbors don't know about his service and if they do, it is because I told them. When I asked him why he never mentions his military duty to people he said that in OCS he was taught war is the option of last resort. It means diplomacy failed and killing people because you couldn't settle differences like civilized human beings is never something to brag about.
90% of people in the military never see combat or are exposed to life threatening situations.
If I could make one gentle correction: the military adheres to the train as you fight, fight as you train edict. The theory is that in combat, soldiers will react more quickly and decisively if they practice realistic combat scenarios. Because of this training philosophy, soldiers are regularly exposed to life threatening situations and training deaths actually outnumber combat deaths.
And civil servants can’t be heroes? My point is that combat is not a prerequisite for heroism. Conversely, simply being in combat doesn’t automatically make someone a hero.
Why do you hate the military so much? You better kiss the flag and thank a vet for their service right this instant or I'm telling on you
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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p1-o2 · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, what about just re-reading it? There's a ton of context clues there which show the dislike being targeted at fake stories, not military members who served outside of combat. It's not some subtle jab.
In fairness, it's not abnormal in Minnesota to have a huge snowstorm and be in the 60's a day or two later. I think Minnesota is as far north as Washington - but we aren't near an ocean so IDK.
To be fair, I’ve been in Seattle wearing shorts and a T-shirt and sandals, and driven just a smidge east on I-90 and there was snow plowed up like 13 feet on the sides of the road, and people paragliding on snowboards.
Back in high school, we had this kid who always seemed to know all the music any of us had just discovered. It was quite annoying so we made up a fictitious band, called Speedlight and didn't stop talking about it whenever he was around. In two weeks he was arguing with everyone that Speedlight was a much better band than Pink Floyd.
I worked for a pizza place as a teen. One if the delivery drivers was an older retired guy. He use to tell us about all the place he had been. We just played along and laughed as he drove off in his broken down Accord. Then he stopped by on day on his day off. In his Maserati. Turns out he use to work on documentaries with freaking Jacques Cousteau back in the 60s. I guess our boss knew but never bother to tell us. He just delivered pizzas to keep from being bored.
I hoped his reaction would be to burst out laughing and say, “of course it is! I’ve been bullshitting you guys for a year, wondering when you’d call me out on it!” With some enthusiastic high fives all around, he could’ve ended up being the best customer ever, and you’d look forward to hearing his insane stories every time he came in from then on.
Instead, just a sad tuba sound as he backs out the door in shame. Random compulsively lying customer dude, you’re a disappointment to us all.
Must be nice being a young whipper-snapper. When I was a youngster and I wanted to call BS on something like this I had to pull out my rotary dial telephone and call the NWS or NOAA and get the real story.
Wow, you just saved this poor guy from his greedy family, who made up something about snow and just wanted to hijack his private plane!
Those sucker always wanting to take my money!!!
Probably would be my made up response... See I'm good at this.
Maybe it was the son, yeah greedy fucker, after I took him all over the world now he just wants to steal all my hard earned money...
I can't wrap my mind around why anyone would bother trying to impress random strangers in public beyond superficial appearance. This HAD to be a dude hoping to trick a young gold-digger into a date, right?
There was this pizza place in Boston, called Beacon Street Pizza. I used to go to and there was this crazy old guy who kept telling anyone and everyone stories about his life....Except they were plots from various movies.
That's why I checked. I got tired of listening to him, but it wasn't like I could exactly prove he hadn't been in South America or whatever the story was.
While he probably was lying, it’s entirely possible for Seattle to be 60 degrees and breezy and for the areas around Mount Rainier to be sub-zero and snowed in. There are big roads near there that even now in late June are inaccessible by car.
Seattlite here, we do get snow hete once in a while but if it snows so much that SeaTac or Paine field have to close it would be a very cold day in hell.
Or maybe these people think they are not worth being loved and admired as is so they create a lie that resembles what they think is worthy of respect and admiration. Sick people who need a lot of help :(
I think you can help more than you think, loving kindness and acceptance of people regardless of their coolness level allow them to feel safe about being themselves without embellishments.
yoKiDD · 19 points · Posted at 16:55:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't understand that ego boost thing. how would they boost their ego if they themselves know they're just bullshitting?
I think there are many levels to it. Group 1 only lies to others (strangers, cashiers) to get attention. Group 2 lies to friends and family, those in their inner circles. Group 3 lies to everyone. Group 4 lies to themselves as well.
It also depends on the lie. Is 100% fabricated or just embellishing on a truth?
Example: A Christmas bonus. Was there every really one? Or perhaps they did get a bonus, but then lied about the amount. Douchebag level correlates with the expanse of the lie.
Is there a psych or anthro major that can tag in and better elaborate for me?
Hate to break the news man but people lie to make themselves sound better/cooler to others all the time.
How much they make, the vacations they’ve been on, how many women they’ve slept with (as well as what those women looked like).
Shit, people lie about everything, or at least embellish stories, all the time to make themselves sound more interesting. Surely you’ve realized that by now.
In theory, their ego would be boosted when the other person seems interested or congratulates them on whatever the "achievement" is. They also think they got away with a lie so then they're happy or on an adrenaline high.
yoKiDD · 13 points · Posted at 17:08:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess I'm too stupid to follow their thought process. I feel like shit when I have to lie due to not being able to tell the truth for whatever reason and others are doing it as a hobby. Life and people are weird.
It's never really this, though. If someone was lying to my face, and I caught them out on it, I'd actually really like it if they were like "haha oh darn, you got me! But it really was fun trying to convince you!". But usually they just backpedal, double down, get defensive, etc. It's never about humor
Not a medical person at all, but I think it's the same as for someone who is on drugs. It's a special little "high" they get when they see a lit up face or the reaction they want. So, what is true has no effect on what they will say, they're only chasing their high.
I do this without the lying... Sometimes I feel like it might come off as one upping, but for me it's genuinely just a way of connecting with someone through a common experience...
Yes, but someone who is on drugs isn't thinking about perfecting their ribeye. That's what makes it illogical: you are willing to invest a little bit for a higher rate of return (actually learning things or getting out and having some awesome experiences). The pathological liar just wants the cheap fix for the short term.
Absolutely - I definitely get that. I was just suggesting a possible source of the high for the pathological liar... The desire/need/compulsion to connect with people and the feeling you get when you establish a connection. I think most of us know and can relate to that feeling, and it makes sense that for the pathological liar, while it may be a manufactured connection, the reward is all the same.
Some people really do have trouble differentiating from fact and fiction. I've known a few people that were actually really nice guys, and honest in their actions, but after interacting with them for years I'm fairly confident the answer is they actually don't realize they're lying.
One guy, George, was the nicest guy you'd ever meet. Did all that stuff, at one point we actually realized that it was all from movies and TV shows. We humored him because it wasn't hurting anybody and he told good stories. But it was definitely a mental disorder of some sort.
I must admit I'm not a fan of lies generally,, but maybe these lie aren't from a dark place and in their reality.. lies like this give them harmless comfort l.
Maybe because their lives are boring, and they haven't accomplished much, so somewhere along the way they discovered how easy it is to just SAY something has happened to them rather than going through the real efforts of life. And they get addicted to that little thrill they feel when people believe the lie, and the people show excitement & awe.
My kid went through a period where he told weird arbitrary lies.
“Has anyone seen my bandana?”
No
No
Kid, “I saw the dog carry it downstairs yesterday.”
“O wait, here it is... in my bag.... Son? Everything going okay?”
Big innocent eyes. Walks away. He still does it sometimes and he’s generally a very truthful kid. It’s hilarious and not mean spirited at all. But yeah.
Same thing as white lying I guess. I dunno .. Maybe their journey in life has caused them feel a certain emptiness. Lying to fill a void. Some peoples voids can be so dark that lying to themselves.. and in turn others.. make it a little lighter.
It could be generally low comprehension. Most of the time, they just don't really get what people, or they themselves are talking about, and might not even realize it. So if someone says something that sounds about like something they've done, they can confidently chime in that "Yup, I've done that!"
Eg: I have dived off a diving board, people are talking about sky diving. "Oh yeah, I've been sky diving dozens of times, it's a blast!" Someone asks me about the parachute. I'm not sure why the subject has suddenly changed, but that happens all the time. I could go on to describe a play parachute, or parachute pants, or an umbrella, blissfully unaware that I'm leading people to believe I've jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. Later someone talks about waterboarding, and I'm still thinking of the diving board. I say it's not so bad, I don't know what everyone's so scared of, what's the big deal? etc etc etc.
I do this. But I usually tell the truth immediately afterwards. When someone asks me a simple question my initial response is usually a compulsive lie. It's usually a lie that is pretty outrageous so I do it more as a joke than anyrhing, but I have gullible friends so I often have to follow it up with "I'm lying to you." after they ask "really?"
Yeah. But I think you missed the word 'compulsive'. I understand it's not fun. I learned it from my dad who did it all the time when I was growing up. It's something I'm working on stopping. Thanks for calling me out on a personal flaw though.
Because they are unsatisfied with their actual accomplishments, so by lying about them they create a separate reality where they are the person they actually want to be.
z500 · 4 points · Posted at 17:47:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lot of people get the shit beat out of them by their parents for telling the truth so they learn to lie.
omarfw · 4 points · Posted at 17:51:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not about the lie. It's about getting away with a lie, and the rush that brings. It starts with major insecurities and grows into an addiction.
source: used to be a compulsive liar, as well as a klepto.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my experience with these types of people they are bad students or bad workers. They’ve got weird shit going on in the background that must be related to mental illness. Constantly sick or absent. Training and experience doesn’t stick. Low effort in everything to do including knowing details about their vast and varied lies. They learned early on that small children are impressed by lies and never grew out of it. They never learned that doing is more impressive than telling. It’s truly pathetic and I feel sorry for them.
In short, it's a coping mechanism for low self-esteem. Telling other people about the imaginary "better version" of yourself makes it seem more real. Problem is, it's a self-perpetuating cycle and the lies just get bigger and bigger, with the underlying problem not being addressed.
Source: Did this in the past. Social anxiety is a bitch.
Some people are ashamed of who they are, some people are bored, some people are trying to cover up a deeper secret. Sometimes people have never grown out of childhood, where your imagination can take you anywhere or make you anything and they just live in that world because the real world is too harsh.
Totally agree. Some guy posted on /r/earthporn that he had to camp out overnight to get his photo at Great Sand Dunes National Park. You can literally take the photo on the road driving up. I just can’t understand why someone would lie about that to a bunch of strangers on the internet.
The dozens of people who laud them as interesting people is worth it to them more than the risk of being caught in a lie, especially since it's not a crime or anything.
Recovering bullshitter here, for me, it was no one calling my attention seeking bullshit as a kid.
I never grew out of it because getting people interested in me made me feel good.
My high school friends started calling me on it and in college they warned every one to do the same.
They were sick of it and I don't blame them.
They are true friends and did me a favor, I'd still be doing it if they hadn't. I stopped in my late 20s.
To this day (late 30s now) I have to think hard to override the impulse to say xyz and realize that other people have seen and done way cooler shit than me.
I understand now that part of what makes other people so neat are their acual experiences.
I needed someone to show me that and my closest friends have.
I had a friend who lied every time we asked him what his father did for a living. One day he was CEO of Apple(and when questioned about the obvious fact that we all knew Steve Jobs was CEO, he clarified be meant Vice-CEO of the eastern regional office etc etc). Then the next day, he owned half a city's commercial real estate. The day after, he actually owned a few apartment buildings.
To this day I have no idea what the hell his father does for a living, but whatever it is makes them good money.
He isn't a bad kid though. Relatively smart ignoring the dumb lies and when he isn't in 100% lying mode he's easy to get along with. He just had this instinctual urge to just lie for attention but we eventually just let him talk without confronting him about it(its not like our confrontations changed anything).
Victuz · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a compulsive liar, or I was anyway (I can slip back in at any time if I'm not careful). Only years of genuine efforts mean I don't lie all the time, and try to be honest basically all the time now. But it is so much easier to lie if your brain works that way.
And I don't mean easier as in "making better lies", it's just easier to speak lies than to speak the truth. That was part of the problem for me. Other part was obviously low self esteem, being included in something is always nice, even if you're riding a wave of total bullshit.
Personally (so no basis in science) I feel like some people have a brain chemistry that makes it easier to fabricate answers rather than dig around for genuine ones. And in conversations you don't want to take huge pauses whenever you speak, so you blurt out the first thing that comes to mind. For people like meant lies.
Insecurity. They know they can't be this badass interesting person so they pretend to be. Even if it only works half the time they've managed to impress someone with absolutely no work. And even if you catch on to the bullshit, if you don't tell them they don't know and believe they got away with it. They feel superior. Sometimes I think they believe their own stories.
I want to understand more too. For me, being caught lying, being dramatic or fake in any way is the most embarrassing thing to happen of all things, and just the thought of that embarrassment would stop any lie from exiting my mouth. So whats the deal with these people, are they maybe lacking risk assessment completely, or is embarrassment not that threatening to them?
I asked my ex once why he lied so much. Sometimes he lied about the most ridiculous things! He told me it was because he felt like he was a pretty boring, unsuccessful, person. Once I caught on though, there was no going back. My ability to trust him was gone. I told him he never had to lie to impress me. Hopefully that stuck. Doubtful though.
Yeah, I recently rewatched it and it kind of annoyed me that Bean, a British native, would have known it was pronounced 'hairyford' and not 'here-ford" like in the movie. Although Sean Bean is a Yorkshire boy so he might be too far north born to known any better.
I think that may just he the distinction between a British and an American accent. An American would pronounce it "ferd" while British will generally make the R sound silent.
In general in British English for three syllable words the emphasis is on the first syllable and the second two are pronounced very quickly, with vowels often becoming a short exhilation indistinguishable from the 'e' in 'the' or the 'oo' in 'foot'.
The "ford" in place names is almost never pronounced as it's spelt. It's "fud" or "food" (but with the "oo" as in "foot") or something in between those two pronunciations depending on what's comfortable in your mouth. Like Oxford University.
Although the demonym (Herefordian, Oxfordian) would pronounce it as it's spelt.
I lived in Boise, Idaho for three and a half miserable years. Worst place on Earth. Dumbest people alive. Anyway, they pronounce it "BOY-see" while everyone else in the world pronounces it "BOY-zee." I pronounced it "BOY-zee" when I lived there because "BOY-see" sounds stupid and I don't care for xenophobic nonsense like using a stupid made-up pronunciation of the town's name as a way to know who is and isn't a local. Considering how they treat out of towners, that whole town can go fuck itself.
He may be confused with Herford, a British Army base in Germany
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:19 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've thought about this for years. It's driven me nuts. That's the only reasonable explanation I've ever received. Aside from the person down there that Sean Bean may never have heard of Hereford as he's a northerner.
I could answer that easily. Not because I know, I would make up a compilcated explanation to describe the color and then get my phone out and say "but I am not sure, was it? Lemme check".
Aight, I might give up my entire life then! (Just kidding) I think an excellent liar would also give a bit of truth back just so it seemed credible, but anyways...........
[deleted] · 335 points · Posted at 15:47:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he also a Navy Seal who graduated at the top of his class?
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 16:01:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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tac915 · 15 points · Posted at 17:28:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked with a guy that claimed he was a navy seal, about a year later I found out he had been in the Air Force, never was in the navy haha. Told me he banged a navy generals daughter and as punishment the general made him go thru seal training as punishment and he passed lol, yeah okay uh huh haha.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
I had a manager once who claimed to be training with the Marines and the Navy SEALs simultaneously, but that stopped when he punched his CO in the face and went AWOL. Leaving that place was the epitome of 'quit the boss, not the job'.
I heard from someone still there that another guy became Company President who was aware of this guy's bullshit, and his first action was to fire said manager.
Honestly every time I see that copy pasta I read it word for word I love it. It's one of the most regurgitated things on Reddit that I can actually stand.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
I had an old co-worker like this. He constantly made up stories that were obviously bullshit but would never give up the lie even when caught.
He had a few famous ones like the time he was bow hunting deer and ran out of arrows, so he chased down the deer on foot and killed it with his pocket knife. If you're wondering, he was about 5'3 and not well built so no, he's not rambo. He also had a few fishing stories about him catching fish way bigger than any local record but they fell back in the water so he couldn't show anyone.
Well, one day everyone in the department decided to play a prank on him. I was still fairly new at the time (this was probably...about 7.5 - 8 years ago) didn't find out about it until they sprung the trap on him. The shift lead got his phone number and texted him, pretending to be a girl and asked him on a date. He fell for it and came in the next day boasting about it. Every day after that for the next week he kept bragging and bragging about how they were going out to dinner, she came back to his place, etc. Problem is, not only was it the shift lead who texted him, he only texted him once.
So after about a week of him making shit up, they finally told him it was them and that he could stop lying. He totally denied it, said it was someone else. They showed him the text messages and he still denied it. Even after that he kept the lie up and said they were still dating if anyone asked.
It's amazing the lengths some people go to for attention.
tvtb · 14 points · Posted at 18:09:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah the shift lead I mentioned is a huge piece of shit, I went to high school with him. Most of the other guys who were in on it weren't much better tbh.
Edit: Almost forgot to mention, that shift lead was later fired for harassment (unrelated to this story).
This reminds me of my teacher who told the craziest stories from his time in the Navy and other random shit and I assumed he lied about a lot of them, but one time he told a story about a fat hooker in italy that would hang out sitting on a wall and everyone called her Humpty Dumpty. This kid mentioned that he thought his dad was stationed at the same place probably only a few years after my teacher left so he texted his dad asking if he remembered Humpty dumpty. His dad was like "you meant the fat hooker that hung out with the transvestites?" From then on I believed his stories 100%.
I was once explaining to a guy who was a 'two shitter' about a new guy that had started on a new shift, I thought I'd point out that the new guy was a right 'two shitter' and he said (this is no exaggeration) "That's nothing, I knew this guy once..." the rest was drowned out by my shifts laughing as we pointed out that he just 'two shitted a two shitter'. I want that on my grave.
I just wish some people would try a bit harder - make a new joke! One of my teachers at school always used to say "I know your brother, Over The" and chuckle away to himself. But then his wife was head of maths and had a moustache so I doubt he had much to laugh about in his personal life...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:35:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: He actually visited places with those names.
mbelf · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was his name Richard Richard?
Veteran: Did you yomp from Goose Green to Stroud Hill?
Richie: Yeah, we all had to do that. Well there were no lavs. Just open countryside. Had to watch where you put your feet. Must have been a bitch for you, squatting on one leg!
Veteran: But did YOU go to Stroud Hill?
Richie: Of course! Me and my mates. There was me and, er Ginger, er Tommy, er Tiddles, er... er Spot, Joey, Snowy and er... Corky.
Veteran: There isn't a Stroud Hill in the Falklands.
Richie: Er... oooh, you're the ones that didn't find it? We had a laugh about you!
I work with a guy like that. Except he's never accomplished anything.
At work he drops the dumbest shit when he thinks it makes him look good. Last week it was "I used to be a crack addict", to bolster his expertise in drug policy.
It's been "I used to be a [high falutin' manager]", yeah, so how come you're just a lowly finance drone now? Finance manager wasn't good enough? Halving your salary looks good on the resume?
He does this stuff all the time. Once in a while, to amuse myself, I will say stuff to get his ever-interrupting "yeah, uh-huh, definitely" responses to things that are completely wrong.
I'll say something like "and according to CPA rules 45 in the handbook, we are PER LAW obligated to ..." and this is where he has to chime in with his I-definitely-know-all-about-this-shit "uh-huh, right. I know." and then I drop the totally wrong part about "...use pivot tables to graph the dividends in the input-output field.".
He doesn't seem to get that I'm fucking with him. The worst part is that when I do that in front of the boss, I don't think the boss is hip to me baiting the know-nothing either.
I worked with a guy like that once. If anyone had a story about something, he would have a better story. He actually tried to tell us that his friend owned an alligator that he would walk on a leash and would greet him at the door when he got home from work like a dog.
Was at camp (not band) and this one kid Brian did something extremely similar. We would be talking in a group and he would always chime in with "you know my dad Insert topic here". He's was a text book case of "My dad owns nintendo and will get you banned from pictochat". Whenever he came around we would start nonsense one if my favorite examples was
Me: Hey man you ever have a IBM 5100 as a kid?"
Some other dude: Yea I think I still got it in my attic still.
Brian: you know my dad actually got me one of those.
Me: Oh sick dude, you ever get Mario Kart for it?
Brian: Yea dude, totally cleared it and unlocked everything.
For anyone wondering the IBM 5100 is considered the first PC. It came out in 1975 and weighs nearly 24 kilos and I doubt it even had the ram to play Doom much less a game that didn't exist yet.
When I first started in my job I was in a large training group who had someone like this. This dude lied about everything. Claimed his family owned world bank, that he became a sergeant in the army at 19, that he had a heart condition that constantly left him unwell which he had had since he was a child (something which pissed a couple of people off who actually had issues with their heart), that he'd been a manager for many teams in different jobs, that he'd kicked an employee out on the street and broke their jaw in the process and that all his coworkers cheered him on. The ones that took the biscuit though was when he lied about his son being ill and in the hospital for months (he was caught out when a coworker saw him out with his family and the son was fine) and the fake doctors letters he used to get out of work constantly. My employer fell for the doctors letters constantly, finally found out they were forged and he was promptly fired and escorted off the premises by security.
Last I heard his wife left him and he's living with his mum who stood up for the shit he pulled.
Hilarious thing was my sisters boyfriend went to school with him, which I didn't know at the time, and apparently he was just as much of a compulsive liar then. He told people he couldn't feel pain and asked a guy to punch him as hard as he could. He ended up going to the hospital because of the pain lmao.
Do these people really think they're fooling others? And, for what great purpose? To look cool? For a warm fuzzy? What's their motivation? Why lie about something so blatantly obvious that can be verified in minutes? Like, why?
I had an ex like this. He made up being a marine, being shot in combat, having a daughter that died, meeting this president, having lost friends in combat....so many lies. Some people are born story tellers. I figure the only way he could get people to listen was to pretend it was real and in reality he knew he had nothing real to talk about.
Guy said he was a navy seal. Had done it for years. Even His family was convinced. He was known as the seal. I started at the company. The public walk back on that lifetime of lies was exceptional to see.
I kind of have the opposite problem. I've traveled to around 30 countries give or take and had crazy fucking experiences everywhere I went. Now i try to tell stories about it and everyone thinks I'm full of shit. Occasionally I'll be talking to someone who's been to the place I'm talking about and I'll know enough random details about the place that they believe me, but most of the people I know think I'm just a compulsive liar.
Oh I have, many times over the years. It's one of the things that keeps me around here. People generally take my stories at face value, with only the occasional person who tries to call me a liar. I'll admit to a bit of exaggeration of certain details and omission of others simply for the sake of a more reader-friendly story, but I never outright lie, even on here. But if you're genuinely curious, it's all somewhere in my history. It goes back a long ways and I've told a lot of stories throughout.
Had a bs coworker always one upping stories. Someone mentions they have a really tall friend at like 6’7”. She says I have a really tall friend too. Wait how tall did you say she was? Says 6’7” again. Mine was 6’8” with a few more lines of bs. She was such a one upper she had to reask so her friend could be the tallest in the middle of her story.
Another girl claimed her friend was 7’2” and played for BC. I told her really? I’m surprised I’ve never heard of him since I follow duke who plays in the same conference. I’ll have to check it out.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:06:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah yes, Burritosalsa. They have an eclectic array of food.
My firmer (former! Stupid autocorrect!) BIL claimed to be an officer in the army, a paratrooper, and went to NYC after 9/11 because he was such a good paramedic. Well, my sister and I are both Air Force brats, so she should have known a dude who barely passed high school can’t be an officer but I guess she didn’t pay attention to that. My ex at the time was former Navy and asked him some questions like that, to gauge his bullshit. He told me later he really wanted to punch him in the face because he was lying so much, but didn’t want to ruin the 50th anniversary party for my grandparents.
I know an older ex army (UK) guy who claims the same, im not sure what he did but he is ex military but he claims he was a sniper. I know a fair bit about UK military history, never joined myself but was accepted and have a few family members who have served but I have always enjoyed the history so I like to talk about it sometimes.
This guy claims how he went on special forces operations in Iran in the 80s, describing in detail how he shot someone in the head etc haha, half the operations he claimed he took part in are countries which we havent had any known military presence in and if there was covert ops going on, someone in his position wouldnt be bringing them up in idle chitchat.
I have one of these. I worked at RadioShack and one of the cell carriers’ employees claimed to be former military intelligence who had been stationed in Germany. Super nice guy who said he spoke a bunch of languages. Yeah, right. Left us all wondering why he was selling cell phones at the mall and most of us just thought he was BSing.
Fast forward a year this Korean couple walk in and he starts speaking fluent Korean. Imagine their expression, when this white guy in Kansas starts speaking Korean at a random retail store. I guess he was trained in 5 languages to translate things for the military. Mind blown!
Now he does international relations for some organization.
xohl · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is the point of telling obvious lies like that? It just makes you look stupid. This one girl I know claims to own 15% of Tesla (and she’s 16), have a 2018 Landrover (that she apparently totaled), and is from Australia (she’s not). I just don’t get it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a kid who went to school with me in 5th grade, but instead of lying about places he's visited, he lied about the games he's played. Let's call him Billy.
Me: "Hey I just beat Twilight Princess, what a great game."
Billy: "Oh that game? That game is easy! I beat it in under 3 hours and I got all the secrets!"
Me and my friends caught on to his bullshit and tried this:
Me: "Hey, did you try the new game by Apple soft called Nam cap?"
Billy: "Hell yea of course I've played that. I'm super good at it too!"
Me: "Did you manage to get to level 6 and beat Sauroman the hedgehog wizard?"
Billy: "Oh yea that boss is easy, beat him without dying"
Me: "Nam cap is a racing game..."
Billy: "yea that's what I meant I beat him without losing"
There's a guy from back home who used to work in the oilfield that's like this. We would make up names of people and drilling companies and he'd say that he's worked with and for them.
Hey, you know Johnny Hookerzamblow? Oh ya, I taught him everything he knows! You ever hear of Beef Curtain Drilling? Oh Ya, I ran a crew for them! You ever see those super quadruple slant rigs? Buddy I worked on two!
I had a friend in high school that was a compulsive liar, always talking about rock stars and famous people that she and her family knew or went to lunch with. We started making up band names to see if she'd claim to know them or to have gone backstage with them etc., worked a few times before we called her out on it. She just claimed she had misheard the names we said and insisted she had done those things with real bands.
Never caught this in a lie but had a co-worker that left to be deployed because he was fighting north Korea and within the last week 3 of his friends had died... In North Korea. Then he was messaging another co-worker, from his North Korean outpost,. Trying to get her to send him money . Some people are just ridiculous but I have a feeling mine involved drugs somehow
I had a classmate try to pull something like that, and after we revealed none of places existed he got all flustered and vehemently defended that they were real and we were the liars.
haygo · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew a girl like this once. No matter how obscure of a place or thing you would reference, she would be like "oh yeah I've been there/done that/know about that."
One time a group of friends and I made up a band and were all like "Wow, did you hear the new song from [fake bank band here]? It's SO GOOD."
And of course she was like "yeah, I love it. I saw them in concert a few months back."
A friend of mine is an Iraq vet, and served on the USS Ronald Reagan. We were out at a bar one night, and met a guy who said he was a Vietnam vet. My friend could tell by some of the things he was saying, though, that he was lying.
It took me a while to realize, but there’s no way that guy served on the Ronald Reagan in Vietnam- Reagan was governor of California at the time, and wouldn’t have had a ship named after him.
There's this weird phenomenon of veterans with a chip on their shoulder for having a typical and uneventful period of service. I've got a family friend who brags about all the "shit he saw" in "the desert". Come to find out he was in Bahrain at a navy R&R facility. rule of thumb is if they refer to a location as "the desert" they were actually in some oil rich country like Qatar or UAE.
aazo5 · 2 points · Posted at 19:04:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a medical student, we had this guy, an older physician's assistant who had been a medic in the army, who sort of proctored our surgical skills laboratory. He was a "good ol' boy" southerner, aka a racist asshole, and would talk about his time in the military as if he were Rambo.
The entire 2 months I was in that lab, he would shout at people practicing suturing, "YOU CALL THAT A SUTURE?! I DID BETTER SUTURES WHEN I WAS IN COMBAT STITCHING UP GUNSHOTS!"
Towards the end of my stint in that lab, he finally yelled at me, so I just calmly set the suture material and needle driver down as look at him. I asked him, very calmly, which conflict he was because he was too young for Vietnam and too old for the first Gulf War." He just stammered something about "respecting veterans" and "how dare you accuse me of lying about my service".
This is also the same guy who kept claiming he was a "volunteer SWAT captain" for the county and that he was going to "bust up some of those thug kids" after a big rap concert in our city.
Hey u/clit-eastwould a lot of military memebers are like this and we arent sure why. Your doing a good thing by doing this. You earned some reddit green. Tell all your friends.
There was a girl in my theater department who was like that about movies. Lord knows she had seen every single film known to man and would try to talk to you about them, even if she hadn't properly seen them.
We started making up scenes from films we were talking about and she'd go along with it, just like your co-worker. We even began to make up entire movies and she was never any wiser.
Ha had a co-worker who was the same. After a conversation or 3 we figured he was always one-uping people. So we did the same thing as you, inventing stuff or making him say stuff that would contradict each other. ^
Used to know one guy that my flatmate called "Elevenerife."
"Oh you've been to Tenerife? I've been to Elevenerife."
Just shut the FUCK up and let them tell their story, nobody gives a shit that you went there, no doubt "first". Congrats. You went there before us. We're not impressed. You're just a dick for interrupting and trying to show off how you "won".
I think it would be most hilarious if there turned out to be a place in Argentina called Burritosalsa, and there happens to be a temple on Blueberry Hill where they remember your co-worker vividly.
When I was in fifth grade we were doing one of those activities to get to know our classmates better. We were instructed to tell the person sitting across from us our favorite activities, I went first. I said my favorite thing to do was mountain biking, the person across said they liked it too and said they were really good at it. I asked them if they ride on a local mountain and they said Yes, I then asked if they had ridden a bunch of other places, all of which they responded Yes, I could sense the BS and made up a place called eagle lake, our conversation went something like this:
Me: Have you ever done a ride at eagle lake
Them: oh yeah! Love the downhill there!
Me: huh I find the downhill boring, not technical enough.
Them: yeah you're right, but I still like it
Me: that's interesting, because eagle lake doesn't exist.
Their face turned red, they knew they had fallen right into my trap.
I was sitting with a couple friends and a guy i didn't know too well, all playing cards. We start swapping stories and the guy I didn't know starts telling the story of a time he went to a strip club. However, he had lifted the story word for word from a YouTube video, only changing the names (Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures). I started playing the video on my phone halfway through his story and connected it to the TV
Honestly anything that happens to Any of the RT guys is way better than what happens to me
Only difference is I wouldn’t try to pass it off as my own story I’d just start talking about the video “I was dying of laughter when Geoff said (insert thing) happened”
I really don’t. How is sharing a story you heard, while giving the proper credit to whoever first told it, in any way wrong?
zyice · 8 points · Posted at 19:37:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He means pretending its your own story is wrong.
Edit: Don’t know why you deleted your reply, but here’s my response. He probably misread your comment, thinking it said pretending its your own story is illegal
He did, if you check his other comments, he was asking why the fuck I made my comment. I didn't misinterpret what he said, I was agreeing with his statement and adding a further opinion. He totally misunderstood what I said and got angry about it.
zyice · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didnt say he didnt freak out, i said he didnt need to.
Anyway, basic explanation of this whole mess:
He said that it isnt illegal to share other people’s stories (not pass them off as their own).
You said that it may not be illegal, but it is wrong to lie.
Just a small misinterpretation, youre both right, and hes wrong for freaking out
My comment was clear, I don't understand what's difficult to understand about it. I agreed with them in that it's not illegal to claim someone's story as your own, and went on to add that it's a dumb thing to do.
You're agreeing with me in the same way that I'm agreeing with him. I don't know what you're upset about. No, it's not illegal to claim a story. Yes, it is dumb to do. What is confusing about this?
Ithera · 6 points · Posted at 23:34:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mate. Reading comprehension. No one is upset; you're just misunderstanding the original comment you responded to.
I'm not misunderstanding the comment at all, I'm agreeing with them. I'm fucking mystified at all the rude comments I've gotten about this today though, and I'm sick of people calling me an idiot because they can't read my fucking comment correctly. I'm done with this fucking thread.
I die a little inside every time I see you misunderstand over and over again. This is such a small misunderstanding to get upset about and it's not like it matters in any way but it's frustrating as hell to watch from an outside perspective. That's the reason people are getting so upset and giving you shit because you keep not seeing your mistake. I just hope at some point you will get it.
He’s actually right, I think you’re still misunderstanding the original content. He meant telling someone else’s story like “so and so was telling me that this thing happened to them” instead of “this thing happened to me”
I had the same thing happen to me. I’m sitting with some friends at lunch and this guy in our grade just sits at our table. We didn’t know him too well but thought, eh why not. So we’re talking to him and getting to know him and he starts telling this story about his dad. I’m one of the few listening as some other guys at the table are talking amongst themselves. He starts talking about his dad being at this football game where they ran into the field. Something in my brain fires off and I listen more. I let him get all the way to the end of the story before saying “yeah man I love roosterteeth.” He looked surprised for a sec before just laughing and saying something like “oh didn’t know if you knew them.”
Friend of mine did this shit too! He was telling me how one time he "couldn't spell the word chums and ended up spelling jums" and as he's finishing "his" story, I bluntly state, "You got that from Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures."
Watching him deny it was fun, which didn't make sense to me at all because he was a pretty big fan of RT and I was "shocked" he never heard of the series until that moment
I had a fellow student do this except it was the story about someone not knowing what kind of nuts he was eating and i was just like "thats a roosterteeth bit" and she said "yeah i know gavin hes my cousin" ok sure kid
When I lived with my Dad I had a cash bank that I kept hidden. I was positive about the sum of money I had saved up (I was saving up for the Xbox One Xbox 360 which was coming out) and when I counted it, it was short. Like $20 short. I also had a webcam on my computer and since my family was not computer literate I set it up on a timelapse, one picture every 10 seconds, whenever I left the house. Sure enough, suspected family member went into my room, went right for the stash and stole from me. I confronted them at dinner in front of everyone, they denied it, others believed them, and then I put the photo I printed out on the table.
Best macaroni and cheese I ever ate.
Edit: I'm a fucking idiot and meant Xbox 360, not Xbox One. This happened in 2005.
Dad took it seriously and he was pissed, his wife at the time didn't because she said "it's only $40", the person who stole from me was trying to make excuses. I just wanted my $40 back. I was working at Kroger as a bagger/cashier at the time and minimum wage was 5.15 an hour, so 40 bucks was more than a days worth of hours. The thing about Kroger back then was you could cash your paycheck at Customer Service and that's what I did prior to this. The day after these events though I went to the Wachovia we had inside the Kroger and opened up my first bank account. To this day I do not keep cash, I'd rather have to visit an ATM than lose it.
Edit: I should clarify that they had stolen $20 from me before and with the webcam setup they stole another $20.
bg-j38 · 10420 points · Posted at 15:33:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mine too. My mother always took from my sister and me and said this same goddamn thing when we asked for our money back. Or she’d say, “who pays for your food and shelter, huh?!” My grandparents, and the pay for yours too! Plus I’m only 10!
I’m so glad I don’t have to ever relive that childhood bullshit.
God that's infuriating. That's not the point, doesn't matter what you needed it for, it's your fuckin money not theirs. Christ. I'm glad they got caught red handed, good on you for confronting them head on
I used to always complain to my dad about my sister stealing my clothes when we were kids. Not only did I hate it on principle, but she wouldn't take care of them so they'd end up stretched out/stained/balled up on the floor of her closet and I wouldn't see them again for months (not exaggerating). My dad's response usually ranged from no response to taking her side ("It's not like you were wearing it" "Just wear something else"). Then after I moved out he called me up super pissed because my sister had stolen some earrings and a shirt from his then girlfriend (now wife). Hmmmm, maybe that's because you've spent her entire life reinforcing that that's perfectly okay.
This. My parents pulled that on me when my brother made a bet with me, lost it fair and square, he owed me $100 and never paid up. Then they said "well he can do your chores for you instead." Nope, I needed cash more than free time at that point, and I didn't have a job as a kid. He never did the chores either.
That's different than outright stealing and refusing to pay up, though. How old was your brother? $100 isn't something you can just pull out of your ass.
It's similar in that there was a clear double standard in our home. If we deprived the other person of something we were expected to make restitution for it, or at least I was.
You sound a LOT more hung up on this than I am. Look, it brought up a memory, I was annoyed remembering it for like 3 minutes, typed a response, and went on with my day. Have a good one!
I was just pointing out it's not the same thing, man. Be irritated at it, but it's nothing like stealing, and there's no double standard. You were both dumb kids, that's all.
Seriously you were trying to hold your brother to a $100 bet as kids... That fucked up man. I have 3 siblings and would make bets with them as well as friends growing up. I think most people did as kids actually. I have never heard of anyone actually every paying up because these are not legit bets. Especially a $100 bet as kids, that is steep! And that is completely different than stealing fyi.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:03:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe they made bets before this one and always paid each other. You’re assuming too much. My friends and I always paid each other on lost bets when I was kid. It made any competition so much better.
That's honestly the stupidest and weakest response I've ever seen. "Why do you need this money for anyways?". Does the person that stole from you not understand the concept of saving money ?
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:41:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m fuming right now my aunt lived with us and was a thief for her kids. At one point when I was younger I saved up $400 working part time i had withdrawn it to go get something (at the time person to person digital transactions didn’t exist)
And she didn’t take just $20 or $40 but she took the entire stack of $50’s could never prove it and she never dressed up, not the first time it happened. Like I used to keep $20 in my car Incase my wallet got robbed and I had to get gas and she cleaned me out.
He's a very "if it sounds like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck" type of guy.
It also helped that I was an easy to deal with teenager. I went to school, went to work Saturday-Monday afterwards, had marching band practice on Wed/Thurs, and relaxed at home on Tuesday nights which meant video games and pizza. He didn't really have to be a parent because I took care of myself mostly.
Mate that would imply that they were down, according to a Fact Fiend video they're one of the most athletic dudes around because they have to carry a big ass instrument and walk and play without being exhausted. I'd like to see you play a Bassoon in unison with everyone else whilst doing a choreographed routine mate. (I've never done band in my life because I'm English and I'm from England.)
I used to always complain to my dad about my sister stealing my clothes when we were kids. Not only did I hate it on principle, but she wouldn't take care of them so they'd end up stretched out/stained/balled up on the floor of her closet and I wouldn't see them again for months (not exaggerating). My dad's response usually ranged from no response to taking her side ("It's not like you were wearing it" "Just wear something else"). Then after I moved out he called me up super pissed because my sister had stolen some earrings and a shirt from his then girlfriend (now wife). Hmmmm, maybe that's because you've spent her entire life reinforcing that that's perfectly okay.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, Dad gave me cash after dinner. Step-sibling like everyone else guessed. Stepmom had grown up having everything paid for and done for her so to her $40 wasn't that much. I want to say I averaged around 25 hours a week back then, and took home maybe $100 cash each week? So to me 40 bucks was half a weeks pay.
It really makes me mad when people defend their kids when they're doing wrong. If I, god forbid, was in such a situation, I'd be all over my kid for stealing. It doesn't matter if it's a only a dime. It's stealing. She wasn't doing her kid a favor by letting them get away with it. She sounds like a piece of work.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of how they were justifying stepmom’s shitty attitude toward the matter. She was being awful, and it sounds like dad stepped in to keep the peace and nothing was done to the thief.
There isn't one. Dad and wife #2 ended up divorcing a few years after this.
I never got along with my stepsibling at the time. Not that we fought or argued but our paths never really crossed and there was never an opportunity for them to. I liked things they didn't. Everything I liked they didn't care about.
The relationship with my stepmom at the time had it's ups and downs. I was about to graduate high school and I think she struggled with trying to be a motherly figure but I didn't need that. My real Mom lived like 10 minutes away and I visited often. I worked at the Kroger 5 minutes from her house because I lived with her when I started working there.
The only reason I moved to my Dads was because I was living with my Mom and sister and I felt happier when I visited my Dad. I was able "to be a guy" and we did "guy things." Living with two females when your 13-14 can be tiresome if you don't have that outlet.
I felt happier when I visited my Dad. I was able "to be a guy" and we did "guy things." Living with two females when your 13-14 can be tiresome if you don't have that outlet.
Dude, I moved in with my dad when I was 18 and I still agree. It's not limited to 13-14 years old.
Yea it's partly the reason I started just living at my dad's instead of at both parent's houses. It makes it much easier since I don't have to keep switching houses, plus, if I'm being honest, living with 2 girls's is a pretty awful experience. I love them both very much, but the bickering and yelling between them is wayy too much to handle, plus it gets really messy. Things are just much easier living with my dad and then I can still visit a couple times a week to see them :D
Haha, I love that episode. “Get the fuck back in your fuckin hole!! NOW!”
Classic.
Edit: whoops I thought you were talking about the truck OP got with his dad’s help. There’s an episode where Tony does that with a guy that owes him money.
Sarsmi · 15 points · Posted at 17:42:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She sounds like a bad parent. Why teach your kids to respect other people's things or have integrity? Ugh.
You went to school, had extra curriculars, worked 25 hours, and had a jerkoff step family to deal with? Man, I really hope life has given you what you've earned.
They can be as cheap as $120 and I currently have one of these which I'm getting sick of (slow processing, frequent freezes etc). I'm currently saving up for an iPhone 6S which costs around $550 new.
He earlier said $5.15/hr. So after taxes and deductions roughly $4/hr take home isn't crazy. He would make so little he would get all his taxes paid back at the end of the year I would imagine
Never actually got the cash back but I had been wanting a "new car" so my Dad filed for me and I upgraded from an 82 S10 to a 93 F150. I was fucking stoked lol
When I was married to my second husband he had custody of his kids. The youngest one when I married his dad was eight years old. I swear that kid pissed me off so much and was just a pain in the ass. He lied about everything even really small things which was totally unnecessary and he was a thief. Before I moved in with them their dad let them have full access to the entire house; nothing was off limits. When I moved in and brought all of my things I noticed my stuff had been rummaged through. It really pissed me off and I told the kids that my things were not for them and to please not touch them.
Fast forward to us moving to another state. My ex step kids were very irresponsible, lazy as fuck, hardly ever took showers, never brushed their teeth, nothing. I gave up on trying to help them because they resented me. My son who was an older teenager at the time moved in with us and shared a room with the oldest step son who was a young teen. My son always travels light but he did have his personal stuff. One day my son asks me if I had seen a mirror he used when he cut his own hair and I said no but if I see it I'll give it to him. Other things began to come up missing.
One day I'm putting clean laundry in everyone's room and I fucking dreaded going into the youngest kid's room. It was a landfill. Under his bed was stuffed with clean clothes from the week before, all sorts of shit everywhere. I pulled out all of the clothes and put them on his bed. I then started finding missing items including my son's mirror. It was broken. I gave the mirror to my son and told him where I found it and he was really angry. He later on had a 'talk' with the kid. It didn't matter though. Nothing anyone said made any difference at all. The kid was just a brat and he and his brother behaved as if they had been raised by baboons. Useless.
This is a really hard situation, I have had experience on giving up on step kids who just didn't want any life advice. Honestly though, I was kind the same at the same teenaged years to my real parents. My issues were always with school, and the biggest problem is that their mom didn't really feel like grounding for bad grades was a justified punishment. Eventually I started cutting off the Wi-Fi for the kids when they gotbbad grades, it didn't really work and only caused some arguments, in the end both kids graduated high school. One of them only got into college after an appeal, the other did better but almost didn't graduate and made it out based on a few points on a final exam.
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For me there was a happy ending, the oldest chose to move out when we cut his internet access to World of Warcraft and told him if he wanted to live with us he had to give us his bank card. He was supposed to be saving up for a car and was living rent free as a boost to his savings (after he flunked out of college because of WoW). After he started paying his own bills he realized that us parents had his best interests and has become a much easier person to talk with.
Yes it is a hard situation and thankfully I didn't put up with it long. Me and my ex parted ways after four years and we had separated several times in those four years because of his kids and because he chose to defend his kids no matter what.
The older step son was very good in school and even took advanced classes. He liked going to school and was in the band. The younger one was just a twit. I don't know if had a learning disability or not or was just lazy as hell. Every day when he came home from school I asked him if had homework and he lied and told me no. Every.fucking.day. I knew he was lying but I felt that he was only hurting himself and not me so whatever. When his dad came home from work he asked his son the same thing and stupidly believed him. He believed him until the day I got a phone call from his teacher. She told me that the kid hadn't turned in any homework for months and asked me if there was a problem at home. I explained that I was the step mother and any time I tried to step in to be the other adult in the household I was screamed at by my husband. I gave the teacher my husband's work phone number and told her to call him. She did and the shit hit the fan. Instead of my husband having a father to son talk, he screamed at his son calling him names then decided to tell both of his kids what a whore their mother was. I was speechless. I didn't say a word but I knew I had to get out of that dysfunctional household and I did.
The older son joined the Navy when he was old enough and apparently did very well and he might still be in the Navy. He got married and has a bunch of kids-all boys. The younger problem child also joined the Navy which completely amazed me. I didn't think he could even spell his own name correctly much less serve in the military. He got out and became a paramedic. He and his ex gf have a child and from what I read on Facebook, he ended up with custody. I then read later on that my ex and his third wife are raising that child. I'm so glad it isn't me doing it.
Sounds like you made a good call, it sucks to be in that situation but if parents can't get on the same page when disciplining the kids there is always gonna be a problem. He'll, my parents have been together for 40 years and the biggest fights were caused by disciplining me or my sister.
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Both of us have of course apologized, and happily my oldest son has done the same. The next oldest and I have a better relationship and the older brother can give advice that I never could just cause I am the dad.
that’s how i stopped keeping a lot of cash on hand - i had $80 hidden in my room and one night my jobless roommate came home with fast food for all of his friends (including me - thanks!) and a couple new packs of cigarettes. i bolted to my room and ALL my cash was gone.
yeah, i asked him where he got the money for the food & cigs and he said his mom gave him money. his mom paid his rent and bills but usually wouldn’t give him spending money. i told him it was interesting that i was suddenly missing $80 and he made a big show of telling all his friends they’d better not fuck with his roomie, lol. he was a compulsive liar and jobless most of the time i lived with him, so i got out as soon as i could.
Its crazy I was making 5.15 an hour at Kroger in 2005. I was doing the exact same job. I also had a stash of money in my weight bench. No-one would look there!
I worked at Kroger from like 2001-2002 while I was in high school and made $5.15 when I first started. After I graduated I got a job at a local veterinarian's office as a kennel tech and he paid $7.50 an hour - I thought I had hit the jackpot when I got that job!
You just gave me flashbacks. My mom did similar things, both with small amounts but later with a huge amount (my dad had 'secretly' opened a bank account for me.. Which she emptied). I'm still mad about that to this day, and it's like 10 years later.
this makes me so angry dude. reminds me of the time my grandparents gave me 50 bucks as a combined bday/xmas present, and as a fourth grader with no wallet, I asked my dad to keep it in his until I could use it. A month later I ask my dad for my money so I can buy something. He tells me I already spent it. We go back and forth for a while but he's adamant I already spent all 50$ (literally on what, I'm a child). I tell my grandparents and they shrug.
At this time dad had a good enough job he could've easily just given me another 50$ anyway. Ugh. He's such a greedy person. And I never got justice either :(
Huttj · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone who used to proudly not carry cash, I recommend just keeping a couple of 20s in your wallet as an emergency backup in case, as a "totally random" example, you're trying to leave a parking garage and your card doesn't work.
Mutter mutter bank doing me a favor by cancelling the card while they sent the new one due to Visa saying there was a fraud risk, but hoo boy their timing sucked.
You are so awful at telling stories. What the fuck is “dad took it seriously”???? What happened to the family member. Why wasn’t all of this in the first post? Christ
You know that thing people do where they skip to the last line on the page when reading a book? Well I did that while reading your story and accidentally read "Best macaroni and cheese I ever ate" and went back to reading from the middle and just thought "I need to know how THIS gets to THAT!"
Similar thing happened with my ex and her brother. My ex got paid in cash for her job and kept it in a piggy bank in her bedroom, one day her brother came home claiming he'd found $20 on the floor and bought himself a toy, the next week he found $40, this is where I got suspicious because who finds two notes on the ground at the same time? I counted all the money in the piggy bank and suddenly the next week he found another $50, I recounted the money and $50 was missing. I told her dad he'd been stealing money and he was really angry at me for accusing him of that until he asked my exes brother if he had been stealing the money and he confessed to it.
I feel you. My dad is kind of a pos that has been in and out of jail for drugs. he stopped by my house a few years back just to say “hi.” i turned my back once to take a piss, but didn’t think anything of it. in my bedroom i had a cash/coin jar where i kept my tips from my second job. later that day i looked and found only $40 in it. there was about $400 in there the day before. complete bullshit, and he never admitted it. pretty sure i’m not mistaken that a bunch of twenty’s and a few hundred dollar bills can’t be mistaken for some fives and singles. even had my grandma call and try to say he didn’t take it...like a 10 year old.
I did something similar with my sister, but on a much smaller scale, and with no climactic scene. I used to keep change in a little can that was hidden in my room. I started noticing it kept coming up missing. I had a few moments there where I couldn't help but think maybe I forgot I spent it, but ultimately I suspected my sister was stealing from me after school while I was at football practice... So I tried two things. I was maybe 12, which would have made her around 8. I wanted to see how dumb she would be so I put a little note in the can that said, "(her name), are you taking my money?" And I had the little yes and no check boxes at the bottom. Obviously, if she was dumb enough to respond at all, I had her. I'm proud(?) to say she didn't fall for it. So, one day football practice was cancelled and she didn't know. I got home minutes before her and hid under my bed. Sure enough she comes home, goes in my room, takes the can into her room, empties it, then comes back in and puts it back. I'm not so proud to say this is the first example of how much a passive idiot I can be because I don't think I ever even confronted her about it... I just learned to be even more safe with my money. That's my shitty same but not really story. Thank you for your time. Have a wonderful day.
About two days after my graduation I had probably $300-$400 (it was a long time ago I don't really remember) in an envelope in my desk. I was going to the beach for a week with a friend and it was supposed to be spending money. I went to get some of it to give to my stepdad (certainly not for alcohol) and I came back crying. He asked what was wrong and I just said it was gone. The envelope was still there but ALL of the cash was gone. My bum of an uncle was staying with us and both of us knew that he had taken it. He even came back the next day with a trunk load of junk food and all kinds of stuff. When we confronted my mom she just brushed it off saying I loose stuff all the time. Like??? I don't just drop $300 out of an envelope and then put the envelope BACK in my desk. Still pisses me off just typing it
This type of behavior angers me to my core. I started a joint bank account when I was in high school (my mom and I’s names were both on the account). I started working summers to save money for college. My mother at the time did not have a job and loved to spend hours shopping. She stole $400 to feed her habitat. Needless to say, she was taken off my account and I moved out.
Similar to a story from when I was a kid; I had some money that I had saved up and kept in my room, and it suddenly disappeared. I instantly accused one of my brothers who was known to be a troublemaker. My parents did not believe me and lectured me that it isn’t good to reinforce that side of my brother. To be fair to them, I’d probably act the same way if my child had impulsively blamed a sibling. We searched our property for a while and found half of the money lying around in the front yard, so we knew a family member was probably behind the deed. With this evidence, I was able to convince my parents to check my brother’s room. Little shit had the rest of the money in his closet.
Not at first; he was upset his master plan had failed lol. But yes he did soon enough and now it’s just something we joke about. He got in trouble but perhaps not as much as he deserved because we were all so used to him doing things like this.
Oh, misread. Yes they did, though like I said it was tricky dealing with my brother (they were times where we blamed him for things that turned out not to be his fault) so I didn’t hold too much of a grudge against them. I was just sharing a funny example of where I instinctually knew it was him and it turned out to be true.
When I lived at home I kept a box on my dresser that I always put my change in. And because I'm in Canada, this included one and two dollar coins. There was probably around $100 in change in there most of the time. I started noticing that the amount of change was decreasing even though I hadn't used any in a while. Sure enough, a day or two later, I catch my father coming in my room while he thought I was asleep and taking a bunch of change. When I confronted him, he just laughed and said I should consider it rent payment.
Drarok · 4 points · Posted at 20:37:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the time an ex cheated on me. Back in the day in the UK there were free online SMS services for texting. She’d been using one to text people that she cheated with (yes, people).
I confronted her by asking about the rumours I’d heard, she denied everything. I said “oh, ok… but what about these?” and served her a printout of the messages.
She slapped me. ☹️
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:46:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing happens to my friend. He works landscaping with his father during the summer and weekends, and he’d save his money in a hole he found in his closet behind the trim. Eventually his dad finds it and instead of taking some of it he takes all of it. His stepmother hates him so he couldn’t really tell anyone except his friends. Other messed up shit happens too.
Back in middle school I was quite introverted, I still am a bit but back then it was overkill. I would literally go out once a month.
All money I managed to "make" be that from chores in the house/neighbourhood, gifts from relatives or rarely helping at my dad's shop was stashed. I was saving for a new pc.
Random amounts would always go missing and whenever I brought it up mom was like "Oh you probably spent it when you went out".
Because obviously a shy and socially awkward 14 year old can spend 40€ in fast food and bus fare. That can totally happen.
I did catch her twice stealing from me. Or borrowing as she said, though she never returned it.
Countless times. She denied all accusations. She stopped doing it some time ago: when I got over my really introverted phase, started going out more and thus kept better track of my money.
I did get back at her. Whenever I needed money I want to her and intentionally annoyed her into giving me some. Scumbag move? Yes. Did I earn back what I lost? Probably not all but I got satisfaction out of it too so it was a win.
By the way I graduated high school half a month ago. So this whole ordeal was quite a while back. I got other, more important reasons to be mad at her for me to keep scratching old wounds.
I actually had no idea it was possible to set the cam to do that. You mustve had a lot of space to be able to do that and still have memory. That or u couldve just deleted it after checking lol
I set it up on a timelapse, one picture every 10 seconds, whenever I left the house.
So if I left the house to go get Wendy's or McDonald's and they were at the house, camera was on. The longest it would've been on back then would be when I left for school around 7am and then got home from work (I went to work straight from school) around 9:15.
Does not compute. No one, that makes $5 an hour and is $20 away from the xbox that they having been saving up for, will go out and waste money on that shit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's really not too much space if you just delete them after a week or so
UABTEU · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My BF’s mom stole all his savings from where he kept it once too. He had to tell his dad before stuff happened. I believe his dad paid him back eventually or she did years later - can’t remember exactly. But it was a lot of money like $300.
there’s an Edmonton radio statio called 102.3 Now Radio and they just read your post word for word saying someone just sent it in lol I only listened for about 15 minutes but they read at least two more from this thread. I don’t have twitter but if I did, I would have put them on blast!
An employee in my restaurant clocked out 2,5 hours later than expected one night.
When I asked him via messenger if there was a good reason this has happened, he replied " hey man , it was very busy last night , I believe I made 80% of the day's turnover" ( 6 hours shift ) that would be about 850$.
I immediately look up on my computer to verify if that's true and I find out that he has come a bit late at work and actually made only 200$ . THEN the guy who works at the 7eleven next door told me that my guy was there having coffee for like 2 hours last night .
I had to send him a long message , with many screenshots about that.
A girl led me on only to tell me she couldn't date me because of my race. Well, she tried to lead me on again. But I made it a point to show as little interest as possible. Shit like walking past her without acknowledging I'd seen her and stonewalling ANY flirting attempts.
She then gets the idea to make a friend of mine like her to make me jealous. But she picked one of my absolute best friends. So IMMEDIATELY, he told me what was happening. She was always sending him and I the same snaps and nudes and saying she missed us and shit like that. I think she assumed that we wouldn't talk to each other about this?
Well one night he and I were hanging out playing Halo, and we get a snap from her. It's her in the shower with a lot of steam. So I send her a picture of him looking disappointed, and he sent her a picture of me looking disappointed. She didn't talk to us for a few months after that 😂
In high school, had one guy briefly interested in me, then my sister. He asked me out and I turned him down (though I'd never had a boy interested in me before, so we were flirty for a time after) then maybe a year or two later he "dated" my sister for a VERY short time (and by dated I mean awkward high schooler dating wherein they went on one or two dates and then she avoided him for two months while he held that they had not officially broken up, therefore they were still dating). There was no hard feelings between any of us, we were all pretty open about it. But it was also such an awkward time, just bleh, high school, why were we so socially incapable???
Anyways, a while later, like after we'd graduated, he sends me a few messages on Facebook to the tune of, oh I miss you, you ruined other girls for me, blah blah. Laughed, went to tell my sister, and find out, he sent it to both of us. And the messages were incredibly similar if not identical. Did he not think that we would talk to one another? Like not only were we friends but sisters! It was such a weird play. I later found out he'd messaged other girls from our friend group too who he'd had similar awkward short flings with, saying the same stuff. I briefly considered creating a Facebook group called "I Ruined Other Women for Guy's Name" but I didn't want to torment the guy, funny as his decision making was. In the end, he moved across the country and we all just laughed and have a fun story for relevant reddit threads.
only to tell me she couldn't date me because of my race
I am boggled that 1) people think it's OK for this to come out of their mouths in the year 2018 and 2) that she would ever think she could have a shot with you again after saying some fuckery like this. Just wat.
Edit: Lol, whoever downvoted me for saying this is gross... is also gross.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 20:16:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meh, sure, it's fine to turn someone down based off of looks, but leading them on despite that is fucking stupid.
What I said elsewhere: if you aren't attracted to people because of their race(s), bare minimum decency requires you keep that information to yourself. And obviously, like you said, not lead them on after you decide that's a thing.
eh, you dont know their situation. I've been told by my parents that I can date and marry anyone I want. But just to be aware that we come from a country that it's ideals haven't caught up, and if I chose certain people not only I would but also they would have to deal with the torment of family and friends. Now, they've said they're totally okay and willing taking that torment, but it's just something to keep in mind.
I'm going to take a wild guess that judging by her subsequent actions this person wasn't in that situation, so I feel pretty secure in assessing her as a gutterscrape who should have kept her mouth shut if that was something she was factoring into her calculations.
You on the other hand seem like someone who would handle the situation with the understanding that racism is hurtful to the people targeted by it. I don't think someone with that awareness would drop a "sorry but you're black" and then return a bit later trying to play games.
(This isn't meant to sound harsh to you. I just really fucking hate racists.)
Does sexual preference imply racism necessarily? I'm not generally attracted to most black woman (although I admit a few are pretty hot and I might consider dating but we probably don't share the same interests). Maybe her wording does imply it though. My point is, is that people's attractions can be a fickle thing and you may just not be sexually attracted to certain characteristics but I don't think that qualifies as racist. What do you think?
The problem is that it may not be consciously racist, but that society promotes an ideal of female beauty that is... honestly, very white. So it’s a bit ehhh to say that you don’t find black women in general attractive. Obviously, they don’t all look the same, but when you phrase it like that...
Though, it’s a bit racist to assume that because a woman is black, she won’t have any shared interests with you.
Note: I’m not saying you’re a terrible person. I’m just pointing out that you’re probably more influenced by societal racism than you think.
Maybe you are right to an extent. I wasn't knocking black women in particular though, I just haven't seen many women that love spreadsheets, databases and finances (probably exist I just haven't encountered any). So it's more of a sexist statement really haha. For me, I'm happily married at the moment so this whole topic hopefully no longer impacts me. I just wanted to know what people think.
I would encourage anyone who isn't attracted to a certain group of people (especially race) to do some reflection about why, cos there are a lot of messages that get encoded into everyday life which affect your perspective in surprising ways, once you look for them. (I did grad work in language studies.) I don't think a lack of attraction makes a person actively racist, although it's my opinion that they might have digested some things they are unaware of.
But I'm not saying people should force feeling an attraction; only do not tell someone they aren't attracted to them because of their race. Nobody needs to hear that. It was the fact that she did that, then came back later and tried to play games with him that set off my radar.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 21:35:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh definitely, sometimes spending time with people of shared interests leads to physical attraction where none previously existed. Love is an interesting thing sometimes, haha.
I don't think its racist, but since that is the case it would likely be best for you to not lead black women on that are interested, or to imply interest on your part where there is none. Likewise, you should avoid dating one and feeling like you are doing them a favor (this is more common than it should be), as it would be wasting their time.
It depends on a lot of things. Most notably, how you treat it.
The way you're writing, you're doing it right: you may be unconsciously racist, but in a "I'm sorry, I didn't realize 'gyped' refers to gypsies" kind of way. It's the result of cultural forces that you aren't necessarily aware of, and you're open to being wrong about, but it's still there. If you get into heaven based only on racism, you might be spending time in purgatory, but you're probably safe from Hell.
On the other hand, the way BlackShyGuy68 described the girl he was dealing with: that's not excusable racism. It's not KKK or Nazi level racism necessarily (without more information: it might be symptomatic of it), but it's definitely at the point where it's conscious.
The US Government still makes laws based on race, so some people really have no choice. If you live on a Reservation your kids will have no rights to their parents land if they are below X% native blood. I think it's 1/8th, or 12.5%, but haven't kept up with it.
There are a number of things wrong with your statement here.
If it's tribally-owned land, it is not your parent's land. It may be their residence, but they do not own it. It would be entirely up to the tribe who it was left to, although in most cases tribally-owned land has to be used by someone who is a member of the tribe.
It is up to the tribe (in most cases today) to determine who is and is not a member. The U.S. government does not actually get a say in this matter.
Each tribe that practices "quantum of blood" (i.e., "you must be X% of our tribe to be a member") sets their own quantum. For some it may be 1/8. For some it may be 1/128.
Many tribes do not practice quantum of blood. It was, after all, a white man's idea deliberately designed to reduce the number of people considered Indians, dating back to when tribes did not have sovereignty to decide their own membership. Many tribes today reject it and practice different means of determining membership. Lineal descent is quite common; if someone is a documented descendant of a tribal member, they are a tribal member, regardless of any other ancestry. I've even heard of one tribe that bases it on location of birth (though I think this is the nuttiest approach, personally).
If it truly is your parent's land, not tribally-owned, it isn't up to the tribe to decide who can and cannot inherit.
To clarify on the above point, "living on a reservation" does not actually guarantee that one is living on tribally-owned land. Many reservations today are essentially designations for a community, not a designation of land ownership. This is particularly true in Oklahoma, a state with one of the highest Native populations, as all reservations were converted to counties when settlers were allowed in. This results in situations where the reservation and the county are coextensive -- legally distinct entities existing in the same place. There are fully-white people living and owning land in Osage County, which has the exact same geographic boundaries as the Osage Nation Reservation. Which is to say, you don't have to be Osage to live "on the Osage Reservation".
Even with all of that, yes, there are definitely considerations for a Native American dating, marrying, or having kids with a non-Native. But they are all still matters of choice.
I kind of covered that in my response to someone else who brought up a similar example. Basically, someone who goes "nah, you're ____" and then screws around with your feelings later likely does not fall into that category.
HA! About 25 years ago, I was being led on by a girl, we made out once but she didn't return calls, things like that. One night I'm hanging out with some friends and she just shows up at my best friends house looking for me. He says "he's probably hanging out at <bar>, I was about to go out there, do you want to tag along? And she agrees.
They don't find me, and after checking a couple other places, he decides to take her home. She blew him on the way home! He of course called me at home and told me the whole story. She called me the next day and tried to act like nothing happened. After I confronted her, she said "I didn't think he would tell you..."
I worked with a guy who was extremely lazy. Every day in one 8-hour shift there were at least two hour long smoke breaks and a combined hour of being on the shitter. Additionally, he was constantly on his phone when he was at work.
So one day we were both sanding a long steel rail. Him on one side and I on the other side. While he was in the bathroom I made a small mark above his portion of the rail to be able to tell where he started. At lunchtime (roughly 4 hours later) I had done about 20-30 ft. of rail. He done done about 5. I questioned him about it to which his reply was “nuh uh bro...I’ve done at least 20 ft.”
He was fired a short time later for being unproductive. It was bittersweet. He was a decent guy. Just sucked at our job.
Yeah sometimes I feel bad if halfway decent people get fired but at the same time, it's their own fault for always calling in, or being lazy. I think I do close to the same job you do but maybe not long steel rails. I work with large metal plates and deburr the edges/countersink/tap the holes if they need to be tapped.
A masochist is “someone who derived sexual gratification from their own pain or humiliation.”
A machinist is pretty similar. Except they also work metal into usable pieces of structure or work foundations in order to install machinery on them. Haha.
Bruh I work in food in bev and this is literally every employee I know.
fez1o1 · 6 points · Posted at 23:20:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have any advice for getting into this field work, and or are y’all hiring? In a short 2 years I will be graduating with a bachelors in Mec Eng. I’ll have some building experience and machining experience lol.
I don’t know where you live but my suggestion would be to go research some nearby naval shipyards. Or private shipyards. Whichever piques your interest. Private yards are going to do more commercial vessels unless they have navy contracts. Navy yards are typically owned by the government and are subject to things like federal defense cutbacks and all that.
The degree should definitely help. As long as you can pass a drug test you should be a shoe-in.
fez1o1 · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
New york area, and that is something that interests me. Dumb question, if I go to grad school with an interest in materials science, will that be valued in this field?
And actually I know of a nuclear power plant up there that is hiring from what we hear. I know they keep asking for teams of our employees here and there. It’s called Kesselring. I think.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:22:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I struggle a lot with lack of motivation at work, and home, and everywhere. I have ADHD but was diagnosed as an adult. It's hard to tell if it's caused by that, or if I'm depressed (which I think I might be sometimes) or if I'm just a hopeless lazy fuck who's just making excuses.
Unfortunately I think you’re right. I wish that guy all the best. But as I work in a pretty dangerous place, I think he could have really got someone hurt if he still worked there.
ah very cool that field always really interested me and I have a bit of experience on a mill and a lathe. Do you like the work? and does it pay ok? I'm in the market for a career change lol
Yeah. It pays pretty good and I love the work. Sounds like you would be what my yard calls an “inside machinist.” Meaning you work lathes and mills and CNCs, etc. in a machine shop.
I’m what they call an “outside machinist.” Which is more on-site machining. Drilling tapping countersinking holes in foundations to install equipment and such.
cool thanks for the I go and honestly the outside machinist sounds more interesting. I like to move around not be stuck in one place all day. That's part of what makes me nuts about my current job lol
Genuine question; what makes your mind immediately go to depression? He just mentioned the dude takes long smoke breaks/bathroom breaks. Goes on his phone. Not much else about him, really.
I see your point. But having known the guy for the few short months he worked with us, just his demeanor, attitude, and especially his mood swings are signifiers I’ve seen before from my own experiences with people. But I can understand that being on his phone too much and taking long shits doesn’t necessarily qualify as “depression.” More than anything, I think that guy felt out of place.
Or ADHD. Or BOTH. Or he could be totally normal, we don't know.
I can only speak for myself, but I have a similar pattern of behavior where I go HAM for an hour, space off for 15 mins or so, then repeat. I just can't GO 8-10 hours straight.
I still get a ton done. I go really fast when I get going. It's just I feel very guilty for having to take mental breaks, and worse for having to take meds while at work. I'm trying, dammit :(
I would say that I have days like that. But my slower periods are longer. But 9 days out of 10 I’m able to go pretty strong for all 8 hours. But that comes with experience too. Once you get familiar with something you’re doing (at least for me) I can just Zone in on it and haul ass. I’ve even damn near missed a lunch break or two from having tunnel vision too bad.
I've been dealing with a guy like this for a couple of months. (about when he started) I've been soley responsible for picking up ALL his slack. Needless to say really, but it's been extremely exhausting.
Today, I finally broke and told my lead that something has to be done.
Oddly, I feel guilty for snitching, even though it's hurting my productivity (and morale) I really cannot understand having such a poor work ethic. Hopefully something changes very soon.
Yeah. I know how bad that sucks man. I don’t think you should feel guilty. Actually, after having come through that situation, I feel guilty for not speaking up more sooner.
But really I think it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kinda thing.
TLDR: Made aggressive beggar board a train through the fear of social awkwardness of her lies been exposed.
This happened in 2006 during my time at Lincoln university (UK) and I know will garner a few mixed reactions at its posting.
Lincoln city centre had at the time (and still has) problems aggressive beggars and shoplifters.
From what I've observed during my employment and overheard from local police and security it stems from the fact that many recovering drug users collect their methadone prescriptions from the city centre and whilst the majority are trying to break the habit there are a considerable amount of known troublemakers who commit crimes to get their next proper fix or to fuel other issues such as alcoholism.
One such beggar was a well dressed young woman in her mid 20's who most weekends would hang around the entrance of the train station begging for money so she could buy a ticket to Nottingham or Sheffield claiming she needed to attend a family emergency.
She'd often target the elderly and of course there was no family emergency unless that emergency somehow involved a packet of cigarettes and getting wasted with a bottle of White Lightning with her friends behind the local Boots.
This particular Sunday I had been visiting family in Sheffield and just returned on one of the last trains for Lincoln that day, for once the train trip had been pleasant though strangely absent of any ticket inspectors on my initial journey. Stepping out of the train station I almost bump straight into a elderly couple been harrassed by our local beggar who has gotten onto her "I only need five pounds now to get to Sheffield.." part of her spiel.
My tickets still in hand I'm not sure what possessed me to actually do it but what this is what followed as I stepped in.
With a look and tone of utmost concern I lightly tapped the lady on the shoulder stating "I've overheard your problem so I got you ticket direct to Sheffield, The trains just come in so you'll need to hurry."
Initially somewhat stunned and confused as in placed my unmarked outward bound ticket to Sheffield in her palm it took a moment for any reply to come from her, her gaze switching between me, the ticket and the elderly couple.
Finally she began a reply already trying to back pedal without revealing she was lying, thanking me for the ticket but it was too much etc etc.
Waving her concern aside I replied it was no problem at all and that I was happy to help as I started motioning her to move inside the train station which she did following as I led her back to the platform. Getting increasing flustered trying to back pedal to the lobby she started saying she didn't know which platform the train was on but been the helpful concerned citizen I already knew "Its A5, that train over there the 8.17pm."
Unable to follow through the barriers I wished her the best and that I hope the family emergency wasn't too serious and then proceeded to wait in the barrier area chatting with the ticket inspector as she reluctantly wandered over the footbridge to the platform, occasionally looking back checking if I was still there.
Finally reaching the train she seemed a bit more lively I'm sure at this point she was thinking that she would enter the end carriage then duck along to the next before getting off out of sight then try and return the ticket for some cash.
Not a bad plan if not for one detail.
She had taken so long dawdling to the train itself that the door shut moments after she stepped on leaving her looking rather panicked as the train left the platform.
And that is how I made aggressive beggar board a train through the fear of social awkwardness of her lies been exposed.
Just to clarify again I used no force and didn't touch her other the initial tap for attention, I acted perfectly politely with no aggression or intimidation physical or verbal.
Seriously she could of just admitted she was lying or even just walked away at anytime.
Thanks, to be honest I'm still amazed that it all fell into place the way it did, especially considering how often she changed the location of where she needed to be (Though it was usually Sheffield, Nottingham or Newark).
The real twist of the knife is that at the time it was extremely hard to get a train back to Lincoln after 8pm on a Sunday so she most likely had to spend the night at one of the stops on route unless someone came to pick her up or she got a taxi.
Being from the San Francisco, there are a fair amount of aggressive pan handlers. Many times I've had them reject food from me after giving the spiel about being hungry and not being able to afford their meal. I've learned to never give cash because I don't want to fund a bad habit. I'll buy someone lunch if they asked nicely though.
I recently went no contact with my mom. She is mentally I'll and has been very abusive. She claims she went to a psychiatrist who administered a lie detector test to prove she isn't lying about faking an FBI investigation (long story, but she is lying), that she is too loving and giving, that my generation doesn't care about their parents, and that I have issues. But, she may not go back because she really doesn't need therapy. I laughed really hard at that. It was proof I made the right call. Now, she is threatening to call CPS and claim I am having a mental breakdown so they will give the kids to her. She doesn't know that her state is a one party consent state and my sister has been recording her saying all this. I am in the process of documenting it all just in case she tries anything.
Yes. That is true. I have no idea what she is doing. And frankly, I can't be involved in her drama anymore. She tried contacting my husband claiming she is worried about my mental health. Nope, we are great. Better without her!
My dad wasn't I'll or abusive, but very manipulative. Around 3 or 4 years (I was 14 and my brother would have been 9 or 10) we visited him for 6 weeks. We'd never stayed that long, and he lives around 500 miles south of home, so it was really just us and him. He managed to convince us that our mom was abusing us. he got lawyers and everything and told us he was going to get custody. He said all these awful things about her, even lied about the things that happened leading up to their divorce. When we went back we couldn't even speak to her after all we'd been told and just broke down crying. After a long court battle with a DCF investigation and long chats with a guardian atelitem (I have no idea how to spell that still) it was decided he would get to retain visitation rights and our mom would keep custody. He never spoke.to us again and never asked for any more visitations. It took a long time for my brother to get over the hatred he'd developed for her..
I dated a girl that did shit like this. She would text me that she was on other dates to try and make me jealous when it would turn out she was just at home. One time she's like "help this creepy guy picked me up and now is driving in circles and not letting me out". So many holes in the story, i just ignored her. Pretty much just ignored her until I dumped her. We all get tempted but never stick your dick in crazy
Fun fact, you can fake a lie detector test and it is dismissable evidence in most courts.
They measure blood pressure, pulse, respiration and skin conductivity while they perform the test.
Someone who truly believes the lie or who lies frequently most likely won't have a change in things like pulse and respiration, so it's fairly easy to cheat the test.
Yes. I told my sister that, too. Penn and Teller did a great episode of Bullshit about it. This isn't even the craziest thing she has done. My oldest daughter died six days after birth from trisomy 18. We had the funeral by my house. My mom threw a surprise second funeral by her house and invited all my family. Thank God my husband and I were already in therapy (we went a few weeks after she died because we knew we would need help processing it). Sadly, she is just toxic.
Yes. Some people went to both. They all knew and my mother and grandma must have convinced them it was for my husband and I (as people did care and wanted to support us). We live two hours away. It was crazy. I learned to say no to her after that. I set good boundaries. She didn't like these boundaries, but I stayed firm. She just finally went off the deep end completely.
I can relate. My final straw was when she tried to ask me to testify on her behalf so she could get custody of my little brothers again ( I was 19 at the time and ready moved out they are 11 and 13 years younger than me. )
I flipped the fuck out told her off and hung up. I am 34 now and only speak in mild pleasantries. The only reason I do that is for my grandparent
Thanks. As mad as I feel, not talking to her has been a relief. I realize how much of an emotional vampire she really is. I got to have a great meal with my husband. His boss paid for it as an apology for asking him to work on his day off (which was my birthday). My mother in law is babysitting the kids overnight. And we are about to have a movie marathon. So, I can't complain :)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:26:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's uncanny how similar my mother is to yours—lying to and about therapists, deciding that anybody who calls out her bullshit has "issues," saying how incredibly loving and generous she is, and if you piss her off (which is easy to do) you'll find her trying to retaliate by either seeding misinformation to the rest of the family or destroying your possessions.
Congratulations getting away from yours, I'm still trying to get away from mine.
You can do it! I know how hard it is. I know the guilt. It has only been a short time, but I feel happier and less stressed. You never realize how much it weighs you down until you are away from it. If you ever want to talk to someone who has been there, message me any time.
Late teens one of the girls in our friend group was always lying about how wasted she got, sex in bathroom stalls shocking stuff to get attention.
One day a few of us were out without her, I get a call from her saying how she's completely wasted, some guy dragged her on a bus and she doesn't know where she's going can't recognise anywhere and he's creeping all over her. I was slightly worried as this seemed legit.
Friend comes in and I'm about to tell him maybe we should do something when he says
"oh just saw ***** getting on a bus back into town"
He said she looked completely sober, the only other person was some old granny etc.
Pissed me off enough she eventually got cut out of the friend group
She went through a lot of boyfriends and the first line introducing me was you better like kruppe he's my bodyguard, normally got a whole bunch of drinks bought for me for this
She made friends with many slutty girls I could date at my leisure
There was a girl in highschool that was like that. One day in class she started hysterically crying because someone had a balloon in the classroom, and said that she had a fear of latex because she was raped. Everyone was really concerned for her. Then later she was apparently allergic to latex. Then she said her father abused her, and everyone felt really bad for her, but she would describe the weirdest abuses. The weirdest I can remember is she said her dad kneed her in the back because she had a pretty small bruise in between her shoulder blades, and people sort of got to asking her to describe how it happened and she basically just said she walked into her room one night, and he just did a flying knee into her back. No conversation before or after, didn't touch her any more, just jumped up, kneed her in the back, and walked away. There were so many things like that and we all eventually found out that she was full of shit, but she made her dad sound like the weirdest fucking guy I'd ever heard of in my life.
I worked at a gas station. I was really strict about IDing for alcohol and tobacco.
A girl was adamant that I had IDed her the other day.
“I have never seen you or your ID before.”
“I was in here yesterday!”
“Yesterday meaning Monday?”
“Yes!”
“Around this time?”
“Yes!” Now she starts getting excited because it seems like I believe her.
“Nice try. I don’t work Mondays. Get out.”
The people waiting in line told me that was the funniest thing they’d seen in a while.
Edit: autocorrect
[deleted] · 117 points · Posted at 18:54:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catching fake IDs was my favorite part of my job when I worked at a liquor store for a year and a half during school. Easiest way to check is to try to peel off the film on the card. If it comes off, it’s fake. Real ones don’t peel — I tried really hard to peel the film off my driver’s license to test it. Broke a nail, but the film stayed intact. Many times would I stare dead into an underage kid’s eyes while I peel the film off right in front of them. The faces they make are hilarious. One girl threatened to call the cops on us for taking her ID, so I handed her a phone and said go ahead, please call, so when they come they can take both you and your shitty fake ID! Never saw her again after that lol. Another girl was totally flabbergasted that I caught her and just stood at the counter staring at me, red-faced. I said why are you still here? There’s the door. Get the fuck out!
One time a kid accidentally handed me his real ID instead of the fake.
When I told him, “Your ID says you’re only 20,” he said “Oh I gave you the wrong one.” 😂😂😂 GTFO.
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 19:25:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man! That’s fucking hilarious. One thing I never understood is why don’t these kids just befriend people who can legally go buy their drinks for them? Saves you the cost of the fake AND the embarrassment of getting caught! That was always my strategy while I was still underage.
My store was only a few blocks away from a college campus. Almost all of the fakes were from kids attending that school. Considering the vast majority of students at that school are engineering majors, you’d think they’d be smarter than that!
It’s a big fine where I live if you supply alcohol to minors, doesn’t matter if you’re over 18 (legal age here) it’s treated the same as if you sold it to them
The cover on my real ID peeled off on its own from just taking it out of my wallet... Not 100% that test.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:25:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yours was probably old or had lots of wear and tear already. If you’re the type of person who carries their wallet in their back pocket and sits on it a lot, that could explain it. But I’m telling you, 100% of fake ID’s will peel unless you have a friend down at the DMV making you a ‘legit’ fake. You can look it up, it’s not something my store fabricated.
It was actually a pretty new one and started peeling almost immediately. I also carry my wallet in my front pocket. I'm not saying your story is fake, just that the legit IDs are not all so difficult.
My dad likes to tell the story of how he learned that the drinking age is higher in the US than in Canada. My uncle had him convinced that it's 19 everywhere and then got him to try to buy beer when they drove down to Buffalo for a hockey game. Apparently it was a whole mess way beyond what my uncle was expecting when he set up the "prank".
I once IDd a guy as I recognised him from being in the same year at school as my underage brother. When I asked him for ID he got really angry and said “fuck off you silly bitch I’m older than you” WOW! I told him his name and age and he just walked off in a huff.
I might be wrong but I’m sure I remember when I worked at a supermarket they told us that as well as a fine for us, we could also end up in prison. Not sure if they were just trying to scare us though?!
I went into a bargain booze once having been asked to buy a bottle of Glenn’s by some chavs 😂 it’s my local so they clicked on instantly that it wasn’t my usual pre-drinks order so they collared me and told me that I could be fined as well as them.
Served me my stuff and I had to go outside and tell the chavs to jog it
Haha for some reason the fact that it was a bargain booze makes this all so much better. I remember leaving work when my shift was over. Had my coat done up so no one knew I worked there as you’d ALWAYS get stopped by customers on your way out. When I got outside a group of teenagers were hanging around and one asked me if I’d go inside and buy them some beer. I just unzipped my coat and said “I don’t think so”
One time I was at a bar getting drinks and I inadvertently gave the ID I was using to the person it belonged to (it had been passed down through the ages and he had no idea who I was or how I got it, I assume he gave it to his mate and told him to destroy it once he turned 18).
I did orientation for walmart and apparently they will fire you if you sell alcohol to someone and someone at a party you weren't aware that is underage and drinks and drives you could be held liable somehow at the store.....not sure how since how the hell would you know?
TheEfex · 1457 points · Posted at 16:57:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom swore up and down that we weren’t getting a PlayStation for Christmas, because we couldn’t afford it at that time.
Then Christmas morning came.
I opened it up and I was ecstatic, I still remember it to this day even though I was 5.
I love my mom for all the sacrifices she made for us and I’m glad we’re better off financially.
Mom did this back when the PS3 came out. All my friends were getting them and I felt so jealous. Told me I wouldn't be able to get because we couldn't afford it. Boom, PS3 and MW3 on Christmas that year it was great
Awww. My mom did something similar once, but she totally messed up the surprise. I opened what I thought was a DVD, turned out to be a ps2 game. Cue me, my brother, and my sister, all freaking out digging through the rest of the presents trying to find a ps2 shaped box.
Edit: my sister made a similar mistake, except she'd left the sword and shield Wii accessories out when I visited her. I didn't own the Wii version of Twilight Princess so I'd guessed that and the game were my Christmas presents. I feigned ignorance when she scrambled to hide it and asked if I'd seen because I didn't want her to think she's ruined the surprise. Side note, the accessories are hard to find online, so I linked an article covering it with an unpainted picture. The product link doesn't work anymore and I'm on mobile, so half assed link it is.
My mam did the same with the Mega-CD, I was properly over the moon.
I also did something similar to my bairn, he wanted the latest WWE game (2k16) so I bought him it, I also bought a copy of WWE 11, a quick switcharoo of the discs and he excitedly rips open the wrapping paper to discover 'WWE 11'.
He tried to act non disappointed, but you could see it on his face, I then said "Ha'way then, we'll have a match" he then opens the WWE11 box to find 2k16 inside.
Wholesome. Same thing happened to me and my sister with the PS2. My mom, the brilliant actor she is, cried her eyes out when "Santa" gave us a PS2 that Christmas when she swore up and down we couldn't afford one.
I was 12. She convinced me to believe in santa again that year.
My parents did that, too, except they would pretend that I had asked too late and that Santa couldn’t find [insert console here that I had asked for]. Then I’d start opening accessories and games to the console in question, and the jig would be up.
My parents did the same with the N64. We opened all of our presents, then my dad said, “oops, looks like we forgot one, I’ll be right back.” Best Christmas ever.
I wanted the new Donkey Kong Country game on the Wii. I'd bought my own Wii but was out of work when DKC came out. Went to my dad's and my Christmas present is a game of checkers with a DK colored stuffed monkey wearing a little ribbon tie that my sister (who lived with him) made. He apologized for not being able to afford the game that year and hoped this would be good enough.
It was s really crappy, beat up box of checkers, but I just smiled and said "that's okay."
Then my sister whips out the actual DKC game and told me she not only learned how to properly tie a tie, it was a bitch to do on a 4-inch tie.
Parents did something similar to me and my brother, cause we have family up on the north side of Chicago every Christmas Eve we go up around 8pm to spend the night until about 2am before coming home, as a tradition we get to open up one gift each from our parents early since the stuff they get us is generally much better then what they give our cousins with a few exception like one year we got our cousin who had just graduated that year a wii, but for whatever reason one year our parents rather then giving us the choice to choose like usual have us pre picked present to open, they were watches. This upset us greatly and me and my brother were bawling at the terrible present until we finally made it to the party. Once midnight struck and we began exchanging gifts at the party our parents give us another gift they had brought for us, and Xbox360. And the fucking first words out of my dads mouth were, “Don’t you feel stupid for crying earlier now?” No I wasn’t cause I wanted a PlayStation but that’s beside the point. It was later explained that the watches were so we would be mindful of the time we spent playing and take turns fairly, none of which happened.
Okay this is super petty, but when I was 7 my friend Eloise thought she was the queen of the animal kingdom. She knew everything about every animal ever, acting likes she's been watching animal planet since the day her mum popped her out. I always kind of thought she must be lying about her nature knowledge, I mean she knew WAY too much.
So one day we're in the playground and she's poking at the ground trying to find beetles or something, whilst prattling off a long list of species.
Then I just say "oh hey! What do you know about the insert made up beetle name I pulled out my arse?".
And then she goes on and on about how much she loves that species and all these "facts" about their diet and habitat. I just kind of let her get on with it for a while before breaking it to her that she had just been pretending to know about a made up beetle for the last five minutes. She just started stuttering and looking down at her feet and then eventually just changed the subject.
It felt so good to finally expose her, her nature knowledge was a fat sham the whole time. Take that Eloise.
[deleted] · 3643 points · Posted at 14:39:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's petty, but to me it just evokes so much about what it's like to be a kid. There are times when you just know you're right about something, but you have no power to prove it, and adults and other kids have no interest in helping you out.
I did this exact same thing in high school with a guy who knew everything about Every Band Ever. A friend of mine and I made up a band name and were talking about the band in front of the guy. He was like "oh yeah! I've seen them, they were trying to get into Warped Tour but I don't think they made it in this year, yadda yadda yadda..." it was really funny to tell him that we just made the band up to fool him.
Side note, this same guy also showed us a song he had "written" once and was super proud of. A quick Google Search told us that it was actually just "Lonely Day" by System of a Down. That was fun to corner him with too.
It's the funniest when compulsive liars claim other artistic (easily looked-up) works as their own.
In high school, this guy I banged once (lets call him Aidan, because that was his name) tried to impress me by sending me erotica stories he supposedly wrote. I'm a nerdy chick so it was a good strategy. The writing seemed to be way above Aidan's literacy level though, so I googled the first sentence from a few of "his" stories. Boom, Literotica. I confronted him, and he claimed he collaborated with this Literotica author. Over dumb erotica stories. So I emailed the real author, who was like "no, I never collaborated with anyone, this guy is lying." So satifying to screenshot and send him. He really was not expecting me to straight-up email the dude who actually wrote it. There was no more banging Aidan after that, needless to say.
Eiklet · 41 points · Posted at 17:11:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went to school with a Jehova's Witness girl who showed me a song she "wrote". It was the lyrics to Concrete Angel. I didn't call her out on it because she was the only person in school who was nice to me. Then, when some girls were bullying me, saying my shirt made me look like Barney the Dinosaur, she joined in with them.
Similar story: My husband had his iPod Touch hooked up the car and he had it on shuffle. A piano rendition of Eternal Snow by Changin' My Life started playing and I said "oh, I like this one" (big fan of Full Moon wo Sagashite). Husband replied that his friend composed it for their table-top game for background ambience and that he'd be happy to know he had a fan. I asked if his friend was a fan of Full Moon and confused, my husband replied that the friend had composed it from scratch. It took me going to Youtube and playing the original song for him to realize his friend had stolen someone else's material and passed it off as his own.
I work in a used game store that deals in EVERY console, so I've had to get really good at bullshitting about games that I know nothing about. I feel like I do it the right way though; I always start with something I know, even if it's something dumb like "well there's a dude with a gun and a jetpack on the front and it's on the 360, so that there is most likely a sci fi shooter. MYSTERY SOLVED, YOU'RE WELCOME ASSHOLE, HOPE YOU ENJOY DARK VOID" ...or something like that.
Nathan Gale (the Damageplan concert shooter) likely had paranoid schizophrenia. He legitimately thought that among others, that Pantera were stealing his ideas, and mocking his life. He'd show his friends this new song that "he" wrote, and it would be lyrics to a Pantera song. And he wasn't trolling, he legitimately acted like he wrote the song.
Contrary to what Behind the Music said, he likely did that shooting because of the latter. Not because he was distraught over Pantera's breakup.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:36:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had sth similar happen to me - only that I misheard the guys who were trying to "expose" me. What I heard was "Broken Matters" which (back then) was a tiny fucking local band a friend of mine played in. What they, appearently, had said was "Broken Matress" which was something they had made up.
When I finally realized what was going on, they didn't believe it. But tbh, I don't blame them, I was silly to assume that some rando dudes from a bar would know this band that had played maybe two concerts at that point. :/
he was a compulsive liar, we were never mean to him and never fucked with him otherwise, we just got tired of his bullshit one day and made up a fake band to mess with him. Calling that bullying is pretty trivializing of actual bullying imho
plot twist you named an actual species of beetle and didnt even realize it....
i...i did that once...
I honestly had no idea that Rose Tarantulas were really a thing when i was 9....and i had a friend who was obsessed with spiders. It too seemed fake...so i decided to test him...
long story short, when i was 9, i ruined a friendship because i thought my friend was a liar, but i was just an idiot who didnt know that Rose Tarantulas are real...
Gah! You just reminded me of a childhood argument I had along the same lines. A friend told me his dad was such a good fighter, and he knew Karate. I had to one-up him, because I was 5 or 6, so I told him my Dad knew Jew-doe, completely making up a new martial art.
My mother said nothing in front of the kid, but later told me that my Dad had never learned Judo and I shouldn't lie about it.
I had an argument with a friend who was telling the group he saw gas prices at around $2 on a vacation (This was 10 years ago or so, and I was around 10-12 years old). I was sure he was lying, so I went inside and asked my dad to back me up. He just looked at me and said "it is totally possible he saw gas prices that low. And that's something pretty stupid to be arguing about, don't you think?"
By the time I got back to the group, the conversation had moved on, so I just didn't say anything and we all moved on.
Your mom should have told you that your dad turned from the path of Judo many years ago. That if his old master knew where he was, none of you would be safe. The secret must stay hidden.
I used to make teachers and other kids INSANE with my constasntly spewing Wolf, Fox, Dog, and Hyena facts...it was a four legged predator that was even remotely related to the Canis line, i was filled with knowledge on it...
My Dad would do stuff like this, but as a joke. He's an international airline pilot, and when going around in the different cities, he would spout facts, that seemed just enough to be true, but when people called him out on it, he would joke around.
Man, my dad does this all the time. He will blather on and on about a subject, telling you all sorts of facts, and then suddenly starts mentioning how nitrogen is integral or important to something with it, and all of a sudden you know he's been making shit up. It's gotten to the point where he can't tell us thongs about nitrogen that are true without us calling bullshit on him.
I have a similarish kid story. When I was about 6 my best friend was my next door neighbor who was like 7. He was older, and super smart, and seemed to have done everything. One day my dad told me that he was making a lot of it up, and that I should be careful about believing him. Dad said he was a One-Upper. I was doubtful, so we came up with a test. We looked up the fastest cars in the Guinness Book, and it turned out that the fastest car ever was like 630 miles per hour. When the neighbor came over my dad said "guess what, I was in a car that went 630 mph today. It was really fast." Neighbor boy doesn't miss a beat with "I went 700 in a car once." It fucking rocked my world. We didn't call him on it, my Dad had said that we shouldn't, but that I should be more careful about believing him. Last I saw him he was about 20 years ago and he was in the middle of a very unattractive 90's goth thing.
I know a shit ton of trivia, because whenever I think of a question about something I'll Google it and then file it away for later. I also like to share said information with other people, because learning is fun! I tend to get known for this random knowledge at whatever place i work at, because I replace small talk with random facts, since I hate small talk.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because I'm pretty sure I've had multiple coworkers try to catch me in a lie, assuming that I'm making shit up. I've had several coworkers from different jobs who said something along the lines of "I double-checked what Domriso said yesterday, and he's actually right."
This reminded me of a friend I had in primary school who knew every single about dinosaurs. The thing is though he actually really did know a lot about dinosaurs. I still remember a lot of the facts he said, it hasn't come in handy so far
I used to be this asshole kid, but about airplanes, when I was in about the 4th grade. I would make up tons of shit about every plane that flew overhead, and even got another kid in on it and we would just spout bullshit to other kids and back each other up. Some people were suspicious, and finally one of my friends points to a plane and asks me what it is, because he actually knows. By dumb luck it was a plane I actually knew too, a piper cub. He was visibly crestfallen when I named it correctly.
I grew out of the bullshitting phase in the next year or two, although it was probably an early indicator of my future adult career in marketing.
Blueta · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha! When I was seven, I had an argument with another girl my age. She claimed you could tell a ladybug's age by counting the spots on its back. Little bookworm and science nerd me knew that was bullshit and told her so. She got really snippy and said, "My dad told me! He's a scientist who studies bugs!"
I did the same in primary school. This kid kept claiming to have all these toys, like no matter what, he had it. So I made one up and he said his mum's getting it for him next week.
So I guess he didn't lie about having it, but he probably would've either ran home to ask his mum for it, or it would've been added to his list of made up toys. Petty but it's annoying as a child - I guess even as an adult, to hear non-stop bullshit.
Ooh ooh me too! A guy cslled Gareth who I started a job with was a bit of a big black dog sort of guy - as in, if you had a dog, he had a bigger, blacker dog.
One day me, my mate and him went to get McDonald's on our lunch break. We started a conversation about Hellboy, and Gareth started talking about how he had allllll the comics and he was the biggest fan; Hellboy, Hellgirl, the works.
"Hellcopter?" I ask
"Yeah and Hellcopter" he goes
"Hellcopter," I say, flatly. Behind him, my mate is turning purple with surpressed laughter.
"Yep, Hellcopter too!" Gareth responds cheerfully
"Hell...copter" I say slowly. Gareth is oblivious. My mate and I got our big Mac's and left and never spoke to the silly fucker again.
OMG i had a friend just like this at age 7. Chronically lying to impress. Busted her a few times, but never about anything that mattered.
wound up marrying her 30 years later. did not work out well at all. Turns out she DID lie about significant stuff. and stole (not from me. when divorce started, an assload of folks came forward to tell me stories of her behavior. apparently she was klepto as well...)
My brother and I make up shit like that to see how deep my mom’s lies will go. Calling her out does nothing anymore, so we just crack up about it later.
When I was a kid my parents were really strict about everything, especially staying home from school sick. Even to the point of sending me to school when I was actually sick but not "sick enough" to warrant staying home.
One time my mom needed to get out of work for some reason and she was on the phone with them explaining how her kid was sick and she couldn't come in. My 8 year old revenge was to pick up the phone in the kitchen and yell "SHE'S LYYYING" onto the line.
honestly I don't really recall, only that it wasn't anything particularly severe because we still laugh about it from time to time. I think she may have BS'd something about how she wasn't talking about me, she meant my brother. also quite probably it didn't really matter all that much because she was just leading an exercise class.
I just remember the sense of supreme child vengeance, YOU CAN SAY IM SICK BUT I CANT? HAVE AT YOU!
I record music at a studio but every now and then I have my friends over and we just hang out, get drunk and make some music. Anyway this girl was with us one time and everyone knows she is constantly making stuff up. We were well into a case of beer freestyling over a beat I made just for fun when she showed up. All the sudden she was really into rapping, talking about how she was freestyling all day. She goes into the booth and does a flawless verse. She comes out juicing herself up, but little did she know, that every single one of us in the room knew the verse she claimed to be a freestyle. She verbatim spit an MC chris verse thinking none of us knew it. Lost the last little bit of trust we had for her that day
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 17:35:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 68 points · Posted at 18:39:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh. You should have come back at her with Evergreen and been like "you like that one? I just came up with it."
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 17:37:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Woo!
When Tasty Face came out I didn't know it was a parody. I was sad when I heard the original trash, but ty MC for Al always song over it whenever confronted.
Lmao I forgot about that! That happened at a high school in my county. A (sorta) friend of mine is in the background of that video. She told me that the girl switched schools or moved or something like that shortly after.
My dad took his own life. 8 months go by, my mom hadn't gotten him a headstone. After several phone calls and "updates", a year and a half after his death she calls to tell me the headstone is finally in.
I go to the graveyard with some flowers and lo and behold, NO headstone!
I fucking BAWLED in the grass for a while. I realized that if she had really thought her husband's headstone had been at the graveyard (maybe the cemetery messed up), she would have gone to visit to see him, and found it not erected, and would have avoided putting me through turmoil.
But what actually happened to the best of my knowledge is that she fucking lied and said it was there, and it was not there, and she did not give a single fuck about my father or anyone's feelings in the family at all.
That was the cherry on the sundae. I suddenly started to realize many other downright selfish and outright abusive things she had done to me throughout the years and I cut her out of my life. These past 3 years I've never been happier.
Edit: thanks so much for all of the replies, good and bad. It's helpful to see many perspectives, even the ones that I've played out in my head and hoped for to no avail. I just want to showcase how much mental illness and alcoholism affects everyone, and I'm glad to have a dialogue if any. Thanks to all for support and well wishes, I tried to respond to everyone because I want that dialogue to keep going. We need to talk about these things. Thanks again and good night.
Delica · 693 points · Posted at 13:55:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, that’s rough. Your story had a happy-ish ending because you made the right choice, though. I hope your life balances out all the bad you’ve been through...
I guess if he ever gets miserable we can run over his dog...
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 15:57:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I cut my mom out when my sister died and the last year has been much happier. It's weird how you don't notice it until you're free from them for awhile. I'm sorry to hear about your dad but I'm happy that you're finding happiness now.
I never understood people who desperately hang on to abusive family members just because they are 'family'. If someone is abusive to you, and refuses to be helped even after significant effort, they don't need to be dragging you down in life. Good choice and good luck.
I never did either, not until the day I realized I'd been doing the same thing myself. In some situations you so desperately want the approval of your loved ones that you don't realize that you will never get it. Additionally in these situations you can be convinced that it is your fault and not the abuser. I know it sounds totally irrational, but when abuse is normal to you, you don't always recognize it as abuse.
And this is what to explain to the "tough guys" who are so insistent that they'd never put up with such shit, and try to "question" the people who did.
Exactly. And the abusers manipulate this societal norm of "Always respect family", and it's total bullshit.
jyuro · 12 points · Posted at 17:36:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This same thing happened with my grandfather. My uncle had been taking care of the arrangements and said the headstone would be in by such and such date. I was on my way to visit my dad some time shortly after the specified date, and stopped by the cemetery on my way, as it was about halfway between here and there. Still no headstone. I casually mention it to my dad, and he promises to check on it. During our next phone call, he tells me it will be in by such and such date. I make a mental note to go check it the week following that date. Lo and behold, still no headstone. I call my dad because I'm upset about this. This makes him angry, and he tells me in a terse tone that he will take care of it.
I found out later from him that my uncle had taken all the insurance money, including what my father was entitled to, and had never even placed an order for a headstone. My dad paid for the headstone himself out of pocket. It was out there very quickly.
I'm sorry to hear that. Some people think that being your family means they can treat you like however they please. It takes a lot of strength to stand up to that. And it hurts over a long period of time. But we can heal.
Yeah she finished it. It was really generic and cold, and said none of the things my family asked for. Also, half of it is blank because she has the plot next to him... 😞
If someone in your family gets the rights to the site then you can recommission a new headstone. One extremely beautiful and sweet headstone, and a plain headstone for your mother with a few dates on it. Trust me, everyone knows what is going on when a large ass headstone only mentions dob and dod.
I know it's stupid but I didn't want someone to say "Yeah! Sue her ass for the rights!" He might win the case but suing your toxic mum is not as good as just waiting for her ass to die.
Similar situation, except my mom didn't even hide the fact that she squandered all the money my dad left her to take care of funeral expenses on beer, shopping trips, and bailing out my worthless brother. My sister and I cut her and my brother out, and are currently trying to save up the money for one. We're both individually trying to improve our living situations so it will take awhile, but it'll be nice to do what she wouldn't for my dad.
Have you considered setting up a Go-Fund-Me project? Maybe his old friends and extended family would want to contribute to the cause. Heck, I would send a few bucks for something like this.
Also, you probably already know it, but if he served in the military, the government (US) will provide a plaque or marker for free.
Actually the thought never crossed our minds. He was never military but I'll ask my sister how she feels about a gofundme. Long story (emotionally abusive upbringing blah blah blah) we have a hard time trusting and accepting help, but it's a discussion worth having. Thanks!
I'm sorry you're going through all that. Had to cut out my brother too, who was just as abusive as my mom. Good for you for deciding that cutting them out was the way to go, it's one of the most devastating and difficult decisions I have ever had to make. As time goes by you wonder if it was the right one. In my experience it has been incredible. Last week I had the BEST day of my life. I was so happy with where I was at and how far I had come that I shared it with everyone I talked to. Hope you get there. Stay strong.
I do sometimes wonder if I was too harsh or if I made a mistake, until those days hit me where I'm genuinely happy and I realize it's because of my decision.
Also my daughter. I refuse to let her grow up emotionally stunted like I did.
I'm glad you were able to prioritize your happiness. We're gonna be okay.
jsmiel · 9 points · Posted at 16:29:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey OP, my dad passed away when I was 17 and from that day my mom always chosen herself over her kids as well. Surely there are different circumstances but I can appreciate your struggle.
It’s hard for many people to imagine a mother can be that way in that situation but I just wanted to give you props for continuing on. It’s very difficult at times but you’ll end up a lot stronger from it in the end.
Thank you. Honestly the first thing I noticed was narcissism, because she was really, really good at hiding the pills and alcohol. I did pretty well going to therapy and taking care of myself, but at the end of the day I can honestly say that Al-Anon was the biggest and most important change in my life. That and C25K.
jsmiel · 9 points · Posted at 18:21:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom is pills and the occasion illegal drugs. Last winter I was in the same ER, same waiting room, same ICU room as when my dad didn’t make it.. only to find out she mixed cocaine with pills and id thought she made so much progress only to realize she cares more about escaping reality and herself more than her family still.
Do you have any kind of relationship with her still? I have a very weak one with my mom, but I take her out to lunch sometimes to try to make some nice memories. I’ve accepted she won’t change, so anything good out of our relationship has to come on my terms from a place she can’t affect me.
At the fear of sounding obnoxious I guess I wanted to share my similar experience and say I’m proud of you for whatever that’s worth. I think a lot of people with experiences like ours fail to overcome them. It makes me happy to hear your story and triumph
I had to get on the computer so I could type out a reply to you specifically, and others who responded because this is so much more common then most people realize.
I cut out my mom 3 years ago. It was harder to be around her than it was to be with her. She would get drunk and emotionally abuse me til I would explode, then tell me I was "being too sensitive," or "too proud." She poked and prodded to get a reaction out of me, then blamed me for ruining family get togethers when I would finally break down and yell, cry, or leave.
I want to plant the seed in your head: Al Anon. Maybe one day when you have drank too much and you throw up on the carpet and yell at your boyfriend, who you love more than anything in the world, you will realize you have a lot of unbridled rage and resentment at SOMETHING in your life. Al Anon was a place for me to talk about everything that ever happened to me as a child and an adult, with no judgement, and genuine support from all different ages and classes of people.
You've accepted that she won't change. That is amazing. That took me 26 years to figure out. You have a lot to be proud of from the very little you've shared. I don't have all the right answers, but it sounds like you're on the right track. Sending love and support.
Oh I'm sorry to hear that your family sucks. Hopefully you can get some counseling. I used to go through plots in my head bc I felt like they deserved punishment for the way they treated me, but I realize now that it's just easier to let it go and be at peace. They're not apart of my life anymore and I don't want them to have control over me, especially my mental health.
I don't know your mom, but she may have no gotten a headstone for your dad because then his death is real. My mom has my dad's ashes in an urn in a closet because she just can't. She can't deal with putting them in a final resting place. She flat out told me I was going to have to do it after she dies, because she doesn't have the emotional fortitude to do it herself.
Ivaras · 4 points · Posted at 21:17:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is also the school of thought that money spent on the dead is wasted money. OP knows her family best, but I just watched my extended family go through the most disgusting argument about my biological (gave my dad up for adoption) grandfather's funeral, memorial, and remains. Everyone was accusing each other of being cheap/selfish/dramatic/uncaring, and justifying their demands as "what he would have wanted." In the middle of all of this, I just flat out told my family that they're to dispose of my corpse in the most economical way available, and all I want is for them not to fight over shit I can't possibly care about, being dead and all.
Thank you and everything is so much better now. No worries
Ginnut · 3 points · Posted at 18:06:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After my step father died my mam ended up with some asshole as a boyfriend. My mam changed totally.
I went down one afternoon to see if she wanted to go for a walk round where my step dad used to walk. She wasn't in and I realised my step dads ashes were gone.
I went for a walk myself and found a pile of ashes dumped on the wet grass along with some fresh flowers.
Got the story from her later, she'd taken her new boyfriend but not me or my sisters.
Up until the end when more things came to light I was feeling sorry for the mother. It was very probable that she couldn't afford a headstone, the sudden death of a spouse, especially if they are the primary bread earner can really put you into one hell of a financial hole.
Sorry to hear that you are going through that. And so sorry for your loss. Have you checked out "Will I Ever be Good Enough?" by Karyl McBride? Also "No Time to Say Goodbye" by Carla Fine. Helped me get through both of those things. Also Al-Anon, if not meetings then "Courage to Change." Helps with the day to day.
Stay strong. There are lots of us out here who understand.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It might not be relevant in this situation, but graves need to settle before a headstone can be placed so that there will be minimal movement afterwards. For my Dad's it would have been around 18 months before it finished settling - hand dug and filled grave though, in heavy clay in an area where it rains a lot. In my area its common to have an "unveiling" a year or more after the death.
Yes, I did talk to the director and he said they had to wait til Spring but it occurred in January, so it was only a few months. And still, if that was the case, she said it WAS there and I could go see, so there's not really an excuse for that.
But what actually happened to the best of my knowledge is that she fucking lied and said it was there, and it was not there, and she did not give a single fuck about my father or anyone's feelings in the family at all.
You have every right to feel the way you do, but so does your mom. When someone kills themselves, it fucking sucks. Often, the people left behind don't want to revere the people who killed themselves. When my dad's grandfather killed himself (in his daughter's house!), they tore up all the pictures of him. There's no tombstone of him. In fact, his wife got married a month later to a guy she met at a bar to take his last name. They never lived together. She just wanted a different name.
So, you have every right to be hurting, but so does your mom. IMO, I'd feel the same way she does. I wouldn't want him to be remembered with a headstone. I'd want him forgotten. As his child, you have the right to buy a headstone and have it placed if you want. Different strokes for different folks.
I suddenly started to realize many other downright selfish and outright abusive things she had done to me throughout the years and I cut her out of my life.
OK, but one of your parents stayed with you, and the other chose to abandon you for the rest of his life. Careful which parent you choose to celebrate and which one you choose to turn your back on.
The last paragraph you said was gross. You don't know anything about my situation, and I suggest you read up on suicide and bipolar before you make hurtful statements like that.
The one who "stayed with us" onlybstayedbto use us and control us. Stole money from us, guilt tripped us, told me she was sad that I was ever born, didn't tell us how our dad died til the funeral, and gets paid from his pension every month for the rest of her life. She wanted someone to do everything for her and take care of her so she wouldn't have to work and she got it.
You didn't share all that other information. You simply said you resented your mom for not buying a headstone, and now you disowned her. Not knowing the other information, that seemed harsh when this person is dealing with grief, anger, and loss, too.
As a person who has also had to deal with loss from suicide (including a father-in-law who has attempted suicide twice, most recently this spring) I feel like I know a lot about the emotions of the people who are left behind. I feel for you, but I also felt for your mother. Honestly, it has the be the worst feeling in the world to have a spouse who kills himself and leaves you to raise children. I couldn't fault her for lying to you about buying a headstone. Knowing the other stuff, yeah, she sounds like she's probably a shitty person. I'm sorry you had such shitty parents. Seriously. I hope things are going better for you now.
I suddenly started to realize many other downright selfish and outright abusive things she had done to me throughout the years and I cut her out of my life.
I did say she was abusive. I didn't want a wall of text. I also have the feelings of those who have been left behind, and everyone experiences the loss in a different way. It's just insensitive and thoughtless to tell someone regardless of the situation that they have been abandoned by a loved one. I understand your thoughts, I just think you should be more careful about how you voice your opinions to people, especially if you're not informed. I'm not trying to be aggressive or angry, it's just some advice.
Edit: "No Time to Say Goodbye" by Carla Fine, helps give you a glimpse inside of what suicidal people are thinking, and the survivors themselves, if you're interested in different perspectives. It is a HARD read, but ultimately helped me.
OK, but one of your parents stayed with you, and the other chose to abandon you for the rest of his life. Careful which parent you choose to celebrate and which one you choose to turn your back on. - u/thepolemicist
Fuck yourself, dude. That's a fucking horrible thing to say and you're a cunt for saying it.
Suicide is selfish. One of his parents chose to leave him permanently, and he's mad at his other parent for it.
I'm just saying, one parent is dealing with the emotions of having their spouse kill himself. She's left alone with children. She has to be hurting and also super angry about it. Now the children resent her for not wanting to buy him a tombstone. While they have the right to feel that way, how must it feel to her that the kids are acting like he's this great person and she's the scum of the earth when he was the one who left them?
The OP already indicated that this mom was an extremely selfish, horrible fucking person. Who the fuck are YOU to comment on a situation that you don't know anything about?
I think the OP is more inclined to explain how their mom felt than you fucking are.
Oh, and calling suicide selfish just makes you an ignorant shithead who knows nothing about mental illness or depression. Not surprising, given how you've acted thus far. And using your own experiences doesn't give you credence. Everyone knows someone close to them who committed suicide. Some of them put aside our pathetic need to demonize them for being "Selfish" long enough to fucking have some empathy. You oughta try it sometime.
swarf · 728 points · Posted at 17:10:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got pulled over by a cop and accused of going faster than I knew I was. I asked him to show me the radar gun. He walked to his car and came back with the gun to show me the speed. I asked why it had a negative symbol in front of it and he explained "positive means means coming toward me, negative means going away".
I quizzed him for a couple more minutes and eventually asked, are you sure you got me and not some far away object? And he replied "I had it trained right between your headlights". I asked him "how did you have it trained between my headlights if you caught me going AWAY from you?"
He didn't show up for the court date.
Llohr · 42 points · Posted at 04:39:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most of the time if you try to inject logic into a conversation with such a crooked authority figure, the just double-down and escalate the situation.
Yep, they feel they have to. Half the problem, to them, is that someone is questioning authority. Making sure the authority is accepted as correct is more important.
Korady · 15 points · Posted at 05:53:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a cop pull me over for a cell phone ticket early last year. I have bluetooth for my phone and a cell phone holder next to my steering wheel. Went in with my evidence, including pictures and receipts, saying it was possible he saw the phone in it’s holder and mistakenly thought I was holding it. Judge wouldn’t look at my evidence, laughed at me, said “some people don’t use that stuff”’and issued me a max fine. Fuck that judge.
I had a similar thing happen to me with a cop. He pulled me over saying I ran through a stop sign and almost hit his cop car. Going on about how many tickets and penalties and blah blah it was. Thing is, HE was the one that ran through a stop sign. It was a 4 way stop. I stopped first. The car to my left stopped 2nd. And as I went to go I saw the cop car pulled around the corner to turn in front of me without stopping at his stop sign. I SAW him not look and not stop. I was so furious that he was lying about it and that he would pull me over. I told him that I did not run the stop sign. He insisted that I did and and he went to go check his dash cam. Well, he came back and did me a “favor” and only gave me a ticket for not having updated proof of my insurance. And lectured me about how important stopping at stop signs is especially around there. There are children around. Im actually glad I didn’t have the updated proof of insurance (I had insurance just not the most recent paperwork) because it seemed like the guy was going to give me a ticket no matter what and I’m glad it was just for that.
Guess who went and got a dashcam of their own after that. Next time I’ll be able to post here about catching the lie!
VONZ87 · 16 points · Posted at 01:41:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He still ticketed you though?
swarf · 39 points · Posted at 01:58:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. He stumbled through some excuse of claiming that he meant tail lights. But, it was clear to both of us that he got caught.
This one time, I was reading an AskReddit forum about people who got caught in a lie. This person posted that a cop showed him his speed with a negative number in front of the speed and claimed it proved the cop was lying.
Having used police radar guns for over 20 years (source: I'm a cop) I know that radar guns of any type measure the speed by calculating change in relative motion, regardless of direction.
If a car is coming towards the radar unit, the radar gun(or Lidar, or whichever) sends a pulse of EM or light towards the target and receives a reflected pulse back.
Several thousand pulses are sent each second and the radar gun measures the time each pulse takes to travel from the radar gun to the target and then back (Doppler effect). It then displays the relative change in motion in MPH. There is no (-) speed or symbol.
This can even be used in a moving patrol car. The radar unit records the pulses it sends out and the reflections it receives from static objects to determine a cruiser's speed. When the officer triggers the radar to target a vehicle that is approaching or receding from his patrol car, it subtracts the target speed from the passively recorded patrol car speed.
swarf · 28 points · Posted at 15:43:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The fact that you just claimed to know something about all of the hundreds of brands of speed guns in the US just set you as the second lying cop in this story. But in case it's not obvious enough, I have more:
Doppler: doppler works by comparing the rate of returned pulses with the rate of emitted pulses. If the pulse frequency is greater, object is moving closer. If longer, object is moving away. Thus, doppler devices are directional.
Congratulations swarf..you manage to Google the Doppler effect. Which pretty much states the exact thing I wrote.. and nice picture of a radar gun.
That awesome "plus symbol" you claim shows a minus symbol? That is the "offset" or "forgiveness" amount an officer can enter before an audio alert is triggered.
No two speedometers are exactly correct. Size of tires, wear of speedo cable, etc.
So an officer can sit on the side of the road in a 50mph zone and enter an offset of 5 or 7 or 10 mph before the audio alert trips. The alert can also, if connected to a mdt or car recording system, automatically trigger a recording of the radar info and video to be used if the offender exercises his right to trial. Again, if the cruiser is equipped for that.
So the officer actually is giving people a few miles an hour over the speed limit before they are alerted. Nice of them, eh?
But the only information an officer gets when a radar gun is activated is the speed of the targeted vehicle and/or the speed of his cruiser and the target if it is a radar unit equipped with dual emitters. Most of us aren't drooling knuckle draggers. We can usually tell of something is coming towards us or going away.
So..still calling bullshit on your righteous indignation story.
swarf · 6 points · Posted at 20:57:41 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
sigh
You make it too easy to disprove your lies.
Here's another image of the same speed gun as before, this time with the + symbol showing along with speed. Clearly not a "forgiveness".
As you can see, the audio alert is a continuous variable tone, higher pitch for faster target, and the audio tone turns off when the beam is off target. See the "Target Speed Tone" and "Target Return Tone" sections.
That solidly tanks your claim that there is a buffer before "before an audio alert is triggered".
So you still don't believe me? Good news! I give absolutely zero fucks whether you believe the truth. I had a passenger with me who recounts the whole incident the same way. Your posts have been nothing but ad-hominem and lies. Good luck with that.
My guess is that it was a badly-calibrated radar gun and that cop had a quota for the number of tickets he had to write
swarf · 5 points · Posted at 15:50:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was also really near a freeway and the speed on the radar display was suspiciously close to a normal freeway speed (and above my speed by about 20mph). So I'm guessing he just tagged it on the freeway first then sat on a surface street and caught people coming around a corner. To be fair, people did tend to speed around that corner since it was downhill. But not anywhere close to freeway speeds. Also, I was in a sluggish old station wagon and couldn't have gotten up to freeway speeds by then even if I'd wanted to.
My now ex husband was taking our six month old daughter to the library during the day while I worked for a little story time class. It was important to me for them to get out of the house and actually interact for at least a half hour a week with others. I had the suspicion he wasn’t doing much with her aside from feeding her and changing diapers while I was gone, and knowing that free program got them to do a little helped me feel better about returning to work. So, every Wednesday night, I’d come home and ask about how class went. He’d tell me it was fun, that things went well, what stories they read, etc...
He didn’t know I’d suggested the class to a young mother in the neighborhood.
One Wednesday near Halloween, we were walking the baby and the dog after I got home from work. He was telling me all about their day, and about how the librarian had read a cute ghost story, when this mom runs out of her house to thank me for telling her about the class and how much they loved it.
Me: oh! Did you see these two there today?!
Her: what? No. But I saw you walking and just wanted to say thanks!
Me (talking to her, but staring at my husband): did you read Halloween stories?
Her: oh, no...the librarian read stories about cows
My ex: we went today! Are you sure you were at this library?
Her: yeah
My ex: huh, we must’ve been at different libraries.
Her: ok, well...thanks again!
I called the library to ask which stories had been read under the guise of wanting to check them out. They were books about cows.
I was so upset...I found out he’d been lying to me for weeks. Only went to one class. It was satisfying to catch him, though. He was/is super into gaslighting and manipulation so to catch him flat out was beautiful.
Used to carpool with a friend. One morning I decided to just walk over to his house down the street as he was the driver that day. I called him to let him know I was waiting outside he answers and says right away. “I’m on my way just left my house”. I then proceed with “Oh. Ok well just so you know I’m standing by your car waiting for you”.
I know this is such a small lie but shit, it pisses me off. My mom would ALWAYS be late for everything and I had to listen to her tell all the lies in the world over the phone. The worst part is she would constantly ask me to call her job or the people she was meeting up with, and tell them a made up story why she was late. It never made sense to me why her fucking daughter, who was pretty young at the time, needed to do this for a grown ass woman. I was always sure by making me make those phone calls called out the bullshit even more.
This seems kinda harmless. I've said similar things before with keys in hand, turning off lights and grabbing my coffee, etc. Kinda funny that he completely ignored what you said when he picked up though.
A guy in my circle of acquaintances was bragging to our mutual friend group that he'd dumped his girlfriend because she was such a bore, kept him at home all the time and kept him from enjoying himself.
I'd been talking to both of them during their break-up phase, and knew she was the one dumping him, because he was pretty irresponsible and didn't really pay attention to their relationship at all.
Edit: Since people were asking how I know the truth of the situation, I talked with him privately later and he admitted it, it was more of a "don't want to lose face" situation for him.
This is my relationship right now. He keeps buying meth and selling my shit for money, leaving in the middle of the night and staying out. Says I'm boring.
I'm leaving him in a couple days.
Edit because you guys have lots of questions it seems.
We met through using heroin. We both got clean and because he was homeless at the time I let him stay in my condo, that I own. I told him he had to go to rehab because I wasn't okay with being around it anymore. We got jobs and started sleeping together and he told me he wanted to marry me(I didn't believe him for obvious reasons). Also, I didn't want to go to rehab myself (I didn't have insurance pr money at the time) so he would just give me some of his medications so I wouldn't have to use anymore either.
Well, his job is dishwashing at the restaurant I worked at(I quit when I decided I was going to leave him to look for a job elsewhere). He says he needs meth to get by. I knew it was an excuse, though. (And, yes, to the one guy that asked me if he shares it. I don't do it though I hate speed and I'm pretty sure meth isn't part of heroin recovery)
So... I have a plan to go out of town with my mom and I'm going to ask him to stay with a friend while I'm gone. I don't want him taking everything he can get his hands on so to him this is a "temporary" stay. I may wait outside with his shit when he gets home from work even.
I've saved up enough medication of his to last me the week and have signed up for rehab the day after I get back. I'm going to change the locks and the garage code. My brother has been helping me put new floors in my condo so he will be here when I send him off. My bf won't know that I won't be letting him back in though. My brother was the one who helped me come up with this plan and encouraged me to go to rehab.
So, because of my own addictions and the fact that my mom doesn't have a clue about my issues, she planned our trip for this coming Tuesday. She has to do payroll at work and find someone to take care of her dog. I just have to wait for now.
I also have two cats, no children, and I'm having my nephew stay here while I'm gone to watch them. I bought him bear mace and he has his conceal and carry license(and a gun). He has already been warned that my soon to be ex may try to break in while I'm gone.
Did I miss anything? Anymore advice guys?
Thank you all for your concern, I've never seen my inbox this full before. I feel like you all care and that's a really nice feeling.
I don't know your situation at all, but it can't hurt to careful.
Plus whether there's danger or not, it's always a good way to help you follow through. Brains can easilly lock into a "avoid conflict" kind of mode where we lose our nerve as soon as we see a not good for us SO that we should be getting away from. The fear of the embarasment of having to tell your friend/family member you chickened out, can help tip the scales toward following through.
Hearing about complicated situations like this playing out is always interesting to me, thank you very much for the extra details, and for letting me know you’d updated, I probably would’ve missed it otherwise.
Yet again I only wish you the very best, and hope this plan, and everything around it, works out okay.
I assume everyone I meet is fighting a battle I know nothing about. That's why I don't judge him and would even say I love him. Which makes this all the more difficult for me. I don't want to make anything harder for him but at some point, I'm enabling it and hurting myself. Maybe that point was a long time ago but I am where I am so all I can do is try to stop falling, catch myself and climb back out of this well or whatever cliche you want to imagine.
Thanks for your well wishes and I hope you have the strength to face the hardships in your life.
If you're worried about your safety I believe you can ask the police to escort you when you're taking your stuff if you're moving out. I know that's a lot of assumptions but I also know what meth does to people!
I dated a drug addict once (didn't find out until later in the relationship) and he used to make fun of me for the good things in my life, like the fact that I was close with my Dad and grew up in a nice area, and generally made me feel insecure about the fact that I hadn't faced as much hardship as him. He used to tell me that if my life was a book it would be too boring for anyone to want to read. It's a really shitty thing to make someone insecure about, especially since I can say very confidently that my life has not been boring, I was just fortunate in certain regards to my upbringing. I really resent him for making me question things I should be grateful for.
Is he really that dangerous? I know drugs make people crazy. It probably doesnt help that this will all be dumped on him but he most likely isnt gonna take a straight up break up very well either. Good luck and stay safe, hopefully he understands and finds help.
I think it will be a wake up call for him. And yeah, he is dangerous. He went to prison for 3? years for armed robbery. He's a big strong Romanian, his dad was a wrestler and his mom a gymnast. He's never been violent with me but drugs change people. I've seen it before. Which is why I'm out now. I don't want to get killed.
Thats good, I see people I know who are just in a bad way because of drugs, some of them are on the streets and I know its gotta be difficult to give it up. Good luck to you friend.
Do it clean. Leave a note or something to make it official, but aside from that, straight GHOST the motherfucker. No contact of any kind after the break - flat out disappear from his world in every way and treat his attempts to contact you as hostile. And he should be aware in no uncertain terms that you NEVER WANT TO SEE HIM AGAIN.
Otherwise, believe me, you're looking at a world of lingering bullshit.
thanks for letting me know, it seems to have started on a good base with you both leaving heroin, but he did the wrong thing and that's obvious you're leaving him now.
good luck, I wish you the best and that dude definitly is terrible.
He isn't a terrible person, he has a good heart but he is very troubled. He needs therapy but he hates to open up about things. Maybe this will be a wake up call and he will get his shit together. I wish him the best and I find that I honestly love him, but he is incapable of loving anyone else right now.
violue · 4 points · Posted at 17:37:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What type of cats are they? Also on a more serious note, good for you for going to rehab and wanting to get sober and stuff. Like if RDJ can kick the habit and live a happy life then so can you. Live the life you both want and can realistically achieve y'know?
If you go by The Fixx's philosophy of their song 'Saved By Zero' then yeah. (Basically the song's saying how Zero is good because once you've reached the bottom you can only go up. You can't go negative, so whatever positives you garner from now on. (Looking after your cats, your family helping you out, going to rehab, kicking out your boyfriend, just improvements albeit minor or major) will greatly help you later on.
Just remember the old saying Rome wasn't built in a day. You won't be the best you can be tomorrow, nor will it be next week or next month but you'll be better and better's good enough for now.
a-r-c · 3 points · Posted at 17:33:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing is happening with an acquaintance of mine. When they started their relationship, he'd only do coke occasionally at parties. It just sort of snowballed into an almost daily thing. He says she's boring. She tells him if he doesn't stop doing coke, she's leaving. The next day she comes over to his house to smoke and eat pizza. He walks in the living room, talking loudly on the phone, and says, "Hell, yeah! I'll come over tomorrow to pick up some blow."
as the brother of a former meth addict. cut him out of your life as soon as possible. if you live together and he is the one leaving, change the locks. if you are leaving dont let him know where your new place is. and keep an eye out for any of his friends folliwing you. anyone who says im being harsh has never been pushed through a glass door for not remembering if the phone rang a few hours ago.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:34:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know other people have told you, but I want to reiterate: be careful leaving this person. When he finds out that his easy source of meth money is going away, he will not be happy. Protect yourself!
Make sure that none of his things are there when he returns. If anything is there, he can claim he lives there and will need to be evicted. Depending on the state, I suppose. I had to help my best friend move all of her psycho exes things into a storage unit while he was in a psych ward, and then she put a restraining order on him. Make sure all evidence of him is gone, and good luck.
Yes, I plan on giving him everything of his back. I don't want it. He can have all the shit he's been stealing from God knows where back too. I just want out. I don't think a restraining order will be necessary though.
I’m not saying you keep anything, I’m saying if anything of his is still inside your home he can claim to be a tenant and force you to give him 30 days to vacate. Everything of his has to be removed from the property, not just boxed up and ready to go.
I see, fair point. I'll check the laws where I am at to be sure. I plan to offer to help him drive his stuff over and be as adult as possible. I think that he hates cops enough he won't try to pull something over on me like that but I can't be sure. Thanks for the heads up.
Mine does coke almost every night and gets shit faced drunk and goes to his friends house till 3 am while I take Care of our 5 month old infant and 5 year old son. And Has the nerve to say that I've gotten so boring and I don't like to have fun. Glad to know I'm not alone 😂
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You've made an excellent plan and I wish you the best!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 08:46:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, I'm just a nothing to nobody. As a former needle junkie I just want to tell you that you are making the right move! The toxic people we have in our lives tend to pull us back into the cesspool we're trying to get out of. Also, if I may suggest, when you get out of rehab find something to do on a regular basis to attend to your recovery. I go to AA because that works for mr even though I'm a non believer. Maybe it works for you maybe it doesn't but it doesn't matter. Do something! AA, NA, HA, CA, Smart Recovery, Counseling, Yoga, church, whatever. They told me in detox that once a person becomes an addict their neural pathways are permanently altered. I don't know anything about neurophysiology, but I choose to believe them. It seems better to me that I would continue to address my recovery even though I don't have to than the consequences of not attending to the issue if they are right. Finally, if you slip (you don't have to but I did) just remember as long as you are alive you have a chance to move forward. It may not seem like it but you do. Most of he bridges I thought I burnt were repaired in time. You are worth it! I am proud of you! You can do it!
It seems so scary to me but I feel like finding something to do to improve myself is the right path. I had previously tried to get YTT certified but fell short of the requirements. I hope I can get back into it when I get back. Thank you for this advice and for taking the time to encourage me. I hope that you've found peace with your demon finally. It gives me hope to hear your story. Thank you so much :-)
Yeah, it was a rollercoaster when I told him. He took off with $100 of mine, he owed me and got paid that night. I spent hours waiting for him and trying to get a hold of his mom to drop off his stuff. I finally coaxed him out of silence by saying I had the title to his bike, I was bluffing. Finally brought the money and took off with a birthday invitation (I scratched out all the info so he wouldn't harass them).
I went to pack at about 4am and right as I lied down around 6am, he came back knocking on my back door for his stuff. I asked if he wanted me to help take it to his moms and he said no. Then he kept saying I still had stuff of his in my place amd that my friend Matt was in the condo with me, he wasn't and he had everything. He rode off carrying everything on his bike after an hour and a half of keeping me from getting any sleep. I had to be up by 9am to leave for vacation with my mom.
I missed him so much while I was away. He started calling me and texting me on my last day and asked how vacation was. He told me he was really sorry and he missed me. He wanted to come home. He said he wasn't proud of the things he had said and done in the past. He seemed sincere and asked for another chance. I told him that I'm not in a place to be dating and that I can't take us seriously until he proves he can handle his own shit. He will be living at his moms for now and has been talking about getting his own place.
I'm proud of him for owning up to his mistakes and wanting to be better. I'm still not sure he doesn't want to do drugs. I asked him if it weren't for everyone getting mad at him, would he still do drugs and he said yes.
We both have some growing up to do and ourselves to work on. Although, he has been really sweet and showing up every morning since to see me and bring me gifts, make me breakfast, and tells me all kinds of sweet things.
I don't want him to feel like he can't have fun or live his life the way he wants, so we will see how long his efforts last. He knows where I stand.
Thank you for asking :-) Hope you're having a good day, and Happy 4th if you're in America!
Holy moly, that’s quite a story. I’m glad you stood strong and told him to get his life together. Even if it doesn’t work out you can hold onto the fact that you did everything the right way. I hope you continue to improve your life and the lives of those around you.
You sound like an awesome individual— keep looking for opportunities to better yourself and only good things will happen for you. All the best 🙂
I definitely didn't do everything the right way. I can tell he is a little resentful for springing it on him. I tried to talk about it to him and he got audibly upset. I'm not sure if I should take it as hostility or defensiveness. Either way, it made me sad he couldn't open up to me. That's probably my fault. I can make hurtful observations people aren't ready to hear.
At this point, I don't know how to treat the relationship. Sometimes I think he would be happier with someone else and he is only with me because it's the easier option (ya know, other than being homeless and not having his dick sucked). I would hate to waste the best years of my life only to end up with stretch marks, gray hair, a saggy ass and single in my 40's cuz the guy finally found the "one".
Sometimes I can tell he is happy with me and loves me. But its cloudy and not clear yet. I would hate for time to tell to late. I wish I could make a decision and be certain I will be happy with it. Because I was so sad without him but I can't help but feel like maybe I would be better off with someone more like me. Someone who doesn't say my sweaty hands are gross and that my cooking is good or at least not tell me I should change the way I look because I'm pale with gray eyes.
Sorry for the ramble. I'm still as lost as ever.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Says a lot about a person when they're too much of a coward to break up with someone they no longer want to be in a relationship with and instead treat them poorly until they give up and leave.
That's pretty much the reason I broke up with a dude last year, we ended up getting back together awhile afterward and it went downhill pretty quickly again for various reasons, including the original ones. I specifically remember breaking up with him because it was the first time that I have personally ever broken up with someone to their face.
A few months after we started dating again, I dumped him again because it was already rocky, he didn't care about me in the relationship which was making me irritable all the time and he had said to me that he had been emotionally cheating on me with his now girlfriend. So I dumped him right there.
Afterwards we became "friends" because we seemed to get along on that level but he kept throwing it in my face that I was so mean to him and that's why he lost interest in me. And after months of that, I ended the friendship but not before he said, "Well, I was being friends with you because I think you're a good person, but you're abusive. That's why I ended the relationship twice!"
UH, what?? I ended the relationship twice, I reminded him of that and he still kept saying to my face that he broke up with me twice and had been trying to get rid of me.
He was a total gas-lighter. His now girlfriend that he had been "emotionally cheating" on me with had the audacity to message me to tell me that he and her had been hooking up and did I have anything she should know about him. I already knew she'd talked shit to him about me before so I told her he was perfectly normal, heard from a friend that 2 months in now he's already being degrading and controlling towards her and she just takes it.
I'm currently trying to exhibit such behaviors so that my girlfriend will break up with me instead of me having to break up with her, it doesn't seem like this was the case though!
My brother is in a stage where hes being super dirty and smelly and not taking showers.
This one time i bought him a deodorant. I started seing it in the same place for a couple days.. then weeks, IN THE SAME PLACE, not moving an inch.
So i opened it and placed a paper inside in a way that if you opened the thing it would fall. A month later one of those days when his smell was super gross i ask him if he has been using it and he says yeah of course. FUCKING LYING BASTARD i opened the thing and there it was the paper!!!!!
Edit: wow this blew up!
A couple notes, when I say he sleeps I don’t mean a lot lot. It’s more like a 2 hour nap every couple days which doesn’t actually surprise me cause really, what did you guys did as 15 year old? He just browses internet and talks with his friends and plays video games
Besides that everybody outside the house, every teacher and person says he’s super cheery in the school and outside.
He goes out and has friends and all that. It’s just that he didn’t use to shower that much because he didn’t needed it, but now with adolescence he does need it. He’s getting more used to doing that now as I haven’t smelled him in a week and before that in a month.
Anyway I asked him if he is feeling ok or if he is depressed and he says that no he’s okay and he just doesn’t smell himself and doesn’t realize when he smells bad so we have to remind him constantly.
Also he has a couple favorite shirts and jackets so he wears them A LOT, so even when he showers and cleans himself his clothes still smell sometimes and he is too lazy to go out and pick his own clothes!!
Is he in middle school (about 12-13)? This is a relatively normal thing for middle school boys - at the old school I worked at, counselors had to have regular conversations with kids discussing that they stink and what they need to do.
If he’s older, it could be a significant sign of depression and you might want to try to get him to a doctor.
Ya, I spend some time in the Army and so can tell you no one cases about your small dick or anything else, as long as you don't stink. Get in the fucking shower man.
Stationed with a dude that always wreaked. He was sent to a doctor about it and turned out he had a medical issue and would leave two to three times a day to shower. Of all the stank soldiers I came across, he’s the only one I couldn’t be mad at. He tried. Took meds, injections, and constant showers to make us more comfortable. He was a skinny guy too. Can’t imagine being deployed with him not being able to bathe constantly.
One of my brother in laws is like that. My SO and I noticed that he never, ever drinks water-it was always some sort of soda or sweet tea. He finally started drinking some water (not much, but better than nothing) and the smell got noticeably better. It makes me wonder how many stinky people smell like that because their poor bodies are screaming for just plain water.
While I can’t say this guy drank water when not around other soldiers, I do know he had to drink it in the motorpool. Had a high strung NCO that wouldn’t allow anything else. This was in 2004, so my memory may not be accurate, but I think it was something to do with a thyroid or lymph node or something that sounded enough like one of them to make me think of them. He got Botox injections in his armpits to cut back on the sweating, and I believe he said his risk of cancer was high because of it. Again, it was 14 years ago, so I could be off. I’m only positive that it was a medical condition that he had meds and Botox for. He was always sweating.
That is really a bad situation, at least he tried and I agree if people know you take care of yourself then there is nothing to be mad about. We had a guy who was embarrassed to shower when it was shower time, he was caught washing his balls in the mop closet. Dude took a ton of shit for that, eventually he realised no one was gonna be creeping on him in the shower bay and got right.
We had a guy similar to that. He was super tall and showered when everyone else did, but always seemed to miss spots. Like having camo behind his ears long after we’d returned from the field. He was forced in the shower and a group of guys were sent in with him and toilet brushes to scrub him.
As fucked up as that is, the guys sent in with him feigned doing what they were told while he showered, and pointed out the spots he kept missing. I wasn’t in that group, but he went onto AIT with me and told me about it. I was glad to hear that. He went on to become a solid soldier.
O man, having a battle buddy help in the shower, not even once lol. Glad his crew was cool and didn't follow through. In our basic the hot water was off for the first 6 weeks, we did basic in February and it was so cold. The drill sergeants found out more than half way through and said we should have said something. We all figured it was so we couldn't spend more time than necessary to get clean. No one was gonna complain, and they found out after things get a bit more relaxed and they aren't as I. Your face.
That's social suicide period. Nobody likes it when people smell offensively bad.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 19:23:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My poor roommate used to live with a slob. She didn't take care of herself or her place. Dirty clothes were everywhere even the kitchen. Wanna sit on the couch? Gotta shove crusty thongs out of the way first. She never bathed and in spite of all her clothes everywhere was ALWAYS naked when company wasn't there. He told me he could smell her vagina from across the room (doesn't help that she would sit spreading her legs) and the times I've been there when she lifted her arm a bit too high and smelt that grossness I believe him that it wasn't any better down there.
xAyura · 12 points · Posted at 19:46:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to vomit. How is she so gross and so public with it?
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 19:52:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She just was one of those people that her outsides matched the inside except to be honest she was worse inside surprisingly so as a result she didnt care about anything or anyone. Anything given to her would immediately be destroyed and if you did anything nice she bitched (after a rager at her place i woke up from rhe couch and cleaned her kitchen for her while she slept since we all had trashed it and she got mad that i didnt also put up her dishes, the ones in her dishwasher from her personal use not the party). Oooh the stories I could tell...
Edit: to elaborate on how gross she lived, ALL hard flooring was sticky. I agreed to house sit to watch their dogs and thought I would knock the cobwebs and clothes off of her old treadmill for a run but I didn't last more than 3 steps because even that was sticky. There were no safe places.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:17:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh gosh nonono. I'd never suggest that. Just poor choice of words on my part.
[deleted] · -54 points · Posted at 15:12:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 15:28:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, you’d be surprised. Especially considering how venomous I have seen high schoolers treat each other at times, it would be way harder if you don’t at least have a couple of people you could count on in school
It's going to be rough but so what? Almost no one, not even people who don't go to college and don't move, stays friends with their high school friends except maybe one or two. A lot of people have bad high school experiences but you can start anew after it.
High school is a time when you start learning to interact with others on a more adult level. If you are an outcast through that time you don't get that valuable practice. Not saying a kid can't recover from that, but certainly some don't.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 15:43:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn’t say anything about friend groups breaking up. What I said was that having at least a few close friends to rely on can make a shitty phase of life far more tolerable.
Alright Reddit, calm down with the downvotes. He misread the parent comment. Jeez.
Ainyan · 17 points · Posted at 16:59:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If he were still in middle school, I'd say it was normal (years of teaching and the stench can still overpower me) - but 15/16 is past the age where most kids usually start realizing how important hygiene is to being socially and sexually acceptable. I urge you to keep an eye on him - poor hygiene, poor sleep habits - does he hermit up? Is he obsessive about anything such as video games, a fandom, reading, cars, etc? I'd start being concerned about depression or other issues. Are you still in school? Can you bring it up with his school counselors if your parents are disinterested?
It is, it started super light, in the sense that he was skipping a shower once every now and then.
That went for a year. Then he entered the phase where your body actually smells if you don’t take showers (that’s adolescence right?) and you actually have to wear deodorant.
So at that point he started smelling bad maybe once a month.
And then since last year maybe mid year he’s being smelling super bad like every 3 days.
Fortunately it’s getting better, haven’t smelled him in quite some time
I have a student that is smelly and around that age (a bit older actually). I've debated with myself a lot if I should say something to him? Like, he's probably not even aware. I see him for only 2 hours every week. But if I am to say something, what/how should I say it?
Do you have a counselor that could handle the situation? They are generally trained with what to say, because sometimes it’s a puberty/laziness issue, other times it could be because water got turned off at the house or his family is homeless.
Well...no. it's a language school, so they are there for those two hours and that's it. I know he doesn't have a lot of money but he can't be completely poor because the shool is kind of expensive. Maybe I'll just let him figure it out by himself
My son is 12.5 and is definitely going through the stinky no showering phase! Drives me crazy. I feel really mean having to be very blunt and say 'Son, you stink' but subtle hints and asking nicely achieves nothing. Praying he grows out of it!
I remember they gave us little deodorant sticks during the puberty talk. I, and I suspect many others, didn't really start using it until I experienced the horror of simultaneously realizing that girl is really pretty and my armpits smell like rotten cheese.
I know somebody who didn't get this talk until he was in high school. His mom never taught him proper hygiene so an adult had to talk to this poor teenage bastard about taking care of himself.
You know your brother better than I do! Also changes in sleep patterns can be one of the signs. Honestly depression been be hard to detect because the symptoms are so benign at first and when you think of illness you do the mental checklist for things like nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, etc... Not things like an inability to focus, weight loss or gain, that kind of thing.
Dont worry! Youre not overstepping any boundry, i know oversleeping can be a sign of depression thats why i told you.
I read a lot about depression some time ago as i was kinda suffering of it and thats why i can tell hes not, at least i hope.
Thanks for the concern anyway! But yeah of course I am on the lookout for any other signs
Just so you know, depression can look different in different people! Mariah Carey recently revealed she has bipolar disorder, which means she has periods of depression and periods of mania. She suffered with it for years before she realized what it was because one of her biggest symptoms of mania was agitation, or irritability, and she didn't realize that is what mania can look like sometimes.
When I was depressed as a teenager it mostly came out as anger at a parent who I didn't get along with. I managed to keep good grades and have a good time with friends, but I was really dragged down by feeling upset and edgy when I was at home. I think I forced myself to try and have a good time when I wasn't home because I was so miserable when I was at home. When I look back at the friendships and relationships I had during that time, they were really superficial because I was carrying around this huge problem of my family relationships all the time, and I didn't have any energy to spare for these other relationships. I just sort of glided through them, happy I wasn't at home.
I thought the same thing about my brother. Turns out he was. I have it so I know the signs but i couldn’t see it in him. Unless you’re medically trained don’t discount it or you may regret it
My best friend had all of that too. I knew him his entire life. All the major signs of depression but everyone (including me and his family) wrote it off because he “has a lot of friends and he’s always happy when he is with them,” etc.
Instead of trying to get him the help he needed, we all ignored the symptoms and assumed everything was fine. He hung himself just shy of his 18th birthday (late 2014).
Like someone said above, I don’t want to overstep my boundaries, but don’t write off the symptoms just because someone appears happy in other ways. It isn’t a constant sadness - you can still be mostly happy while dealing with severe depression.
He could still have depression, even if that's true. Or another problem. You should try talking to him about it instead of assuming or waiting until there is a problem.
This described me as a teenager and I was clinically depressed for 10 years. Not saying your brother is/isn't depressed, but these things don't rule it out.
Newsflash. Having friends and being happy with them, going out and doing stuff, attending schol and having good grades do not preclude someone from having depression. In fact very often times people who have depression try to cope with their depression with social activities and try to hide their depression so people won't judge them and see how they feel inside.
I'm not saying your brother has depression but don't be so sure he doesn't have it either. Be sure to talk with him and really try to discover if he needs help rather than assuming he's fine.
You can have all that and depression. I did too. The home situation was more than enough to break me after awhile. I couldn't keep up with life anymore after trying and doing well for so long. People were shocked, even my own brother, when it came out I was having harmful thoughts and severe depression because I just tried so hard to be normal and to be happy that they thought I was. Don't get me wrong, I was really happy around my friends and all that. But the home environment can really get to someone. Hope he is well though!
Sounds more like a teenager to be honest, how old is he if you dont mind me asking? It sounds more like he just got the the age of where showers become more important and he isn't self aware of his cleanliness
That sounds just like me except I go to therapy for anxiety and depression. :/
Not saying that he has depression, just that you can't exclude the possibility due to him enjoying the company of his friends or has good grades.
This is a fantastic way to be a douche and get your brother to hate you. If he doesn't want to take a damn shower don't make him take a damn shower. How about we respect peoples bodily autonomy.
"I was joking. Here's an explanation for why I wasn't joking."
You're fully within your rights not to stand next to a stinky person. That's your bodily autonomy. You're not within your rights to alter someone elses bodily autonomy or tell them how to live their life because you think they smell bad.
I'm super happy when I talk with my friends as well, and when I'm together with my wife, but I also want to kill myself and think about that a lot and nobody has any idea.
You should talk with your brother about it. considering you have relevant experiences, whatever made you depressed could be having a long term effect on him.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:18:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 16:12:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah well a self diangonsis and some googling makes you the expert so there we have it!
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 17:07:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Take my upvote just for saying he knows his brother better than you do. So tired of self-righteous people on the internet trying to tell everyone else about their own friends/family. The way you respectfully presented it as just a possibility was perfect
Depression is not all about being sad, nor is it always obvious. I'm starting to realize I've been depressed for a long, long time, and didn't even realize it, myself.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:15:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not all depressed people stop bathing, and not all people with hypersomnia are depressed. If you’re worried about it, I’d def check with your doctor, though.
Yeah, guys don’t really have a dirty phase. It’s definitely something else, or the family
Needs to reinforce proper hygiene habits so he isn’t called Stinky for the rest of he life and gets no girls
You probably do t want to hear this but a kid at a church I use to go to hung himself when he was about 16. No one saw it coming he seemed pretty normal to most people. After the funeral and some time passed when talking to the family about his behavior before it happened it turns out he was showing almost the entire checklist for depression. The family just didn’t know.
Not saying he has this or that but sleeping a lot is a big sign of depression and I know if I get in a bad stretch of depression the first thing that goes is my self hygiene. I’ll go days, maybe a week or more without showering brushing my teeth ect.
I think your brother will hate you now if you tell him he smells awful but I think later he'll be grateful. I mean it should be your parents job to do that but since they don't do much about it. I had times where I wished my parents were a little more involved in things like that.
Time for an intervention. Either depression nor just teenagery lack of hygiene. Intervene!
That being said, one of my 13YO Girl Scouts hasn't figured out she needs to wear deodorant yet, and it's going to be an awkward convo with her later this week.
tavy87 · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I slept a lot too and didn't care for personal hygiene when I was depressed. And being depressed made it easy not to care about getting undepressed.
a-r-c · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't want to try and convince you, just want to share my experience. I suffer from depression and it's actually incredible how the people close to me don't know. I just recently opened up to my girlfriend about it and she was surprised. We have been living together for a couple years and she knew that it was something in my past but didn't think it was prevalent in my life anymore. My parents and siblings have never known. Depression is called the invisible disease for a reason. Hope everything works out for you and yours.
You obviously know your brother well and hence think he isn't depressed but let me tell you that my parents, sister, relatives and friends didn't realize I had severe depression for 6 years, until I attempted suicide. And my case isn't unusual among people with depression. You should try talking to him to see why he's being like this, if he is indeed depressed, your support would be a big help.
Everyone is reminding you about depression, but when I was that age I went to sleep at 5am and woke up around noon, then played video games all day (in the summer) so he could just be like I was. Wasn't depressed, just a teenage.
ok, seriously, what kind of doctor do you talk to in that situation? i don't want to self diagnose but all of those apply to me on a regular basis. i have been putting off talking to someone, thinking it was just hormones (am 18), but i would like to figure out if it is something else
Definitely worth checking out with a psychiatrist, the earlier the better. If you are depressed, wielding the tools to deal with it will help you so much both now and in the future.
EzPzAf · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You: hey buddy, listen. I’m your older bro/sis, and as so I feel it’s my duty to take care of you. X, y, and z suggest to me that you may be depressed, are you feeling okay?
Him: yeah, I’m fine
You: THEN GET YOUR LAZY ASS IN THE SHOWER RIGHT NOW
iSeize · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't know how old he is but I probably had a phase like that. It's having too few responsibilities I think. Too much free time to sit in your room on the computer
You say your parents were not good at raising kids, do you think he never got sat down and explained proper hygiene? Everybody had talk when they hit puberty that they have to make sure to shower on the regular and wear deodorant every day. I think that might get to be your job!
aranok · 123 points · Posted at 14:48:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Of course be careful, but I just want to chime in that if he's like 11-14 this might just be lazy boy behavior yknow?
Yeah it MIGHT be but it also MIGHT NOT. It's better to be safe than sorry. If someone is exhibiting signs of depression it's better to talk to them and talk to a professional or seek a guidebook for how to parse out depression by taking to an individual rather than just assuming he's fine.
a-r-c · 6 points · Posted at 17:37:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree but we also shouldn't just assume someone is depressed either.
If he's leading a normal life otherwise (good grades, healthy social network, etc.) then he's just being a gross smelly teenage boy.
aranok · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, the reason I said this is that obviously it's A symptom but not THE symptom. I have depression, but I'm generally pretty clean with myself. Lazy though. Meanwhile my 13 year old brother hasn't been diagnosed (my parents checked when I was) but it's a mission getting him to clean
8337 · 24 points · Posted at 16:12:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly what I thought. Sleeping a lot, plus refusing to shower = typical 13 year-old boy.
In a year or so he’ll discover girls and his hygiene will improve. And he’ll start taking many, many long showers.
If he's 15 I'm sure he's already discovered girls. Teenagers start to notice the opposite sex earlier than we like to think. I knew kids my age who were already having sex when I was 13.
Thank you... As a young teenager I was extremely depressed and suicidal, didn't give a shit about my self, didn't take care of my hygiene, gained a bunch of weight, slept all day.
My family just kept talking shit about how lazy I was.
I'm just saying, I'm pretty sure everyone's little brother went through a phase in middle school where they just didn't shower. Mine did, my friends' brothers did. Chalking up normal, if not unfortunate human behaviors to some kind of disorder trivializes actual mental illness. Sure, there are different degrees of mental illness, but questioning all normal behaviors perpetuates the idea that something is wrong with you if you do things that aren't 100% healthy all the time.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's the refusal to understand that your body has changed in the past year or so, and it requires different maintenance now. I never, ever brushed my hair as a kid and I hated showering. Showering every day seemed excessive. It's a teen thing.
It’s true. When I have a really bad depressive episode, I don’t give a fuck about showering, brushing my hair or teeth. I just want to lay in bed and sleep and forget everything else.
My oldest nephew is much the same, it's absolutely grim. He does occasionally wash, but no spray, and then puts his dirty clothes back on. He's been like it since he hit puberty, and he's now 20 :( it wasn't the way he was raised, as my mil, his nan, brought him and his siblings up, and she is very particular about home and self :(
My brother does this. He says that he just doesn’t care about what he looks like and that he can’t smell himself, so why should anyone else care. He also has unruly mop hair and a neck beard that’s sort of attached to his little mustache.
My parents and I have been in a battle about this with him since he was about 14 and he’s 22 now.
He is also stubborn to a fault, so I think to a degree he’s not changing just to not change.
He’s such a sweet person. He teaches music lessons and is always really great to talk to when I’m feeling down about myself. Him evolving into a fullblown incel is one of my biggest nightmares, honestly.
it does sound like depression though or at least low self esteem. I was that person albeit I'd grown out of it by my 20s after meeting my now wife.
The whole "I don't give a shit and nobody can make me" is what my therapist called "pre-rejection". Essentially you put people off deliberately via aspects of yourself you aren't emotionally connected to in order to shield yourself from rejections over aspects of yourself you hold in high esteem.
If nobody gets to know the real you, they can't reject the real you.
Good on him for that. Hopefully, keeping his apartment clean is a sign that he is starting to understand the impact of cleanliness on his quality of life.
We are half way convinced about reincarnation, thanks to him. Definitely a touch of the sloth about him. He's also got a bad habit of lying. He says what he thinks you want to hear, e.g. he'll say he's employed, but he really isn't, because the shop he claims to work at has been boarded up for months. Just silly crap, like he's tidied, but hasn't. I love him dearly, but he has no get up and go :(
Sounds like he has depression and he's trying to cover it up. Maybe try to have empathy and help him out rather than just dumping on him for not having the same energy that you do.
No, he really doesn't, but I understand your concerns, given that lack of motivation, no longer caring about yourself, can be signs of depression. He's always been laid back, and has a cheery personality, just goes with the flow. I think some of it was picked up from his mother, before he moved in with his nan. She would sit on her backside, expecting everyone else to cook, clean, deal with the kids. If there wasn't anyone to take over, things simply didn't get done :(
Sounds like his brother is hopefully not depressed, just a young teen who is figuring life out. I, too, have a hard time motivating myself to shower when I’m depressed.
The reasoning she gives of why her brother isn't depressed is horrible. I'm not he is or isn't but it's pretty obvious he really isn't informed about it one way or the other.
This is a very common thing among people with asperbergers as well, there are many different spectrums of asperbergers (don't know all the terms in English) so it doesn't have to be very obvious but might also be something to keep in mind.
The reason I know is that my brother is on the mild side of this spectrum and what you are describing is exactly what made us figure out he had it.
I'm sure your brother is fine but it might be good to know.
Edit: I meant autism, apparently in my country the have somehow merged aspebergers and autism and it's now part of the same spectrum and one doesn't have specifically asperbergers instead they're just somewhere on the autism spectrum.. I'm not a doctor so I don't know shit about this and I also don't live or meet my brother that often to have enough information about all of this but I just know that poor hygiene is a common thing for people on the autism spectrum.
zbud · 1 points · Posted at 07:58:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother went through this phase. It lasted at least 15 years. Sometimes they need to be taken outside with soap, a hose, and a wire brush, then given The Business. If you can't shower at least once a week, you can't live here.
I agree with what others have said about it possibly being depression.
On a lighter note, could you get him the spray deoderant or cologne? The spray bottles might appeal to him more? Although they don't save much time compared to the stick deoderant.
Maybe gentle discuss how girls (or guys...whichever gender he's into) won't find the BO attractive.
Was 99.99% sure that my at a camp last year didn’t brush his teeth for 28 days straight and lied when I got the RA to confront him about it. When we were unpacking to leave at the end, I watched him uncover a toothbrush that was buried under all his clothes THAT WAS STILL IN THE BOX!!
My brother went through this phase as an early teen so I used to wake him up for school (he was notorious for sleeping through his alarm) with a super soaker filled with soapy water. Gotta love siblings!!
I noticed my roommates bath towel in college never moved... for over a week. I had to report him to the RM and we all had a talk about mental health and personal care... scary times
I really don't think he's lazy, he just don't have the motivation. And if there's no motivation to do even simple things that produce immediate results, very likely depression. Be kind, don't shout or tell him to get over it, so he can be honest with you.
Edit: To add a suggestion, maybe ask him why he's not showering or using deodorant in a calm curious tone. Don't try to shame him for it, let him answer first, so you can gauge the situation.
What the hell man? If I go out without deodorant for a day, I myself would notice how bad I smell in like 3 hours, never mind someone who just passes me and gets smacked with that stink.
Naisco · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I gave you an upvote. Not because of your story (although I think its funny) but because of beeing a good older brother/sister and buying him a deodorant. My little brother had the same stage and I only told him to use deo but he shouldn't dare to use mine. And the poor guy didnt even have money.
The technique with the paper...isn't that more or less the same one from Death Note that Light did to check if people entered his room before him? I remember I used it in middle school to check if someone was taking things from my locker after one of my school supplies disappeared. It makes you feel like a freaking genius.
I used to do this shit all the time when I was stupidly depressed. Even when people kept telling me I smelled like shit I just ignored it.
Eventually I just decided nothing was getting better with how things were going so I tried to change some stuff, first being showering every day. I fucking hated it at first but eventually started liking it. Another thing that helped was finding soaps and cologne that I really liked the smell of so I'd want to shower so I could smell nice.
Maybe take him out and get him a bottle of cologne he thinks smells really nice and maybe he might be more apt to shower regularly. Or he'll just drown himself in it thinking it will work like a shower. Who knows.
You could also offer to take him places he's really like to go on the condition he showers first. Might make him feel better.
Just don't try to put him down or make him feel shit about it. Small things matter a lot when you're depressed.
My brother has been exactly the same since about 14/15 years of age up until very recently at nearly 20, except he also used to go WEEKS without stepping foot inside a shower. My (now ex) boyfriend back when I was 15-18 was also the same, would happily go weeks without showering or washing his hair. Both smelled absolutely disgusting, of rotting BO, and neither cared. Both were also notably overweight with long-ish hair and a lot of body hair, making it even worse, and both would refuse deodorant.
Are there any theories or studies about why this sudden aversion to self-hygiene arises in teenage boys? It seems like it's way more common than I'd assumed.
not me but one of my friends knows someone like that, he stuck a rolling paper to the bottom of his bath, he went round 2 months later and the rolling skin was still stuck to the bottom lol. some people are gross.
Ha! My daughter tried to pull that with her washcloth. She said she was ready to get out. I asked if she had washed her body. She said she did. I noticed her washcloth was dry and in the same spot.
Told her quit being a tiny little fibber. She asked how I knew. Told her I'm a mom and I just know these things. No need to help her figure out how to lie better lol
"Because I'm a Mom and I know everything! It's part of the magic." My kids think they're slick, too, but still believe in magic kisses and my omniscience xD
Mine is still pretty sure I have eyes in the back of my head and wonders why she doesn't have any there. I told her you don't get them until you become a mom!
When I was little I asked my if it was ok to say crap, was told no, it’s not a nice word. I then of course was saying “crapcrapcrapcrap” in my head and was then told “not even in your head” and I never up to that point felt so afraid.
kaelne · 63 points · Posted at 16:05:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right--next time the kid's just gonna wet his toothbrush. My cousin used to do this with showers. He'd wet his hair and play his gameboy for half an hour in the bathroom.
When my son was about four I used to tell him a little red dot that "only moms could see" would show on his forehead when he lied. I realize I was lying to him but it was so damned cute to see him cover his forehead when he told me he had already brushed his teeth, picked up his toys, etc.
I tried to lie and tell my mum I had washed my face. She asked why the cloth was dry. My best under pressure response? I only used a tiny corner of it. That didn’t work. My sister’s response; she just used her hands.
No idea if my sister was also lying, but I learned two things that day; I am not good at lying under pressure and my sister is smarter than I am.
Yea it's unfortunately but lying is essential to living nowadays. And not just lying, but covering them up well.
"Oh yea, I finished that report, I just forgot to leave it on your desk before I left. It'll be there first thing tomorrow, my mistake"
cue to midnight shot of doing the report at home in bed, morning shot of going to your office first to drop stuff off and "get the report", and hand it in
My daughter was about 3 when she told her first fib. It wasn't anything significant...I don't remember what it was. But, I knew she was being dishonest with me. I told her that when she fibbed, her ears turned red. For the following year, every time she went to tell a lie, she'd cover her ears with her hands. Shame on me for lying to her about the red ears, but I'll be damned if I didn't die laughing inside every time her hands went to her ears.
I was quite the wild kid and would go places I shouldn't go alone, so she told me she had informants all over the village. I wasn't the brightest of kids and very talkative , so this basically became self-fulfilling, where I'd tell people I met in different places what my mom said and asked them if they were informants and they would always say yes, which always ended with me running back home
Exactly what my grandmother said to my little brother when he insisted that he'd brushed his teeth. "That toothbrush is DRY AS A BONE! Get back in there!"
I tricked my parents into thinking I brushed my teeth by putting a tiny bit on the brush rinsing it off then scrubbing my teeth with a hand towel then flossing and throwing in a Listerine strip just so I could give a little smug "brushed my teeth see!" When I was younger I thought It was most genius trick but in the end my parents still won so they didn't bother
That was exactly me in childhood... I'd use one of those dental picks and mouthwash. Don't know why I resisted brushing my teeth or what I hoped to gain with this petty strategy lol
When we were younger, my brother used to hate brushing his teeth for some reason, and would avoid it as often as possible and lie about doing it. One night I walked into the bathroom to see him just standing there with his toothbrush on, doing nothing...
That edit just made my day. I'm totally using that on my nephew.
ZB43 · 6 points · Posted at 16:12:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mother once shouted at me for this even though I did brush my teeth. I brushed them then went to say goodnight, and she asked me if I did. I said I had, but she just decided that I haven't.
That's when I realised being right isn't as useful as speaking loud.
My mom did this too, and said she felt the brush and it was dry. That was confusing to me because I really had brushed my teeth, but it was electric and I let it run for a little while after all done and cleaned so that it dries faster.
ZB43 · 1 points · Posted at 08:10:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mum caught me out with this when I was a kid, so me being petty decided next time to rinse my brush, put toothpaste on it, stand there for 2 minutes then rinse it without actually brushing my teeth.
My little brother figured out to wet his toothbrush so we had to start smelling his breath. With the amount of time he spent trying to fake brushing his teeth he could have just brushed his fucking teeth.
I was so petty about this as a kid that I would stand in the bathroom,door closed, turning the water off and on every so often and wetting the brush for like 2 minutes instead of brushing my teeth even though brushing would’ve been less work
"You know, I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it... to see if you actually brushed your teeth... or just ran your toothbrush under the faucet."
Alright, just not always!
My dad tried to do this go me about brushing my teeth in the morning. But the thing is that I wake up at 6 and brush my teeth then. He gets out of the shower around 930 and then goes around checking stuff in the house. When he came back from work, he tried to confront me about it and I was really confused. I knew I had brushed my teeth, but my dad said that my toothbrush was dry! It was pretty frustrating
You killed the goose that laid the golden eggs to pay for that triumph. Now your kids will run their brushes under the faucet.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know I have a friend that works at the police crime lab. I could give him your toothbrush and he can analyze it to see if you've really brushed your teeth or if you've just ran it under the water.
I was a little shit back in the day and would wet the toothbrush and the sink to get away with this stuff. Honestly it took about as much trouble as brushing my damn teeth in the first place.
Fuck I was just thinking about this yesterday. I had some siblings/foster siblings who had FASD (mild to moderate at worst) who would constantly lie about brushing their teeth and that would ALWAYS get them! I'm not talking once or twice, I'm talking years of them lying and never figuring out that literally all they had to do was wet their toothbrush.
Had this happen to me as a kid, never made that mistake again.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom forced me to take fish pills everyday but they were too big to swallow so I told her to put it in peanut butter, no way that was working. I would go wipe it off the spoon with my finger then wash my hands in the bathroom sink. One day, she noticed a small piece of peanut butter on the side of the sink. Needless to say I took them everyday in front of her.
That was when my routine became put toothpaste on brush. Wet brush. Let brush run for a few minutes and then wash brush. Got caught because of my breath a few times.
"I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it to see if you actually brushed your teeth or ran your toothbrush under the faucet."
I did the opposite for some reason when I was a kid. Thought it would be funny to brush my teeth and then dry my toothbrush on the hand towel the best I could. Because then I actually brushed my teeth, but mom would think I hadn't.
Got a spanking for lying about brushing my teeth when I hadn't since my brush was dry and had to brush them a second time...
I always cover my tracks. I was supposed to walk my dog while my mom was out, my dog and I both took a nap. She left the leash on the floor as a little trap. I picked it up and even took a poop bag out of the connected container.
My brother when he was 7: just washed myself!
Dad: okay, lift up your arms
(Brother lifts up his arms)
Dad: why are your armpits so dry?
Brother: (runs up stairs and washes)
Dad would always check different spots and say how dry they were and my brother would run up stairs at lighting speed.
My son would legit go into the bathroom, shut the door, wet his toothbrush, put a little bit of toothpaste on his teeth, and run the sink for like 2 minutes.
I caught him doing it once, and I laughed in his face and said, "How dumb is it that you're doing more work to fool me than you would if you'd just brush already?"
I lived with my dad and step-mom for a year when I was seventeen. I brushed my teeth every morning and night, but my step-mom still claimed I didn't brush them. She even said she felt my toothbrush and it was dry, but I definitely had brushed my teeth. It was really frustrating, because I had no way to defend myself against her saying "Your toothbrush isn't wet."
Parents think they slick, too. I remember after I brushed my teeth one night and my mom asked me that question. I went, grabbed my toothbrush, shoved it in her face and flicked the brushes. Her face was sprayed with water/saliva and I was yelled at.
Dude I’m 24 and still get caught in this lie, I work with my Dad at a resultant we own and other then him I’m there more then even our actual employees, so one day I’m headed home and he tells me to take a shower when I get home right away since we have a plumber coming in the next day so the water will be off. I get home but I’m just to ducking tired plus I have to go to my other job in like an hour so I say fuck it, one day without a shower won’t hurt. Go take a nap then spend the rest of the night at my second job. Come home and the water is already off and drained for the plumber who will be there in a few hours, take another nap before leaving and get woken up by my Dad to start the next work day and I’m asked “You take a shower last night?” And I reply yes he just nods and then asks “Where did you put the bucket?” What I didn’t realize was the morning before my dad had woken up extra early to drain the water and try to seal the drain up with some flex tape and a liquid rubber sealant and had drained the water into a bucket in the tub. The dumbstruck look on my face was all he needed to know I had lied.
I remember my best buddy staying over when I when I was little and making me prepare for the "smell test". To test his brushing, his mother would apparently smell his breath, so he said we had to eat toothpaste. Tbh we could've just brushed our teeth, because that was absolutely disgusting
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:13 on July 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nam flashback. My step dad asked me when I was 9 if I had brushed my teeth, I said "of course pete." He asked if I was sure, I said yea, he started getting irate, asked again, I even got him to smell my breath. He marches me across the house to our bathroom and slides his dirty sausage finger over my toothbrush, "its dry" he said. He gave me a good ass whooping for lying, that for the first time in my life made me fight back, because I knew he was wrong. I clawed that fuck in the face, even gave his nuts a tug in an attempt to hit them.
Ever since I could wipe my own ass I've taken my toothbrush after using it and given it a couple good smacks against the rim of the sink to dry it off. Bone dry every time. After that I went back to keeping my toothbrush in my bedroom since my older brother and sister would stick my dummy toothbrush up the dogs ass for fun.
WHO THE FUCK GOES AND LOOKS AT/FEELS SOMEONES ELSES TOOTH BRUSH TO SEE IF THEY HAVE USED IT?!?!?! FUCKING PETTY AS FUCK
Even if you are checking on if your child did it, just tell them to show you how they brush their teeth and help the children do it right. Don't creep in after them and go all CSI!
[deleted] · 70 points · Posted at 18:42:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old weed guy had really high quality stuff that was worth spending a little extra on, but he was so flaky and inconsiderate of time. I started going to his biggest competitor in town and have been copping from him ever since.
A girl I knew also used to cop from him. Why she stopped? One day she hit him up for an eighth. He says sure, I’ll be right there. He doesn’t show up. Two days later he texts her with “hey, do you still need that eighth?”
I once called a guy asking him to work a shift. He's like, "Oh I'm not at home and don't have my work clothes with me so I can't come in." so I responded, "I called your landline so I know you're at home. If you don't want to work that's fine, thanks anyway!"
[deleted] · 3403 points · Posted at 12:55:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex-girlfriend was blaming me for watching porn and she made me feel bad for a long time until I discovered she was watching hentai.
On a serious note, although I do watch a lot of anime (or at least a decent amount), my weeb friends consider me rather normie. I'm not as far gone as my comment suggests lol. Proof
No...I couldn't even see the former. Porn is porn. Every adult relationship I've had with women have not had the porn issue, save for one but she was kind of sexist and controlling. That sort of thing is usually found in high school relationships.
Yup HS gf, who I strongly suspect was cheating on me, got super mad at me that I would watch porn. She was my first 'true love' and I stayed longer than I should have...
Yeah I had the same. Looking back that relationship was kind of abusive. She had me convinced that it was cheating and everytime I "failed her" I would feel so guilty and tell her. She would then spend hours demanding to know exactly what I had looked at in great detail while she was crying.
A well balanced diet of porn is part of a healthy lifestyle. Like if you are committed to someone over a long period of time and not sleeping around, porn is a good release.
I dated a girl in university who made me promise not to ever watch porn and when I made some joke about it once she realised I had so she took me to a local park where she wanted us to talk about it like it was some huge issue that needed to be confronted. I couldn't believe her and she couldn't understand why I thought she was being weird.
She had a ton of issues about sex.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 00:41:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She should see the percentage on the amount of men and women that are watching porn.
NicoEF · 19 points · Posted at 20:54:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But see it's better since she isn't lusting after actual people. Now I personally don't believe in this, but if this was her reasoning I could see where she was coming from.
One girl I was with was always shy talking about porn. One day I asked to use her ipad, and she unlocked it and handed it to me and whaddyakno it was open to pornhub. I laughed and laughed as I tried to get her to watch something with me (she didn't want to, oddly enough)
I don't think it's that odd to want to keep that private. For some people, watching porn is like taking a shit. Just because they're comfortable doing it alone doesn't mean they want to hold the hand of some dude jerkin' it while they pinch a loaf.
bg-j38 · 42 points · Posted at 15:23:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got on my ex gf’s phone one day to google something, and pornhub was one of the suggested (frequently visited) sites that came up on the homepage. Never said anything about it, and I don’t think she realized it.
Hentai can be so, so much better than that one. In essentially every way. If you go to that one and click a tag which sounds nice (or even just click "English"), you'll find a very large selection.
She just wants you to be able to fill her love muffin with a gallon of your special cream filling.
[deleted] · 209 points · Posted at 15:41:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was the night time manager of a fast food place, and I religiously checked the time clock when I came in to make sure everyone was being paid to work (teenagers forget to clock in quite often!) and see who took breaks, etc.
I came in one day and noticed that someone was on the clock since 6am (it was around 4pm) but wasn't present. So I checked the printed schedule to see if there was any details to this. He was sent home sick at 620am, initialed by the manager I was relieving. Ok, no big deal. I clocked him out at 6:20am, and thought that was the end of it.
The "sick" employee came in at around 4:30pm to pick up his friend. Again, I didn't think a lot of it, but I did notice that he went into the back drive thru booth, which he had no business doing. I wasn't immediately able to address that fact, but when I took my dinner break around 7pm, I checked the time clock to make sure all was well with my employee's and their money. I noticed that he was clocked in from 4:30pm until I checked after being clocked out at 6:20am.
The first thing I did was print the screen, the second thing I did was clock him out, and third, I called the general manager. We had been looking for a reason to fire this guy for a while but the paper trail wasn't quite good enough yet. Until I religiously checked the time clock and saw him trying to steal time. Immediate dismissal.
Sure enough my GM and DM checked the cameras, he went back into the drive thru booth to "clock out" from his 6am shift. He tried to deny it, but my insane need to CYA when it came to the time clock, and the fact that all the registers were camera covered sealed his fate. He tried to say that I altered the time clock, but he forgot that we keep hand written notes on the schedule. The manager I relieved that day was always over detailed with her notes. Seeing him cry was so satisfying.
I mean I don't know that kids situation, but probably better the shitbird learn his lesson as a teen rather than when the consequences could have been more severe had he tried that stunt later in life.
One of my old bosses was a documented sexist (more on that later). My far more experienced female coworker and I worked together on something (more her than me) and she presented it to him. He basically worked himself up into a lather over how terrible and unsuitable it was. We spent like five minutes looking at it, decided that it was fine, so I went up and explained it (using the exact same words she said) and he sneered at her and said something like "See! Now THAT'S how this work is done!".
All our other coworkers were aware of what just happened.
When we decided to file a report on this and other similar behaviors, the lady at HR asked who it was and when we said his name she responded "Ah....yeah... he's known to be that way. Just ignore him, he's too valuable to fire.".
Lesson learned ladies (and guys, really just everyone), don't work for Raytheon.
Yeah, that was not a particularly great 3 years of life. There's a fairly solid set of reasons 9/10 college newhires leave before their first year is complete.
Can you go into more detail? I have two friends at the company, and my SO is applying to work there, and I want to be able to tell them what to look out for.
It is the standard reasoning that companies want to get as much work for as little pay as possible, that is to be expected. Raytheon takes it to unholy levels at times.
As my mentors at the company explained, the company goes through ~13 year cycles where on one side they shower you with bonuses and on the other side they make you guilty for having the audacity to expect your paycheck.
Around 4 years ago is when the recent downward cycle started.
To explain some common things though.
If you are a female you will experience rampant sexism from events like I mentioned up to actually being patted on the head and talked to cutely for having the right answer. That friend from the story? She had two parents that were high up in the company, and for Raytheon nepotism is the law of the land. Even with that power and clout she left the company because the promised "good pay" never arrived, after ~8 years of being in the company, leaving to another post at another company netted something like a +30K increase in pay for an equivalent position.
You are salaried but treated as hourly. Example: If one week you clock 39.5 hours, you get bitched at to make up the half hour next week or your pay is docked. If you work 40.5 hours you get bitched at to remove the half hour in one of the legally acceptable ways (or pushed to commit outright timecard fraud if you can't...a felony on government contracts) and complained about for "Nickel and diming the company" and "Not being a team player".
And that brings up timecards and vacation days! At one point Raytheon had sick days and vacation days. Then they decided to be nice and just add the two together and have lots of vacation days...then some bean counter said "This is unacceptable! We are giving an extra week of vacation over what our competitors do!" so newhires lost the week...and didn't get sick days back. Also, you can carry over a maximum of 40 hours PTO to a new year and are NOT given cash equivalent pay for the lost hours (ex: 42 hours left would normally get you 2 hours of normal pay added to your next paycheck)...even if the company had forbidden you from taking PTO. Which is a thing they can do indefinitely. It's usually not a thing, but there are numerous stories of projects where "Christmas was cancelled" and no compensation was provided.
With timecards, I explained about the "Officially unofficial policy" of encouraging/enforcing timecard fraud... which again is a felony. How do I know? Because it is part of the yearly training that is MANDATORY...but unpaid. That's right, you have mandatory training in a salaried job that you are forbidden from charging company time to. How much? Depends on when, but as an example, their Raytheon Six Sigma training (not mandatory but you receive a black mark each year you don't do it, which is used against you for pay increases) has two four hour sessions during the week...for somewhere between 4-6 weeks. (I forget how long.) By the way...this is the Raytheon branded Six Sigma training, so you won't get the official Six Sigma certificate which is actually valuable for getting jobs elsewhere. Other training can include safety training. Officially each department budgets for ~2 hours of training per person PER YEAR...but they might not authorize it's use.
Education: Raytheon does have college/masters assistance programs which officially allow you to get any degree/masters that is even somewhat technology/engineering related. In actuality, rarely do they let you choose what you want and only allow what helps them. Example: A friend wanted a master's degree in some generic radio field. They forced him to get it in "Phased Array Radar Design"... which means he can only use it to get jobs with other defense contractors.
Pay raises: Now I don't know if this policy still exists, but when I was there it did. Your department is given X number of dollars to use for raises, of whatever money is NOT assigned as raises 50% is given as bonus checks to the managers. As you can guess the moment this policy went into effect, pay raises dropped to almost nothing (I had friends in accounting, they showed me the charts). Of the years I was there, I got a 5% (better than cost of living), ~2% (cost of living), and 0%. The last one was told to us in the following format during a meeting (and I wish I was joking) one day "Unfortunately, due to the hard times on the company, we all have to tighten our belts. So for all non-manager levels 3 and below (levels are 1-7ish) there will be no raises this year. However, you are all invited to the company party on Wednesday because we are celebrating how the company stock has never been healthier!".
Performance reviews: Officially there is a quota system. Only X number of "Far Exceeds Expectations Of Position" are given out, Y number of "Exceeds", Z number of "Meets" and so on. This means that the Far Exceeds rating is given as a prize (usually for people that go out to site locations) instead of for earning it, same with Exceeds. Official company policy is that if you spent ~30% of your year doing work 2+ levels above the expectations, you get Far, if 1 level above then you get exceed. Except...this isn't how it works. As a college newhire (E01) I was performing system level verification work with direct contact with The Customer...this work is E04 level at MINIMUM by company policy. And this wasn't 30% of my year. This was 100% of my job tasking. Due to the horse trading with the Exceeds levels, I never got more than a meets. My staff-manager (I forget the proper name, but you've got a task manager and a staff manager) was actually a good one and he'd let you know if anything was cropping up that would be used against you during raise-time, so I'm fairly sure that my performance had nothing to do with it (not to mention I was consistently a week ahead of my assigned schedule...). So, don't expect to be rewarded for going above and beyond. (It took one manager three months of meetings and phone calls to authorize a single $500 bonus for working 12 hour days 5 days a week for 6 months... without overtime.)
Random incident: During the blizzard in MA a few years ago where the governor shut the roads down, management had to have people leave early and gave them a charge number to let you fill out the time card for the missed hours. This was on Friday. On Monday the charge number was revoked and you were told to work extra or fill in PTO to cover the missed time.
I can go on and on, but I strongly stress, if your SO has any other options, choose them.
Edit: Oh! And I forgot. I once asked how to become a manager. I was told that unofficial required reading was a book on how to emotionally manipulate your employees emotions to get work out of them. A specific example in the early pages of the book was "You have a worker that normally works 10 hours every day. His SO wants him to back it down to 8. By the end of this book, you will be able to convince him that what he needs to do to make her happy with him is to work 12 hours."
Edit: Hey thanks for the gold! Never quite sure how to respond to it, hah. I hope I've given people fair warning about this company. To be honest, there ARE some points which are nice about the company (it is EXTREMELY stable of a job)...but you have to be willing to accept the things I've said which are real problems that the company has.
elc0 · 97 points · Posted at 18:26:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Driving down the highway, about a mile from my exit, I notice a state police officer a couple hundred yards behind me, in the lane to my right. As I get closer to my exit, I signal and get over one lane (now in his lane), pause a moment, then into the newly formed exit lane. I watch the officer follow me off, and suspected something was up.
He flips on his light and I pull over. I roll my window down, and as he approaches my car I can see him already putting his hand on his gun. The tone in his voice is already quite aggressive given the situation. He ultimately writes me up for improper lane change and tinted windows. Apparently he thought I didn't notice his quite obvious state police car in my rearview in broad daylight, and just decided to get creative with reality. Of course I'm taking this one to court.
The court date arrives, I put on a button up and some slacks and head to court. I walk in, see the room filled, and notice he's not there. We all sit around for several minutes, our excitement growing by the minute as we may get off easy this day.
Suddenly I hear this melodic whistling come in from the doors behind me. I snap my head around, its him. The officer strutting through the court room doors in a dark plaid suit, rocking a fedora, snapping his fingers to his melody all the way to his seat. Yes, this really happened...
The judge comes in shortly after. We all rise, then take our seats, and what do you know... I'm first up. The judge lays out my offenses, asks how I plead, I say innocent. She asks the officer why he had stopped me. He outright lies, saying he was in an unmarked car that day and caught me driving recklessly. She then asks me to clarify how I was innocent. I explained, while I don't want to accuse anyone of lying, I clearly recall seeing him in a marked state cop car before even making my first lane change, and follow all laws while exiting the freeway.
She pauses for a minute and asks us how we could disagree on something that should be so obvious. She then pulls out the report from that day, and in the officers writing or logs, it explicitly stated he had taken a marked state cruiser that day. The judge then launches into some tirade directed at the officer over the next couple minutes as my shit eating grin slowly grows uncontrollably, and she immediately dismisses me. As I turn to exit I see that same shit eating grin on the rest of the defendants waiting their turn, doing my best not to mock the same strut the officer came in with on my way out the door.
Tldr; officer caught lying, put in check by judge in front of full court room.
I have cameras all over my house. I had a cop there searching for a missing person once, I explained that no one has been through here and he said he sat at the end of my driveway and watched them come through.
When I pointed out the 4 cameras that would have seen him coming down my 1/8th-mile driveway and the driveway alarm that would have notified me of him coming down he said he must have been mistaken about the house.
Cops lie constantly because no one ever calls them on their bullshit of fear of being straight up murdered.
This is why I wish I could record my entire life...
elc0 · 9 points · Posted at 03:53:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously. I wonder if this type of thing is tracked anywhere. This was probably around 2005, I wonder if dude is still on the force. This was pretty minor abuse of power, but who knows what of other crooked shit he's done since.
I let my best friend stay with me when she was trying to divorce her extremely abusive, homicidal, psycho husband of 10 years. The husband threatened to hurt or kill me several times for helping her. I lived about 2 hours away from him and he lived in a very small town and had no car so I wasn't too worried that he could ever get to me. Anyway, I knew I had to help her get through this.
My friend was supposed to get a job and try to establish herself in my town. She was going to chip in for rent and buy her own groceries and stuff once she got on her feet.
Instead of looking for employment, she'd invite dudes over that she met at a bar while I was at work and caused a lot of trouble with my roommate and neighbors.
All the while, the divorce was going through so I tried to be supportive and thought maybe this was her way of coping with the end of her marriage. I paid for all the food, rent, etc. I went with her to the courthouse when she had to talk to the mediators, just in case psycho showed up (he didn't).
Eventually she said she met a guy named Greg that she really liked and said he was a nice guy who had a great job. I was happy for her and told her I'd love to meet Greg. She kind of blew this off for a month or so and would start going to Greg's house for a week at a time.
At first I didn't think too much of it but eventually I started pushing to meet Greg. This was my best friend, after all. She never felt weird about bringing randos to my house and screwing them, why wouldn't she want to bring Greg over to meet her best friend?
She told me that she didn't want me to meet Greg, like ever. She said we probably wouldn't get along because Greg likes guns and I'm anti gun. Greg is also a huge carnivore and I am a vegetarian. Oooook this makes no sense at all. This is where I start to get suspicious.
One day I come home from work and she's on my Xbox chatting with Greg. She had made her own account on there. I saw briefly, before she hung up in a rush, that his user name was Gregthepeg. She gushes about Greg for the rest of the night and by now I'm starting to put it together that Greg is actually her psycho husband that has threatened to kill me.
Later, I went into Xbox and found Gregthepeg. When I clicked on his username, it switched to her psycho husband's username. No idea how they did this. Busted. She had made up this crazy elaborate fake boyfriend for about 2 months. I was very confused and hurt but was also super worried about her because this guy was truly crazy. He'd pulled a gun on her in the past, beat her up, everything.
The next day I sat her down to tell her I knew what was up and I tried to be as understanding as possible. However, she flipped out on me and started packing her shit, saying I was controlling and a bad friend. What??
She left and went back to her husband. Blocked me on Facebook, etc, and never spoke to me again. That was 4 years ago. Never paid a dime in rent or bills, food, etc. She stayed with me for a total of 6 months.
I'm still friends with her brother, who told me recently that she did the same thing to another friend about 2 years later and went back to her husband again. She's been in the hospital a couple of times from being beat by him but she keeps going back and is still with him.
It's sad but I'm also so glad I got away from their crazy asses! After 15 years of friendship, she lied it all away.
TLDR: My best friend of 15 years leeched off me for 6 months and made up a fake boyfriend so I wouldn't know she was still talking to her psycho, estranged husband. /friendship
I am definitely glad. It's just sad to think that she was such a big part of my life for so long and we were so close, yet she was able to manipulate me and then bail like that. I guess you never really know some people.
[deleted] · 51 points · Posted at 18:40:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh, thats so fucking hard. Im sorry you went through that.
But, you did the right things. Youre of course right to be upset. Shes in a horrible place, she needs help for sure, and im not gonna lie, folks like her will go back to their exes 7 times out of 10, but people like you make the world a better place worth living.
I had someone I thought was a friend just try to degrade me and accuse me of all these things I didn't even think about her.
I don't ever think it's right to have true arguments through text so I was just trying to set up a time to meet. Then that's when she just blasted me and said a lot of rude things without ever talking through it.
Took me awhile to realize, that I was putting a lot more into the connection than she was and the effort needs to be mutual for a true friendship. Was a realization that the odd anxiety of trying not to mess stuff up only happened around her because it was like walking on eggshells.
Amazing how we miss those things. Good life lesson though. Makes me stronger and more aware of what healthy boundaries are needed for myself in the future.
Edit: For a bit of clarification I had a very strong internal locus of control. So, in any factor of life I believed there was always something I should/could do to improve situations. Never tried to put blame or excuses on others. After the incident I think I have pushed more to an alternative extreme of just not being as driven anymore. Was very difficult to accept that hurt connections can be someone else's fault and that I shouldn't do anything after leaving the ball in their court.
Most importantly just knowing things can simply just be other people's fault. That still leaves a bad taste in my mouth lol(really fought against that concept). Doesn't make since to me why people can't just talk through thoughts and ask questions. (Then leave on good terms if still necessary)Just seems the respectful option. The world is confusing and weird haha.
My best friend did this to me too. She stayed with me for two years with her five kids while her abusive asshole of a husband was in jail. I did all of the parenting because she was too broken without husband. After he came out of jail he moved into a caravan on my property while they tried to sort things out as said he was doing parenting, relationship and anger management courses to sort himself out. After six months of him gradually becoming more controlling of her and ALL the children’s behaviour (including my own kids), I’d had enough and told him he needed to fuck off. He flipped out and insisted that her and the kids went with him. I told her she wouldn’t be safe with him because he was already getting violent with her again (and had often been before he went to jail), but she was too terrified & took the kids and went.
Next two months were a nightmare of her calling frantically begging for help and I’d go and rescue her or the kids, patch up her bruises, soothe the children, feed and clothe them...only for her to go right back. The police were no help, she was constantly bruised and beaten up (he flogged her with firewood on occasion, she was literally black and blue), the kids were traumatised...even FACS weren’t able to do anything. Eventually she hit her breaking point (or so I thought) and said she wanted to get away for good. As luck would have it, I had been offered a job in another town 1000km away in the meantime, and was leaving that night. I went and spent money I couldn’t afford to hire a mini bus, gathered her and all her kids into the bus at midnight, freaking out about whether he would turn up like he often did, and drove all night to get them all to safety. Got everyone new SIM cards for their phone so he wouldn’t have anyone’s contact numbers, swore everyone we knew back in our old town to secrecy.
The kids had a great time, they had just been through months of trauma and were finally safe and able to be just kids again. It lasted a couple of weeks...before her bruises had healed she called him. Took the money that I had been saving up from my new job for a rental bond for her own place and bought bus tickets with it and left with the kids while I was at work one day. Called me from the bus while I was at the shopping centre after work buying something for dinner and told me she was going back and giving him another chance.
So I told her I couldn’t do this anymore, I couldn’t condone the danger she was deliberately putting her children’s physical and mental health in, nor could I live wondering whether he would finally go too far one night and end up killing her instead of just hospitalising her. I told her that for mine and my own kids mental health I was going to have to cut our ties completely and have nothing more to do with her while she was still with him. I also told her that I loved her and the children and if she ever left him for good I would welcome her back with open arms but until then she didn’t exist to me anymore.
I’m still friends with her Mum and dad who are wonderful people and they keep me up to date with how the kids are. I miss her so much, and I hope with all my heart that she doesn’t end up dead at his hand but I’m afraid every day that it’s going to happen.
I think it was satisfying because I suspected that Greg was a fake person, but part of me still couldn't believe she'd make up a person and tell stories about them, etc. Seeing concrete proof that she'd been lying really made me know for sure that I wasn't crazy.
I actually still feel bad for her too, even though she did what she did. I don't think she'll ever be entirely done with him and I do believe that someday he could kill her. I'm hoping that he ends up in jail for a really long time before that happens. That's possibly the only way she'll ever get away.
BGYeti · -12 points · Posted at 19:07:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On the topic of calling bullshit lies I'll call yours there is no way to hide your username under a fake one on Xbox, either you made the whole story up for karma or you are embelishing your story
[deleted] · 15097 points · Posted at 14:57:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had a graphic designer apply for a post using my artwork in his portfolio. Asked him all about the work and the thinking behind the designs before I showed him the originals and the door.
Natural as in coconut oil or natural as in naturally coming from his ass? The latter doesn't sound like something someone healthy should produce but I don't know enough about ass to dispute it.
"Oh you have plenty of nice artwork in there. If you look behind you on the wall you'll find the originals hanging on the wall and the door, which you can take to get the hell out of here".
He said something along the lines of ''Somebody used my artwork as their resumé and when they showed his resumé I showed him the originals and the door''
Hot damn. I got some secondhand satisfaction just from reading this.
Edit: I have no idea why OP deleted his post but I’ll do my best!
OP said something along the lines of he once interviewed a guy who was applying for a computer design position with artwork in his portfolio that OP himself did. OP asked how he came up with the ideas and what inspired him and such. Then OP showed him the originals right before he showed him the door.
Comments on AskReddit are regularly removed when they are copied from previous successful threads only to farm karma so that the account can be sold to companies or political parties while appearing like a regular reddit user with a regular posting history.
e67 · 676 points · Posted at 17:08:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And how did he react?! You have to tell us, that's the best part
There's a whole industry for fake accounts on various sites. Marketers and propagandists need legitimate seeming accounts to vote and astroturf in online discussions.
Sometimes these aren't literally bots. Some people just create accounts and let them sit for a year or two, gaining age (since that's one thing people check to see if an account is real). Others will buy those (or create their own), and then basically shitpost as a job, making the accounts look more legitimate, and then resell them. I would guess that some of the latter group also use bots to add bulk to their history; anything that can be automated without losing too many accounts to bans will help their bottom line. From what I've been able to tell, the margins are pretty low (maybe a few bucks per account), so they have to do a lot of volume.
First clue was the account doesn't engage in discussion, only posting links and top level comments. The accounts post history begins a few hours ago. Text post can be Googled to see that they're not original. Photos are taken from the internet and posted as "homemade". The rest of the post are political and posted to T_D.
First clue was the account doesn't engage in discussion, only posting links and top level comments. The accounts post history begins a few hours ago. Text post can be Googled to see that they're not original. Photos are taken from the internet and posted as "homemade". The rest of the post are political and posted to T_D.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:50:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First clue was the account doesn't engage in discussion, only posting links and top level comments. The accounts post history begins a few hours ago. Text post can be Googled to see that they're not original. Photos are taken from the internet and posted as "homemade". The rest of the post are political and posted to T_D.
He apologized profusely and acknowledged it was a stupid move. Prior to that he was working as a cook in a resort and started making flyers for the restaurant because he was "good with computers", he quickly realized that was his dream job. He quit everything to enroll in a cheap design school nearby, learned how to toy with Photoshop but not much more. His freelance career didn't meet his expectations and after a couple years of working on and off for some restaurants here and there he decided he would never be able to sustain his family that way. His wife got pregnant a few months before and shit hit the fan. She left him, kicked him from the house. He sent dozens of resumes and applied everywhere but every time the answer was the same: no one wanted to hire a guy who knows a bit of Photoshop and spent two years reusing the same flyer template.
After he explained all that, it was harder to kick him from the interview, the senior art director intervened and said he would give him a chance and take him as a trainee.
The guy actually cried.
When they were about to sign the contract, they asked him what he was considering a fair wage, he answered he would work for tree fiddy an hour. That's when OP realized the guy's face was covered with scale and he was about 4 feet high and 24 feet long...
The real story is that he apologized profusely and acknowledged it was a stupid move. Prior to that he was working as a cook in a resort and started making flyers for the restaurant because he was "good with computers", he quickly realized that was his dream job. He quit everything to enroll in a cheap design school nearby, learned how to toy with Photoshop but not much more. His freelance carrier didn't meet his expectations and after a couple years of working on and off for some restaurants here and there he decided he would never be able to sustain his family that way. His wife got pregnant a few months before and shit hit the fan. She left him, kicked him from the house. He sent dozens of resumes and applied everywhere but every time the answer was the same: no one wanted to hire a guy who knows a bit of Photoshop and spent two years reusing the same flyer template.
After he explained all that, it was harder to kick him from the interview, the senior art director intervened and said he would give him a chance and take him as a trainee.
The guy actually cried.
When they were about to sign the contract, they asked him what he was considering a fair wage, he answered saying that he would not want to be paid in money, but by leading a morning ritual in which the office would commemorate the fact that in 1998, the undertaker threw mankind of hell in the cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through the announcer's table.
Yeah if she has to plagiarise her resume then that raises serious questions about her skills for the role, even completely disregarding the lack of trust if someone is willing to lie in that way.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:54:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you’re stealing other people’s work I disagree. There are a finite number of chances you’ll get in life. If this person hasn’t learned to not plagiarize by college then that’s a lesson they have to learn. Also there’s talented people with original ideas that would love to be where you don’t deserve to be.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 17:48:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When you're a designer your portfolio is all you have at the end of the day. It's literally your lifes work. To have the nerve to steal that from someone means you're completely lacking in integrity as an artist and it's probably not the right career for you.
While I agree that such roles have regularly attracted... Unsavory people at least in my opinion there have been some exceptions. There have been some truly wonderful people I've interacted with on the management (and beyond) level who I admired because they understood the fastest way to make a great company was to encourage talent. When my boss had encouraged me in a truly honest way I've fought for them like nothing else. People just want to know you care.
I definitely see where you're coming from but if you've done it before who says you won't do it again? Especially since most schools will give you a few chances. For example (my school) first time is an F on the assignment, the second time is a F for the class, and if it happens again you get booted.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 17:47:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except it is because she is directly profiting (in the form of admission) from his work and resume, and that means down the line she may take HIS design jobs (and therefore money) because she is using his work to get hired.
Nilmag · 7 points · Posted at 17:49:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Think for a second, Why was she giving her resume to a school?
That in and of itself is enough to push that the context is probably a Job, and not school. If I get a particularly shitty resume or interview, or have bad past experience with a person, I would be inclined to also let my network of people know about the shifty individual as a courtesy heads up.
mallad · 6 points · Posted at 17:48:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nobody said she got kicked out of schools. I would assume this was a position she was applying for, in his field. You don't go around giving resumes to professors, and a professor can't just make some calls to blacklist you from schools.
A professor can absolutely make calls to other colleges and say "she has plagiarized my work in her portfolio."
This would be an immediate rejection from any school notified.
mallad · -1 points · Posted at 18:44:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They can make the call, sure. But the schools all have their own policies and procedures, as well as admissions teams, that make the decision. They don't just say "oh she did ? We will make sure she can't get an education!"
I could easily call a number of contacts and make a similar claim against someone, even if it isn't true. Thus no, in general a professor can't just get you blacklisted anywhere else. Even at the professors University they don't have power to eject a student. They present the case, accusation, and evidence and the school makes the final decision.
The schools would follow up. I don't know of ANY university that does not have strict plagiarism policies, and who ignore the accusation of plagiarism altogether.
They may determine that it was unfounded, but the chances of the prospective student getting into what is clearly an MFA in Costume Design program with such a call is nearly nothing if the professor makes that call.
mallad · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not common for a professor to do such. Not to mention the main point was this story made no mention of it being a student blacklisted from colleges. It sounds much more like someone involved in the professors other line of work.
In the theatre (as was mentioned) teaching and professional work go hand in hand. In the same way researchers must publish or perish, artists must work professionally, and both academic and professional communities are small.
If she didn't have the talent, skills, or effort to make designs of her own in the first place I can't help but think it would be a very short career regardless.
In one of Ogilvy’s books, he recounts a similar situation; his advertising work in the applicant’s portfolio. IIRC, he told her he couldn’t hire her but loved her work and would gladly be a reference for her. Who wouldn’t want the king of advertising on their resumé, right? Unfortunately for her, everyone that called to check references was told by Mr. Ogilvy about her forged portfolio.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 18:15:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think someone who purposefully steals someone's work and tries to pass it off as their own is self-aware enough to feel that level of embarrassment, even if/when they get caught.
I usually think all scenarios through when I'm doing scummy shit, so in this case I'd just be like "thank you" and carry on doing it because I would know there is like a 10% chance they know where the artwork is from.
Did he at least get the reasoning behind the design decisions close to accurate? I’d be surprised if someone showed me that, but was able to walk me through my own thought process. Even though he’d still be a liar and a thief, he still understands graphic design. Not defending the guy, but just curious.
But how? How could he think he would get away with that? It's your artwork? Of all the artwork he could have tried to pass off as his own, he chooses the artwork of the guy he wants to work for? HOW?!
I realise that. What I meant was: If you are going to do something as risky as plagiarising, then at least check who you are plagiarising from and who works at the company.
Sure, but if you're willing to use someone else's work as your own instead of creating your own stuff, you might not be one to do that kind of research.
I imagine that this is the case. I had a situation once with a death metal band that stole a photo that I had taken of a cemetery to make some graphics to promote their band. I did a DMCA on all of the instances of it that I could find, and they emailed me about it afterward. They told me that they had hired a graphic designer "off of the internet", and were assured by their designer that the image, which they were told depicted "an historic French cemetery," was clear for their use.
Imagine their surprise to find out that (A) the image that they were using was an infringement, and (B) that their "historic French cemetery" was in West Virginia. I started my response with, "First of all, there’s no nice way to say this: you got ripped off by your graphic designer. I don’t know what amount you paid them, but it was clearly too much." I then explained the history of the photo, and showed them other photos from the same shoot.
I suppose that the whole episode is a good lesson on why it's so important to vet people that you hire to do work for you, why you also need to do your own homework on what materials are being created in your name.
And to add insult to injury for them, the graphic in question is now hosted on my website, where I use it as an illustration in an article about copyright infringement - where there is a strong fair use argument for the part of the image that I don't own, i.e. the band's logo.
What I have noticed is that compulsive liars can be so accustomed to lying that they lie about things that can be easily verified. I personally think it's because they have done it for years with no major consequences so it keeps snowballing.
You are not wrong but your thinking is one of a normal person who isn't desensitised to lying. As a person who hardly lies, I am super paranoid when I lie that I will get found out and hence am very careful about it. And it boggles my mind when I meet ppl who plagiarise things in situations that hv very serious consequences if they get caught (e.g. expulsion), but a lot of the time they get away with it and go on to make even more audacious lies.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:52:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"This is the door. Note its smooth contours, complimentary colour and finish, and that you haven't left through it yet. Please fix that."
How does a guy who steals someone’s work for their portfolio manage to actually create work on par with their portfolio when they actually get the job?
Just keep on finding ways to fake it and taking credit for other people's work. Maybe he's eventually found out, but maybe he's also able to work his way up to middle management. Not this line of work specifically, but I've seen it before.
I work in a clinical setting (I’m an intern) and my supervisor has to approve all my physician reports and progress notes after I see a patient.... she never approves them on the first try and I’m pretty sure she hates me.
Anyways, I started using her past notes for the patients she had seen before and changing only the dates and the relevant information that had changed at the appointment... to see if she’d criticize her own work. She did. And now it’s confirmed she just hates me. It wasn’t satisfying.
A contractor applied at a startup I recently joined. His resume crossed my desk because he worked at my previous employer as a contractor the same time I did, apparently doing THE EXACT SAME THING. That fucker took credit for MY PROJECTS. Those projects were the reason why I was recruited into that job, so it was quite an amusement and surprise to everyone to see this.
We didn't even interview him. And his resume didn't just go in the trash, it went into the very small NEVER EVER HIRE pile.
I would have played with him a little bit. I would have asked him questions like how long it took to make them and what his inspiration was. I wouldn’t have even showed him the door after. I would have sat there and stared at him to make things a thousand times more awkward for him
As a software guy, I once interviewed someone who plagiarized me, but impossible to prove. Boss at the time hired the guy anyways (because who doesn't lie a little on their resume, bosses justification), but he turned out to be fucking crazy and never made it past his promotion.
I’m a florist and my boss told me about something similar that happened when she was reviewing someone’s portfolio. The candidate had emails photos of “their” work and my boss found a couple of pictures of arrangements she had designed. We don’t post the name of the company when listing positions online so this person must have taken them off of our website without knowing, needless to say they didn’t get a call for the position.
This reminds me of the time I applied for a job as a graphic designer. I wasn’t really qualified for the job, knew very little about graphics design, and frankly didn’t have an artistic bone in my body. So when preparing for this job interview, I grabbed some random guy’s work online and tried to pass it as my own. As luck would have it, the person whose art I plagiarized was the same person who ended up interviewing me! Didn’t get the job, but have a great story to tell everyone back at the half-way house!
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 17:22:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
axon589 · 1561 points · Posted at 13:20:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was working in retail a few years back. I remember this one time where I was at the cash register and was having a pretty shitty day since it was so busy and couldn't go on my break.
At some point, this South Asian man was making a scene about how a cleaning item was marked off for sale. The thing is, I did the tags and organized that section of the store the day before. I knew it wasn't on sale. He was lying.
Needless to say, the people behind him, waiting in line were getting irritated and so was I - so I decided to call his bluff instead of caving. I asked the other customers to go to another register while I got my manager to take the guy to check the price together. The guy stormed back, skipping the registers all together and walked out of the store with a pissed off look on his face.
South Asian likely means from the Indian subcontinent. Just FYI. I know exactly the type, the ones who got away with it back home because of caste or money and thought they can pull that BS here.
In a super store the other day and this guy (I believe to be Indian and was confirmed by another Indian lady since this guy grumbled before leaving) skipped the queue and cut a few people off. Even at the conveyer belt he skipped Infront of this lady right Infront of the cashier.
The cashier didn't say anything but the whole queue laid into him. He was so pissed off that he left!
I had something similar happen many years ago. I was working in a mall and I was coming back into the store from lunch, I see a woman on her knees changing price tags. I didn't say anything, just waited until she decided to pay. She tried to argue that every other item had that price tag. I told her that I watched her change price tags and that there were cameras over the register and right above where she was changing tags. There weren't cameras but mirrored panels that made it look like they were hiding cameras.
I told her I was going to get security and we could all review the footage. If I was lying about her changing price tags, I'd pay for it. If she was lying we were calling the cops. She just left the store.
I was mad and it was a minimum wage job. So I figured if I got fired, I could get another one. I hate people who do that stuff. If you're just honest with me I'll help you out when I can but if you try to cheat the system, that just makes me mad.
Except it's Jackie Chan and now he has to use the broom to fight off a comical amount of inept henchmen.
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 17:33:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My Michael's store would always just let people go if it was under $15 or so. We had a couple, they were nice, but they would get away with murder. I once had to let them get over $50 off of frames. I was irritated cause they'd do this EVERY SINGLE fucking week, but this was my first time putting them thru with such a big amount.
My boss said something about them being consistent customers. Uh, what? Consistent shop lifters in a sense.
I found out my boss was scared because they were black and he didn't want a discrimination fuss.
as a south asian, I can 100% confirm that this is not usual. especially since south asian men are entitled AF.
most asians are trained to bargain, so we LOVE the clearance section because fighting over bananas at the albertson’s doesn’t usually go down well.
personally, I can make a fuss when something doesn’t go through as discounted at the register but a. I would never ever lie and b. I try to be as nice as possible to the employee because it’s probably not their fault.
I think it's important to point out because there could have been a cultural difference when it comes to bargaining and shopping.
I also think it's important to give out as much detail about a story as there is often many different angles.
Did he expect the cashier to just take his word that not only was the product on sale but also what the sale price was supposed to be? It's protocol where I work to always check the shelf whenever a customer states a price was marked differently than what it rang up.
That's a weird thing to get pissed about. Weird situation overall. Retail sucks! Glad you got out alive haha
[deleted] · 387 points · Posted at 16:16:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to be friends with a guy who always relentlessly boasted about how many fancy motorbikes he’d ridden. But I caught him once and it was so juicy.
So he tells me one day, as he does, “oh yeah my mum let me ride her friends R1 (1000cc superbike), did 280mph, wheelied, great sound.” So as a present, I let him hop on my 50cc moped for a bit.
He gets on and sits for a good while before turning to me and saying “so which is the thing you turn to make it move?”
I saw 280 mph and wondered what the heck I was doing wrong, lol.
I rode a POS Ninja to school my sophomore year and upgraded to an R1 for my junior and senior years of HS. Loved riding it when weather permitted cause I'm a cheapskate who hated putting gas in my car (thx minimum wage, lol). I did get a lot of crap from fellow students though cause I was the only girl riding a "crotch rocket" to school!
A friend of mine way back in the day had the Super Nintendo. So did I, but he only had one controller when I had 2. With his cousin staying over at my friends pretty much most days I let him borrow one of my controllers. Weeks passed and I asked for it back, to which I was told by my friend, that his cousin had taken it. When I was in my friends house,I went upstairs to use the bathroom I could see the extra controller just laying on the floor, so I took it back. The muppet was angry that i went in his room and took my controller back, fuck him. But it was great catching him out and getting that controller back lol
I use Fioricet for my migraines and it's people like her that make people think I'm some sort of junkie when I take them and immediately fall asleep :(
[deleted] · 458 points · Posted at 14:58:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know, it doesn't really give me a high it just makes me fucking sleepy and stupid and I can't even take it more than 2-3 times a week without getting rebound headaches so why would I try abusing it :(
It helps my husband's migraines. I want to say he takes maybe 7-9 grams in capsules at onset. if he takes them after he's eaten though it doesn't work.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:37:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sure after a while the headaches stop when you body becomes dependant on that for sleep. Or you just get sleep deprived and migraines XD
The last 2 doctors I’ve seen would not prescribe it for fear of abuse and insisted on Sumatriptan instead, which makes me feel 10x groggier, gives me a weird (not pleasant) tingly feeling AND heartburn.
Trying to get my Fioricet prescription refilled by a doctor was the only time I've ever had a doctor refuse to refill a medication because they personally dont believe in using that type of medication to treat "headaches."
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 19:10:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I take stimulants too and it's the only thing that makes me a functional human. The only doc I feel comfortable going to for scripts is the specialist that diagnosed me, because I literally need it to function and I probably sound like an abuser whenever I try to explain that need to GPs.
I was on Vyvanse for 3+ years for BED and was just able to wean myself off this month. I’m so happy to be done with the monthly appointment just to pick up a script. About 50% of the time my pharmacy would be out of stock and I’d have to go to another location. And I was always having to look for a coupon because it was like an $80 copay even with insurance. I feel like the circus that surrounded picking up my meds every month caused me such great amounts of anxiety.
If you are insisting that you need the drug that I think you're talking about then that doctor is totally in the right to be nervous, as are the pharmacies. Get real.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 20:01:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I stand corrected. I've never ever heard of anyone having to take piss tests whilst on Adderall, and I've never ever heard of pharamacies refusing to prescribe an extremely commonly used drug like Adderall. This is coming from someone who is prescribed it, and who knows about a dozen other people who are, so excuse me for being confused. I thought you were talking about desoxyn which is literally meth.
But the fact that my two sentence mostly polite comment set you off like this probably means you acted even worse to the doctor, which again means she was right not to give you anything.
Have a nice day.
ikcaj · 10 points · Posted at 01:06:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He. And you should fuck off for being a total fucking knob and accusing a person who actually needs medications to function like a normal human as sounding like a drug seeking addict, then saying you were being polite while doing so. Fuck off, and don't come back.
ikcaj · 2 points · Posted at 14:06:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was polite and I implore you to show me how I wasn't. I also implore you to show me how I called that person a drug seeker, because I didn't do that either. Go ahead I am waiting.
Edit: also thank you for correcting me on their gender (a subject I'm sure you're an expert on), I REALLY cared about that.
If you are insisting that you need the drug that I think you're talking about then that doctor is totally in the right to be nervous, as are the pharmacies. Get real.
If you think telling someone their behavior is worrisome because it looks like an addict and then telling them to "get real" is in any way polite you need a reality check.
As for the gender, maybe if you actually read the person's post you would have seen the part in the last paragraph where they said they were a guy.
UK and other places generally just use the "generic" name since it's just the chemical. Except they call acetaminophen as paracetamol (I think maybe only the US calls it acetaminophen).
I love Fioricet. It and maxalt are the only things that hemp my migraines. Maxalt helps if I can take it when I first get an aura, but if I miss my chance and actually get the migraine only Fioricet helps (well, stronger meds help too but make me woozy.) The only side effect I get from Fioricet is a hangover if I have to take two, and for some reason I completely lose my brain to mouth filter. (I learned that while working in customer service. That was a fun day.)
I also use Fioricet for migraines. As I read I kept thinking, what a boring drug to abuse! Like, "oh man, can't wait to take the Fioricet, I'm gonna sleep soooo hard..."
I dont take fioricet, but I take a pretty high dose of adderall for extreme ADD/CAP. I'm also without insurance so I'm constantly having to switch pharmacies to find the cheapest place to fill it. I'm also 27 years old so it does not help that I fit the general stereotype of a college kid using it to get high. Believe it or not, I'm quite the opposite. I dont drink, use drugs, or abuse prescription medications in any way, shape or form
I had Fioricet for migraines, but honestly it wasn't any better than ibuprofen. Often 2 of them wouldn't even touch my headaches. I have Rizatriptan now and that hasn't let me down so far. No idea if it's narcotic or not. But when I sometimes have completely debilitating pain 12 days out of 14, I don't care what I'm taking I just need that to go away.
I had to stop triptans because of interactions with my other medications; Fioricet works wonders for me!
As I understand it, it's pretty normal for migraine abortives to work completely differently for different people in terms of relief and that's part of why it can take so long to find the right one.
I tried SO MANY medicines before Fiorcet. It’s the only one that doesn’t give me violent side effects. I remember sobbing on the exam table and getting injected with Immitrex (after I told them it makes me feel worse), which made it 10x worse, then finally morphine and toridol. It made me IMPOSSIBLY high and I had terrible nightmares/hallucinations. Then my headache came back the next morning, worse than before. And I had to pay a $150 medical bill. I just wanted to die.
One Fiorcet cuts it off at the pass. It doesn’t get me high or have any noticeable side effects. I am able to rest and have fewer rebound headaches. I hope it never stops working.
[deleted] · -25 points · Posted at 14:17:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No it's not because of people like her, it's because of your government that created this problem and spent billions on propaganda villifying these drugs and those who use them.
They vilified weed, LSD, MDMA, etc. and pushed prescription medicine.
[deleted] · -23 points · Posted at 15:48:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They vilified drugs, usere and addicts. Doctors are apprehensive about prescribing controlled drugs because they're held legally responsible for the consequences, and in the eyes of society and the law, it's better to withold medication from those who need it than let an addict get their fix.
And if you don't think prescription drugs aren't vilified then you're just fucking stupid.
[deleted] · -16 points · Posted at 15:24:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh? Nobody mentioned anything about 100+ pills. It can be hard to even get a 30 day supply.
My Fioricet right now is just a 30 day supply that I take as needed but with no refills, and if I want to get more I have to schedule an appointment with the neurologist (which needs at least one week's notice) and then if I drop the prescription off I still might have to wait for the pharmacist to confirm with the neurologist that they ACTUALLY prescribed me Fioricet, and if that happens to be on a weekend or after business hours or during lunch...that's another 3-4 days for me to get my medicine.
And good luck even getting painkiller medicine you need prescribed in the first place if you don't go straight to a headache specialist or neurologist because your primary care physician is just going to suggest Excedrin or high strength IBUprofen and tell you to alternate it with Tylenol, and then tell you you're probably dehydrated or order blood work to see about your vitamins and minerals before deciding to actually prescribe something.
The OP said she’d already gotten two scripts for 35 each and was trying to get 35 more - thus over 100.
And I’ve had chronic daily migraines for 17 years - I don’t need to be told the hoops you have to jump through to get treatment. Fioricet doesn’t do anything for me, nor do triptans, Botox or pretty much anything else.
My mom needs pain meds for chronic back pain. She’s very responsible, only takes them as instructed. Not a seeker and in fact hates having to take them, but she’s needed them for years and will likely always need them.
But in the last year or so doctors and pharmacies have started giving her an issue about it. They make it nearly impossible to fill a prescription and keep changing her prescriptions on her and then not letting her fill it because she needs new paperwork for the new medication and it’s the same thing almost every month over and over. And when she gets mad and says she just needs her meds, they treat her like a seeker.
She’s not mad because she’s a seeker not getting her fix, she’s mad because if she doesn’t have access to them she’ll be in tremendous amounts of pain and will also go into seizures.
I hate that seekers and the government have made it so hard for chronic pain patients to just get their damn medicine.
[deleted] · 179 points · Posted at 15:59:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except there are lots of Drs who just basically refuse to prescribe opiates to patients. So chronic pain patients all end up at the same Drs and pain clinics who will prescribe -- usually with mandatory drug testing and a lot of other hoops. Those places get then get labelled as overprescribers which makes even more Drs hesitant to prescribe. The system is totally fucked for chronic pain patients.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 18:43:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ikcaj · 5 points · Posted at 01:14:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just lost the best doctor I've ever had in my life because he finally had enough of Florida's crap and quit to move to CA. Not only did he not overprescribe as pharmacists here accused him of (he won his lawsuit against them), the man ran a fucking non-profit opiate rehab on his own dime to help ppl who had been overprescribed.
I try to understand and think that you guys have rules you have to follow and paperwork and what but at the end of the day I have no fucking sympathy left for pharmacists.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 11:23:44 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ikcaj · 2 points · Posted at 12:59:45 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeh, I didn't live here during any of that. My injury occurred in another state and I had been in pain mgmt for six years prior to moving to FL. It was a nightmare to say the least. At that time the Governor was the one refusing to allow a database like other states.
We're a town of almost 400k people with one PM Doc now and he refuses to write meds unless you agree to exploratory surgery. So we're all pretty fucked. And they wonder why people are using Chinese-bought fentanyl.
well the coffee thing is misleading-- for some people, yeah, it makes them feel crummy for days or weeks or sometimes a little longer but that's if you're abusing it at like an ounce a day for months.
I've used it for maybe 3 years now at varying levels (normally 2 times a week, sometimes more sometimes less.) Before the attempted ban, I used it everyday because there were so many strains I wanted to try. So, maybe 4-6 weeks of using almost everyday sometimes twice a day and then stopped cold turkey for 10 days and didn't notice anything. I did have a little bit of insomnia but I normally have insomnia so that's not surprising to me.
Anyway, people are different but yes, it won't kill you. And it's better, in my opinion, to research and take kratom rather than depend on opiates and doctors. I do have a rather unfortunate opinion of most doctors though. I feel that there is less a curiosity about the human body and more rote regurtitation of what is considered medical knowledge at the time (despite some stuff clearly being wrong like our fucking food pyramid,) tied in with pervasive corruption of pharmaceuticals allowed to chase quarterly increases for their stockholders.
People bitch about doctors handing out pain meds like candy. Then people bitch about doctors being hesitant to prescribe pain meds because people bitch about doctors handing out pain meds like candy. Just can't win in this world.
I go through this with my ADHD medication. It’s awful. I suffer from terrible side effects on most stimulants, so I’ve had to switch between prescriptions a lot, trying to figure out which one is effective without doing me harm. Every single time, the process ends up delayed by weeks or even a month because my insurance insists on a lengthy pre-authorization process.
I’m starting to get these problems with my testosterone prescriptions too. They treat every person like a damn criminal just for medically necessary prescriptions.
When I was pregnant with my son, my insurance declared that two meds would from then on be subject to prior authorization: adult ADHD meds (including the ones that aren't controlled substances), and anti-nausea medication. Through all 9 months of my pregnancy, I had 24/7 nausea and was prescribed Zofran. It was what kept me out of the hospital. My insurance also decided that no one would be permitted more than 7 Zofran pills per month. My OB threw an absolute fit on the phone. She got me my prescription. After pregnancy and nursing, when I went back on my ADHD meds, it was a total shitshow, and has been ever since, for years.
I have PCOS and take birth control to stop cysts from growing/rupturing on my ovaries, as well as regulate my hormones. You wouldn't believe the side eyes and backhanded comments I receive for filling Birth control - especially when I was 14, newly diagnosed, and not sexually active for another 5+ years. The looks I'd get!
It's even worse being stuck with the full bill for this as apparently my medication is only preventative sexual care and not the necessary hormonal treatment I use it for under insurance.
At least one form of all 18 FDA approved birth control methods are required to be covered with no cost sharing. Under Obama you could only opt out if you were a religious organization. Trump said that anyone can opt out if it if it goes against their "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions"
My insurance covers 100% of birth control costs, but not all insurances do.
Me, too. God forbid I wanna go away for a weekend and need to pick it up a couple days early. I switched and CVS has been good so far, though. My roommate get his T at the Walmart pharmacy and everyone there is a nightmare to deal with.
I have Crohn's Disease and the major medications for it are hit or miss because patients can build up antibodies to the medication. Due to insurance fuckery I had to stop and start the medication numerous times. This starting and stopping is a good way to ensure your body rejects the medication. They did this to me for three different medications.
Basically, thanks to my insurance ducking me around I've run out of viable medication options.
suffer from terrible side effects on most stimulants,
I've been prescribed a couple of drugs to keep my mood stable (I was eight when I was first put on them. Don't know the exact reason. I think the Risperidone is due to autism meltdowns and Lamotrigine is just a mood stabiliser). When I take methylphenidate (ritalin,concerta, etc.) without them I'm pretty much a zombie who is too depressed to get up and look for brains. When I'm on the full cocktail the ritalin is bloody amazing. I have no idea why using mood stabilisers isn't standard with things like ritalin; but I feel damn lucky that my psychiatrist gave me something that works.
My problem is that stimulants have two major side effects on me. One is that they magnify some low level obsessive/compulsive type behaviors. I start picking and scratching at my skin, for example. The other problem is that I have chronic esophagitis. Doc isn't sure what causes it. But stimulants make my esophagitis flare to the point where I am constantly coughing/gagging.
Feel ya there. Did a surgery to remove a deep infection along with my tonsils/adenoids that left me with two golf balls sized holes in my throat but according to my states laws, doctors can only percribe 5 days of opioid at once. Got the equivalent of dry socket in my throat and recovery took 3-4 weeks, and I had to pay for almost ALL my meds out of pocket because to get a more than 5 day supply, you have to file a petition which can take a week plus to get a ruling on by the insurance companies.
Thank god my doc understood how much pain I was in (said it was one of the most "grotesque" surgeries he ever had to perform) and gave me three refills. I still was made to feel like an addict when I went to get them though, especially since I paid in cash (I'm a server) and was in my comfy sweatpants. Super humiliating.
Not gonna lie, it was a rough month. Luckily I don't remember much of it since I was in an oxycontin induced haze. Opioids get too much of a bad rap, especially since they can be so helpful for those who need it.
My dad had chronic back pain and had two surgeries. After the first surgery he didn't have a pain-free day until his funeral. By the end he could barely get off of the couch. It was especially hard on him because he loved long walks, cycling, and traveling. Anyway, they did the same bullshit. They barely gave him medicine. His pain doctor gave him 1 mg dilaudid pills. His surgeon would later laugh at this.
My dad hated pain killers. When he told his pain Dr. that he had started smoking pot and that it helped more than his 1 mg pills she stopped seeing him as a patient.
My dad, 74 and couch ridden, applied for a gun license online, ordered a gun online, sucked up the pain twice to go the store to pick it up and shot himself. All because they wouldn't try to treat him. His GP came to the funeral and seemed truly sorry. He always tried to help but wouldn't prescribe heavy narcotics for extended periods. The whole systems fucked.
It's getting worse. Heaven forbid you go to a doctor to manage your pain instead of texting a dealer who will deliver to your house for less than your prescription copay.
I fear people will start turning to the black market for pain relief in the near future...
If your state has a medical or recreational marijuana program; it's a much simpler avenue for possible pain relief. It's not for everyone. But if you use a CBD product you can get the pain relief without out the the physcoactive head high.
Tell your mom she is not alone. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of us in the same predicament. My insurance changes the rules on me every month, it seems. First, they would fill my pain meds every month and because I am on a regimented pain management program, they drug tested me every six months. Then it was every three months. Then it was every month. Then they would only fill my script monthly, when it used to be three months. Now it's 15 days at a time, and a drug test every six months.
I can't keep up. It makes no sense and even the doctors and nurses have trouble dealing with the insurance company, trying to figure out how to make the system work in a way that doesn't drive everyone insane.
My husband is the same. He has protein s deficiency, about three feet of stents in the veins of his leg, destroyed return valves, lymphedema, and a restructured iliac vein that had collapsed and was essentially non functional. He’s in his early 40s and doesn’t look unhealthy but if you knew his medical history you’d wonder how in the hell he still had his leg, much less alive. I hate how he feels ashamed when they give him grief about his medicine. He hates needing it to function. But he does need it just like he needs his anticoagulants. There is not way he can get out of bed and stand up without being in excruciating pain. He’s been going to and getting the same prescription from the same dr for 10 years and goes to the same pharmacy every month and hasn’t tried to get them early except for one time it was four days early due to us being out of state for a family event. They still looked at him and tried to speak down to him and sighed a bunch when he asked them to call his dr (who he had just come from since he has to go in every month and get a paper RX every month along with his blood checks). The doctor called them before they could. We provided him with proof we were going to be out of state, like hotel and rental car reservations (short of providing a notarized death certificate for the family member). They still acted like he was a seeker. It infuriates me to see him humiliated like that because he uses this medication as it was intended in a therapeutic dose under supervision of a physician who has treated him for over a decade.
I just feel like a pharmacy shouldn’t be allowed to hold up a prescription or give people grief over whether they should have a prescription for such and such medication. If the doctor prescribes it, the pharmacy should fill it no matter what. If they have a problem with it, they should contact the prescribing doctor after filling the prescription. Pharmacies should not have the right to get in between a person and their medicine. Pharmacies should provide the medication, not decide you don’t need it.
+1 for CBD. Proven to work, though not as efficacious as opioids.
Unfortunately, it's fairly expensive, and not covered by insurance. Also, depending on the pain management doctor and whether or not they drug test, may come up positive for THC. Just FYI.
Good to hear! CBD can come in many forms, a tea, or even chocolate! Or, you can go the more traditional medicinal route and make capsules containing CBD oil.
Yeah I feel you. My mom has fibromyalgia and takes literally the lowest dose of pecocet you can get (5mg/325mg or whatever). She hates having to take them but it's the only way she's able to have a normal life as no other medication has worked for her, including medical marijuana. But the last few months they've been harder on her whenever she has to refill the script, which is only once a month. I mean I understand why, and so does she, but it's annoying cause it's not even like she's getting extra strong doses of it. It's 5mg! If she was abusing that she'd be harassing them for a refill multiple times a month!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:18:35 on July 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That really sucks. I feel really bad for people who have chronic pain, because people with opioid dependency have really ruined things for them. As another poster has said, there is a nation wide crack down on Drs who prescribe opioids too much (due to an "opioid epidemic"). Additionally, I have seen people who have chronic pain saying that recently, the CDC has recommended not giving opioids to anyone with chronic pain (huge mistake in my opinion). Hope things get figured out for her :(
Seekers. Not the government. Without seekers, government wouldnt have had to place limits. The gov doesnt WANT to make shit that hard, but if it doesnt, it gets fleeced by seekers. It sucks for law abiding people in chronic pain though. Cant imagine your frustration z
Your mother may be a seeker. I never thought my father was, and then the light went on. You know your mom better than I do (I only see her friday nights. Bazinga). But be careful.
My mom doesn’t drink because she doesn’t like her brain being altered. She’s not into weed for the same reason. She has the option of taking up to a certain number of pain pills a day and she usually takes much less than the maximum unless the pain is truly terrible. I’m not saying she’s not addicted, because you can’t take these medications for years without becoming addicted, but she doesn’t abuse her medication.
I grew up with one parent who is a substance abuser (alcohol and pain meds) and one parent who is pretty responsible about substances like that, I know the difference.
Hey man, I'm in the same boat with my mom. Even down to my dad being an addict my entire life and ruining their marriage and her life. It's been terrible watching her get treated like a monster when all she's ever tried to do is battle against those kinds of things. Hell, she was a pharmacist.
If you ever want to vent about it with someone who totally gets it, let me know.
This happened to me. My dad was a seeker who kept it a secret for my entire life. I only found out about it after his death. I would have sworn up and down that my dad wasn't like that, but once confronted with the truth it made sense.
You never know. My dad did the same as OP's mom and never took more than his allotted prescription pill amount for the day, often taking less than allowed. He taught me about proper drug use and explained how if you abuse opioids, they won't work as well if you need them in a serious situation (injury/hospitalization). I remember being so angry that my dad couldn't get ahold of his prescribed pain relief when drug dealers were handing them out like candy.
Yeah, I was right that he wasn't abusing opioids - he curbed that by doing crack instead. And he didn't take extra pills, no. He sold them instead.
Nobody thinks it's their parents. But think about it - they raised you and probably have kept secrets from you before. They know how to if they want. I'm not saying for sure these things are happening with your mom OP, but it doesn't hurt to approach the situation with extra caution.
Sorryforthis. FUCK the controlled substance warning. One of my anti-convulsants is listed as a controlled substance and the pharmacy I go through makes it so fucking difficult to get it (when I pick it up, it's time for my evening dosage difficult) that I've actually had multiple seizures due to their bullshit. I have to call it in a week early, but nope.. Still not going to fill it until the very last second. And if my fill date is on a holiday? Sucks to suck, sounds like a personal problem. I've accidentally taken my morning and evening dose all at once; it gave me severe vertigo and I felt on the verge of a GTC for most of the day. I definitely want to abuse Vimpat so I can feel that way again.
And considering it's nearly $2k for a month's worth of pills? Fuck all of that noise.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 15:56:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've already switched. :( I understand it's important to keep certain medications away from people, but anti-convulsants, really? They're not even fun to be on.. lol. I certainly don't abuse them, I don't have the money to replace my medications.
I will say I do like the "floaters". One of my favorite pharmacists is and I always like seeing her at either pharmacy, lol. Thank you for dealing with people like Nicole - there are others who actually appreciate the work you do.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:39:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Vimpat gives you a high but not a good one. I've never been hungover so I don't know what to compare it to, it's awful though.. Tripping over your own feet (and air), nausea, the entire world seems as if it's spinning so quickly and it won't stop, and trying to vomit it back up doesn't help because they dissolve fairly quickly. It was an awful day figuring that out, but my pill tray has a loose night dosage box (they have boxes for morning, afternoon, evening, bed).
You're welcome though! Hopefully I can find balance if my fiancé, son and I move. I hope they don't suffer from too many migraines and have to wait for their controlled substance migraine medication.
ikcaj · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trust me, that state is unique. No where I've ever lived can anyone fill a controlled sub even one day early.
Oh man that suuuuucks. My SO has epilepsy and while his meds are expensive, they’re not scheduled thank heavens. I can’t imagine how much more stressful that must make things :(
As a fellow epileptic, I feel your frustration about the whole controlled substance stupidity. You first have to deal with the seizures and physical injuries from them, like a cut tongue or concussion. Find a neurologist. Go through several types and combinations of medication and dosages to get your seizures under control. Find something that works! Go to the pharmacy. Uh, ...I'll have to check, ....we might have to order it,...etc. Get judgmental looks. I hate this. no one should have to go through that for epilepsy medication
No, they shouldn't. :( It's so difficult to get our medication and it really shouldn't be. To be so aggressive about a medication - that, yes, can be abused but it isn't abused in a fun way - that keeps me from having to spend time in the hospital? It makes me depressed when I have to start the cycle of calling my neuro and pharmacy to make sure they're going to stock it. My neuro has become my advocate because I've had to report every seizure due to the pharmacy's "mistakes". My main diagnosis (I found out I have TWO, I didn't know it was possible) is generalized convulsive epilepsy with intractable seizures.. Sounds like nonsense to the majority of people, but simplified means that I need my medication now. I've gone through 8 or 9 medications because they stop working, I'm not a candidate for surgery, I'm at such an increased risk for SUDEP..
Sorry. I just never get to rant about it. I don't care if anyone actually reads that or replies. I'm tired of this whole process.
Never be sorry. I don't think anyone really knows what people with epilepsy have to deal with besides the seizures themselves. Injuries, bad medication side effects, and social problems. Can't drive, people don't want to be around you because because I'm "embarrassing ", did you take illegal drug X?, mental hospital ? you must not be reading you're bible or else God would be helping you, etc. Taking a shower or using the stove can be dangerous. Taking care of small children, or even walking a dog is a no-no. Go to the hospital following multiple seizures with injuries, staff will demand drug test and accuse my husband of beating me. You have it a lot worse than I do and I'm so sorry. Just wanted to let you know you're not alone and I wish things will get better for you. Hugs❤
Oh my god, you made me cry. Thank you so much! I appreciate you, you're a kind person. <3 We're not in this for the suffering olympics; epilepsy is awful and I don't care if I do have it worse (how would we measure that?), you're still suffering too. Thank you again, I got the warm fuzzies, lol. I really am sorry I did that. Thank you for understanding though. I hope your life is filled to the brim with happiness and that you have a wonderful day/week/life.
Damn... I am sorry for people who struggle with addiction, I really am. But as someone who lives with chronic pain (spinal injury; nerve damage) people like Nicole piss me off so much.
I have known my doctor since way before I got hurt, and he helps me monitor my pain management including the medication. I never try for early refills even if it means just lying in bed existing for a couple days, and I don't abuse the medication I'm prescribed.
Still, I'm terrified of being labeled as a drug seeker and denied care. Once or twice a new person at my usual pharmacy has kinda given me the side eye when I hand in my scrip, but has been friendlier when I returned to fill it. I assume they've checked my history or called my doctor or both and seen that I don't appear to have issues.
Mind you, I don't blame them for checking- it's the responsible thing to do- but it sucks getting looked at with deep suspicion bordering on contempt or disgust. Makes me feel bad. Plus I know if I ever get "drug seeking behavior" in my medical notes, I'm screwed.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:34:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for being a good pharmacist. I've run out in tears having gotten "that look". You feel humiliated . having to deal with pain, surgery, epilepsy, and nerve damage is bad enough (car accident ). Doctors are very judgmental so getting a script is hard anyway. it's a nightmare. just wanted to let you know that I appreciate and admire people like you
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That had to be satisying. From the other end, I had a doctor treat me as a seeker for a sumatriptan scrip once (cluster headaches). I was utterly baffled, but he was a new doctor to me as I had recently moved, so I rode it out and thankfully only had to ER one dose before he squared up. It took him reviewing my files, and maybe educating himself a bit, before he chilled and stopped being weird about the scrip. He has never fought me or disagreed with ant request on the sumatriptan since, and actually has been a bit "pet project" with me lately, trying prevantative scrips to cut my number per month down. Maybe I should have just changed doctor's at the initial freakout, but we've had a pretty solid relationship once he got past that.
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Yeah, it was super confusing since it's the only med I was on at that time. I think it was just the new patient, uncommon condition situation. Thankfully he was open to being wrong!
Resist the urge to sleep once and you'll know why. But it isn't pleasant. You just feel extremely messed up. Some people like that. Different strokes for different folks. Similar to people who enjoy abusing high doses of benedryl; makes you hallucinate spiders and dark entities and you can't tell fantasy from reality for almost 12 hours. Doesn't sound pleasant but people do it. Not worth trying to make sense of.
Working in a retail pharmacy can be really draining on people. I worked retail for a few years and was on a first name basis with almost all of my patients. You get your regulars and people you know to be problematic but you generally learn how to calm people down. I prided myself on my being able to communicate and effectively assist my patients coming in to seek help. The pharmacy was located in a predominantly black neighborhood in Pittsburgh and I've seen the works. Drug seekers, little old grandmas, younger kids just getting their meds. My hat is off to you, you tried working with the patient and being polite whilst doing your job legally. Good on you for standing up to her! People don't understand how hard it actually can be and the work that goes into it! And that's what I tried to explain to all of my patients. I think you handled that exceptionally well and you had the correct grounds to do it on! Kudos to you my friend!
Fiorecet is a nasty drug to be addicted to. It should be used short term only. Used chronically the patient is prone to rebound headaches, so if they stop taking it, they get a nasty headache and will want to take more to stop the pain. Fuck that drug, I'll never prescribe it
To be clear, I support your decision- clearly you put up with a lot.
It’s just that it’s such a bigger issue than “Nicole is a bad person.”
As I know you are aware and have compassion for, addiction is a disease, and a symptom is drug-seeking. Drug companies push doctors to start patients on these meds and get them addicted, and the subsequent behavior is blamed on the individual (which is fair but oversimplifies the issue).
I hope that more pharmacists like you begin to call out the drug corporations that push these prescriptions on unsuspecting clients, as I highly doubt Nicole has been an addict her whole life; most don’t live to 70.
You and your colleagues can be a huge part of fighting this systemic problem, since mollifying the Nicoles does not cure their addiction, and neither does blaming them (which I do NOT think you are doing and I’m not accusing you of).
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:19:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fair enough. Everyone has their personal responsibility in this epidemic, and you would know better who deserves the bulk of it. Here’s hoping everyone does better- addict, Doctor, and pharm company.
One of my Grandmas was like that except her kids and other grandkids would feed her drugs because it's easy to steal from an old woman that's fucked up on pain pills. She would call every pharmacy in a 20 mile radius trying to get anything. It got so bad that my 80 year old grandpa would always have to calm her down when she would flip her shit about not getting pills
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:36:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once every month and a half, I have a period. This is the worst 8 days of my life, every six weeks, because I have endometriosis. I've already had two surgeries for it, it just keeps coming back, as it will. People like THIS CUNT got tramadol put on the controlled substance list. I'm only allowed 60 every three months, and I feel like a junkie having to ration myself on it, or decide to miss work. I hate these people.
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:22:01 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
As an ER nurse, I’m glad someone is taking a stand. I recently started working at a freestanding ER and within a week I saw patients I recognized from their drug seeking adventures at the various hospitals I worked at. It pisses me off so much to see people trying to work the system. It gives me great pleasure to call them out on their bullshit and see them fail. Fucking leeches.
giger5 · 7 points · Posted at 19:47:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jeez, that's a bit harsh. It's actually a fucking horrible life to be an addict, desperately trying to keep withdrawals at bay and self medicate whatever psychological pain they have away. nobody lives that life for the fun of it.
Yes drug seekers can be difficult and a few can be rude and disruptive but they are still people with feelings.
On the other hand, I had a doctor prescribe me an unhealthy amount of steroids and give me extremely improper instructions to take it.
The pharmacist called to be sure the prescription was right. VERY sternly warned me that while they’re filling it, something is wrong and I should consult another doctor.
When I did, that other doctor was horrified. Told me to throw the medication away - it wasn’t the correct treatment or administered properly.
If not for that very concerned pharmacist, I can only imagine how I would have felt after all those steroids that didn’t solve my problem.
And at the risk of being downvoted - it’s not legal to share prescription medications with anyone even if they, themselves, are prescribed the same medicine.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 16:57:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now I feel that the problem is you guys don’t have the context all the time and that’s why you question me. I probably did look like a psycho getting ambien and pain killers and looking like a mess. Now I think my pharmacists was right for questioning me, even though I had perfectly good reasons. I could see how I came across, probably like someone self destructive rather than someone following the chain of command.
I can never understand why anyone would be upset if you called their doctor. I would feel better knowing they did. My husband needs to take an extremely high dose of potassium. His kidney doctor gave him a new script and said he was looking forward to talking with his pharmacist again. We found out every time a refill was due the pharmacist would call and ask for confirmation if the dose was correct. I'm on a controlled substance and I know that they have to verify, even though they are familiar with me as a customer . After some outright hostile places I've visited, I am lucky and relieved to have found a great pharmacy with a friendly staff. A good pharmacy is irreplaceable
Let me start off by saying I thought your comment was satire until well through the 3rd paragraph. The only redeeming part of your nonsense is that you admit you’re “confused,” so I’ll try to address some of your mostly baseless whining:
PHARMACISTS ARE NOT THE DOCTOR AND I SHOULD NOT BE MADE OUT TO LOOK LIKE AN ADDICT AND HAVE TO DEFEND MYSELF!!!! Doctor trumps pharmacist, that’s THE hierarchy.
Currently, all new pharmacists are DOCTORS of Pharmacy, and have been for the past decade or two. Even those who practice with a bachelor’s have gone through extensive education in the practice of pharmacy and are probably more knowledgeable in the appropriate application of drug therapies to disease states than most physicians (this is not to minimize the integral role of physicians in healthcare).
Sometimes, my fiancé needs one. It’s scenarios like these that make me go over the 30 allotted pills.
Yeah, that’s illegal. While I don't personally care about your criminal act, I am concerned about safety. Please don’t give your prescription medication, controlled or not, to others. I really don’t think you understand how serious and potentially dangerous this is.
Why my pharmacists think they can second guess a SINGLE doctor is beyond me, especially in my case where I have a reputable doctor and never once tried to pull the wool their eyes.
The entire role of a pharmacist is to dispense medicine safely and appropriately, not just blindly shove pills into bottles.
Threatening me with” he’s got more than the allotted monthly amount” AFTER the doctor called it in. And “his insurance doesn’t cover it” was the next stupid road block.
Not sure you understand the definition of “threatening.” Local governments, the federal government, and insurance companies set in place laws and restrictions. Failure to abide these can put pharmacists and pharmacies in trouble with the DEA, or in breach of contract with insurance companies.
I don’t have time for therapy and sleep doctors, and a steady routine before bed, and a noise maker, and yoga and a perfectly balanced cute meal prep diet, and daily exercise, 2Ls of water a day, and all that crap. Get over it.
Drugs aren’t magic. Treatment for the majority of ailments involves both medication therapy AND lifestyle change. Get over it.
Do you feel you are fulfilling a moral duty to armchair diagnose?
Oh, the irony.
I understand that you’ve had some negative experiences with pharmacies/pharmacists, but from what you’ve written, you clearly do not understand the role pharmacist plays in treating a patient. Just because you don’t always get your way doesn’t mean we’re out to get you or on some sort of sadistic power trip. The vast, vast majority of pharmacists want nothing more than their patients to be happy and healthy.
Why is she so addicted to them? Do they get you high?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:12:58 on July 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've had patients like this in the hospital. Trying to get another dose of something way too soon, and in some cases it's something like imodium when they aren't having diarrhea (because we won't give them their pain med when their blood pressure is in the toilet). It's so frustrating and really makes healthcare professionals weary to give out meds sometines.
Naw, I later learned that she compulsively tells small white lies constantly. Especially when it comes to making it seem like people are obsessed with her.
Yikes, might be a small lie to you and your bf, but if she's still working at the same place as him you might want to inform HR that she's already making false claims about intimacy. That kind of thing can come back to haunt you in an awful way.
Former boss was trying to pin a bunch of stuff on me for a writeup that I knew I didn't do but couldn't really prove but he ambushed me with the writeup and meeting.
He finally got to a later point and I could definitely say "I have no idea what you're talking about" to which he rebuttled "I know, because you didn't do this work you were supposed to."
At which point I realized "Wait, we didn't have anyone in that building at that time...I never set foot over there...I wasn't even here that day...so none of this is possible."
It was then I realized a lot of the stuff on that list had nothing to do with me and he was literally just gunning for me specifically so he could replace me with the supervisors husband...who me and her did not get along at all, quite vocally.
But it was then I had that realization. At that point I dotted every t and crossed every I going forward to ensure they could never get rid of me without blatantly lying. They had a hard time but eventually fabricated something and pulled it off. It took them another 3 years. I was already a stellar employee and respected within my department by all my other colleagues except inept supervisor but when I went into overdrive on the quality of my work, I knew it was driving them insane.
This had gone on, as mentioned, for 3 more years in which they fabricated a bunch of stuff I didn't do or was never here for to the point where I had filed paperwork for harassment against them. Conveniently when it did come to terminating me, HR lost all the paperwork in my defense...but when the state reviewed the case for unemployment they sided with me...very weird!
To this day it isn't unusual for me to get a call or text from a colleague asking me a "How do I?" or "What does this mean?"
To this day it isn't unusual for me to get a call or text from a colleague asking me a "How do I?" or "What does this mean?"
You feel bad jerking your ex colleagues around, but the company set the tone here. The correct response to this is "my consulting fee is $ludicrous/hour."
This is the problem with US Healthcare. Either I give colleague the correct answer and expose myself to malpractice or I don't answer the patient suffers. A human could literally die. How do you choose?
No, my colleagues were on my side. In fact, several of them just left my birthday party.
Director and supervisor would NEVER EVER ask for my help, ever. Colleagues, I'm usually their first goto.
Even better example.
A colleague of mine asked me for help on a procedure. I came over and checked their work, everything looked a little off, but easy fix.
Me: "Are you supposed to do it this way? Because I do it differently to get this?"
Colleague: "Supervisor told me to do this procedure in this manner".
Me: "Hmm, weird. Supervisor definitely said this?"
Colleague: "Yea, 100% sure."
Me : "Okay, do that as supervisor said, document accordingly. Sounds good to me."
About an hour later when supervisor came in, but colleague had gone home, staggered shifts, I asked her: "Hey, did you tell colleague to do this procedure in this manner? Just want to double check because they said this, but director told me differently?"
Supervisor: "No, I never would have said that, ever. Colleague would never say I said that. I never said this, ever."
Me: "Okay, that's fine, just wanted to check, because they said you said this, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter and I just need to refer them to director but it's no big deal."
Supervisor: "No, I never would have said that, ever, they would never say that because colleague knows I'd never say that. In all cases it has to be done in this manner. I'd never say that."
Me: "Okay"
At this point the back and forth continues, repeatedly and pedantically, but I don't care because in either case, to me, the outcome is the same. And it's between them, so I really don't give a fuck. The only issue is if colleague asks me for help, I now can't because supervisor and colleague have conflicting stories.
Come in for next shift, 12 hours later.
Supervisor: "I talked to colleague they never said they told you that why are you making stuff up?"
Me: "He did, not sure why you confronted him about it because it doesn't make a difference. Policy says this, so not sure where the disconnect is?"
Supervisor: "Well he agreed with me that we never said this and this isn't an issue so why are you making an issue out of it?"
Me: "I'm just trying to figure out how we want to handle X, universally."
Supervisor: "We'll I never said that and he agrees, I talked to him, I'll call him right now if you want!"
Me: "You do understand that he's just trying to save face in front of you and doesn't really care either way, we both just want to know the procedural way to handle X. Like, no one cares, we all just want to be on the same page."
Supervisor: "Well I never said that and you need to stop putting words in peoples mouths."
More back and forth for 20 minutes. I need to go do work, I leave, I really dont give a fuck.
Next morning, she comes back in.
Supervisor: "I talked to him again just to make sure I'm not crazy and I know I told him to do this procedure this way!"
Me: "So he is supposed to do X."
Supervisor: "Of course, I told him too, that's the policy because he was trained this way and I trained him personally."
Me: "Okay, that's what I originally asked, exactly, so the original answer was yes."
Supervisor "No, you said blah blah blah"
Back and forth more because she's a dumb cunt and in the course of 36 hours did a complete about face but refused to admit it and doesn't understand what her job actually is. Everyone in the department complains she does the exact same shit to her. The issue with her is she spends every minute of every day in the directors office explaining how everyone else is wrong he's actually started to believe her. There's a reason everyone in that department is miserable.
But to sum up, I do answer colleagues questions because without my help, sick people would be negatively impacted.
I'm in a heated placement battle for my kids. The guardian ad litem in the case felt that I was being pushy because I wanted the kids overnight for Christmas Eve in 2017 when it wasn't my turn. My ex has been working her over pretty good, telling her sob stories about how I'm demanding and rude, asking for things that I'm not entitled to, and generally being a bully. It's actually the opposite. I explained to everyone involved that I should have had them in 2016 and since it didn't happen it needed to be made up, to no avail.
Thursday I found an old email where I REQUESTED Christmas Eve 2016 from my ex-wife and she denied it for a really bullshit reason. It won't matter now, but in the long-term we'll be able to prove how much she lies. It was like finding a $100 in my pocket.
Hey man, I hope everything goes well for you and your kids
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 23:42:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dunno. Maybe you should put a sign on your fridge to remind yourself - child's best interests, not how ownership of the hours/days will be divided between parents.
This bullshit is what takes kids away from a parent that ACTUALLY WANTS to spend time with them. Short of abuse or other legal issues, "best for the kids" is seeing both parents, not just giving them to the mom like courts seem to think.
I could spell out the whole situation: Abusive ex, comes from a cult and is indoctrinating the kids, the constant lies and deceit that I put up with for 11 years because I hoped she would change, them the three years since of torture that I've had to put up with since, but instead I'll just say this:
You don't know me. You don't know my story. You have a good night.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 00:34:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jehovah's Witnesses by the look of your post history. Fair enough. I have no experience of religion in my family and can appreciate the motivation to try to expose the kids to as little indoctrination as possible.
Playing BS I made someone take half the deck when they said “2 eights” and put down three cards. I hope you are reading this Kyle I read you like a book
That feeling when you have all the Queens and it's your buddies turn to put down queens.
"Don't even bother. BS."
That look of defeat just makes my day!
hiyeuh · 5 points · Posted at 21:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But that’s what BS is about. I always try to sneak down extra cards. Especially if I have four aces or whatever. I put extra down under them and even if they call BS, people normally just check the four on top.
Kyle understands BS. He just isn’t very good at it.
And yes, I’ve been caught doing this. But still... BS is all about bullshitting.
A girl (let’s call her Karen) I went to school with was always telling little lies for absolutely no reason, and I always found it really irritating. My best friend and I had made a fake Facebook account to post nonsensical things when we were in 8th grade. We never said anything offensive to anyone, and our intent was just to make people confused and entertained. We had messaged Karen something dumb, like “I like to eat pizza on trampolines.” Later that week at school, during a class the three of us had together, she said that (the fake account) added her on Facebook and wouldn’t stop messaging her saying he was outside her window and then kept texting and calling her. Karen claimed that she got the police involved and has a restraining order against the fake profile.
We never said anything to her about it, but it was nice to have a confirmation that she was a compulsive liar.
This will probably get buried, but hey ho. We had a good week of snow in the UK at the back end of March this year. In the middle of the night, someone snuck into our garden and stole all of the Yorkshire stone that was topping our wall. This stuff sells for £15+ a square meter, and he took maybe £150 worth. But he managed to cut himself in the process and dropped blood on the snow all the way back and forth to his house 50 meters away.
Anyway, called the cops, they popped round, I showed them the blood trail which we followed to the guys house. They knock on, he denies everything despite the blood trail leading straight to his door. Just at that moment, his mate pulls up in his van and double parks. Van driving mate says to the cops and says “I’ll just be a minute, I’m helping my mate load some Yorkshire stone”.
This relatively famous dance instructor in my area passed away. My cousin's wife and a lot of my friends danced at his studio. I knew him through dance competitions and the community in general. My coworker called in a couple days after his death and told our boss she needed the day off so she could go to his funeral. She then proceeded to state that the funeral was in the town he grew up in, when actually his funeral was in our town and it wasn't until Saturday. It was so pleasing getting to inform our boss of this when he asked why I wasn't attending.
Same job a guy started working there after having quit a few years back. Everyone knew him, but he didn't know me, which was unfortunate for him because his SIL is my best friend. After I quit to pursue my dream job I get a call from a friend at my old job asking me to pass sympathies on to my friends family because the guy came to work saying his son had passed away. I of course freak out and call my friend because her and her nephew are extremely close. She had no clue what I was talking about. In fact she had just seen him the day before. The man was lying about his kid dying. It was nice to let my best friend be able to call him out.
I wish that had been true, but he only had the one. She would use any excuse she could to get a day off work.
Imasil · 74 points · Posted at 17:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a roommate who was a compulsive liar, one time he had just gotten back from a trip to the east coast and said he had gone on a run and done a four minute mile, claiming living at our elevation (Colorado) must have been why. I had to point out that was almost as fast as the world record and that he didn’t run regularly and there was no way elevation difference would give you that much help. He just mumbled something and went off to his room.
Fitness lies are hilarious because usually the person is so clueless they have no idea how ridiculous their lie sounds. "Oh yeah man I never go to the gym but I totally benched 300 the one time I went, I guess I'm just strong"
My justice boner is still holding firm months later from this! (Maybe I should see a doctor?)
Details are intentionally vague because of reasons.
My last boss was awful at just about every aspect of his job. It didn’t matter what he did, it would always, somehow, be broken or incorrect or against our SOP.
He also had a very nasty habit of blaming anyone but himself, regardless of how flimsy an excuse it was. This plus a power trip meant he was insufferable to be around. I got on his shitlist early in my employment. My previous job required a lot of paperwork and I was used to having a paper trail by habit- so one day he tried to blame something on me, and I pulled a copy of my shift log and CC’d him and his superior explaining it was him and not me.
From that point on, i was a target. But since I kept records of everything I did, he had a lot of trouble finding anything to nitpick. This only angered him, but since ‘his’ boss liked me, all he could do was bottle it up.
So! Months pass, and one day something breaks that makes doing one part of our job impossible to do. So we all report the l problem and wait for him to fix it, as it was not something we could do ourselves.
Days pass. Every night we report the issue. Every day, we get no reply. I break SOP and CC his boss one day in the days report. The next day I get a verbal warning of disciplinary action, but also we all get an email from him stating he will fix it soon, and to specifically stop informing him of the issue. I immediately copy and archive it separately.
He never fixes that issue.
Months more pass, and because of that issue, something seriously bad happens. There is a break in and vandalism, and the thing we should have been maintaining is broken beyond repair
Corporate security is involved, and asshole boss doesn’t even hesitate in pointing the finger at us, and names me specifically as one of the people who’s job is to keep the thing working properly.
Our email server is kinda shitty. After 2 months old emails are deleted. He did not expect me to tell him to hold up, walk to my workstation, pull up a side folder and bring his email full-screen in front of him, the CFO, the director of corporate security, and a couple other higher ups (IT and HR, i think?).
I found some receipts that indicated that my ex was somewhere other than where he said he was. Receipts that featured two adult menus and one child menu.
I talked to my best friend about it because I was very distraught. First thing she said was "just so we're clear, it isn't me lol"
Of course it isn't I said.
Then as I'm texting her I'm still finding more receipts, so she's getting my reaction live on messenger as I'm pulling out receipts from the ex's bag.
And then I found one last receipt which had her name written on it.
So I said "and the final flourish, a receipt for a clothes shop, credited to the loyalty account of BEST FRIEND
Care to explain? "
bestem · 191 points · Posted at 16:22:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was 10, my sister was 5, and my other sister was 3. I don't know what the argument was about, but middle sister was trying to say something (loudly) to baby sister, and baby sister had her ears covered and was shouting "I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"
I really want them to stop arguing, so I can go back to reading my book. I look over at them, and not raising my voice at all I say "yes, you can."
Baby sister instantly replies "No, I can't!"
Middle sister and I just started laughing, which got baby sister to stop shouting. And then I was able to get back to reading without leaving our room.
That sounds like something my friend Bam would say. He's great
[deleted] · 228 points · Posted at 14:29:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Caught an ex cheating on me because the idiot forgot I was on their Snapchat. At first it was satisfying then it was very unsatisfying. I'd do it again though.
Same-ish circumstances over here. The idiot forgot to sign out of Facebook on my iPod, the takedown was brilliant. I'd do it again as well, I enjoy the feeling of crushing someone out of pure revenge.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:11:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. I wish I would've had a clear mind so I could've planned a takedown for revenge. But I was blind with emotion. Oh well you live and you learn.
I think people do that because they want to end the relationship but they're too chicken shit to do it. So they do something so awful it forces you to end it. Then they leave the evidence easy to find. I'm sorry that happened to you.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:09:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. I can't respect someone who can't end it themselves so they intentionally deeply hurt someone and make the person (me in this situation) hate them.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:07:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They posted a photo of themselves with someone else with one of those heart filters on. Then proceeded to post like 3 more photos that were practically the same, hearts and all.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:10:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where I live they just scream at you for not giving them money or trying to sell the ticket even if you are still standing right there.
hiyeuh · -4 points · Posted at 22:05:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you think cheating is just a regular thing? I have never cheated. Even if we aren’t “Facebook official.” But I always feel like she is cheating on me. She is so amazing, I couldn’t imagine her giving her love to just me...
But I am pretty ok too. Should I just have a few on the side too? I could do it. I don’t want to but it might make me feel more even? Even though idk if she has other guys on side for sure. I’m pretty sure but I have no real proof.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my opinion any decent person would never cheat. You don't want to get revenge by cheating too because you'd be no better than them. The best revenge is being successful without that person. Show them what they're missing.
With that being said investigate if you want to but don't get caught.
I've done that before! I was cheating on my ex with her cousin! We posted blue hearts on each other's snaps and saying we miss each other! My ex put 2 and 2 together and told her cousin which was her cousins brother wich didn't know I was sleeping with his sister and was very protective over her! We go to my exes house im in the car and he walked up to my ex to give her something and she shows him her phone and showing him something. He looked back at me and back at the phone. Then I realized I fucked up and forgot she had both of our snaps! He got back in the car and said are you talking to my sister. I was scared af and said no lol. I ended up breaking up with my ex and being with the cousin for 4 years and she cheated on me with my coworker! Gotta love life and how it works lol
Diizr · 6 points · Posted at 07:57:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was in the military, a senior NCO put in the paperwork to deny me re-enlistment. She waited until both the unit commander and my immediate supervisor were out on leave/TDY to do it and got the XO to sign off with her as my 'supervisor' despite the fact she wasn't in my chain of command. I had that shit reversed within 24 hours of getting to my next post. I told the admin guy what was up and he took one look at the paperwork and said 'fuck that'. The satisfying part was that she ended up coming through my new unit on a tour and I just leaned against a desk staring at her the whole time she was in our office. Bitch wouldn't look me in the eye, but she sure as shit saw me there a year after my first enlistment was up. Fuck that cunt.
For those of us that have no idea about the military, what would have been the repercussions of her actions had she gotten away with it. For you I mean, what does being denied re enlistment do?
It means just that, I would not have been able to re-enlist. I'd be separated from the military and have to get a job to support my family. The really ironic part is that I didn't really want to re-enlist and was only considering it because it was guaranteed employment. Had she not tried that underhanded bullshit, I probably would have happily gone back to civilian life. It pissed me off so bad that I just felt like I couldn't let her get away with it.
Officially it was something along the lines of "failure to adapt to a military environment" or somesuch. I think it was more that she just didn't like my attitude. I was junior enlisted and had a lot of contact with senior officers, I mean it was not uncommon for me to give a briefing in a room where the lowest ranking officer still had a star on his shoulder. The real problem is that when I was asked a question, I actually said what I thought and what I thought about what were were doing was that it was pretty fucked up. I wasn't that blunt, but the subtext was fairly clear.
I knew army used it and I trained with some Marines so I knew they used it, I had to check and it looks like the Navy uses it too. Looks like the AF is the only one to use something different 'AFSC', Air Force Specialty Code. I guess we're special for some reason.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:36:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice.
But, why did she have this weird vendetta against you?
Not really all that weird. I had a bad attitude and spoke my mind a little too often. Nothing that I could be disciplined for, but she just didn't think I belonged in that career field, so she tried to pull a fast one. Someone less knowledgeable about administrative procedures wouldn't have caught it and she would have gotten away with it. That kind of thing is pretty common in the military.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:03:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, pretty much. I spoke my mind a little too much for a junior enlisted and I wasn't happy about what we were doing or how we were doing it. Never anything I could actually be disciplined for, so she tried that sneaky shit.
I guess I should have included the reason in my post because everyone keeps asking. Anyway, it was basically a personality conflict. As a junior enlisted, you are mostly supposed to keep your mouth shut and wasn't very good at that. Never anything that I could be disciplined for, so she tried to be sneaky about it. And yeah, it was pretty petty on her part, which was why I was so happy I was able to engage in my own pettiness when she came on that tour.
That was before my turd fossil days. I think what really burned her ass was that I was good enough at my job that the CO and most of the people in my direct chain of command were willing to overlook my faults.
They're some real asshole people in the military. When i processing out i got told by some steroid using Marine that i didn't belong in the corps because i was in the upper end of the max weight. He was a real POS who didn't even look decent in his blues but he was buff.
I had a friend who is pretty much a compulsive liar and told everyone in our circle of friends a different story to victimise and take the blame off of himself when he was caught screwing up.
What he didn't know is that the rest of us began compiling inconsistencies in his stories. So when he was calling me to tell me what "happened", I refuted each lie in his story and made him explicitly admit that he lied to all of us and that he would have continued lying if I hadn't called him out on it.
Recorded and transcribed the call, sent it to all my other friends. Felt great.
If you're not watching Zach Morris is Trash on Yewtoob, you really should. It's great. Best thing FunnyorDie has done in like.... 5 years. Not a lotta competition though
I work in insurance and I've had my fair share of people lying to try to get cheaper insurance.
The best one was this lady who told me she didn't have any other drivers in her household of driving age (one of the company specific underwriting questions that, if not answered correctly, is considered non-disclosure and is a policy-cancelling offense).
One day we get a call about a claim on one of the vehicles she has on her policy (she has 4 vehicles btw, which is pretty fishy already for a single-driver household). She was hit by a guy driving one of our insured's vehicles. The lady that got hit took pictures of his insurance card, his license plates, etc. The guy that hit the lady then asked the lady for the phone so he could type in his phone number. She asked him what insurance company he had and he just spouted out that he had Geico. She then said "Wait.. I just saw your ID card and it wasn't for Geico!" That is when she noticed that he was deleting the photos she had taken. She grabbed her phone back and he ran back to his car and fled the scene.
The only picture that didn't get deleted was the one of the insurance card that was tied back to our insured.
This, of course, erected some major red flags. The first thing that happened was we called our insured asking if her vehicle had been in an accident. She said no. When then asked her again if she had anyone living in her household that was of driving age other than her. She again said no. After we got her recorded responses, we then took the issue to our underwriters who were able to pull records on that address. We found out that both of her sons, in their mid to late 20s, also lived in that household and had never been licensed elsewhere. Both sons had terrible driving records, both sons had been arrested on multiple occasions, and one son had been caught selling drugs.
We had to call the lady back and let her know that someone was claiming that her vehicle somehow hit this other vehicle on the date of the accident. She then said "Oh.. that date.. I.. thought I hit an animal. I didn't realize it was another car. The damage wasn't too bad so I didn't want to put a claim in." We the asked about the two guys with licenses tied to her household. She said "Oh those are my sons. They don't live her. " We got all of that on record as well. We took the new information back to the claims department, who were in contact with the person that got hit. That person decribed the person that hit her, including a cast on his leg with a boot.
This back and forth went on for a couple of weeks. Each time we called, she would dig herself a deeper hole and we would have to present this information to claims and underwriting.
Finally, they sent a claims represenative to her home and guess who answered the door! The son with the arrest record, who also happened to be wearing a walking boot and cast.
It turns out that these two guys, because of their terrible records, couldn't get insurance anywhere except with non-standard carriers with rates that were through the roof. The mom was sheltering them and claiming that all the vehicles were hers.
The other party got their claim paid, we still had to pay for their vehicle being repaird, but they got cancelled immediately after that. This lady had blatantly lied to my face time after time after time, so when she finally got caught up in all her lies, it was a freshly baked batch of karma! On a whim, I decided to do quotes for her and her sons through a non-standard carrier. The average premium was about $28k a year.
TL;DR: Compulsive liar was sheltering her sons and lying to get cheaper insurance which backfired dramatically when her son fucked up.
I'm an insurance agent so I totally understand. It's incredible what people think that they can get away with, especially when they're really bad at lying.
Had a customer a couple of weeks ago who came into my office 2 minutes before closing rudely yelling at me to write her a policy because her old one (she only paid dp) had cancelled and her car got repossessed. I begrudgingly wrote the policy, but with this company we have to submit inspection photos if the vehicle has physical damage coverage. She said she'd bring it by Monday since the had to get the car back from her leinholder. Monday rolls around and I'm busy so I hand the office camera off to my boss to get the inspection photos. While he's taking the pictures she tells him a tree limb fell on her car causing scratches on the hood and to the windshield and he of course tells her not to file a claim because we have no proof that the damage wasn't already there and it MIGHT cost the amount of her deductible to get it fixed so she only get a small amount from.the I insurance company. She comes inside complaining about what my boss told her and I told her that he was absolutely right.
Flash forward to the next day when she comes in yelling and screaming that another limb fell onto her car. I ask her why she would park her car under a tree again after a branch had just fallen on it the previous day. She then backtracks saying that the tree is in a lot next to her house and a storm must have hurled the limb into her car (two days in a row) once we tell her that those are two separate incidents and therefore two separate claims she would have to file she storms out of the office coming back with a police report now claiming that someone vandalized her car. I ask her why she just told me that a limb fell onto her car and she starts screaming that she never said that to which my boss comes up there and starts screaming right back that she told him it was a limb yesterday that her car was parked under and caused the damage. She then corrects him saying that the tree was in her backyard where she parks the car and then goes right back to claiming that the damage was a vandal. At this point we pretty much tell her to go ahead and file the damn claim so that she would fuck herself over and she does.
Turns out that everything she told the claims department was contradictory as well, so a rep calls me asking some questions. I explain to the rep that the reason we dont have inspection photos from the day the policy was written was because at that time the insured did not have possession of the vehicle. This is another lie the insured told us because the vehicle had been given back to her two days prior and already had the damage to begin with so the entire claim was fraudulent and she will probably be getting sent out a non renewal. She might have been able to get away with it if she wasn't so stupid and could at least tell the same story.
On a side note I pulled up her address on Google maps and looked at the street view. She doesnt even live next to an empty lot in the first place so there was no way for a stray limb from a fictitious tree to come flying into her yard in the first place. People, am I right?
We had a client who's roof got damaged by a hailstorm and they took the claims check, cashed it, and spent it on who knows what. Then, about a year later they put another claim in for hail damage. The claim inspector goes out and takes pictures. They realize that the pictures of the damage match up exactly to the pictures of the claim they put in the previous year. Our company denied the claim saying that it was the damage from the previous storm that was never fixed. Eventually the policy gets canceled due to claims frequency and we have to write them with another policy, but we can only do so if they have their roof repaired.
They call us back and say they finally get the repairs done. My boss goes out to inspect. He takes pictures. There is still significant damge to the roof, same places as the previous pictures, only he had duct taped a tarp around his chimney.
I guess duct tape and a tarp cost around $15k nowdays? That is what his claim check was for.
Oh goodness! We have a customer who back in 2012 took out a home insurance policy and when the inspector came out and saw significant damage to her roof her policy was cancelled. She comes back into the office earlier this year and takes out another policy and the exact same thing happens. Apparently she goes around to different insurance companies and takes out a policy to get about a month or so of coverage for it to cancel and her just start the same process again, when she could just spend the money to at get some of the repairs done. We now have notes that we are not allowed to write a policy for her unless we have proof that she's had the repairs done, but it's been fiveish years since this started so I doubt she'll ever do anything about it.
I am a legal assistant to a personal injury attorney and these kinds of cases give me life. We get both sides, too — the clients who lie to us as well as the defendants who are clearly lying to their insurance co’s attorneys. Either way, it’s just so satisfying to lay out the evidence in front of them and just enjoy the dawning realization that they fucked themselves by not being truthful.
Wish I could experience that feeling more often! When that happens at my office I mostly just have to deal with the aftermath of the customer though. Not always fun.
The one that takes the cake was a $36k premium. The MVR report for the $36k quote was 19 pages long, including several DUI's and a couple of handfuls of reckless driving tickets thrown in.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:06:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For shits and giggles I've put a 1996 Volvo 240 with my details though comparethemarket . com and the highest premium listed was £107k. This was a couple of years ago now, I'd imagine it would be a bit cheaper now
Wtf, we're you a young male at the time? Some companies purposely price themselves out of the market on comparison sites when it comes to young males with a short/non-existent driving record.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:06:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I still am a young guy (21 nearly 22 now, searches done when I was 19 or so), but I was even younger at the time. The search was done with the monthly installments option selected only, which pushed the price up further. If memory serves me correctly it was about £80k-£95k if paid in full.
If done now I suspect the high outlier prices will be less bonkers. Having my license a few years longer has a massive impact in reduction of premiums, even if my record is no longer clean (2 recorded accidents in 8 days in September 2016 - 1 at fault, and 1 not at fault).
Was tempted to call the insurer up with the same car and details and see what the reaction would've been for the telephone operator, but I couldn't be bothered.
Edit: just noticed your username. If you're a Sunderland supporter you have my condolences.
Edit: just noticed your username. If you're a Sunderland supporter you have my condolences.
Thank you, at least I get to experience something that my dad did, Sunderland in the 3rd division.
I think we'll get back to the Prem eventually, but it will take a lot of rebuilding and a good 5+ years.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The North East / Tyne and Wear needs a top flight derby, feels odd seeing just the one club in the Prem.
This new owner isn't that bad and is pretty cashed up - Eastleigh were one of the biggest spending clubs in the Conference/ National League (family member currently plays for Aldershot so I had been following the league as a whole).
Why couldn't he buy out the Dildo Brothers + co? :( Tbf Pellegrini is in charge now somehow AND WE FINALLY HAVE A DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT THAT (West Ham fan in case you didn't get that lol)
The other party got their claim paid, we still had to pay for their vehicle being repaird, but they got cancelled immediately after that. This lady had blatantly lied to my face time after time after time, so when she finally got caught up in all her lies, it was a freshly baked batch of karma! On a whim, I decided to do quotes for her and her sons through a non-standard carrier. The average premium was about $28k a year.
Wait really? Your company actually paid out even though the lady was committing insurance fraud? I figured your company would have said "tough shit policy is void bai" leaving the lady who was hit having to sue your "customer" (either them self or have her insurance go after her)
Also there was no arrest involved here? Isn't insurance fraud a big deal?
Keep in mind, insurance laws have to be specific. Anything vague and they will rule in the favor of the client. Even though she was lying, there was enough insurable interest in the vehicle to have to cover this claim. They then used the non-disclosure as a reason for canceling her policy (not non-renewing... outright canceling).
She did lie about how the vehicle was titled as well and that is something they were having to overlook, which pissed my boss off.
I don't know about what happened to the son. Once we dropped her, we no longer had contact with her or the claims department on how this claim was being handled. Once a lawyer is involved we are no longer allowed to talk to a client about anything claim-related.
The lady that was hit had a different company. They were exchanging information so they could handle the claim. The guy that hit her was not listed on his mom's policy even though he lived in the household. They lied about it so they could get cheaper coverage on his vehicle since he had too much stuff on his record to get his own policy.
He said he was putting his phone number in her phone so if they needed to contact him about the claim, they could call him. In reality, he never gave her his phone number and started deleting the pictures she had taken of his info and vehicle.
I was confused and had to read your original part of the story a few times. It sounds like the 'she' you're talking about is the lady who had the policy in the first place, so I thought she was the victim and the guy that hit her deleted pictures. Had to read further to get it was a different woman and the guy was her dirtbag son.
I had the same difficulty understanding. I think the story could have warranted names or labels for all of the involved parties instead of he, she, sons, and woman.
“Oh.. that date.. I.. thought I hit an animal. I didn’t realize it was another car.”
Holy shit, that part made me laugh too hard. Jesus Christ lady, what sort of animals have you been seeing or how fucking big is your car?? A semi?? A tank??
Just strikes me as hilarious that she tried to say it was an animal.
If she keeps a clean record for 5 years and the sons move out, she can get a lower premium policy again. Her son's arrest record was bad enough that he would have to keep a clean arrest record / driving record for more than 10 years before he could be rewritten with a standard company.
Yeah, my jaw dropped when I saw that one as well. Mind you, I have a clean driving record, one driver, one non-driver, and one vehicle and mine is nearly $1300 per year.
EDIT: I do have a few upgraded coverages though just from the paranoia of seeing what happens to people who don't have enough coverage.
Heh. I'm not proud of it. But my mom did the same for some of my siblings back in the day. It's just because we were a low-income family, and it helped them to pay her the lower rate that she got through insuring the cars under her. She eventually got caught, but I don't know the extent that she was penalized.
Given that we live in a state with some of the highest care insurance rates in the nation, I can't say I blame her, even though it was wrong. But fuck car insurance in my state. It's Goddamn ridiculous.
You’d certainly change your mind if you were TBoned by a wreckless driver, totaled your car and injured yourself. You’d never be able to pick up the pieces of your life without that driver’s insurance compensation.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:21:45 on July 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. My FIL is dealing with issues because of this. He was hit by an uninsured driver. It was his best commuter car and he had just put several hundred dollars of work into it, had groceries in the trunk, just filled up the gas tank, and had just had a cervical spine fusion to help with major pain issues related to something completely separate.
The wreck ended up wrapping the back end of the car around to the drivers window (hard to explain, but while the drivers door was untouched, the drivers side rear paneling was within 6 inches of the window.... seems impossible, but FIL kept the car--to salvage parts I assume--and i have seen the damn thing in person.). His dad lost all of the groceries, the gas he just bought, his best commuter car, and worst of all, his ribs separated from his sternum, which he is still struggling with a year later (I dont think he had/has medical insurance either, as he just can not afford it). He is still wrapped up in the legal fiasco and is having difficulty even getting medical bills reimbursed by the other driver.
Also, while groceries, gas, and a older commuter car may not seem like much to most people, his dad has been out of work for a long time due to his spinal injuries, and had finally quit the workers comp program that was helping pay the bills months before the accident as it was a lot of political bs, and he figured he would try and get a job due to slightly increased mobility from the spinal surgery (minimum wage job). So he isnt in good shape financially. He also kind of lives on a farm, and owns cows and chickens, so hes required to do heavy lifting even in his free time, which is not helpful for healing sternal issues.
And for the uninsured driver, I suppose her issues may be large as well, though I dont feel too bad for her. The wreck was entirely her fault, she was irresponsible for driving without insurance, and she was trash talking my FIL online after the wreck. She had just gotten a new truck, which is what she was driving uninsured. I'm unclear on if the vehicle was totaled in her case (pick up vs Grand Prix). She also likely owes my FIL several thousand for just his medical bills, let alone whatever his vehicle was appraised at, and legal fees. Though it may take a while, eventually she will get what is coming to her, and hopefully he will be able to pay his medical bills and get better.
f15k13 · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would love to not pay health insurance, and instead pay higher taxes for universal healthcare, but that opinion is extremely unpopular in the southern state in which I live. We'd rather pay for a 54 billion increase in military spending because reasons.
I live somewhere with free health care and a welfare system, we still need at least 3rd party insurance on our vehicles, someone has to pay for any damage you cause to property.
My mom used to tell me all the time that my brother (14 at the time) kept disappearing I'm the hospital the day I was born. It turned out he kept going to the nursery to see baby me. During my teenage years I started joking about being switched at birth and my mom replied "Nuh uh. I never let the nurses take you away from me. Not for a second." Well which one was it Linda?
There's a running joke in OPs family that when OP was born, his older brother kept disappearing to watch OP while he was in the nursery. OP's mom also claims she never let baby OP out of her sight. So one of those must be a lie since if OP was in the nursery, he would be out of her sight.
During my Outward Bound course (summer camp), one of my group members one-upped anything and everything. If you had done something he had done it better. If you had watched something and had an opinion on it, he had a better one. Anyway, the rest of the group and I made up a tv show to talk about to catch him in the act. We called it “Judgement” and started a bs conversation about the characters and how we were excited for season 2. When we asked him about it, he was an EXPERT on the show. In fact, it was his favorite show! It just happened to not exist. We never told him but it was very satisfying seeing him bullshit an entire conversation about a fake show.
I know a guy who's a compulsive liar and has some need to one up anything said in his vicinity, this dude's(lets call him Bort) catchphrase is "bro! You think that's crazy!?" Proceed to bullshit. Bort's the type of person who doesn't have a conversation with someone, it's a god damn monologue where he just talks non-stop.
I realise, after re-reading, this isn't related but I just wanted to rant and your story reminded me of good ol' Bort.
drf129 · 159 points · Posted at 16:45:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have an employee that misses a ton of days he claims it’s because he has ptsd from his time in Iraq. Every time he does something wrong he claims it’s because of his ptsd from combat. 2 days ago my assistant managers and I are talking about him because he hasn’t been to work in 4 straight days all no call no shows I call him over to tell him I’m going to have to terminate him. He sat arts going off screaming and ranting about how I know about his past and all he has gone through. His aunt who also works for the company walks across the lot and says “ I can’t take this anymore!” “This boy didn’t even make it in to the army! He has never been outside the country and definitely didn’t go to Iraq!” He ran off screaming at her calling her a bitch.
I had just met this guy, he was a friend of a friend, and we were making small talk. I asked him what he liked to do for fun. He told me that he was into sports, all of them! He then said that he also enjoys working out and lofting weights. I got excited, because I am active in the strength sport community and am a powerlifter. I asked him if he knew anything about the local competition that was coming up. He said he did and was interested in signing up. I told him that he totally should do it, because it would be a lot of fun. I then asked, "What's your best lift?". Note, in powerlifting, there are exactly three reasonable answers to this question. Squat, Bench, and Deadlift. His answer, "Leg Press". I was like, "oh....uhhhh, and you said you are into powerlifting?" And he was like, "Yeah! I even have a few local records, but that is back in Alabama. I set the Altima leg press record for my leage" And that's when I congratulated and then never trusted another word he said.
Wouldn’t it be pretty obvious if they were a power lift record holder? Like I’ve seen pictures of these guys and they look like they could punch a lion dead
Depends. Powerlifters train for strength not hypertrophy (big muscles). Often hypertrophy is a side effect of strength training but at the same time i've seen dudes who I wouldn't look twice at musclewise lift crazy weights.
Also depends how lean they are, a little fat can cover up a lot of muscle.
Powerlifters do use rails lmao. Nothing wrong with the leg press as an accessory exercise per say only if you use it to substitute squats completely. Hell tons of WR holding powerlifters do pin squats, rack pulls, tons of variations/accessories that involve rails.
When I was 11, I got the best Christmas present any kid in 1982 could have gotten: the AFX Lazer 2000 wall-climbing slot-car race-track set. My parents were not rich, and the only way they were able to afford it was they invoked the normally-dreaded, "This is both your birthday and your Christmas present," rule (my birthday is December 20th), both to split the cost and to prevent my older brothers from committing jealously induced fratricide.
I loved that race-track, but of course by the time Spring rolled around I'd grown bored with it. I still appreciated it, though, and I would make the effort every few weeks to set it up and play with it for a while, mostly for the benefit of letting my parents know their financial sacrifice had not been in vain.
One day, I went over to a friends' house, and when I arrived he immediately pulled me aside and whispered to me, "My cousin is here. He's staying with us for a few months. Be careful around him, he's a troubled kid."
In 1980s speak, 'Troubled kid', typically meant abuse victim with behavioural problems.
Let's call him, "Tim".
Tim was several years older than me. He was tough, he was loud, he was impulsive. He was always bragging about how he had the very best BMX at home, several Wayne Gretzky hockey cards at home, how he actually had a real full-sized Pac-Man arcade game at home, and so on, and so on.
It was all lies, obviously. But we didn't call him on it, because the truth was that he had an alcoholic father and an absentee mother at home. He was staying with his cousin because he'd been expelled from his school and had to finish the school year somewhere else. Apparently, Tim was the school bully, and the school had finally had enough.
The thing is, Tim and I just kind of hit it off. I was a small, quiet, meek, kid, so we couldn't have been more different, but somehow we just got along. I never saw anything of the violent side of him. We would talk about whatever, and I would let his lies just slide.
One day, I went over to visit and found that they had set up an old AFX race-track. As soon as I joined in, I realized something was different. Tim was practically holding court, demonstrating exactly how to tear down, lubricate, tweak, and re-assemble the tiny AFX cars to squeeze slight speed increments from each vehicle. And he wasn't just spouting his usual B.S., either, he actually knew what he was talking about this time.
We had a lot of fun, because unlike with my out-of-the-box set, it wasn't just about squeezing a trigger, instead you had to actually do something just right to get your vehicle to win. Tim was, for the first time I'd ever seen, actually speaking about a subject he was a legitimate expert in. He would give us the advice, and we would genuinely listen.
Tim eventually decided he wanted to show me his pride and joy: a broken AFX GTX car. The GTX models, he explained, were capable of up to 6000 mph scale speeds, unlike the regular AFX cars which could only manage 4000 mph scale. Tim was trying to fix the car, but the most he could get it to do was run for about half a second or so. In retrospect, the brushes were probably worn out from heavy use, but none of us knew that at the time.
That's when I made a bad judgement call. I told Tim to wait, I had to run home, but I'd be right back. I rode my bike home, dug out my 2 Lazer 2000 GTX cars, and while I was doing that I noticed that the box clearly said that Lazer 2000 GTX cars were even faster than regular AFX GTX cars. They could go 8000 mph scale.
I got back, put one of my cars on the track, and squeezed the controller. My car started literally lapping all the others. It was indeed almost exactly double the speed, no tweaking, no tuning, no special lubrication.
I looked over at Tim, and it was like he'd just melted. The excitement was gone. He didn't get mad or anything, but you could tell I'd just accidentally killed his passion. I distinctly remember him picking up the pieces of his prized GTX car that he'd been trying to repair and quietly dumping them in a box.
I took my cars home that night and thought about what I'd done. I felt terrible. I decided that I was going to buy Tim his own Lazer 2000 GTX car for his birthday.
The local Hobby Hut was selling them for $30 (Canadian) each, which in 1982 dollars is about $78 today. Over the next couple of weeks I collected up my paper route money, and when I finally had enough I went to go purchase it.
When I got to the counter, though, there, in a special limited-edition protective carrying case, was the brand-new, gold-trimmed, limited-edition ultra-fast GTX 10000. It was capable of 10000 mph scale, and it had a price tag to match: $45
I knew I had to get it, so I borrowed the extra $15 from my mom after explaining exactly why I needed it. She was skeptical, asking me if I was absolutely sure, but I assured her I was.
Fast-forward to the day before Tim's birthday, and we're playing AFX cars again, and I'm smiling to myself as Tim is trying to convince himself and everybody else that he now doesn't care about his GTX car not working, about how he's fine with the slower cars, and that yeah the Lazer 2000 cars are fun, but they're hard to work on compared to the regular models and since he's going to become a mechanic one day it's more important to learn how to fix model cars than to just have the fastest one.
When it's time to leave, I realize I can't find one of my cars. We all look for it, but can't find it. I ask Tim if he’s seen it, and he says no. Since I'll be back tomorrow, I decide I'll find it then.
The next morning I arrive for Tim's birthday, and his cousin pulls me aside and whispers to me, "Tim stole your car."
I nodded, thanked him, and said it would be okay.
I mean, yeah, I should have been mad, but I guess it somehow all seemed to made sense to me. Tim didn't actually have any friends. Even his cousin and his aunt treated him with a kind of distance to the relationship. He was, indeed, "troubled", and so he'd stolen my car, not because he wanted to hurt me, but because he just couldn't help himself.
When it came time for Tim to open his gift I was watching, and when he realized exactly what it was he did that same melting thing. You could tell it crushed him emotionally, but this time in a good way.
Later, Tim came up to me.
"Warren, why did you buy me that car?"
"Because you're my friend."
"But, why? Why did you buy it for me?"
"Because you're my friend."
He then showed me the car he'd stolen from me.
"Warren, I stole your car. I was going to keep it."
"I know."
"Why would you give me that present, then?"
"Tim, you're my friend. I knew you'd love it. That's what friends do for each other."
We raced, and Tim's new car could indeed beat mine.
My cousin told me later that Tim had spent the night crying. He confessed everything to his aunt (even though she already knew), and just kept repeating how he didn't understand, how it made no sense that I'd just bought him the fastest, best AFX car in the world, just because we were friends, even though he'd stolen from me and lied to me about it.
Tim went back home to his parents a few days later, and I never saw him again. I don’t know what happened to him. I hope that my friendship had an effect on him, and that he did manage to become a mechanic.
TL;DR – Habitually-lying bully steals my toy car and lies about it. When he finds out I knew he was lying, but was still his friend anyway, he cries his eyes out.
I have no words for how much I appreciate what you did there, man. Thanks for making this world a warmer place for this guy even though most would've understood had you decided against it. You're awesome.
My mom made my sister complete a math workbook over a summer break. My sister tried to cheat, found the answer key and copied answers for a lesson. My mom checked her work and...one of her answers reads “answers will vary.” 😂
I guess this is kind of the opposite of this question, but the most frustrating lie I ever heard. I was in high school and 5’4”. Girl in my class was 5’9”. She told me she was 5’3”. I basically said uhhh I’m 5’4 and you’re way taller than me. she then tried to convince me I was actually about 5 feet tall. It was the weirdest and most pointless lie I ever heard and there really was no good way to argue about it.
That’s crazy. When I was in high school there was this short girl, maybe 5 feet tall, that kept insisting I was 5 foot 9 and she was 5’ 4” even though I was 5’ 3”!
[deleted] · 427 points · Posted at 14:52:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess it’s not a huge deal, but was playing competitive overwatch - single queue. All six of us were randoms and pitted against a six stack. We were getting our asses kicked. It wasn’t even remotely close. You could barely even consider it a fight.
One kid, sounded early teens, was Pharah and kept bitching at every one else. Healers are shit, tanks are awful, flankers aren’t doing anything, etc. we were all switching up roles to try to find something that works, but he refused to give up Pharah “I have gold eliminations” he cried. “You guys just aren’t doing anything!”
There was a bit of silence, then I checked. I, a healer, also had gold eliminations “yeah, first off, medals don’t matter. Second, gold eliminations is ONE. So that’s nothing to brag about.”
He kept complaining. Kept blaming everyone else. Refused to switch or try to go in as a group, whatever. Then it finally happened. His face pops up in the corner having killed someone.
Gold eliminations was still one.
This entire time he had been lying. “How is gold still one if you just killed someone and already had gold?”
Silence.
“The game must have messed up. I promise!” His voice started to crack. “It does this sometimes. I’ve always had gold!”
None of us bought it.
We might have been thoroughly and deservingly getting our collective asses handed to us, but catching this little whiny brat in such an obvious lie, and hearing him stutter to try to cover up said lie - especially when having medals is completely meaningless - made that entire match worthwhile.
I didn’t care that the team lost. It felt like a win.
osound · 58 points · Posted at 15:43:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
the Overwatch community in a nutshell. all it takes is one of six team members to be a shitstain and the game is lost.
I don’t play over watch, what’s gold eliminations?
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 15:51:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
While playing, the game tracks certain stats - amount of damage, eliminations (number of kills), healing performed, etc. the top 3 for your team in each category is given a medal (bronze, silver, and gold). You’re able to see if you have a medal in any of the categories at any given time, but you can’t see what medals your teammates have, or if they have one at all.
In my story, someone claimed to have the highest elimations, at which point we all checked and saw that we all had the highest (we all only had one kill). Then later we all saw him get a kill, but the highest was still only one, so he was lying before when he claimed to have had the highest.
So the gold elimination medal would be awarded to the top killer on the team? Like he was saying I won't change because I am getting the most kills on the team (or in the top 3 players with kills since 3 people get gold)?
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:49:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Correct. Top killer would have gold eliminations, 2nd most would be silver, and third would be bronze.
f15k13 · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Players with the same number of elims share the medal. If gold elims is 1, several people have probably gotten 1 elim.
On top of that, eliminations aren't kills. Eliminations are kills+assists.
Overwatch doesn't make a big deal out of solo kills, as it's a very heavily team-oriented game and focus fire is very valuable. If it only rewarded solo kills people would be less likely to focus fire, instead trying to get this valuable solo kills so they can have the shiny medal that only they can see.
Sounds like a fun game, someday I will have to give it a shot. Too bad the team can't see the stats at the end of the game thoigh, I can see how it would be used against some new players or people who want to try a new character though. That is really just a gamer priblem in general though, and I don't know what can be done to help with the problem, sometimes people take their team games too seriously. Those people should probably join a grenade team or a clan though.
While I tell myself I was good with pharah when I played I know in my heart I probably sucked ass but I’m not a toxic player. I know I suck and I will tell you if we’re losing that it’s probably my fault.
I'd rather play with bad players who have fun than good players who are toxic. You do you, bud
jsmiel · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I relate to you so much.
I don’t understand why we can’t see the kda/basic stats of the whole lobby if not the whole team. I mean they do it so people don’t get flamed for being bad but when they don’t even consider trying to cooperate.. they should be flamed.
That why when I get Insta-locked Genji, Hanzo, Doomfist, Widow teammates who are most often ass at the game, we could all just see they aren’t doing anything and they can’t hide behind this veil to avoid switching to a more useful role.
The best I can do is look up stats and be like “hey man I don’t mean to be a jerk but you have a 30% win rate across 100 games as Hanzo would you consider playing someone else” then they tell me to fuck off lol.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sort of get it. The stats are meaningless for the most part. Take win rate - I’m not good with Zen, but I have a 70% win rare because the few times I use him, it works really well with the comp and my team does well. I have under 50% win rate with Mercy, not because I’m bad with her, but because over half the time we have 5 inta-lock dps that refuse to switch so I have to solo heal with no tank.
The only time I bitch about stats is when we have 3 or 4 dps and I have gold damage as a healer or tank. Then I say whoever doesn’t have a fucking medal needs to be our 2nd healer or 2nd tank or whatever our comp needs because they clearly aren’t doing shit
jsmiel · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I get what you’re saying but that’s why I include “across 100 games” because if it’s significantly below 50% across many uses it’s fair to say they’re most likely related.
I agree with your second point though. Most games that are lost by my team’s selection are when we have too many dps picks and they lack the awareness to say “I’m not doing my role well enough, so I need to find a way to contribute.” 3-4 dps can lead to wins if they are actually good, but more often than not this is not the case.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve gotten to the point that I just don’t even join voice chat anymore. I don’t think I’ve had a single game all week with less than 4 dps.
jsmiel · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone I know in real life (who was quite bad at the game) once said “I have to go offense because I can’t trust these randoms to do damage,” but always performed horrendously in an offensive role.
Eventually it hit me and I was like “you are the randoms. You’re literally the player we all hate to get matched with.”
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my closest friends has a brother that I play overwatch with. I like the guy just fine, I just know the other guy a lot better.
Anyway, my close friend hardly plays but me and the brother play a good bit... but I would mute/block/avoid him if I didn’t know him. He’s actually pretty good, but just super annoying in voice on purpose. Just says cringey or creepy things nonstop. Says racist shit even though he isn’t racist at all. Basically just trolls when he’s online and I just don’t get it.
jsmiel · 4 points · Posted at 17:10:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think there is a part of gaming culture that does that. Idk there’s an obnoxiousness in a lot of gamers when their voice can be heard for some reason. I have a friend who talks to our party chat like he’s a steamer and we’re his audience and it makes me realize some people don’t converse on a game like they would in real life, similar to your friend’s brother though maybe in a different way.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can see that. For whatever reason I instantly become like a tactical leader - whether it’s warranted or not. Tell people what they need to be doing, make quick decisions on the fly, etc, and I’m not like that in person. In person I’m far more chill and just down for whatever anybody else wants to do
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s always those DPS mains, man. They all think they’re MLG Pro.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What’s obnoxious is sometimes I’ll get frustrated, switch to dps, secure gold in every category all while being on fire, then go back to tank/support and they’ll still insist that they’re needed for their skill on dps.
I remember playing 76 one day and having the junkrat on our team screaming at me to get off soldier bc I wasn't killing the pharah. he was teamed up with a mercy who was pocketing him.
I tried to tell him that I couldn't do a damn thing when I wasn't getting healed but he wouldn't listen. kept yelling.
so I got our rein and dva to cover me, ulted and killed half their team so we could capture the point. played DPS next round despite him still bitching and played a big role in making sure we held point A and won.
he bitched the whole time about having gold elims/damage, but at the end of it all.... our rein got a card for 3 gold medals.
Is it worth getting back into Overwatch? Havent played in a while, last time i remembered doomfist came out. Did anything change to Hanzo for the better or for the worse?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hanzo is the single best dps right now - if you’re good. The problem is most people are trash but still play him anyway.
Brig was released recently (I main her) and she seriously changed things up. Dive isn’t nearly as viable since she punishes it hard.
I can’t tell you if it’s worth coming back - I played the beta and preordered the game, but didn’t really start playing until December of last year.
So does that mean Hanzo is now more based on actual accuracy and calculating the geometry and the velocity of charged arrows and such? I remember Every Hanzo player using scattershot and raping everyone
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:46:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Scattershot has been removed (thank god - it’s not hard to aim in someone’s general direction).
It was replaced with volley (I think that’s what it’s called) which lets him fire six shots extremely quickly at reduced damage. Accurate players can tear through targets with this. They also increased his regular arrow’s velocity so he’s better at taking down fast moving or airborn targets. And they gave him a movement ability to get into and out of combat easier.
One of the best comps right now is Rein, Zarya, Mercy, Brig, and Zen, with Hanzo as the solo DPS due to his versatility
The crap DPS claiming everyone else is crap is pretty much a staple of Overwatch competitive. That said, your story reminds me most of playing Heroes of the Storm, because in that game you can see every player's kills, deaths, and participations. So many times i've had a team member go on and on about how we're only losing because of another player, when there is mathematical proof that they are playing worse than anyone else. That game has the toxic atmosphere of any i've played. I swear more games are lost from defeatism and teammates distracting each other than actual skill or balance deficits.
Stolen valor is no joke son. Many a man braver than him fought and died for those medals. I didn't lose a leg in Vietnam so some little wet shit could claim a medal he had no business even laying eyes on. If I were 30 years younger, I'd fuck his mom and get her arrested for statutory rape.
I used to lie for attention in my early teens to early twenties. It got so bad that I even believed some of it myself.
Once I was finally caught and rock bottom with nobody I decided to get therapy
Its been a hard road but I've recovered well and my mental health, relationships, friendships, my physical health, Everything has recovered for me.
I'm very satisfied with that.
I recommend anyone reading this thread if you're going through a severe bout of compulsive lying, Please get help. Its only going to hurt you in the end. Be honest with yourself and everyone around you. You may burn some or even most bridges when your lies are revealed but you'll be better off shedding that mental weight and seeing a professional. I couldn't recommend it more.
It's one of the most useful skills one can have if you know the 2 rules.
NEVER LIE TO YOURSELF. No matter what always be brutally honest with yourself.
Always make sure you can't get caught in a lie. And if you are make a bigger lie to cover for your lie. Never get caught purposefully in a lie.
Lie about very small and insignificant things purposefully badly so the other person knows and later on act as if your tormented trying hide the lie from them do pretend to open up completely and be remorseful and come clean. They will be fooled into thinking your a bad lier and can't lie to them without breaking down and coming clean. Now when you flawlessly lie about the important things they won't suspect a thing.
Tell a lie absurd and big enough and people will believe you. Look at hitler or Stalin or any other leader.
Edit: Obvious satire so really downvoted?
I used hitler and Stalin as examples said 2 rules and listed 4 completely bullshit nonsensical rules.
My two friends and I got triforce tattoos together in 2011. We stopped for coffee and a guy saw one of theirs and immediately started hitting on her, tried bragging that he held the Speedrun record for Super Mario 2, at a time less than half the current world record. I was so excited to catch someone in such a fringe topic lie.
This guy I work with constantly spouts bullshit stories. You know the type of guy that’s nice enough but is always going on about the things he’s done and always has a better story than you- and you know it’s 90% bullshit.
Starts telling us a story on how he went on a pub crawl in city so my boyfriend starts telling him how he went drinking in the same city and went to this amazing motorcycle bar.
‘Oh yeah I went there, it was awesome’
‘No you didn’t, I made it up. It doesn’t exist.’
Que awkward stuttering ‘urm, I must’ve been somewhere similar then’
Cruel, but satisfying to see someone called out on their bullshit.
I worked at a movie theatre as an assistant manager in an snooty upper middle class suburb of Denver that had signs that said “The Pride of Colorado” so people had no shortage of money or attitude. One day these two older ladies come into guest services, they speak to the employee working the desk and complain that “the newspaper listed the times for such and such movie but your marquee has different times, we think we should get free tickets for your mistake.”
Employee calls me up there as he was not authorized to give free passes, normally I wouldn’t give a crap and just come their tickets to get them to go away. But the fact they specifically asked for it, I knew they were just trying to scam us out of some free tickets. So I listened to there complaint, that the newspaper listed the wrong times and that they should get free passes for our mistake.
“I apologize for the confusion, I just happened to have a copy of the newspaper right here so let’s check the times to make sure they are correct.”(the theatre a,ways kept a copy of the days newspaper on file so we could verify they printed everything correctly that day) and lo and behold, the times were correct!
The ladies looked flustered so I tried to suggest that maybe they accidentally looked at a different film and misread the times. However I told them, sorry no, I cannot give yo7 free tickets here. They got a little flustered, bought their tickets and quickly went into their movie. The employee definitely had a smug look on his face too which,are the whole thing even more satisfying!
TL;DR two ladies in snooty, upper middle class suburb tried to scam movie theatre out of free movie tickets, called BS on their lie and no free tickets.
Happens all the time at work. I am in charge of email and all communication for a large company. A few weeks ago one of the head people in accounting freaked the hell out that a large folder in her mailbox was missing. She accused “someone else” of going into her mailbox and sabotaging things. When I assured her that no one else in the company has access to her mailbox she turned on me and accused me. She had a complete freak out and got my boss involved. As it turns out she deleted the folder herself and then cleared out her deleted items and didn’t want to admit her mistake. When I provided her with the audit logs showing that SHE deleted the folder and recovered all her items I didn’t even get a thank you or apology from her. My boss and I had a good laugh about it afterwards.
Don’t lie to IT. Just don’t. Everything you do may be recorded in audit logs and you’ll end up looking like an idiot.
We use O365. Mailbox auditing isn’t natively enabled when a new user or mailbox is set up, so I wrote a little script that runs weekly to enable it for all new boxes. It’s nice because you can choose which operations you want logged and do not have to provide the storage space for the audit logs.
So I dated this complete loser off and on for about 10 months. In the last several months I ended it (he swore I was cheating on him and amidst the fight he confesses he has been talking to another girl). A month or so later he comes back saying "please give me another chance" and that he had ended things with the other girl. Stupid me agreed to give it one more shot but were just going to be talking - not officially a couple.. Whatever. Anyway I noticed his relationship status on Facebook and MySpace (I know) never changed to single after ending things with the other girl. He acted like he just never got around to doing it. Well he stayed at my place one night and he had to go to work the next day. He accidently left his phone at my place, and I looked through it of course. He had been texting with the girl he supposedly broke up with while he was with me, saying "I love you". So I called the girl from his phone. Asked if they were dating (they were) and told her who I was and what was going on. He called me from work and asked me if I could bring his phone to him at work. I said sure and didn't let on that I knew anything. Before taking him his phone, I met up with the girl and rode with her in her car to take him his phone. He looked like he was about to die, it was great.
I heard from another source that he was so distraught that he had to leave work early and then decided to go drinking to drown his sorrows I guess. When he was pulling out of the restaurant he got pulled over and got a DUI (again). But he told his family and everyone that I called the cops on him and that's why he got pulled over 🙄. I could literally write a book on all the lies this guy told.
A few years ago I started dating my current boyfriend. We were introduced by a couple of mutual friends, so I thought "hey, great, he'll get along with the rest of our friends." Then things started to get weird.
A few months later my bf was dealing with pretty severe depression, so I sort of disappeared from my friends for a bit to help him (a little too much to be honest, it caused a lot of issues). I would occasionally try and get him to hang out with a good friend of mine's wife, because their interest are damn near identical, but he was super resistant to the idea. After about a year of this I started running a D&D game in an attempt to reconnect with a couple of friends (including one of the mutual ones), and invited him to join me, since he'd never played.
He wouldn't play, and we started arguing a lot, particularly on days I ran the game. In all honesty we should have probably broken up (though I'm glad we didn't). Eventually the game fizzled and died.
After maybe a year and a half of not seeing my friends, I FINALLY convince my bf to text my one friend's wife. They get to talking and eventually hang out. That's when the truth came out.
See, one of the mutual "friends"(the one I didn't play D&D with) had been telling my bf for months and months that all of my friends were constantly talking shit on him and that they hated him, which is why he'd never wanted to hang around any of them. She'd made my friends wife out to be a horrid bitch. And to really clinch it, she told him that I was really attracted to the other mutual friend and that we used to make out(he's straight, but drunkenly gave me a peck on the lips once a couple years before I met the bf), so my bf had been super jealous as well.
But there's more. She'd been telling the friend group that my bf thought they were all just a bunch of alcoholics, that the bf hated them and was keeping me from them, that the bf was spending all my money so I could barely pay bills (which I couldn't, but that had more to do with the fact that I worked at McDonald's). Just a whole bunch of shit.
She's still on the periphery of that friends group (she rotates people to get to feel sorry for her, but that's another story), and still tries to start shit, but mostly everyone is done with her shit at this point.
I was talking to this girl from tinder who was kinda flaky and she used the same excuse on me twice within 2 weeks. That her grandparents were coming into town and she hadn't seen them in forever.
I mean, what the fuck are the odds it was actually her other set of grandparents?
BeXmo · 623 points · Posted at 14:31:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It doesn't take into account how long "ages" is, and the chance that both sets of grand-parents came to see her on days old mate wanted to meet up, within the two week time period.
BeXmo · 3 points · Posted at 18:17:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Okay so I redid some calculations, looked over a couple of formulas. Asked a couple of guys on different forums. It is About... 50%
ifly6 · 6 points · Posted at 17:11:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It either is or it isn't. That's a 50 per cent chance, isn't it?
I grew up with three sets of grandparents, and so does my son. One of my friends got the jackpot and had four sets of grandparents when she was the only grandchild. So many Christmas presents!
The odds are fairly small for that, though. (Even weirder, my mom and her family AND my in-laws are coming to visit us from out of state next weekend. Neither has been here in over a year, but my brothers baseball tournament is the same weekend that my in-laws made plans for two months ago. Small odds, but it happens!)
I forgot to mention she was sending me nudes in between these two times.
Some people are interested but they're just annoying and flaky. I usually put my foot down on it because I'm tired of it now. Which I did with her after this shit.
So no need to be a shitcunt without knowing the situation, but thanks for offering your input anyway.
I’ve got a fresh one! I’m current traveling in Taiwan with my family. A bit about the background- my family is from Beijing and my cousin just got married to a Taiwanese. We all speak mandarin but have distinguished accents. Story time - we were at a night market getting dinner. My father wanted to get some beer from a 7-11 on the street so I went with him. We picked up a 6-pack Heineken and proceeded to the cashier to pay. I vaguely remembered seeing an ad on the fridge door saying the 6-pack was on sale for NY$199 (around $6.5). The female cashier rang us up and she peeled the plastic wrap to scan the barcode of the individual can. Confused I asked her why would she do that while there was a big barcode on the wrap. She told me their machine couldn’t read the big barcode. I shrugged it off cuz it happens. Then the total came out, it was NT$235 instead of $199. I got more confused but I didn’t want to jump into conclusion that she was trying to scam us so I went back to the fridge to double check the ad. Sure enough, it said 6-pack Heineken was on sale for NT$199. I was so pissed and ready to fight back. I returned back to the cashier to find a male staff serving my father. He tried to justify her behavior by saying she was confused about the size of the cans, they were different prices. We thought it was BS but didn’t want to cause a scene so we left after accepting the refund. I’m so glad I saw the ad and was able to catch her lies right there. I’m still pretty pissed because she probably thought we were stupid and gullible since we were from mainland China. Gotta say that woman spoiled my perfect experience in Taiwan. I hope she farts viciously whenever she drinks Heineken.
To be fair, I've had this same exact thing happen. To me in China as well.
I mean c'mon! The price of alcohol there is already psychotic.
I've always said, " it's overpriced and under-alcoholic"
A friend of mine was hanging with this girl he had been banging, who happened to be a good friend of my girlfriends. We all had plans to hang, but when I txted my friend to ask what the deal was, he made some long winded excuse about how he was with his dad and had to run all these errands and he wasn’t sure when he’d be back. All the while the girl he was with was txting my GF asking if we were still coming over because they were sitting there doing nothing and bored.
You know his constant lying about stuff like that eventually waned and stopped and now he is married to the girl who was sitting next to him bored on he couch that night so I guess it pissed me off at the time but they are happy now.
Most recently was at work on Monday just gone. I work in a store, chilled department. On the Sunday, we absolutely gutted the back stock, wasn't much left afterwards. Anyway, I came in the Mon morning, and nights had left us a fair amount of their delivery to deal with. But, here's some good news for you, we cleared the back up for you....
"Oh, did you now? How did you manage that, seeing as it was almost empty?"
Yeah. The colleague was ever so flustered, and then muttered that, ok, she had put out 2 boxes of cooked meat. Cheeky cow had thought afternoon shift had cleared it, not my morning crew, and tried to claim it to cover for how much delivery they didn't finish.
I used to work overnights at a big-box retailer, and one night after inventory, we had two full trailers of product to put out. The way we worked was this: we’d unpack a trailer, sort the product onto pallets, runners would take the pallets to the floor, then the team would split once the sort was done and work the pallets.
My partner and I worked chemicals (laundry soaps, cleaners, etc.). He and I agreed on a plan right off the bat. As soon as we had a full pallet, I’d pull it to the floor, break it down and put up the laundry soaps. By the time I was done with that pallet, another one was full. Repeat as necessary.
We did seven pallets that night, all stacked to about 6’. We were the only department to completely finish that night. Everyone else had pallets stacked in the back and took at least two days to get caught up.
I’m off the next night, so I come back the following night to hear one of the laziest guys on the crew complaining about having to “clean up my mess”. He was telling everyone he’d done 4 pallets by himself because we didn’t do anything on the double-truck night.
I heard all this, and shook my head. Just then, one of the supervisors who’d been there on double-truck night walked by, so I took the opportunity.
“Hey, boss! Wild Bill here says he had to put up 4 pallets left from double-truck, besides what showed last night, all by himself.”
Supervisor looks at me, then at Wild Bill.
“Really? If I remember correctly, the only department that got completely finished was chemicals.”
Bill just sat there, bright red, while the rest of us mocked him for his bullshit. He never spoke to me again the entire time I worked there. He also never claimed to do extra work again.
Some second shift retail monkeys busted their asses to get their entire department stocked, and outshined every other department that couldn't finish in time. An overnight shift retail monkey tried to take credit and got schooled.
Source: I'm an ORANGE (home depot) retail monkey. An orangutan, if you will.
More than likely. Days, you have managers aplenty, and an endless supply of customers ready to pounce, but nights aren't very well supervised, so they take the piss. And get better pay...
Not at Costco. But I work 4am-10am so I don't deal with customers either. I believe we only have one more manager on most days (but a few more supervisors).
Costyyy · -128 points · Posted at 13:22:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol we call each other far worse :D she's actually the best chilled night colleague we have, but she tends to exaggerate or downplay stuff. As in, she'll say 7 cages left, and it will be more than 10, or that nights only brought back 3 cages of overs, and then when you go and look, you can't even move in the back up because there are so many.
She'll call me a gobby bitch, and I call her a miserable old cow, and we get along great.
Sorry fam, I was just trying to sound like one of the cool boys. Although I'm pretty sure bruv isn't exclusive to the South East, I hear it round here plenty.
I used to work at a local burger place and us employees there single handedly got the owner to think about putting onion ring burgers on the menu. This guy is a health nut (he had a heart attack 3 years ago) and he said that if he could eat it he would every other day.
I have a mutual client with a teacher at my workplace. One time our timetables were clashing as we both booked the same client on the same day. I was booked out and couldn’t move the mutual client around. She told me (while looking at her calendar) that she was booked out, not knowing that I can see her shared calendar on outlook, and she had all the free time in the world.
Friend of the family, a cop, 6’6”, always thinks he’s right, kinda a jerk. Anyway, my family moved away for years and eventually ended up near him again.
Anyway, I had home-ec. We learned about Biscotti’s.
I’m chilling at home and my mom has a giant pottery thingy that says “Biscotti” real big on it.
Family friend walks in “Hi, hello, I’m here” yada-yada.
Being a moody teen, I retreat to head upstairs to my room.
Dude sees the pottery and exclaims “Biscotti! French for biscuit.”
I stop dead in my tracks and give him a shitty teen stink-eye and soberly state “It’s Italian; for twice baked” before continuing on my way.
I was a snobby little shit being a prick, but to correct him in foreign language... it just felt satisfying.
In retrospect: he didn’t deserve any of the flak I gave him. I should go give him a call. 🤔
When I went up to camp last year, I found out that someone had stolen candy from my tent.
Considering that I had more valuable stuff in my tent, and I found a trail of candy wrappers in a linear pattern across the camp site, I determined that it had to have been a young kid whose parents would let him roam the site doing anything he wanted.
Thanks to the help of some other kids from the campsite, I found more clues and even had one of the kids wait by my tent to see if they could catch the kid in the act. He did, yet he was so fast and small that he could only see the back of his head. Yet that was enough evidence to find out who it was.
When I inevitably found the kid, he denied it of course, yet I directly went to the parents with my evidence and witnesses. The kid still lied and the parents were more reserved around me from then on, yet the kid never roamed the site freely ever again.
UPDATE: Just for context, I was a university student up at a camp many members from my church went to for one week every summer. I was working for the kids program that was part of camp, and having a "candy thief mystery" helped cure both my boredom and the boredom of many kids at camp. I gave them all free ice cream (which I volunteered to do with others almost every night) as a reward.
I used to spend parts of my summers on a ranch. Other kids would steal my snacks and then deny it. I was never able to figure out who it was. Ended up having to hide my snacks in all kinds of containers and hidden pockets just to actually have some left for myself. I never found out who was eating them, and it happened every year. I'm still upset. It's been like 15 years.
Did sugar-free gummy bears exist back then? I'm not saying you should give a thieving little kid a case of diarrhoea, it would have helped you narrow things down.
Oh man, that would have been amazing. I was too young and dumb back then to think of solutions like that.
The bathrooms out there were awful too - definitely not a place you'd want to be stuck in having diarrhea. We used to joke about keeping a pet whale in the pipes because of how loud it was whenever someone flushed. The septic tank kept backing up too. And the stalls were made of old plywood that was falling apart, some didn't even have doors. And the little girls were AWFUL at keeping it clean. In my later years when I was with the older group, people would stick used pads to the walls of the stall and stuff like that. Bathroom cleaning duty was the WORST. Honestly, shitting in the woods was better than these bathrooms. I wish I had a time machine to do this now.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's funny how this little incident may have literally affected your entire life
You're lucky a kid got to it, and not an animal. Don't keep food in your tent, I've seen that end badly before
clayvn · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like you should consider writing "but" rather than "yet" sometimes. A lot of the instances of "yet" in your comment seem awkward or almost just incorrect.
I'm usually not the grammar Nazi guy calling people out on Reddit but this was especially bothersome. I might be ignorant though and you could have been using it properly.
When I was a freshman I was with a group of friends partying outside, dudes and girls.
We were discussing about which type of Anime we liked most. They were kind of experts, some of them even studying Japanese. I was stupid and wanted to cause a good impression to the girls, so when they asked me I replied:
Hentai
I didn't even know what hentai was, and unfortunately everybody believed me.
When me and my friends drank, there was this friend who always played overly drunk. One time we bought sodas and said they contained alcohol(spoiler alert: they didn't). After a few cans he started acting like he was drunk. Well, good luck with making us believe you that.
A friend of mine who was a bartender liked to mix fancy drinks for people and add little to no alcohol. He said they would begin to act intoxicated just like they had alcohol. He only did it with younger people. Older people tend to order more straight alcohol based drinks. None of the “Sex on the Beach” stuff.
We also had a case where we poured a shot glass to a friend(different from the one above) with literally no alcohol, some kind of juice. We told him it was a different kind of tequila. He was a little drunk. Drank the shot and said ,,damn, that was strong". Yeah bro, it really was...
Reminds me of that episode of Freaks and Geeks where they switch the keg out for nonalcoholic beer but everyone at the party still thinks they're wasted
Some guy came in to rent a car. There was a company poster with a white dude with brown spiked hair. On the wall. We were talking how the company switches people out often. He said he knew the new manager,and pointed to the poster and said, "He kinda looks like that guy". And walks in the new manager, a black guy. I said "Hey (new manager's name). The guys face dropped when he saw who I was talking to. I tried so hard not to laugh at him
Had a horrific situation where a kid said I did something horrible at the school
I taught at.
I record EVERYTHING on a digital recorder from the time I got out of my car till I got back in (1 party state, totally legal).
Fun was had when the recording did not back the kid up.
Then the asshole principal made the county leave me at the school (normal practice is to move the teacher when found not guilty) and another kid went to the police. Same result, but super scary.
The principal swore up and down she never said that she made em leave me there because I was too good to let go.
Out comes the recording. She started shaking and crying and sent me off.
She left the country to teach to avoid the civil suit I have waiting (had to wait till my contact was up) for her, but she won’t last and the minute she hits the US I will file it. Till then the money I set aside to sue her grows.
But there are several things that could be considered bad like selling drugs, using drugs... selling drugs. Extramarital affairs with another teacher, not teaching, threatening... There are lots of things
You are correct! Said I was masturbating in the boys bathroom (school only had 2 adult toilets so we were encouraged to use kids ones).
Principal we called The Marshmallow because she was fat, white, and had no backbone. She was terrified of parents and eventually if ME.
Got accused, put in teacher time out, proved my innocents, was supposed to go to another school but she made me stay.
When the police investigation started she made me sign a bullshit letter (or he fired on the spot) to try and protect herself. Prevented me from changing schools because she put it in my permanent file. Bitch.
After I proved myself innocent again I was told by my lawyer to just ‘suck it up or not work again’.
Police was scary. Anything can happen when you are the wrong race in a mostly one race school system.
I was told by 2 parents and several teachers to watch out because the parents do not like gay people. I did nothing wrong but got painted with the scarlet A.
I knew I was retiring this year (inheritance and frugal living) so I really cranked it up a notch on her and the asst principal.
I also suffered from PTSD. In the winter (time of year it happened) I kept waking up thinking it was the cops calling again. They called at 7 pm a month after I thought the matter was settled and in their usual asshole ways were not nice in the phone.
Part of therapy was talking to the Principal about her selfish stupid behavior. She was all deny and indignant. Then the proof came out. She started shaking and crying. It was awesome.
Gonna find her school and email the sound files and a message about saving her money because of she sets foot on US soil she will be sued. Just a nuesience law suit, but she will have to defend her self and I can just drop it at any time. But I will string her out as much as I can.
I set aside money to sue several people. A few I gotta wait till they are 18.
Heh reminds me of a tame version from my time in high school except I was a kid so never recorded my day and got the punishment.
I was in the NHS (national honors society) for my school and I was getting some community service hours at a local elementary school tutoring kids in basic math. This was easy and I was able to get my required hours quickly to acquire honors for graduation.
Anyway this one kid I was tutoring got mad that he couldn’t figure the math out despite my instructions that worked with dozens of other kids. He threw a bit of a tantrum in the semi-closed off “reading nook” where we were working and threw his binder in my face. It kind of hurt. I told him to calm down and if he hit me again I’d tell his teacher I wouldn’t work with him anymore.
Queue this kid running to the teacher bawling that I was smacking him upside the head and beating him up for getting his math wrong. First this is the most retarded story as I was helping him get the problems right, and second hitting him? I was a fucking honors student with zero high school record of violence and was a noted leader for some of my own school’s clubs. ie i wasn’t some punk.
This kid almost got me thrown out of NHS which I had worked my ass off for and was telling a ridiculous lie that was believed. My advice is to never trust children. They do not understand the consequences of their actions so will not hesitate to try and destroy your life just to get out of a reprimand. DO NOT TRUST CHILDREN.
Believe this person. A close family friend went through absolute hell after being accused of abuse by one if the children she nanny'd for. A police case was opened, but it was quickly dropped when the investigators - seasoned child-abuse specialists - realized it was all bullshit and the kid was making it up to get attention.
But the mother of the child went absolutely nutzoid, refusing to believe anyone but her manipulative little brat. She ruined my friends career in childcare by persistently calling all her other clients and employers (who all called bullshit on the lady but eventually got sick of being associated with the persistent drama and opted out). Friend eventually switched careers entirely and was rebuilding her life after dealing with the emotional toll of being accused of horrible things, and this crazy lady tracked her down and tried to get her fired from a great job helping the less fortunate at a non-profit in a big city. Luckily she made enough friends that created a wall around her and shot down all of the bullshit from this lady. She has since moved to another city a state away, changed her name, and is still helping others as the executive director of a non-profit which helps poverty-stricken individuals off the street and into secure housing.
Read the reply above. She wanted me to stay because I had a revolutionary library program that kids/teachers/test scores LOVED. Only me and my sister implemented it because I wrote all the games we used.
The poor lady that replaced me is gonna be so down. Those kids had 3 years of good times that were super educational. She just reads story books.
Was the principal mentioned? No. It Has nothing to do with principals. I’ll give you the third grader version: A young child lied about me beating him so I could not tell his teacher he was behaving badly. I was nearly removed from an honors program.
Back in college, met a friend in my dorm room. Couple hours later, notice one of my purses was missing. Call her out on it. Denies. Fast forward 5 years later I’m visiting her parents house and I observe said purse on the floor of her closet.
Fast forward 10 years later I’m a bridesmaid in her wedding.
We have a pretty tight group of friends; over the years we’ve all compared stories. Everyone has had an incident of some type with her but we all feel it’s too late to bring any attention.
but we all feel it’s too late to bring any attention.
Ehh, I understand not bringing up shit from a decade ago. But at the same time, the breakdown of my relationship with some members of my family was shit that built up over time, and was never resolved. I came to find out that I hate always letting shitty people fuck everyone else over, and always get their way.
I don't know your situation, so I'm not telling you how to act. But damned if it hasn't taught me to confront a problem when it happens.
Buddy of mine told us he unboxed this 200$ knife in CS:GO. I didn’t believe him so I checked out this website that lets you see previous owners (if there are any), and wow, shocker, there were 3 different owners before him. This guy has been known in our friend circle to lie about everything.
That's strange for a friend circle.
In my friend circle,my friends usually don't give a shit how you got your skins but if you actually have it.But then again,my friends were mostly active on this topic before trading restriction on csgo on betting issue.
When we were teenagers at the county fair, a friend of my wife (girlfriend at the time) was telling us about her new boyfriend and how cool he was, then she started pointing at this sweet Mustang parked with one of the car clubs. She went on and on about him giving her rides and speeding around in the car, we kind of smiled at each other both knowing how full of it this girl is, and sure enough some old dude hops in the mustang and drives off as we are all standing there to see. Not knowing what else to say this girl just looks at us and says "I don't know who that fucker was but he just stole my boyfriend's car!" We left her alone with her demons after that.
This was probably 5 or 6ish years ago when Mac Miller was first getting popular. I was on a date with this dude who I instantly knew I wasn’t going to click well with. He was kind of a know-it-all cocky type. Anyways we were talking about music and I brought up Mac. He said that he’s been a fan before he got big. I was like awh yeah my favorite song would have to be “My Purple Snap Back” (which is totally made up). He responds that My Purple Snap Back is also his favorite song and that he has got a lot of his friends hip to Mac by showing that song specifically. Why lie dude??
I was out driving a '69 Roadrunner that my dad and I are restoring and stopped to grab a bite to eat. Some guy in his mid 40s or 50s got out of his car and asked if I'd sell it to him, totally out of the blue, for $5k. It's worth at least five times that and a project that's between my dad and I so it was pretty offensive. He then told me he had a similar Roadrunner back in the day, but orange and with the 454ci engine. I just chuckled and walked away.
For those missing the key component here, the 454ci was a big-block Chevrolet engine and was a direct competitor of Plymouth/Dodge/Chrysler (Mopar) and never existed outside of someone's dreams or unholy backyard transplantation
My favorite thing to do is to go to a car show with friends and sit them down by my car, so that they look like the owners. Then I’ll go walk around for a bit and come back to my car and walk up to it like I’m just browsing. 9/10 times some random guy will have been there for 20 minutes jawjacking to anyone who will listen. It’s always a blast hearing about “indirect nitrous injection” or something completely stupid.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:28:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao I had a similar time a guy told me his mustang had a 350. I looked under the hood, 318. Guy was like 60 as well. No excuse
Wait, he put a Mopar engine in a Mustang, then tried to tell people it was a Chevy engine?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:28:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. Chrysler engine in his Ford and he thought it was a chev 350 (that or thought the 350 was a Ford engine) also I totally recognize your username, you responded to a post of mine a while back. I only remember it because I've owned an 80 firebird when I was 21 lol
Man, the shit people will say about cars is ridiculous. I had a guy tell me he had a stock 64 Comet that would do 200 mph the other day. Why do people even think that you'll believe that shit?
Agreed! Best to let them have their moment then joke about it later!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:08:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was talking to a guy the other day, hes talking about his Ferrari, which he does infact own a 308. But he was telling me it does 200mph in 30 seconds. Nice try, To bad they topped out at 140.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 16:09:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree, the 454 big block isn't rare or even uncommon stock. However, I meant in terms of stock Mopar. One could easily exchange the 454 for something like a 351 Windsor or a 350 Chevy or a 429 Ford. The point here is that the dude falsely claimed to have owned a similar but impossible (stock) vehicle.
Am I the only person on Xbox live who wont make sexual comments about another user's mother? Because I'm pretty damn sure I'm the only one who doesn't
Zer_0 · 11 points · Posted at 17:36:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You and me.
Instead, I keep my mouth shut until they are a total prick, and then I reveal how I’m a mom who knows their mom. It’s epic.
I made a kid cry a few months back when he thought he could school me in Madden. Boy, please! I’ve played this game longer than you’ve been alive. He talked trash to me until I told him how pregnant I was, and that it’s mean to say things like that when a baby can hear. RIP kid.
[deleted] · 160 points · Posted at 15:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I talk to people a lot about mental health, especially with the psychotic illnesses.
Background on DID: Dissociative Identity Disorder, where multiple "alters" (essentially identities of people) will live in the same body. Shows up based on trauma in early childhood (by age six is the cutoff date). Alters can merge and allow a person to live out their life as a single identity, but therapy/other treatment is needed to reach this point.
This girl I knew who I suspected was a liar because her mental illnesses kept changing (mostly self-diagnosed, but that's another can of worms) said she had DID around age 14. She had shown no signs of having it before and gained around thirty alters overnight. Thirty is a lot and while not impossible, pretty uncommon. The alters were all very... odd... in that they were all mentally ill, LGBT+, etc. There's nothing strange in it of itself in being any of those things, but when all thirty people in a room have those traits, it's very odd. They were also all uniformally obsessed with hating me, but that's another story.
About two years later, I asked her what happened to the alters because I hadn't seen them in a while. "Oh I don't know," she says. "They all just disappeared."
She never received any treatment for them, so that is gen-u-ine 100% BULLSHIT right there and finally I had proof of her lying about mental illnesses.
I mean, I'm absolutely sure that you were right. That does sound exactly like my experiences with people who fake DID.
However, I do want to point out that with DID you aren't really dealing with "30 people in a room". You are dealing with 30 fragmented identity states that make up a single individual person. They are all pieces of a single person, and so they are all going to be similar to each other in a lot of ways.
For one thing, yes all the alters in a DID system are mentally ill. For one thing, DID itself is a mental illness. Beyond that, it's born out of trauma. Each alter in a DID system has a tendency to display the effects of that trauma in different ways, whether that is through anxiety, hostility, depression, etc. Some people with DID will communicate about that by saying things like "My alter so-and-so has OCD". I mean, it's not exactly an accurate way to talk about it but it's a convenient way to talk about it. Their alter displays the traits of OCD as a manifestation of the trauma they experienced.
About the LGBT thing. Gender and sexuality is COMPLICATED for people with DID. It's extremely common for people with DID to have cross-gender alters (this is typically yet another manifestation of that trauma, which is often early childhood sexual abuse). So you end up with male alters in female bodies, and female alters in male bodies. Sometimes people use the words trans or gender queer to describe themselves, because it's convenient. And then to top that off, because sexual orientation is a spectrum, you have a bunch of alters who have various different feelings about their sexual orientation. One alter strongly prefers women, she calls herself a lesbian. Another is a little further over on the spectrum, she calls herself bi. Another definitely never wants any sex at all, she says she's Ace. So you end up with a whole LGBTQIA spectrum in one body, and yeah that can seem pretty fucking weird to outsiders, but within the DID community it seems normal as hell.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 17:17:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you, you've raised very good points.
Most alters I've met prefer to be treated as their own people, so I'm used to referring to them in that way. Sorry if it was confusing.
Your point about mental illness is very well presented. Thank you. In her case, many of her alters had illnesses unrelated to trauma such as autism, which, as far as I'm aware has nothing to do with trauma. It would have made more sense if she had autism herself, but her doctors specifically said that she didn't at one point.
I've heard of cross-gender alters, yes! Thank you, you've again raised a very good point. I thought in her case that it was weird that every almost every single alter was trans or genderqueer (not because of them being in her female body- but because their alter body didn't match up with their gender identity (she had a trans woman for instance)) and not one was straight. It was just such a mind boggling thing for me. One of my dearest friends is a system and I love them all to death, and while many of them are LGBT+, they do have straight members.
I will keep doing my research, then. Thank you so much. :)
Most people with DID do insist on being treated like individual people. I probably have a unique perspective because I have an education in psychology as well as having DID. I'm very practical and realistic about who and what I am.
The autism thing is very interesting. Sometimes severe PTSD can actually look very much like autism in adults. I've seen several discussions here on reddit from people in autism and trauma communities saying things like, "I'm not sure if I have undiagnosed autism, or PTSD". I actually have an alter who behaves almost exactly like someone with "high functioning" autism. Arlo has all the sensory issues and communication issues you'd expect from someone on the spectrum. I avoid actually saying "Arlo has autism" because I think that it's not technically correct to diagnose individual alters with disorders that the whole system doesn't have.
I have a smaller system of 13 (9 of them old enough to have a concept of sexual orientation) and I'm really struggling to think of one that would self identify as straight.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:43:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks so much for your perspective. You've given me a lot to think about. I'll try to be less judgmental in the future and more open. :)
Can I ask what your opinion on self-diagnosis of DID is like? How easy is it to confuse with something else?
Self-diagnosis is such a complicated issue, especially with DID.
The reality is that because DID is such a controversial diagnosis (due to long historical issues I won't go into), it can take people up to a decade to get the correct diagnosis. Many people with DID are misdiagnosed with a half a dozen different things before being correctly diagnosed. For a lot of people genuinely living with DID, there is this point where they just KNOW what they are dealing with and a diagnosis is redundant. I have talked to these people. I have no doubt that their experiences are the same as mine (as a formally diagnosed person). It's really terrible that they can't get adequate care, especially when it's because they live in a country with inadequate access to mental health resources.
The flip side of that is that DID is a very "interesting" disorder. It's fun and fascinating and it's often depicted in media as something exciting or scary. There's also this very natural thing that happens to people in their teens and twenties, where they are going through a stage of identity development and they feel like trying out different versions of who they are. It can be very easy for someone with a slightly unstable sense of self to read a bit too much about DID on the internet and start thinking that they have it. These aren't necessarily people who are intentionally faking DID, but people who have confused themselves because of their identity instability.
There are also a couple of other disorders that are on the same spectrum of DID that can be easily confused for DID, like Borderline Personality Disorder and CPTSD. I spend a lot of time in the DID subreddit answering "Do I have DID?" questions and gently redirecting people to seek out a therapist and maybe check out the subs for CPTSD and BPD.
What most people who wrongly self-diagnose forget is that DID requires amnesia. If you are not losing time, you do not have DID. The other thing that is not really a diagnostic criteria, but a necessity for the formation of DID, is that DID is caused by severe early childhood trauma. If you did not experience early trauma before age 6, you don't have DID. The caveat to this is that if you really do have DID and you have amnesia, you might not remember the abuse. So if you have severe amnesia but don't think you were abused, maybe you do have DID after all! (This was the case for us, as our "original" spent years in denial about the abuse.)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much for this. You've been so polite and insightful, this has truly been a wonderful experience for me.
I've read the historical issues before, so I do know what you're talking about. It's such an interesting thing for me, as with the psychotic disorders, the exact diagnosis doesn't matter as much as the treatment, while it seems different for the dissociative disorders.
The "interesting" disorder holds true with schizophrenia as well. We get a lot of posts on the SZ subreddit about that too.
Serious question, in the case of DID why would you expect to see mentall6 healthy personalities if the mind they are all contained in is mentally ill? It would make sense to me that the base system being damaged could cause mental illness in all other personalities.
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The same could be asked about the fact they all hate you. Hate is such a strong emotion I can see how it could carry as a core value to all other personalities.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 17:10:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've known a good number of people with DID and while some of them may have mental illnesses (it's not uncommon in the slightest), to have all 30 being mentally ill is frankly odd. I do know a system (a person who has DID) where everyone has the ability to hallucinate in some capacity, but every other system I've met always has someone who is mentally stable.
Additionally, the mind splits into a DID state because of trauma and so protective alters often form. These protective alters aren't always mentally ill because they handle functions for the host when the host is overwhelmed, upset, etc. Protective alters usually have thick skin, comparatively, while hers were super easy to upset (when I was trying to be as civil as possible).
Regarding the hate, she's said she's hated me or loved me or both depending on how she feels that day so I think she has a hard time making up her mind.
DID tends to be one of the most faked mental illnesses I’ve seen recently. Mostly by young girls. It’s alluring to them because it seems quirky and cool. Sadly all these lies ruin the image of people who actually have DID. Hardly anyone who hears about it thinks its real due to all of those weird “meet my alters” videos they’ve seen on youtube. I’ve only seen about two, maybe three people who I feel actually have it but you could never be sure. Hell, maybe even some of the ones I think are fake are actually real ! But that just gets back to my point. Fakers ruin it for everyone else.
My car MOT was coming up and the tyres were looking a little scruffy, so I got all four replaced brand new for a pretty good Costco deal. Fortnight later, I took my car in for the MOT and they claimed that my tyre tread was as low as 2.2mm. Obviously I called bullshit and told them that they were brand new, but they wouldn't believe me until I literally walked them out to my car. They got the mechanic out and I pointed out the tyres having loads of grip, so they backtracked and claimed they meant the "tyre pressure", which is normally quoted as 30-something psi or similar. I've never been back to that place.
Hell if they really meant mmHg, that would be about 0.04psi (or in layman's terms, a flat tire)
Wewlet · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
2,2 bar is quite standard (what I have in my tires), thought I have never had a call from someone telling me that the pressure is exactly what it's supposed to be
I wanted to rent a movie but couldnt decide between two, so I thought I'd ask the gentleman working the counter what he thought. He didn't even look up at me before telling me they both sucked. I thought "I'll get him Good!" And pretended to browse for a second before turning back with the same two movies. "Oh those are better" he said, again without looking up.
"They're the same movies!" I told him, gotcha.
He did not appreciate my ruse and I am not allowed to rent there anymore.
"Mommy, what's a video rental? You see, baby, once long ago we had to choose a movie simply based on the cover of the box. No trailer, no IMDB, nothing that would give us a hint. This is why Nicolas cage was a huge star."
Catching an ex in the midst of a lie. I knew he was cheating. I knew who he was with. And when I asked "So who's so and so?" the look on his face said everything. Heart breaking but still very satisfying because even though he lied, I fucking knew the truth.
I didn’t really catch them lying but when I found out they were lying, I couldn’t even feign shock. An ex’s friend claimed she had brain cancer - apparently she had it before him and I started dating so it had been well over a year. My dad had an aggressive form of cancer so I know what someone dying of cancer looks like. I’m pretty sure she knew that, and I never met her in person, but from pictures she looked totally fine. She claimed to be taking pills and smoking weed to help her but it turns out she was just a drug addict.
One day ex calls me up crying saying his friend had admitted to lying about having brain cancer. I literally just said “yep, not surprised”. It was satisfying because I had already thought she was manipulative as hell, but his proved it.
Dam that hits close to homw. My brother lied for almost 2 years about having cancer. When we finally found out it was a like, I was not surprised. I told my mom thst I thought it was a lie a long time ago.
My sister and I had the same elective class in high school, and one of the guys there was a chronic bullshitter. It was a game for him - he tried to always fall just a hair short of implausible, and there was never a way to prove him wrong.
One time my sister was talking about dubstep with another classmate, and the bullshitter was nearby, so they ask him if he liked dubstep. He said he loved them, and went on to spin a tale about how he snuck backstage at one of their concerts and smoked joints with the drummer or something.
He had assumed Dubstep was the name of a band. My sister just nodded and smiled, and let him make an ass of himself before correcting him.
I work with a Live Event Producer who, like me, has been in the entertainment industry since the 90s. We swap a lot of “war stories” with friends.
Events that were epically large, or giant shit-shows, or gigs that nearly killed us, ...whatever.
Each time we bring up an event we were on, this guy (let’s call him Jeff, because that’s his name) would inevitably claim to be attached to that event, or “know” everyone else who was on that gig.
Me - “Well, when we did that big movie opening for The Day After Tomorrow, I had to work with
Rod Tudor, he was a pain in...”
Jeff - “I know Rob, he’s such a pain in the ass.”
Friend - “Remember that camera guy at the All-Star game?”
Me - “Richie... Mulhern... I think...”
Jeff - “Yup! Richie Mulhern”
He’s been doing this to us forever. For the past two years though, I’ve been using the names of NHL players from the late 70s and early 80s. Campbell Conference players, who didn’t have big careers. I text my co-workers the Wikipedia pages of the players who I reference, usually just before I name-drop “that Audio Guy... you know, he worked at MSG... Jimmy Mann.”
I’m sure Jeff knows him.
¹ Rob Tudor - 1979 Vancouver Canucks
² Rich Mulhern - 1978 Calgary Flames
³ Jimmy Mann - 1982 Winnipeg Jets
I have a step brother who was a constant liar. Seriously almost every time he talked he was twisting something. He was a drug addict and I guess that’s just in their nature. I went out of town for a week, and just knew that he would try to steal something from me. I made a list of all the Blu Rays I had (about 300) partially for this reason. Got back in town, immediately noticed movies were missing. Checked my list and sure enough about 10 movies were gone. Looked around the house giving the benefit of the doubt, nothing. Went to the local reseller video game/movie store, and wouldn’t you know, I found most of those movies and they had just came in! I knew a guy that worked there and he low key confirmed that it was my step brother. To this day he still hasn’t owned up to it or paid me back. But everyone is so proud of him because he’s held a job for more than 3 months.
Yeah but just think about the level he’s on... he had to have fucked shit up SO bad that they are proud of him for holding a job for more than 3 months. That’s sad (in the pathetic kind of way). Good on you for not fucking your life up like he did. What goes around will come back around eventually so keep on keepin’ on!
In high school this guy claimed to be green-blue colorblind. He was a routine liar and no one tended to believe anything he said, but this one was questionable because he had literally kept up this lie for years. From 7th grade until junior year in high school, he would tell people this.
Junior year me and a couple friends took a psychology class. In one chapter they actually show the colorblindness test and how it works. If you have normal vision, it looks like one number and if you are colorblind, it looks like another number.
My friend showed this to the liar and was like “hey this is kind of cool. Since you’re colorblind you probably can’t see some of these numbers huh?” And the liar took the bait and was like “oh yeah I see this one, but this one and this one there’s nothing there.”
My friend took the book back and looked like he was figuring something out as he ran his finger across the text. “Ah yes it says here you have class B colorblindness...class BULLSHIT” and then explained how he knew he was lying.
The guy stormed off and didn’t come to school for two days after. To this day, I have no idea why he’d lie about something so stupid or keep it up over the span of five years.
I had a friend who lied about her birthday for YEARS. She always maintained she was the oldest in our friend group until we were old enough to get licenses and hers CLEARY stated she was a year younger than she told us. I have no idea why she felt this need to lie about something so trivial.
He didn't even have a fucking picture, that's why I asked in the first place. She used to do things to annoy me on purpose, I knew when she was doing it aswell. This was years ago, I got my revenge about a month ago. Best served cold.
[deleted] · 93 points · Posted at 15:18:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Am I the only one who had to read this 5 times to understand it?
Edit: for anyone who missed it, it was a story about his girlfriend adding a guy on facebook and lying about it. He made a few grammatical and punctuation errors that made it hard to figure out what he was saying, and switched between saying "ex girlfriend" and "then girlfriend" in a confusing way.
What is with you fucking people today, different place different names. We all said pp because it was shorter. Imagine that, something's different from your version. Woah. Literally nobody in England refers to their penis as 'pee pee' that's fucking ridiculous.
You’re on a website where the majority uses pfp. Get used to it or get out, nobody is gonna understand you. It’s like going to China and speaking German.
Key word: Majority. You said it yourself. They can't accept it's different somewhere else..... like wtf? That's dumb and so narrow minded. Get used to it or get out? Shut the fuck up. It's a fucking website you bellend, who the fuck are you to say anything to anyone you wet cunt?
You’re the asshole here for not going with the majority, 90% of people didn’t understand pp, but would have understood pfp. Don’t try to turn this around on me fucker.
I made an edit so people woukd understand, sorry you see 'pp' and automatically think of penis. Nobody has ever said that where I'm from so there's no reference, again, difference places. I'm the asshole for using what everybody says here? Sorry, that's kind of how things work. Just like with you, if I read a post and saw pfp I wouldn't know what it meant. Jesus Christ, how difficult is this man. I'm not turning it on you either? But who the fuck are you to say 'get used to it or get out' Like you're somebody, get fucked.
Especially not for a little lad like yourself, ay? What's a 4 year old doing up at this time anyway? It's nearly 9pm! Oh wait, you're in a different place so it's a different time. Different like a lot of other things in different places, did you know people in different countries speak in different languages?
Times cannot be helped. Pandering to the majority with language can be helped, especially after you’re aware that the majority didn’t understand your dialect, and given a phrase that the majority would understand.
I was under the impression most people put 2 and 2 together, which coincidentally adds up to your age again. Anyway, have a really extreme moment jetting under the super umbrella. Have a good day ya smeg head.
[deleted] · 71 points · Posted at 16:44:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An employee said her Bi-polar was "acting up" and she wasn't going to be there for today...or tomorrow..
Excuse me? Even a manic Bipolar disorder sufferer has no idea that tomorrow they will still be "acting up" that's part of the problem in itself, the unpredictability.
On facebook we say her location change to a bar, then another bar. She posted things to keep her story covered, but her location was on.
had a former friend who was a real mooch. told me and a friend she didn't have any money at all to buy lunch, but we knew she had to be lying because she always did this so she could take our food. she was annoyed and said, "im gonna go mooch off of the boys then," and left... so i checked her wallet and there was about $50 in there. and she wasn't poor, she just refused to spend money and always tried to find ways to take other peoples' food/things. i never gave her food again. confronted her about it and she lied... found out a year later all the mooching bought her a macbook pro :)
I mean having money your willing to spend and having money are kinda different things. Not coming to your former friends defence or anything, but i have a bunch of college money squirreled away but I'm not gonna go out and buy stuff with it.
yeah this was a friend who never ever bought food when we went out with friends, even if we literally planned to go eat lunch/dinner somewhere. just pulled the "i'm not hungry" card and picked off of other people's plates and hoped someone would give her their leftovers. she was manipulative in many other ways
Because she wanted them to buy her lunch and used the excuse of being poor. Wallet was checked so OP could make sure she wasn’t actually poor, but just taking advantage of OP
I guess, but you can always just say no. Going through someone's wallet seems weirdly invasive. Nobody is holding you to the promise of providing them a meal, you don't need a "good" reason not to do it. Ya' know?
because she consistently lied about never having money to do ANYTHING. This was in high school so usually our parents paid for stuff. one friend invited us to go to a water park and the tickets were about $60? and my parents just paid for me to go. the liar told me her mom said no and had the nerve to ask the friend who invited us's parents to pay for her. turns out, she did ask her parents who had no problem paying but she kept the money for herself to stash.
Should have kept the money and enjoyed the show of her having to pick which reality she wanted to keep. The one where she is broke or the one where she had the 50
My (ex) boyfriend and I were talking on the phone and he seemed very distant. We had broken up but decided to mend everything even though I was living out of state at the time. Anyway, I could tell his attention was on something else while we were talking, so I asked him a few questions. 1 being if he was talking to anyone else, and 2 if he had still kept his newly made profile on this dating website that he had made pretty much right after we broke up (my friend sent me a screenshot of him active on the website). He of course replied "No" but I instantly knew. He was still on the dating website! I had an extremely strong feeling that this was the case. So I go on the website, make a simple fake profile, give the same location he's in, start searching and SURE ENOUGH that bastard had a profile and was online! WHILE WE WERE ON THE PHONE!! I was irate. So I get off the phone with him and start messaging him from the fake profile. Almost immediately he replied back, stating he was completely single and down for whatever. I screenshotted the convo and sent it to him. While Also reminding him that "I always find everything out, so nice try, and fuck you." Haven't spoken to him since. I was deeply hurt by this at the time, but I look back and laugh now because I went private detective on his ass 😂😂😂 no shame here.
I was approached in a parking lot by two young men asking for bus fare. They claimed to have not known school was cancelled and were stuck at their current location with no way to get home. (Narrator: school was not cancelled). I asked them what school they attended. It just happened to be in my husband’s district, where he is an administrator. I casually asked their names. Ended up calling my husband to ask if school was canceled, because ____ and ____ seemed to think it was. Big old nope. Shared this information with the young academics, and was met with sheepish grins. They moved on to their next victim, and their absence was reported to the school.
A guy wanted to say something big when I passed with my girlfriend so he said he bought a 1000cc Suzuki Hayabusa. So I said there's only 1300cc version.
You are correct. There’s never been anything other than a 1300 ‘Busa. 😋
One time there was this kid who was obviously lying telling me he also had a Hayabusa when he saw mine, so I asked him if it was a two-stroke or carbureted, (I know, the question doesn’t even make sense, and the bike is neither), but he answered two-stroke. 😂
Well a two-stroke just has to do with how the engine works more than the size. Larger engines do tend to be four-stroke, but some engine sizes you can get in either, (especially dirt-bikes). as far as I know, though, no street bike is made with a two-stroke engine. 😜 Look into how they operate for some really interesting info. 😊
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:02:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh Oh! I can react to this! although a bit late. But where I live we take our own lunches to school. So in primary school at some point I always had this pretty good cookie/snack with me, but by the time lunch came around, my cookie was gone. So who took my cookie every day? Nobody would admit but little Igottamovewithhaste had an idea: Carefully open the package of my cookie and toss the bottom of it full with pepper and whatever spicy stuff I could find. That day at some point a kid in class had to go to the toilet, lo and behold he came back with red eyes and half crying.
The headteacher of the school said he had to buy me something back to make up for it. I declined, everyone seeing him getting out if that toilet was satisfying enough.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 17:18:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school I was dating a pathological liar. I figured this out myself and a lot of people had a hard time accepting this about him when truths started coming out. But my favorite burn was when he had moved on to the next girl, she posted a poem on Facebook. It was the same poem he “wrote for me” and I received great pleasure in calling him out on this. He actually said “you win.”
I had a friend tell a group of friends a funny story that happened to him. He went on and on in great detail. At the end of the story I said "No, that happened to me." He paused and looked pensively at the sky for a moment before going "...oh."
This happened long enough ago that I dont actually remember the story, unfortunately. Maybe he is still telling it though.
Used to run a pub. Saturday morning and L is scheduled to work the lunch shift. She calls and says she can’t make it as her nan is in hospital and she has to go and see her.
I call another employee J to see if she can cover. “Sorry mate going to the fair with H (another employee) and maybe L”
Interesting since L had to go see her nan right? I call L back. “Yeah I did originally plan to go after the shift, I haven’t told J I’m not going yet. Just waiting for my mum to pick me up and take me”
Ok, give her the benefit of the doubt. So I manage to get cover and we open. Regular customer R comes in. “How we doing? Your staff are all over town today, just seen L and H having breakfast at (cafe)”
Again I call L. “Are you seeing your nan or having breakfast with H?”
“Ohhhh no im totally leaving in ten minutes as soon as my mum gets here”
I tell her look, we both know you’re lying, come to work now and we’ll say no more about it. She knows she’s caught but doubles down. “No my nan really is sick, they think she might actually die, my mum is just coming to get me to go to the hospital”.
Ok fine, maybe her nan IS sick.
So lunch shift passes and we’re having a nice quiet afternoon when L’s Mum turns up. “Oh how’s your mum, L said she was sick, sorry”
L’s Mum: “...she’s not sick. I’ve just come in to see L, is she not working I thought she was...?”
A quick selfie with L’s Mum, snap chatted to L who was indeed at the fair, and the longest apology I’ve ever received. Very satisfying
This is going to be buried but here goes. When I had my first child my sister came to see me on the day I got home from the hospital. She was about 15-16 years old. She brought a girlfriend with her and the girlfriend’s mom. We visited and chatted for a little bit and then the girlfriend asked to use my bathroom.
Sure, no problem. I lived in a 2 story house, with creaky floors. I heard the ceiling creak over my head which was where my bedroom was located, not my bathroom. The girl came back downstairs and immediately said, “ you guys ready, I am, let’s leave”.
No sooner did they walk out the door did I jet upstairs. I had had money on top of my dresser that was now gone.
I ran outside and caught up with them, leaving my newborn infant alone in the house. I know. I wasn’t thinking straight. Nothing happened to her but I still kick myself for that part.
I caught up with them at the end of my block and confronted the girl. Her mom took offense, not MY daughter, my sister took offense, not MY friend!
I said “bitch if you don’t give me back my money I’m going to strip you naked till I find the money and then kick your naked fucking ass all over this street”.
She took the money out of her bra and meekly handed it over. Then the 3 of them walked away without another word.
My sister, to this day, has never apologized or even acknowledged she brought a thief to my home.
The satisfaction when that bitch handed over the money still makes me smile though. Even after all this time. My daughter is 35 now.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 22:59:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 56 points · Posted at 15:47:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of the girls I work with called in sick and left me up shit creek without a paddle, I had a feeling that she was faking it (wasn’t the first time) and my suspicions were confirmed because the stupid bitch snapchatted her drunken night out to my girlfriend.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, it's basically a contract of employment which doesn't guarantee you any hours, so you could technically be employed by a company but not work there at all.
Hytyt · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So, basically, a company can write you a contract that says "we will give you x amount per hour" but it will also say " we are not required to give you any amount of hours"
Okay so this was in grade 4, but I still feel satistfied thinking about it lol. I had recently moved to a new school and was getting into Yu-Gi-Oh, which was huge for everyone since this was early 2000's.
Another student in my class that was also pretty much a bully starts bragging she had every single card from the game and knew every description. I instantly smelled the bullshit and decided to have some fun, mainly because some kids actually believed her. I proceeded to ask her about cards with names/descriptions I had completely made up, and she fell right for it claiming she had them all. I'll never forget the look on her face when I said I just made everything up to catch her lying. Never bothered me again after that.
But the thing is, if you have 5 out of 6 sides with only a single colour, then the only squares left, moving stickers or not, would be only the last colour, solving the sixth side.
I was a law enforcement police officer for 9 years and I was off duty and hanging out with some friends at a bar. This guy sits down and starts a conversation with me. Just idle chit chat, the usual bar stuff so he starts telling me how he's a cop as he puffs up his chest like I should be impressed.
Oooh really, I say, that's sooo kewl! Who picked up your commission? Bar guy gets a confused look and I automatically know he's lying cuz he doesn't understand what "picking up commission" means but I continue...
I ask, do you work municipal? County? State?
He asks, what's municipal? Do you mean where do I work?
:rollseyes: Yes, what department?
And it goes on for a few more minutes and he has no clue what LE 101 basic questions are that all officers that have been though the process would know. When he became super uncomfortable and he knew the jig was up, I pull out my LE ID/badge and tell him I'm a police officer.
I rented a room to a "friend." He was up in my town, Reno, for work. So why not, I live alone, have a couple of spare rooms. It's going fine. But in a little while I lost my job. No big deal, it's construction. Not wanting to waste time and money, I go on the road to Utah north of SLC and am working.
He stops paying the rent, it's like a 100/wk, (he makes about 1800/wk) he's 7 weeks behind and I've had enough. I call in sick to my shift, drive back to Reno, and tell him he needs to gtfo. And give him the required 72 hours. He refuses. The 72 hours go by, meanwhile I'm missing more work. I tell him, when you go to work Monday morning, I'm moving all your shit out back, and changing the locks.
He says he'll call the cops. "I know my rights!" Not far off from how that YouTube yokel Steve Jessup says it. I'm like whatever. Pack his shit, put it outside. During his pack up, I find and take a picture of his illegal steroids, and needles. We're construction workers, so you won't be surprised to find out he's on probation, on his last chance probation, that if he violates it, it's prison time, like 7 years.
So I snap a pic and google it to see wtf it was. Some blackmarket shit outta the UK. I don't think nothing of it, just take it and the rest of his shit out side. New locks on, I'm leaving to go back to SLC, and here comes dickhead in with a cop car following him. I turn around, and we're hashing it out on the side of the road, where he lies to the cop and said I gave him zero notice.
I beg him to go, tell him, "hell I'll buy a week in a motel for you, just get out so I can lock up and go back to work in SLC."
He refuses. I get super angry and the cop sends me back to my truck. He talks to him, and then comes and talks to me. While waiting on the cop, I had pulled up the pic of the drugs. Cop comes over, he's super cool.
Cop says "I can tell you're the good guy in this, and he's the kind of wiseass dirtbag that knows how to work the system. He has the right to smash a window and go back in if he wants. Without written proof, you're screwed."
I'm shaking my head and I see my phone. I told the cop "I appreciate you handling this, you're being super fair and civil, and that's all anyone ever wants from the police. I can't prove I told him three days ago he had to go. But I know this, he's on probation."
Cop is not surprised. I said "take look at this," showing him the picture. "Those are illegal steroids. Now as it's my house, I can give you authorization to search the place."
Cop's intrigued, he pulls out his phone, and googles them. "Hmmm, I've never arrested anyone before for illegal steroids. Let's give it a shot, follow me to your house."
The three of us pull up to my house, the cop and dickhead on the street across the yard and me in the driveway. The cop and dickhead speak briefly and then the cop turns to me "is that motel offer still good?"
I countered with "I'll buy him one night."
Cop "We gotta a deal."
Later the cop said "I just asked him 'if I searched through his stuff was there anything in there that shouldn't be' and he caved." Then we both had a big laugh, the cop hung out with me while dickhead packed up all his shit and drove off after I gave him 60 bucks for the room.
And that's how I used a cop the other guy called to blackmail him into doing the right thing. Fucking dick.
I knew that a friend of mine had had sex with my ex girlfriend a while back. Years later he asks me how I’d feel about them dating. I asked if he had ever touched her, he told me no. I told him he just ruined any chance of keeping me as a friend since he lied.
I had always chalked up that initial time to a drunken hook up since I knew they spent time around each other, so I guess I like to believe that things could have been different. The fact that they think they have some fairy tale love story is what annoys me
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 01:50:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a whooooole lot more to the story than the 2 sentences I put on the Internet. If your buddy had assured you there was nothing going on for years before he had the balls to seek approval I this scenario, wouldn’t you be a bit upset?
High school band director. We had a girl who was constantly skipping class, so she was marked absent all the time. Mom got super pissed because she was dropping her off every day, and we must be lying. Conference with the mom and principal. Principal wants to hear what the girl has to say and calls down to her class to get her. Girl wasn't there. Such a beautiful karmic moment.
A catfish (pretty bad one too) was using horizontally flipped and occasionally watermarked pictures of unrealistically hot women (primarily Peter Coffin's wife) saying it was them, along with tons of other fake info; she was also SUPER into me within the first 10min of chatting... like flirting and talking about meeting and hooking up, which is weird FOR ME. She was supposedly a European flight attendant who was totally up for flying to a town near me to meet.
So, I play along and pretend I'm a desperate virgin utterly stupefied that some beautiful girl would be into me. "She" goes heavy on the flirtation and starts cybering with me and I fake it while I dig up the name of the actual person in the pictures.
Big dramatic climax and afterward I say "Omg... that was amazing... I can't believe Peter Coffin's wife is interested in me..."
I was instantly blocked.
BUT this was Skype, so I went to an alt account and sent an add message lecturing them to not use watermarked images of unrealistically hot women of varying appearances when catfishing and git gud and all that.
Incidentally, a day later I was added by a European go-go dancer who was also incredibly into me almost immediately, even if somehow her pictures were also on some American Instagram model's profile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 16:42:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex girlfriend I had lied to me about if she was hanging around with a guy the other day, I either saw her with the guy or a bunch of people told me that they saw her with him.(i can't remember)
Either way, when i asked her where she was and that i thought she might be talking to this other guy, she told me she hadn't spoken to the guy in ages and that I was crazy and over protective and went on the offence against me.
I never told her I saw her with the guy, i just let her keep lying to me and trying to make me feel insecure, that then made it super easy for me to dump her, and knowing for certain i had made the right decision.
jwside · 35 points · Posted at 17:32:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my ex told me our daughter, after her teacher had inquired about me, denied my existence to the teacher. Basically, my ex took my daughter to another state after the divorce. I was corresponding with the teacher about report cards etc... teacher then asked my daughter about me. Ex-wife called me saying teacher had called her upset wanting to know who I was since my daughter claimed not to know me. I emailed the teacher asking about it she responded saying basically, "yes, asked child about you and she told me exactly who you were and that she visits you every chance she gets." Very satisfying to have some proof of the lies my ex tells. Parental Alienation runs rampant in my life.
I knocked on my roommates door and said, “are you in there?” And he said, “no.” But then I found out that he was in there the whole time just lying about it.
Once had a friend I was always bailing out of their mistakes promise me she wouldn't lie anymore because she was pathological and it was over stupid stuff that didn't matter. Said if you lie again, we won't be friends anymore. Literally at the end of the conversation when we hung up and moved to texting the first thing she said was that she was hanging out with a mutual friend that I was sitting next to.. sent her a selfie of the two of us and said "you lasted less than 5 minutes..."
My whole family always knew my sister in law is a pathological liar but it really bit her in the ass when she had a baby and the real baby daddy showed up at the hospital, she couldn’t lie her way out of that one.
n8dahwg · 217 points · Posted at 14:32:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My high school girlfriend forced abstinence. Went to different college. Surprise visited her and caught her in the act. Was horrible. But it allowed me not to keep up the false impression and enabled me to start trying things I actually wanted to persue.
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 20:15:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah...poor guy loved her with all of his heart and was willing to provide marriage and lifelong commitment, at which point he would get the sex she promised he'd one day have, but he unkowingly just failed to sexually arouse her.
Then he actually caught her in the act easily giving another man what he so desperately desired, all while this other guy didn't have to offer marriage, or probably even any dates. Hell, they probably weren't even officially dating.
Guy got burned, like so many other countless young men out there today, with no explanation as to why. So, he concludes that "she's an evil person," when in actuality no grown man ever taught him how to be a sexually attractive, masculine male.
This is so spot-on its absurd. I wish I didn't learn this so late but better late than never I suppose.
If she had just been honest it would have hurt like a Band-Aid but at least I could have made meaningful actionable steps in the right direction.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It hurts, man. I understand completely.
When I was 18, I was with the love of my life. Would have done anything for her, married her, gave her the world, etc. She was a virgin, as was I, and the thought of us sharing intimacy together, wrapped together in love, was just overwhelming to me. I wanted nothing more than to be hers, forever.
Unfortunately, this relationship formed not too long after my parents' divorce, and I was still broken from that. I'd sometimes cry in front of her, and share my emotions and thoughts too often and too easily. I believed that being so emotionally open with her would only improve things - after all, we both said we loved each other.
She wanted to wait for intimacy, however, until the "right" time, so that it would be special.
Imagine my thoughts and feelings when I heard the news one day: she had gone to a party one night with my sister, lost her virginity to some guy she had just met that same day, and she was now even pregnant as well.
Brain: formatted. Heart: gutted. Mood: furious.
I dated another girl for 2 years eventually, and we had lots of sex. I ended that due to incompatibility.
I'm married to a great woman now who treats me like a king.
You never do forget what it feels like to go through something like that, however, when you realize everything you thought you knew about your woman you loved more than life itself was completely wrong.
Bottom line, and harsh truth: if she isn't intimate with you, you are simply failing to fully arouse her.
Honestly I think that's a pretty good way of describing it as forced abstinence. She made it very clear that if I had sex with anyone else it would be the end of us. She is the one who set the boundaries. What is a better way of describing it perhaps?
Some people are getting caught up in your phrasing, but I think you are right. She can choose abstinence if she wants, but lying to you and then not following through on said abstinence is not only abusive and manipulative, but can be very damaging to your ability to trust people.
I hope you are lucky enough to find someone you deserve.
She was wrong to cheat on you. But as far as her not having sex with you goes, she had the right to choose not to. "forced abstinence" is a disturbing way to word it.
Of course she has the right to choose not to. But convincing him to wait for her while she goes around fucking dudes behind his back is hypocritical and shitty.
Truth be told I absolutely adored the girl and would have done anything for her. You're right that she had the choice to subject our relationship to abstinence. She also had the choice to have sex with a football player. I can't pretend that her choices didn't effect me though.
Saying it like that implies you think you are entitled to sex, that you are owed it.
Think about what you are REALLY saying. "She forced me not to kiss her. She forced me not to hug her. She forced me not to touch her breasts. She forced me not to touch her thighs. She forced me not to touch her clitoris, she forced me not to touch her vagina. She forced me not to put my penis inside her."
Newsflash; her having boundaries is not a force upon you, is not a violation upon you in any way.
I respected those boundaries and by no means pushed her. Sorry you interpret my words this way as I would never force sex on anyone that didn't want it.
I just wish she would have honored the boundaries she set in the relationship.
Had an employee who asked for a day and a half off, a month in advance. He got it.
The morning of the half day he didn't say anything. Just went about working half a day and going home.
The morning off he asked why he didn't receive a schedule for the day, so I referred him to his email requesting a day and a half off. He told me it was a mistake and he wanted today to be half off and tomorrow to be off.
Knowing full well I won't be able to manage a schedule this quickly.
I decided to be a good guy boss, and move some of his clients from tomorrow to today, and there's only one left which I told him he will have to do tomorrow and then take the day off.
15:30 he sends his wife to text me that he's suddenly feeling ill and can't even manage to find strength to call in sick, and he won't be able to do that client tomorrow.
A week later I find out pictures of his holiday on Facebook, from that day.
I fired him a week later, and it felt so so good.
Caught kaltire in a huge lie. My radiator hose blew (pretty obviously even to me) as i was leaving kelowna to head back to the lower mainland. So stop at the closest place to get it fixed...this being kaltire. So they fix it right then and there but convinced me my gas cap is cracked and needs replacing. Was quoted $1600 and their mechanic would need a couple days. I asked if it was drivable and was told absolutely not. Wouldnt was even make it over the first hill out of town. So freaking out (being a poor student) and called my parents who said they’d come pick me up the next day and tow my vehicle back to the lower mainland where my stepdad was a backyard mechanic and could fix it for much cheaper. So paid for a hotel room that night ($140), gas for my parents to drive up, a flat bed rental to tow the car on and missed a day of work. Guess what...NOTHING was wrong with my car. I had to leave my vehicle in Vancouver to be fixed while i went back to work on Vancouver island and when i got that call that my vehicle was fine...holy man. I was livid. So was my stepdad. He reamed into them for trying to pull a fast one on a 25 yr old female. They lost his business that day and he used to use kaltire all the time for his company vehicles. I was out over 700$ in hotel costs, rentals, gas, bus tickets, and lost wages. Kaltire refused to acknowledge what they did and wouldn’t reimburse me a penny. Screw you kaltire!
A4_Ts · 14 points · Posted at 17:34:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Friend of mine said he was training a fighting style and he’d tell me every here and there about his hard sparring sessions and how hard the other guys were trying to knock him out but he was too tough snd his defense was really good.
I meet up to do light sparring with him and I can tell right when he got in his stance that he was lying. He bended his knees a little and kind of put his hands up and it looked super awkward. I could tell he never trained before. If he got into heavy sparring like he said he’d be in the hospital
A sob storey from a person saying their fridge had broke down and they had no food. Almost fell for it till I checked the book of faces and saw that they had sold it for £70 on a local selling page.
I gave them a f*** off tablet and haven’t spoke to them since.
[deleted] · 454 points · Posted at 14:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m sure that it’s hard, but do it for them. I’m proud of you for keeping going in the face of pain and sorrow. I know that no matter what, your family is so happy and grateful to have you.
I was dating this guy in university, constantly felt like things didn’t add up or seemed odd. I couldn’t go to his house/meet his family. I never met any of his friends outside of university and our social group. When we would go out he was always bumping into people he knew and they’d ask him how X was doing (x being his ex girlfriend). I was young, insecure, gullible, all that Jazz. However, I was adamant that he was cheating on me, it caused a lot of fights but eventually I’d cave in and apologise because I was just being ‘paranoid’ or ‘jealous’ or ‘insecure’.
While I’m not proud of it, I got to a breaking point. One night when he’d come over after work and was asleep, I checked his phone.
Bam. I was in his phone under the name of one of his best friends, his ex girlfriend was in his phone as another best friends name. Turns out she wasn’t an ex girlfriend at all. She was THE girlfriend and I technically was the side girl, I just didn’t know I was.
I was devastated but I knew if I just woke him up yelling at him that he’d deny it again, so I took screenshots, sent them to myself and then deleted the screenshots and the messages sending them off of his phone. I go out into the kitchen, call my best friend and I have a cry. I compose myself and go back into the room, flick on the bedroom light and throw a pillow at him, telling him to get dressed and get out of my house.
I waited out in the hallway while he was getting dressed because I couldn’t even stomach to look at him. He asks me what’s wrong, what did he do ect. So I tell him that I know. He hands me his phone and says I can go through it, he’s got nothing to hide. He’d cleared his phone up while I was waiting for him to get dressed. He tried to reassure me as he handed his phone over and all I could do was laugh, pull out mine and say I already sent them to myself because I knew he’d delete them.
I felt like shit, cried a lot but it was so satisfying to get validation on why I was feeling so ‘crazy’ and insecure. Also being able to throw it in his face because he was so self assured, thought he was the smoothest guy ever and could get away with everything was pretty nice.
Catching people lying is 1/2 of my job as someone who represents child services in court.
It’s far more often than not that people are lying and I need to reveal it. However, the most satisfying times are using jail phone calls.
For those who don’t know, most jails have a phone bank for inmates. These calls always start by telling each party they are being recorded, but this warning doesn’t always stop people from talking far too much.
In one case, a mother was telling case workers that she was no longer associating with the boyfriend that was in jail for abusing her children. They attempted to hide their calls by using different inmate PIN numbers to make it look like different inmates were calling instead of the boyfriend. This, of course, didn’t work and I was able to pull the calls showing that Mother full on was ok with her boyfriend hitting her children and was planning on lying about their relationship and finding a way to get the charges dropped after she could trick us into thinking they were separated.
The mother even attempted to warn the boyfriend that they were being monitored but he kept calling her stupid and saying how they were using different PINs and that we’d be too stupid to figure it out.
Either way, the Mother took that lie all the way to trial despite me giving her defense attorney the exact calls. I had to play them in open court and she practically freaked out on the stand afterwards.
I’ve had people on the stand making up stories about how their children got their bruises and then later admitting they saw everything and watched (dad/boyfriend/mother) abuse the child. It becomes difficult to lie when forensic evaluation of the wounds don’t match up with your excuses.
Had someone tell me that not only did they know “so and so” he knew her really well and proceeded to tell me all about her. He didn’t know that who he was talking about was me.
I moved in with one of my best friends at the time. We were both having problems at home and because we live in Denmark we got removed from home and got a "youth apartment" paid by tax money. This is important, because neither of us could move out quickly if anything happened. We also both had personal mentors that helped with our individual problems.
I always knew he was a compulsive liar, but it never really bothered me that much. It was always about small things that didn't really matter. We moved in and the lying became more often and mattered more and more.
Because his parents had more money than mine and was willing to pay for furniture, our living room was basically all his stuff. At the start this wasn't an issue of course, but 6 months in when we began having issues, he basically claimed the living room as his and would't allow me to use ANY of his stuff. I wasn't allowed to use the TV, sit on the sofa, use his shower head, the microwave oven and the list goes on.
As the issues were ramping up between us, his stuff would start to break and he would tell his mentor and blame it on me. His mentor was incredibly gullible and there was nothing i could do about it other than pay for what was broken. Right away i notice he was lying about the price of the things that got broken, so he could buy better stuff than what was broken. I decided to fish up all the receipts of the things he replaced from the trash and save up for a hidden camera i could hide in the living room. lo and behold, 2 weeks after i set it up his "$650 4K" TV (It was actually a $300 was totally destroyed. I came home to him, his mentor and mine, all waiting for me in the living room to have a conversation about this.
They started asking me right away, what the hell i was thinking and why i would destroy a "$650 TV" if i had to pay for it anyways myself. I just started laughing and walked over the the camera i had set up inside a backpack. Picked it up and said "Give me 10 minutes alone in my room and i will show you what actually happened". Looked my "friend" in the eyes on my way to my room and the horror in his eyes was priceless. As soon as i closed my door and turned on my PC, i could hear his voice in the living room and i knew there was no way he could explain away what i was about to show them.
I came back in 10 minutes later with a hand full of receipts, a clear video of him destroying his own TV and about 20 browser tabs open of the real prices of the things that got destroyed.
1 week later he got removed from the apartment and a month later i got all my money back. Also found out later from one of his classmates that he had to sell basically all of his stuff to give me my money back and pay back his parents. Apparently his parents found out he had stolen around $5000 from them and wasn't able to pay them back even though he sold all of his stuff. Yeah, i'm glad i'm not friends with him any more, lets just say that.
rkskr · 27 points · Posted at 15:21:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine in high school was a ridiculous compulsive liar. She would make up the most outrageous things for attention. We went to a magnet school so there were only 6 of us from our middle school at our high school so I guess she assumed that the odds that the other 5 of us kept up with old friends from middle school were slim, but on one occasion she actually lied about one old middle school friend dying and made this huge thing about it with crying and not going to class and all of our friends were concerned about her. Like a month later we were all at the mall and I saw the 'dead' friend and my lying friend saw them as well and saw me see them and she just nervously started a random conversation and tried to steer the group in the opposite direction. I didn't out her to the whole group but you best believe I pointed it out to our friend who had been catering to her every sad little whim ever since the tragic loss of a dear friend lol.
And guess what yall she didn't learn. Over one summer she concocted another crazy scenario about a guy from our middle school. She said his step dad was beating him and so he had run away and was hiding out in her room (conveniently she had lied about running away and hiding out at his place earlier in the school year and then played out this whole thing where she'd slept with him and felt so bad about it and cried about it at school for a couple days for the attention) but as the summer went on the story progressed to the guys step dad finding him so he had to leave town. Then the step dad was beating the guys mom so he had to come back which resulted in the guy and the step dad getting into a huge fight that resulted in the step dad shooting the guy. Like I was friends with the guy on MySpace I was scrolling through the pics of him going paintballing that weekend while she was bawling her eyes out on the phone about the whole situation and how sad the funeral was lol.
Someone on my company's floor started peeing on the toilet seats in our shared, and only, floor bathroom. We were pretty sure it was one guy since it started happening all of a sudden. We put together various pieces of evidence and built a strong case against one specific guy.
Soon afterwards I was washing my hands in the bathroom and in the mirror I see our top suspect walk in and go to a stall. I hear him go in and start peeing on the seat of the stall I just used. I waited for him to finish and walked past him to check the stall as he came out. Of course there was now piss all over the seat.
I yelled, "what the fuck did you just do?!" and confronted him in a very strong and non-aggressive but confrontational manner. He was absolutely terrified. Tried playing dumb, called him out for pissing on the seat, he tried to say it was like that before, told him to use the fucking urinal if he's incapable of not controlling his dick.
If he hadn't just pissed all over the toilet seat I think he would have pissed his pants, which made me feel a little bad. After that there was no more piss on the toilet seats though.
My DH back when he was drinking told me his car broke down along the highway and that was why he hadn't gone to take dinner to MIL as he had earlier agreed to do. Actually, he'd taken his bike to a nearby bar and spent the evening drinking. I got home from an appointment and stopped at Wendy's for a quick burger and as I sat at the traffic light, he drove right past me on his bike. I parked around the corner from his garage and called him. He told me he was still waiting along the highway for his friend to come jump his truck. I pulled around where he could see me. BUSTED. It was right after that that we reached the big ultimatum. No more booze, no more lies or no more marriage. He's sober 7 years and I can't remember the last time he lied to me.
I was helping my ex-wife's dad install counters at her grandmother's house on Halloween. After i was finished we were suppose to go to one of her co-worker's houses for a party. I get done and call her to come pick me up. No answer.
Borrowed one of her Dad's vehicles and go home and clean up and head over to the co-worker's house to party it up. Get there and they are eating dinner. Haven't heard from the wife all day.
So I remember her saying that the party was a bonfire down a certain road. Drive down the road and Don't see a bonfire anywhere, we we're going to burning an old barn to the ground so it would've been highly visible.
Finally, I'm pissed and head home and set there until 4am when I finally passed out on the couch.
She comes in at around 9am the next morning. Excuses out to Wazoo. We we're at this party all night yada yada yada. We waited on you yada yada yada. And then she slips up and says something about being at Raywick, small location in central Kentucky, with another co-worker named Elliot.
Huge fight ensues because I caught her slipping up about her whereabouts all night. She finally fesses up to having an afair with the dude. Pack my shit and moved out.
Now happily married 8 years later to my 2nd wife, with 2 kids, 2 dogs, 1 asshole cat, amd a snake. Couldn't have worked out any better for me.
My sister is currently a contestant for Miss United States. She posts daily on social media about her life “struggles” and most of them have been lies. The best one was how she graduated university early to move home and help my ailing mom while in reality, it was me who quit my job and moved home while she lived with her boyfriend for two years following her 5 years of school. I’ve kept quiet about it all on social media but everyone treating her like she’s Mother Teresa is getting old.
After years of being cheated and gaslighted but never having proof, I found a second Skype account on my boyfriend's computer full of dirty chats and nudes with about 9 or 10 girls. Finally had the balls to confront him and end it.
It might not sound satisfying to outsiders, but having the proof that he was a cheat was just great.
This is so going to get buried, but I need to get it off my chest. At the time this happened, my son (we'll call him Mark) was 3 and my nephew (well call him Ken) was 4. We were staying with my in-laws (the parents of Ken) from out of country. One day, my sister in-law took us for haircuts at her hairdresser. When we were done, I helped Mark pack up his toys which consisted of 4 beloved plastic eggs that you could open and put something inside (like Easter eggs), and we left.
As soon as we got home, my nephew descended on my son so he could play with my son's toys - typical kid behaviour, right? Not too long later, I noticed one of Mark's eggs is missing. The green one. Green is Ken's favourite colour and he had a tendency to take the things he liked for himself...
"Ken, do you know where the green egg is?"
When he shook his head extra vigorously, I knew he'd taken it, but I figured I'd just find it later in the house when the kids were asleep and put it back with Mark's stuff.
That night, it didn't turn up. It didn't turn up the next day either, and I didn't notice it when I took a quick peek in Ken's room (that he shared with his parents). So I sent a quick message to his parents about it.
Hey, can't find Mark's green egg. He and Ken were playing with it the other day. Please keep an eye out for it.
I told my husband the chain of events and how I was sure Ken had taken the egg and hidden it in his room, and my husband was on my side...it was totally something Ken would do. I mean, we both understood he was just a little kid, but he was also a little kid who lied often, got whatever he wanted, and was never disciplined for bad behaviour.
A few more days go by with no sign of the toy egg. I've continuously looked throughout the common/shared areas of the house, and even my husband had ventured a peek in Ken's bedroom. It was frustrating because on top of our suspicions, our young son had been asking everyday where his green egg is and if we'd found it yet. Heartbreaking. At this point, my husband starts to have doubts.
"Are you sure Mark didn't leave it at the hairdresser's?"
I'm sure. I helped him put a dime in that egg and then packed it into his little backpack together with him. I know Ken took it.
Another day goes by and it's coming up to our departure date. There's no way I can leave without this toy - Mark would be devastated to leave it behind - so I grit my teeth and swallow some pride and ask my sister in-law,
"Do you mind asking the hairdresser to see if we left the green egg there?"
She's does and she messages back that the hairdresser didn't see it, but will check under his couch in the waiting area tomorrow and let us know.
Tomorrow? Why not now? Whatever. It's a little odd, but I let it slide.
The next day, my husband and I go out with our kids for a bit, but when we return in the afternoon, lo and behold, the green egg is waiting for us on the table! My son sees it right away and is thrilled for its return. He cracks it open right away and demands that I put something inside.
What happened to the dime I put in it?
At that moment, I got a message from Ken's mom, my sister in-law:
"Great news! The hairdresser found the egg! My mom popped over to pick it up from him and left it at home on the table. Yay!"
Man, the hairdresser must be hurting if he had to steal 10¢ from a kid. I still had my doubts, but I just begrudgingly thanked her and decided to just be grateful we'd gotten it back at all. My husband was more naive and went about feeling guilty for having blamed Ken and for having searched his room. While I nodded, I still didn't feel the whole story was adding up and said so, but I had nothing but suspicions to back it up so my husband wrote me off as crazy.
Well as luck would have it, my husband had a chance to get his hair cut himself that evening at the same family hairdresser. As he left, I told him to "thank" him for me for finding the egg...which was really my way of wanting to hear the story of this found toy directly from him. It was petty, I know, but it turned out I didn't need to be petty. When my husband returned, he immediately pulled me into our bedroom to talk.
"When I got there, the hairdresser recognized me as Mark's dad and said right away how sorry he was that he couldn't find Mark's egg toy."
O_o
Instant karma.
That meant not only did Ken steal Mark's toy and lie about it, his MOTHER lied about it too and covered it up!!!
A simple "hey, I found my kid with the toy, sorry about that," would have been totally cool - they're still little kids after all - but NO! She aided and abetted him and then LIED about it!!!
I never outed her on it, just the satisfaction of knowing I was right the whole time was enough. She's an odd one herself, and my poor nephew is learning her ways.
Had a similar thing happen to me with my young cousin. She stole my small penguin figurine right after I unpacked it from the box. Her mother asked her several times if she took and and she always said no but we never did find it. Super cleaned my room and everything. She wasn’t allowed in my room by herself anymore
I’m just waiting for a reply to the effect of “nice story I posted 3 years ago”
EDIT: btw, if this does happen, please post it in this thread for postception
My first ever serious girlfriend told me she was dying and we had to break up so she could live out her last few months in happiness. That and her parents hated black people. That was almost 8 years ago and she just had her 2nd kid. I never confronted her about not dying but at least I don’t have kids! High five! 🙌
I'm a police officer and while yes lying to police is to be expected I still find it hugely satisfying when I catch one out. In addition: during an investigation if you can prove someone is lying on a point of evidence it is to be taken as an admission. Not sure if that is in most countries but it is in mine.
So. I respond to a call where a man states that hus neighbour had drilled a hole into his air conditioning coolent line saying he stayed up after having an argument with his neighbour about his air conditioning and watched from the window. I don't know much about air conditioning but he said it didnt work anymore. I go look at it and sure enough there is a tiny hole about 2 mm in diameter. I confronted the neighbour whom I then found out jad just moved in. He was the smuggest arsehole I had ever met. Denied every question and regularly brought up how much the victim annoyed him and how loud his air conditioning unit was. I asked him where he was last night and he said he was with his mother in the mountains about 90 minutes away. I got him to call then and there his mum who had no idea what he was talking about. Victory! Charged him and thought nothing of it.
About a year later the court matter turns up. By this time the little arsehole had another lie. He decided that he was with his mate also in the mountains at the time and he saw another police officer the same day at that location. Well fuck you. I summoned the police officer for court and she actually made notes about meeting him, a month prior and she had that day off according to rosters. Victory 2.
A student had to do a recorded major scar test. They were not a very good student and could hardly play their clarinet. So the directors are in the office and listening to their recordings and are blown away at the tone quality....and we realize there is no chance that was them playing it.
So we get on YouTube and type in “Bb scale clarinet”. The very first hit is EXACTLY the same, all the way to the awkward breath that happened in the middle of one of the octaves. So we bring the student into the office and ask.
“Hey, this is a great recording!” They responded, “yeah I worked really hard at it.”
So then we tabbed over to the YouTube recording. “So we were really shocked to see that this wasn’t you on YouTube.” We played the video and she instantly started crying. “I didn’t have enough time to practice!” She exclaimed.
Bitch, it took you longer to rip that shit off YT than it would have taken to simply record it. And we play Bb every damn day in class you lazy butthead.
My classmate back in college. We were in the library once and I guess he was trying to impress me. He was "talking" to somebody on his phone pretty loudly. He was asking how his "business" was going. If there no problems with their "transactions" or if they had any issues with their suppliers or anything. I figured he was bullshitting so I also took out my phone and called him. Well what do you know, his phone rang pretty loudly in his ear. He was startled and shouted the equivalent of "MOTHERFUCKER" in our language. He realized it was me and looked at me. At this point, my friends and I were in tears from laughing. He was so red from embarassment and walked away.
I had a feeling someone was bullshitting frequently about the stuff their kid would do. I got my proof a few weeks ago accidentally. I showed her a viral video with a little girl who was crying and saying, “I just can’t stop thinking about pancakes”. Two weeks later, she must have forgotten I showed her, because she told me this story about how when her kid was stalling bedtime she came out with “I just can’t stop thinking about pancakes”. I didn’t let on that I knew she was 100% lying as she described to me the video but attributed it to her kid.
Thing is, she’s a great person with a funny kid. There was zero reason to lie. But it let me know that my instinct was right to trust everything I hear from her.
One time at summer camp this kid went into the bathroom to shower and I noticed my towel was missing shortly after. I went into the bathroom and it was hanging outside the shower he was in, so I asked if he had taken my towel. He said he didn’t take it, so I said “If you didn’t intend on using my towel it won’t be a problem if I take it back to my bed right?” and he said no go ahead and take it. A few minutes later he came out of the bathroom wearing the same dirty clothes as before, but he was soaking wet.
The maintenance guy in my apartment complex really hated me. He lied to the management, saying things like I wouldn't let him in during an emergency (I let him in, I just didn't want him playing his damn radio, so he stormed off.) One time though he went too far. After an annul inspection, we got a notice that unless we addressed all these problems we'd get evicted.
but the thing is, we told the management about these problems. Several times. So I went to go meet with them about it. The head maintenance guy was there, and said we never told him about these problems.
Well the management folks went and looked... And they found that we had told them about all the problems they complained about. And every single report was signed by the head maintenance guy.
I still have my apartment. He no longer has a job.
I travel a lot. I used to have a friend at home who came over often, we would often kick back and watch TV with my mom.
When I went away for the summer, she would still visit with my mom and they would watch TV. I was catching up with my mom and she told me she thought my friend was stealing money from her. I couldn't believe it until I returned and found I was also missing money after a night that she had visited.
I was a bit nervous to accuse someone of stealing without any proof. So I made a plan, the next time she came over I put a red dot with pen on all of our bills. My mom woke me up in the middle of the night and told me she was missing money, so when my friend was asleep I went through her wallet and there it was, the missing $20-with a red dot. I woke her up and told her she had to leave. She cried and cried and swore she didn't do it, and I wanted to believe it, but the proof was right there. That was the end of that friendship. Not very satisfying, but I caught her in her lie red dotted!
smnrlv · 10 points · Posted at 01:31:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at a gig many years ago (Ben Harper I believe), in a great spot close to the stage. These three girls were trying to push their way to the front by saying "my friend needs to get to the front, she has asthma and needs an inhaler!"
I looked at the friend and said "What kind? The blue one?"
"uhhhh... Yeah" she said.
"You're in luck, I have one right here" I said, and pulled it out of my pocket.
She looks at it and clearly has not used one before, and it's clear they're faking the whole story just to get to the front. They retreated in shame.
I was talking to someone and he said he knew a guys who bust their balls while doing the splits. I knew this guy had made up a bunch of stories before so I knew this one was fake too. So I said “was it Andy Bernard?” His face lit up because the thought he had managed to turn his lie into a real story so I continued and said “tore his scrotum with his car keys at at party in Niagara Falls right” and he agreed knowing he can’t make anything up or it will blow his cover. So then I said “that’s kinda weird, you know him because he lives all the way in Scranton Pennsylvania” I don’t know how he didn’t catch on earlier but I saw the moment of realization on his face, and he stormed off. It was the best part of my day :)
Suspect girlfriend is cheating on you, get undeniable evidence that girlfriend is cheating on you, confront girlfriend who denies any cheating, she goes on to say "I'd never do that to you, baby, I've been cheated on, it's horrible." Show her the screenshots of her phone that show she's been cheating on me, plus, for some reason, she had a video of her sucking some dudes dick, that wasn't my dick, she goes on to say that "I didn't mean to." I start packing her shit and set it outside the apartment, and then kick her ass out. Hilarious
So I am driving my wife’s BMW 3 series through London and in Dulwich I was nudged on my nearside rear wing by a Polish juggernaut. Oh dear (She was not pleased). Took it to a local BMW dealer and had the standard sucking of teeth and lots of tutting. They fixed it and the bill that went to the Insurance showed that they had put a new wing on it due to the amount of damage - £2800. Okay fair enough. Six months later it goes in for a service. I go to pick it up and am met by the deputy manager who tells me that there is a problem. There is the car with a big strip of paint missing from the (new) rear wing. ‘Sorry sir this happened when we cleaned it - however we will be able to sort it out for you, should take about two weeks and will be roughly £2000’. I wandered over, pried off a piece of filler held it up in front of his face and asked him what he feels I should tell the insurance company that they packed the wing with filler for £20 and resprayed it rather than put a new metal wing on it. ‘It will be with you in a week Sir, with our compliments’
A little girl came up to the cart I was working, and told me that her brother had dropped a bottle of water and she asked if she could get another one. It struck me as weird that somebody would send their 7-year-old to get a replacement water, so I start asking questions.
She ends up giving me some story about how her brother was spilling it all around the park and I asked why she didn't get a water at another cart on the way over here. Right then, her dad walks up to see what's taking so long, and she looks at him and says "I don't know, he told me to say it!" He quickly grabs her arm and pulls her away.
There was something so satisfying about watching his own daughter give him up like that.
Satisfying in the sense that he has no idea why the cops are coming to his house. Not satisfying in that I now know for sure that he treats his new GF as badly as he treated me.
He swore he had gotten help and that he was treating his new girlfriend better than he treated me. (This was a condition to me not taking him back to court to revoke parental rights.) That the kids would never be witness to domestic violence again.
My ex just butt dialed me while beating up on his girlfriend. My guess is that I must be the last person he talked to as he just called to set up visitation for next week. I could hear her crying and what sounded like him hitting her. And yelling shit like “you always do this.” Our kids together are home with me and don’t know. But they have said in the past that they haven’t seen him hit her just that they fight a lot. He has an infant with the new GF.
Thank you. On the plus side, my kids are teenagers and if he starts getting violent with his GF with them near they both have phones and can call 911 while they walk home (we live less than a mile away).
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 17:16:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Before university I dated this girl for a few months. We had had sex a few times and things seemed to be going well. We got our A Level results and it turned out she was going to have to go to the crappy university in our home town but I had gotten my first choice. Shortly after she broke up with me. Fast forward 6 months to being at uni I get a random phone call from her telling me I should go to the clinic and checked out for STIs because she had contracted one. So I go and get checked out and turns out I am clean. So I phone her and tell her that everything was ok with me, thank her for giving me the heads up and suggest that she speaks to anyone she had been with since. 5 minutes after hanging up she texts me thinking she is texting her best friend basically calling me a liar and that she is certain I gave her the STI. Turns out she is cheating scumbag who was sleeping around while we were together. She didn't take it well when I confronted her with this fact.
This guy I use to work with, compulsive liar everything he said was a lie. He was telling us about this nurse aid we work with and how they use to date back in high school. Like a month later he and I went to this aids floor and he started up a conversation with her and it went exactly like this;
Him: Oh hey Nurse Aid, it's me Liar McLiar Pants
Her: Oh hi
Him: do you remember me we had math with Miss teacherlady
Her: Oh really? No sorry I've been out of high school for 3 years I don't know who you are.
Him: Oh, well we had math together
He was bragging how he use to bang her and all that silly stuff and she didn't even know who he was when he talked to her.
He quit around November last year because a big company head hunted him to be their lead graphic designer for $80K a year with a company car. I saw him driving his Jeep asked about the car and he said it's for business only. Last I heard he did work for that company but as a truck stocker in the warehouse. Oh well, good riddance to the liar
Took my car to the dealership because the SRS (airbag control module) light came on. They told me the module was bad, and needed to be replaced. Quoted me over a $1000 for the work. Declined the service and they threatened to not give me my car back without the work being done because it was too dangerous....I yelled enough to get my car and took it to an independent mechanic. it ended up being a 30 cent fuse had gone out.
When I was about 21 I had hung out with this guy Mike a couple times and he was going to be in my city for a party and “would invite me but it’s his friend’s friend’s party and didn’t want to just invite people”. But he also “couldn’t wait to see me again that weekend and take me out again”.
That was alright though because my roommate’s friend Jess was coming up and we were going to a party at her boyfriend’s house. I didn’t really like my roommate’s friend but had already agreed to go because I thought it was a different friend (also named Jess).
So Jess gets there, I realized it was super annoying and crazy Jess and not nice, fun Jess and I’m thinking “Eh whatever, it’s still a party and I have nothing else to do, maybe her boyfriend is friends with Mike’s friends and it’s the same party”. I ask Jess what her boyfriend’s name is and GUESS WHAT? She said “Michael Lastname”. Holy. Shit.
So I try my best to keep a straight face and get my roommate in the kitchen and I say “You know Mike that has been over a bunch lately, THAT’S HER FUCKING BOYFRIEND.” He’s like “WHAT?! He has a girlfriend?” Yeah. It was news to me too! So I said “Well obviously I can’t go to the party...” He’s like “No, you HAVE to go to the party.” So I put on my big girl pants and drive us to the party. He opens the door and gives her a big hug and a kiss, looks at me, looks at my roommate and gets a look on his face like “OH FUCK”.
I say “OH HEY!” Then Jess STARTS INTRODUCING US TO HIM. All he said was “yeah I know radsir and roommate” and just kinda looked at the ground. I just say “So where’s this party woooo?” Later on I talked to him and was like “How weird that my roommate’s friend is your girlfriend huh?” All he said was “We just started dating.” Ok dude, you told me 20 minutes before that you couldn’t wait to take me out again.
Obligatory not lying, but cheating on a test. In second grade, I distinctly remember during a math test, seeing a fellow student next to me looking at my test for answers. So, I wrote a wrong answer on purpose and finished the test. I waited for her to turn it in and then I corrected my answer. Felt so good when I was eight lol, even though now, it's just a funny memory.
Big client launch. Suddenly everything is on fire and needing to be done immediately. As usual with this particular coworker nothing is actually ready to go or anything close to organized. She gets asked by executives why it’s so rushed and she explains it is the client - they submitted their details late.
Having worked with this person before I was skeptical, but whatever, doing my part. Got on a call with the client to help expedite the process and clarify things. We are missing some pieces so I explained that we could have them ready in 24 hours once we received the new files.
Client says “I believe I already sent these two weeks ago when I sent everything else”
Super satisfying because I no longer feel guilty not rushing everything for this coworker because I know it’s totally on her.
The hardest part is she has yet to figure out that if she just tells me she screwed up and needs my help I have her back... it’s trying to blame it on the client that crosses the line.
I make a point to not date horrible people, anymore, buuuut.
One time I was dating this horrible guy. We had plans to hangout that night. I text him to check in and make a plan. He says he’s sick at home and just wants to be alone. I just had a feeling, given how out of the blue it was, that he was lying. I was driving by one of the many bars he went to and I decided to pop in.
There he is, drunk as fuck and playing pool with some girls. I just post up in the corner and text him back and forth for awhile.
“Oh I’m sorry- what’s wrong? Can I do anything for you.”
“Thank you, my love. No, just need to sleep and clear my head.”
“Okay, well I hope you feel better. Maybe when you feel better and we can go to [bar] and play a couple of rounds of pool against some really pretty girls.”
Looks up, eye contact engaged. He just puts his pool cue down and literally walked out of the back the bar.
Bye, bye.
smm523 · 9 points · Posted at 20:18:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad died three weeks ago and a girl I used to be friends with showed up to the funeral. She told many people at my university and even messaged my cousins that I was drunk at the funeral and she had to buy me fries. The girl who went with her totally exposed her and now everyone thinks she's a mega bitch for lying about that. Karma.
Loloen · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Arra-E · 6 points · Posted at 09:33:47 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was looking at places for a while with my ex gf, she kept finding something wrong with every place we were viewing. I started getting suspicious but wasn't too sure at first.
Then one day I caught a glimpse of an email she was typing, she put down a deposit that we put aside for our place on a single bedroom apartment for just herself and her best friend. Turns out she not only took the deposit money I put aside but was also having a lesbian relationship behind my back.
Phoned my bank, got the transaction reversed, went back to the place we were currently sharing (my parents paid for it) and put her shit outside for her to come collect.
unneuf · 7 points · Posted at 14:26:34 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was about 11, I went over a friends house to play makeup. I placed my phone down (it was 2012, a hand-me-down iPhone 3, I think) and went to the toilet. Came back, it had been moved to her dressing table.
Me: “Could I have my phone back, Ali? I should probably start walking home soon.”
Her: “That’s my phone.”
Me: “But...that’s my case?”
Her: “Yeah, we have the same case.” (Called bullshit, it was a cute purple penguin and we got it online. What would the odds be? Plus, I’d seen her case and it was pink and sparkly.)
Me: “Riiiight...could you turn it on? I want to check the lock screen photo.”
Jesus Christ, the panic. She started stammering and sweating.
Her: “Uh, well, I’ve ran out of charge...”
Me: “We’re at your house! Just grab your charger!”
Her: various excuses
I got fed up and grabbed ‘her’ phone, turned it on, it had tons of charge and WOW, would you look at that, the lockscreen was a photo of me and my parents.
I remember I just turned to her and said really snidely: “Wow, that’s kinda creepy that you’ve got a photo of me and my parents as your lockscreen.”
kaybet · 48 points · Posted at 15:49:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didnt get to see their face, but a while ago my friend and I were talking about iPhones and I mentioned that apple purposely fuckes with the battery to make people buy new models.
She got mad and said just because I didnt like apple I didn't need to shit on them. I replied and sent the article where they admitted to doing it.
We haven't talked in a while.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:32:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They don't "fuckes with the battery", rather they decrease performance on older models to prevent battery damage (at least according to them). I believe there is a setting to turn that off.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
where the fuck is this option
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
To eliminate all battery problems in iPhones, simply deorbit the Earth.
Battery problems can't exist if Earth doesn't exist.
What a pathetic reason to stop talking to somebody
kaybet · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She hates being told that she was wrong. Hell, in college she would get mad at me if I corrected her in any way, even though most of the time the things she made up were complete bullshit. I remember one time, after a night of drinking, she said I couldn't drink water because that would make me drunker. I never really took the things she said for truth.
I think another reason she has cut me out of her life is that she also moved back home and maybe dropped out of college. I'm not sure, she only really posts inspirational stuff on facebook.
I told my friend that all batteries degrade and power management systems are necessary to maximize battery performance over time, but she got mad that I was using objective facts and left.
I used to do backstage/stagehand work for extra money when back home from school. My brother would hook me up with the gigs and there was always a motley crew of random locals who worked at the theatre. This one guy was about my age (20/21) and was a verified compulsive liar. Much of his family worked as the cleaning crew, and he actually has a brother who had a deeply cynical demeanor but otherwise seemed 100% cooler than him.
Anyway, this kid claims to me that he dated this hot Russian girl for years, and that he used to speak Russian fluently. When he first told me this, i was a little incredulous, and since I had lived in Moscow for several months studying Russian, and I knew there were basically no Russian people in our podunk-ass town... so i attempted to greet him... здраствуйте! Раньше, у тебя был девучка русская? Откуда её?
He just gives me this feigned frustration/pained gesture, makes a grunt, and says “oh man she left me a while ago, i used to remember!” ...”i just can’t remember a lick of it anymore, whoops!”
It’s like, yeah, you used to be fluent and then you forgot every word... not even a привет.... because THAT’s how language works. The funny part is i’m pretty sure he knew i had lived there before, i’m not sure why he thought that BS narrative would work on me...
Здравствуйте! Раньше, у тебя была (you’re referencing a female) Девушка русская? Откуда она? (Again referencing a female) also when referring to a liar always call them a (сука блять)
I had a girlfriend who was behaving like she was having a seizure and she told me that to stop it I needed to slap her really hard across the face. I ended up slapping her as she became more panicked and convincing. Not very hard though, not even enough to redden her face. She kept trying to get me to do it harder. Afterwards, she told me that she had a family history of it, even giving me specific details of how her brothers and sisters would behave then the seizures happened.
Then one holiday dinner with her family present, the subject of seizures came up and her mom mentioned that her family was lucky, none of them had seizure issues.
I look over at my girlfriend and she was smiling.
During the trip home, I asked her about it. She told me that a previous boyfriend had liked beating her and that she was testing me to see if I had it in me to be that way. I did ask her mom later to verify that it wasn't some more bullshait.
I caught my ex-wife cheating. I gathered my proof, which included a recorded phone call of her and the other man. When I confronted her, she denied anything was going on. I gave her several chances to come clean, she refused. Told me I was crazy and that she'd never. So I took my phone out of my pocket and played the audio of her and the other man talking about how great the sex was last night. I made her listen to the whole thing. Her eyes were so wide, she went pale. She had no words. Gotcha, bitch.
So there was this guy that started at my job, we are cooks. It's a high volume kitchen so some degree of experience is necessary, it's definitely not the sort of place you can just start and pick up as you go, if you didn't know something, you would have to be trained--which we do!--but that requires the bare minimum of admitting that you need to be trained.
So this guy, his first day he tells me he has six years of working experience. Oh cool! Me too, guy! I bet we'll get alone fine
Well it became pretty clear that he was lying because he was just really bad. Like, I would have been surprised to learn if he'd ever worked a day in his life. He had no sense of urgency, none of the earmarks of an experienced cook, knew none of the culture or ettiquette. He would ask me how to do basic shit that is super obvious and anyone should know. Like he asked me how to scoop cheese sauce out of a container. He's literally holding the spatula in one hand, container in the other and asks me "so how do I get it in the pan?". How much experience he had would change constantly. Six years, seven years, by the time he was fired a month later, nine years of experience. There was another guy I worked with that also had 6 years of legitmate kitchen experience also knew he was a liar, he asked him one day if he knew how to clean a flattop and he said he never had before. Dude WENT IN on him, accused him of being a liar right on the spot, no one with six years of kitchen experience makes it that far without having to brick a grill at least once
When he quit he accused me of being the reason he had to leave, said I didn't know how to do my job or something. I was just the one that had to work with him the most and I would really not pretend that he didn't know what he was doing. Working a shift with him was exhausting, it would be like if I brought a twelve year old to shadow me for the day. Couldn't reasonably expect them to do anything on their own so I would basically have to do all of my stuff and all of his stuff and hope that he at least didn't make it worse for me. And he would! all the time! burn things or make things incorrectly with the wrong ingredients, try to send food out that wasn't finished yet. I'd keep trying to show him how to do things right over and over and over again but it got to the point that I was showing him things I had just shown him an hour ago and he wasn't understanding any of it. It's just funny to me that he knows he was caught and he still tries to save face
My son (6) was at the neighbor’s house playing in their yard and came home crying that some boys came into their yard and beat him up. Like, pushed him to the ground and kicked him in the ribs and head. Of course my husband and I ran out to see if we could see these kids but they had moved on. But not before leaving behind a bike. With an address on it.
So, I Wazed that bitch’s address which was next neighborhood over and found some kids sitting outside the house. I got the bike out of my trunk and asked who it belonged to and one kid said, you found my bike! Turns out the bike was stolen earlier that day and those kids knew exactly who stole it. They all looked at each other and back to me and said, “Andre.”
They showed me where Andre lived and his mom answered. I told her what happened and she denied everything. She said he couldn’t have done it because he was at his grandma’s house. Where does Grandma live, I asked? Oh, that’s my neighborhood, lady!
By this time, a group of teenage boys came out of the house and circled around me in an intentionally threatening way. And then Andre appeared in the doorway. A bit older than my son. He shouted “well he was making faces at me and [one of the teenage boys] told me to do it!”
All I could do was laugh. I looked at Andre and said, “Next time you steal a bike and leave it at the scene of a crime, don’t leave the owner’s address on it.” The boys closed the circle on me and told me to get out. I told them I’d be filing a police report. I also noticed a large number of bikes on their patio.
The whole time I was walking back to my car they were calling me names and, I shit you not, throwing uncooked hotdogs at me.
Filed a report. Did not press charges. The cop I talked to said we helped them ID the teenagers who were with Andre. They had destroyed property in the area just before the incident with my kid. Moved out of that area ASAP.
I was called by my university (after I graduated) to be a juror in final design evaluation for first semester students. One of the students brought a model, which was quite not his work. I asked him about the design, and why he did that and everything, he made up stuff about it and told me. I asked him how he came up with that particular idea being in the first semester and it being too technical for him, he said he just knows stuff.
When he was done, I took the model, and pulled one of the blocks off, and there it said 'My Name, enrolment no. - Class of 2012'
The model was something I submitted for the model making class when I was studying there, and it had been lying in the exhibition room. That kid just took my model, and was claiming it to be his work.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 19:36:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a car dealership. I had a vehicle dropped off for service the night before for some recall work. Vehicle and owner had never been to our dealership for service. I checked the vehicle in as per usual company policy and wrote the repair order to get the work done.
Fast forward to the end of my work day. Said vehicle owner arrives at the dealership to pick up their vehicle. They get their keys, I thank them for their business, express wishes that they return for any future service needs. She is a little defensive, giving me the usual “I never service my car at dealerships because you are thieves.”
I think to myself, “okay, bitch, unnecessary comment. Goodbye...”
I watch as she goes out to her car. The rear passenger side in particular. Immediately, she Stars marching back towards my desk.
“Yes, Ms. See You Next Tuesday, what can I do for...”
“Which one of you hit my car!!!”
The following two or three minute tirade proceeds. I always let the customer vent until they are done. I wait until I hear that satisfied loud exhale and the final “what are you going to do to fix this?”
My turn.
“Absolutely, we can get this vehicle to our body shop for repairs. However, this dent was existing at the time I checked your vehicle in for service this morning. Would you like to contact your insurance to start a claim or pay cash?”
Cue thermonuclear detonation of entire Soviet and American stockpile circa 1985.
My service manager comes out. As the Asst. SM, he trusts I have the situation in hand, but wants to make sure nothing out of place occurs.
Rant number two ends. I ask, would you like to see the pictures that I took of your vehicle this morning? As per company policy, we are to take pictures on our iPads of all vehicles coming in for service. Every time.
“Well I didn’t do this. One of your other customers must have hit my vehicle!”
Our dealership is next to a not very good neighborhood unfortunately, so we have security cameras as well. I asked the Service Manager if we could review the footage.
“THIS IS BULLSHIT! YOU JUST DON’T WANT TO FIX THE DAMAGE YOU DID!”
Storms out. Naturally, we review the footage. She backed into one of our light poles while parking her vehicle the evening before. She then proceeded to park the vehicle three spots over so that the light pole wasn’t close anymore. Thankfully, there was only slight cosmetic damage to the concrete base.
Working as a cashier at a home improvement store. Customer pays for his few screws with a ten, taking it out of his bifold wallet. As I'm giving his change back, he says, "I gave you a $20, not a $10." The customer's always right, keep things copacetic, if you've worked retail before you know the protocol. Except in this instance, the customer had made a fatal mistake. I pulled out the top 20 and 10 from my register till, and showed him that the 20 was crisp and straight, and the 10 had a slight bend in the middle, Defeated, he yanked his couple dollars change for my hand and grumbled on his way out of the store.
Late to the party but... when I was younger I used to randomly notice clothes missing from my room. I always blamed my younger brother because I mean who else? He would always get angry at me for blaming him without any proof. One day I see him wearing a pair of my shorts and I call him out and he looked me straight in the eye and said “these are mine”. I had a 10 minute argument with him trying to convince me they were his. Mom eventually got in the middle of it, looks at the shorts and says to my brother those aren’t yours. She did the laundry.
When I was in the Marine Corps I lived in a barracks room that shared a bathroom with the room next door. I kept noticing jewelry, clothes etc would disappear. When I would ask the girl next door, she would say she doesn’t know anything about it. This went on for quite some time and I knew it had to be her.
One day I went down to the bottom floor of the barracks to use the laundry room. I washed my clothes and then was looking for an open dryer. I opened the door to a dryer that was not running and there was clothes someone had left in there. Upon further inspection I started recognizing that MY missing clothes were in there and the dryer was being used by the WM next door.
I retrieved all of my clothes. Then I grabbed all of her clothes and threw them in the dumpster!! I then began to wear my found clothes again. The girl never asked or made any comment about it.
My SO's parents died, leaving everything to her and her sister. A few weeks later, we get a letter on an attorneys letterhead that her parents received a loan from her rich uncle many years ago, and they did not pay him back. He forwarded a signed copy of a loan agreement and wanted principal and interest, quoting almost all my SIL and wife were to receive. My wife knew her folks were better with money than that and never heard anything about this. She spent days going through her parents papers and finally found a signed release of loan, paid in full. We went to his attorneys office, supposedly to discuss his payment. At the meeting, my wife asked her uncle's attorney what her paper indicated. He reviewed it and showed it to my wife's uncle, asking him if that was what it appeared. I told him I had already had his signature verified by handwriting analysis (advantage of my employ) He stammered, choked and said he didn't remember them paying him back. His attorney apologized. My wife called him a greedy bloodsucker and we left. She never spoke with him again. Sad what money will make people do.
I HAVE A PERFECT STORY FOR THIS! Now my friend was a notorious liar. Like all the time about stupid shit. And it’s pretty blatant sometimes. The stories just don’t make sense. I would always be skeptical about his stories and point things out that don’t make sense and he start saying “ oh here comes the detective. Detective HeyBriansOn is on the case!”. I never really had any evidence to his stories being true so I’d always just have to bite my tongues to his crazy stories. Anyway a new game called payday 2 comes out. We are all super excited to get it. We finally all pick it up, download it, and get everyone together to play. We get in the lobby and this guy is a super high level and has tons of guns and armor and all that stuff. We are all super surprised to how he’s played so much but his account says he has less then a couple hours played. Doesn’t make sense at all. He had to have cheated. So I say “you totally cheated”. Which his response is “ oh here come detective HeyBriansOn! Why would I cheat on a game I just got that we are all going to play together”. No evidence obviously but we all smell bs. Well we load into the game and over his character, in big red letters, it says “CHEATER”. We screenshot it and now we use that as proof to all bs stories he tells. I think I still have it on my pc. I’ll look for it when I’m back.
My SO suddenly wanted to break up after 3 years. Later I found out he was trying to get back with his ex that he dated when he was just a kid. What made it better was she was clearly uninterested in him. Fucking pathetic ass hole.
I investigate work comp claims so I have quite a few stories about this.
One time, the employee claimed a case of water had fallen and hit his ankle. He didn't report it and had the weekend off. On that Sunday, he was at home and called 911. He was transported by ambulance to the ER stating the damage to his ankle was from the water case hitting him the previous week at work.
I checked his social media immediately and found a friend of his who made a comment about their night out at the bar over the weekend. Found out that friend also worked for the same employer. Called the employer and got the friend on the phone and asked him about the claimant, what he knew, and what they did over the weekend.
Completely caught off guard he didn't have time to really deny or make up another story. He said that he and the claimant did go to the bar over the weekend and that the claimant had a decent amount to drink and hurt his ankle.
Called the claimant as soon as I got off the phone with his friend and took a recorded statement. I went along with his story until he had felt he covered it all. Then I asked about his weekend. This question surprised him so he tip toed around what he did over the weekend. I then let him know what I had found out and asked if that rang any bells for him or if his memory was a little fuzzy. Then there was silence. At that point I ended the call advising him I would send him my decision soon but I'm sure he knew in that moment what it was going to be.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 17:17:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at a friend’s house and my sister was talking about Lebron and I told her that she didn’t know anything about Lebron. She refuted. I looked at a counter that had an espn magazine on it with a cover photo of Matt Kemp who is a black baseball player. I picked up the magazine and said, “This is Lebron.” She looked at me and in a very arrogant voice said, “I know that!” It was the perfect set up and execution for exposure.
I would NOT say it was satisfying, but it changed my outlook on a lot of things when it came to people, and learning the truth was relieving.
I’m in California. When I was younger a friend of my (then) boyfriend had left for the US Army, went to Iraq or Afghanistan for two tours, came back honorably discharged and with PTSD. We knew him before and after he went. When he came back, he rarely talked, drank a lot, and was always depressed. We would go out and he would just be sad for a lot of it and say he was having trouble being home after things he saw.
One night out especially, an older gentleman at the bar was talking to him about his grandson, apparently they were in the same group (I am unfamiliar with it...battalions? Groups of military, sorry.)
Our friend and the grandson were in the same group of army, but the grandson had lost his life. The older gentleman bought our friends tab. Our friend opened up, said he met/knew the grandson, what a great guy he was, and also opened up about some painful sounding things he encountered abroad, one being witnessing children being shot and dying.
My then-boyfriend and me were sitting at the bartop listening the whole time and I kept asking my bf, doesn’t that sound weird? Why would he be telling people these things? If I had killed a child, I couldn’t tell anyone but a therapist. My boyfriend assured me that it was difficult for our friend, who was in tears talking to this man about his mission and the mans grandson, that he also knew, dying in action.
About a month later, my boyfriend considered moving in with the friends dad, who was a regular at my boyfriends bar and they knew each other fairly well. We went to look at the house, and casually asked a question about the pictures hung up in the house, and casually asked why he didn’t have any of the sons army photos up.
Dad said, “what photos?” Confusion. When we tell him some of the military stories, dad replies with, “he has diabetes type 1 and found out during his medical evaluation. He never even went to boot camp. He lived with his mom in Utah before he came back.”
Rhamni · 12 points · Posted at 16:37:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
tl;dr: Best friend's ex spreads nasty rumours and claims there's a restraining order out against my friend. We prove her a liar in front of most of the people she knows.
When I went to uni, me, my best friend and his girlfriend were all part of the 'philosophy society' together. Basically a club where, once or twice a week, we would all meet up at campus and walk into town where we had reserved a room at a pub. There we would have terribly important discussions and solve all the world's problems over a pint of ale or a cider. We had some very good times in this society. Discussing thought experiments, philosophers, ethical dilemmas etc.
And then the two of them broke up. Like any relationship, theirs had its ups and downs, but from the outside it had seemed to me all along like there was a little too much drama. Like a lot. And after they broke up, the drama only got worse. They were still in the same society, and the ex really, really was not able to just get along.
I won't bore anyone with the endless flood of drama she was responsible for, but it all basically boiled down to two things. 1) She needed to be the centre of attention whenever possible. She would claim credit for things she never did, present other people's ideas as her own, get upset if she wasn't invited to parties, etc. And 2) she had a really bad tendency toward black and white thinking. Everyone was either her best friend or the demonic personification of treason and kiddyfiddling sent by Satan to torture her. All her exes were monsters. All her former friends had taken advantage of her or been mean to her (She was really good at making friends, just... she was also really good at losing them). I'm not a licensed psychologist, so I'm not going to say with confidence that she has Histrionic Personality Disorder... But I am going to say that she regularly saw a psychiatrist and never told us more than that it was for her anxiety.
While they were still together, she was exhausting to deal with, but after the break up she turned into a tvtropes ex girlfriend from hell. She hated my best friend. Somehow she was still cool with me, probably because I was pretty diplomatic and didn't call her out in public, just quietly corrected perceptions and factchecked people when she wasn't around.
Anyway, for a year or so after their breakup, they still both went to the philosophy society. Then my best friend graduated, and while he was still in the city, he mostly stopped going to 'philsoc'. And when he stopped going, her lies got worse. When the three of us first met, she told us a few horror stories about the abusive men she had known before going to university, and my best friend and I were happy for her that she had managed to get past that and gotten to know good people like us (It's not hard to be better people than her exes, or so it seemed). But when my best friend stopped going, she started saying the same kind of crap about him she had said about her previous exes. She said that while they were together he had forced her to put up with things she didn't want sexually. She said she had done the breaking up (It was the other way around). That he had started stalking her after the breakup and groped her. Stuff like that.
It was pretty clear to me that most of these were lies, because some of the 'incidents' were stuff that had happened in real life and I had been present for, like destinations for trips or movies we had seen, etc, just with nasty lies added. And if she lied about some of them I was inclined to think she lied about the rest too, especially since my friend is one of the least violent people I've ever met, and all her lies were about him being violent or humiliating her, just like all her previous exes had supposedly done. After a few months of these lies she said she had gotten a restraining order against him, and that that was why he hadn't come to philsoc anymore. This... upset me. Obviously I disliked it all along that she had been lying about my friend, but most of the people he had liked in philsoc had graduated when he did, and he had asked me to keep my head down so she didn't turn on me too. This however was something else. She had lied about having to call the cops on him. And she had demonstrably lied about a restraining order.
As I said, she still liked me, for some reason. She did most of her rumour mongering in private, with a few people at a time, so maybe she didn't think word would spread and was just looking for sympathy in the moment from the few people she lied to. But the whole club knew most of the stories she had told. So here I saw a golden opportunity. You see, I was social secretary or whatever it was we called the post. I was responsible for planning some of the events for the club. The main one being... the Christmas Dinner. We decided on a restaurant for the Dinner, and then I went there and set it up. Once the venue was booked, they needed to know the exact number of guests and everyone's order. So I collected names and orders and made a list and collected money from everyone who would attend.
Except, I made two lists. One list I showed the club, and one list I showed the restaurant. The restaurant's list had one more name on it. My best friend's name.
In the last few weeks before the Christmas Dinner her lies got even worse. She started implying that the reason there was a restraining order in place was because my best friend had raped her. At this point, just about everyone in the club was very sympathetic toward her, and treated her like a hero for standing up to the bastard. With 90% of the members being undergraduates, people disappearing and being replaced by new faces all the time... Half the members had never even seen my best friend, but they sure knew he was a baddie, and wasn't allowed anywhere near the society.
The day of the Christmas Dinner came. My best friend and I were the first to arrive. One by one, the other members of the society arrived. Most had no idea who he was, and we just introduced him (truthfully) as a former president of the society. He got along great with some of the new faces and had a few convesations about philosophy and uni life. And then his ex showed up. Or I should say, her boyfriend showed up. She was outside. Someone had warned her the 'dangerous ex' was inside, and that she should call the cops. Her boyfriend came in, made a scene and demanded that he get the hell out of there. Here's the thing. The new boyfriend genuinely believed her about the restraining order. So he gave us the perfect set up. After he shouted the restaurant went dead quiet, so my best friend was able to explain, calmly and in his normal speaking voice, that there was no restraining order, and she had lied about that like she had lied about everything else. The new boyfriend thought we were lying, so he rushed back outside, ready to call our bluff. He urged her to call the police. But of course she couldn't do that, because there was no restraining order and the police had never heard of or from either of them before, and the only one who had made a scene was the new boyfriend. My best friend was just quietly enjoying a dinner he had paid for and was trying to have conversations with the new members.
After maybe 20 minutes the ex and her boyfriend came in. She told everyone who asked that she didn't call the police because she didn't want to 'ruin his life'. Just about nobody believed that, fortunately. Me and my best friend had a great night. His ex, not so much. She left pretty quickly after eating. There was a lot of buzzing and people asking about what had really happened over the next week or so (before Christmas break), and slowly but surely almost everyone realized that the woman had been lying her ass off about at least some of the stuff she was saying, and was probably lying about the rest too. Her new boyfriend stayed with her, and they are still together now, years later. I'm not sure what he believes at this point. It should be obvious that she lied, but he was always pretty heavily into the "always believe the victim" stuff, so maybe he just refuses to think about it.
I don't want to end on a preachy note. We all know that sexual crimes are some of the worst things you can do, and lying about someone doing them is right down there on the bottom as well. I disliked the woman long before the Christmas Dinner, but the fact that her lies escalated all the way until we were able to quash her in public, in front of most of her friends, and that they all learned the truth about what an awful person she was... That makes this probably my favourite memory from university. My best friend and I remain BFFs almost a decade later, and the Christmas Dinner is something we still laugh about when we discuss it.
I was living in a house with a bunch of "friends". I'm not too careful with cash so I would leave some lying around on my desk in my room and I felt like some had been disappearing, but I didn't think too much of it. Then I noticed $400 go missing from my wallet. I figured the only time I don't have my wallet on me is when I shower, so I set up a camera for the next time I took a shower. Sure enough, on the very first try I caught another guy that lived in the house walk into my room, open my wallet, and take out $60. When I asked him about it he denied it. Then I showed him the video he tried to say it wasn't him. Eventually he admitted it. Pretty satisfying to catch him red handed, but I had no evidence of the $400 so I never got it back.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:23:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy on my friends old Minecraft Realm joined. Within ONE DAY he claimed to have found an end portal, killed the dragon, found several chests worth of elytras, shulker boxes, FIFTY dragon heads, and full enchanted gear.
I snooped around until I found his manually built end portal, then set up a sign in front with a single word. "Explain". Then I set up a command block to lock him in front of that sign as soon as he joined.
I noticed someone was trying to trademark a common word in my 'community'. When I told people, he claimed it was to protect the word from misuse, not for his own gain. (What a hero, right?)
A little bit of digging found him on a legal forum asking how he could protect the word for his own personal use - and leaked audio years later had him outright talking about it as his 'brand'.
After I notified the 'community', people fought the trademark and it was denied.
Probably boring for other folks, but it's rare to actually have some sort of "WikiLeaks" style revelation in your own personal life. Even received threats from the guy's lawyers, saying I must never speak his name again for the rest of my life or I could go to jail. Laughed over that one, read it out for people.
TryonB · 5 points · Posted at 19:35:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was waiting tables at this bar/poolhall place. We didn't have dedicated bussers, so we'd all help bus each other's tables. I was delivering food and passed by one of my table's that had just left, I noticed a $10 tip in the form of two 5's under a salt shaker. As I was finishing up with the other guests, a co-worker cleared my table. You always leave the cash tips in place after you bus another's table so I went to claim my $10 and saw only one 5 under the salt shaker.
I asked my co-worker "Hey, did you see another $5 bill on that table? There was two when I passed by, but only one after you cleared it." he faked concern, even looked into the trash bin he used...He saw the suspicion in my face and checked his apron. "Oh, sometimes I throw small trash like straw wrappers in here, must have fell in. Here it is" He handed me a crumpled up $5.
Now, I'm a bit of a pussy, plus I was really busy, so I just sarcastically said "Really?" and mumbled "asshole" as I walked away. I reported it to the manager, but he didn't do shit, so I told all my coworkers not to let this guy bus their tables and they all had no trouble believing it so they all started treating him like shit and telling him and he eventually quit. Over $5...(plus the times he didn't get busted of course).
Ex girlfriend broke up with me out of the blue one night, we’d been together 4 years, and also lived together. I stayed at a friends house the next night and just couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t adding up. So I went home and she was gone, but her iMac wasn’t. Now, I have never, ever asked to look at a significant others texts or anything, but I think I was perfectly in the right to do it at that moment. Texts had gone back months with this other guy. Nights where she was at her friends, or at the library, or wherever, she was at this guys place. What made it worse was they were both making fun of how oblivious I was to it.
Anyways, I printed the texts out and asked her if we could talk the next day. I made her explain why she ended things, and it was “I just wasn’t feeling it anymore, I just don’t feel the same about you.” I asked f there was anyone else, to which she replied, “How could you accuse me of that? After 4 years you really think I would do that to you? I’m not that kind of person.” I slowly handed her the printed out texts, and she went as white as a ghost. Of course, I was called an asshole for going through her things, but I didn’t care what she had to say at that point. The satisfaction from seeing her caught and no way to wiggle out was incredible.
Long story, my MIL had to move in with my husband and I for a couple months because she escaped a frightful marriage (husband was a compulsive liar, verbally and physically abusive, just overall jackass). It was only supposed to be for a couple of weeks, but turned into 3 months. It started to affect our marriage, as it was 5 people (husband also had younger school-aged siblings that moved in with their mom to our place) in a one bedroom apartment and she kept promising and promising she’d find a job and be out soon. She also promised to cook dinner, help pay for groceries, electricity, etc. never saw a dime so I started thinking she was mooching off of us and taking advantage of my husband.
When my husband and I were out working, I let her use my computer for online job applications. I would come home from working a 10 hour shift on my feet all day, to a messy house and shit everywhere. I asked her what she did all day and she said she was working on her resume and applying to jobs. This went on for weeks, where I eventually cleaned everything up and made dinner too, which I always had to clean up. After about the 2nd week of this, I was done. One of those days, I had asked her for my computer so I could check my emails. I took it into my bedroom, closed the door, and went through my computer’s internet history. She spent all day on Plenty of Fish and Match messaging guys and setting up dates with them (while we were stuck watching his younger siblings) but she told us they were job interviews. I went back a week into the browsing history and she hadn’t applied for not one job.
My husband got home from work an hour or so later, so I pull him into the bedroom and showed him. So he devised a plan. We went out into the living room and he asked her how her job search was going. She said “oh so well I’ve been on interviews and such!” So my husband said something like “if they’re going so well, why not any offers?” And he even asked her about some of the places she’s applied. She listed off random companies and we knew she was lying. So he said “how did the interview with James or redrod29” go? Her face DROPPED. She yelled at us saying it was an invasion of privacy and that we were disrespectful. She moved out 2 days later.
It felt so good! We have a good relationship now (this was 4 years ago) but we like to keep our distance.
My ex wife racked up a TON of consumer debt without me knowing it. I found out because debt collectors started to call me because they couldn’t get ahold of her. I went home and rummaged through our shred pile and found shredded letters from the credit companies demanding payment. I painstakingly found the pieces and taped them together. When I confronted her she denied everything, lying through her teeth. When I showed her the letters, her color drained and she continued to deny things. Total debt was about 25k. Been happily divorced for three years.
Had a pretty severe injury that required surgery and a month off work. Upon my return to office, boss lied and claimed that the doctor's certificate didn't cover my entire absence (it did) and tried to dock my pay.
I went back to surgeon and got a second (identical) document clearing my entire absence, so then boss tried to put me on probation for exceeding allowed amount of sick days in a year.
And when that didn't work either, he trawled through my social media accounts and had me sacked for a minor infringement of the employee code that had happened two years prior.
Imagine his face when I found an identical violation of the employee code on his social media accounts, and attached it to the lawsuit I filed.
chanyp · 4 points · Posted at 03:00:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in a very busy salon and spa. One day, I had a very particular client who wanted a balayage. A balayage is a hair painting technique that is very natural and sun kissed looking. Our salon charges 180+ for this time consuming and delicate process.
I do the balayage. It comes out gorgeous. After toning and cutting her hair as well as styling, her check comes out to 230. She tells me she loves her hair and even tips well.
WELL. Two days later she calls in demanding to speak to my manager. She claimed I had chopped all her hair off, laughed in her face, refused to style her, and sent her away crying. She demanded we give her money back so she could "get it fixed elsewhere or she'll sue"
Little did she know, we have cameras with mics in our salon, similar to webcams. They'd been installed to prevent these types of claims and to make sure product was not stolen.
So, our manager pulls up the feed, opens up the date and time of her appointment and has us watch it. I stood smugly behind her as my manager played the entire pleasant exchange.
The client claims that wasn't her and storms out of the salon, never to be heard from again. It was hilarious lmfao.
chanyp · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right?? People always try and get their services for free, it's sad haha
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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chanyp · 3 points · Posted at 03:46:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fairly certain she was a typical salon hopper. They're people who go from salon to salon to get their hair done and then demand a refund basically to get free services. It's sad but it happens surprisingly commonly lol
I got pulled over for speeding late one night although I wasn't speeding. The officer tried to press me about it and was about to give me a really difficult time if I didn't just agree and all that. Until I said "well officer I'm pretty sure I wasn't speeding but I guess I can just bring my dashcam footage to court with me on a DVD and flash drive".
I was working with a manager who always threatened us with the owner showing up and not being happy. One day he was going on and on about how "The boss is coming in and he's been watching the cameras. He's really pissed." My phone rang and I answered it. It was the boss. He had a question about my schedule for the next week. So I asked if he was coming in that night because the manager kept insisting he was. He wasn't even in the city. He asked to speak to the M.O.D. and proceeded to read him the riot act.
I used to work in a sports club in the kitchen with two other women. These women were older than me and liked to bitch about people all the time, they weren’t very nice people to be honest and I was starting to get fed up with having to listen to their shit and nastiness about people who I actually didn’t have a problem with or quite liked.
Well they started to turn nasty towards me eventually (when they’d run out of people to talk shit about) and at first I didn’t care much because I knew what they were like. But it started to get worse and they started bullying me into doing things they knew I couldn’t do (I had a back problem that required surgery at the time and couldn’t do heavy lifting). I overcame that by straight up refusing to injure myself so they dropped that but started to bitch and moan about me whenever I left the kitchen. Now by this point, I was starting to get fed up with it all.
So I asked them one day why they had to be so cruel about people and why they felt the need to bitch about me whenever I left the room, and they said they hadn’t said a word about me or anyone else..! (Like, I legitimately stood in the same room while they bitched about other staff) it got to a point where they told me I was “hearing things” or “just shit-stirring to cause trouble”.
So I waited for a day when they were being particularly bitchy, took out my phone and stuck it on “voice memo”. Then I put it back in my bag and excused myself to use the bathroom.
I did this about 3 times.
That evening I listened to the memos back and caught them absolutely ripping into me! Saying all sorts of nasty things etc-
I text one of the women and asked why she/they had said these things about me and she said she “didn’t know what I was talking about” and that “this obsession has to stop”!
The next day I walked into that kitchen and without saying a word, played them the memos. The looks on their faces was brilliant. One of the most satisfying moments of my life.
They were MAD! Lol. One tried to threaten me with legal action because I’d recorded them, but she never did. I left that job shortly afterwards. I gave them 2 weeks notice after this happened but I was never put on the rota, one of the women was the one responsible for the rota and told management that she’d tried to call me for work but I “never answered my phone” and was then called out for lying by management a week later when I showed them my calls list on my phone..
I had a friend, let's call him Jay, and he moved to Australia on a gap year whilst we were in uni. He said he was already dead successful and had made it down under, so two of my friends and I decided that we'd surprise him by taking a trip to Australia, because God knows we needed a holiday, and we hadn't seen him in half a year. Last time I'd seen him, he'd drowned my yellow fiat cinquecento during a game of monopoly (don't ask.) Once we arrived in Sydney, near where he claimed to be living, we went to the club he claimed to be the manager of. We tried finding him to no avail, but when one of my friends went for a piss, we found him working in a toilet. Turns out he lived in a tent in his uncle's garden. The look on his face when we found him from across the globe was priceless. We still all had to kip in a tent, mind.
I was on the bus once late on Halloween night. A guy got on dressed like Charlie Chaplin and sat next to the girl behind me, and immediately started hitting on her in an obviously fake Russian accent. Not sure why he thought that particular accent would charm her, nor did it make any sense with his Charlie Chaplin shtick, but hey. Its Halloween and he's feeling good.
Im rolling my eyes as he awkwardly starts trying to impress her with stories of moving over from Russia, and she's clearly not into it at all (because why would she be??) After a few minutes of listening to this excruciating attempt at an accent I got so annoyed that I turned around and started speaking to him in gibberish. I was so 100% convinced he was not only not Russian, but also didn't speak a single word of Russian, that I was extremely confident he would have no idea I was faking it. (I'm good with accents and languages so I think I did a pretty good approximation.)
As soon as I started talking he looked extremely panicked. He was like "Sorry what was that?" I told him "I speak Russian, don't you?" He immediately tried to backpedal and gave the lamest excuse ever: "What I meant to say is that my parents are Russian and I get the accent from them, but I never learned the language. Just the accent."
Sure. Okay buddy. He got off shortly after that and I have never felt so fucking smug.
sotis6 · 7 points · Posted at 19:18:06 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was proctoring the ACTs this year. As a proctor, you have to record the last question someone answered at the end of each section because they can’t go back and complete other sections.
A student across the hall got caught on the second section (of 4) going back, and was removed. I had been stressing this in my room, and let my room know after that section that someone had been removed, so please don’t make me remove you.
During break, I was going through their second sections and recording their last question. One girl finished on 56 of 60 questions, so I asked my supervisor should I write the last question she answered or the first unanswered one, and we looked at her test together, and decided we write 56.
3rd section comes around, and I walk around the room and see her test now had all questions in that section answered. Asked if she went back and she says “no they were lightly shaded, I just bolded them” not knowing we had gone over her test specifically.
Had my supervisor come in to remove her, and she refused to leave, holding onto her test tight and started yelling. We had to get someone to forcefully remove her.
It turned out she went to the preppiest school in the state, and most likely had the impression she could do whatever she wanted, so it was pretty satisfying watching her throw away over $100 of her parents money.
Final part: as a teacher, it is so funny how dumb students and children think we are. We see much more than you think.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:37:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex gf ghosted me for about a week and a bit? And i broke up with her after that, because thats some immature shit yo. We then caught up a while later, and she told me about her new boyfriend, and i asked her when they started dating, and it was during the time she ghosted me.
I suspected as much, and it felt kinda good to be on the moral high ground?
But luckily ive moved on from then on long ago. Now i have the most amazing girl ive ever known in my life. I've grown mentally and emotionally and generally improved my life. I am glad i am not with her, nor the same person i used to be.
Look after yourselves my dudes. Always evaluate yourself, and improve where you can and accept what you can't change.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 14:11:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
when a friend of theirs made a comment about the lie they were telling online and i happened to see it . ahhhh thank you stupid friend for exposing the liar
My ex denied that he had any feelings for a girl who was in our friend group. I confronted him about spending too much time with her and he would just tell me I’m crazy. At the time we had been dating four or five years and he drunkenly broke up with me via text. Now they’re unhappily married. I caught him in a lie and ended up with a fantastic husband. They both deserve their unhappiness.
My little brother could cry at will and got away with everything because when my mom asked who it was he would turn on the water works. She believed he wouldn't be so upset if he was lying and I always got in trouble for whatever he did and for 'lying'. I'm still terrified whenever anything goes wrong in our house but all the times there is undeniable proof that he is lying are the most satisfying and relieving moments of my life.
Postmates support sided w/ a dishonest driver and I caught the support employee I was DMing with on Twitter lying about the incorrect phone number he claimed was on my account. Sent him screenshots and asked for him to provide some proof of his claims. Crickets from him and a refund for me! LOL
I was friends with a girl in like 8th or 9th grade. She had a huge crush on me and I didn't feel the same way. Shortly after some of my others friends (we had a small friend group) started saying weird stuff to me about things that didn't happen, like I called her a bitch or yelled at her or whatever. One day one of her friends and the girl are walking down the hall and I heard her say something about me being a dick to her, which surprise, surprise hadn't happened. I confronted her immeadiately about it and she continued to make excuses and said I did it in a text. When I showed her the text conversation she came clean.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Went to visit my brother at work one day back when we were Young. A guy he worked with told me he was in medical school at a local college.
I had to inform him that the state only had 3 medical schools and that school want one of them.
In my college dorm, I have 3 roommates. 1 is super quiet, and always keeps to himself. Number 2 is super annoying and always makes assumptions on topics he knows very little about, often creating "facts" to support his opinion. and finally, number 3, is the smart one. Hes the one that knows that when I get into an argument with someone, chances are, I'm right.
And because of this beautiful layout, roomie number 2 constantly tries to prove to me random crap. Just yesterday, he tried to proove to me that Carbonation is bad because it loads CO2 into your blood stream. It took 10 minutes of trying to explain to him that your stomach has no direct connection with your blood stream. Hes going and going, and finally, roomie number 3 comes out and says, ok, lets google this, but I already know that PhantomTissue is right.
and PhantomTissue was right. agian.
I have a natural love of arguments. and with these people in my apartment, I always get the satisfaction of being right :)
During my divorce from my ex husband, I got his lawyer to quit him by submitting 98 pages of proof of perjury.
Imagine the nastiest divorce 2 not rich people could have, that was our divorce. He cheated on me while I was pregnant and 3 weeks after having our second child, he left us for her.
She told me she didn't love me and that it'd be easier to just part ways and keep on living our lives. I doubted this, so I kissed her for the first time, and she kissed me back. Totally caught her in her lie, and it's been satisfying since then.
This is a good one. Not my catch, but being caught. I was up and about starting my normal daily routine and I heard my doorbell. Disclosure: I am not a morning person.
I had not eaten breakfast or woken up yet really. I was home alone, not expecting anyone, nor was I told anyone would be coming. Naturally, I’m in my underwear so I brisk past the window where the man at my door probably saw me pass. I’m hustling to put some shorts on and I hear the doorbell again. In my town it’s not common at all for random people to be at your door, especially early in the morning. So instead of answering the door and confronting the stranger, my disoriented sleepy self decides to call my mother to see if she was expecting anyone. No answer.
Ding dong, doorbell again combo’d with a firm knock. At this point I’m flustered and panic call my father. After explaining the situation to him, he tells me to calm down and answer the door like a normal human and ask him why he’s here. I agree, calm my nerves and go to answer the door.
I open the door, and while standing in the doorway rudely ask him, “can I help you?” He responds with, “yes I’m here to deliver a package. Sorry for bothering you this early. Is your doorbell working?”
Without hesitation I reply, “no it hasn’t been working for a while.”
He buzzes it. We’re both standing there listening to the doorbell tune for a solid two seconds. I feel my face start to flush red, and he’s giving me the most smug smile. He didn’t really say much, just smiled and nodded while maintaining the most “i gotcha now bitch” eye contact I’ve felt in a long time.
I used to work with a woman, let's call her Haley, who would come in to work and then start "feeling sick" and asking to go home early. The next day she would openly tell people how drunk she got the night before. Over time, things escalated, both in the frequency of her "illnesses" and the flagrant openness of her evening activities. Two instances come to mind. Once (this was in a Nursing Home) she followed me in to a resident's room and, unprovoked, proceeded to complain about how bruised her thighs were because she went pole dancing the previous night (after going home "sick"). IN FRONT OF THE RESIDENT. Another time she started feeling sick and, after being told she could leave, spent the next hour or so wondering out loud and asking other coworkers which bar she should got to that night. Oh, third story popped to mind while I was typing this. I once got a call from her on my day off saying that her car had broken down and she asked me if I could cover her shift for her. She told me where she was and, don't know of she knew this or not, I lived less than two miles from where she claimed to be. I offered to pick her up and take her in to work and she said she would just "call someone else." I was SO tempted to drive to where she said she was and check.
In elementary school, I launched a sting operation on a classmate. With the help of my friends, we caught a kid who murdered, snapped, and buried pens and pencils in the playground. At the time, there was a mystery student who kept on messing with the supplies. My teacher was upset and threatened to shorten our recess, but no one came out to admit their wrongdoing. We received collective punishment, and there was drama around this Secret Pencil-Snatcher. Everyone was upset, so I set up a plan. First, my friends and I carved our initials just enough that it was noticeable onto all pencils that we owned. We deliberately set our pencils out and never used them. If any of us reported that a pencil was missing we would quickly find out who had borrowed it. However, one of my friends pencil went missing without a trace. We had interrogated the entire class, but this pencil never returned. We were never allowed to visit others desks during the class time, and the only other available pencils were the ones the teacher provided at the supply station. It was only possible for someone sitting close to my friend to be able to get their hands on that pencil in that situation. Since our desks were arranged in groups, it was determined that the main culprits were my friend’s cluster. Admittedly not appropriate, we ruffled through the desks to find my friends pencil jammed in the bottom of one of the desks. We all confirmed that the culprit was him. Once again, my friend left out a pencil. However, this time was when we got crafty. I had a brilliant idea to utilize a cheap pencil’s crappy quality to catch the stealer. The wrappers on the pencil slide off easily to reveal white pencils. I wrote, “we got you!” On the all the pencils (even my teachers...) and slid the plastic wrapper to hide the message. All we had to do was to wait until the culprit was back in action. Luckily, the kid took the bait, and I asked him what my friend’s pencil and teacher’s supply were doing in his desk. He blatantly denied this allegation, but I took it and savagely slid the wrappers to reveal this shocking revelation. In the end, I got in trouble for writing on the teacher’s extra supply pencils, but the snatcher was caught. It was the biggest win in my life. Friends and I were heroes for a week or so.
I had an office manager who manipulated my household expense reports to include her own expenses in them and was sufficiently astute to do so in a way that if the irregularities were caught it would appear that my maid was stealing from me.
The office manager would spend money on items for her own household then include the bills in my own expense report which she prepared based on my submitted receipts.
The office manager was smart enough to remove the top of the receipts--the part that included the address of the particular grocery chain, but she wasn't smart enough to remove the store code.
When the irregularities were discovered, the office manager claimed, based on items that my maid commonly purchased for her infant, such as baby formula and diapers, that it was my maid who was using expense money to falsely claim those expenses.
I pointed out, based on the store numbers, that the purchases were made essentially next door to the office manager's house, some 20 km away from where my live-in maid would purchase items. Moreover, the baby formula was a different brand.
It was fun to see that manager scramble for an explanation....
Had this time where the maid lied about having cleaned the rooms already. Argued a lot with her. She didn't realise we had CCTV cameras installed. Showed her the video where she simply sat for 5 minutes and left the room.
The look on her face... Priceless.
However, later got accused of "invading her privacy", but whatever.
One time, a few friends of mine were seeing a movie and invited another friend. The friend declined, they said that they didn't really like going to the movies.
We are leaving the movie (it was a late showing, not a lot of cars in the lot afterwards) and we see what is unmistakably [friend]'s car. Same bumper stickers and other distinguishing features.
So we took a snapchat of us Slav-Squatting looking tuff next to his bumper with the caption "[friend] doesn't like movies"
They were on a date with their girlfriend so we understood why they didnt come with us, we just found it a hilarious coincidence
This was back in high school. One day we walk into our first year Spanish class and our teacher immediately dives into this rant about cheating and plagiarism. I guess she caught one of her students in the previous class before us. She didn’t tell us the students name but she showed us the hw and how she “caught” him. We all got a laugh but I didn’t really think much of it after.
Later that day I’m heading into basketball practice and right outside the locker room I can hear one of my teammates yelling. Let’s call him Tom. So I walk in and Tom is pissed. Telling everyone how his Spanish teacher hates him and how she’s a total bitch for saying he cheated. Tom is 100 percent sure he didn’t cheat and knows the teacher is lying. Tom is full of shit.
So I chime in, “yeah that’s not what happened Tom. She definitely caught you.“
“How the hell would you know?”
Flashback to when our teacher showed us Tom’s homework (we didn’t know it was his at the time)
The very first question of our homework is...
-Cual es tu nombre?
(What is your name?)
Tom’s answer to this was...
-Mi nombre es Michael!
(My name is Michael)
Tom’s name is not Michael. First question, dead to rights. I just couldn’t believe he had the balls to lie after being so damn dumb in his cheating ways. My teammates died laughing. The entire practice we called him Michael. Tom pretty much hated me after that and rarely passed me the ball (he was the point guard) but that’s ok. I’m just waiting to run into him one of these days, look him dead in the eyes and just scream, “MICHAEL!!!!!”
Senior year of high school, i have been dating a friend of mine for a year almost, she has another friend who graduated the year before us and would ALWAYS tag along with my gf and get in my way, cock blocking if you will, anyways prom rolls around and my gf is hyped as hell and tells me how me and her are going together and riding together (obviously) i set up a cool way with asking her to prom, anyways 2 weeks later about 3 days before her brother is over at my house (long story) and tells me how my gf is planning to sort of ditch me and ride with her friend (the one who already had her senior prom the year before) mind you nothing had changed in those two weeks, it's not like we were fighting, so i was confused, i called her up and asked why she was ditching me and she told me that we'd still be doing most things together that night and that "everything we had planned was still gonna happen"
She denied the whole thing, until i told her where i got the info from, que her yelling for her brother over the phone me having the best grin cause i finally won one i was still pissed tho, told her i'd talk to her later and hung up.
a day later (didn't see her at school) she called and apologized, she was now gonna "do this right" she didn't even know what she was thinking, and her friend already had her prom last year, so why should she get in the way of our time ect and that her brother talked some real sense into her.
so easy sum up, ex-gf was gonna ditch me for her friend and do pre prom things with her even tho we had planned it weeks before, her brother ratted her out to me, i confronted her over the phone and she denied it, later told me that she was gonna spring it up on me the day OF that she would be spending her time with her the friend before prom and not me cause of (insert made up lie here) because of a promise/tradition they had? but i took over importance now and was a unexpected surprise so yeah.
we broke up a year later cause i was out of a job and i told her i watched porn, watching that was the "finial straw" for her. i still laugh about that today
bg-j38 · 16 points · Posted at 15:16:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Junior year of university so 1997-1998. I was still in the dorms, I shit you not, because they had just installed 10 megabit Ethernet to all the rooms over the summer. Back then I was running Linux (a unix operating system different from Windows and Mac OS for the non-techies) and had a lot of monitoring turned on. I noticed within a day or two that someone on that network was trying to log into my computer using common default passwords. On a whim I went to their IP address with a browser and found the website of "The Draconian Cabal". A supposedly worldwide hacking organization that just so happened to be hosting their website on a computer in my dorm!
There weren't a ton of options for who this could be. It was coming from the same sub-network I was on, so the person was on my floor. Maybe 30 or 40 potential people. I did a walk around and almost immediately came upon a door that had this asshat's "business card" for the Draconian Cabal posted on it. So I knocked and he opened the door. I didn't introduce myself, just said "Why the hell are you trying to hack into my computer?" Cue awkward trying to come up with excuses for a minute until I finally said "Don't do it again." and walked off.
Eventually he approached me to apologize and I got to know him a bit. Wouldn't say we became friends, but I figured he was potentially trouble so I wanted to keep an eye on him.
A couple things about me. In the early 90s I ran one of the largest hacking and phreaking (free phone calls) bulletin board systems in the country. A BBS was essentially a message board and file storage area that people called into with modems before the web and the Internet took off. It was pretty easy to smell this guy's bullshit a mile away with that background. I also worked for the university's computer science department, building out their networks and servers. I'm not sure if I ever told him this.
In any case, I kept an eye on this guy. He was always spouting off bullshit about hackers that he was friends with, almost always European. I'd never heard of any of them, but hey, it was a big world. I was pretty sure it was all bullshit. The best thing though was he started posting audio "interviews" with a so-called British hacker on his website where they talked about his exploits. It was immediately obvious that it was just the Draconian Cabal guy answering his own questions in a crappy fake English accent. It was laughable it was so bad.
These were posted on his website and shortly thereafter he came to my room pounding on the door in a panic. I asked him what was up. He explained that he had actually managed to hack into some university department's website and defaced it. Really childish stuff, and he was caught. He had no idea how to mask his IP address or clean up the logs to hide his trail, and the campus network security people immediately traced it back to his room.
I had absolutely no interest in getting dragged into that shit, especially given my job, so I told him to leave immediately and not contact me again. As he sulked down the hallway I also called out "Better work on that English accent while you're at it!" I had to needle him on that.
He did end up getting in a lot of trouble. They didn't press charges, but he was kicked out of the university for a while. About a year down the road I was looking at the new student account roster for the comp sci department and saw his name on there. I made sure to alert my boss to it just so we could keep an eye on him. I also set up an alert that would tell me if he logged into any of our public lab computers. Sure enough, a couple days later there he was. I happened to be in our offices, so I wandered over to give him a friendly hello, we're watching you! No idea what happened to him after that but I think his hacking days were over. Unfortunately I don't remember his name, so I can't look him up. I wonder what bullshit he's involved in these days.
When I knew my ex straight up instantly lied to me. He once randomly told me how once at work some really hot red head kept looking at him and flirting and how he flirted back etc, and that's when he started liking red heads. I said "so you're outright flirting and acting single while you're with me?" He instantly said that was before we met. Problem is, I have a good memory and I VERY specifically remember the time we were somewhere and he's randomly talking about how he likes red heads. It was great proof to all my feelings that he was always looking for other girls.
Ahhh.... couldn't he have liked redheads before he met you? Just because he told you he liked redheads didn't mean he didn't like redheads before you guys got together.
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I'm sure there are many good reasons to leave him behind, but I can't see the lie unless you were there at the restaurant when he talked to redheaded waitrrss..
I was in Martha’s Vineyard and needed some cheap sunglasses. Walk into one of the dozens of shops, pick out a pair, ask to purchase a non-display pair and she says they don’t have any non-display.
Weird cause now there is an empty slot on her shelf... So I told her I’d like to buy two sets cause it was such a good deal.
She gets a second pair from the stock and starts to pack both of them up as if I didn’t just point out her dead lie.
When she had both the glasses cleaned and ready, I told her I changed my mind and walked out.
Once talked to a girl and on our first date she claimed to have cancer. I had a serious suspicion she was lying but how do you call that out if it happens to be true. She told on herself by saying her cancer came back but didn’t have money for her chemo yet she was worried about her hair falling out.
06EXTN · 8 points · Posted at 21:07:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This just happened Tuesday.
Had a woman realtor knock on my door at 8:30am. I have a no soliciting sign clear and in view. Opened the inside door, pointed to the sign, said go away and slammed the door. Then re-opened the door and said "gimme that business card"(which she was holding out in front of her). Snatched it and went back inside. Found her Facebook page and posted a negative review. She replies accusing me of grabbing her arm and trying to pull her into my house and physically assaulting her. Her team lead also posted to a private realtor group accusing me of the same thing.
I have two different camera views of the front porch that shows I never did such a thing. I took it to her boss and now she's busted and will have to post a public retraction.
My step brother would steal from my room all the time, fortunately it was usually only Xbox controllers (we would have a lot of LAN halo matches). One day I get home and one’s missing I go to ask for it back and he blows up at me for accusing him, I mean yelling and cursing. My stepmom comes in to see what’s going on, and he is in a full tirade. I tell them to look at the controller for my initials carved in the back. His face drops, he halfway mutters that I must of done that to his controllers. My dad and stepmom later asked me how many controllers have gone missing since we moved in and made him pay me the cash value for them. I used some of that money to get a key lock on my bedroom door.
Saw one of those guys in a food court showing cards with some sort of small trinket attached that’s said “I’m deaf and selling this for [something]. Please help if you can. :)”
He came by the table and I politely read the card and mouthed “no thank you.” (Only because I had no cash. Not because I’m a skeptical asshole.)
The guy looked a bit perturbed and walked away.
His back was completely facing me and I shouted “Hey, wait a minute!” He turned back around and looked at me and a look of regret/“uh-oh, I’m caught.” instantly came across his face.
He probably was lying, but friendly reminder that just because someone identifies as deaf it doesn’t mean they don’t have any residual hearing. I identify as deaf but my hearing loss is actually classified as moderately severe. If someone shouted at me I would react, but I wouldn’t be able to understand at first try.
Meonde · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend said "My dad owns 30% of WWE and gets 500,000$ each month" I was alright then... then next day he told me he owned "10% of WWE" I was like thats b.s also he claimed that owing 10 shares is owning 10% of the company, I who bately knows anything about stocks knows that theres millions of shares that a company gives out and is only worth a fraction, I know it depends on company and market cap etc.
I work as a nurse in a privately owned doctor's office, so they're pretty lenient about sick time and such. No point system. No required doctor's note when you're sick. Nothing.
Enter to the story, let's call her M. M worked right down the road at another office and decided she didn't like it there and came to our office. After a week or two, I find out that M lives about a mile or two away from where I live. Months go on and I start to notice inconsistencies with everything she says and so does a few other people. We compare stories; she has custody of her kids and she doesn't have custody of her kids. Her husband does this for a leaving, oh wait...no he doesn't.
Anyways, she all of a sudden comes up with this terrible undiagnosable illness that requires her to stay in the hospital a few days. I work full time and go to school full time, which means I have an odd schedule. I'm driving in the area near my house and THERE SHE IS, driving around when she's supposedly in the hospital sick to death. I don't say a word to her when she comes back. I don't think she saw me. This fake illness bullshit goes on for MONTHS. She has everyone pitying her, the doctors in our office are concerned about her well being, blah blah. I see her several more times when she's supposedly in the hospital.
Then, my manager texts me and asks me to work in our main office the next day because M called off due to hospitalization. I'm laughing like a maniac at this point. I just passed her house, they were 10+ cars in her driveway. They were having a pool party. I inform my manager that I just drove passed her house and M is alive, well and at home hosting a party. Manager is curious. Fast forward an hour later and someone leaves a "thanks so much for having us over, we had a great time!" message on M's Facebook. I see it within 1 minute of it being posted and take a screenshot to send to my manager. M deleted it within 5 minutes of it being posted. Manager is even more curious and consults with our HR. HR lady doesn't take any shit. They give M the day off. Upon her arrival the next day, HR asks for a doctors note. Oh shit, she can't get one because she was at home! M left work for HOURS trying to find a doctor that would see her and give her a note for yesterday. She didn't answer any calls or texts from work this whole time. She finally got a note stating she was seen that day, not the day she called off. HR lady informs M that she will be required to bring a doctors note after every illness.
GUYS, she MIRACULOUSLY recovered and has had one call off in the last few months. We found out she was using her "illness" to cheat on her husband. Dumb bitch.
About 10 years back, this guy came by my apartment knocking on the door. He said he needed to come in to borrow my phone for a sec, but I could tell by the smell of him something was up. I asked him a few questions about why he needed the phone, and then he changed his story up a bit to needing some cash to get some gas instead. I could tell right away that this guy was bullshitting me, so I called him on being a fifty foot monster from the paleozoic era. Bastard wasn't getting my tree fiddy.
I remember a summer day back in middle school when my brother and I were left in my mom's car while she went shopping. We had the keys, the A/C and radio on but with the car not running, which is an issue later on. Since the car wasn't running, it started to get hotter so we decided to leave the car and just go shopping with my mom since she was taking quite some time. When we all got back to the car, we realized I had locked the keys in and began doing our damndest to get them out, with some cursing and arguing do to the temperature, and succeeded! Unfortunately, when we tried to leave the battery was dead since we didn't run the car. My mom called a tow truck with a jumper and they met us in the parking lot to jump start our car. The driver pulled out his portable jump starter and preceded to tell my mom that she'd have to buy a new battery since it wasn't taking any charge. Even as a 6th grader, I saw him not turn the machine on. My mom commented on this but he insisted the battery was too far gone and needed replaced for a hefty, on the spot sum. It being a sweaty summer day and having already had to deal with the keys being locked in, she pushed him aside then pressed the "on" button for him and tried to turn our car on and, sure enough, it worked. He then tried to fumble with some excuse trying to say our battery wasn't good even though we already fixed the issue and the car was running fine. My mom said thank you and drove off without giving him a second glance and it's a story we still tell people to this day.
This is kind of awful, so I struggle to say it was really satisfying. In high school, a close friend of mine accused another close friend of mine of raping her. She never went to the police which was a pretty obvious red flag, just complained a lot about it. As she was always close to me, and accusations such as these can never be overlooked, I trusted her. Once I learned she hadn’t told anybody but me and a couple of other friends I decided to check into it a little bit. I asked the person she accused about what happened that day. Not only did he have no idea that she was accusing him of rape, but he showed me their text messages from that day. Turns out, she CLEARLY invited him over and offered him sex (no mistaking it as she literally said “have sex with me.”) The reason she lied about it is because her boyfriend apparently had found out. When I approached her and said that I knew what really happened and showed her the screenshots of messages she had sent, she denied it and got mad at me for going behind her back. I told her that I’m not going to say anything, but it’s not right to falsely accuse people of serious crimes. I told her I just wanted her to be honest with the people (like me) she’d lied to. She changed her story, but still stuck to the accusation. However, she never went to the police or told anybody else after that. We are no longer friends because I don’t want to be anywhere near a situation like that, nor can I trust someone who’s willing to lie like that.
I suppose it’s possible she had some truth to her statement and it was only exaggerated out of proportion, but if that is the case I believe it to be her responsibility to take it to someone who can help.
TL;DR: friend accused another friend of rape, turned out she was lying and we are no longer friends.
Had a gf for about a mmonth annd a half and then she randomly cold shouldered me. She wouldn’t give me an answer as to why she broke things off the way she did.
Fast forward three months.
Me and my buds are hanging out and one of them brings up that the girl is getting a little mad because she has texted me and i wouldn’t respond. I replied with, “Well, then maybe she should tell me why she’s broke things off with me.” She claims that she felt like we were drifting apart and some bs.
Fast forward another month
I see the said girl at some random dance. I decided that I should ask her in person why she broke things off with me.
Her reply: “oh, I was grounded at the time” (she was a freshman in high school and I was a sophomore for context).
I then asked her why she told my friend something else. “It’s embarrasing to tell people you are grounded” I’ll admit, it is especially when your in high school. But I let it slide.
Fast forward ANOTHER month
I’m just chillin with a bunch of people and someone brings up said girl and how she is the best and they’ve been together for some time now. Well, I get a little curious and start probing about how long. Come to find out, she was cheating on him and me. So I asked this guy to send me all the texts from him and her and I took a picture with him.
Later that night I get a text from her. (We had been texting for the last month as friends because I thought everything was behind us.) it says “Hey, Wassup!” I then replied “Hey, wassup with ———“ she just says. “Oh, he’s just a friend” I then send her all the snapshots of their texts and say “Some friend huh...don’t ever text, call, or talk to me again. Bye.”
TL;DR: Girl cheated on me and I got to meet the guy. We teamed up to catch her in her own lie.
We were driving home after a girls night drinking. I felt like utter crap and just wanted to go to bed. She wanted me to babysit her kids while she took off with her husband for the day. I told her I wasn’t feeling good and I didn’t want to babysit. I was just going to go to sleep when we got home. She got very mad (she never likes being told no). As she is berating me for not wanting to spend time with my kids or hers, she mentions that a couple of days ago I took off for the whole day to spend with my mom and she didn’t mind watching my kids for me then...
Except she didn’t watch my kids at all that day. They were with me and my mom. Which I proceed to remind her of. She called me a liar, that I am always leaving my kids with her (I never have...I like to take my kids with me), so I point to the backseat and ask her “if you had my kids all day, as you claim, why did they throw all those French fries all over my back seat?”...the look on her face was priceless. I went home and went to bed. She didn’t talk to me for a few days after that.
I'm just going to copy and paste what I commented in another thread.
There's this girl I know that "can't smell."
Mkay.
She slips up a lot. She says things like "are you wearing a new perfume" or "Can't wait for lunch, the wings smell great." I usually don't realize what she said until it's too late.
But no, she can't smell.
One day I decided to catch her and call her out on it because I'm sick of her. I brought some lotion that smelled good but it was so strong that the scent could fill up a whole room. I put some on my hands and offered her the bottle. She accepted.
Then, she said, "Wow, this is really strong."
I stopped and looked at her. "I thought you couldn't smell."
Her face turned white. Her eyes went wide. She had been caught. She knew it. She scrambled for words to say. Children are crying. People are panicking. Someone set the gas station on fire and people are fleeing town to get away and save their families.
I worked retail and had someone try to scam me at the register:
They had left, and turned around and came back. (Customer - C, Me - M)
C: "Hey, I just realized you gave me change for a 20, i gave you a 50."
M: "Oh, ok. I'll have my manager come open the drawer."
called my manager, he opened the drawer. No 50's in my 20's slot.
M: "Are you sure? Because if I thought you handed me a 20, i would have put it here... but it's not here..."
C: "Well you must have put it in the right spot then." (The right spot is under the drawer, not something I remembered doing)
M: "Then I wouldn't have mistaken it for a 20..? It's fine, manager can go look at the video feed and see which slot I put it in. Just to make sure. Shouldn't take but a second"
Co-workers dad died and he tells me that he inherited 10 million dollars from his dad. Then continues to say that he turned it down because he wanted to make it on his own.
Interviewing a suspect in a rape. Told him that we needed to swab his penis for the victims DNA and that he had two choices. Either we watch him swab it properly or we swab it for him. I got up and told him he had a few minutes to think about it. Once I left we had him on video spitting into his own hand and he proceeded to “wash” the victims DNA off his penis.
Weirdest lie ever: An old friend of mine showed me her baby picture which looked nothing like her but she kept insisting it was her for weeks.
Months later, we were looking at her crush’s Facebook profile and found the exact same picture. Turns out it wasn’t her—she was trying to pass off this guy’s baby picture as her own.
She couldn’t look me in the eye for a good week after that.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A woman at work (lets call her the Liar) and I were close friends. I started to distance myself from her when I found out she was a compulsive liar just to get attention. We got to the point where we would only say "hi" to one another at work, or just chatted briefly about surface stuff in lunchroom while we waited for the microwave-and that is it. Which was fine for me.
Then she lied at work about having cancer. I knew from the way she was vague on details (other ppl in office were very concerned and asked about her hospital, her treatment, symptoms etc). Also I was quite familiar with her body language and speech when she was lying. I was 100% SURE she was lying. I told no one that, though.
Anyways the Liar was getting a lot of paid time off as she went through a lot of fake doc appts, fake treatment, fake recovery after fake chemo. I should mention we both worked for a very small company. 25 employees, no HR staff on site. HR issues were covered by the only two bosses in office. Who were sales guys. Need time off? No problem, just take it-no doc note ever requested, etc.
I knew her sister quite well. The Liar and her were very close. I had spent a lot of time with her when I was hanging out with the Liar. Her sister was a lawyer for a non-profit organization who had given me some helpful free legal advice in the past. One day her sister texts me to followup casually about the legal matter I had asked her about.
We got to chatting, just catching up. I said, "The Liar seems to be doing really well, considering her difficult chemo." Her sister did'nt know what I was talking about!!! I had to explain innocently that the Liar had cancer, of course! She was freaked out. She said she did'nt know etc etc. I innocently told her everything that the Liar had been telling ppl at work about her fake cancer and fake treatment. Sister went silent with me..while I'm sure she called the Liar, called their parents, then called Liar again...
After that happened, Liar was not in office ever again. When I innocently made a concerned and casual inquiry to our bosses, they told me that apparently she was off sick "for an indeterminate amount of time". No doc note requested of course.
I expressed my concern about my "friend" to the Boss who told me. Then I played totally innocent and dumb and acted very confused when I told the Boss about the convo with the Sister, that Sister did'nt know. After that the two Bosses conferred behind a closed office door for a long time. Then they came up with brilliant idea to contact the Liar via email...explain that they would be putting her on LongTerm Disability/Sick paid leave...and for that they requested a doc note from her, specifying the reason for her needed long term absence from work.
The requested doc note never showed up at office. Neither the Liar. They fired her eventually after this, but it was a slow process. But. They fired her.
I texted Sister 1 week after they finally got rid of the Liar, making inquiries, playing dumb. I got a 4 word reply from Sister: ("Liar's real name). Never. Had. Cancer.
Note: Im being sarcastic when I said the Bosses had a "brilliant" idea. And to be clear about this story, the Liar wasn't lying to her family about the fake cancer story. It was simply a lie she was telling at work. To get attention. Liar forgot that her "work world" and "family world" were not separate. That I was the one link between those 2 worlds. I think she forgot I knew her sister or maybe Liar thought I also didnt talk with her sister anymore? I honestly don't know WHAT Liar was thinking there. When Sister found out abt this lie, she was concerned whether or not it was true, called the Liar, and her family confronted her. Liar had to admit her tremendous "office lie" to her family!!!!
I work at a grocery store in a small tourist town on and island. Small enough I know a local from a tourist that is for sure!
We know the locals that are trouble. They either end up banned from the grocery store (and it's the only one on the island) or my boss has to talk to them over and over again.
The tourists are always a gamble. But we get a ton of foreign tourists here and when English isn't the first language we run into trouble which is understandable.
I watched these two women profile all the cashiers working. Myself, and my two co workers, ill call them Jackie and Hannah.
Jackie is an older woman who is kind hearted but bless her heart a little oblivious, Hannah is a few years younger then me, sharp and on it. I've worked there the longest and constantly get asked questions cause I have the "manager" look to me just based off of the tasks I have vs the other cashiers.
These two older women targeted Jackie. I was working at the till in front of her with my back faced to Jackie's till. They avoided me and Hannah.
They weighed a light bulb box down just enough to feel like there was something in it and tried to return it. English is not their first language. Jackie had the longest line an they waited for her because they noticed she wasn't as on it as Hannah and I. I'm good enough on till that I can auto pilot for the most part. I had a customer at my till with a medium sized order when I heard the ladies trying to return the light bulb. I didn't see or hear Jackie look into the box. I finished my transaction just as she was about to put it in the till and I came over. The one woman was doing most of the talking and as soon as I came over her attitude changed. She wouldn't address me directly and immediately grabbed the box off of the counter when I came. I noticed this immediately. When the lady realized Jackie was now out of the picture and she had to talk to me, all she would say to me is
"I'm telling you this is how you do it"
Over and over. No matter what I fired back at her. Eventually I say
"Okay, fine. Let me see the product. What was the issue?"
"We didn't need it so we returning it."
I grab the box and I put it down on the till. I look at the ladies face and she seems relieved. I say "where's your receipt" which Jackie already asked for but I didn't see it. It did all add up - which means they bought the product took it out and put something in it and tried to return it. I still had the box next to me and I honestly don't know what they thought was going to happen, if I was just going to not open and forget like Jackie had. I said "Im sorry this didn't work out.." And in one very fast swift motion I grabbed the box, opened it and dumped out what they'd used to weigh it down and said "but clearly it did!" and for me the cherry on top is that my boss had overheard this and seen me run over to jackies till and he came to investigate right as I dumped it on the counter and he intersected the ladies as they tried to scurry out and leave. I was off shortly after and never heard the aftermath but I was on my high horse all day the rest of the day!
Building apartments next door, the builder has to re-do a bit of the road and connecting vehicle crossing (start of driveway) as a council requirement. Builder is supposed to give decent notice that we won't have access to our driveway while they rip up and re do the concrete. We become aware when we get home from work and cant access our driveway. "We gave you notice!" Nope. Next day a letter is in our letterbox backdated two weeks that the road and vehicle crossing is getting replaced, along with the fax headder from the current date and a note that they need to pretend they put this in our letterbox two weeks ago and to convince us we simply forgot to check our mailbox. Idiots.
I’m a teacher at a community college. I emailed this student telling them they never emailed their paper like they said they would. She emails me back saying she “must have sent it through her mom’s email.” She will resend it later. I emailed her back to please forward the old message with the time stamp so I can see that she actually sent something to someone. She replies: “Nevermind I am just so busy moving! Bye!” Then emailed me a week later why she failed the class... caught her in a lie and then she didn’t understand why she failed the class!
Had a neighbor start asking to borrow money from me. It started off with his car breaking down, and he needed to borrow some money to fix it. He was also a chain smoker, but he was so old it wasn't worth it to try to get him to quit. He swore he'd pay me back, and sure enough he did. Then a week or two later, he'd borrow more. Always paid it back when he said he would, and he usually had a sob story of some sort when he asked to borrow money, but as the sob stories piled up, I started to feel like I was just enabling his addiction rather than actually helping him. This went on for several months.
One day he came over saying that he needed money to buy insulin because he couldn't make the co-pay on his insurance or something like that. My wife, who was starting to get fed up with his nagging visits, overheard his predicament and chimed in, "Oh, hey, I'm a type 1 diabetic, and I have some extra insulin!" All of that was true. The guy looked shocked and asked her what kind of insulin she has. "Humalog," she said. He must have misheard her, though, because he immediately responded, "No, that's no good. My doctor says I can only take...uh...Humalog." "Oh, but that's what I have!" She gleefully responded. She immediately went to the fridge and returned with an unopened prescription box containing a bottle of Humalog. The guy was obviously shocked and flustered and insisted that he could never take her insulin, but all of a sudden he didn't need money for it anymore, so he left.
I just loved that the guy pulled the insulin card, which I'm sure he thought would be an easy win against a healthy young guy like me, and my wife absolutely called his bullshit. She still brags about that to this day.
I'm a lawyer and I recently had my first trial. One important issue was whether my client had signed a document on his mother's behalf or whether his mother had actually signed it. Opposing counsel calls an office worker to testify, and she swears up and down that she actually sat down with the mother and watched her sign the document. I thought my client was toast. I got up and started questioning this woman. She didn't remember what the mother looked like. She didn't remember if the mother was disabled (she was, significantly so). I asked her how many other people she had sat with to sign similar documents during the project. 5-10, per day, 5 days a week, for 3 months. So, something like 300 people? But you remember this woman, specifically? I won the trial.
Pretty sure this will get buried by this point, but here goes anyway.
I had a pharmacy law professor who was a total a-hole and knew nothing about pharmacy practice. She was only a lawyer (who did not pass the Bar and tried to sue an ex professor of hers who caught them for plagiarizing). Every thing she tried to explain was completely wrong and her exams were impossible. I'm talking, highest grades on her exams were like 40-50%.
Anyways, this story isn't about her. One time, she had an open book mid-term exam that was taken online at the comfort of our own homes during a 8 hour time frame. As you could imagine, EVERYONE took the exam with 3-4 of their closest friends. The professor somehow trusted that we would take the exam on our own, despite the fact that my class was full of a bunch of hooligans. So, everyone took the exam and the average was <50%. My three buddies and I took the exam very carefully to not raise any sort of suspicion that we were working together (started at different times and took the exam slowly).
Fast-forward a week and the professor comes into class and doesn't say a word. She pulls up an excel document on the projector and it lists every single person's name, their grade, the time at which they finished the exam, and the time it took them to finish the exam. I kid you not, some dumb asses completed the 70-question exam in less than 10 minutes. And their completion time correlated perfectly to the time the exam was completed, with those taking the exam last finishing the fastest. The fastest finishers also had the highest grades.
She couldn't prove who cheated and who did not, so she threw out everyone's grades. Regardless, half of the questions had the wrong answer selected by her anyway.
I was in middle school and my school was in a bad neighborhood with some shady kids. I was into yugioh at the time and tried to play with some kids at my school. I was the most into it and had a decent deck with some decent valued cards. A kid I was playing with during the game asks to see the card, pretends to drop it and go under the lunch table to look for it. He pops his head up saying that he can't find it. I freak out and look under the table and then realize that he took it and put it in one of his cargo pants pockets. But he kept insisting that he didn't have it. So after lunch I kept an eye on him and tried to look into his wide pockets to try to figure out which pocket it was it. I figured it out and just ran behind him and reached into his pocket and grabbed the card and stuck it in his face and shouted "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS HUH". He was just speechless and I walked back to my desk.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:38:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was around 11 I had a cousin who was notorious for stealing stuff from the rest of us (all us other cousins, we were all close and around the same age) One day I find my brand new white t-shirt with some outline of a girls face on it, I wore it a lot until I "lost it" when I said "hey isn't this my shirt?" she denied it right away and said she had never seen me wear a shirt like it, so I pointed to the picture of us at a birthday party from months ago that was pinned to her wall and said "I'm wearing the shirt in this picture". She was quick to say "well our moms shop at the same store, you must've lost yours" yeah, I packed it into my bag and took it home.
I was sure that a good friend of I was cheating on counter strike but everytime I was spectating him he was prudent and never did obvious things, when I was at his home he always deleted the cheat from his computer and he promess me that he was not saying that I was a bad friend because I never believe him about this. Last week he have been vacbanned for cheating during one of our game, he still promessing that he is not a cheater ... I deleted him of steam and im questioning our friendship because if he is able to lie to me like this for a computer game I'm sure he can do really worst ...
Cheating in a shooting game mean that you do absolutely nothing to aim and that you can see through the wall etc and its ruining all the strategic aspect of the game. There is no money involved but we are playing at a good amateur level and we are training hard to get better because the game is hard and he is always bragging about how good he is when in fact without his cheat he is bad ... we are really into "esport" with 3 other friends and it's a waste of time because in a LAN tournament he can't use the cheat so he will be completely useless
I was a trainee at this time and I also handled special events and such that catered to clients and their needs. Large multinational corporation, lots of documents and departments.
I discovered one of my suppliers was not paid. I thought it was my fault (I did most everything personally and kept records). It was a good chunk of money and well because it was reported after the fiscal year they were going to charge it to our budgets for the year which were slim enough.
So, fast forward to a meeting to fix all of this: I felt something was fishy. The procurement head said, things weren't ever approved, and we submitted past deadlines. I clearly remember submitting before the deadline because, well, I did overtime at the time and I went on leave a day or so before the deadlines. I find my signed received copies and show them, and the head says that the deadline was a week before that. I remember an email on it and said that, the head called me a liar flat out. I excused myself and left the room. I went back to my desk and went through my emails ... to around 8 months or so before, and well, I printed out everything.
Apparently, they emailed a lot of things, including my approvals (weeks ahead of deadline), their communications on the fiscal deadlines, and that they processed all my documents and were all good before their own deadlines (I was already on leave at the time).
The head tried to dismiss it, but the rest of the room was silent, my boss, the accounts payable head, my teammates, everyone went silent. The meeting shifted from how we would pay for it with our budget, to "it's now your department's problem."
The meeting wasn't fruitful, but we escalated it above a few times and it was discovered that the problem was the head herself. I was copied in a few group submissions and holy crap was the money lost due to her negligence ... a lot. She resigned a month or so later.
A note after the meeting; my boss called me to her office. She said she was so happy I had the balls to go on full offensive. I mean a trainee junior supervisor went head to head with a full Vice President (my boss at that time was an Asst. VP). My more senior teammates were slapping me on the back and laughing like hell, their own cases were all fixed as well. I met other people around the company and even other suppliers who even years later know the story.
I wish I got here earlier, I use to go out with a crazy girl. We had only been seeing each other for about six week when I realised that she was a little bit off. She was good at hiding the crazy at the start but it started to slip out towards the four week mark. I decided to call it quits, I got a phone call later from her later that week telling me she was pregnant. I told her I did not believe her, but for the sake of it I would come around with a pregnancy test of my own for her to use and shown me, she agreed. I took it over there, at this point I thought she may have been telling the truth but I still had in the back of my mind she was lying. So the first thing I did when I got there was say I was busting for the toilet so that I could get in there before she did, search the toilet so that I could be certaian there was nothing that could make her cheat the test. I opened the bin and found a cup of urine, it was from one of her pregnant friends. I took it out to her, she claimed that she had to go to the toilet earlier so she saved it! Long story short I got the fuck out of there.
sfa7x · 4 points · Posted at 14:35:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I was working for a flagship company store that sold games for their console. None of our games are locked up because they believe in trusting our customers or some bullshit like that.
So this guy walks in (Let's call him Freddie) and this dude looks like Post Malone and he was in all white clothes and a thin white jacket.
So he casually strolls in and he is being really friendly and asking me what games are good. So Freddie is being really polite and we had a solid conversation about how he has a son now and he doesn't get to game but now that his son is a bit older he can game again. Now I believe the story because sure why not? But then he said "Alright I'm good thanks for your help" as if the conversation was over. So I get my coworker to stand in front of me and act like we're having a conversation but enough so I can look past my coworker to watch this guy. Of course, every game I recommended ended up in his jacket. So I go over our walkie talkies to my boss to call mall security because this dude has like 10+ games in his jacket. So this mall wasn't busy this day so cops and mall security are standing right outside our entrance just waiting for this guy. So Freddie is walking out with his head low with the games clearly showing through his jacket and he is walking by me and I go "you know they're waiting for you, right?" He was so confused so he looks up to see the whole security team staring at him. He turned so pale and at that point the cops notice that I said something so they walk over and tell the dude to take the games out of his jacket. He pulls out every special edition of every game we had ($80-$120 each) they cuff him and take him away.
Five minutes later, a lady with a kid (about 6 y.o) walks in and asks "have you seen my boyfriend? White guy with dreads and face tattoos? His son wants to go for ice cream." I felt kind of guilty at this point but daddy is a piece of shit. Not knowing how to address this situation, I just say "yeah he went to see mall security. Go to the front desk." Confused, she leaves the store and heads for security. A few hours past and security stops by and tells us that the girlfriend showed up, and asked to see him so they let her in the room and saw Freddie sitting in cuffs alone in the room. She started to beat the shit out of him and the cops finally rush in to pull her off. After they restrain her he ended up with a fat lip, bloody nose and black eye. They kicked her out of the mall and he got sent to jail since it was grand theft and well over $800 in games. Justice was served.
[deleted] · 67 points · Posted at 13:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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bg-j38 · 23 points · Posted at 15:37:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went out dumpster diving for something to eat
Do you do this out of necessity or ...?
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 15:46:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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bg-j38 · 15 points · Posted at 15:46:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry to hear that.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 16:30:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not defending anyone, chill out. All I'm saying is that calling the cops for someone stealing a bottle of vinegar that you used to purposely set them up is a little much.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:09:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I understand that, no need to be an ass about it. I still just think it's a little ridiculous that you set her up and then called the cops on her. Her stealing a bottle full of vinegar is 0 proof that she stole the rest of whatever that she stole.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:18:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What? I'm literally just trying to prove a point. I'm not even close to boasting. All I'm saying is that children don't work and have their own apartment. That's it.
Edit: I give up. Whatever. I really don't care if some redditor says that I'm a child. I wish I was, it'd be nice not to have to pay bills or juggle work and college ontop of chronic illness. Sorry that you're eating out of a dumpster, buddy. Hope your situation gets better soon.
This is gonna get buried at this point, but I'm posting it anyway.
It wasn't necessarily me that caught the lie, but I was there to witness the whole thing. My dad has had a '96 Dodge Ram 2500 for about 20 years. About 2 years ago, it developed an issue, and he was too swamped to fix it himself. As a result, he hired some a repair place to do it for him.
Fast forward a month. My dad goes to pick it up, they tell him it's running great now and they fixed it. My dad drives it home, inspects it, and immediately returns to the garage (I just happened to be with him).
These bastards had the gall to break an already broken truck and lie about it. But here's the real kicker. My dad is a mechanic. He's been working on cars for 30 years, and knows that truck inside and out. I got to watch him chew them out, and basically tear their own ethics as an auto repair shop apart.
Idaguy · 6 points · Posted at 20:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My buddy said his mom died, about two weeks later he sent an email and cc'd about 20 people, I saw one of the email addresses had Alicia in it which I knew was his mom's name. I emailed that address just saying "Hey how's it going! Is this so-so's mom? I just had a question for you." She hit me back confirming that it was his mom, and I just came up with some random question for her, but now I knew she wasn't dead. When I confronted him about it, he stopped dead in his tracks and just said "Please don't tell anybody." I told everybody.
This is my sister’s story. When she was about 8, she and a neighborhood girl were really into gel pens. One day, after they had been using them together, my sister noticed that several of her gel pens were missing! She asked the girl next door (Jessie) if she knew where they were, and Jessie of course said no. But my sister had suspicions.
Later on they were playing in Jessie’s basement and my sister saw the missing gel pens. She knew they were hers because of some distinguishing characteristics. So that day, when Jessie wasn’t looking, my sister stole a little dog keychain. When she got home she ripped out the keychain part.
A couple days later they were playing again, and my sister pulled out the dog figurine. “I have one just like that, but it’s a keychain!” Jessie said. My sister said, “oh cool, go get it and we’ll play with them together.”
So Jessie went to get hers, and after a really long time she came back and said she couldn’t find it 😂
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:45:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was confronted by a woman at a bank once who claimed that I was stealing her info by oohing and aahing the the FaceTime technology the bank had (goodbye bank tellers, hello kiosks). She kept screaming at me while the lady onscreen just stood there dumbfounded. A few of the employees there, including the bank teller who was helping my mother with her account, shook her head.
"LOOK AT YOUR SCREEN, ASSHOLE!"
Sure enough, the woman turned, and there was nothing on the screen except for the lady. She was still pissed and said nothing, and she stormed out and flew out of the parking lot.
Had a friend who invented kind of an alternative universe. With her mother's "best friend" (male) raping her when she was 11 then when she was 14. After that she befriended him and her mother(who had schizophrenia) wanted to shoot her. This just to say a little part of it.
Everything for attention.
She made false Facebook accounts for them, and used them to spy on her girlfriend. (the lie was so complicated, me and her girlfriend sat for days and found between 18 and 24 invented people) (we aren't sure about some of them)
My dad had a neighbor that would frequently (I'm talking at least once a month) back up out of their driveway and hit his mailbox with their car, knocking it down. They always claimed it wasn't them, so my dad attached a balloon full of paint to the bottom so the next time they did it it popped on their car. When they came home and my dad confronted them, of course they claimed it wasn't them and even went so far to say they were going to file for harassment with the law.. until he pointed out the paint and caught them red bumpered.
I worked at a corner store in a small town in my early 20s. This teen, maybe 16 years old, comes up to the counter with a case of beers, I ask him for ID and he hands it over. It only took me half a second to recognize the guy in the picture, I was in that guys classes for 10 years during preschool/highschool. Told him straight up that isnt him on the picture and he starts arguing telling me its him. I just went for a full face palm, took the beer behind the counter and confiscated the ID as I told him "tell Bruno he can get his ID back if he comes pick it up himself". The kid feeling defeated had no responses and just left without a word. Feelsgooman
I had a pretty immature girlfriend recently, and we started to break things off and it took us a couple days to talk things out since it was semi long distance.
She asked me to keep the details between us, and this was just after I saw that she was posting on her Instagram talking all kinds of shit about me in multiple posts, including some personal details which I don’t generally open up about. How venting on instagram helps I have no idea, but these are my friends too who are hearing what a terrible person I am. She blocked me and I had to hear this from a friend who showed me the posts. Just silly what a side of her she was hiding, I knew she was immature but this was a leap
My ex lied and told me she was pregnant post-relationship when we were in a very uneasy FWB situation, then said OH WAIT FALSE ALARM. After I said we should remove the WB from the FWB, she then doubled down on the lie and told me she had a miscarriage. Being a schmuck, I believed it at the time until I mentioned it to a friend, who proceeded to poke holes in their story. Haven't spoken to her since the exchange of possessions left at each other's respective houses, which my then-girlfriend and now wife drove me to.
udar55 · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy in our social circle "died" from a cancer and his "friend" announced it on FB. Dude was seriously sketchy to the point I had avoided contact with him. Anyway, a friend of mine bought some stuff from the "friend" to support his funeral. When he got it, he asked me if I had any examples of the "dead" guy's handwriting since this stuff oddly came from the "dead" guy's hometown and had his return address. Sure enough I had hundreds examples of his handwriting since we had traded DVD-Rs. Turns out the handwriting of the "friend" was exactly the same as the "dead" guy. We sat on it because we didn't to mess with crazy and if he wanted to fake his own death, that is his own crazy ass right. But we said if he came back with some ridiculous excuse, we'd have to expose him. Guess who showed up six months later alive and claiming he was hacked? Had to expose his lie and it set off a tidal wave within our particular online community.
One time this girl was showing me something on her phone a text message came up from this guy and I said, “I think I know him- he messaged me on Instagram, do you know his Instagram?” She said she didn’t know him well, but I said, he’s texting you though? She said just had a question where to purchase an item but they don’t know each other that well but distant acquaintances and doesn’t have him on social media or anything or know his username. I went through my old pics to find his username and clicked it and I was like, it says you follow him? She said oh, must’ve been from a long time ago! And I was like but you liked his most recent picture from week ago, and actually all his pictures when I scrolled through? And then she stuttering and said how their dads are actually best friends. I didn’t understand why someone would lie about something to trivial but it felt good to catch her.
Was buying a used car from a dealer who was the absolute worst sort of used car dealer. I told him what I was looking for on the phone and that I'd be taking it to my mechanic. I get there and he's not there but he has someone else there in his place. This guy doesn't have the car I'm looking for. I wanted an automatic transmission and the car he wants to show me is a manual. He wants me to test drive it anyway. I know how to drive a manual but I wasn't willing to do that in a test drive, plus it would be my wife driving a lot of the time and she doesn't. My friend (who drove me), however, suggested he'd test drive it. The guy handed him the keys and away we went.
The car broke down half way to the mechanic. I called the dealership, told them they'd have to tow it, and I'd be by later to drop off the keys.
We got back to the dealership, the owner is there, and I give him the keys. The starts yelling at me about abandoning his car in the street, but I'm yelling right back about the bait and switch he tried to pull. Then we got into a heated argument about whether "standard" means manual or automatic transmission.
While we're arguing, I'm noticing the other guy looking more and more nervous. I turn to him and ask, "Is there something on your mind?" The owner yells at him to say nothing. Then he sees the look on our faces and realizes he just said something he shouldn't, so he decides to double down.
He accuses us of joyriding in the car, that he had phone calls coming in from other dealerships, saying they spotted us driving all over town. And specifically, that I was driving.
Which was, of course, impossible seeing as how a) it broke down and b) it was a manual, which a smarter person would remember we'd already argued about my not wanting to drive. So I called him on it.
That's when my friend spoke up, pointed out all the problems he discovered while test driving it, and a few things he hadn't mentioned to me. Things that are illegal, like the odometer being tampered with.
I swear I saw that guy literally shrink. He went with threatening me with calling the cops to begging us not to call the cops.
I once had a science teacher in high school who had a story for any and everything. He spent more time telling us about his experiences than actual teaching.
He claimed that he knew countless celebrities. His identity was stolen by a spy from another country. He had limitless jobs which included the military, a firefighter, a police officer, an astronaut in training, and more that I can’t think of right now. He lied so much that he couldn’t keep up with the lies.
One time When someone complimented a picture of his family on his desk, this man literally told our whole class that he had custody of his grandson because his daughter died of a drug overdose 3 Years prior. This story stuck with me because of how sad it was. Needless to say he lied. Right before Christmas break he started telling us how happy he was because his daughter was bringing his grandson to town for a visit. He went on to explain that he and his daughter had an estranged relationship after he divorced her mom.
No one in class really called him out for lying, we just stopped entertaining his stories.
Knew this girl who lied constantly about the dumbest things. We'd call her out every so often, it would stop for a bit, then she'd do it again.
One that sticks out was when she said she was late because her boyfriend was trapped on a roof during a fire at his work. We checked the news, nothing. Then messaged a buddy in the area and he sent us a picture of dudes work place...which was defiently not on fire.
It happened so often we just stopped talking to her, until she started dating a guy I knew. We warned him, he went with it anyway. Whatever dude. So one day she breaks the news that she's pregnant! We were a bit confused, as we know that guy was snipped and couldn't have kids, but she had flashed a hospital bracelet and posted ultrasound pictures. Didn't say anything to her, went straight to him, worried she cheated.
Dude had no idea what we were talking about. Turns out he couldn't see the pics through his profile, she had set the post to show to every one except him. Googled ultrasound pictures and the one she posted was the first to come up. Dude also mentioned the doctor never spoke up when he took her in the hospital for a normal checkup. Ah, that's where she got the bracelet.
So we knew she was full of it, he knew, but she didn't know we all knew. We let her go a few days, laughing everytime she had "morning sickness" around us but then was fine when he walked in. Convinced her the guy had twins in his family, suddenly she was pregnant with twins.
At this point dude went in to make sure he was still sterile, got paperwork stating so. We were all sitting about, when someone casually asked dude if he was excited about the babies. Her face went white, he laughed and mentioned being sterile. Suddenly she doubled over holding her stomache saying something didn't feel right and she had to go to the hospital. Dude had her stuff from his place already in a box, brought it out and said good luck with that.
She made a huge deal online about a "miscarriage" and how the father didn't even care and kicked her out (she wasn't even living with him!). He got blocked, so we posted a picture of his paperwork stating he is completly sterile. We all got blocked, and haven't had to deal with the crazy since.
Not necessarily “the lie of the century” that this person was caught in, but was nonetheless funny to see the situation unfold-
Senior year of college a few friends of mine decide to brew their own beer with one of those at-Home brewing kits. As you might expect for first time brewers who were doing it pretty casually, it was some seriously“meh” beer, but it’s college so that’s still good enough. Also it was called “Balls Deep Brewing Company”- because, you know, college students are practitioners of only the most sophisticated humor,
Any-who a few nights after bottling the beer (I want to say they had maybe 40 bottles filled) they had a party at their place. The party was progressing well when I was hanging out with one of my friends by the door and an underclassman starts making his way for the exit. He had his coat zipped up in an apartment with 60ish people in it (uncomfortably hot) so we take a closer look. We then see a few of the very distinct red bottle caps peaking up out of his coat, the same ones used in the bottling. We asked where he got the beer from, so he kinda opens his jacket (he had like 4 in there) took one out and said “Oh these? I brought them.” My friend and I take one look at each and start burst out laughing “Take a look at the name” we say.
Balls Deep Brewing Company.
We let him keep one of them. Like I said “meh” beer.
I now attend a mixed martial arts and jujitsu gym. Before that I wrestled for a number of years. I have always loved it when somebody comes in claiming of all the “victories in the street” they have won. When the lie is exposed in this way it doesn’t get any better... and when that person proves them self to be truthful it’s just as good
My ex cheating on me. She wanted a break while her ex was in town, I said no. We continued dating and months later during a fight she claimed she didn't know her ex was in town, but when she wanted a break she openly stated he was (therefore she knew he was).
I did the math, didn't even respond to her. Things clicked in my head and I just got up, left, blocked her. Never talked to her again.
I'm a process server, and folks try to lie about their own identity to avoid being served all the time. I get all sorts of lies. I do my homework, though, and I often already know what they look like, what they drive, if they own the property, etc., etc... before I first knock on their door. Don't know who John Doe is? "Why are you in his home?" Don't know who Jane Doe is? "Why is her car parked in your driveway?" Don't know who Joe Blow is? "Why do you look just like his Facebook profile?"
When in school, my teacher had it out for me. No idea why. It may have looked different from the outside, but to me, he really felt like a bully.
Within the first few months, I had missed maybe 4 or 5 days of school. I got a letter from the director warning me I'll be kicked from the program if I miss anymore due to missing 15 days of school. This was ridiculous since I hadn't missed that many.
The next day, at the beginning of class, I emailed the director to send me a list of days that I was marked absent. The last day on the list was the day I sent the email. While sitting in class. I immediately left without saying a word to him so I could meet with her and prove I was in school and he was lying.
Over the next couple weeks I recorded evidence of abuse (yelling at me for "poor work"), recorded him showing up late every day and made sure to take a picture of myself in class every day. He was fired a month after this.
Couple months back I go outside to my driveway to find a penis drawn with what looked like stamp ink? Sure enough upon careful inspection one could see the small circular rubber stamp "footprint." my kids come home and after a few moments they mention that some kids at school (highschool) we're playing with red ink stampers during lunch. Sure enough the drawing was in smudged red ink. I find out who the kid is and head over to there house. I knock his dad answers and after some explanation he calls for the kid. He walks in has red ink smudged all over his fingers and hands. "hey man, I like your ink." I say to him as I point to a stamp of the exact same marker as the ink I found on the garage door that morning, on his arm. He tries to deny and I bust out the photo of the D on my garage. "um, it wasn't me!" he starts as his dad's face goes veiny purple. He later cleaned the ink by hand in the hot Florida sun for half a hour.
TLDR confronted graffiti artist with the ink still on his hands as he denied it. Literally caught him "red handed"
Seeing the look on my abusive ex’s face as I packed my toddler and newborn into the car and he told me I’d never really leave. and this time, instead of crying and going back inside, I told him I’d spent the last month and a half secretly finding a battered women’s shelter, amassing free home furnishings and hiding them in other people’s garages, and that I’d just signed a lease that very day when he thought I was going to the grocery store.
I go to a military boarding college and at around Christmas last year, quite a few people were trying to brew booze in their rooms.
Secret Santa comes around, I get my gift but have no clue who has got mine. I open my gift and it's just a cereal box with a lucozade bottle with 'Home Brew' written in sharpie on it.
Was pretty happy with it as it's supposed to be strong af. Get back to my room and take the bottle from the box, it's warm (suspicions arise), I'm pretty sure it's piss, but I'll go with it for now. Go to the kitchen and was about to pour it when the gift-giver comes in, excited for me to try it.
I tell him about my suspicions and he gets mad, he's persistant. I offer him a deal, if he drinks it and it's not piss, I'll drink it, otherwise I chuck it.
He takes a sip and immediately runs to his room to throw up. Not only did I dodge a piss-coated bullet, I got to witness the hilarious face of a man who just drank his own piss.
This happened last year. My best friend was getting married that summer and we had plans to attend a wedding tradeshow that Sunday evening to see what options might appeal to her. We planned this date months ahead as arranging stuff like this is near impossible between 4 bridesmaids' schedules . I booked this particular sunday off months in advance.
Saturday evening i got a call from a coworkers sister, begging me to work sunday night. My coworker who we will call Melissa, was in the hospital with severe dehydration and would have to stay overnight at the very least. I was the only option. I was kinda flustered as I made these plans well ahead of time, but told her sister I would work her shift. Me and the gals went to the tradeshow earlier that day instead of that evening. Whatever.
Its about 5 pm at the tradeshow and we are in line at the show to get a drink before I have to go get ready for my shift.
I hear a familiar voice. Yep, you guessed it. Ahead of us in line is Melissa, slamming back cocktails with 2 girls. One of whom I recognize as her sister. I approach them and say "Careful. Drinking can cause dehydration. And you better sober up, you've got a shift starting at 6."
Me and my friends proceeded to enjoy cocktails until the night ended. I am sure I was grinning ear to ear the rest of the night.
Oh and the cherry on top? Melissa got fired for showing up late. And drunk. Justice served.
I had my friend over when I was like 6 and he spent the night. We played with my Legos the night then went to bed. When I woke up, he was already downstairs eating breakfast and I noticed my favorite Lego minifigures were missing. I went downstairs and told my mom he stole them. She asked him and he said no. She searched his backpack and they were at the bottom of it. That felt pretty good, but looking back at it that's kind of awkward. They were just Lego minifigures.
When I was in Grade 2 playing 'ministicks' was the awesome thing to do at recess. I had a green Anaheim ducks stick. I was the coolest cause my stick had a bend on the blade cause I dipped it in boil water and made a curve.
One day my stick went missing. Being the young sleuth I was I searched high and low for my stick. One day I saw a guy in Grade 6 or 7 using what's looked just like my stick but he had coloured it in with marker in some spots. I asked him if that was my stick and Jason said no. I reported this to my teacher...it so happened I also had a printed photo of the stick too. My mom has put my name on it just above the blade as well. I told this to the teacher.
The teacher asked this older student to see the stick because there was suspicion it was not his. He resisted but eventually she got the stick. She rubbed where my name was placed very careful to pull the layer off that he had coloured on and blam...up came solarjunk right where I said it would. My stick was worn but it was mine again.
Me ex’s parents took me to small claims court for an the balance of a loan they took out at their son’s request. His father (my ex father in law) told the judge in Spanish that I called him after my divorce was final and promised to pay the balance. I advised the judge that I do not speak Spanish. (My ex fil doesn’t speak English) The judge asked him to explain how we had that conversation? He couldn’t, judge ruled in my favor.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:30:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In 8th grade I had this piece of shit Biology teacher who would always claim I never turned in my homework. I always did, on time, fully completed and I saw no reason why he wouldn't have it.
One day I was walking out of class and I saw my homework in the trash more than 5 feet from his desk. I confronted him about it and he said "Oh it must have fallen off my desk, I'll grade it tonight".
A week goes by and it's not graded, my mom is on my ass about it and doesn't believe im turning my homework in. So naturally I proceeded to video tape myself turning in my homework on my phone, every assignment for a week.
Mr.X calls and tells my mother if I don't start turning in my homework I'm going to fail Biology. My mom asks which assignments I didn't turn in, he goes ahead and tells her the names of the assignments and she responds..."That's funny....I have a video recording of him turning those exact assignments in, fully completed". He continues to deny throwing them away.
My mom then instructed me to ACTUALLY not turn anything in for the rest of the year, fail the class and I'd just have to make it up the next year and we did just that. Took physics and biology to make up for the missing credits.
Roommate had someone in our room at like 3 am in the morning while I was sleeping. It happened once so I ignored it. Happened again the next day so I told her "I would appreciate if you didn't bring people into the room so late when I'm sleeping". She said it happened once, I said "no you did it two days in a row." And she was like "oh...."
Zkyo · 3 points · Posted at 20:33:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not exactly a lie, but one of my previous managers used to often say she always listens to everyone, yet I always got the opposite impression, she didn't listen and just waited for her next chance to talk. I tested this once by having a conversation where I spoke gibberish (actually, it was the lyrics to Skyrim's title theme) in a normal dialect. She didn't even notice, and was even agreeing with what I was saying. I never confronted her, but this was in the presence of ~3 other coworkers and the head manager, which was good enough for me.
First, I want to say that I have a strange streak of truths dropping into my lap out of nowhere. It is both the most entertaining but tiring things since I find out a friend or family member lied to me.
So a friend shows us a piece of art that he claimed to have made. We're all amazed, so he shows us more and more art over the next few months. One day, he lets us see fan art for a show called Sailor Moon. It was well done as always.
A few nights later, I find the exact image on a Japanese Twitter account. His had a signature; this one did not. I became giddy at this point and began snooping around the account to make sure it definitely wasn't his.
Next day, I tell a friend about my suspicions. She reveals that she held the same suspicions too. Another friend saved some of "his" art in her phone, so we reverse search them. Many of them come back with a link to different popular artists and others lead to a dead end. It was obvious then he was lying about drawing any of those works. We're not sure of the purpose. It was most likely to fit in, as we're a friend group consisting of artists.
In the end, none of us confronted him about it (though I was itching to see the look on his face once we reveal it all-- he probably wouldn't have cared about getting caught anyways). I did block him on all social media. I don't have time for that filthy liar.
People trying to steal shit through the Self Check I manage. I pick up an item, they'll tell me they already scanned it. But if I scan it again in the Void menu, and it's not on the receipt, this little message will pop up: "Item not sold in this transaction". Basically, I get the computer to tell them in plain English that they're stealing. The look on their faces...priceless.
I had a really nice friend who was in a financial struggle and had a rough upbringing and told him he could stay with me after high school and I would even pay for his tuition to a jr. College as long as he had good grades (he was very very smart according to ACT and SAT scores). I figured after 2 years he would be able to get a scholarship or something for a university. After the first year of jr college I thought he was doing really well, he always left the house for class and always saw him studying, so I thought. At the end of his first year he said he got accepted to the Uni I was going to and was paid in full by a scholarship. The summer of his first year at the Uni he went home to visit family in another state. While he was away he got a letter from the Uni saying important open immediately. I opened it and it said he owed money for tuition.. I was under the impression that he had a scholarship. This was a red flag for me because he had been acting weird lately, towards the end of the semester he was staying home every day. I started to snoop around and had known his password for his jr college email. He had been doing really poorly at the Jr college and had photoshopped the unofficial transcripts to show me he was having good grades. I called him after I had gotten all the proof I needed and asked what was going on, he said everything was going great and had a 4.0. Even after I told him I got the letter and checked his emails he still told me I was lying and making it all up. I called his parents and told them he wasn't allowed back to my home and why. He had told his parents he was going to a prestigious university in the city next to mine and had no idea what I was talking about. I had my suspicion from his first semester, but I wanted to believe he was doing the right thing. It was very satisfying knowing he was $6,000 in debt with terrible grades after knowing he had been lying about all of it.
most satisfying moment happened last week...
i work at a beauty bar on the weekends.
there’s one girl who i don’t quite trust and sure enough one day she told lies to my boss saying when she’s not there i’m always on my phone and never get work done, etc etc.
so last saturday my sister was moving to Texas which is a big deal, we’re close and she’s moving countries, i obviously wanna be there to say goodbye to her but my boss needed me to work because she was going to be doing makeup for 2 weddings far away and this girl can’t be working by herself!
so i planned on having my sister come to the salon to have our goodbye. i’m obviously sad because i can’t be there and try to not let it stay on my face but finally this girl tells me i should go be with my sister and get to say goodbye to her properly and i genuinely believed her, like i wanted to go so bad but i didn’t know what to do, i couldn’t let her be alone. and what if this was a set up? what if she sends me off to the airport and tells my boss ‘she left and i was here all by myself!!’ so i told her ‘if you’re cool with me going, call the boss and see what she says’ her response? ‘oh, no no. i don’t wanna call her.’ so she gets busy doing something and i sneak off and call my boss and tell her everything. ‘she told me i should go and she can handle everything. she refused to call you when i told her to see what you’d think. i think this was a set up so i’d leave and she could rat me out on you, i don’t know.. it’s sketchy... i had a bad feeling..’ and my boss says ‘i don’t trust her. that’s weird. i think it was a set up too. you did the right thing and thank you so so much for calling me. i appreciate it.’ so yeah, that girl got PISSED when i told her i called the boss and wasn’t going because i basically ruined her plan haha..
TDLR. a girl i work with told me i should leave work early and say goodbye to my sister at the airport and leave her all alone at the salon. i felt like this was a setup for her to call my boss and get me in huge shit...i called my boss and she said she thought that was super sketchy and doesn’t trust this girl.
Not me but my husband--- He once took our car to the shop to get a simple job done, like the tires rotated or something. Before he went, he changed the oil in the car himself. While he was waiting, one of the guys working on the car comes up and tells him the car also needs an oil change. He called him out on it, letting him know he had just changed it not even an hour earlier.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:22:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in high school or early college if I caught a friend lying, I’d call them out. “Friend, you don’t need to lie to me. Whatever the issue is, we can figure it out or you can let it go. I don’t really care. I just care that you’re being untrustworthy.” Eventually I just started ghosting those kinds of people. I’m not a therapist, and I don’t need any extra drama in my life. When you’re an adult and do it, there are deeper issues at play.
I work as a technician for a major electronics company. We’ve had a string of fraud people come in with phones and electronics that are damaged internally. Only problem is the phones aren’t genuine, and the issue results from tampering with them. I helped one gentleman last night. Because of the damaged I had to find a diagnostics computer in the back area out of customer view. Lo and behold I couldn’t get anything off the device. Because of this, and because he’s a known scammer, I told him I wouldn’t be able to replace it, but that I needed to send it to the repair center (where things are looked at more thoroughly). He immediately told me I’m playing him for a fool. He pointed out he was missing screws and blamed me for them.
I looked him in he face and asked him why I would need his two screws when I have thousands of them in the back. He told me he would come back tomorrow.
I was at Muay Thai school in Vietnam and they had an older American guy who "said" he was Bjj black belt former soldier / former NYC street cop / former private security... yaddah yaddah yaddah.. One afternoon he is regaling the class with stories his days as a beat cop on the rough and tumble streets of NYC. He is 5 mins deep into this nail biter story of the time he was off duty and a whacked out junkie tried to shoot him in the face and steal his car. At this point in the story he is kneeling down on the floor in front of us with his arms raised, showing us all how he had his gun drawn and "dead eyed dick'ed" the junkie.. "locked in his sights"..
I casually ask what kind of car?
his eyes dart left & right.. big pause... "ahhhhhhh just a shitbox"
Then I ask "what color?"
again it throws him off as he tries to remember if he already mentioned a color.
We exchange a quick look and I nod. Shortly there after maybe 5-10 mins later I quietly leave the classroom and go back to the main room and do bagwork while I wait for the next class.
If you are going to be a liar at least be a good one fer fucks sake! Read the room dude .
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:27:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TL;DR Fiancé cheated one me while I was out camping with her daughter, found a note from a dude when I got home.
Had a feeling my fiancé was cheating on me which she totally denied and called me insecure and paranoid.
So one weekend all my friends were going to a small local camping/music festival. I wasn't going to go until the last minute when on a whim I decided to go. Pack my gear and her daughter some clothes to come camping with us, and we leave Friday night. Fiancé had to work Saturday and was going to come out Saturday night. Have a fun weekend and Sunday I pack the family up and we head back home. We were in two cars since she came out Saturday.
She decides to take kiddo for ice cream and I beat her home. Walk in drop gear off, then I notice a note on the kitchen table. It's was in a guys hand writing and said something to the extent of "had a great time you're so sexy can't wait to see you again." I instantly start boiling. Not sure if she was just stupid and didn't throw it away or wanted to get caught.
She got home and I went off. It was the only time in 4 years I told her to fuck off. I told her to pack up and move out. We were 3 months way from getting married. I let her sleep on the couch until she found a place because I didn't want her 5 year old daughter to have to suddenly move out of her room.
Dodged a major bullet because while I loved her daughter and wanted to be a dad, I had begun to ask myself quite often why I was even marrying this woman.
Once had an employee that every so often would tell me she got sick from food poisoning. Low level employee so never thought much of it. So again she calls in sick from food poisoning and mentions “sushi”. I went to search field and typed in “sushi”. She had claimed the same thing 10x over about a year. She quit before I could fire her.
Was having a conversation about PC gaming (which this person clearly knew absolutely nothing about) but was acting like they did. He start trying to subtly ask where I get the games from, stuff like "so do you get them off the app store?" And I was like, "Uh, no...I use Steam." when he suddenly started trying to act like he knew it and was like "OH YEAH, I USE STEPHEN ALL THE TIME!"
I also do game development, and to make fun of this, I later made a web page to host my games, which I named "StephenPowered"
I had a petty little shit of a plant manager who suffered a real bad case of Napoleon syndrome.
We had a managers meeting every morning, and in this one meeting he had just finished berating the QA manager for not doing something he asked for, after she replied "but you said you were going to do that part".
She (knowing he lies) whipped out a printed version of his email where he had said that, and shut him the hell up in front of everyone.
He didn't say a word to her all week!
It was glorious.
I fucked with him other ways too, it was a pain working with someone like that, but there were fun times in messing with him.
In a previous job, I wrote the instructions for switchers for planned work on a utility system. There were three of us in this office and lots of work, continual paper moving through.
The senior bloke in the office was a loud, brash type who was useful in that regard, however was also a white anter - he would undermine his co-workers privately.
We had a new, younger boss. Of course the senior bloke was always in his ear. I had heard via a third party what he had been saying about me, how I was lazy and did little work and spent most of the day on the internet. While it was annoying I ignored it.
Until the day my boss happened to say something to me about it. I don’t recall the conversation, but I remember I came out of it pissed off and determined.
So I went back through our records and compiled a spreadsheet of who had done what for the last six months, with charts. I presented that to my boss. He went away, read it, came back and said “thanks for that, very informative.” I never heard another peep about my work output.
My mother is the most pathological liar I know. I could go on for hours about all the lies I have caught her in, but her most recent bold faced lie turned out to be three lies all woven together.
My parents got divorced 2 years ago. About a year ago, she told me she had to sell her wedding band to one of those "cash for gold" places to buy food. Not long after that, she told me she had to pawn her wedding band to pay utilities. After she moved away, I was helping my father clean out the house they lived in. She left behind her jewelry box. Lo and behold, her wedding band was in it. Yesterday she told me that she wanted me to visit her to "give me some things" (her way of trying to get in my good graces), which included her wedding band.
So she (1) lied about selling her wedding band, (2) lied about pawning her wedding band, and (3) lied about having her wedding band to give to me.
"Recovering". Like wont drink for a while, then goes and get shitfaced. Then wont drink for a while and repeat. Dealing with a 'repeat' type night right now. Drunk version of husband is "1:pick fight, 2: blame everything on me, 3: threathen to divorce me, take our kid, leave me homeless and kill me" this versions only exists when shitfaced. Then we go on with normal, responsible, regular type husband the test of the time. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, was just a guess. Sorry to hear of that trouble.
Good guess it seems. Its life. Been doing this for 15 years. Guess ill just keep doing this till one of us gets tired of it and bails, or he kills me. C'est la vie....
My kid hates me 90% of the time since im a "parent" (you know, rules like no candy for dinner, brushing teeth and not staying up till midnight every day) kid loves dad, cause dad is his "buddy" (very few rules, gives him anything he wants, etc) i unfortunately dont see the kid ever being mad for me puttng up with "super" dad.
I had this friend who would constantly lie all of the time. She would always make up these very unrealistic stories about random things and it was obvious that they were made up; like once she told me how she was one-upping this lady at her work about who's life is harder and she said that her coworkers were clapping and cheering her on, basically a story you would see on r/thathappened. So anyways, she was kind of obsessed with me and would video call me any time she wasn't at work. This happened last summer, and she spent that whole summer hooking up with random guys on Tinder. She would always lie to me about it, but she would immediately brag about it to her other friends, then those friends of hers would just tell me. One morning when she was calling me, she said "How much do you wanna bet that I'll end up with a night shift tonight?". The bet was for a cookie and she took the side of having a night shift with me getting no choice. Then later that night I get a text from her saying "Guess who owes me a cookie", which meant she had a night shift. So since she constantly lies all of the time, I was very skeptical, so I messaged a friend asking if he wanted to go on a walk, and he agreed because we would sometimes go on walks late at night and he wanted to prove she was lying too. We started our walk at about 11pm and her work was about an hour away. When we got there, she was nowhere to be seen, so I decided to text her with just a "hey". She responded about 15 minutes later with a jumbled message saying something about 3, which I figured she was saying she had to work until 3. After that, we walked back to my house and I went to sleep. In the morning, she called me as usual, and I asked her what her message meant. She replied by saying that work kept her in until 3. I then said "Are you sure about that?", then she kept on insisting that it was true. Then I just let out "Because me and (My friend) walked up there and you weren't there". She then just said "Oh" and went silent. I can't really describe how she said it but it was the most satisfying thing to hear. After the silence, I got her to admit it was a random hookup and asked her why she lies all of the time. She then just got really mad and said "I'm hanging up" then hung up on me. She started talking to me again a few days later and promised she wouldn't lie anymore, but about a month later, she got fired from her job because she would always scream at workers, be rude to costumers, lied about her age, and she forced a girl who she was training to go to a different store to buy her grapes while that girl was on her shift. When she got fired, she made up this story about how she was the victim and did nothing wrong, and I kind of believed it at first; only until a few people from her work told me what really happened. I finally stopped talking to her a few months later because she continued lying and I was sick of it.
I'm really late to the party so no one will see this, and it's not really catching, but it kind of is. I drove up to an ATM once with my friend in the car, and there was an ATM slip in the machine with a balance of over $20k on it. My friend asked to see it so I handed it to him and thought nothing of it. A couple days later his girlfriend who was renting a room from us at the time mentioned how he told her he had a bunch of money saved up and even gave her the ATM receipt to show her. I asked her if she still had it, and she said yes and handed me the same slip that I had taken from the ATM a few days prior.
I told her he was lying and that the slip wasn't of his account, but she didn't really seem to care all that much, or she just didn't believe me. When I asked him about it, he said he was trying to see if she was just a gold digger, but I know he was full of shit and trying to impress her with his lies. Especially because she was already dating him, and he didn't have any money.
I caught someone boasting about having a high rank on a game in another country (League of legends). So I live in Australia and this prideful boastful narcissist happens to pick up this game and tells everyone that on another server he has a really high ranking account. He was known to pile lies one after the other to showoff and boost his own ego. One time, this year he was made to repeat his final year of college after 'surviving cancer and PTSD' and then went off telling everyone all these different girls liked him, several being my friends in lower years. It was funny enough when the majority of them said 'whos that?'. He even boasted about 'I drink this very very strong Italian alcohol you haven't heard about', he also said he was invited to several beach party houses which they didn't even know this guy that I was talking about. Its crazy how much he lies.
But onto the main story, somehow everyone actually believed him that he had this other special account and we couldn't prove it at the time. A few weeks later, a website called OP.GG allows you to view other players match history and live games. This was when I put him on the spot infront of our group. It was a good school morning. We showed that it couldn't have been his account because someone had been playing at the time while he was there that morning. He decided to pile lies after lies saying that it was his overseas friends using his account. Alot of us didn't buy it, so I went an extra step forward after school and made another account on the european server and downloaded and waited alot. After this was done, I added his supposed account and messaged him. After talking to this person, he did not know the guy I was talking about at all. I screenshotted the chat logs, screenshotted everything that he boasted about. I laid it all upfront to him several school mornings later in front of my best friends. And he was completely caught and speechless. It was so satisfying, like a phoenix wright game ending where you lay out all the evidence and yell out that glorified ''OBJECTION''. I never ended up showing all my other friends, however. To this day, only me and my 2 best friends know about this, because I sorta felt bad for the guy and didn't end up telling anyone else.
I'm so glad this question was posted, because I've been wanting to share it for a looooong time.
A psychotic ex-friend was trying to convince myself and another friend that she was pregnant, and her failsafe to get out of this lie was claiming a miscarriage (at only 3 weeks, but not the point).
It's pretty hard to claim you're at the hospital having a miscarriage when your mother posts a picture on Facebook of you and your entire family at a hockey game and your SnapMap location is nowhere near the hospital.
A few years back, I used to manage a phone store. I was out with a few friends, would have been around midnightish on a Saturday. I get a text from one of the other managers saying that, another worker was not able to come in the next day as his father was in hospital. Ok, yeah that's reasonable. Slightly annoying as I need to organise someone to cover him now but completely understandable situation. I start sending a few texts, not really expecting to hear anything until the next morning- when I turn and see said worker, pinging off his face and dancing with some of his mates, also pinging.
I just walked up to him and said, "Hey bud, good news, I approve your time off tomorrow," then walked off.
He received a nice call from the owner the next day.
Ahh yep, my apologies. That's an Aussie term I think. It's a term used for when someone is obviously high on some sort of drug- usually pills/ecstasy. Colloquially referred to as "pingers" here.
There's a bit of a story to it, but my former boss lied on camera (posted on the company's social media page) about his education. It put a nice bit of egg on his face.
The thing is...we only planned the video because we knew he would lie. He was a terrible person, an awful manager, and I have no regrets.
I used to grow weed and worked in a garden center. Nothing crazy grow wise, just some plants in the woods that was a side project with some friends.
Well, I got stuck covering a shift with this guy who was known to lie and pretend his life was better than it actually was.
Some how, we start talking about our morning routines and he says :
"yeah, I love getting up early, brewing some coffee, snapping a weed bud off my plant and rolling a nice joint with it before work ".
Now, even the most novice Marijuana enthusiasts know that weed must be harvested and cured AKA dried out before consumption.
Stunned at such a ridiculous lie and that he assumed I knew nothing about growing, I simply played dumb and said "wait, don't you have to cut the plant up and dry it before smoking?"
The combination of him back peddling and mumbling that I didn't know what I was talking about was super satisfying for some reason.
She said her kids ate everything she put on their plate.
I was surprised as my kids don’t like to eat veggies.
Later on, I saw and heard her kids refuse to eat vegetables multiple times.
I didn’t say anything as it wasn’t my business.
2nd Lie:
She told me once that her kids were great students and got good grades.
Later on, she was complaining about how her kids had bad grades and she wished they would work harder.
Again, I didn’t say anything because it wasn’t my business.
3rd Lie:
My son got a letter that said that due to his academic performance he was getting a scholarship to study in Canada. Him and I both refused (he was too emotionally close to us, and Canada is too far away). The letter said that it was only an opportunity for 5th graders.
I told her about this and she said her son (who was in 1st Grade at the time) got one too.
Again, I didn’t say anything because it wasn’t my business.
People of Reddit, don’t lie if you have a shit memory.
A cousin of mine had just started his bachelor's and I had friends from my school who went to his University so I was often contacted for guidance. His dad came to me one day and told me his son was asking for financing (from his dad) for his startup. I assured the father I would talk to him. Once he starts explaining his concept, Instantly began to see the gaping holes in it. I let him finish before I started asking questions. He kept repeating this line about needing the money at least a week before the semester ended, so he pay the website designer and set the ball rolling. I asked him how much money he needed to begin with, and how he would be spending it. The numbers didn't add up. At this point alarm bells started to go off in my head (he was trying to major in CSE). I postponed my verdict saying big noI wanted to discuss it with some one more knowledgeable. I immediately had people start making inquiries as to the dude's activities. Turns out the kid managed to get involved in drugs and gambling. He had racked up quite a few debts and gotten some of his stuff taken. He was trying to scam his own father to pay off these debts.
To this day , I am glad wasn't on autopilot that day
Unsatisfying at the time, but later in life i’m more than estatic it happened:
To make a long ass story short, After years of wanting to commit to my ex and knowing well i couldn’t trust his words or his actions while away from home for months. After many incidents validating there was something going on he didn’t want me knowing about i finally mustered up the courage to ask “is there something i should know?” he snaps and accuses me of tRyInG tO RuIn OuR rElAtIoNsHiP¡. I begin to feel like the the denial card is usually played by someone who knows their chances of guilt are high, so i do what every SO in questioning does: Search through his phone!!!
Spoiler: it did not pan out well for him (• ◡•)
I’m in a thriving relationship now so i’ve put it behind me, i truly did start from the bottom.
I left my job for another one but things didn't work out so I returned to my previous job. Some girl that I knew wasn't there before I quit tried to pull that "I've been for way longer than you, so I have more authority" and lied about being there for 4 years. I told her that I knew most people working there and she wasn't there before I quit; in fact, she started working there right after I quit.
A girl in my art class talked about Batman a lot, back when being “scene” was still a trend and Batman was Hot Topic’s superhero of choice (probably replaced by Deadpool since). Only it didn’t go past “I love Batman” and “Batman is my favorite superhero”, and then something-something-ilovecomicbooks. Granted, I didn’t know shit about comic books either, but it was pretty obvious that she didn’t, either. She had lied about a lot of other stuff before. One time she came up to my friend and me while we were chatting and my friend finished a story with, “I almost screamed”, and she knelt down to say, while smirking, “I screamed once, too. When I was four and being raped in a motel.” Which, don’t worry, was definitely false according to close friends of her’s. Point is she lied for attention fairly often.
But anyway, back on track, she was talking about how much she loves Marvel and I said something back like, “Me too! Did you see they added a new mutant to the X-Men Comics? His name’s [classmate’s confusing Greek surname].” She nodded and started talking about how she heard about it, how pumped she was, etc. etc. I told her I made it up and she mumbled something before returning to her painting of the Batman symbol. Felt pretty good.
Besides the steady stream of lies she told everyone, she wasn’t too bad. I hope she eventually got the attention she was craving, in more constructive ways, and learned she doesn’t have to like certain things to fit a certain mold. I think everyone spent an exhausting amount of time in middle school trying to memorize information about something you don’t care about for the sake of an image.
That time the president lied about not being able to do something, then he had to sign a paper to stop doing that thing. Fuckin classic. What a liar.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:44:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first boyfriend was a miserable excuse for a human being.
Told me he was going to stay with a friend in England for a small vacation- told me the guys name and entire backstory of their friendship. I said cool have fun! Long long story short I found out he was cheating on me with a woman who lived there (well technically he cheated on her with me? They were together for 2 years before we started dating, had no idea)
After we broke up I went undercover with a fake profile and talked to him, flirting and what not. We talked about past relationships and he made up a story about his ex cheating on him and how he could never do that and on yeah he was single and did I wanna hang out. I revealed to him it was me, called him a fucking liar, sent the conversations to the other woman he cheated on me with and then blocked him out of my life completely :)
My psycho ex daughter in law claimed her dog was hit by a car while celebrating my son's birthday at Disney World. I had planned this trip for months, flown across the country, and arranged an amazing dinner during the nightly fireworks in which we would finally reveal her as my sons
secret half sister (family secrets on dads side). The day of we are all gathered at Disney World with her family of 3 including her 4 year old and my son who was turning 9. Supposed to be a magical day for all involved. Instead she brought the drama, said they were cutting the day short with us and no dinner/reveal because her neighbor called and said her dog was hit and dying and they had to go. Her behavior seemed off to me and I just had this feeling she was lying to get out of spending the day with us but my husband didn't believe me and dismissed me as crazy for thinking such a thing. The thing was, she was a social media whore and there's nary a post about her dog being hit.. There was a huge falling out shortly after because she involved us in an affair she had.. her soon to be ex husband came clean and apologized that she had lied about the dog and wanted to ruin the day for the children just to mess up my plans and how ashamed he was. I literally jumped up and yelled, "I KNEW THAT BITCH WAS LYING!!" validation tastes sooooo good..
yeah it's complicated to explain in writing but my (now ex) husband had lost custody of her at young age and she grew up hating him. 15 years later I come along and try to reunite them via social media (a decision I later regretted).. at the time my son was about 2 years old. She told us to fuck off multiple times and I wasnt comfortable telling my son she was his sister until I knew she was a stable person in our lives. Finally by this event it seemed things were good enough to tell him about her but instead she threw a fit and used animals and children in her manipulations. so yes, fuck her a thousand times!
They have a whole alternate reality created by billionaires telling them it’s a witch hunt and that all of their worst, most bigoted thoughts are patriotic and balanced things to think. FoxNews is bad, but all the radio shows out there are absolutely insane. I used to listen in once on a while to see how events were being spun, but they entirely stopped talking about the negative stories and simply deflected or completely ignored it to talk about how our mess is all due Hillary/Obama/liberals. I don’t know how to counter this level of organized disinformation.
ciaisi · 6 points · Posted at 15:44:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t know how to counter this level of organized disinformation.
The poster is super religious and lots of churches (especially Evangelical) got on board with the “he is a super secret Muslim infiltrator“ hoax narrative so some of that might have rubbed off.
Dont think many actually believed that, but being closer to the right I certainly heard that and other stupid overreactions to some of Obama's policies and executive orders. Now its the lefts turn to overreact to every little thing Trump does. (Not that I like what hes doing more, its just hearing it with Obama for 8 years and now its literally the same with Trump, I am just sick of parties and politics and this shit)
j5a9 · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He did have a Freudian slip about being a Muslim. Could have been bc the rumors were on his mind but makes the theory not so far fetched
Treason? No evidence. Collusion? No evidence. Racism? Give me one example. Backstabbing allies? Don't really consider it backstabbing, but I guess the case could be made. As for trade wars yh ok you can have that, bit I'm sure some would argue they were a necessity.
You forgot to mention he was a white supremacist and a nazi and islamaphobic and all the other isms and ists.
First grade, I was swiftly killing a worksheet that it was taking Jill forever to do. “Finished!” I shouted, but when I turned to her her paper was gone. “I already turned mine in,” she gloated. I furiously went and put my worksheet on the stack of finished papers and rifled through, looking for Jill’s. “Your paper isn’t in the pile!” I accused. “It should be,” she feigned. While she went to go “look” for her paper, I confidently reached into her desk, pulled out the first paper I touched, and bam: unfinished worksheet. “I rest my case” I said when she returned, slapping the paper on her desk. She turned red and sat with her head down and my triumph turned to shame. Always regretted it and now I no longer try to call out unimportant lies. Who the fuck cares.
Second grade. My mom had packed some Oreos in my lunch and I was really looking forward to them. When lunch time came around I opened my bag to find that the Oreos were gone. I remembered seeing another kid in the backpack area going through bags earlier, so I told the teacher about it. She questioned him and of course he denied it, but I noticed he still had Oreo crumbs all over his mouth. I pointed this out as "matter of factly" as I could and busted this little shit.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 13:37:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've known some people like this-- where they say things that don't add up. They're inconsistent, even if they mean well, they embellish, change their stories in accordance to seek empathy/ camaraderie they've always lacked.
But, calling people out on bold-faced lies never ends well. If they're forlorn, which, anyone who makes obvious things up-- they often do so because they've never learned that it's safe/stable to be themself. You told her , face-to-face, that you trusted her, then told everyone in this thread that you DO NOT trust her. You lied on purpose.
EDIT: I wrote this the other day after a night of tossing and turning, and felt really bad about it! I'm sorry for implying that OP was "a liar," to "a liar." It's never my goal to perpetuate vitriol or point fingers on reddit! I meant the comment with kindness and openness RE: deception. Ideally, we should be firm and set boundaries, but tact, kindness and firmness aren't mutually exclusive.
I dated a pathological liar in college for 3 years. Prior to the relationship some friends who knew her past would warn me, but I was naive and gave her the benefit of the doubt.
We started off great. I had no complaints and nothing about her seemed sketchy to me. We were happy together and never really fought about anything.
She had moved in with me at my college home during the last year of our relationship, which was about 3 hours away from where we were from back home.
During the last year of our relationship she would tell me she would have to ‘go back home’ to help her mom with some things. I never questioned it, but this became routine almost every other weekend. Besides, she had never given me a reason to doubt her two years into the relationship.
On Valentine’s day weekend she had told me that her girl cousin had invited her out to a rave back home. I let her go. She left on Thursday night and was planning to come back on Sunday by 4pm. This would be her first time going to a rave.
Unfortunately, I could not attend because I had a huge project to finish and a test to study for that weekend.
She told me she wasn’t going to do anything in terms of drugs or alcohol as she was going to be the designated driver.
The rave was on Friday. I texted her the next morning of Saturday asking how it went.
“Cool! It was fun! I was sober, but it was still fun! Actually, there’s going to be another last-minute rave (in another city 2 hours north). I’ll be with my cousin!”
I let her go.
I call her the following Sunday morning, asked how the second show was, and where she stayed.
“It was really cool, I was the DD, blah blah blah, I stayed at my brother’s place. I’ll be home a little later around dinner time, I gotta drop him off work at 1, pick up a few things from home-home, and be on my way back (to where we lived together in college).”
Note: She actually does have a brother that lived up there.
A few hours go by and I get a phone call from her sister asking me where she was.
I relayed the message. “She’s coming back from _____. Told me she was gonna drop your brother off to work at 1pm, stop by your place by 3pm, then back to me by 6/7ish.”
Few minutes go by and her sister tells me she called her brother and he said he never saw my girlfriend.
I immediately try calling and texting my girlfriend and it led straight to voicemail.
Her sister had also told me that my girlfriend had taken 4 Molly’s and crossed it with alcohol.
I had called several acquaintances that happened to be at the same show had told me they saw her go home with a guy she had just met at the rave. I learned that they had slept together that weekend.
I’m pissed. She hadn’t been responding or picking up my calls and it’s 8pm. I eventually get a hold of her cousin whom she went to the rave with and her cousin gave me the phone number of the guy that my girlfriend had met and slept with. I call him.
“Hello?”
“Where’s my girlfriend? Put her on the line.”
“Um one sec.”
Few seconds go by..
“Hello...?”
“Where the fuck are you? Oh, and how was your brother’s place? And your fun friend, Molly?”
Silence.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought, you fuckin bitch. Hope the dude was worth it too. Your shit is gonna be outside in the rain by the time you come back.”
In all our relationship I’ve never sworn, yelled, or demeaned her, but I was not allowing her to play me. Not like this.
She comes back home to college at 2am on Monday.
I’m wide awake and didn’t give a shit about my school responsibilities that day. I’ve never yelled at somebody so loudly before. I called her out on her bullshit and she had nothing to say.
She moved out a week later.
Can anyone guess where she moved out to?
I’ll give you a hint: not back home to her mom’s.
Yep, that scumbag that she met at the rave and slept with. She moved in with him.
Fuck you, Olivia. I’m doing WAY better without you.
Side note: I found out and confirmed 3 people you had slept with during our relationship, you fuckin whore.
Why would I have done that? He did me wrong by sleeping with her. He can go fuck himself too and by this point I wouldn’t be surprised if she’d played him too.
Yes, but like you, he probably didn’t know that you were already with her, otherwise he may not have gone out with her either. Maybe the previous guy was pissed off too, and didn’t tell you either, and now it comes back to you. Do a good thing and inform that person of her wrongdoings, lest the cycle will continue. Don’t be a douche.
I work in retail. We were having a super sale day, and we’re pretty busy, so I’m kinda done with bs from customers at this point.
A lady brings like fives things up to the counter. I notice two of the items have clearance stickers newly stuck on them. I checked the price and they were still at the original price. She stuck them on herself and she was trying to get me to change the price. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Also in my department, many coupons didn’t work that day, since we had a really good sale going on. She had items that didn’t qualify for any (clearance, specials, a certain department, etc) and I explained to her like 50 times that none of her items qualified. She was holding up my line arguing over $30 worth of merchandise.
She then proceeds to say “Well, a lady told me I could get 50% off of all this stuff today!!” And I just asked “Who? Who was the lady? Describe her to me, so I can call her over and ask.” The lady starts stammering and was like “I, uh, I don’t know it was just some lady over there” everyone in line was staring her down at this point, so she just finally decided to buy her shit and leave.
I was so happy that I caught her on her shit in front of everyone. Dude, if you’re gonna be a cheap ass bitch on a really good sale day, don’t go shopping.
That's interesting. Because in my state, the sticker price is final. So you have to give the customer what's on the item, or listed on the rack, not what's in the computer. Or at least I thought it was law. That's why it was a big deal when we'd catch people trying to switch price tags.
My ex tried to take me to family court and remove my parental rights. Among the claims were that I was violent, abuse and had a drug problem. None of those were true.
She also got her mother involved, who lied on filed court documents. She claimed that she “never went away for fear that he will come and attack my daughter”
Unfortunately, my ex was scared of the dark. Her Mum went away for a couple of nights for her wedding anniversary, and I had multiple messages from my ex asking me to come round to stay as she was so scared.
This is one of many times they’ve lied to try to take away my rights - none of them have worked. Satisfying when you can prove in court that she’s full of shit.
Many years ago, I took a short contract job while i was between permanent jobs. It was like a couple month long project that I got through an agency. There was already a guy there in a similar position to mine, but the guy was just the worst in every way. He was completely incompetent, openly racist and sexist, and just generally creepy. I honestly never saw him do anything productive there at all. He seemed to spend all his time just skulking around and trying to undermine me. He spread stupid, easily disproved rumors about me that nobody believed, including one where I was literally a high school dropout on some kind of welfare to work program, and that my son was disabled from being born drug addicted. I mostly just ignored the guy, but periodically, he'd come around and start bossing me around telling me what to do, like he was my boss. He worked for the same agency, so I'd call them, they'd talk to him and explain that he wasn't my boss and should leave me alone, but the message never stuck.
He once reserved a conference room and called me in to reprimand me, and he was there with this strange woman I'd never seen before who was dressed up in full 1970s regalia (it was probably early 2000s at the time). I just told him he needed to stop bothering me like that, and called the agency again.
Around this time, he started following me out to my car, and I started getting calls in the middle of the night with someone just breathing on the line. But also, I got a really cool new job. So I called the agency and told them that I'd be leaving before the contract was up because I was sick of getting harassed. I told them not to tell the creepy guy know I was leaving, and I told them I'd write up a detailed description of where I was in the project, along with instructions for what was left to do.
So I left. The creep called my house to yell at me, I told him to fuck off and that if he called again, I'd call the cops. I guess the cops thing scared him, because I didn't hear from him after that.
Then, a couple of months into my new job, I got a copy of his resume on my chair with a note from my boss asking if he should hire him. On that resume, he listed one of his job responsibilities as training and managing an at-risk single mother on a welfare to work program. So I called my boss and made it clear that he was not to hire this guy, and that that pathetic teen mother he managed was me (I was in my thirties at the time). And my boss said, dang, he gave us this work sample that looked really promising so I was hoping he'd work out. I asked to see it, and it was the stupid maintenance document I wrote when I skipped out on the project. Literally a fucking memo I wrote.
So anyway, that guy got permabanned from that employer (it was a biiiig company and the major employer in that industry), and they also temporarily banned the agency that forwarded his resume for not checking the references.
And that boss? Albert Einstein. (Seriously, though, the rest is really true.)
Hovie1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a hot-headed employee that went off the handle on a co-worker . He was trying to get the co-worker's attention from a ways off, which is fine. It's loud in there and I can understand that. But he then proceeded to go over and scream at the guy point blank till he was red in the face. I reprimanded him for it and he was extremely upset about that.
So the next day I come in, go out on the patio to smoke a cigarette, and he's out there with a couple coworkers. And he's telling the story of what went down the day before to them, but it's his version of how things played out. Like blatantly lying about how it all went down and how in the wrong I was for disciplining him. He didn't have the sense of mind or the self-awareness to just. stop. talking. when I came outside. I interjected and immediately called him out on his bullshit, explaining that whatever the problem was became irrelevant the moment he decided to throw a temper tantrum.
He decided to walk off after that and was terminated for job abandonment.
At one of my last jobs my coworker said her dad was in the hospital after a stroke and she needed to leave to go to him. My boss let her leave immediately. Not even an hour later her dad shows up to our store to order some lunch and asks where she was.
My boss wanted to fire her or at least suspend her a week but he was transferred to a new store that week so our regional manager ended her suspension after two days because she didn’t believe our boss about the coworker.
We all hated that coworker even more after that day. And our regional manager.
My ex as of yesterday straight up lied to me about going into work at a new job. Made up some bullshit story about how he and the manager got into an argument over scheduling and he turned down the job. I knew it was total shit when he told me. A couple days pass and I find out he never even went into the building. He panicked and pussed out of the job completely. He's 26 and this was a basic stock job. Wtf did he think he'd get away with? I'm not stupid.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My x boss was a total gaslighter/psycho. When I first started, she was so horrible to me, people would see her emails to me and say "What's her problem? OMG". I would break down into tears, as she seemed to have an answer that was against me for everything I did. I was simply there to make her look good, by her making me look bad. Que a 'discussion' because I got the flu and called off one day. (I had 80 hours of unused sick time). She said that she had an in person meeting with my previous manager before she hired me, and he told her about my "multiple" (her favorite fucking word) unexcused absences, and how he tried to no avail to get me to stop calling off of work. My previous manager is a good friend of mine and is also my neighbor. He had no recollection of ever speaking to her. My oh my the tides were turned after that day. I never mentioned that I knew she lied, but was able to avoid the emotional manipulation from then on.
I was maybe 6 when I tricked my mom into revealing Santa wasn't real. I told her I was running away and she said, "Fine but you can't take anything I bought with you." So I grabbed a coat that "Santa" brought me and she said, "You can't take that! I bought it for you!" I smirked and said, "I thought it was from Santa?"
I've been using such trickery on people ever since.
I remember George H.W. Bush mention Iraq in the middle of some foreign policy tirade about terrorism and 9/11
"Iraq? What's Iraq got to do with this?" I says
Watching the discourse and the war unfold, it seemed to me the justification was always alarmingly tenuous, extremely suspect, and it was the first political opinion I was old enough to really have formed about anything -- I was a teenager
It was most satisfying because it was the first time of my life I saw a politician in the media convey something that set off my political bullshit radar that had me kinda yelling at the TV the way my dad yelled at football games, the first time I noticed I even had such a thing as a political bullshit radar, or had accrued enough knowledge or sensibility for such an opinion to arise
In my sixteen years of growing up around broadcast and cable news, Good Morning America, Meet the Press, nightly news, I never saw an adult around me react as emotionally or as emphatically to any piece of global news in the way that I was reacting to the news of the Iraq War. Maybe a certain celebrity death would elicit some response, but nothing about presidents and policies. So I had my political outrage hymen broken, which I didn't even know was a thing that could happen
A friend was supposed to drive me and our other friends to an amusement park for a day trip. She dipped out and made up some excuse about having to take her grandma to an appointment. She dipped out the day before, so we were unable to find a driver and our trip that we planned a week ahead of time was cancelled because of her. Whatever, I would have rather her said that she just didn’t want to go instead of lying.
Anyway, she forgot she had her location settings shared with me for when she goes on tinder dates so I can make sure she’s safe if anything goes awry. Her location showed her going to a tinder boy’s house instead of said appointment. But even when I called her out, she continued to lie. It’s satisfying that I know I was right, but also concerning that she will continue to lie to us over stupid things.
Was in a car accident about 2 months ago. Lady in a U-Haul slammed into the driver's side / front end of our brand new accent. Pretty hefty damage, hospital visit for my mom, and all that fun stuff that comes with a U-Haul hitting you.
For reasons I'll never fully understand the paramedics decided to move our car out of the road. Cops arrive ask both sides what happened, she starts going on about how we swerved in front of her and the accident was all our fault etc. Thing is, once I had finished making sure the driver, my mother, was okay I started taking pictures with my cell phone of the scene. Where our car was, where the parts that have been knocked off of our car were, all that fun stuff. I showed the cop, he checked the road and found her skid marks on the sidewalk before and after our car. And yeah big surprise she was at fault. We were waiting to make a left turn and she had swerved over the sidewalk before slamming into us.
I'm not sure I've ever seen someone get so angry and flustered so quickly.
My boyfriend (ex now) placed a Craigslist casual encounters ad using my computer. When I confronted him about it he said that was absurd and he had his hands full enough with just one woman.
So I set up a fake email and replied to his ad with some fake pictures too and we set up a date. It took a week to set up.
You should’ve seen his face when I walked into the bar.
Was on the phone asking one of our vendors about processing a certain invoice, and my coworker overheard my question, and then proceeded to berate me, saying we'd spoken about this before and that I should already know this.
We had not, but it's a common tactic of hers. I'd been there a year, and she was not happy about my hiring. She is competitive and territorial as hell over nothing, really, and is often trying to find ways to subjugate her peers and look superior in comparison. I was forced to rely on her, and she took it upon herself to resist giving me as little information as possible and then berate me for completing tasks incorrectly. But this time I'd had enough.
I asked her when we had spoken about this issue, and she backtracked and said she talked to me about it when it happened to her. I then asked if she remembered when we'd had *that* particular conversation, and she couldn't pinpoint any specifics. I pulled her aside later that day and told her that I was just trying to do my job, and I'd like to move forward, but that was too much for her. The next day she scheduled a meeting with me, where she proceeded to tell me she was, "just trying to train me a certain way."
And that's when I lost my shit and unloaded a year of bad behavior from her that had nothing to do with my training. It was glorious. From making a huge stink to the higher managers about me being late on one particular day everyone *knew* I'd be late, to blaming me because she was asked to cover for another coworker. She'd make a huge deal about the smallest things, withhold information and then berate me for not knowing, or would flat out manufacture reasons to be upset about me, and I called out every single one; Because that's the space that she and others like her live in, in the land of passive-aggression where nothing can really be proven and you can wiggle out of being held responsible to your own behavior using plausible deniability and the understanding that most people don't enjoy confronting slimy assholes.
At first she tried to deflect, but once she realized I wasn't buying it, she got quiet, and that just made me angrier, because, how dare you? How dare you just sit there and act like you don't know what I'm talking about, when you've been doing this from day one? How dare you, when I can't even ask *another* person questions without you berate me for not already knowing? "Enough," I said. "You've had a year. It's about time you cut the shit."
The bulk of the passive-aggressive bullshit stopped there. For a few weeks after, she got into the habit of quietly changing my work behind my back, I think, to justify her behavior to herself, but I caught her on that too, because she was actually adding mistakes. Now she'll do something here and there, mostly interpersonal, but not flat out interfering with my work, which fine, I'll deal. It's a lot easier than dealing with someone who is outright trying to sabotage your job. But I don't trust her further that I could throw her.
TL;DR: Confronted the passive-aggressive bitch in my department with a year's worth of pent-up frustration, positiveish results.
Freshman year of college. English professor assigned an original poem. I wrote lots of poems in high school, so I was excited about the assignment. I added line numbers because I saw it in a book once. She gave me a F for plagiarism. She did not know from where or by whom, but clearly I copied and was too stupid to omit the line numbers. I confronted her and explained the numbering. She changed it to an A, but I always wish I had gone directly to the dean for her academic misconduct but I was just 18.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I bit late but, in 6th grade, we had a project for school to make a roughly 5 minute film, about something to do with history. Our class was devided in groups of varying numbers to make the films. We were watching a film by one of the groups, and I thought to myself this looks too professional. The thing is it was a 13 minute long professionally looking stop motion animation made with Playmobil figures. It was my quest to find the original video on YouTube on my phone with my friend. After some time, we found it, it was uploaded 3 years ago at the time. I felt empowered. We showed the teacher, and I think they were told off. Fortunately nothing else happened to them.
hnvss · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who is constantly lying about the most idiotic things ever. So he bought a Nissan that was a 2.5, base model. And he took off the 2.5 and replaced it with a 3.0 decal. He would tell everyone it was a 3.0 until one day I took a flashlight and you could see the outline of the 5 underneath the 0.
Had a coworker claim he was stationed in the middle east and was in a terrible humvee accident where he injured his back and couldnt drive. He also said he had 14 confirmed kills so I didnt question shit.
Long story short he went bat shit crazy, 3 of his ex girlfriends we were in contact with all said he lied his ass off about being in the military and on top of that found out he had 2 kids that he abandoned. Nice one ron.
When my wife was at a start-up doing 3D visualizations of cellphones, I noticed the animations looked too good for the amount of time they had to implement, and the action had that tell-tale mocap look where the actor is acting without a specific focal target.
I tried to tell them that their animator was ripping them off just putting in mocap he had gotten elsewhere, and that's why he always argued with them about why certain animations weren't possible on certain characters, or why the male and female animations were the same, or why all the fight moves were board-breaking kung-fu moves, blah blah.
Sure enough, weeks later the character TD dug into the animation files and found a leftover object named suspiciously with the same name as a free animation library collection. Course the production turned a blind eye to it, but a lot of respect was lost for the guy.
In university, there was a guy who liked to tell stories to make himself sound more interesting than he actually was. In one story he started to tell, he claimed to have gone streaking down a street that is the namesake for/filming location of a fairly widely distributed religious show. He claimed that, while streaking, he ran past many families and children who were doing average things in their homes and playing their front yards and spoke about how shocked and dismayed everyone was. However, as someone who actually grew-up a few miles away from the place in question, I was really confused and verbalized my confusion. The issue was that, while the street does technically exist, it is really just an entrance to the parking lot of an industrial park. There are no houses to run past. It is possible he could have run past children and families, but that would have meant an event was taking place at the facility, and I doubt he would have made it far past security. It was the details he tried to add in, I guess to make things sound more exciting, that gave him away and proved he'd never even actually been there.
Late to the party, but I’m a veterinary assistant. A client had an English Bulldog with chronic allergies and GI issues. She always swore up and down she never fed the dog table food. Brought the dog in during an episode once and right in the lobby the dog proceeded to vomit several whole French fries and half of an unchewed McDonalds cheeseburger. The client sheepishly said “Well I mean every once in a while she gets a little treat.”
Back in my call center days, there was this co-worker, who always felt the need to impress people and prove how cultured and smart he was. Particularly, he bragged about his great skill with painting, has a gallery (in a different state, conveniently) and will soon be selling his work at tens of thousands a piece
So I started a conversation with him about the impressionist pieces of Bach, the cubanism works of Stravinsky, and the surrealist paintings of Mozart.
Dude bullshitted his way through that discussion pretty well, filled in a lot of the air with his own voice, and all the while I was trying really hard not to laugh. I was really sure he'd realize the jig was up when we were talking about "Mozart", but no.
This will probably fall into nothing.. But whatever. Had a coworker that claimed to have all sorts of fast cars. Never any proof, pictures, absolutely anything. One week is bragging about another one. Proceeds to pull up a YouTube video and the info such as the uploaded and video name pops up (lol). Cue excuse "that's my friends account" or whatever.. Looked up the video on my phone and it was uploaded a couple of years prior. Never called him out on it directly as it was pretty sad the amount of bullshit that was spewed. I figured mental health issues.
Teacher I work with suspected that one of the papers turned into her was copied from another student. I showed her how to look into the edit history and people who the document was shared with on Google docs. Turns out it was the same exact document that was turned in to another teacher with the header changed. This girl didn't even bother to make a new document, just sent the one sent to her.
One time this girl I was dating was dating wrote me a few poems and one stuck out as particularly familiar. Sure enough I Googled a line from each one and they all pulled up on the first page from classic poets. I confronted her about how lame I thought it was and cut things off
I had a boyfriend who lied about still being on Tinder. He tried to gaslight me because I saw it in his phone. He tried to convince me it wasn’t there and wouldn’t show me his phone, but I knew I wasn’t crazy. Fast forward maybe two days. We’re lying in bed and I see him on it. I said “I thought you said you deleted it” and he immediately closed it, asked what I was talking about, and when I told him what I saw, he told me I was dreaming. I laughed and started packing my stuff to leave because I was done with him and as I was leaving, he admitted it and begged me to stay.
My old boss lied about everything all the time. He served in the reserves for a bit and supposedly rescued navy seals all the time. He fought in Afghanistan and took a lot of terrorists out. He had been a police officer and seen some action, as well as baffled the chiefs or whoever with his intelligence.
The best lie I ever caught him in, though I didn't tell him about it because he was vindictive and I kinda just enjoyed listening to the fountain of refuse that was his mouth, was when he promised all the supervisors a "significant" raise "soon". We all pretty much knew it was a lie when it came out of his mouth, but we didn't have the proof. It was supposedly already approved by the President and CEO. After a couple months I asked him, in a meeting, when "soon" is and what "significant" means. He gave me a definite date and a rough estimate of the amount. It was supposedly an almost 50% raise. When that date came, he started blaming the boss above him for holding the raises up.
He also blamed the terrible scheduling on computer glitches that corporate was fixing.
Anyway, I eventually got to talk to the president of the company, who was concerned about certain problems at the company. I asked him point blank, "I was told you approved raises for us. I was also told the schedules are messed up due to software glitches that you're fixing on your end. True?"
President guy angrily called my boss a liar.
At work the next day, boss brings up raises again and how they're coming soon if he can just get them past the other boss. I just kinda smile and lean back. "Don't worry about it.I'm not upset at the other boss. I'm sure he knows what he's doing."
Not what boss expects. I see him shify nervously and sweat a little. "He just doesn't appreciate you guys like I do."
Me, "Ah well! Maybe I'll talk to him about it some time."
More sweat and shifting.
Occasionally I'd just mess with the guy like that when he'd least expect it. It was marvelous.
We Googled him once and found his resume online, as well as some videos that lead to him being fired as a cop. Sometimes we'd ask him questions about his work history or why he chose to leave the police force and just sit back and listen. That guy really should have been a writer for "based on a true story" movies.
I work as a collection manager for a furniture store. Guy got a king mattress and was trying to run on us. I seen him at the gas station one night flirting with the clerk. I went back to the work truck to look him up on Facebook to make sure it was him, and it was. I went back in and asked him if he was the guy I was looking for. He quickly said no, that's when I pulled my phone with his profile still pulled up. I looked at it with a sarcastic face and showed it to him and asked him, "is that not you" he immediately got red and asked if i would step outside with him. He started threatening me for looking at his public profile and threatened to sue me. I explained Facebook was public domain and he could do nothing. I then followed him home and got our stuff back.
Smoked weed in the dorms in college with my roommate. Had suite style dorms where you shared a bathroom with another pair of people. My neighbors were cool but would complain about us smelling up the floor all the time. We were always careful vaping as much as possible instead of actually burning weed and we also used a sploof. We decided to not smoke in the dorm for a week and a couple days later we asked our neighbor if he had smelled us since we had been smoking a bunch in our room. He immediately said he had and about how bad it was. Well guess what bud, it's not us then so fuck off.
And another one. One of my grandma's is the sort of person that insists on being right and getting her way.
Well, the whole family had just done the Georgetown Loop (a cool train thing) in Denver and were taking a long route back to Estes Park through the mountains. Well, I had gotten one of those whistles made from a block of wood and was trying to get the plastic wrap off. I had no intention of blowing the whistle in a car full of people, I wasn't (that much of) a dick.
Well grandma sees me fiddling and says "Don't try blowing that whistle, whistles don't work at this altitude.".
Now, I was in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time but I was a smart child, the sort that when the teacher asks what forms of matter exist (solid, liquid, gas) I looked up from my copy of The Hunt For Red October and said "Plasma.". So, this statement felt very wrong...but at the same time I didn't want to seem stupid.
So I sucked in a full lungful of air and blasted as hard as I could into that whistle. Turns out they work just fine in the mountains.
When my ex and I started dating he told me he had cancer as a child and I was very sympathetic with him having just lost my grandfather to cancer.
So I eventually got really close to his parents who basically told me his entire life story and they didn't say a word about him ever having cancer. He was an only child and had the sweetest parents, their child having cancer is not something they would easily forget.
I broke up with him after 3 1/2 years and brought up the fact that he never had cancer and made a huge deal about it, tried to backtrack everything.
In the early stages of my relationship with my shitty abusive ex-boyfriend, he was always on this online forum, and I suspected he was posting pictures of me getting dressed after we had sex. I confronted him about it, and he said it was some online forum like Reddit and that “they know about me.”
I tried to steal a glance, but he was secretive about it. RED FLAG. On the top part of the screen I saw a capital letter “V,” and using only that information plus his name, I discovered he was in fact posting pictures of me to the IGN forum the Vestibule.
I made an account with my name and commented on my semi-nude thread and said, “Oh look, I’m famous.” (I know I could have said something much better, but I was so blind with rage.) Asshole showed up at my house in THREE MINUTES, begging for forgiveness. I told him to get out and never talk to me again.
I got into Warhammer 40k in primary school (year 5 or 6) through a teacher who set up a club. He tried turning us into a team playing chaos space marines and took us out to Games Workshop's often. Shortly into the club starting, members (there was maybe a maximum of 7 of us) started buying their own armies. One guy seemed to be getting an insane amount of models very quickly having them painted and all. At this time models from our army started going missing.
One lunchtime I was eating with one of the members and he was about to go somewhere and I asked where. Said he was going to check on the models to see if they were all still there. Found this fishy so I went along with him. We start counting the models and I see him putting something in his pocket. I ask what he put in his pocket, he answers that it was a tissue. But he hadn't blown his nose at all prior. I was able to lightly touch his coat pocket and felt the plastic models.
Didn't call him out but when the teacher talked to us about stealing once we started losing a significant amount of models I spoke to him after the session and told him about it. Unfortunately instead of kicking him out of the club he shut it down instead. :(
Yeah, it's another reason Games Workshop is going down the drain and got rid of one of my favourite Warhammer youtubers by changing their policy on third parties selling their products
My friends and I were on a Discord server (for those of you who don’t know, it’s a group chat/call service). Once when I joined, I noticed there were 3 new additions to the group. We were all guys, but three girls were randomly added. My friends told me they met them while out in Toronto, so I played along, all while dropping hints that I was suspicious. I kept saying “isn’t it convenient that while this one girl is messaging, this other guy isn’t?” and stuff similar to that, or “if you met them in person, why is she only addressing you by your screen name?” They were using the girls to compliment the guys (themselves), so I kept pushing and eventually dropped every reason I had that proved they were fake, and they admitted they made them up. It was probably a joke to be fair, but still felt satisfying as hell to expose them in the end.
0w1 · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was the busy shift at a coffee shop kiosk in the mall, and this teenage girl walked up to the counter to ask for an employment application. This is how the exchange went:
Her: I saw on the mall's website that you're hiring. Can I have an application?
Me: It's all done online. There's a link on the job listing that takes you to the form.
Her: Oh, I can't just have an application?
Me: No, sorry, we don't have any because it's all done online.
Her: But I don't have internet!
How can I fill out an online application if I don't have the internet?!
Me: How did you find out about this position again?
When I was working at AAA I covered an area that had a race track. We don't cover or tow vehicles that are used for racing or show and we especially don't tow vehicles that have been in accidents on a race track. This guy called in and said he was at an address that is about 1/4 of a mile from the race track and that he was in an accident and needed a tow. I pulled up his location on the map and asked him if he had been racing. He says no I got in an accident heading to the track. Little did he know that the website for the track posts the cars that we're going to be racing that day and have cameras that you can log into from the website to watch. I logged in and then asked him if he was driving a red mustang with his license plate number. He said yeah how did you know? I told him I just watched his crash online at the track. The phone immediately hung up and I didn't hear from him for the rest of the day.
My grandpa always keeps score when my family plays card games. He also always happens to win. He does that thing where instead of writing the round's scores, then adding them, he just adds them in his head and writes only the new total.
One time I sat next to him and watched his score tallies. I called him out (nicely) and said, "Wait. Shouldn't that be [correct score]?"
He changed it and somehow didn't win. He's lost many games since then.
not a big one but my friend telling me she couldnt get me a piece of info i needed because she was "in the car" and i was like "...i called your landline, you're not in the car"
Av8tr1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she forwarded her home phone to her cell? I do that pretty much every day.
Two years back I started dating this girl, she was a year above me in high school and I thought she was out of this world. She was my first legit girlfriend and you know with your first love you would do anything or want to believe anything.
So I was at this party we threw for the departure of our exchange students, near the end of the party two of my friends tell me that she had cheated on me, I was broken, had a long teary, stumbly walk home. I called her about it and she denied it. I was still sceptical so I would bring it up when we would do something together but every time I would she would deny and leave. (This was a very toxic relationship.)
So a month passes by and I’m about to get on this sailing trip where I can’t use my phone for 10 days(still with the cheater). The night before I board the boat she starts acting all distant, then ends the night with we need a break. My dumbass takes this because it was still my first relationship as a break up. Her sister says she’ll fix it so I shouldn’t worry. Get onto the boat devastated that I lost my girlfriend, even my best friend who was with me thought we had broken up. As we board the boat instead of walking to the group of guys and introducing myself I take it upon myself to be whoever I want to be because I can, I talk to the girls first. Through out the trip I notice a girl (who was stunning) took a liking to me, in the end we made out. The last day we get signal back for a few hours and I turn my phone on, I see that my cheater girlfriend texted me a bunch of really sweet things about being sorry. I thought we broke up, I felt horrible about how I kissed the other girl and told her immediately. This became a painful night at our hostile. We talked for hours and all she did was made me feel like shit. I felt bad that I accused her of cheating yet really I did. (Full disclosure, I thought we had broken up but it was just a dumb decision made by a heartbroken boy)
Skip a few months and I get a message from this random girl I had not really ever talked to(she was far out of my league) I reply to her “Hey” and we begin chatting, (at this time I am still with the cheater but had fallen victim to her lies and believed she did not, completely dropped it) she asks what I was doing this certain day I say I was hanging with the cheater till this certain time. She types that she was sorry but that my cheater had slept with her boyfriend that day. I confront her about what happened when we went on a walk one day, I was quiet and she could tell there was something up. I tell her what I was told and she denies it, she starts crying and shows me her wrist and says she was cutting, there was this small scab but it could have been anything. I don’t fully believe her but I was weak and hated to see her cry. Later that night we’re at my place she’s asleep next to me and her phone goes off, normally I wouldn’t look but after all of these past accusations I looked, it was the girl who was out of my league’s boyfriend or ex. I sit there for a few minutes contemplating if I should look, I knew it was wrong but I wanted to put my mind at ease. I unlocked her phone and looked through their messages, what do you know they talk about never telling anyone that they had sex the night my friends told me she cheated. The kicker that hit me the hardest was that she said he raped her, like forced her to have sex. Her story was inclusive and bullshit, I know it’s bad to accuse someone they weren’t raped but she kept changing the story, the message that I knew she was lying about being raped was she said after what they did that she’d “always be down for more late night adventures”. Heart dropped when I read that but I knew she was a liar.
Present day I’m dating an amazing girl and that very girl is the sister of the guy who my cheater cheated with. My cheater texts me out of nowhere asking why I’m with the girl I’m with... Sometimes nice guys do come first!
TLDR: Two years ago my girlfriend cheated and lied countless times, she made me feel like shit for not really doing anything wrong, cheating story comes back up, figure out its the truth, and now I’m living my best life with the guys sister who she cheated on me with.
One of the guys I shared a house with during my studies was a serial liar. He'd exaggerate about literally everything to the point where we even doubted his name. He'd claim all sorts of ridiculous things like being best friends with celebrities, winning the lottery, organising orgies etc... (think Jay from the Inbetweeners). We never really confronted him about it as we wanted to see how far he would go and to see whether he actually thought we believed his BS.
One day, he was telling us that he'd slept with a girl in our group of friends (this girl had been avoiding him since they met) and even went into detail about what happened. We told her the following day and she came to the house where she confronted him. She basically told him what was on all our minds. He broke into tears and apologised to us, which was pretty satisying to watch.
Nothing changed though as he was back to his usual tricks the following morning. We never spoke to him again after moving out.
Had a "friend" in highschool that wasn't mean or anything but would lie about anything and everything. One day, after the Japanese tsunami, she kept trying to say that she signed up for a program that let's you foster Japanese kids and that morning, she had woken up to a baby on her doorstep. Finally decided to call her out and ask her a ton of questions: "why choose a highschool student? What the baby look like? Why wouldn't they ring the doorbell?" Of course, she had an answer for everything but after a bit, she was starting to look flustered. Decided to wait a week to ask again. She said the baby was taken back and that was the end of it.
I'm sure something was wrong with her. Had her over for a sleepover once and she would go on and on about these stories that had a ton of detail but we're obviously not true. She went as far as to say she was in a incestuous relationship with her (non-existent) brother and that her parents would make them train every night with knives and swords.
I work at a brewery where the tasting room (bar and seating) is in the same building at the actual brewery. It’s separated by a wall, and on one side is a glass, swinging door, and there’s another connection on the other side of the building with sliding barn doors. Costumers aren’t allowed in the back brewery, unless they’re being given a tour or we have an event.
One day, I look in the back and see two people- a guy and a girl, just walking amongst the equipment, picking stuff up and touching everything. We’re a small brewery and only 2 years old, so I know the entire crew who works there, and these were just two entitled strangers. So I go back there and tell them they aren’t allowed back here, and who they are. They were sitting near the barn doors on the other side of the building where I couldn’t see, and wondered into the back.
The guy immediately starts talking over me, saying stuff like “no, it’s okay. I work with you guys. I help you guys can beer and I’ve been here before. I’m actually helping you can on Tuesday.”
Again, we’re a small brewery. We have a 10 person staff, max, and self bottle our beer to cut costs. We don’t even can yet, but I don’t think this guy thought I’d know that. Knowing he’s lying, I play into it and say “oh! Right! You work with Jake on all that, right?” And he says “yeah! I usually work with Jake.”
“Jake” is made up. He’s not real. So I tell him, “no one works here by the name of Jake. And we don’t even can. So where are you getting this information?”
His face goes red, and by this time we’ve walked back into the tasting room where a bunch of people watch. To top it all off, my boss/owner of the brewery walked by right after, so I called him over and explained “this guy apparently cans for us and is going to this Tuesday. Do we can?” My boss explained that we don’t and that’s super weird he would say we do.
Still red, the guy quietly ordered two beers, and left quickly after.
I work at a motel so I’ve had quite a few liars try and fuck with me. Had one lady, who has been staying here for months, tell me “well we haven’t had ANY service, you’re the first one to come through” which I knew was bullshit. Anyway ten minutes later, she noticed I didn’t wipe down the tub (I don’t usually because we’re not supposed to touch their stuff and there’s usually a lot of personal belongings in the tub) and she said “why aren’t you doing the tub? They always do the tub.” To which I smiled and said “I thought you hadn’t received service?”
(No I didn’t but I wish I had. Too chicken shit. Oh well.)
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After closing one night, my manager ( who had the weird obsession with keeping the keyboard stands of the computer up) accused me of snapping my keyboards legs off! I mean SCREAMING at me! Super confused at this point, (because why tf would I do that) I walk over to my computer and lift up the keyboard, flipped the damn legs straight up. She looked at me, sputtered red, and walked away. She never said sorry or any damn thing
I had a friend once who lied about having cervical cancer. She told me that it metastasized to her kidneys, but that she was going to be totally fine. She said she was doing intravenous chemo two times a week, but she had no marks on her arms from the IV, not hair loss, and no weight loss. Its just didn't add up. So I just straight up told her I didn't believe her. We arent friends anymore.
Left 80$ on my table while my friend was in my room. When I left for the bathroom and came back it was gone. I confronted him about it but he denied to ever seeing any money and blamed me for being delusional. I kept my ground so he told me he’ll be generous and give me 80$ instead
I was dating this girl named Katey. One day out of the blue she sent me a picture of her boobs. I thought that's kinda hot. But, after looking at the messages feed I noticed it was sent to me and another number. I called her up and asked who who else she sent that photo to. She denied it. I rattled off the number and she broke down.
...Dated for another 6 months. Oh I was dumb at 16.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wife and I own a few rental properties, and I cut the grass on them.
One night, a problem developed in the wiring that sparked a fire in one of them. The tenants got out without injury, but the house was heavily damaged, and uninhabitable. We helped them move to another location, forgave any due rent, and let them out of their lease while we decided whether to rebuild or just tear it down. Reason for the decision was monetary, as we had installed several new items in the place, and wanted to weigh our options; salvage and scrap, or just fix it.
One day, I arrived with my mower on a trailer, got the mower off, and proceeded to getting the grass seen to. We have a little Mother-in-law house that's being rented on the same property, and I like to keep everything maintained as a result. While cutting, I saw a guy try to slip out of the burnt house and ease away from the area; he'd obviously been having a little look around inside.
I rolled up to him before he could get too far away in order to politely confront him, but he beat me to the punch by asking "Hey, you know anything about what they're gonna do with this place?".
"I'm not sure, why do you ask?", I responded, being deliberately vague.
"Oh, y'know... just wanted to know, it's a nice house..." he answered.
"What are you looking for?" I asked.
"Oh, the owners said I could help myself to whatever wasn't gonna be saved, and that I could have it" he replied.
So I hit him with "No, I didn't", and watched him process everything that such a simple three word sentence conveys. After several seconds of trying to reconcile it, he bailed on that plan of action, and immediately went about to extricating himself from the current situation and the area.
Before he could lay another lie on me, I told him to simply "Stay out of there", to which he muttered a non-verbal consent. More of a grunt, to be honest.
Probably when I went out to dinner with my family at a local wing place and saw my girlfriend out with another dude. I went and pulled up a chair and just sat there and asked her how she was doing. Dude put two and two together and walked out.
The wings I had were good, the next few weeks however weren’t.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and all my neighbors would play with pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Well this one kid kept stealing mine so my dad put some black marker over the top of my deck. So the next time mine got stolen my dad went over to kids house and told the parents. The mom said her son would never do that so he asked her to get the cards. Bada boom bada bung my cards with the black marker were on them. The next day all his cards had black marker on them because "my mom thought it was a good idea too". I stopped hanging out with that kid.
Once stepped in at the last minute as a technical head on an interview panel, to cover for someone who was sick.
We interviewed a guy who said on his employment history he'd worked at a particular organisation. Which was odd, because I had worked there, and been running the dept he said he'd been working in, during the years he claimed he'd been working there.
I waited until he'd finished telling us all about his achievements and projects there, and then explained that I knew he was lying, that I actually was in that dept at the time.
The lead interviewer lady said he could either start telling the truth, or leave. The liar left.
Used to get the Sunday paper delivered to me. This was in NYC and it would frequently get stolen. So I’d wake up super early, like 6AM so I could get the paper before the thief did. Turned out the shop owner next to my apartment had his worker steal my paper every week. Came downstairs and caught them both. On my birthday. Best fucking birthday ever.
My husband was drunk in the passenger seat while I drove him home. I asked him if he was wearing his seatbelt. He told me yes, then the little ding alarm went off for the seat belt not being attached.
Busted!
He was so sheepish. I laughed. He put on his seatbelt. We moved on.
This wasn't perfectly in the moment, but it counts. My sister was kind of a shit to me as a kid. We generally got along pretty well, but occasionally she would realize that, despite being younger, she was absolutely bigger and stronger, and she felt the need to remind me.
Well, we were at the zoo once. We were all just walking along, I was minding my own business looking at the flamingos while our dad fiddled with his camera, and suddenly SMACK! She just slapped me on the back of the head as hard as she could. I kind of slapped back at her with the most pathetic whimpy slap ever while she suddenly hollered like she'd been shot, and by the time my dad turned around all he saw was my move of retaliation. I tried to tell him she hit me first, she of course denied it, and I got in trouble.
Well the next day my dad calls us both in laughing. He was looking over the video he took and caught her smacking me on camera by complete accident. He'd let his arm fall for a moment and perfectly caught her just out of the blue smacking me in the head.
She got in trouble, my dad managed to apologize to me through his laughter, and I've never felt more vindicated in my life.
When someone was talking about their amazing career in the military. Except they knew nothing about the military. The way they talked about it and words they used were a dead give away that they had no idea what they were talking about.
This was someone who had stolen a bunch of stuff from me when we were kids, I took great joy in pointing out very publicly how full of shit they were.
I had an extremely incompetent professor as a fresher in University. We had to write our practical files by hand for her class which was a lot of work. She sat down to approve them a day before they were due for an external examination. She pointed out some problems in my file without reading it and I knew she hadn't read it. So I took the file back, flipped some pages around, and brought it back entirely unchanged. Well she didn't just sign and approve it, she also told me the edits were really good. Ahahaha. Asshole.
He was always saying that he was trying to get me a promotion. I never asked for one, I never inquired about the promotion he had been hinting at. But he still decided to try and prove to me that he was trying to do this.
So he gets on the cordless office phone, fake dials and holds a fake conversation with his boss.
This phone does not have call waiting, if you try to call it while someone is using it you get a busy tone.
Anyway, I spun around in my chair as he was having his fake conversation and pulled out my cell phone. Rang up the office phone...no busy tone, the phone rang right in his ear.
He still tried to play it off as if he "switched" over to the new call.
My husband has been cheating on me for months and I could not prove it with concrete evidence....his friend had been house sitting while we were gone....I found a roll of condoms which we did not use in the drawer I went outside one day when they were in the garage and in front of both of them asked his friend if he ever spent the night and had girls over he said no so I whipped out the condoms and said so these must be yours babe and he turned white. So satisfying.
I work in a prison, and responded to a fight by the time I get there the officers in charged had already gotten most of the guys rounded up. Any way the guy they beat up said that this one guy had started and then let his cronies finish the job while he got away. So me and another officer went to this guy cell to look for any scratch's, marks, etc.. on this guy, and he's sweating and breathing real hard. And this guy weighs around 320 lbs so we ask him why he's so out of breath. He says he just got done doing his work out and I ask what his work out consisted of and he says some things that were kinda believable, and then he said he just finished 300 push-ups. We pull him out of his cell and then he starts saying why we targeting him he didn't steal anything out of the kitchen, he also happened to be a kitchen cook. So I go back to his cell and look for stolen food and find tons of bread, fruits and cookies and cake along with a lot of canteen items that after we looked up were not on his purchases. So he got in trouble for fighting, stealing food, stealing from other inmates, and lying to officers.
Think this story fits - "How I potentially told a guy in great detail for 5 minutes what a prick he is and had him agree with me politely."
The locking pole protecting our rental flat’s allocated parking space has been knackered as all hell for many years. It’s life-cycle follows an arse-achingly predictable pattern. The budget-quality concrete holding it in, succumbing to repeated beatings from harsh Scottish weather, begins to crack. The pole then drunkenly lists for a few weeks, before ultimately yielding. At this point we chase our landlord for weeks until he grudgingly gets some shady chancer to fill it back in with even shittier concrete in some truly awesome displays of slapdashery.
Increasingly however this circle of life is being prematurely interrupted. Like sharks drawn to blood in the water, sensing the weakness, some utter pricks spot the cracks beginning to form and merely rip the pole from the ground, toss it aside and use our space (most without even bothering to crudely prop the now-fucked pole back up when they leave to protect said space until we get home). All this for the sake of saving themselves a couple of quid in parking fees or a few minutes walk.
This has happened a few times, but lamentably I had not caught any of these utter specimens in the act. Until one fine day.
I come home from work and see a massive German-manufactured luxury car in our space, with the pole, once again removed from the ground, lying by it’s side. The first thing I do is take pictures to document the registration number and so that I can report the vehicle’s owner to the police for damaging private property. But I am still incensed. This is bullshit. I decide to wait for the owner of the vehicle to come back, as I very much want to let them know how much bullshit this is and ask them why they feel they deserve to enact such bullshittery. I however realise, entering into “spirited discussion” with a stranger in such a manner in Glasgow could get me a bit punched, or stabbed, or at the very least potentially become a needless jamboree of acrimony. I reason that as the prick in question could react negatively, it would not be worth the hassle of engaging them fully. I resolve to just tell them from a distance I am reporting them to the police for criminal damage and walk away like a safe but incensed coward.
When I eventually see the tall, young gentleman in designer clothes swanning towards his luxury vehicle and remotely unlocking it, sudden rage impels me towards him and introduce myself with a polite “excuse me, sorry, but that’s my space”. At this point the young man instinctively mumbles an apology, before immediately glancing at the freshly-plucked pole, back to me, back to the pole and then, with a visible wave of realisation as to why I may be quite pissed off rippling across his face, he lets out an emphatic but entirely unconvincing “Oh… OH! I did NOT do that!....” (now pointing at the pole). He seems very concerned and moves towards me to continue our conversation. I next say to him innocently “Oh, sorry, was it already out of the ground when you got here?” and he leaps on this with a “yeah, yeah! I promise it wasn’t me!...”. He is really nervous-looking now. I probe a little further:
ME: “Do you mind me asking when you got here then? Just this keeps happening and we would love to pin down who is doing it and when it happens so we can report them”
POSSIBLE PARKING PRICK (PPP): “Um, it would have been around 8AM…”
ME: “(Incredulously, but realising I now have him) Really? Because that is pretty much 15 minutes before my partner leaves for work…”
PPP: (Interrupting and seeming increasingly nervous) “Oh, ah, um, I mean, about 10AM, , maybe 10:30? er…”
ME: (Not buying it but playing along cheerfully) “OH! OK, I see, oh well thank you, it is really helpful to know it must be happening EXACTLY between 8 and 8:20am, you see, we really want to catch any pricks who are doing this...”
Wonderfully, at this moment, a strategy occurs to me. If this man is still seriously claiming he did not damage our pole, there are two possibilities: (1) He really didn’t rip the pole out of the ground, is just a bit flustered, though did take advantage of a clearly vandalised space. (2) He did rip our pole out of the ground and is covering his prick ass. I realise I have an opportunity.
I decide to play this like I believe him, and, in order to ostensibly comfort a man who now seems very nervous and worried that he has committed a grave transgression, I spend the next 5 minutes “reassuring him”. I tell him that I am “totally not annoyed” at HIM, someone making an “honest mistake” of using our space when “some completely selfish and entitled entitled prick” had “already done the real criminal damage”. I continue to “reassure” him, by thanking him for his “taking the time” to speak to me in order to help me “pin down the total arseholes that keep doing this sort of thing”. Unsurprisingly, despite my great efforts and geniality, the man does not seem very reassured, appearing, of anything, increasingly nervous. Nonetheless, he is nodding and making agreeable “yeah, totally man” and “that sounds rubbish”-type statements. I finish up with some knife-twisting detail about how it causes us “weeks of hassle”, in terms of the dealing with our letting agent (who I paint as the devil, which is only a slight exaggeration), and jokingly ask him “I mean, how selfish does someone have to be to do such a thing?! To put us through all that, so thoughtlessly?” and “seriously, what sort of excuse for a human would damage someone else’s property for the sake of their own temporary convenience?!”. Looking thoroughly deflated, the man apologises about 20 more times, reassuring me he will never park in our space again, before I look him in the eyes and with a big smile say “thanks for understanding man”.
At worst, I exploited the standard-issue social awkwardness and politeness of someone who did nothing more than chance his arm parking in an unguarded space, but in such a way that I made it extensively clear to him that I was not remotely upset by his actions as long as he agreed not to park in our space again. At best though, I got to tell a guy, in great detail, making constant eye contact, what a total fuckbandit he was with a shit eating grin on my face. I got to explain all the intricacies of exactly how prickish his actions were, and got to watch him stand there, listen to it, and agree with me.
Zoolix · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oooh I seldom get to tell this. I was a sophomore in High School in a video production class. Teacher had a policy where you had to hand in your ID to check out equipment for the period. One day I pull out my ID set my wallet down and step like 4 paces away into essentially a camera pantry to get my gear and and leave my ID. Step out and realize my wallet is missing, I know it is stolen. Proceed to suspect A. Let's call him Trevor. Trevor and I have a history of fucking with each other the way sophomores in High School do, I was hoping that fun little exchange didnt escalate into wallet theft but I wasn't taking chances. There was money in that shit. I go to Trevor's editing bay, give him a shove and demand my wallet. He proves his innocence by suggesting I ask the teacher to check the security cams. I apologize for shoving him and he says he would have come to me first too and done the same. He offers to help. My friendly rival is now my deputy! Teacher lets us use the cams. All I had to was find where I set my wallet down then we would have our guy. I find where I set it down and get borderline giddy. I run to Trevor's bay and hype him up to speed as we go back the security monitors. There are many students by my wallet, none that saw me set it down, and none that would have questioned someone picking up a lonely wallet.
Zoolix: "This is where the fun begins. Who's your guess?"
Trevor: "Adam"
Zoolix: "My money's on Corey"
Trevor: "Oh yeah Corey 100 percent"
I press play. Corey is walking towards my wallet. Our hype level is on the charts compared to what's about to happen. Corey walks past the wallet.
Trevor: "Damn"
Zoolix: "Fuck"
Corey doubletakes and scoops up the wallet. Our hype level goes from on the charts to Falcon Heavy instantly. High fives happen, we show the teacher, tell him our plan to confront Corey, he okays it. We establish that I dont want him punished as long as he pays me back. (could have had him suspended). I confront Corey alone at his bay.
Zoolix: "Hey corey can you check out something I've been working on? I need a song rec."
Not knowing I know.
Corey: "Sure"
We walk past my editing bay and continue towards the security monitors.
Corey: "Isnt that one yours?"
Zoolix: "Yep."
We reach the monitors and hes sweating bullets. I press play.
Zoolix: "So there's me setting down my wallet...and stepping away"
Corey: ...
Zoolix: "There'd you walking towards it"
Corey: silently sweating Huricane Katrinas
Zoolix: "Aaaaaaaaand there's you taking it and fleeing to your bay"
Corey: Persperiation is starting to pose a risk to the camera equipment
Zoolix:"..."
Corey:"..."
Zoolix:"...So yeah what song?"
He returns my wallet the next day with a little extra in it. I treat my deputy to doughnuts during lunch with the reward. Never fuck with a man's Regal card.
Some days ago I asked my mother about how she found out about my father cheating. She told me that the day he sent her roses, she knew (he is the cheapest bastard you can think about). After that day, he asked him directly, and he denied it. Then, she went to my grandparent's city to find her. When she came back, she told me "Incognite, I think your dad is cheating on me" and I answered something along the lines of "so I wasn't paranoid! When you were on that city he took me to eat with a co-worker and I had the feeling that they were hooking up"... and that's how she found that he had one mistress in each city. One day, he left his computer unlocked. She confronted him again and told him to please be honest. He denied it again and said to her that she was an awful human being, a piece of shit and so on. One month later, their anniversary came. He gave her a cheap coat a present. She gave him a printed copy of all of his whatsapps and emails with those ladies, (with sexual stuff, them thanking him for the pearls, photos of them traveling together (he told us he was on a congress) and one of them telling him that the reformation of the bathroom that he paid looked wonderful) and the divorce papers
krose4 · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so buried but I have a great one. I went into the bathroom and noticed my razor had hair in it. Not very long, but longer than my beard. None of my roommates had much facial hair either. You can guess my next logical conclusion. One of them also had a girlfriend who lived out of town coming to visit that weekend. I went up and asked him.
His reply was stone faced, “No, I swear to god.” After I pressed him more he said, “I swear, I’ll show you my pubes right now.”
And I said, “Okay, show me them.” And his face went a little blank. He reassured me that he would show them to me and I told him to proceed. He literally grabbed the front of his pants and started to pull them down before stopping and admitting it was him. It was semi-humiliating for him after I told everyone in the house and made him buy me razors.
tl;dr: Roommate used my razor to shave his pubes, went super far to clear his name by offering to show me them. As he was in the process admitted it and bought me new razors.
If I'm talking about the nasty pit I was in at some punk show, she'll talk about how she was stabbed with a broken beer bottle at a punk show. If I'm talking about a famous person I met (I work in the entertainment business so I regular meet famous people or D-List people who think they're famous) she'll jump in and talk about how she met famous people and spent the day hanging out with them and they about the silly adventures she had with them.
Anyways, we were at this hookah joint we go to about once a week with another friend.
We're talking about funny but fucked up situations we got into while in high school. I'm telling my story about how I once got mugged under a freeway while I was trying to waddle home as fast as I could because I had diarrhea and I wasn't sure how much longer I could keep my asshole clenched. How after getting my wallet, Blackberry (i was in tenth grade and this was 2009) and SanDisk Clip stolen, I had to waddle three more miles to get home but by mile two, I knew I was gonna shit my jeans so I ended up going into the only empty place I could find (a mega-church parking lot) and shitting by a tree and wiping with a sock.
Anyways, she of course had to one up me and starts telling us about how she once got jumped while walking through a park to get home after school. She was taking a short cut when some "cholas" saw her and decided to mug her. She got jumped by 5 other girls and then stabbed after beating two of them up.
She laid there bleeding out for half an hour until someone found her and called the cops. She told a story of being surrounded by police, EMTs and news reporters. With at least 4 helicopters in the air.
How she needed a liver transplant, several blood transfusions, had cracked ribs and was hospitalized for over a month. She was bragging about how it had been all over the news.
Now, all three of us went to the same high school and had been best friends for many years and we never noticed her missing for a month.
We called her out on it, accused her of lying, googled the park to find there story. She admitted to lying, promptly stood up and drove away which sucked because she had driven all of us there and we were one hour away from home.
She still lies but not to the same level as she used too.
I was cashiering at my store relatively late at night just doing my thing, ringing people up one by one, when this guy came in with a cart full of stuff I assumed he had brought here to return. Customer after customer later, he brought up a few things he wanted to purchase.
I rang them up as normal, and then I began ringing up the stuff he wanted to return. I suddenly got this feeling that we weren’t allowed to do item returns on some of the items he had in his cart, so I called up my manager to the front, but before I could do that, the guy insisted that it was perfectly ok for me to do item returns on these items, but I disregarded his advice because I knew that I had to make sure.
So I called up my manager, and a supervisor came up to the register alongside her. I asked her if it was okay for me to do returns on the items he had on his cart, and she said no and that she needed to see the receipt first. So after a little reluctance, the guy gave her the receipt.
Unfortunately for him, our supervisor recognized the guy as a previous shoplifter who had stolen a bottle of olive oil, which conveniently happened to be in his cart, so she called him out on that. On top of that, his receipt was from a store at a different location, which didn’t really help him out much.
Eventually he left in the most butthurt state imaginable after we threatened to call the cops on him. Honestly, I didn’t even really know for sure if he was up to no good until my supervisor called him out on his bullshit, but it was still kinda satisfying to see that dumbass crash and burn along with his scummy plan to make a quick buck.
In college I lived in a fraternity house with 42 other dudes. It was two dudes to a room and I had one roommate, let’s call him “Chad”. I was working out at the time and had stashed some protein bars in my sock drawer for when I was on the go. The only person who knew these protein bars existed was, of course, Chad. He was there in the room when I brought them back from the store.
So, one day after a workout I went to grab a protein bar and sure enough, just socks. Not a single bar left behind. Sure, it was a minor inconvenience at worst, but I thought it was kinda lame that Chad would do this without asking.
When I confronted him about it later that day, he denied it. Saying he was offended I would accuse him of theft, and that I was a shitty roommate for even thinking of that. I thought his reaction was overly theatrical and seemed like a classic lie.
So I let it go for a day or so, but then it began to bug me. “Why would this fucker lie about the protein bar?” I thought to myself. “I couldn’t care less if he ate them. They are $2 a pop, but out of principle if you eat another mans post workout snack, own it!” So, naturally I began to think about how I could catch him in this bizarre lie.
I decided to go to the store, and purchase another protein bar. Only this time, rather than stash it with my socks, I ate it immediately and saved the wrapper until I got back to the fraternity house. I waited until that evening and confronted old Chad-O while he was smoking pot with some other guys. I held up the wrapper and said, “hey man, you left this in your trash”
Chad’s high was decimated. He went into hyper apology mode saying how he’d pay me back and all this and that. Best part was, since the rest of the dudes in the room had no idea what was going on, I told them the whole story about how Chad was a scumbag/lying sack of shit and a dumbass for falling for my evidence planting scheme while he was there listening the whole time.
Chad ended up being a pretty crumby person - he slept with his best friend’s girlfriend, stole a bong from another friend, and ruined most of the relationships he had formed during college.
TLDR: roommate stole protein bar and lied about it. I planted fake evidence in his trash and used this to get him to own up. Then proceeded to rub his face in the lie publicly.
Knew this guy back when I was probaly 12-14 or so. He was always making up bullshit to sound cool.
Some highlights:
Claimed he was once in a car that tried to beat a train and it was so close the train tore the rear bumper off.
Claimed he had a Jeet Kune Do manual written by Bruce Lee. Not AUTHORED by Bruce Lee, WRITTEN by Bruce Lee. As in, in his hand writing.
Claimed he owned the leather jacket Brandon Lee wore during the filming of The Crow (his favorite movie).
That last one is relevant to the time I busted him. He also claimed that he had family who worked in the movie industry and when he was visiting them in L.A. he got to visit the set of The Crow. He was there when Brandon Lee was shot and heard him scream from the next room. At the time I just rolled my eyes and went on. Later however, I had occasion to look up Brandon Lee and discovered that he died in North Carolina, because that's where The Crow was filmed, not Los Angeles.
The next time he brought the story up around other people it was very satisfying to drop that bomb.
I work for a small retail company. My boss, who is also the owner of the company sometimes tries to discredit me and my team's ideas and implementations within our stores by telling us that the managers of our stores dislike/don't agree/think our ideas are stupid.
Sometimes he goes as far as telling us that the managers think that 'x' is a far better idea than what we've come up with, but it's his idea and a complete lie that they have said that.
When he does this now, I simply call him out now. I say, they didn't say that, you said that. Stops him dead his tracks and I see a tinge of embarrassment.
girl i dated 2 months........ started talking about sex she says..."im healthy, and always used condoms"
me: well lets go to the doctor and get a checkup
(HIV reaction thing shows positive for HIV)..... it was her swab....
Doctors face: (O_O)
Her Face: (O_O)
MY facee: :D
I quietly exit to the bathroom... at my house
Didnt get to see the face of the waste of human meat-flesh person sadly, but story goes:
About 15 years ago, my mother got herself yet another boyfriend, everything was ok for a few years until we slowly noticed he was delusional and probably schizophrenic with a violent streak. This ended up with me coming back from school and finding one particular item from my collection missing off my wall.
That item was a 9.5 inch hunting knife.
The sheath was still there, but the blade itself was gone. I confronted him about it, he denied of course and later called my mother in secret trying to put the blame on me that i hid it and was trying to frame because "i hated him" (i did, fuck that piece of shit. I still have a bullet with his name on it if he ever appears again). Cue a small verbal fight, after which he shoved me to the ground and gave me a few bruises and stormed off to the balcony for a smoke. I nope'd out of there, called and met my mother at a hotel she worked with (they gave us a free room in the maid's quarters for a few days, so that was cool) and we stayed holed out of our own home for 2 nights. She called the cops the same night, who came in and actually had to bust the door down as he had literally barricaded himself inside.
As far as i know, they had to fight him to the ground and took ghim in for the next few days before sending him back to his home turf in Belgium. The blade itself magically reappeared in the sheath the same night after i left...
Weird huh?
The satisfaction came from knowing he got his useless ass handed to him by real men, and was denied all his bullshit claims as well as getting sent back to which ever hell hole spawned him.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I catfished my ex husband. After finding out about an affair i filed for separation. He begged and pleaded for a second chance. I agreed. But being the apprehensive non trusting person that i am i wanted to see how serious he was. I knew he always had a thing for this woman he used to work with so i found some of her pics online (she didn’t have a Facebook account) so i setup a fake Facebook and texting app. I kept the ruse going for almost 3 months all while “working on my marriage”. One morning i sat him down and told him i wanted to go through with the divorce. Not 5 minutes later he starts texting my fake persona. She broke up with him that day too. It was the most satisfying thing ever!
One day my husband called and asked when I'd be home from work. I told him 5. I left work at 4. I walked into my house at 4:30 and there's my husband, naked, running through the house. He told me he was having a moment with himself and I'd walked in on it. He told me to take a shower and he'd make me some tea. I walked straight to our guest room and there was another woman in nothing but her panties. She ran out of my house like that.
From then on years of lies came undone. He was a pathological liar and had been picking up random strangers for the 8 years we were together. Devastating. I was never the same after that.
He worked a second job at night and i was a full time college student at night. Found out he was taking women out to bars after his bar closed at midnight. Then he'd come home at 2am saying they stayed open late.
Honestly that's probably the only way i would have believed it. He always seemed like he had really good morals but he was just a liar. I would never have believed he was cheating if i hadn't seen it.
I texted my sister to ask her to hang out right then. She told me she was still in a city 1.5 hours away for a bachelorette party. Pulled up next to her at a red light in our city not 2 minutes later.
CAUGHT YO DUMBASS! It’s chill if you want to be alone and not hang out, just tell me that rather than lie to me. That or she can teleport, in which case you need to tell me that shit too cuz that’s pretty dope
When I was a senior in high school, three friends and I planned and executed a really great prank. We snuck onto school grounds the night after graduation and went to work. We did a few little things, like run the Jolly Roger up the flag pole, messing with signage, that kind of thing. Non-invasive, relatively minor stuff. But for the BIG prank, we climbed up onto the roof of the school and detached a bunch of newly-installed, two-foot high marquee letters than spelled out the name of our high school over the front entrance. The school had recently invested a lot of money in renovation, and had shelled out a pretty penny for these letters. We re-arranged most of them to spell a vulgar, yet relatively inoffensive phrase. The extraneous letters we hid at various points around the rooftop, lowering them into hard to access portals and shafts with rope that we had brought in our kit bag of pranking goodies.
Anyway, it was a completely successful operation, and caused quite the stink when the rest of the school returned the next day (again, my senior class graduated about a week before the rest of school let out). We pranksters were all stoked and proud that we had accomplished it without getting caught, and without doing any kind of lasting damage or vandalism. Find the letters, grab a wrench, problem solved, right? The school had a hissy fit when they couldn't find their expensive letters and wanted to press charges, but even though they had footage of us entering and leaving, we had successfully shielded our faces to prevent identification. Eventually they found the letters and no charges were filed (not that they could have been anyway, since they couldn't ID us).
Anyway, here's where the busted lie comes in: A week or so later one of my friends who was involved with the prank was having a graduation party. Present at the party was another young man who I will refer to only as "Z". Z already had a reputation as a serial, and perhaps pathological liar. We had all witnessed it on many occasions. His lies appeared mostly harmless though, so he was rarely called on them. Anyway, one of my other co-conspirators and I are listening to Z talk, and at a certain point he starts telling the story of how he and someone else pulled off this great prank. Our ears perk up. Z proceeds to fabricate an entire story about how he planned and executed this prank with all the gusto of Danny Ocean or the Pink Panther. My co-collaborators and I are just listening, astounded, offended, but we say nothing.
So we all huddle in a corner and decide we're going to out this lying asshole. We go up to him, and start to ask him very specific questions about how he pulled off the prank. He starts fumbling and can't answer with any sort of credibility. A large crowd of people are watching this unfold, just as we'd hoped and encouraged. Finally, we drop the bomb. "No. You're lying Z. You had nothing to do with it. You know how we know? Because it was us. We did it." We outed ourselves in order to out him.
The look on the kid's face was priceless. He went pale and his chin scrunched up and he started to cry a little bit. He knew he was busted, and it stung him hard. To us, it was supreme vindication, and also served as a public place in which to confess to our own prankster-ism. So we felt like we had our cake and ate it too. In retrospect, it almost feels a little cruel how we baited him into it, but at the time, it was a supremely satisfying comeuppance for those of us who were sick of him lying all the time and no one calling him on it.
I work at Home Depot and spent my first year in the paint department. Now I do a lot more, including helping customers with returns. However, we do not return mixed paint for obvious reasons.
A guy came in with a can of paint and set it in front of me. He said he needed to return it. I told him our policy and pointed out that the paint had clearly been used because the sides of the can were covered in dry paint. He insisted the can was 90% full and he needed to return it because it didn't match the other can of the same color he and his wife had bought the week prior.
Another important thing to note is that when we mix paint, we put a sticker on top of the can that has the color, formula, and date. Our stickers for the last five years have be circular as well. The sticker on this guys can was rectangular so I asked if I could look at the label. This paint that he'd purchased 'two weeks ago' was mixed over a decade ago in 2008.
I literally point all this information out to the guy including the part of the sticker that says in bold letters that it is not returnable. He continues with his lie for a while, even asking me if I could check if the person who mixed it accidently put a 2008 sticker on the can. This is forehead-slapping stupidity at this point and he just won't back down.
Until suddenly, he flips his script 180 degrees and acts like it was all a mistake. "Oh this isn't the right can! This is from 2008. My wife must have given me the wrong one. I'll go get the other can."
"Alright," I said, "but even still we won't be able to return the other can either."
"No worries," he says as he's walking away. "I didn't want to return it anyway."
Then he left and almost certainly started talking crap about how terrible of a store we are. But it was nice being able to catch someone in such an obvious lie.
I was living overseas and I was trying to make friends so I went out with an acquaintance to play pool. While he was lining up a shot I went to the bathroom. The bathroom door was next to the urinal so I peaked my head out to watch him shoot. He missed. I watched him move the cue ball and try again,this time making the shot. He then proceeded to sink his second shot before I came out. When I returned he told me that he had made an amazing shot and put two balls in the pocket- If only I had of seen it.
I was bartending a few years back. One day I had this older couple in for dinner. The lady ordered a bone dry martini. So I chilled the booze (can't remember if it was vodka or gin) with no vermouth, and served it to her. After she finished it I asked if she'd like another, she says "yes, but with a little less vermouth". I said "Really? I didn't even put any vermouth in that one." Crap like this happens all the time when you bartend, people act like they're experts.
I was at a bar in San Francisco talking with a group of about 3 guys and 5 girls. The guys were impressing the hell out of these girls. The guys worked for the Golden state warriors in marketing or something. The problem was I and the two guys I was with actually work for the Warriors. One guy for 20 years. There’s not that many people that work for them. I asked who there boss was. One guy said some name that clearly did not work there. Every was was “ WOW so cool what’s that like working there?” I said the only problem was that we actually work there. Laughter ensued, they left, my buff married one of those girls
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every day I worked for CBP.
You get to be a great lie reader. And every day someone lies to you. Sometimes you’re too tired or busy to catch it. But when you do and someone gets sent to jail or deported for it, it’s very satisfying.
Broke up with my girlfriend but due to circumstances had to keep living with her for the rest of the month. Things weren't terrible, but were forsure awkward. Toward the end of the month I found out she lied about the reason things weren't working (she was actually already talking to someone else), and had been lying to her friends about how I had been treating her. Saying I was being an asshole to her and taking everything.
First off, everything was mine. So I was taking my stuff. And I was also leaving her the bedroom set, bed, kitchen stuff and food.
So I decided to actually be petty and live up to her description, moved out that day while she was at work and took every last thing of mine. Left her with an end table, mattress pad and a plastic Walmart container.
I had a roommate who acted broke for almost 5 semesters in college, he told me different sad stories of how things were really bad with him and his family. Somehow i was committed to take care of his feeding and often times we go out to eat together.
One day i was also out of cash as all the monies my parents gave to me blows out quickly than expected and it made them think i was living a lavish lifestyle. That period they were trying to teach me a lesson by delaying to send money.
I went into one of those hunger-related deep sleep when i woke up my temperature was dropping and shaking, I decided to pickup the closest jacket in the wardrobe, it belongs to my roommate John. when I wore the jacket and put my hands in the pockets, I found huge stash of cash.. an amount that can feed us through out 70 the semesters. I quickly removed the jacket and put it back.
That same day, I ran into John my always crying broke roommate as i was leaving the dorm, he started with one of those stories of how he hasn’t eaten since the previous day and doesn’t have a dime on him, i told him same here, I’m broke, he didn’t believe me.
Funny thing was as John complained, I can smell the rich odor of soup and fish combo. John has eaten but came back to lie.
So he went to sleep for about 4hrs when he woke he started composing again, “no money” I’m suffering with sickness and no food.! I! He still swore he hadn’t eaten so I asked him to join me as i go buy dinner for both of us, little did John know I’ve taken money from the jacket I found earlier to pay for our meal. He came the next day with another hunger lullaby and every other day but i keep taking money from there to pay for our food.
I spent almost all that money on us and John till today didn’t have guts to ask about the money directly. he only told me he’s looking for something the day he brought out that jacket, he couldn’t say money was missing! That’s how John played himself.
I had a friend in Mississippi when I was around 9 or 10, back when the first gen of Pokémon were a huge deal. One day I came home and found that someone had come into our house and stolen half my cards. I had no idea why or who would do this. A few weeks later my “friend” and I were playing at his house when I noticed that he had a stash of cards that turned out to be mine. He had broken into my house at 9 years old to steal my Pokémon cards. I made a new friend.
YT__ · 2 points · Posted at 20:14:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was 20, I worked at a concert venue as a food stand manager. I managed anywhere from 3-8 stands a show, depending on what was open and all. My actual title, because all managers in the open area wore the same shirts, was an Alcohol Compliance Surervisor. Walkie talkies, bright red shirts, cool rain coats if I ever needed it, had a great time. So if I encountered anyone violating the alcohol rules we had, mostly just two drinks per person and you have to be wearing a wristband to carry, it was my job to step in and figure pout the issue. Sometimes it was as simple as their friend paid and so they didn't get the stand issued wristband, so I'd put one on them and send them on their way. Sometimes I was that guy that threw away the underage kids' alcohol. Plenty of stories with this job.
Another task I got to do, was that if my stands had an issue with an ID, they'd call me over to examine it. We had studied the books of IDs they provide and knew the tell tale signs of fakes. I could also call over the head of alcohol compliance if I needed. One of my favorites though, was this one girl. She just didn't look like the girl in the picture really, and so they weren't sure and asked me to look. ID looked real, so I asked her some questions. What's your name? Such and such. Correct. What's your address? I just moved and I don't remember it. Fine, I won't hold it against you. Then I caught the kicker. I asked her when she got the ID. She said idk it was a few weeks ago. The ID had been issued that day. I sent her off without a drink because she failed to lie well enough.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:17:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Texted a coworker if he could cover my 5-2am shift because I had an exam at 11 am the next day and wanted to get some last minute studying in. He says he can’t because he has an exam at 8 am the next day. Well I’m in my 11 am exam, look up, and see that he just turned in his exam. I mean it’s just a little lie, but it annoyed the hell out of me!
I was sitting in a VFW bar in Korea drinking with a friend, we'll call him Larry.
Larry was a 23 year Army veteran freshly retired from the Army working a contractor job in Korea. He was also a complete and total drunk, far worse then any alcoholic I have ever met.
Larry liked to lie...a lot. Larry's lies were normally subtle enough to not get called out on...but today he's going step on a land mine.
Larry decided he was going share a war story about his time in Kosovo, I thought that unusual because I'm very familiar with the Kosovo conflict and to be frank...it didn't involve a lot of combat for US Forces.
So Larry starts off on his tale, him and his platoon where in Kosovo and the fighting was so bad they had to take their doors off their humvees so they could shot their machine guns out of the doors.
A few issues with this
I would assume those doors would provide some safety, and security, removing them during a fire fight or seems like a bad idea
The reason for removing them is even more bullshit, if you have to fire your gun out of your vehicle you stick the barrel through the window not take the armored fucking door off you idiot
Thirdly, we really didn't have any fire fights like this involving US Forces in Kosovo (I was there)
I ask larry "So how many men did you lose in Kosovo?" He said "What do you mean?" I said "How many men died under your command in Kosovo, how many men did you lose?" (I was trying to be really clear)
Larry looked at me and said "I lost 7 men, it was hard" I clarified "So 7 men of yours, died in Kosovo right?"
The whole bar is quite cause a lot of other guys know exactly where I'm heading towards, I suspect Larry knew too.
"Yes 7 men died in Kosovo under my leadership"
I took a big drink of my beer, looked at him and said "Larry your fucking lying" he said "how dare you call me a liar" to which I said "Larry the official death toll for US forces was 2...those 2 soldiers died when their Apache engine seized and they fell out of the sky. You might be able to argue 3 because the day after the conflict one soldier died when he was hit as he was directing traffic"
The bar fact checked me, I was right, Larry was thrown out of the bar.
TL:DR Drunk Army Retiree was talking about his war stories, they were bullshit he claims a higher casualty count then the entire conflict created
I’m one of the most senior people in my department at the restaurant I work at.
It’s a fast paced environment, and recently corporate has put out a new labor policy that required tons of cuts to hours and manpower.
My department used to be manned by 3-4 people, and now they have it down to 2 maximum, maybe 3 if it is reeeeally busy.
I’m also the one that trains all the new people coming in, and after the labor policy change, I didn’t have time to keep up with training new people and answer all their questions while still answering phones, taking catering orders, packing food, doing cash transactions, stocking containers, baking bread, folding napkins, and preparing go bags for deliveries.
One of the things eating up most of my time was answering basic questions for the newbies. So I took it upon myself to make guides when I got home one night. I hopped on m computer and typed up:
“Side Guide”
Which basically explained what sides come with what dishes, what dressing comes with what salad, as well as what size container they need to be in, and what items get wrapped to avoid spills, and which don’t get wrapped to avoid becoming soggy.
“List of Duties”
This basically explained what your basic duties were, depending on what role you were playing in the department that night, and how those duties were divided depending on the size of the crew. It detailed everything from where to find certain supplies, to how things should be cleaned at the end of the night, and by who.
“Stocking Guide”
This was basically just a picture of the shelves in our department when fully stocked, showing what they should look like before we leave for the night. It gave exact amounts for cups of butter, Parmesan cheese, and salad dressings.
After typing these up and putting them on a flash drive, I showed them to my manager the next day and asked if I could print them out and post them around, so new hires would have answers to basic questions all around them, so they wouldn’t have to wait for the person training them to not be busy in order to answer.
The manager loved it. So I posted them up, and they remain in my department to this day.
Well, one day corporate came to do a walkthrough, and a manager I don’t particularly like was giving them the tour.
When they came through my department and saw the guides, I quietly watched as they read the guides and said “That’s a good idea. We need that in every store. Can you get more of these for us?”
My manager: “Yeah. That was just something I did to help new hires. It gets busy so this helps them find answers to frequent questions.” He said, taking credit for all my work.
I stepped forward but didn’t say anything immediately. He didn’t notice me since his back was to me.
Corporate person: “When can you get them to us?”
Manager: “They’re saved on my computer at home. I can email them to you tonight.”
That’s when I stepped in and said, “Or... I have the flash drive in my backpack, I can email them to you right now since I’m the one who made these. Ask [other managers name]. I have signed approval from them to post these guides... Also in my backpack.”
The people from corporate stated daggers at my manager and then looked to me and handed me a business card with their email. “Please do.” And then they looked at the manager again and just went “tsk tsk” and continued on with the tour.
My manager didn’t talk to me for weeks after that, and corporate thanked me after I emailed them, and sent pictures of the guides posted at our other restaurants over the next few months. I received an award from corporate (but would have preferred a raise), and the corporate head of our department (Carryout and Catering) came down and presented it, and asked for my input on training material.
The manager who tried to steal credit moved to Delaware about 5 months later and is no longer with the brand.
I will receive a bonus when the new training material goes live, but I will be leaving the brand as well to move to Texas, so they aren’t giving me anything beyond the bonus.
There are a couple locations in Dallas, Texas, as well as our corporate office, so I may stay with the brand if I can find a house near Dallas, but I’m mainly looking for a house with land, and nothing in the Dallas area has really caught my eye, and I don’t want to be in the restaurant business forever. My dreams reside elsewhere.
Nevertheless, by catching my manager in a lie for trying to steal credit for my work in front of corporate, I became a key part of rewriting training material and having my guides launched nationwide at all 50 locations. I will receive a bonus, and that bonus will help me start a new life with my beautiful soon-to-be wife. (She doesn’t know about the bonus yet. That’s what’s going to buy her wedding ring.)
This time when I was waiting outside a washroom stall for the user to finish. The girl comes out without flushing and starts walking away! I ask her to flush and she says the poop was already there! I literally heard you pooping woman! Some people aren't bevsn human smh
Had a 3 person group assignment in college, presentation day comes along and ask group mate why he didn't meet us for practice and he gave some lame excuse that he had lost his phone and didn't have his material that he would cover one of our slides and take credit. He had been lying throughout the assignment so this time I decided to call his phone and sure enough his back pack started ringing. Lying POS.
Told the professor that he was dead weight, professor then told me it was our call to drop him from the group and he would respect our decision. Dropped him before we went up and he got a 0 on the assignment. That kid probably ended up failing the class since it was such a large assignment.
Not necessarily a “lie” but my cook started closing up for the night early, saying we were dead quiet and he didn’t want to waste company money on him when we didn’t need to be.
I had seen on his Facebook earlier that he was going to a a concert so I told him we just got a late order and we might even be late to close.
After being content with the look on his face as he started up the grill I told him I was kidding. We made sure he got to his concert on time.
So to start, I manage a QA team that works off of checklists. We had a guy who would never be at his desk, had super low reporting numbers, and was generally not fit for any sort of technical position. His checklists (that were shared by the feature team) were almost never updated when they should be, and his excuse was always that he just hadn’t updated yet. Uh, bullshit. I told one of my coordinators to fill out his checks with specific lines swapped. (Pass is Fail, Fail is Pass) Hey look at that, his results matched! The dude was waiting until the rest of the team finished and just copy/pasting their work. He got transferred shortly thereafter.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a senior in high school, this guy that i'm gonna call The Sensei moved to town and opened up a martial arts studio in the same shopping center my mom's work was at. Every time I saw this guy, he would hassle me about joining his studio which I wasn't interested in because I don't care about fighting people. The guy claimed that he synthesized some new form of martial arts that allowed him to win tournaments around the world. It was totally believable since he obviously could make way more money working in a shitty shopping center than in UFC or something.
A couple years after I left for college, I convinced my friends to stop in my hometown so I could get some pizza from this local pizza place I had nostalgia for since it was on the way. While we were eating, The Sensei walks in. Since we were the only people in the restaurant (this was at like 3 pm,) he comes over and starts talking to us trying to sell us on his business.
One of my friends was a dude named Ryan who was a couple years older than me and did some amateur MMA. I think he had something like 3 bouts at this point, nothing too crazy. The Sensei won't leave us alone the entire time we're eating so after we finish, Ryan asks if we have time to run by the guy's studio so they can spar.
The sparring session, if you could call it that, was hilarious. The first thing the sensei does is try a spin kick which doesn't connect. Ryan takes him down when his back was turned and gets him in an arm bar within like a minute. Ryan lets him go and we get ready to leave.
The Sensei says "hey, not fair. I didn't know we were doing take downs. Let's only do striking moves and try again." Ryan agrees and they sparred for like three minutes or so. The Sensei is too slow to really land anything, gets mad and tries to tackle Ryan. This ends with Ryan putting him in the second arm bar in like 5 minutes of fighting.
Throughout middle school, this kid always said he was born in 1999, while everyone else was born in 2000/2001, and he was talking about how he had his license, and a car and everything under the sun. One day we were bsing with the SRO and he pulled up the kids records, and he had been lying the whole time, and he was born in 2001 just like the rest of us.
Wasn't necessarily lying, just thought he knew more than he did.
Had an employee who said he was "entitled by law" to two 15 minute breaks in addition to a 30 minute lunch when working an 8 hour shift.
Noone ever took breaks aside form the short lunch, he was a smoker and would constantly go, I allowed him plenty of times when it was dead. The day I said no and pulled that shit... Let him google it himself. He never got a smoke break again.
Our company had their own policy of course to help with this, as most do. but 99% of the time they are "guidelines" based on "business needs and manager's discretion"
TL;DR- In TX there are no labor laws requiring rest periods. Employee made a fuss one day, learned his lesson. when he googled it.
A girl in my school faked having leukemia. She has shaved off her eyebrows and cutted her hair short to go deep into the lies.The story went around the whole school and everybody felt so sorry for her. Until a friend of her asked her parents about how her chemo was going. And ofcourse the parents had no idea what she was talking about until they found out the lie her daughter had spread. Everybody hated her after she got exposed. She did it to get more attention from her friends.
My son claiming he doesn’t pull our dog’s (husky) hair underneath the door at night when he should be in bed. Dog sleeps outside of son’s room each night, and has been yelping and leaving the typical sleeping spot looking pissed as of the last several nights/nap-times.
Stake-out resulted in seeing a set of 3-year-old fingers reaching underneath the door. Naturally I grab them, hear him run away, I stifle a laugh, open the door and calmly say, “caught ya.”
Who knew something could be so satisfying and frustrating at the same time
-kel- · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is way late and probably won’t be seen, but I dated a type 1 diabetic for about 2 years in high school. One summer, I went on a vacation with my aunt and cousin to Disney world and I got some texts from my boyfriend at the time saying he was in the hospital with pancreatitis and it was looking really bad. He played into it hard, like he didn’t know what the outcome would be. I freaked out and called my mom to try and get a plane ticket back home. My mom didn’t trust this guy, so she called my ex’s aunt who lived right next door to him to see what was going on. His aunt said something like, “He isn’t in the hospital. I’m looking right at him. He’s outside mowing the yard right now.”
Right after that, he called me acting like he had no idea what was going on and claimed that someone remotely hacked his cell phone and was texting me all of this. From them on, I realized that he was the biggest compulsive liar and manipulator I had ever met. I tried breaking up with him many times but he kept saying he would kill himself if I did. Eventually, I realized that I didn’t not love him at all and it was not my responsibility to keep this kid alive and ruin my own life in the process.
I’m now married to the best, more honest man and couldn’t be happier.
Co Worker skipped out on work saying she needed to visit a therapy center out of state. Our boss ran into her at a college football game, thing is, we sell merchandise in booths there and we have 5 booths.
Not the MOST satisfying time but the most recent time.
TLDR: my dad often makes up fake science to explain his annoying habits, even though he never graduated college, never really took a science course, and I’m a medical student.
I love my dad. But he is a compulsive liar about weird things.
I’m currently visiting my parents for a week on recess from medical school. Earlier this week we visited a huge amusement park (lots of roller coasters). Now inversions and swing-like motions give my dad motion sickness, and always have. So midday when my dad told me he needed to go on “something easy” for a while bc his stomach was upset, I obviously believed him, knowing his history.
For almost two hours we go on some very boring, chill rides and he’s still “not feeling better.” We sit down for a while doing nothing, and walk around a gift shop. The gift shop is attached to a cotton candy shop and he gets all excited and says he wants cotton candy (I’m holding the credit cards in my purse, so all purchases go through me lol).
I told him no, since his stomach is upset and sugar won’t help. I want to go back on the intense rides and don’t want to wait even longer for him to feel better. Then he claims he NEEDS a Twix bar. I told him we are done sitting around and if he gets a Twix, we are going on some coasters. He reluctantly agrees.
Following inhalation of the Twix, my dad says “I already feel better, bc the Twix coated my stomach.” He goes on to make up some explanation of how he knew a Twix was the perfect snack to stop acid reflux, which was NOT what he was complaining of earlier.
I stop walking and just stare at him. “Seriously? I’m a medical student. Do you not think I know how much BS that is?”
Dude looks like a deer in the headlights. Then he admits he was lying about feeling sick the whole time, he was just tired of walking around and waiting in line.
For those of you familiar with acid reflux, it’s recommend you AVOID chocolate as it’s thought to be a trigger.
My dad went to college but never finished a degree in horticulture and constantly makes up fake medical science to validate his mild obesity.
I used to work with a woman that constantly lied about everything. We worked as bartenders at a large chain restaurant and she would always have some kind of problem or other that she was crying about to get guests to give her money. She even went as far as telling people she had cancer AND would use the story of her daughter committing suicide (which was true) to try to get larger tips.
However, the best lie I caught her in was this: she was working the day shift and I was coming in to relieve her. When I got to work I saw her bawling her eyes out at a table. She was on the phone saying, “Someone stole my purse. It had all of my money in there, including my mortgage payment.” While this is happening, I am staring at her sitting there with her purse on the table next to her. She sees me looking at her and hurries to get off the phone. I ask her if everything is okay and she immediately stops crying like nothing happened and says, “Yea, I’m good. How are you?” Here’s the kicker- this was my story!! Someone had stolen my purse from behind the bar the previous year and it indeed had my mortgage payment in it. I was devastated when it happened, but lucky enough for me, I had great bar regulars that ended up tipping me enough that night to cover what I had lost. This chick tries to use my bad fortune as her own in hopes of getting money out of some poor sucker. Pissed me off to no end.
po0f · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hubby and I were looking for a wedding photographer.. this guy reached out, advised that he has been out of the photography game for a while but would be willing to do a wedding.. he offers to do it for $250..... now up until that point we've been getting quotes not lower than $900 to do the event.
Since this was fishy I reverse image searched some of the examples he sent, which were really good quality fantasy photos. Why would someone this talented and professional be 'out of the game'? Sure enough we find the photos, which were stolen from a real photographer's blog.
We definitely sent her an email with screenshots!
pm1966 · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy I knew (and didn't like at all) in graduate school was bragging about having had sex with a mutual female acquaintance. And when I say bragging about, I mean in very crude terms.
I tried to suggest that I thought he was full of shit, and just bragging, as a way of getting him to shut up and stop being a total ass, but he wouldn't take the hint, After a few minutes, I revealed that she had I had been dating for some time and that I was surprised she had never mentioned her ongoing relations with him.
He went quiet for a few long seconds before admitting that he had been making the whole the thing up, and started stammering out an apology. I just said "Don't apologize to me" and walked away.
In third grade I sat across from this kid that lied about everything he had to seem cooler and better. If you said you went to an *NSYNC concert he said he’s been to 3 already. He always had to “up” people, and I knew a lot of it were lies.
One day I told him that I found a rare $20 gold coin, one side gold and one side silver (I obviously made it up) and he said he had 5 of them. And I immediately was like “ah ha!!! I made it up, that doesn’t exist.” And he had nothing to say.
Caught my little brother lying about stealing $500 from my wife and me. I accused him of stealing because it was either him or my parents (and my parents just don't do that). Things got heated when he was denying it and I said "if you needed money you could've just asked" and he replied with "you would've never given it to me!"
Satisfying isn't the exact word I'd use. But it represented a form of closure.
Ouch. That’s better than mine, but I suck out loud. I’m awful. I’m sitting at .72.
btm231 · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me catching someone, but satisfying nonetheless.
A family member was in a year-long legal battle with the city on charges of assault on an officer. While much of the evidence pointed to a lot of tom-fuckery, it's very tough when it's an officer's word against anyone.
After over a year of trial, the whole thing resulted in a hung jury so we were set for yet ANOTHER possibly year-long battle. However, during a recompiling of evidence and cross examination, it was found that one of the officers lied about why his recording equipment was off and when it was reported, which put an enormous hole in a bunch of other circumstantial evidence brought by the city.
Result: Family member acquitted, counter sues, wins settlement.
Screenshotting the stuff they say now that deep down you think will be something you can use against them later when they try and tell others a fabricated lie, but you already have the truth.
This isn't satisfying I just want to tell someone. Two weeks ago I found my boyfriend of ten years getting notifications from a throwaway account on reddit, totally by accident (I wanted to show him a gif i sent him). He said it was nothing, to my face, WHILE deleting the account. I just sort of leaned over and saw, literally, the delete confirmation. He was totally caught and I slowly dragged out that he'd been posting my pics on some wifesharing sub without my permission, whenever I go to bed early.
When I was 12 or 13 my older brother’s friend asked him to jailbreak their ipod so he had it for a few days and then we didn’t see it for a week or so. Then he started using it a lot more. And eventually was using it every day. It was almost like it was his but he didn’t have a job and was really bad with money anyways so he couldn’t have bought it.
One day my mom asks to see it and he gets defensive and says something like no it’s my friend’s I don’t want you to drop it or something and break it, but my mom puts her foot down and he eventually give it to her. My mom goes into the settings and sees it’s named ddbphotog’s iPod Touch.
Several months before I had lost my iPod Touch. I had looked all over the house, checked friends houses, lost and found at school and in the front office there too but nothing. I have ADHD so it made sense that I just lost it but it still sucked and I moved on.
Nope my older brother stole it out of spite, hid it somewhere in his closet and forgot about it. Later when he found it he figured enough time had passed and he could use it again.
He got in so much trouble and had been known to lie a lot when he was a teenager but thankfully he’s much more truthful now.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:09:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife's former best friend had a reputation for being a drug addict, which of course she would deny at all costs.
One series of days she spent over at our house, she spent nearly the entire time in the bathroom. In for an hour, out for 20 minutes, for 3 days, only broken up by her quick "walks" around the block. We live in what could be considered a rough neighborhood, as there are at least 2 obvious dope houses on the block. She would emerge from the bathroom all fucked up and distant, and then pass out on her phone. We questioned some big red bumps she had developed on her veiny cleavage, and she said they were spider bites. We don't have spiders like that, because I would have already torched this place.
I knew what she was doing. It was super obvious, but she has been my wife's close friend since they were kids so she wouldn't believe it.
The morning of the 4th day my wife walked passed her open purse and saw a sandwich bag full of needles and tiny plastic baggies.
I kicked her out immediately, told her to come back after she got help. We tried to be nice about it, but I can't just have someone dying in my house. That's a lot of paperwork.
TL:DR Caught "not a heroin addict" with a bag full of needles and heroin.
When I was a kid a neighbor of ours was jealous of a small figure I had. That figure was worth a good bit of money. One day he came over and we played in my room. He noticed the figure and instantly wanted to play with some toys next to it. He essentially fooling anybody. Halfway while we played monopoly he asked where the bathroom was and while standing up he slipped it in his pouch for his glasses.
Unamused, I proceeded to continue playing with him while watching his pouch to make sure he didn’t go for anything else. Literally a few minutes later he tries to go with the excuse that his stomach aches. When he was sitting up I grabbed his hand while he stood half up stunned. I opened my hand up and asked for my figure back since we were done playing, I gave a wide smirk. The kid tried denying it and tried playing dumb. While his bag was dangling from his belt I yanked it and opened it in front of him. The figure dropped and to my surprise there was no glasses in there either.
The boy went full tomato and stormed out of the house. I followed to make sure he didn’t take anything and slammed the door.
Catching my ex cheating. Wasn’t satisfying at the time lol but man it feels good now
bg001x · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had just started dating a girl, and she mentioned that she had to go visit her grandparents in Kentucky. No big deal.
Over the few days prior to her leaving I started noticing one particular guy leaving posts on her Facebook. Fairly innocuous, like a countdown kind of thing, so I figure that he’s a friend from her hometown. Normally I wouldn’t think much of it, but there was something that just rubbed me the wrong way about it. So I look at his profile and it says he lives in Iowa. Again, I thought maybe he was going to be home at the same time and they were just friends.
She leaves for “Kentucky” and a day or so goes by. I message her on Facebook just to see how everything is going. Now, keep in mind, at this point Facebook messenger would show you where the message was sent from. As soon as she responded, bam, somewhere in Iowa. Immediately I knew what was going on. She hadn’t gone to see her grandparents but instead went to Iowa to meet up with this guy.
I didn’t say a word about it. I let her have her time alone and let her think I had no idea.
When she came back I invited her over for dinner, and just asked her general questions about the trip. How it went, how her grandparents were, if anything interesting happened. Super simple and basic responses to all of it. Finally, I paused and asked her how Dude From Iowa was. She turned white as a ghost. I showed her the messages with the location tag and she started to apologize and tried to reason her way around it.
I broke up with her then and there, kicked her out, and went back and ate. But the look on her face when she realized she was busted was something I’ll never forget.
I was served a glass of vinegar at the bar. I could immediately smell it, and called her on it. She acted surprised, and said she'd get me a new one. I said "hold on, this was an accident? Either you're so bad at your job you 'accidentally' served me a glass of vinegar, or you did this on purpose, which was it?" She sheepishly apologized, but I still called my best friend who happened to be the kitchen manager who reprimanded her and sent her home.
I worked as a hostess at a popular chain restaurant a few years ago. This other girl I worked with would never do anything but complain and I constantly had to pick up her slack. One day she said she was going out back for a smoke break, which was okay because we weren't super busy at that moment but it was going to pick up relatively soon. She went out back, and I watched as she walked around the front of the building in the direction of the shops. I would have understood if she were running to her car or something, but unless it was extremely crowded none of us parked in that direction. She was gone for a good while, so I told one of the managers what I saw and he said he would look into it. A few minutes later, she came back with Victoria's Secret bags. SHE WENT SHOPPING ON THE CLOCK. Maybe if she had gone to get food or something that she actually needed I could sort of justify it but Victoria's Secret??? She didn't even care that I knew when she came back, but I was super ticked off and confirmed with the manager what had happened during her "smoke break". Sadly it wasn't as satisfying in the moment because she didn't get fired until a month or two later (they let a lot of things go on a lot longer than they should have around there) but I'm sure that contributed to their decision.
I worked at a job where all of the coupons we had were in our system. Sometimes when someone called in an order, they'd say "I have a coupon for x, can you apply that and tell my total". No, you don't. I would have already applied it. We always tell the person, "we don't seem to have that coupon in our system, if you bring it in you can apply it".
A mate had a designer claim his work was hers, while he interviewed her. I believe he took the opportunity to give her a little advice before showing her the door.
A friend of mine used to tell everyone he made the money he had by trading money in an app in his phone, he used to brag a lot and we were sceptical so i started to study a bit of how trading works and once we started chatting about that it was cristal clear that he didn't know shit about that... Still we don't know where his money came from
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For real. For what my opinion is worth (nothing mostly) there isn’t a cock or pussy that’s ever been, that will be worth that amount of crazy. Never in human history. Maybe Helen of Troy.
As far as I can tell, this is the truth, period. Several months ago I was asked to be part of a team at work. I was to work with several others to identify and then solve some problems. We did some work. We performed some analysis. Interesting data because data is data and it seemed to support some theories. None the less, a decision was made to move forward and pursue other potential solutions to problems that the data did not support. There was a recommendation based on much less data yet still solid in results. Two days ago we received the results of the test. I in no way intend to blow smoke up my ass or anyone else's. But the data indicates that I was right in my assumptions. It was decided to run a batch with what are the optimized conditions. The batch was produced. It met all predetermined targets. It also met all of the physical changes that were called out, or assumed. I was very happy. Our team had great success.
However, today I find out it was not a team effort. It turned out to work like this. One person came up with an idea. The same person created a process design and executed it flawlessly. The rest of the team decided to undermine the one or two people that did 99% of the work.
To make a long story short: Today I was told that another engineer deserved credit for my successful ideas and solutions. Essentially he was entitled to my success. I made a comment on FB and this engineer posted that, "He always comes to me for guidance and was lucky to have me part of his decision making process on this issue." His entire response was a lie. My boss and his boss came to me and asked what I wanted to do about it. I told them that I am close to retirement and will not p[ass judgement on a fellow employee. It is up to them to deal with it as they see fit. My boss wants him fired. The other engineer's boss wants to sweep it under the rug.
Not looking for sympathy or empathy. Just want to warn others how important it is to be extra diligent in your efforts.
Worked with someone who had been accused of child molestation. He claimed he was being falsely accused and he was the actual victim-REALLY playing up the victim role. A child came to us but he blamed the child and made us the bad guys for trying to ruin him. Months later he's fired for attempting molest a child. Didn't want to be right, but glad he's no longer working with children....
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm bilingual and used to work in warehousing driving a forklift. Most the workers were latin and spoke Spanish including the supervisors. A guy made a major mistake loading a truck with me and blamed it on me, I was within earshot. I let him finish, took my loading sheet to the supervisor and proved my innocence. I was gonna let it go but on my walk back to the forklift I heard him snickering with a few co-workers in Spanish. Now I came up speaking Spanish with some really rough cats, so I can make my words cut just as well as English. I walked up to him and cursed him up and down in Spanish, flipped his clipboard over and walked off. Nobody fucked with me again.
I had an employee who's grandparent was dying or died for like the 3rd time in six months. She called me up super distraught and panicky. I was about 80% sure it was bullshit. But what can you do? Ask for a death certificate? I give her the weekend off for bereavement. Sure enough, the dumbass posts pictures of herself in Reno with her boyfriend.on Facebook or Instagram that my supervisor and other employees see. (I don't follow them, don't let them follow me). I guess she thought they would be more.loyal to her than to me. Yeah.. she was done. It was great
A few years ago I was living in a shared house with a few other people during university. One of the guys I lived with didn’t work or study, and kind of lived in a trash heap in his room, but seemed nice enough. We’ll call him Jack. I kept all of my bowls and glasses etc. in the kitchen downstairs, where all the roommates have separate cupboards. After a few months of living there, I started noticing that some of my stuff was going missing from the kitchen. I asked everyone in the house, maybe someone had been desperate for a glass and forgot to return it. After asking everyone, it seemed that Jack was a bit shifty about it, and I was certain it was him. I asked him repeatedly, so I gave him many chances. One day he went out and left his door open, so I peeked inside to see if I could find my missing stuff. I’ve honestly never seen a more disgusting and messy room in my whole life, apart from those hoarder programmes where people live in squalor. There were clothes EVERYWHERE, old food packets and... my bowls, cutlery, glasses, everything. Worse of all, they were caked in mould from whatever he’d eaten out of them. I left them there as I couldn’t take them without him knowing I’d been in his room. I confronted him and said I knew he had them (without revealing the room peel) and he got super defensive and aggressive, shouting and walking up close to me. I got so upset and left the house to calm down. When I got back, all of my bowls and glasses were washed and drying in the kitchen.
Such a stupid situation, taking to the nth degree, over some kitchenware!
Well my ex told me about 2 weeks after the breakup that she had cancer. Found out the next day she didn't. I was pretty satisfied that not only did she not have cancer, but also that I was not with her anymore.
I knew a dude in high school who did this. Worst was when he bragged about being "already on the second disc" of Final Fantasy X, which was the first Final Fantasy game released on a singular DVD.
We had a guy on my floor freshman year of college who would just lie constantly. Not big lies, little ones. Did you see that movie? Uhh yeah sure I did.
So his roommates invented a band who had a hit song and asked this guy if he knew it. He said of course and they string along him for weeks about this song. He ended up inventing lyrics to it and sung it out loud for us.
After he sang his roommates asked him why he was lying, and he lied about knowing it was fake.
My ex in high school was a psychopath and a compulsive liar, and often not a great one, but because it was mostly about dumb inconsequential shit so we just either overlooked it or gave him the benefit of the doubt.
One example that recently came back up is that he always said this girl in the year above - who is very pretty, athletic, generally pretty popular I guess - was his cousin, and that their Cantonese parents would often get together so they'd chat over lunch and everything. By chance, I ended up studying the same course in the same uni as her, and we recently just interned at the same architecture practice (all coincidentally). On the first day, we were chatting about old high school days and got to the topic of exes, midway through I stop to say "sorry, I don't mean to be chatting shit about your cousin or anything."
She looks up like... "the fuck?? I've never spoken to him before in my life?"
So, not related. Didn't even know he was from Hong Kong as well. She'd only heard of him as my boyfriend. And neither of us can figure out why this is something he would even lie about.
There were other instances about inventing fake cousins, telling sob stories about his parents getting divorced when they obviously were not, saying his mom had stage 9 (???) liver cancer when she OBVIOUSLY did not, creating doctored military documents in pdf form that he would "accidentally" send to me for attention and sympathy etc.
There's something satisfying about knowing that his tales are naturally coming to light and that people are increasingly finding out what a fucking psycho he is.
Fucking love telling this story because I used to hate working with this girl. I was a desk worker for the dorms in college, and this girl transferred buildings just because she wasn’t getting scheduled to work at midnight instead of 4am, despite her only having evening classes. Basically, she was fucking people over by taking good night shifts from people who had morning classes and still wanted to work. We also had these mandatory meetings, and she always had perfect excuses to not be there. Among other reasons, I was sick of this girl taking advantage of everyone else’s kindness and flexibility. Karma finally came for this bitch one day.
She had a night class with my roommate, but she never knew this. A mandatory meeting was scheduled during the night class, so she finally had a legitimate excuse. However, my roommate always texts me and asks to grab dinner in case their class gets out early. Almost within five minutes of each other, my coworker sends a group message reminding everyone about her night class and my roommate asks me if I want to join her in the dining hall because their class dismissed early.
I’ve never screenshot shit so fast in my life. Supervisor learned about her lying ass, and we were finally given a break in the next scheduling.
Yes! Finally. This isnt anything crazy, but it was my girlfriends birthday at a fancy restaurant and I pulled out as many stops as I could to make it special including inviting all her friends secretly. This one Russian girl, we'll just call her Laura, shows up dressed to the 9s in a skanky club outfit. We all sort of knew this girl was a bit of a liar but had never been able to catch her in one for the years we had known her. Well 20 minutes in she comes up to me and dramatically apologizes and tells me she has to leave early, her little sister is drunk and needs a ride home from a party. I sniff the bullshit a mile away and something snaps.
"Did she text you?
"Yeah, shes wasted Im so sorry I wish I could stay"
"Show me."
"What?"
"Show me the text she sent you"
(Obviously panicking )" sure, fine, here" (scrolls through phone for about two seconds, decides the ruse is up, goes beet red and tries to joke)"Ok I lied its not my sister I just have this other thing"
"Laura, youre a fucking liar. Dont bullshit a bullshitter. Now go do whatever the fuck is more important than your friends birthday and get the fuck out of my face. "
God it felt good to call someone out to their face like that.
A guy at uni tried to lie about being an army medic.
Now I’ve never served and don’t claim to have, I believe it takes away from the sacrifice some people make to their countries. But I have long military lineage in my family and as a result spent a fair bit of time learning about military life.
My friend was a paramedic.
A few simple questions and his stories started to fall apart and he just grunted and carried on drinking. That friend and me just nodded to each other and carried on like nothing had happened.
Broke up with a compulsive liar. On the last phone call, she told me she was pregnant and that she was going to never let me see the child and nail me for financial support. I take pills for an enlarged prostate that helps it relax so that I can pee without popping a forehead vein. The side effect is that no semen ever comes out (basically, male birth control. Look up rapaflo). I let her continue on and I pretended to be shocked. I made her yell and cry about how I was going to take her to court and take away the kid. It was hard to fight back the laughter.
Eventually I told her I was on the pill, and she had no idea despite the fact she claimed to be a doctor (she wasn’t).
Bonus Odd Fact: I highly suspect she was a stripper that happened to know a lot of medical terminology. Maybe she would watched House in between shifts lol
I worked at Chick-Fil-A as my first job. I was working the drive thru window on a Thursday afternoon, when a car full of people comes through. The driver starts demanding we remake the order on the receipt he’s waving around. He says the food tasted disgusting.. I ask my manager to step in because I’m young and afraid of confrontation. My manager looks at the receipt and asks the guy what day they came through. He says, “oh, it was last Sunday.” Gotcha! Everyone knows CFA is closed on Sunday’s! So, my awesome manager says, “well, that’s strange. We’re closed on Sunday’s.” The driver gets angry, calls us “stupid peons,” and speeds off. In my little drive thru world, full of rude customers, it was very exciting!
igg73 · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My buddy was talking about how heath ledger is the best actor in history, he should be studied etc.
I asked him to name 3 heath ledger movies and he could only name two
Hell I can name three off the top of my head. Dark knight, knights tale, and I’m not sure if it counts but dr. Parnassius. I don’t even care about acting.
igg73 · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but I was there to witness it. There was this kid in high school who would say he was great at just about everything. A group of us were talking about playing musical instruments and this kid was going on about how he could play every Beatles song without guitar tabs. So one day my friend brings an acoustic guitar to school and tells him, "Here, plays us something" and this kid was just nervously holding the guitar. He ended breaking a string, I still remember that look of shame.
I had a friend who 'made'me some super cute cupcakes for my birthday. They were so delicious and incrdibly intricate I was surprised she had made them herself. She has a habit of exaggerating and lying sometimes but I never had solid proof. I just knew.
Fast forward a couple years and I'm looking for local cake decorators for my wedding cake. I came across one site that looked pretty good. There was a scrolling image showcasing her work. And what do I see? My exact cupcakes from a couple years before. I check my Instagram and they are 100% identical.
The cupcakes were so good I booked the designer as I knew it'd be good. I confronted the liar and she said she mde them on a cake decorating course with the designer. So I asked the designer. She says she remembers them really well as they were the first ones that her teenage son helped her with when he decided to join the family business.
When I was about 15 and my sister was about 25, she had to move back into the family home temporarily. She was reading a book of mine, no big deal. I asked how she liked it, she said it was good, she was glad she had bought it.
I said, no, that's my book. She said, no, it's her book. We went back and forth on it for a while, about where it came from, what it was about, etcetera. She was like, I should know it's my book, I've had it since before I moved out! You must have taken it out of the boxes of stuff I left behind.
She had moved out three or four years previous. I said, really?
And opened the book, pointing to the copyright page which indicated it was first published in the current year.
Was in divorce court, representing myself ( no money for a lawyer ) against my soon-to-be ex-wife. She had played this story about her infidelity was just a single indiscretion. During cross examination I asked her about her single indiscretion. I had her describe the word indiscretion...objected by her lawyer...judge overruled. She had to confirm it meant sexual relations. I asked her where she met these men. She answered online. More than one...yes, she stammered. I asked if she also had sexual relations with men she worked with. She answered yes. More than one? ...yes. I asked if she had had sexual relations with men that were friends of the family. She answered yes. More than one? ...yes.
This is significant because for years everyone assumed it was me cheating. I took a lot of heat for years from a lot of people. Her bible-thumping fan club was in the court room that day...and it literally was incredible.
My best friend whose a lesbian, was sending her nudes to this Arabian guy who was friends with my other best friend, whose straight. Obviously the guy messaged the straight friend and was like "do you know her?" and we then knew she was messaging this guy behind her girlfriends back. This was about 8 months ago.
Last month all of us were hanging out, and the straight friend let the cat out of the bag, and the drama afterward ensued full force.
Lesbian friend started getting hysterical that someo e had hacked her phone and stole her pictures. After some back pedalling, she conceded that she did that but it was years ago, it wasn't recent.
Then an hour later, she confesses fully to doing it a few months prior, but she was blacked out drunk when she did it and doesn't remember.
It was a grueling conversation I wish didn't need to happen, especially with the hostility being thrown at us. I wish straight friend would've been a little better in her approach, but atleast it's out now.
Lesbian friend got me evicted from my first apartment almost 10 years ago, so in a way it was satisfying to see her face some consequences for her reckless decision making
We grew up together since we were really young, like brother and sister. It was through trial and error that I realized the limits of our friendship. She's a lot of fun to be around and is hilarious--as long as you don't live with her. I don't live near her anymore so Im not around her often enough for it to affect me negatively. Sometimes you just gotta learn how you can stay friends with people without it wasting your energy
This goes back to my first boyfriend, he was not the best choice for boyfriend. He thought he was smarter than everyone, was super shady about almost everything and wasnt even that attractive.
I started dating him because I was 20 just lost 60lbs, got my braces off and he was literally the first guy to show interest.
Anyway a girl I know didn't like me that much told me that he was trying to get a date with her. When she asked if he was dating me he said, I was just a crazy, clingy girl. Who, he was hanging out with because I needed friends, but I might be mixing up friendship with more. You know how crazy girls are.
I confronted him, but he assured me that girl just didn't like me and was just trying to cause drama. You know how girls are. I let it go.
We eventually broke up, but he kept in touch. The next year a friend of mine, sweet person, asked if it was okay she start to date him. She didn't want any beef with me and wanted my blessing. I didn't care and wanted her to be happy, so I was like, "go get em girl!"
I texted him how excited I was for him to start this new step. And guess what the loser said? "She was just a crazy, clingy girl. Who, he was hanging out with because she needed friends, but she might be mixing up friendship with more. You know how crazy girls are."
I screenshot the entire thing. Send it to my friend and we both never talk to that low life again.
My ex-husband. He kept cheating on me, and as I made it increasingly clear I was not going to put up with it AND that I was getting better and better at finding out that he was cheating, he got increasingly more wily with things like logging out of our shared PC, using cash instead of credit, etc.
I didn't mean to turn all Sherlock Holmes on the guy, but frankly, knowing that he's cheated before and having some evidence (but not enough) that he's cheating again makes you kind of nutty. I'd never sink that low again. If my new husband ever cheated on me or couldn't explain why it LOOKED like he was cheating (this happened once about 6 years ago, and he easily explained what the problem was and it took very little to confirm it independently), I'd just leave.
Anyway, husband number one was slipping back into his cheating pattern after about 8 good months of maintaining the behaviors we set forth in counseling. But he was also INCREDIBLY canny with covering his behaviors as he never had before, so I had to go to extremes to figure out what was happening. Don't ask, let's leave it at extremes.
I finally got the proof I needed in the form of an email, and shortly after he told me I was being insane and that our counselor said that I had to trust him just as much as he had to trust me not to drag up the past, BAM. Hit him with a printed copy of the email. He just stood there for a few minutes, dumbfounded, then started sputtering about how I was the one creating distrust by rummaging around in his emails (which, per our counseling were supposed to remain open to me). So that was my clue that he wasn't going to change. So that's when I left. He got super mad, because he was this rich guy for whom a divorce was going to create all kinds of optics problems, but I was poor before I met him. I left all the money on his doorstep, even some that we'd earned together, just to nope the fuck out of that relationship, and I think that struck him to his core: That someone would skip the money just to maintain sanity or morals. Then I had a year of counseling to try and get the bad taste out of my mouth from my own freaking behavior (totally admit it was completely insane) then another year for his. Then I was free!
I was in a psych unit with this girl (LB Lying Bitch) that couldn’t stop lying. She wasn’t admitted for lying but it was apparent that everything that came out of her mouth was utter bollocks.
The first time we caught her out was when she used to have cheese on literally everything. Breakfast, lunch and dinner was a complete cheese fest for her. A few weeks later we have a new patient who admits she lactose intolerant. LB suddenly expressed that she was lactose intolerant too and that she couldn’t eat foods like that because it gave her gas. When we asked what food she couldn’t eat she just said “you know, pasta and stuff” No. This wouldn’t have been half as funny if she wasn’t currently sat eating her dinner with, of course, it plastered in cheese.
We had various incidents like this over the few months we knew her everything from “I was born in Texas and moved to England last year” (She went to the same school as another girl and had done since primary) or the “I ran away and had sex with a guy with an 8 pack in the sea” (Sea is fairly close, she never ran away because she actually got leave and she was 16 at the time, I don’t know where she even got the idea of an older man with an 8 pack but it definitely wasn’t true). But my favourite was the weed one.
LB was still making up these stories but the more she heard us talk about drugs, the more her lies expanded to include drugs. Again, starting off with the mild “I smoke cannabis all the time” to the “I just ran away and swallowed a bag of heroin” Her lies were infuriating by this point and having to live with her 24/7, I had had enough.
On her second to last day, we took her outside to the smoking area. (All of the girls except LB were in on this) and explained that we’d managed to smuggle some weed in and would she like some? LB eyes immediately became weary but she said yes. The night before we stole a tea bag from the staff area, this was going to be our “weed”. So we rolled up this tea, presented it to LB, who immediately inhaled and coughed but proceeded to smoke fucking tea. She then “couldn’t” stand up, we were giggling anyway at the state of this girl who had admitted that this was the “best trip of her life”. She came back inside, giggling, making us promise to not tell the staff. We did because the equally had to put up with her bullshit but were relieved she was finally going. Lb proceeded to tell us for the next two hours that she “was high as a kite”, felt as if she was “in a bubble” and that she was overly hallucinating. All because she smoked a smidge of PG Tips. Made my year.
Not myself but my girlfriend's (R) Aunt. Less caught, more confusingly sad... She used to tell R that shirts don't come with pockets. That she sewed them on for R's dad because she loved him sooooo much and every new shirt he bought she would take it first and see the pocket on. That's just the tip of the iceberg. She's sweet but a bit of a nut; The kind of person who will just start rearranging things at someone else's house just because. We always have to keep an eye on her at family gatherings.
My wife worked in a bar. I'd visit from time to time after I got off work at 5pm or so, and I'd have dinner there. One day I remember walking in and seeing some guy at the bar having an "unusual" looking ... connection with her. I'm not the jealous type. She introduced me to him, let's call him Dan. He was nice enough but something was just off.
She frequently told me she worked until close - 2am and then an hour to clean up. So one night I decided to come in later. Got there around 10pm. She wasn't there. Asked a co-worked and said something like "Hey, Amanda said she was going to Dan's house, but I got here late. Do you know where he lives?" She did, and she gave me his address!
I drove over there. Her car was in the driveway. She was straddling him on his couch in full view of the street. I went home. Next morning I called a divorce lawyer. Put together some paperwork. I told her when I got home from work - she had the day off. I told her I had proof of her infidelity, and if she didn't sign the paperwork I would drag her and Dan through the wringer and ruin their lives - legally.
Signed without a word. She moved out. Moved in with another lover. Fell apart 6 months later. Got stuck in a dead end office job. Gained a ton of weight. A few years later she called me asking for help. I refused. No idea where she was. Until a few years when Facebook suggested her as a friend to me and my new wife.
Old Landlord tried to reduce our security deposit because someone’s car ran over a gutter. The gutter still worked fine, but he tried to tell me he just found out about it after he had already agreed to the full amount of our security deposit. I had heard him complain about the gutter to his son on the same day that he agreed to the full amount of the SD about a month before move out. Then when it was time to pay he said ‘well I just saw this gutter so I’ve gotta reduce it.’ I called him out on it. That lie was worth $150. I later went by the place because I knew one of the guys that moved in there and he never even fixed the damn thing because it was working fine.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, I got one of these!
So we had a customer get a truck towed in, and this thing was right chewed up underneath; driveshaft came apart and spun, smacking everything in sight - mutilated most of the lower engine, some hoses got ripped off, no oil in the vehicle, all the fun stuff. Everything needed to be replaced, it was a mess. The quote came to something shy of 20k, essentially a whole new engine bay, ridiculous damage.
We asked the guy what happened, he said he heard something while on the highway, low oil pressure light never came on, he towed it home and parked it, and it wouldn't start again... pretty much only that last part we believed, because there's no way all that damage could happen from doing the safe thing.
Well, he tried to claim warranty. Warranty saw the photos, heard his story... denied. He tried to claim insurance, insurance saw the photos, heard his story... denied. Magically the story shifted that his son drove the truck, but nothing was leaking at the time and it was okay when it was parked. Still denied, denied, denied.
Worse yet? The truck was leased, so he had to either fix it, or buy out the truck and keep a hefty paperweight. Last I heard, he was getting sued for the remainder of the truck's purchase. Either way, he was screwed from the start, but he knew he should've pulled over and stopped. It would've saved the truck and made the situation salvageable (and covered by warranty!!!).
A friend (Will) is a pathological liar. He once told my friends and I he had a Tesla no one really cared but it became suspicious how much he brought it up, I found out he made it up 6 months later. Alright on to the story. Once in an argument me and a different friend (James) were talking about how AMD is better than intel then Will said “intel is better but I have both in my computer.” So I looked up and said so you have a intel core and a AMD graphics card, he said yes. Around 3 weeks later he tried to brag to James and I about how well GTA runs on his computer with his titan X. So I called him out for lying, he denied it. Even with a small lie like that it always feels so good when you shut down someone who constantly lies to you.
JZN · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex left a backup of her phone on my laptop. I restored it onto an old phone. In her lies I was messaging her screenshots of her own phone to her as needed. Very satisfying to stand so tall over such a rotten person courtesy of their own words.
A cop said a friend of mine pointed a gun at him and they sent him to prison for 10yrs. I filed open records requests and found a notebook where the lead investigator interviewed the cop immediately following the shooting. What he said then was another cop said something to make him think they were under attack. Basically the opposite of what he swore to in the charging documents. It took 3. Yrs but my friend’s conviction was overturned.
I know I'm way too late to the game, but in college I had this frat brother who would constantly lie. One day, he was bragging about selling pounds of pot in high school. He said he went and got it in Baltimore and would bring it back to his hometown. I asked him what state was Baltimore in. He said Virginia.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my profession, people lie all the time and I constantly catch them in the act via face-to-face interviews:
- Admissions of drinking after being confronted with physiological evidence (nystagmus, poor SFST performance)
- Admissions of ownership of contraband/weapons in a vehicle and/or upon his/her person
- Admissions of committing a criminal offense through some type of res gestae (unprovoked) statement: "Well, the only reason I broke her phone is I knew she was going to call 911!"
Then there are examples of people lying and being caught as a result of some incontrovertible evidence:
- Texas requires that you change the address on your license with DPS within 30 days of moving. I make contact and they admit that the address on the license is no longer where they live.
"I just moved last week!"
"The insurance card that shows your new address was issued five months ago"
- When lying about one's identity:
"What's your DOB?"
"Uh.... the fifteenth... of, uh, January."
"What year?"
"Uh... 1992?" (upward inflection)
"How old are you?"
"22"
- During roadside interviews (drug interdiction):
"Where are you headed?"
"Home"
"Where did you come from?"
"Home"
One moment that stands out, not necessarily as a "lie" per se, but definitely an omission that could have resulted in a lot of danger and risk was a disturbance/armed encounter/shots fired call that we'd received on the south side of the city. It was at a house known for gang activity. Several callers reported extensive gunfire from this specific location. When we got there, someone answered the door and, for whatever reason, allowed us to enter and search. Of course, several units responded so there were a lot of officers there. We entered the home to find about four or five guys casually sitting on the couch, doing the "nothing going on over here, officers!" act. We searched everywhere and we knew they'd definitely shot guns on the premises (gunpowder smell, shell casings) but couldn't find a shred of evidence of a fucking gun. We are literally about to leave when I look at the four guys sitting and tell them to get the hell up. They did the sideways "shit" glances at one another and complied. I lifted the couch cushions and found ammunition, magazines and (I don't recall exactly how many) several handguns, including a TEC-9. We seized the guns because literally every person in the house (including the resident) denied ownership but couldn't arrest anyone since, technically, no criminal offense occurred. We couldn't prove they were shooting and, even though several of these fellows were convicted felons, we could not attribute ownership. Even if we could, Texas has a very strong "castle doctrine" and popping a felon with UPF in his own home probably wouldn't fly, especially in Tarrant County (conservative DA).
I felt pretty good about that one. Last thing I need is for one of those fucking things to make it onto the street.
When I was in 5th grade I had a copy of Pokemon Fire Red for the Game boy Advance. I nearly got done with it and decided it would be fun to game shark it a little bit. So I added in a Deoxys in through cheat codes. Well one day I lost it. "Coincidently," my friend had gotten "his" copy of Pokemon Fire Red sometime later that week. I thought that was an odd coincidence so I asked to look through what pokemon he had. Turns out he didn't delete the save file. This copy had the same name as my trainer (I always named the character after myself), and OH LOOKIE HERE, it's my Deoxys I hacked in. Imidietly took the game out of his game boy and walked away. Look on his face told me he knew that I knew what he did.
Reading these reminded me of one more: I worked for a remote control car company in customer service. A coworker comes to me and tells me they have someone on the line that says one of our cars hit their dog and killed it, and emailed in a photo of a dog on the ground with blood. He wanted money and toy cars. He was pissed. Coworker put customer on hold to figure out next step and came to me.
As me and my coworker discuss next steps (quite concerned for this poor soul) we can still hear the person talking on the line... but all he hears is our hold music. We hear him laughing and telling someone "they are buying it, the ketchup on 'fido' (I don't remeber) worked [real lol]. " I immediately picked up the line, and politely introduced myself. I proceeded to tell him I heard everything he just said and that he was banned from receiving any services or products directly from our company. He promptly hung up without a word.
So the girl I dated after my fiancee left me was hanging out with the ex-fiancee. Not quite friends but at the same parties and such. Fun coincidence, after I broke up with the new gf, her new boyfriend and my ex-fiancee's new boyfriend were friends, so obviously my two ex's were hanging out a lot..
Anyhoo a 'friend' of mine knew this the entire time I was dating the GF and not only didn't tell me but once I found out about the new boyfriend situation he kept insisting that they weren't 'real friends' and 'didn't really hang out' and shit like that.
And after another one of his bullshit sophistry tirades I said, "That's not what (Ex-fiancee)'s dad says." (I had called him to confirm, you see)
So my friend says "(Ex-fiancee)'s dad..." and we just sat there in silence for awhile and then I just got up and left. Fucker.
Long story short, I have a friend who was previously in a lesbian relationship with this girl. So they broke up and there’s legit months of ex-GF saying that my friend is talking shit about her and won’t return her shit and whatever.
So my friend comes to me at lunch one day and says, “[ex-GF] is saying she has cancer.” and you know, I was like, “OH shit.”
My friend said that another friend of hers follows the ex-GF on Instagram and that the ex-GF posted that she had two cancerous tumors and was undergoing chemo.
The ex-GF shaved her fucking eyebrows and they were growing back, but told everyone in our general vicinity that it was from chemo. So me and my friend got a hold of the ex-GF’s mother and asked if everything was okay, because she was posting about having cancer.
Mom’s Response: “No?? [ex-GF] is fine!”
And now the ex-GF hates us, but she probably deserves it. She threw away six years of friendship with me over that.
Regular customer came into the convenience store and said she just bought several bottles of Mountain Dew but said when she got home she realized they were expired and wanted to either exchange them or get a refund for them. Seems a reasonable request. She then pulls out 6 pint bottles.
"Where did you find these?" I ask.
"In the soda cooler." She replied.
"Because we don't sell pint bottles of Dew."
"Well, I got them here."
"No, you didn't. Have a look, we don't have a space for these."
"You should still let me exchange them for 20 oz bottles that are not expired. They're basically the same size."
"What? No."
This went on for a little bit until she took her expired soda and left. My belief is that she bought some expired stock from a Dollar store and then tried to hustle it into some good soda. I called the other store my boss owned in town to warn them of her.
A friend in elementary school was a serial liar. Always embellishing stories. And whenever we called her out on it she'd always say, "I'm not lying, you can ask my mom." Well one day she was going on about how she had flooded her bathroom up to the ceiling. When we were like, "nah, man." She came back with her typical response. Just then her mom walked around the corner and was like, "she's lying."
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In college, there was this classmate who kept stealing pens. Especially mine all the time. I loved pens and used to try different ones. Not really cheap ones, and kept loosing them.
He brazenly kept taking and using them. Would deny if asked and say it is his.
One day I disassembled a pen and stuck in a note that said "Belongs to TranscontinentalNine". Well, that pen disappears and he has it the next week.
So I grab a couple of our common friends and accuse him of stealing my pen. He denies it indignantly. Our friends were looking at me as if am being petty and silly. I explained that this is not the first time and am fed up with it.
Then I ask him to open the pen and see what is inside. He opens and lo and behold, there is a note. He takes it and reads it. His face was a sight to behold. Well, he lost credibility after that incident and would avoid me till college ended.
Too late for many to see but its going to feel good to write down. At work I made a google spreadsheet with some pretty impressive coding for scheduling. During a program wide lecture a colleague claimed loudly he had made this same spreadsheet (he had been using a carbon copy of it and passing it as his own). I had the pleasure of saying “Dr. X, im going to let you back down on that claim before I embarrass you in front of everyone.” He didn’t so I had the pleasure of pulling up my copy of the spreadsheet on the 12 foot presentation screen in front of the department with an origination date and data from before he had even joined us. Same color scheme, same formatting. There was no backing down so he claimed he must have forgotten that he made a copy.
I'd say every day at work with one of my co-workers but he still works there...
Rayfax · 2 points · Posted at 23:51:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not exactly a lie, but will tell this story because it feels good.
My dad is emotionslly abusive and very manipulative, as well as angry and self-centered. He and I got in a fight one night; he called me names, said I was lazy, etc. and I was holed up in my room while he told my mom the story. Well the walls are thin in my house, and I noticed he was conveniently leaving out the details about the name calling he had done to me.
I stormed into the conversation and got up in his face about it; told him that if anyone is lazy, it's him (he dropped out of high school and has never worked a more rewarding job than delivering pizzas) and continued to barrage him with the things I've accomplished that he didn't and never would. Note that he is a big man, not easily talked down to and has an extremely short temper. He hasn't done anything like that to me since.
Sounds like an asshole thing to do on my part, but considering how emotionally and mentally damaged I am from dealing with my dad, it felt so damn good.
Might be a bit late but here goes.
My ex boyfriend and I were dating for close to 2 years and he started acting strangely so when i addressed it he said he just needed some more distance and spend more time with friends as he feels he neglects them for me. I didnt mind him spending more time with his friends but he always insisted i couldnt come because it was guy's night out. Okay i guess. He goes to his best friends house on the weekend to play cs:go and he was messaging me throughout so i didnt think anything of it.
Fast forward a week, we're having dinner with his parents and his father snaps at us saying how dumb do we think he is that we lie about his son's whereabouts. I really didn't understand, his mum goes ahead and says something along the lines of "you know [ex boyfriend's best friend's] mother and i talk all the time, i know that [ex boyfriend] wasnt at his house", then they were ranting he could've just said he's gone to a houseparty.
I, still confused, stare at my then boyfriend who turned bright red and asked what they're talking about. His father was smug and laughed because i was lied to as well. I was calm and quiet for the rest of the dinner and afterwards he tried to bullshit his way out of the story but yea he was going out with his friends to get drunk and high and cheat on me. It was satisfying to listen to his parents getting angry at him and telling him he done fucked up lying to me as well. Cause he did. We broke up shortly after.
I was searching for short term sublets in the bay for summer. I was looking through these sublets and temps on Craigslist. I have had multiple friends telling me that more than half of the ads on Craigslist are all scams. But never thought I'd actually stumble upon one.
I saw this really nice post for a 1b1b available at a well maintained gated community in the bay. I got in touch with the person who called himself Frank Parsons. Naturally following a couple questions about the unit, I asked him if we could agree for a open house. This guy told me that he's at New York for some contract based job and that he won't be able to show me around the apartment before moving in. But he asked me to secure the unit because multiple people were looking to secure it. He said after paying rent + security of $2800, I can go to the front desk and collect the unit's key for immediate move in. I thought huh. Super sketchy. Following is a screenshot of some of the message exchanges we had.
I basically called the front desk and asked if there is anyone by the name Frank Parsons in #406 and if they had the keys to the apartment. The lady on the other side told me that there are currently two other residents in the unit, and noone by the name Frank Parsons what so ever. Fuckin Frank Parsons. What a fuckin liar.
Maybe not the most satisfying, but it happened just a few hours ago.
I time races - we own special equipment that reads the timing chips for bicycle, triathlon, and running races. We have a rule that if you don't use your chip, you aren't eligible for prizes.
This gal came up to me at a triathlon today and informed me that her chip had fallen off her leg during the swim. I've never seen that happen in ten years of racing - in fact, it's a euphemism for "I lost it."
As I was going to put in a manual time, I see that that her chip was NOT PICKED UP. Meaning she didn't lose it - she'd never picked it up in the first place. She knew she should, considering she lied to say that she lost it...
So, I politely said, "Wow, you got lucky! Normally a lost chip is billed for $10, but someone found your chip on the bottom of the lake and returned it to us already. What a lucky occurrence!"
Just yesterday actually shopping for a diamond wedding band. I've been adamant about getting a rock bottom price and therefore mainly shopping "wholesale" (which yes, I know is pure marketing). So I've been doing a lot of shopping around and comparing and the wife of this family owned place is giving me her spiel about how they back their quality bc their name is on the line, so all pieces are manufactured in house, sourced and set/created by them, blah blah blah. AS I'm HOLDING this ring in my hand with a big fat MADE IN CHINA sticker on it! So I say, does that apply to this piece right here? She quickly changed her tune and lowered the price after I pushed, but I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw em. Won't be purchasing there.
My coworkers brother died last year after he was poisoned by his wife and he choked on his own blood. He died again this year from cancer and after I brought up how he died last year she didn’t mention it again.
In my mid 20s I did a west to east coast of tour of the USA, mostly alone for the majority but I paid for a structured tour with a group for a few cities. One of them was Las Vegas.
The group were generally quite cool, a mix of Europeans and Australians in their 20s and 30s. But one of the Australians was a complete nightmare, he was from a very small town and clearly didn’t have much street smarts/exposure to the world - which is fine, if you haven’t ever left your town I can see how new countries can seem intimidating, but rather than use the opportunity to learn and understand he would charge around like a bull in a china shop. And he lied. A lot. Weird lies too. He initially told us he had his own business, although we later found out he lived off his parents - that kinda stuff.
I generally didn’t call him out on stuff as we all knew he was a bullshitter and I didn’t have the energy to get into arguments. Until Vegas that is.
A friend and I were walking around our crappy Vegas motel late at night trying to get WiFi signal which only worked in certain parts of the building. We saw Australian on the ground floor by the pool, talking to a woman who looked like she was soliciting. She was scantily clad and touching his shoulder and giggling, and he of course was loving it, and seemed oblivious to why she was paying him attention. She asked him if he had ‘anything cool’ in his wallet!! I mean seriously.
He of course pulled out his wallet and started showing her various store loyalty cards and pictures he kept in it. It also has a huge wad of dollars as he insisted on carrying loads of cash (of course he did).
She reaches over and grabs the entire wad of cash out of his wallet, giggles and says thanks and strolls off. He starts shouting and getting upset and begs her to give it back and she just laughs and keeps walking.
At this point I shout over the balcony at her and tell her to give it back or I’ll call the cops - I have her stealing on my phone video and I’ll turn her in (i don’t, but she didn’t know that).
She shrugs and hands the money back to him and walks away saying she was only playing. Australian is ok, a bit shaken up, but we walk him back to his room and give him a hug and he awkwardly thanks me for intervening. All is well and I’m glad I could help.
The next day my friend and I walk out to the tour bus and Australian is regaling the group with last night’s story. Only it’s changed. Now in his version a ‘horny woman desperate to fuck him’ tried to steal his money and he pushed her away. She was a ‘crazy bitch’ apparently.
Friend and I exchange looks and I say ‘that’s not quite how we remember it.’
Someone asks if we were there too and before I can answer Australian interrupts that we watched from the balcony and got really freaked out and he had to calm us down. Thank god he was there. The group then start praising his bravery.
Nope.
So I explain to the group that actually the horny woman was a hooker, and she DID rob him, and the only reason he got the money back was because I shouted at her when he was on the verge of tears.
It was a bit dickish but I was sick of his lies and suddenly becoming the damsel in distress after saving his ass really pissed me off. It did feel really good to finally correct him and shut him up.
Back when I worked at a cinema I was one of the only employees other than the cleaner and the manager. I loved working there and would volunteer in my non-working hours as much as I could, which led to a lot of exploitation by the manager. A few months after I started we got a brand new popcorn machine as our old one was tiny and barely catered to the customers, unfortunately it had an international plug. This would've been fine, had the manager not bought a faulty plug. I'm eager to get this thing working, but he informs me the local stores don't have any more plugs at all. It is a pretty small town, but everyone selling out of them? I didn't believe it at all. So one rainy day I finish work and decide to go buy a pair of earphones from the shop, and as I'm walking towards them there is a giant rack of international plugs of every size, shape, and colour. You bet I bought one because I'm not enduring the pain of using that tiny ass popcorn machine again.
I didn't end up telling him where I got the plug, and he never ended up getting his own. So when I moved from that town, I decided to take the plug with me.
I ended up throwing him under the bus for a lot of other lies, and I'm still surprised he works there.
Back in secondary school, a close friend of mine claimed he was moving away to Scotland. It actually kinda made me upset at first because he was one of my best mates, but i definitely was sceptical about it from the get-go, as he was renowned for his lying
The day arrives and he is nowhere to be seen, nor is he responding to our messages and at this point I was very doubtful, so I gave up trying to find him.
The next day comes along and I message him once again. A while later, he actually responded. The conversation we had was irrelevant, but if you really want to know, he was bullshitting about what his new uniform looks and how the other Scottish students were all cunts. Back to the point, the first message he sends is tagged as from our town, so he was immediately busted. Very satisfying, I was proud for not falling for it haha. I didn’t call him out on it though, I wanted to see how far he’d go with it, for da bantz.
A week later he suddenly turned up at school again, and claimed his mam was contacted by the school and they had to get him back to finish the school year before he could move schools. pfffffftt
I called him out for it alone, as to not embarrass him, and decided to let it go, as no harm was done and if i’m honest, i was impressed with the balls he would’ve needed to actually attempt to pull that off.
We stayed really good mates for around 3 years, and i’d crack jokes about it a lot just to take the mick out of him for it for da bantz
That friendship kinda ended when he tried to get me girlfriend to cheat on my with him. 👌
TL:DR
Best mate lied about moving away, I bust him for it, but remain friends till he tries to induce major adultery
One night I’m sitting on the couch when the phone rings. (This is before cell phones.). I answer it and it’s some woman who is whispering. I tell her I can’t hear her and she talks a bit louder. She says she’s having an affair with my husband- in fact, he’s in her shower right now so she takes this moment to call me because she feels so guilty. I didn’t say a word. I just handed the phone to my husband, who was sitting by me. He said hello and she hung up.
I have no idea who it was or why they called.
The funny thing is that he did screw around on me before we split up but I don’t think he was at that time. Who knows? At least he wasn’t that night.
There was this guy in college who got obsessed with me 2 years after we graduated (let’s name him Jared). He told me about all this land his family owned, and his “Japanese” lineage. He even created fake social media accounts of cute Japanese guys that were supposedly his “brothers.”
I don’t know why I believed him. There were just a lot of stuff on his story that kinda made sense. We kinda went out a couple times and he even bought me some nice gifts.
And then one day, lo and behold, I received an email from a Japanese guy who looks exactly like one of his “brothers” and said that he’s been trying to have all these fake accounts that Jared created to be deleted and/or cancelled for a while now. I figured out that this was the legit guy because he sent a photo of his ID in the email with some info redacted.
I felt so SICK but at the same time satisfied. I sent him the screenshot of the Japanese guy’s email to me. I blocked his number and other stuff after that. He explained to me that it is a problem of his, but I just told him that i’m not into pathologic liars. He tried to bother me for at least a month and then just gave up. It was satisfying but at the same time tiring. Lol
It wasn't exactly me catching her lying so much as the vice principal catching her lying about something that happened with me, but goddamn was it satisfying as hell.
Back in middle school a girl (we'll call her Tara) spat gum in my hair, during first or second period. Nobody said anything about it until lunch when my friends pointed it out and told me Tara had been bragging about it. We went to the office mainly to get help getting it out of my hair, and my friends were the ones who told the vice principal that Tara was the one who'd done it and bragged about it. I actually had no intention of getting Tara in trouble, mostly because I just didn't think gum in the hair would be considered that serious of an issue so it wasn't really worth the effort to tattle.
But to my surprise, the vice principal took it very seriously and was completely disgusted that someone put gum in another student's hair like that. Tara got called down to the office to give her side of the story and apparently told some inconsistent lies, first saying she didn't do it, then saying it was an accident and she tried to tell me but I wouldn't listen. But VP wasn't buying it, so she told me that instead of a couple days detention, Tara was now getting three days suspension for lying about it. Which thinking about it now, maybe Tara actually preferred being out of school entirely, but at the time I was happy because she was in more trouble.
tl;dr - Girl spat gum in my hair. She would have gotten a couple days detention but because she lied about it she got three days suspension, because the vice principal at my middle school apparently hated liars.
Girl: Well I would know. I’ve been to every country in the world. My dad’s really rich?
Me: Oh really? So you’ve been to (gibberish country name)?
Girl: Yeah
Me: I just totally made that up. You’re full of shit!
Another VP had “written” a policy that he was sharing via Skype with me and another guy on my team. Reading it, I could tell that 1. he wasn’t as familiar with it as he should have been and 2. it was much better written than he was capable of.
I muted the phone, told my guy “watch this” and proceeded to Google one of the document’s lines visible on the screen. First result was the exact same document from the State of Massachusetts web site. We followed along using the State copy for the rest of the meeting, including when he would read off something about a department that didn’t even exist in our company.
I’d be lying if I said I had never heavily plagiarized a template document when developing an internal policy. But I’d never claim to have written the document. I’d also be a little more careful replacing company names and department names.
Came home from a business trip and smelled cologne in our apartment. Asked wife about it and she said my imagination was going wild. Later taking a bath found semen in the shower. Pointed it out! Hah. Not so imaginative now am I! So...yea...I was right....
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:01:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife and I left Mormonism and she got her first tattoo. Very, very small, just the silhouettes of a few birds flying. She had only shown the tattoo to her parents, a sister and I. We were going to travel down to Utah where we'd be staying with my family and seeing a bunch of her family and friends there. She was pretty good at hiding the tattoo at this point. I think it had been 8 months since she'd had it and her sister who she was around constantly had no idea. She asked me if she should hide it from my parents and I told her no. Not only for the fact that I think it was stupid to hide it, but my step-mother also had tattoos (she had them before she joined Mormonism I believe). So we go down to Utah and the only people she let see it was my family. While we were there my step-mother went to a wedding reception of some people we knew.
We get back home and I get a call from my mother-in-law, crying and telling me that my step-mother had told person x, who just so happened to be my mother-in-law's sister's best friend, who in turn told my mother-in-law's sister that my wife had come to the house "all tatted up" (keep in mind these are 4 simple silhouettes of birds about the size of a large pea each). My step-mother also bad mouthed my in-laws and spilled the beans about them leaving Mormonism too which was a humongous shock to my mother-in-law's sister.
Now at this point my step-mother knew that we were also visiting my mother-in-law's sister, so mentally that was her fail-safe. What she didn't know was that my wife was keeping the tattoo hidden from her. My family were literally the only ones in the state of Utah that knew about the tattoo. So at this point I know what happened, it's exactly what my mother-in-law had explained to me. There was literally no other possible explanation.
So I wait 30 mins or so to kinda calm down and I call my step-mother and ask her if she told anyone about my wife's tattoo. There's about an 8 second pause and she says "no, I don't think so." So I ask her again and tell her that her aunt had called my mother-in-law saying Ashley had a tattoo. My step-mother says "well yeah you guys hung out with her." I said "yeah but she wore a jacket the entire time to cover the tattoo." She says "well it probably slipped out." I said "look, she's hidden it from her sister who she hangs out with every day for months now, it didn't slip out. Clearly you told someone about it." At this point she is incredibly defensive and still denies telling anyone. Even goes as far as to say she has tattoos so why would she say that?
So I said "(wife's aunt) heard from person x, who says you told her. She also says you were completely trashing my in-laws." Step-mother says "well person x is lying. I'm sure (wife's aunt) saw it at some point." I'm like "why would she make up a story that someone else told her about it then? That makes absolutely no sense!" At this point my step-mother is hysterically defensive. She trash talking my in-laws to me now (I love my in-laws, they're some of the best people I've ever met) and swearing up and down that she isn't lying and getting mad at me for not believing her. I just told her the facts don't add up, that I didn't believe her and had person x's phone number and would be calling her to get her side of the story. There was a silence and my step-mother said "I don't know what to tell you to make you believe me" and hung up.
I called person x who wouldn't answer my phone call. I sent her a Facebook message and she just responded back that she didn't want to be involved in the drama any more than she had been.
So a day goes by and I get a call from my step-mother who tells me "apparently I did mention something about (wife's) tattoo and I don't remember at all. But I swear it wasn't negative and I know I didn't trash talk her family." I said "well you can't remember what you said about (wife's) tattoo but you sure seem to have a great memory about what you said about her family, which are people I count as my family, and I just don't believe you. You've lied to me through your teeth to this point and I still think you're lying." She said she wasn't and I thanked her for her honesty, said goodbye and hung up the phone.
This was the straw that broke the camels back. They lie to us every chance they get. They play mind games constantly and trash talk even their closest friends behind their backs. They had run our names and my in-laws names through the mud for leaving Mormonism and though I knew they were doing it I could never prove it until this. Probably the most satisfying lie I've ever caught someone in and it stopped them trash talking us and my in-laws (I think lol).
My high school girlfriend, we dated from the start of freshman year to when she broke up with me 2 weeks before Valentine’s Day senior year.
I still loved her, and would do anything for her. For months she told me she wanted me back and even cheated on her new boyfriend with me when I tried to flat out leave. Before prom, told her to make up her mind, if she wanted to talk to me ever again she had to pick between me or him, and that would be final. She picked me, but since he already asked her to prom she wanted to go with him and would break up with me right after that.
Yes, I was whipped as fuck. I believed her.
The day after prom, she tells me she changed her mind and wants him. I told her she has to tell him everything or else I would. She told me she did and again I believed her.
4 weeks later, I go 30 hours without sleep from video games with friends. I have the awful idea to text her boyfriend how he’s almost as whipped as I was for staying with her even after her admission of what she did.
She didn’t tell him a single word. He asked what the fuck I was saying. I showed him screenshots of her messages. That was the end of that.
I didn’t even intend to break them up. I thought he knew it all since she told me so, and just wanted to give him shit for making the same mistakes I did for like 15 minutes or until he blocked me. 🤷♂️
I used to work for a well known video rental place. We had drop boxes for after hours drop offs. At the time I was there, it was policy to let an item be charged to a customer if it was returned damaged.
I had a brand new resident evil game for PS3 come back with a meaty crack into the data layer, essentially making it unplayable. I even popped it in our PS3 to make sure it didn’t work. I didn’t check the game in and let the guests account get charged.
A few days later, after having been charged $60+ for the game, I get an angry call. I explained that we got the game back but it was damaged. He was infuriated. First he said he dropped it off, then when I say it was damaged, his brother dropped it off.
During our conversation, I asked how he liked the game. He said it was good so I said, “sir, the game is so damaged that it will no longer play. So if you got to play the game, it means that it got damaged in your possession and I will not remove the charge.”
Needless to say, the issue was resolved and I now keep a trophy for myself.
Ex-boyfriend wanted to take a two week break over the holidays. We had been fighting for weeks on end and he said that he just needed some peace to spend the holidays with his family, who were visiting.
During this break, 3 of his closest friends called to tell me that he had been with another girl. Collectively, they told me the day, the time, the location, and the girl's name.
When we met back up, my boyfriend kept assuring me that he had been faithful through the break and had spent the whole time with his family.
In the most pathetic voice I asked him, "Really? long pause You didn't sleep with [girl's name] on [extremely specific date] at [extremely specific time]?"
The look on his face was so satisfying. Almost as satisfying as later telling him that his friends had gone out of their way to snitch on him.
Oh I didn't give up their names. I merely told him the number of friends who had ratted him out. He tried guessing which ones and all of his guesses were off.
My girlfriend when I caught her stalking me after she denied doing so. She would always lie about how coincidentally she showed up at public places where I went. It was really annoying that she couldn't just talk about this and would always deny her obsession of constantly checking where I was.
Kuni64 · 2 points · Posted at 03:56:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a few friends over for a party. One of them was sitting in the floor next to me on her phone. The way she had her phone made it very much in my range of vision and I couldn't help but to see her screen. I could tell that she was deleting her outgoing messages in a thread, but I didn't see who and didn't want to be rude so I shifted my vision. 10 mins later she starts talking about how a guy she new was being creepy and messaging her non-stop. She then proceeded to show me a message thread that was completely one sided on his end and told me how she never answered but he just kept it up. After that I made a mental note to apply a grain of salt to whatever she was telling me.
My uncle married this monster, she is a monster in every sense that she is extremely overweight, has rolls that should never be seen and grows hair in unimaginable places.
It would have been 10 years ago it was claimed that she was pregnant with triplets, naturally no one could notice so at this point we were all none the wiser. Months later she claimed to have miscarried and we were sent photos via email of the dead babies and my grandparents were all upset claiming the babies looked like my uncle. Needless to say I wasn’t convinced and reverse googled the images and came to a website that no longer exists called sleepingangels.com or something similar. On this website parents posted photos of their babies who had passed and to our horror we found the exact 3 photos that were emailed to us. These photos were on this website for years and I believe uploaded from someone in America (we are not American).
I worked in a local hospital laboratory where I could look up results going back years, I looked up her results for a HbA1C during the time she claimed to be pregnant and this test requires knowledge of whether a patient is pregnant or not and she had answered no.
To this day she still claims they were legitimate and makes a Facebook post every year with their names and so on, my grandparents still believe her. I have no idea what her motive was/is she has been married twice previously and has children from another marriage. They are still married, I believe she is just a leech sucking money out of those who believe her lies.
Td;rl Psychotic Aunty lied about being pregnant with triplets and emailed us fake photos of the babies that she ‘miscarried’ from google.
I come from a maladjusted family that generally acted rotten to each other. My oldest brother caught me in a lie as a teenager, and reamed my ass TWICE over it. I'm talking, screaming in my face at the top of his lungs, I broke down and everything. And he did it the next day because he was taking underhanded shots at me, and his girlfriend told him point blank "If you have a problem with him, then you need to talk to him". So there goes round two of getting reamed out, and breaking down again.
Well, as adults, it turns out that my brother is just a pretty huge piece of shit. Just a lying, immature, selfish, self-destructive man-child. He'd lie about all kinds of shit. He lied when he didn't want to admit that he was hanging out with this LOWLIFE bitch that was leeching off of him (he was cheating on his wife, but they both cheat on each other. We only cared because this chick was BAD NEWS). He lied about why he had to ditch out on me on my birthday. He'd lie about being drunk all the time. And he'd lie about lying. Claiming that he never said such and so lie. And of course, he'd have that "selective amnesia", where he'd conveniently forget when such and so shit went down.
It wasn't satisfying, because I had to acknowledge that my brother is a piece of shit. But some of the worst PTSD I have is how I was treated as a kid, and those incidents stood out to me. My brother treated me like I just stabbed his cat. And ten years later, HE is the lying sack of shit. Fuck him.
Oh God. I work with a girl and her boyfriend. Their relationship is problematic anyway, he always cheats on her, has kids with another girl, so on and so forth. They're both pretty trashy people tho and exactly who you would expect to be together.
Anyway, this girl lies about everything. She told my other coworker and me that they got married and we were asking to see the wedding ring because we knew she was lying. First she told us about how she couldn't wear it because she had a brace on her wrist and the ring would cut off circulation (???). The next day when the brace was off she said that she didn't want to wear it to work because the diamond was so big that it might get in the way, so we said we wanted to see a picture the next day, not believing her but acting like we were excited for her and just wanted to see her wedding ring. She then told us that she got mad at her boyfriend, punched a hole in the wall, and the ring flew off her finger and got lost somewhere in the wall, because I guess that's how houses and physics work.
The next day, we were all standing together talking and I asked her boyfriend how their wedding was. He looked at us confused and said "What? I could never marry her, we hate each other too much." None of us ever brought up the wedding again.
So my wife and I were co-commuting which meant early mornings and late nights. Our teenaged son asked if he could have the teacher's kid over after school to "practice cello". Sure kid, whatevs, we trust you.
We get home, key is in the front door lock and I hear running.
Awwww yeah, dis gonna be good.
I open the front door and he's right there hands in the air.
"Wait, wait, I can explain."
"Let me put my things down, let your mom in and we'll here what you can or cannot explain."
Girl is getting herself together and politely excuses herself.
Our kid has a giant freaking hickey on his neck.
His "explanation" was that he was bending over under his desk to get headphones and hit his neck on the edge of the desk.
I told him he's grounded not for lying to us, but for being a bad liar and assuming we were dumb enough to buy it.
Commence the whining about "you don't trust me..." etc. etc. etc.
So I went fine, took the headphones, tossed them under the desk and asked him how he bruised the front of his neck bending over under the desk to get headphones.
There was an honest attempt with much twisting and contorting. "Yeah, still grounded."
A classmate of mine used to always say how her lover was filthy rich and how he would treat her to very expensive items all the times. People used to ask me about this since her lover was a buddy of mine and I never really believed that they were being serious with what she said and that they were stretching out the truth until she told me herself. Now she didn't know that I was one of the people her boyfriend hangs out with, so it really didn't work out in her favor. Needless to say, no one will be believing any of her tall tales.
Wait never mind it’s not really a story it’s just funny to think about.
So there was this guy at my old school and he was a pretty kewl boy at first, and then he started compulsive lying and then shit got hella bad (I mean nothing harmful it was just... annoying?)
So here’s a bunch of lies and then more lies then contradictions.
His says his senses are reversed meaning he feels cold as hot and hot as cold but when he sits in front of the ac at the lowest temperature it’s cold
he says he is top 500 in overwatch but I played with him on this PvE mission and he died like 10 times and I carried his ass and died about 2 times. I’m only platinum meaning statistically I’m half as good
he says he wants to join the overwatch league but can’t because he is not old enough, few weeks later he tells my friend that he was invited to be in a professional team
he comes to class’s one day with a Rubik’s cube doing one move over and over again. It’s like that one move you do very often when solving a rubik’s cube. To add onto that he had a corner flip cube so his repetition looked very professional. He also said he could solve the Rubik’s cube when I asked and I believed him. Until he messed up using his fidget toy and had to search up the solution which I took a photo of Bc it made me feel satisfied. To add onto that the same friend make the checkerboard pattern on his cube and asked the lying guy to solve it. Kid had no idea.
I don’t tell him about this though because hell have a breakdown
Followed someone I knew on Twitter and realized that they stole my header image. I messaged them asking if my phone was somehow messing up or if we did have the same header image. He said he saw it on someone else's twitter and he liked it.
But it was undeniably my picture. It was a picture of downtown Houston. The way the picture was cropped. The cloud formations. It was exactly my picture. I just replied with a screenshot of the original in my camera roll. He acted surprised and "couldn't remember" who's profile he had supposedly seen it on. He's since changed his header image. Never spoke about it again.
My little shit head friend lies all the time with shit like fake statistics or facts so I always have to be skeptical about everything he says so it’s kinda hard to narrow it down to one time from the hundreds of times I’ve caught onto his bullshit.
A family friend got married to a guy who claimed to be an nhl team owner, Nascar team owner, doctor, lawyer a whole bunch of BS. I couldn't find anything on him anywhere and whe we called him on his lies, he stuck to it. A while after they married it all came out, he was a con artist and scammed the shit out of her.
A coworker enjoyed saying she went to destinations abroad (vacation like Cuba, Mexico, Dominican Republic). She bragged about it and annoyed every coworker. One time, she was supposed to be away, I go with other coworkers at a bar out of town.
Guess who was there, in the corner, trying to be invisible?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:32:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-wife's car was still registered in my name. So when she went through a red light, the city sent me a picture of her license plate and her in the driver's seat. I had to dispute the ticket by naming the person who was driving. I gave her a "head's up" that the ticket was coming. Her reply: "I don't know what you're talking about as I've never even gone through a yellow light much less a red light." It was so satisfying to know that even in the face of documented proof she was still a lier who couldn't take responsibility for her actions. It reminds me to this day that divorcing her was the right decision.
this is what my mom told me later as i was on the toilet or something, but a friend was over and we were supposed to go to the fare so i got money from mom which she lay on the counter for me. she has barely turned around and the money is gone, and the only person left besides mom was m6 friend. my mom asked her if she grapped my money, she denies , my mom doesnt buy it and asks her some more, and finally she confessed she did it
mom was livid.
OH MAN. A friend in high school approached me and asked what camera I used for my photography and which lens, as he was wanting to get into photography and do photoshoots for some extra cash. I gladly told him and wished him luck on his projects. About a week later, I see he has an Instagram account already up with some photos on it. I'm looking through these pictures and he already has like 3 different couples' photos up from shoots. I thought there was no way he bought the camera, got the couples, and editing software in that amount of time. Sure enough, he was plagiarizing. All it took was a google image search of some specific features in these couples to find the REAL links he was pulling them from. I was pissed off. Over the course of the week, he had posted more photos every day. One night I got so mad about it, that I hunted down every single link to each photo and posted them as comments on those photos. Was immediately blocked and he avoided me at school for the remaining two years.
TLDR: I pretty much proved my Asian female teacher was racist and sexist towards all students who werent an Asian girl.
My freshman year of high school, I took an art class. The teacher, let's call her Ms. Blue, was an Asian woman who was just unpleasant in every way. I'm a Filipino male, so not the "model" Asian like Japanese or Chinese, and significantly darker than those types. The school I went to had a pretty heavy Hispanic and Latino population, with a good number of Asian and other ethnicities. Anyway, throughout the whole year, I always got a sense that Ms. Blue hated me. But over time I learned I wasn't the only one who felt that way.
My class was mostly filled Hispanics and Latinos, a couple white people, a couple Asians, and me. But I was noticing a pattern that Ms. Blue seemed to be extremely unpleasant to everyone who WASN'T an Asian girl. At first I thought it was only Asians she was nice to, but I would ask the Asian boys and she'd be resentful to them too. By unpleasant, I mean she would kick kids out of class, give them detention, hold them in for lunch, or basically do anything that makes students hate teachers; all for basically nothing like whispering to a person next to them for directions or standing up to throw something away. But the worst of it was when she'd assign more work or give us extra work because our original work wasn't up to par. See, during class, we had "levels" of assignments. You'd do the first level, bring it to her for approval, then move to level 2 if she gave you the OK. But you had to keep doing level 1 until she said, or if you weren't getting it, she'd divert to remedial work.
Anyway, I was noticing the two Asian girls in our class would always get WAY out ahead on these levels before everyone else. One of them was my good friend I sat next to. And I was venting my frustrations with a certain project. My friend took it and did some for me and said to take it to her then, and I did and got rejected again for like the 3rd time. I decided to basically do a racism/sexism test. I told one of my Mexican male friends to turn his level 1 paper (it was an ink drawing assignment where we all draw the same thing) in for check, and keep in mind all 3 of us were pretty good at it. I go up with my male friend with our papers and we show her, and she gives us her normal scowl and takes 3 seconds to look and at our papers and says "no see there's too much space here. Do it again." and throws it back to us without even lifting her head up to look if we grabbed the paper before it fell.
We just roll our eyes and go back to our desks. I sit next to my female Asian friend and literally just sit there for 10 minutes doing absolutely nothing. Keep in mind this girl is on level 4 already and the teacher PRAISED her for her level 1 as if she was Van Gogh himself. I ask to borrow her level 1 paper and she realizes what I'm doing. She gives it to me. I tell my Mexican male friend to get that other Asian girls paper who is on level 3. We both go up with PRE-APPROVED level 1 papers that got flying reviews from Ms. Blue and done by her beloved Asian girls. We hand them to her and she immediately says "nope see this part is too dark and you still have too much space here." Me and Mexican dude look at each other and just laugh and roll our eyes and walk back. I never reported this. Or did anything. I just knuckled under her class and passed trying to get out of there as fast as possible.
Caught the lying racist and sexist bitch red handed and never even did anything with it or showed her, her own fault. I wish I did though. I wish I shouted right in her face like HA. THIS PAPER WAS EMILY'S TO BEGIN WITH YOU LYING BITCH. But alas. I never did. Hope you guys enjoyed the story. It's my first reddit story. Lol. I joined a couple days ago.
This is by far my favorite story, because I knew this person was stupid, but holy shit she proved her self amazingly stupid, and it took her 5 hours to realize it. It's long, sorry.
Background: we had a terrible part time library technician, she was a flaky older lady who just couldn't grasp that work is not social time with her friends and always messed up the simplest tasks. When she started, she couldn't count a cash drawer, but we just hired her after she left her job at a bank, a fucking BANK where her job was to count money out to customers. By this time, she's been working with us for about 6 months.
She applied for and was hired to another part time library job in the neighboring county (we are separate systems), and was told that she needed to work out her new schedule around ours as we are her first job. It's not that hard and I had worked at the other system for a little bit before starting where I am now, so I know it was easy and possible.
My coworker had a tendancy to take off whenever she wanted, lie about where she was when she needed to be at work, and kick up a fuss because she was a "veteran". She actually though Veteran's Preference meant she could do whatever she wanted at work.
The other Library required one week of her going into work everyday to be thoroughly trained, this could be done by taking an unpaid week off from our location. Coworker didn't like that at all and pitched a fit at my supervisor, who told her to cool it or leave. She cooled down and didn't bring it up.
Two days later coworker comes in with the newspapers, she is bawling her eyes out and inconsolable, her son was in ICU at the hospital because he was in a motorcycle accident. It all checked out, we had met her son several times as he would bring her lunch occasionally. Yes, that really was him in the newspapers, yes he was at the hospital, yes it was serious. My supervisor is the greatest person I've ever worked with, and was sympathetic and allowed coworker to take 2 weeks off, but only one week could be used as a paid vacation, to look after her son in the hospital.
I was just hired into a full time opening that required I do children's programs, ah to be so young and full of spirit again. I was told that the neighbor county library system was hosting an early literacy educational program and that I should go to get some insights and make connections, sounds good to me! I could even say hello to the coworker whose job I accepted and get some advice.
I get to the library, but it's not open yet, so I wait until they open. While I'm standing outside, I noticed one of the staff had the same White Old Lady in Florida hair cut that Coworker had, I thought nothing about it because, all old ladies in Florida have the same hair cut. Doors open, and I head to the kid's area for the program.
Not even half way through the really short building and I hear my name called, it's Coworker who was supposed to be at the hospital! She asks me why I was there, in a small talk way, I tell her. I ask why she was there, in just as much a small talk way, and she tells me she started her training to work there. I had an obviously confused look on my face, and she says the most costly and obvious lie I ever heard "it's okay, (Supervisor) knows." I just nod and excuse myself to the program, but the entire time I'm replaying what the fuck just happened.
If coworker had not approached or even called out to me, I never would have known she was there, and she would have been living a lie uncaught. But she was dumb and I was a tattletale. After the 3 hour program, I had an hour lunch where I went to Panera and got a Brownie to go before I went back to work. The least I could do was soften the blow to my supervisor.
I clocked in and went right to my supervisors office and handed her the brownie before saying "You'll never guess who I saw today." By the time I told her everything, her face was beet red and I had never seen fury so physically embodied as I did then. My supervisor told me to stay , as she called the other Library and talked to their supervisor, and had me retell everything. While I did this, my supervisor was emailing HR to start the Firing process when my supervisor got an email ping. It was Coworker, emailing to quit her job with us as her son's injuries where nearly paralyzing him and she would have to stay home to take care of him full time. Bullshit. My supervisor emailed HR that Coworker quit, and to ban her from ever being hired again.
The Other Supervisor thanked me for my time and knowledge and hung up, I could hear she was also mad. She didn't know until then that her son was in the hospital.
Not only did she quit, but she was fired 15 seconds later, my good coworker was sitting right next to her when their supervisor ran into the office, and screamed "You are Fired, (coworker)! Get your stuff, and hand in your keys and badges and leave. You have 10 minutes before I call security to remove you."
After my friends wouldn't stop bugging me, I signed up on Match.com. I soon found an interesting man that lived about an hour away. Lots of messaging (before cell phone texting,) then phone chats. We met each other about 3 weeks after we first met on Match and hit it off instantly. Never ending messaging, phone calls, and dates. After about 5 months into our seemingly happy relationship, I began to have a gnawing feeling that something wasn't right and I may not be his only one. I blew it off as my just being paranoid since I had been cheated on before, and we seemed to have the perfect relationship. Yet, this hunch that something wasn't right kept popping up in my mind. I didn't want to say anything to him because if he was seeing other women I knew he would lie. To find out the truth, I set up a fake account on Match.com and started the whole process using the fake name "Amy" and living about a half hour from him. My fake profile included many things I knew he was interested in. I contacted him on Match and there were at least 75 messages between us in just two weeks. No phone calls as I told him I was hesitant to give out my number so soon. After the two weeks of messaging, he wanted to meet me and we agreed to meet at a bar/restaurant near where he lived. Of course, I had been there with him several times. We planned to meet in the bar area. I printed off all of the messages between us from the past two weeks and put them in an envelope. I walked up to him in the bar and he looked dumbfounded, and not happy to see me. He asked me what I was doing there and how I knew he would be there. I smiled and said, "Hi, I'm Amy," and handed him the envelope with all the printed messages. At first he looked confused and then he was mad. How dare he be mad at me when he was cheating on me. I walked out and drove home. Shortly after I got home that night, I got message after message from him, still mad at me, I guess for being caught, or upset there was no real "Amy." He said he was never going to talk to me again. Did he really think that I wanted to continue having contact with him?! Within a few weeks, he started messaging me, wanting me to forgive him and get back together, apologizing for his terrible mistake. Not going to happen. The last time I talked to him was when he called and I saw the caller ID on my phone. I answered the phone saying, "Hello, This is Amy." Never have I had so much satisfaction as when I walked into that bar and handed him all the pages of messaging between "Amy" and him. This was 12 years ago and I still get satisfaction and a little elated about my sleuthing to catch him as a cheater.
It's never really been satisfying for me because when they're caught it's always too late, whether that be a sex partner, business partner, or coworker that has fucked me over.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:59:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First relationship, about 21 years old, had noticed my girlfriend smiling at her phone often, and using it to text much more frequently. She went to the bathroom and I checked her phone, of course found messages between her & some guy- "you are so cute" ect ect. I was furious, upset, cried, than I fucked her so hard we passed out.
Few weeks go by, same thing, I had felt like I needed to check her facebook messages when she went to the bathroom, opened her laptop, convo between her & the same guy- "you want to go to the carnival? Come over, my dad isnt home" ect ect. I got a call for an interview directly after reading this, so I was in tears on the phone and on the way to the interview.
Finally, I decided to drop by one night she wasnt answering my text or calls. Of course, her car wasnt there- I was around for hours...maybe until about 1am. Of course she pulls up thinking she got away with everything. I confronted her and she lied, saying she was at her moms house. But her mom lives down the street, and I had been checking both her fathers & mothers house for the past few hours. Hmmm. And she was all dolled up, clearly coming from that guys house. I'm pushing her buttons cause I know, If I remember correctly she finally admits it. We go inside her house, I'm just...dead inside at this point, decide to leave after she gives me a shitty attitude. And shes pulling on my arms, begging me not to walk out.
It might not have been the best feeling in the world to catch her, but at least I constantly had evidence of her lies that she denied over & over.
Sidenote: shit like this would go on to happen to me for the next 2 girls I dated. It goes without saying I'm single by choice now and fucking exhausted.
It does seem to be more common. I'm not sure if it's just internet prevelance or what, but i'm seeing more and more memes about casual cheating, and I hate it. It shouldn't be our social norm, or expected. Unfortunately it seems to be.
When I was a teen I worked with a girl I’ll call Stef, who was constantly making excuses for why she was late every day. She would call in sick almost every Saturday (clearly hungover based off her social media postings) and we would be short-shifted or I would have to come in on my day off.
Stef was always bragging about all her money and her parents’ boat, mansion, and lake house. She bought a new pair True Religion jeans every other week and had countless Michael Kors bags. She was that kind of girl.
Everyone at work despised working with Stef and we were all sick of covering her slack or being short-shifted and running around like chickens with our heads cut off. Our boss had been informed many times but didn’t want to train a new employee during our busy season so she stayed.
One day I ran into the Stef’s mom and aunt at a farmers market, who recognized me from work and stopped to chat for a few minutes. Stef’s mom was making comments like, “I’m so proud of Stef she’s been working so hard,” and “Stef really knows the value of money, she’s such a smart and mature young lady.” She also made comments about how Stef was working ‘right as we speak’ and I politely informed them that Stef had called in sick this morning. After some lengthy questioning I led on that Stef had called in sick the past three Saturdays and was only working half shifts most other days.
Stef never showed up at work again. Her mom dropped off her work uniform the following week and confided to me that she’d sent Stef to an all girl’s boarding school 3 hours away because she’d been fooling around with a 35 yo drug dealer! It felt pretty good, not gonna lie.
tl:dr, I discovered my ex was posting stories on Reddit about our relationship a year and a half after we broke up - thinking I wouldn't see them - all about how shitty and cringe-worthy of a person I was, how crazy all my friends were, and how he finally got fed up with everything when he found out I cheated on him. (My friends and I are much more normal than the stories made me out to be, and HE was the one that cheated.)
Well, I found the stories, spent the next day and a half compiling all the proof I could to prove his stories were all lies to make him look good to a bunch of strangers on Reddit, posted it, and sat back and watched the magic happen. He ended up having to delete his account and make a new one, change his online handle everywhere, and claimed that his ex-best friend was the one that wrote and posted the stories using his account (even though I know his writing style and there's no way they were that similar coincidentally.) But I let it go and claimed I had no proof that claim was wrong, I just wanted to prove that the stories themselves were fake, which I gloriously accomplished.
It really is a hilarious read, if you've got the time. Enjoy!
Thanks. It's funny cuz me and RC are actually on friendly talking terms when we pass each other in the internet-halls, and Loki and I are dating now. Life is funny.
I can’t give details. But I am a lawyer. Witness on the stand had “proof” that my client committed the crime: photo she took on her phone. I asked the judge permission to check the photos before and after the photo in question, you know, for context.
The accompanying photos showed the witness to be a liar liar pants on fire (that’s the legal term.) I was actually in a big hurry that day, so I showed her photos, ripped her to shreds, got my client’s case dismissed. Then I told the judge I had somewhere to be and walked out like a BOSS.
This is a pretty morbid story but it's still relevant to the topic.
There was a girl in our circle of friends who ended up getting pregnant even though she's Facebook single. One day she calls me over to help her out, help her plan things out, basically having a guy around because the real father of the baby isn't there for her.
She confides into me that she wants an abortion. She kept asking me questions like, "Do you think I should get an abortion? Would you help me go through the process at the clinic?" I held a calm demeanor and said things like, "Well if you want my opinion on the whole matter, given that you're a young girl that has no job and the father of the baby probably doesn't even want the child, whoever he is, I would consider my own well being and choose to have children later."
All of her friends know about her pregnancy and they all told her that they think abortion is the wrong choice and that she should keep it, even if she ends up a single mother their group of friends will support her as best they can. She scheduled an appointment with the clinic and she asked me to drive her there, to be there for her, but she got cold feet as we were talking to the door and she broke down crying. She asked me to drive her back home and we cancelled the appointment.
Her friends found out that she almost went through with the abortion and immediately she blames me for it. She told them that I tried to force her into having an abortion and that I drove her to the clinic to get it done. I had people shouting at me left and right asking me what the fuck is wrong with me but I immediately denied any of that happened.
I found the recordings on my phone of the days I spent with her and showed everyone what actually happened in those conversations and told them the truth of who initiated action, who really wanted the abortion. There was a good silence for about a minute because nobody wanted to call out the pregnant girl for lying. I said my piece to clear my name and I blocked the girl on my phone, never spoke to her again after that day.
Ah yes. Ex-boyfriend getting sexts from supposed random lady. But body looked familiar from one of his rando married christian lady with a kid facebook friends.
Sooo, I opened GPS metadata on sext from his phone on my computer, googled GPS coordinates and found home location which revealed homeowner’s name as rando suspected lady.
Found zillow listing for house and images of interior of bathroom, matched to sext image on his phone.
Confronted him, he continued to lie. Presented all evidence. Then calmly packed all my stuff and moved out two weekends later. 2.5 year relationship over. Do not lie to crazy investigative nerds.
Have a co-worker who lies about everything. One day I took a suggestion about making certain task go faster to our supervisor, and the supervisor assigned the task to the liar. Fine with me, except a few days later the co-worker comes to me and says “Hey, I figured out how we can do this a certain way and it’ll be faster.” I told him “Yeah, I know, I told Paul about it two days ago, right before he assigned it to you.”
He says “Oh, you did?” Yes, you lying fuck.
This was the most satisfying because it’s the first one I ever called him on.
When I was student teaching (at a highly desirable school to work) there was another student teacher across the hall who I knew would probably get the job before me if one became available. She knew how to talk to people and was everyone’s favorite student teacher, much to my dismay.
Anyways, the grade level was on a plant unit and I asked her what resources she was using and offered to share ones I had. She sent me this super long PowerPoint, like 60 slides. I said, “Oh my gosh, did you make this?!” She said, “Yeah, it took me forever!” She always made it seem like she balanced being this amazing student teacher while working every night as a bartender so I was impressed (but jealous she was so amazing).
Anywho, later that week I was online perusing resources to use for said plant unit and I found the same 60 slide PowerPoint she said she made, which had been posted several years earlier by another teacher online. I never mentioned it, but I did redownload it to use with the original teachers name on it so my cooperating teacher would know.
A job did become available and she got it. I am pretty sure she only lasted a year though, not sure what happened. Maybe they found her out!
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 13:32:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't know why it was satisfying to shame your friend for his porn choices, which he understandably wanted to keep private.
Honestly you sound like a shit friend. It's one thing to mention it when you didn't know he would be sore about it, but to open his phone and rub it in his face in it when he was obviously already uncomfortable is a dick move.
It's not like he did anything to you or owed you the truth about this one.
End of 11th grade, we couldn't bring backpacks so I was carrying a couple books and my thing of gum around. I leave to go to the bathroom in one of my classes, and when I come back some kids are visiting (they didn't have my period) and passing my gum around. I walked up and asked for a peice, and the kid goes sure. I take it from him and say "thanks, because it's MY GUM". He goes "no it's not dickhead, my mom gave it to me for my birthday yesterday" and I said "no you didn't, you found it over on that table next to my books" and I walked away. When he left a few minutes later I wished him a happy birthday.
My wife is prone to dramatics and often accuses me of not “communicating “ with her and that we are somehow broken because of this. I’m defending myself of something trivial like not being home on time and I should have let her know but my communication is shiit
This whole thing is unfolding at 7 in the morning while I’m getting myself and the kids ready to get to school when a knock at the front door causes us to stop. We all look at each other in “who could be at our door this early” kind of way. I answer the door and it’s the neighbor girl that I take to school in the morning. She is an hour early. I let her in and as soon as my wife sees her she says “oh I forgot Anna is coming over early because her parents have to leave early this morning”. I’m standing there with my mouth hanging open making eye contact with my wife waiting for her to pick up on the irony of the fight that was just were in the middle of.
She follows up with “I didn’t think it would be a big deal because you would be here anyway”. I said I agree and can see that she is still missing the point.
Later that night she conceded she knew all right away that this didn’t help her argument but was too proud to concede.
Not an answer to this question, but I'm looking for advice on working on my frequent lying. I caught myself lying about a lot of things and it's been getting worse. It originated from my parents harassing me to get a job while in uni and already working so it was easier to tell them I've been applying to stuff and after 2 year's of that, its escalated to other things. Mostly lying to my parents when they try to live my life for me but now it's starting to spread to other aspects of my life.
That’s a great question I don’t think anyone here is really qualified to answer.
My best advice is to seek some therapy or counseling.
My practical advice is just not lie. You are what you are. Own it. None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. It’s okay to be who you are. People will accept you for you, but most people won’t accept dishonesty in the long run. Think about why you want to project this image that your lies contribute to. Is that image who you wish you could be? Is it someone you aspire to be? What’s the underlying cause? Is it to impress people? Is it to make yourself feel better about something? Is it just a habit? Is it just a fantasy you set up over a normal interaction? If it’s a fantasy, maybe you can write a short story about it? Maybe that’ll help? I don’t know. But the fact that you see it as a problem is a very positive thing. It means you know it’s a problem, and you want to fix it.
p4lm3r · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know this will get buried, but making republican SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis look like a dick on Twitter. I mean, he is an unabashed asshole to anyone that has ever worked for him, and a racist, but I got to call him out publicly on his Twitter and Facebook. Of course he banned me but not before looking like a child throwing a temper tantrum first.
So, Nikki Haley in all of her brilliance scheduled a KKK/Neo Nazi rally and a New Black Panther rally on the Statehouse grounds on the same day. As the rally wrapped up, the Nazi/Clan people were being escorted back to a parking garage where the police(I swear every badge in the state) was there to protect them. I (a white guy) was in the middle of all the New Black Panthers and their supporters.
It is at this time that Loftis tweets from his office 8 floors up about all the violence the black protesters are perpetrating and how he can see them from his office destroying property. I tweeted pics of everyone around me being completely fine, and how I was in the middle of it, and everything felt very safe even with all the slurs, hate and vitriol being spewed by the Nazis. It could have ended there but 'last word Loftis' just had to take the bait. For the next 3ish hours he spiraled into rant after rant and I just kept baiting him. It was glorious. Sitting in The Whig drinking a PBR and Tequila having this guy going into spasms of fury because I called his racist ass out.
tl;dr, called SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis out on being a racist, and he lost his shit for hours.
This guy got up in front of the CIA wall of honor and lied about the number of people who came to his inauguration the day before. I knew then that I had been right about him for years.
Sygmei · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but my dad.
When I was like 10, I wanted my dad to tell me the name of a song I recorded the day before on my mp3 (recorded from FM radio).
After making him listening to the record he asks me what I was doing yesterday at 11PM (I was supposed to be asleep). I obviously answer "I was alseep of course !". He waits a bit and tells me "You lie, at the end of the song you can hear X and X only does podcasts from 11PM" (X being the name of a radio host).
At this look you could see he was mad for me not going to bed but also proud of guessing that, only by hearing the voice of X.
Worked in the highest escalation team in a telecom company. I typically dealt with privacy breaches and other sensitive matters, but when it was slow I'd help out with other escalations directed at the executive team.
This was around the release of the Iphone 5, where the 4S was still available. Buddy's claim was that he was offered a 4S to hold him over until the 5 came back into stock.
I pull the call, and listen in. The agent could not have been more clear. The offer was as follows:
1) NO phone today and be put on the waitlist for the 5 with a small bill credit for his patience.
2) New 4S practically for free shipped today, and NO IPhone 5.
Of course the agent goes through all the fine points for the upgrade and makes it very clear the offer is either or.
Customer says he needs to consult the wife. Agent says sure and his mute. Buddy goes " hey Susan (whatever her name was), he's offered us (repeats offers verbatim). " While wifey is deciding, he yells " fluffy (or whatever the cat's name was) get off the fucking couch". Wife confirms she wants the 4S and the order is VERY CLEARLY repeated and confirmed with the agent.
I'm barely done listening to the call and I ring buddy up. I intro myself and before I can ask him for clarity on his concerns he jumps in making wild claims that the agent also offered this and that freebie too.
" Sir, I would like to remind you that all our calls are recorded and I am confident you knew exactly what you were offered as you excitedly sought Susan's opinion. Further, you and I both know that the agent didn't off you (shit he made up just now). Also you shouldn't be yelling at fluffy like that."
Worked at a rental car company for a time... Hispanic mother and son come in to rent a car. So we go through the whole process, and I explain that he was not to drive the vehicle, as he under the age restriction. Mother agreed, no problem.
They begin talking in Spanish. Not quite arguing but the son was obviously not pleased. What they didn't know... Is that I speak Spanish. I'm a fat white guy. They never saw it coming.
I let them finish. Then explained, in Spanish, that he was not to drive the car. You could hear my boss laughing from across the office.
When I was younger, right before the Pokémon movie came out, there was a trailer shot of Ash walking with a bunch of Pokémon behind him. From when he frees them before the big battle with the cloned Pokémon towards the end.
My brother told me that the shot was because Ash had caught every Pokémon, to which I called bullshit. He insisted he was right.
Guy who thought he was an athletic god got nutmegged playing football one time. He blamed it on his injured knee. A few minutes later he started shit talking my friend who is a bit overweight and not very fit. I called the guy out for shit talking my friend and blaming his mistakes on his bad knee, he starts pretending that he never blamed anything on a bad knee but everyone else had heard.
Not to beat a dead horse but my old coworker was a major c-word and he would always be accusing me of doing this or that, and making fun of me, and I was always just minding my own damn business trying to work. I think he got called out on his bullshit by management because there was a security camera right under me and he came back all "I've been here this long and Kittycatdude has only been here for not even a year, I make more money than he does, it's all a bunch of bullshit . . ." He would also make up the stupidest excuses to blow off work, aka "I have bronchitis but I'll be better tomorrow." Thank God he eventually got fired and I feel bad for internally gloating but he deserved it for being a major prick.
My older brother was complaining and making large posts on Facebook (Advice: don’t use it, stop using it, don’t go back to it) about how my mother had yelled at my niece’s mother in the street for 3 hours and how horrible of a woman she is.
What really happened: mother called after her from the door to ask when niece would be returning to the house next. Only took a few minutes.
Niece’s mother came over, bought niece too so she wouldn’t be alone with my brother, all was cleared up, this was not the first time my brother had tried to lie and cause drama. We no longer talk to him.
A friend of mine had been talking with his boss about getting me a job. Unfortunately, it wasn't just a matter of his boss deciding to hire me or not, as the company had decided to make the position a contractor-to-hire position; meaning I had to go through a contracting company to get the job, then would be hired on as a regular employee after a period of time.
So I went through this contracting company they are using, who were supposed to pass my info along to the hiring manager (my friend's boss). It was taking a long time, according to my friend, his boss had been going through the candidates they'd been sending, but he hasn't seen me come across his desk yet.
Eventually I reached out to the contracting company about what was the hold up, and their response was that the hiring manager had decided to go with another candidate. I promptly informed them that I knew the hiring manager and that he said that he had never gotten my resume, nor had he decided on someone else to hire. Within an hour, I was getting a phone call from someone up the chain at the contracting company, apologizing and trying to explain to me that there had been a mix up with another candidate with my same name, applying for a different position at another company. Yeah, right. I don't care enough to call him out on that BS, I just want them to send my damn resume to my friend's boss so he can hire me.
A couple weeks later, my friend and his boss found out that the company was going to outsource their department to India or something within a few months, so I actually dodged a bullet. I've considered that it's possible that my friend's boss might have known about the outsourcing sooner than he was supposed to, and was being a bro by delaying and not hiring me, but it's impossible to know for sure. I also doubt that the contracting company would have scrambled to cover their ass so fast when I called them out on their initial lie, unless they knew they were feeding me BS.
I worked with a pathological liar who would start off big lies that she really wanted me to believe with "MANAGEMENT TOLD ME" really loud and one day I looked at her and siad "that's funny, cos she LITERALLY told me to have you go and do that in my ear over the radio five seconds ago"
Growd ass woman, someone's granny stomping her feet and hollarin cause "THAT'S NOT WHAT SHE WAAAAANTS "
I’m a musician, and when I was in high school I had a gig that was pretty important to my schools band. However after a random stroke of luck I ended up making the state competition for swimming, and had to find a sub for the event. I asked a bunch of my friends who played the same instrument and one of them told me he could not because he had a board meeting for a club he was in at school. I said ok, I understand and kept asking people, even though the gig was a Saturday and clubs usually never meet on weekends with few exceptions. The day of the event I was looking through snap stories on my phone and saw another friends snap story of the Bill Nye book signing event that was apparently going on in the area, and in the background I saw the dude who had a “board meeting” in line. I texted him to say I hope he was wearing sunscreen for the level of roasting he was about to experience from our entire music department on Monday.
Had a coworker/roommate (B) who was stealing hours. He'd gotten me hired, but then spent most of his time screwing around instead of working, so it wasn't long before I got promoted above him. New position meant I was often going to other locations, so he was "working" alone a lot. Other roommate asked me the one day why B was home so much, did he get fired? I didn't think so so I checked his hours log. Was claiming 10hr days 6 days a week, even days where I was at the location with him. His shifts those days were usually only 3-5hrs, not to mention the building wasnt even unlocked during some of the hours he was claiming to be there. So I reported it and got permission to monitor the security cameras to track his actual hours and made sure everything was being archived. He wasn't showing up at all except for the days I was at the location. So my supervisor remembered we were supposed to change lock codes/passwords regularly and did so, "forgetting" to tell B as he'd never asked for them and told B I was on a semi-permanent assignment at a nearby location so he wouldn't have that motivation of me being there. And waited. Continually checking security so wed know if he tried to enter. After 2 months we got bored so boss told him there was an issue with the pay software and so everybody was receiving physical checks that pay, dropped B's off at the location yesterday but he wasn't there. I was there when B got that call, claimed he'd stepped out for lunch, that's why the location was locked when boss had showed. It was an obvious lie as the boss hadn't told him what time he was there and it wasn't near noon. Boss called that lie out and started an investigation, ending up with B getting sued for the pay he'd received while not working, being about a full years wages. Look on B's face when boss said he was going to look into his hours was pure terror, but the best part was when i told him that if we weren't roommates he probably wouldn't have gotten caught
Had a friend cancel on a huge weekend trip last minute because she said a friend of hers who worked at a bank was held up and robbed and needed her support. Horrible stuff, super understandable. But this bitch had a habit for lying. I don’t believe her at all so I called my dad who’s a local politician. This is a real hands on type of dude who, if there’s a bank robbery in our smallish town, he fucking knows about it. No such thing happened, not even in neighboring cities. So I said fuck it and stopped giving a shit about my friend and it’s been a year since we last spoke and I don’t plan on turning back. I am so much happier now.
Like... if you’re gonna lie, do better. But I guess she did it so often and was never called out for it by her enabling friends, she just got sloppy I guess.
A city bus driver hit my car in a dual turn lane, came over into my lane halfway through the turn, the look on his face after he lied to the cops about me hitting him when I said "Actually, he hit me. I can prove it because I have a dashcam in my car" was priceless.
Had a know-it-all roommate. Three of us were talking about the Wu-Tang Clan and started talking about each individual rapper. To throw him off we started talking about how "The Flza" was the best. He agreed and made up some bullshit. Obviously, we called him out.
An ex once ghosted me, turned out she wasn't a missing person and I wasn't the bad guy.
Edit for bonus: The police sergeant I spoke to tried to avoid finding out if she was okay, the inspector tried to cover for the sergeant with two contradicting statements when I asked if the sergeant was okay, and I was given a written apology after calling them all dickheads (not that they have the integrity for their words to mean much).
My friend told the class that his brother was in the Navy for 10 years and when the teacher asked how old his brother was, he said 22 years old lol. This was a guy that consistently lied about the dumbest things for no reason and always made up stories so it was refreshing yo finally see the class call bullshit on him
tim119 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This story I'm about to tell belongs in a behavioural therapy subreddit somewhere in this massive site, I'm not sure where tho.
I used to know a guy, who was known for lying through his teeth, about everything. Even things there were no need for lying about. He had/has a serious problem with compulsive lying. But what he did to me was one step beyond what I thought I knew.
I told him a story once about a time I was on microdots (lsd) and about how it cured my fear of heights, and I was able to walk across a friends window ledge just fine without freaking out (I know, not a great idea, but I was young) I liked to tell this story, and still do when the opportunity arises, so people know its deffo my story etc.
But one day, maybe 10 or so years later, he starts to tell me about this time he took lsd, and it cured his fear of heights, and how he was able to walk across his friends windowledge etc. But as soon as he got to the window ledge bit, he realised he was telling this story to the original guy. He mumbled the rest of the story really quick, and an awkward silence surrounded us. I knew. He knew I knew. I knew he knew I knew. Wow! I said nothing. And stopped bothering with him from then on.
I thought I had heard it all. Never a day went past when someone caught him out bullshitting.
Went to high school with a guy who was a douchebag 80% of the time and alright 20% of the time. There was this new teacher who had only been at the school one year before she transferred to a different school due in part to several complaints made against her (physics teacher who was new to teaching so she made a hard subject that much harder). Anyway a lot of people didn't like her so just for the fuck of it I made up a rumor that one of the students at her new school slashed her tires. One day in study hall douchebag starts going on about how he knows who did it. I stone face tell him that it was just a rumor and I would know because I started it. He did the classic red faced nervous giggles, it was pretty funny.
Worked as a manager in a grocery store and we caught someone on camera. Stopped them as they were headed out and brought them into the loss prevention room and he kept saying over and over that he didn’t steal anything. Then we showed him the video of him shoving stuff in his coat and he just looked at us and said “oh, shit, i guess you got me”
This girl I know went to a big university for a semester before she dropped out. But she used to just brag and brag and braaaaaaag about how much she and her friends used to party and drink. So one day she is just talking about all things related to drinking and I asked “have you ever had a ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ shot?” And without missing a beat she goes “fuck yeah, my roommate used to make those for our parties.” I didn’t feel the need to say that I just made up the name but everyone knows that she’s all talk.
When I managed a hotel, it was always satisfying when you would catch someone trying to commit fraud and you'd watch the person get more and more nervous as they realize they've been caught ... especially as security shows up.
Their was a new girl at my (small town) school and she lied about a lot of stupid stuff like, claiming she was amazing at hockey and that she broke a kids nose with a slap shot even though she couldn’t even skate. So I was directly behind her in line In gym and she told me a big Nate comic plot to the last detail replacing Nate with her and teddy with her friend. The detail of the comic was mr Rosa was having back pain and so mrs Godfrey used a technique that apparently helps with back pain meanwhile Nate and teddy are outside the teachers lounge and teddy gives Nate a dollar for looking inside the teachers lounge so Nate looks in and sees mrs Godfrey essentially riding mr Rosa and says 1 dollar is not enough compensation for the nightmares I’ll have over the summer. She literally explained the setup context and phrasing exactly like the comic and when I called her out she denied it. It got to the point where I showed her that exact big Nate comic.
My maternal grandmother was a heavy drinker on her way to being a full blown alcoholic. When she came to visit, her eyesight had deteriorated to peripheral vision and had no real ability to discern color. Rather than have her find the good liquor in the house, mom stashed a bottle of Jim Beam under the sink and so the fun began. The first night after coming home from work, mom noticed the level of bourbon was above the fill line and a slightly lighter color. Mom asks me, “did you put water in this?” knowing full well it was grandma trying to cover her tracks. Mom asks grandma who vehemently denied any knowledge.The next 4 days got interesting because the bourbon then went from being tea colored to basically water. Couldn’t stop laughing about it as it was happening.
I had a friend try to tell everyone he worked in the Yukon for a couple of years.
I asked him if he went to the shore to see the penguins. He said yes and commented about how awesome it was.
Penguins do not live in the Arctic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Told my brother a story about a friend of mine babysitting. She was letting the kids watch Minions or something like that on one of those dodgy streaming sites on her laptop. She left it playing full screen but for some reason it left full screen and the player was surrounded with porn adverts. She has no idea how long two toddlers were being asked if they would like to fuck local sluts in their area for.
Anyway around three weeks later my brother, with his wife sitting right next to him, told me the same story but replaced my friend with his wife’s best friend who also babysits. I couldn’t believe this was actually happening, he’s always been a massive bullshitter but this was next level. Stealing my story and telling it back to me. As soon as I confronted him about it they both left the room.
A friend in high school told me he had magical powers and could shoot sparks out of his hands (he watched a lot of the TV show Charmed at the time). I was like "Oh...cool...show me" like where is this going. He "shot a spark" and I thought I saw something fly out of his hand before a little pop sounded and a wee spark fired on the ground near us. I really don't know why I didn't question him more at that point but the next time he did it a week or so later he was walking behind me. I turned around and asked him to show me his hands. He refused for a bit before eventually opening them to show a banger (a small firework thing that you throw and it makes a bang). I caught him red handed but the guy still insisted that all the other times had been real magic and this was the only time he had ever faked it. I could tell you more but that was my favourite time because he was caught in the act.
Pretty hilarious for me and my friends. My ex-girlfriend harassed me all of last summer because I had finally moved on and was much happier. She continued to tell everybody that talked to me that I cheated on her with my current girlfriend.
I confronted her and she was yelling at me saying “you asked her out on a date in February!”. I tried to keep a straight face and said “I didn’t meet her until April.”
Organizing a formal social event (we half-seriously called it prom) at my grad school. This annoying woman who hadn't been to either of the previous planning meetings shows up and wants to change everything, allocate most of what's left of our budget after renting the venue to a photo booth, even though we'd already decided not to get one. Complains about how we haven't invited anyone outside of our "clique" (the group of people planning the event all knew each other, but we weren't some super-exclusive, super-tight friend group) to any of the planning meetings.
I pulled up the invitations to both of the previous planning meetings on facebook, showing that not only had she been invited to both of those meetings, she'd seen the invitations. She quickly changed her story and moved on to other objections, but the ten seconds of dumbfounded silence after she was caught in the lie were priceless.
A friend of mine from all through high school and middle school let's call him Charlie used to lie about the dumbest little things. We'd go to a baseball game and he'd talk about how he bought a jersey for his favorite(mostly unknown) player, but would never wear it or show it to anyone. Or that his parents have season tickets, but they were allways being used by other family members. Random things like that. We never really made a fuss about it, cause who really cares.
Flash forward to our group of friends all goin our seperate ways after highschool and meeting up the next summer. He returns with a seemingly new personality and going on and on about his BMW he's got down on campus and how great it is, as I'd drive us around in my toyota pos first car. I worked at the local grocery store for the summer, and a few days after this, his mom came in, we chit chat about this and that, and I mentioned the car and how cool it was for them to get it for him. She bursts out laughing and says "Oh not not Charlie, he's failed the driving test 3 times, we'll get him a clunker when if/he passes".
We were all going to hang out the next weekend, and I was armed with some new dirt to really bust his balls. I guess his mom mentioned it cause he never showed up or talked to any of our circle of friends again. Still a strange way to lose a friend of like 8 years.
My ex that I was still somewhat living with got engaged. She was taking the ring off when she knew she’d see me and was denying the engagement. But then she appeared on a local news broadcast for something and was wearing the ring. I don’t know that I’d call it “satisfying” though. And I already knew she was lying, that was just finally the point where she admitted it.
My (then) wife and I were separated and living many hours apart and neither of us drove nor had a vehicle. She had lied to her friends telling them I was abusing her and she needed them to rescue her (in truth she was just sick of me and wanted out). While she stayed with them she started sleeping around (definitely not part of our separation agreement) and lying to them about me but lying to me about her friends she was making. So one night I get a phone call from her friends. She had long since moved out all the way to Florida (from Maine). They had a few questions for me because some of the bs that she had told them wasn't adding up. It was apparent immediately that she was giving them half a story and giving me the other half but the other halves we were given were all lies. After 45 minutes of "but she told me ... " we had pieced together what was happening and I had all of a sudden caught her in all of the lies. After I got off the phone with them I called my wife and asked her to clarify some things (you know the other half of the story that I now knew the truth about). She wiggled and she squirmed to not get caught in lies but I had her. After a couple of years lies, and cheating and being generally used and made to feel terrible she was on the ropes and she was confessing to everything. I don't think I'd ever felt so vindicated in my life.
NOTE: Sorry it was a time period covering 1998-2000. I don't remember detail for detail what happened. This is the condensed version.
"Are you coming here to work as a escort/prostitute?"
"No! I don't do that!"
"We found you listed on a Russian website showing your rate. We found that website on your phone. Right before we found the texts to some American here who wants your services."
I was working for this scumbag restaurant owner when I was younger. My gf at the time called the restaurant phone (before cell phones) to make plans to meet up with me when I was off work. A couple days later she tells me my boss has been calling her asking her out. My gf was Asian, and he apparently told her that he had a friend with an Asian wife, and his friend always raved about how great she was. Next day I’m not scheduled to work but I decide to stop by and talk to my boss. He owed me about $400 at the time as well. We sit down and I tell him my gf was making accusations about him. He denied everything. I paused. I told him I must be wrong and I was sorry. Then I mentioned that his friend was married to a great Asian woman. I asked him as though he had told me about her. He said he remembered telling me that the other day when we were working in the kitchen together. I nodded. I stared at him for a moment and didn’t break eye contact. I told him- “The only problem is, you never told me that. My girlfriend told me that last night when she told me you were harassing her. Now leave my girlfriend alone and pay me my fucking money, you piece of shit.” He got so nervous he ended up paying me a few more bucks than he owed me, basically dumped his pockets out and gave it to me. It was great. Obviously I quit.
Ricxz · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some guy in middle school stole my „Magic the Gathering“ cards and i knew it was him, then i had a pen with some light for invisible ink.. wrote my name on em and placed a bait.
Not long later my cards were stolen, that bastard haha, i went straight onto him with a friend and confronted him about it, he said it was him, he even cut some cards to say it was not mine.. i then pulled out my pen and he started crying
I was in grade 2 or 3 and I brought my prized Beanie Babies to school and some jerk of a girl STOLE them from me. I told the teachers and she lied about having them, and I told them the exact name of the bears and that my initials were on the tags. The teachers looked through her bag and lo-and-behold there they were, with my initials. Then the jerk of the girl tried to lie and say I had let her borrow them- and that lie she somehow got away with. But thankfully I got my Beanie Babies back. Fuck school bullies. And parents, this is why you label your kids' things.
not me; my brother did all the work.
Everyone got 5 oreos on the trip.
Mom said she only ate her allotted 5 ores.
Brother added up how many everyone had eaten (Mom counted as we took them), subtracted from the total empty spaces, and proved she ate 6 oreos!
i love going to car shows or auctions and talking to people that seem to know everything about cars and i ask them about Corvettes, if they like Corvettes i’ll say “what do you think about the 83 Vette?” they reply with “oh well i like the body style” or something. They didn’t make a Corvette in 1983
Not much of a lie but more of a satisfaction thing.
It's winter. I open shop 7 in the morn. First guest walks in complaining how cold it is inside and that us as a business should look better after the customers. He asked if I could turn up the thermostat. I said sure no problem. I walk to the back, take a sip or two of my coffee, look at my watch and come back out. The customer immediately says oh thats much better thank you!
Was really good friends with another girl in the neighborhood. We were the cute little girls on the block that zipped back and forth to each others houses all the time. One day in elementary or early middle school she claimed to snowboard. I just learned to ski, and since we were “best friends” I was shocked she didn’t tell me this sooner. I really had a creeping feeling that she was lying, a very common practice to her manipulation. So I mention going that weekend to a local-ish ski place and she lists off a load of reasons that she can’t go, things like my board isn’t in good condition, it needs a wax, my gear doesn’t fit, etc. I mention renting but that’s just waaaay too much money to her, even though her parents drove her to and from school, as well as lovingly stock her doll, horse, and movie collection. Finally I tell my mom and mention how I think she is flat lying to me.
My mother and her parents were good friends. There isn’t a person that doesn’t warm up to my mom because she knows how to work the system. She decided to call them up and unravel her lie, piece by piece.
Unfortunately later that night the whole family came over to square up. When her parents get involved it was serious and we weren’t allowed to call off the friendship as long as they were there to ref. It’s awful. I’m sure the friendship would have been dead way sooner if we weren’t the cute little neighborhood friends and if our parents weren’t such good friends. My mom would tell me all the time to cut her off if I disliked her so much but her parents wouldn’t let it happen easily.
Overall, it felt amazing to catch her lie. She did it so much but I finally found my way to get her. I’m glad our friendship dissolved, it was long over due. I didn’t like asking her parents to clarify what she would tell me, but my mom? How innocent 😈
Had a.... online acquaintance, shall we say, who I was almost positive was faking her disability. She was *clearly* copying everything this one relatively well-known disability vlogger was doing. Eventually she started copying me. If I had a symptom, she'd have it the next day. If I was on a medication, she was on it the next day. It I had any kind of surgery or procedure, she'd complain about how she needed it too but her doctors were mean.
I started to make up diagnoses that didn't exist just to see if she'd say she had it. I told her I had Muscledosis. She told me she was just diagnosed with that. I told her I was prescribed this drug called Diphenhydramine (the generic name for Benadryl) for my seizures. All the sudden she was having seizures and taking Diphenhydramine for them, too.
She actually admitted to it when I called her out on it
We had an inspector on my construction site who had absolutely no experience in this specific aspect of construction, but was very good at putting on a show at meetings when his bosses were around. We figured out quickly that he would just repeat our conversations on site to make it sound like he solved the problem. He exposed himself when he continually called short sections of pipe "puff pieces" instead of the true "pup pieces". So, right before a meeting with the higher ups at his company, my foreman and I came to the inspector with a plausible sounding story of problems we'd encountered and fixed concerning a fake part. As expected, at the meeting he put on a long winded show about how we'd had calibration issues with the flux capacitor but luckily he and his $250,000 salary came to the rescue. The awkward silence and confused faces that ensued made the whole project worth it.
In the end, he still has a job, is absolutely useless, and makes way more money than me. But fuck you Jim, fuck you.
My sister enjoys making up lies about me. She particularly enjoys telling them to people when I’m present.
I remember one time the family and myself were sat around the dining table and she told this long story about me, entirely fabricated.
My response was simply “well not one part of that story is true now is it”.
I don’t know if she forgot I was there but she went bright red, looked down and mumbled something like “oh yeah, it must have been someone else then”.
So when I was in grad school for biochemistry, one of my lab mates was a legit pathological liar. He’d lie constantly about everything to make himself look more important, even things that were easily disprovable. Bizarrely, he’d lie right in front of the people who could refute him. Some examples that stick in my mind:
Liar: “I read three articles every night before bed.”
Colleague: “Dude, we were playing WoW together every night this week from 8 til 1 AM, you didn’t read shit.”
And
Liar: “I just took apart and cleaned the shaker, You all let it get really dirty and should be grateful that I’m knowledgable enough to fix it.”
Lab Manager: “You cleaned it because I told you to, because you didn’t properly anchor your flasks and spilled media all over it. You tried to pretend like <other researcher> caused the spill but your handwriting was on the flasks.”
And my favourite:
Liar: “I fixed the glovebox last night for <really beautiful visiting scientist>, she’s lucky I was around to help.”
Visiting scientist: “What? No, <other scientist> fixed it, you couldn’t figure out how for like 45 minutes and then <other scientist> fixed it in like five. Did you really just try to take credit in front of me??? I was right there the whole time!”
Whenever this happened, he’d blush and get quiet for a short time, but it never changed his behaviour. Unfortunately, our boss never caught on to this, and one of my colleagues got screwed out of a publication because Liar took credit. Liar runs his own lab at a university now, and I feel really bad for his students.
When my ex was trying to convince me that she aint seeing anyone else while i knew that she was and with who. That relationship ended in a trainwreck. Yikes
Had a coworker that when you add up all the years of things he had done like 3 years as a mechanic,7 years in Army etc. It totaled older than he was. We laughed at him all the time about it and he just kept doing it.
Someone I was working with (she was on an internal team that my marketing agency was working alongside) was throwing her weight around, saying she had a masters from the college I went to -- which hadn't ever offered a masters program, ever.
Such a terrible lie too, considering we were about 10 minutes from the school. At least pick some school in Europe or across the country or something.
I used to work in a cellphone place within a big store. One day a dude comes in with a low end Samsung smartphone that he just bought like a week ago from us and says it's not working. He demanded a full refund. So I said okay and pried open the back to check the water damage indicator and sure enough it was bright red, the phone was clearly water damaged.
He kept lying about it saying no it wasn't and how come this store doesn't stand behind it's products and inside I'm like dude wtf we're not even the manufacturer we don't stand behind shit. He kept going on and on and getting angry at me. Then I shook the phone and heard a rattling sound, I shook some more and 2-3 pieces of rice fell out. He just stood there to process that for a few seconds and I was like, "well...".
He didn't say much after that and just paid for another shitty Samsung phone. Felt good catching his lie but also felt bad for him cuz he paid twice for a phone :(
Started a new job, 50 year old guy in my training always with a story. "I'm an African King." "I climbed all the mountains." "I fucked Franco Harris' sister."
We knew he had to be full of shit but whatever, he was at least nice and charming. Let the old guy rant.
A week later he gets fired. Turns out he faked having cancer at his old job, took his co-workers paid time off, forged medical docs, etc. Turned out he really was full of shit. Not super satistying because I actually like him despite all that.
619sxb · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TLDR: let a friend borrow a jacket and they lied about finding money in the pocket.
Long version: names changed to protect their dumb identities.
In high school.. my friend Amy let our friend Diana wear her jacket after school ended (but we all stayed on campus). Amy left a $20 bill folded up as origami in the jacket but forgot until Diana was already at flag squad practice. We asked Diana if she ever saw the $20 and she said no.
So we backtracked all the steps but didn’t find anything. Amy was 99% sure it was in that damn jacket, so we asked Diana again and she emptied her pockets to prove she didn’t see or have the money.
Since she was at practice, I went to her backpack (yes I know I was wrong for this but we all had issues with her stealing stuff before too, and I wasn’t afraid of her).
Lo and behold the origami shaped $20 was just chillin in her backpack.
Once confronted she was upset I went through her bag, but she did admit to taking the money. She said she wanted to teach Amy a lesson about being more responsible (complete BS though) and she wanted us to brush it off since “you got the money back already so leave me alone about it” .. and that it was worse for me to go in her bag to find stolen money than it was for her to steal the money.
Ironically, also in high school, Diana and Amy got caught stealing at the mall but Diana dipped and let Amy catch all the charges instead.
Not me but a friend. The class were going to a highschool retreat since it was our last year, and on the second night we were emotional from the apologies of those who did wrong to other classmates (the class had this division for years and they were making up for it at the retreat). Few minutes later this guy, M, said he got his girlfriend pregnant. It was a shock since we went to a Christian school and it was unheard of for that to happen. We consoled the guy and became nice to him but we were kinda doubting cuz he’s been lying a lot. Few months later a friend of mine stalked his gf’s insta and dm’ed her saying that she’s a friend of his and asked about the pregnancy. Gf was confused and said there wasn’t any pregnancy, just that they broke up and M got a new girl at the school where me and him and a couple of our mates went to after highschool. We told him about it and he just shrugged it off. Sorta unrelated but he dropped out of school and I last saw him at prom trying to sneak in to get his girl.
My bf and I were out to dinner and I asked the waitress if I could get a Spring 44 (local) gin and tonic and if they didn't have that, I'd take a Tanqueray and tonic. I watched her as she makes me a gin and tonic with neither of those gins. She drops the drinks off and when she comes back for our food order I ask, "Did you guys not have either of those gins?" She says, "I don't think so, is this not the gin you wanted?" I say, "No." She says, "Oh, I'm sorry, the bartender must have mistaken my order."...
Bitch I saw you make it! Like, I don't care if you don't have those gins, at least come back to tell me that and tell me what gins you do have, and don't lie about it and blame it on the non-existent bartender! She must have realized she was caught because she was not our waitress after that, they had another waitress step in.
To preface, I was adopted and call both people that adopted me my step parents.
I got home from school one day and my step parents weren’t home, so I let the dogs out in our front yard to use the bathroom. We had the only computer in the house in the living room by the front door. While I was waiting for the dogs, I pulled the rolling chair out from the desk and waited looking out glass door for the dogs to be finished. They finished their business, I let them in and put the chair back.
Step parents get home later and step dad (who is a giant douche canoe that I no longer talk to) starts yelling at me that I was on the computer looking at porn. They had set up that fair in such a way they would know if I was on the computer. He went on very several minutes yelling at me.
I did not use the computer and I insisted this and so he pulls up the page the computer is still on (I’m assuming it was the step mom that found the par in the first place). I think that’s when he realized it was porn he was looking at.
I could tell he knew at that point I was right and he was wrong but he didn’t want to admit it and start a fight with the step mom. So then he just started yelling at me for something with school.
I once had a flatmate (Jeremy) who was going through a rough time. He had little money so I offered to pay for him to go to therapy which he accepted. However when he was supposed to be at therapy I walked past the local Indian restaurant and saw him tucking into some onion bhajis. Rather than confront him there I waited until he was home that evening where I’d ordered a nice big curry for us :) eventually he realised I knew he’d pissed my money up the wall and admitted I was king and he was a piece of shit.
One time a girl fucked (meatphorically speaking sadly) with me and my best friend, who were both in love with her at the same time and tried to play each other out against each other for attention. I found out that she lied to me, especially about him and that she also lied to him about me. So I confronted her and gave her a chance to came out clean, but I didn't let her know, that I knew. She made up all kinds of stuff again and tried to further just lie about everything. Her face, when I revealed I knew the truth was really satisfying. My best friend still got into a short relationship with her though and we aren't really friends anymore.
Another time a girl cheated on me and her two best friends actually told me. Again I did it similarly and gave her a chance to come out clean, told her I had the feeling, that she is hiding something from me and so on, she straight up lied to my face. The moment I told her I knew the truth she begged me to forgive her. I have a hard time forgiving cheating already, but straight up lying to me at the same time is a no-go.
Though satisfying, both things affected me sadly, since my first priority in friendship and relationship is honesty. And now I kind of always expect to catch someone lying to me, but I try to not let that influence my actions to people around me and never suspect someone of doing something wrong, because someone else did it to me in the past.
A mature student in my year at Uni used to go on about how high her grades were, sometimes after some students openly said they were disappointed with theirs and just hoped they could still pass the year. She would be condescending, act superior and generally made people feel bad (including me).
Our lecturer was leaving the Uni and I met with her to say cheerio. I was disappointed with a grade she gave me and jokingly asked who got the highest grade, she told me, and it wasn't the mature student, not by a fucking mile!
I asked the mature student (in front of our classmates), just to confirm, what her grade was, and she gleefully said 'Oh really really good, another A'. I said 'Huh, that's weird, the lecturer said other student got the highest grade in the class, and the only person who got an A'.
Not terribly satisfying, exactly, but every waiter ever will understand and nod their head "yup" while having a laugh. At least a few times a week, you'll get a woman at a table (it was always women) who would complain about it being either too cold or too hot in the restaurant and will ask you to change the temperature. Rather than try an explain that the temperature has been precisely calculated to accommodate and provide the optimal comfort for the other 150+ guests and crew and can't be changed for one individual, you'd just smile, nod you head, and say, "no problem! I'll go change that right now, ma'am!" Of course, you wouldn't change shit, and just go about your business. The next time back at the table, you'd ask if the temperature was better now after turning it up/down. WITHOUT FAIL, they'd ALWAYS say, "o yes, that's much better, thank you!" Always. You learn a lot about human psychology waiting tables.
My former co worker at Best Buy who lied about his grandma dying for the 3rd time. I remember being at a morning meeting before our shift and when the supervisor said that he wouldn't make it because of her passing, another employee just piped up saying "Again?!"
There’s a guy at the casino I work at who has this dumbass story about how he was on chemo for 12 years straight and had a type of cancer nobody’s ever heard of but was cured by some miracle drug he cant remember the name of and that he’s the luckiest man in the world.
He’s told this story to at least 3 coworkers of mine who either had cancer or have close family with cancer. Needless to say he’s been told to shut up multiple times.
One of my dad’s friends swore that Manny Pacquiao had fought Julio César Chávez (the great Mexican champion)
I said he didn’t. We bet 20 bucks on it. I pulled out Pacquiaos fight record and Chavez’. They’d never fought. Plus, Pacquiaos prime would have been at the tail end of Chavez’s career. To make them fight would have been criminal.
After that he said it was a secret fight. Only on pay per view, I showed him every Pacquiao fight (On Pat per view) and he’d never fought Chavez.
He still claimed he was right but never contacted us again.
A guy I went to uni with was telling me about a new job he'd taken. Only, he didn't know that I worked for the same company in a different location. He was telling me how he wasn't going to take it but they offered him better hour and more money.
Sure. [Generic cinema chain] has to offer you more money rather than just paying someone else a poor wage.
I think it was early high school/late middle school, but there was this girl that had been trouble for years . She just loved making drama up for attention and she didn't have a lot of friends because of it. Well, when she noticed that the other girls were becoming obsessed with Japan and anime in general, she hopped on the band wagon. It got to the point where she said she had been adopted from Japan and that she was actually Japanese. She is not Japanese in the slightest.
Well, she had convinced my circle of friends that she was Japanese and that she had been there, had a Japanese boyfriend, etc. The kicker came when she said she had two birthdays. Her actual birthday and the day she was adopted from Japan. My best efforts to convince my friends she was lying went unnoticed because they were starstruck by how "Japanese" their friend was.
Then one day a boy went to go give her a gift. I overheard his sister say how thoughtful her little brother was (and he was) to get her a gift for her birthday to which I said, "It's not her birthday. Her birthday is October __ not April __"
His sister was stunned and then I told her what had been happening over the past year. She told her brother, the crazy girl overheard and stomped over to me saying, "How dare you lie to him about stuff like this! You're a liar!" I fired back stating that I practically grew up with her and that I knew her history and called her out on her Japanese BS. My friends found out, the crazy girl admitted she lied, and she harbored resentment for me ever since. It felt good to finally stop her from taking advantage of kind (and somewhat gullible) people.
Had a guy this week claim he "started the man bun". When we asked how he knows he started it, he could "confirm" because his hairdresser hold him... dude is not all alright in the head...
My dad once told me in college he was at a bar in which Otis Redding was playing and the black fellas came up and asked all their white companions to dance, to which they obliged. I didn't say shit but always knew he was a bullshitter.
Snooped my ex wife's email. Asked her who "John Smith" was. She didn't even bother to ask how I knew the dude's name.
Watching her try to explain the whole story without even questioning how I knew was glorious.
The whole time just watching the bullshit meter go off the rails. She was actually really good. Really helped me spot other bs things people have tried to feed me.
I gave her every opportunity to tell me the truth which she did eventually and then I told her how I knew.
My sister once threw a party at my house.
she said it was going to only be about 15 people and I was already having a couple of friends over for some drinks so I figure it would be no problem.
no more than an hour after I gave her the go ahead my condo was filled with about 75 people. you could barely move through the sea of people.
I went to go into my room to get a break from the crowd, I was pretty upset.
I open my door and see two girls casually sitting on my bed passing my bottle of vodka back and forth.
I look and then and say "get out, you can't be in here"
one girl has this smug look on her face and cockily says "ughhh nooo??? the home owner said I could chill in here and drink"
with the biggest shit eating grin I say "hahaha that's hilarious... because I am the home owner"
their faces dropped and they ran out while I snatched my bottle back.
My ex fiancée was living overseas for a while and one time I video called her she wasn't wearing her engagement ring and I asked why, she said she took it off to put her makeup on. It was like 3am for her and she'd just gotten home from a night out. I logged into her Facebook (really not proud of this) because she was being really suspicious, turns out she was cheating on me and had been messaging a guy that night inviting him over to her apartment and he was there while we were video chatting. I also saw some tagged photos of her from different nights out without the engagement ring on.
So this guy who used to hang with our friend group in my home town was the epitome of compulsive liar.
He was known as Squeak (as in the guy from Baseketball) and would refer to himself as that. When asked his real name he would tell everyone it was Spencer, despite his driving license and his mum saying it was Paul.
According to him he was a racing driver, except he didn't have a full driving license and could only drive with a fully insured driver in the passenger with him. Supposedly there was an underground race track literally under neath one of the towns nearby too.
He also tried to convince everyone he was in the police too, despite two of our friend group actually being local police officers. And this guy was the skinniest muther-nutter you ever met! There's no way he could ever arrest anybody.
Oh and I remember one time he left us alone in his room, he went out somewhere, and we decided to rearrange his furniture a little bit, a desk from one corner to another, the bed rotated etc, harmless fun. He came back and ranted about how his wardrobe was holding down the flooring in the corner of the room or some shit, and moving could collapse/destroy his room or some shit.
Everything was always just ridiculous! I really don't know why he was in our friend group. It's a shame, his mother and sister seemed really nice and normal.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I worked at Gamestop, a young dude came in and was asking about buying a used 360. It was just him in the store, and my ASM was on break in the back room. I told him I only had one of the specific 360 he was looking for, and I'd go back and grab it. The second I went into the back room, I saw him sprint behind the counter and grab something (which turned out to be an Xbox Slim Harddrive) and sprint back around and shove it into his pants. (I saw this on the CCTV, by the way.)
So I go back out front and ask him to just empty his pockets (because heaven forbid I accuse the dude of a crime I KNOW he commited). He was behind the counter, so I needed him to empty his pockets as a precaution. He started getting defensive and yelling at me and ASM (who was now next to me) for being "racist white fucks", to which my ASM replied that she was Brazilian. He didn't have a response and just stormed out of the store (which we could do nothing about).
We ended up calling the police to file a report, and also called the Gamestops near us, as thieves will often steal something, then sell/return it to another Gamestop nearby. Well, he did exactly that. He tried to sell it to the store nearby, and didn't have his ID. He ended up leaving, but unbeknownst to him, his ID was actually in the safe at that store. He had forgotten it at the store a few weeks back. They had all his information, and the police handled the rest. It felt good, man.
Not me but a coworker who caught the pathological liar.
A guy I knew convinced his fellow workers he met a girl on a cruise and ended up marrying her. Supposedly her father was a multi millionaire who owned ranches in Arizona. He made up stories about flying down to visit her all the time though nobody from his work ever checked or even met her. He did such a good job with the story he had everyone believing him. Then there was a change in management and one of the new workers was suspicious from day one. So he called bullshit because when the liar said he was going to the airport, his vehicle was at his apartment the whole time. Then the liar got caught stealing from the till. He "voluntarily resigned" to avoid involving the police. Strangely enough some of his former co-workers still believe him.
My old asshole boss, when he at the same time proved my theory about him correct and it was only me and his boss (to whom I had told about my doubt) the same room.
Basically I had audited his expense reports and things did not start adding up. I connected some dots and sent my report to our VP along with the suggestion that he should as my boss' manager check his calender slots etc. for some dates.
Basically this guy had been very cleverly creating bogus projects where his expenses then landed on his holidays. He was "taking clients out".
I asked my question in a matter where he was in a lose-lose situation. Dude then started coming up with ridiculous excuses. I looked at our VP and knew he knew as well.
One time I attended comic con new york and walked around the center floor. I came across a cosplay of sora and I excitingly walked up to the guy and told him his outfit and keyblade were fantastic. He starts gloating about how he made the keyblade (Weapon from the game he's cosplaying). I looked confused after examining it because I had the exact same keyblade at home that I bought from a previous comic con years back. I told him I found it strange that we have the same one and commented on the specifics of that replica like the woodwork and proceeded to show him pictures of mine (Completely identical). You'd think he would stop lying after being called out but he persisted on even dumber claims. He claimed that one of the voice actors for Kingdom hearts told him they finished making the game (Back in 2016 mind you) and that square enix is holding it out on us. I actually spoke to that voice actor as well and he told me they did not start recording the voice acting for the game at that moment. I have a picture of me and the voice actor and the guy who was lying out of his teeth. That was an interesting comic con.
I work in a camera shop and a customer was saying he saw a particular item online for a certain price. I played along and asked him to show me the listing and he was fumbling about for a minute then gave up.
When ever someone wants us to price match I always ask them to either show me or we have iPads where I can look it up and show them if they are wrong.
GP96_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and 4 friends and another person lived on a floor in Student Housing while in first year of Uni, it had two bathrooms. For about a week or two there was a floater in the toilet every time I went in either bathroom. I took a photo of it after the 5th time and everyone else said it wasn't them.
A week later they all went home for a week off and it was only me staying on our floor. The floaters stopped. I don't know who it was, but it finally stopped and I caught one of them in the lie, despite not knowing which one of them it was.
I caught my brother lying, I just haven't called him on it yet because I'm wait until he starts being a dick to me. As a forword, he is very narcissistic and has to brag about all his accomplishments.
So about 6 months ago he started a YouTube channel and hired me to make a logo for him. He told me my art would be seen by thousands of his viewers. Did the work, he never got back to me and never paid me for the hours I spent fitting his very intricate request. I decided one day to find his channel, he never told me the name but I figured it out one way or another, to see if he was using the logo. He wasn't, but the kicker was the channel itself. Those "thousands of viewers" were actually about 30 a video. I pretty much told everyone he bragged to and they seemed surprised, but I'm waiting to break his ego until he says something that finally sets me off.
I am good friends with a kid who is CONSTANTLY lying for no discernible reason. Recently a couple of my friends started playing Pokémon Go again, in preparation for the new Switch games, and this particular friend joined in on the mini-movement. However, he couldn’t just join - no, he had to make a spectacle. A mere day after downloading the app, he claims to have found multiple Shiny Pokémon (shinies, for those who don’t know, are super rare discolored Pokémon that have an INCREDIBLY LOW CHANCE OF APPEARING).
One problem: this guy claimed to have caught a shiny Eevee. It only takes a quick google search to find out that there’s no such thing as a shiny Eevee in Pokémon Go. So I changed my Discord image to a shittily edited Shiny Eevee and made my nickname in our server “Deception.” He hasn’t talked about Pokémon Go since.
Other highlights from this lad are: his internship at Blizzard, his father danced with Madonna, and he hit Nick Jonas with his car. None of these have happened, and it’s stupid easy to prove that none of these happened, but he stands by them.
Not me but a friend of mine. My friend was supposed to meet me at the park after school. I ended up falling asleep and not going. He went and waited for me for like an hour. He went home and called me and said “hey I’m sorry I didn’t make it to the park today I just wasn’t feeling good” and I remembered I slept through and said oh it’s okay I didn’t wait long. He invited me over to his house and I went then he promptly beat me up.
Roommate would constantly steal food from my fridge. Whenever I would confront him about it he would lie. Once I caught him red-handed and he tried to hide the food behind his back. Couple days later I confronted him again,this time he admitted to stealing other things as well. He recently moved out taking all my bread, cheese, ham, and eggs with him f him.
My mom works in IT, and whenever they interview someone, they'll make up a coding language or other kinds of bullshit tech terms and ask if they're experienced in it. They say yes more often than you'd expect.
h83r · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got denied a job via an online meeting but only after he stood me up for the first online meeting claiming I never joined. I worked for the online meeting company so I checked his account activity. He never laughed the first meeting.
I was bummed I didn’t get the job but was so glad I dodged a bullet. I wouldn’t want to work for a liar.
Firend group of mine was renting out together during university. Junior year, we begin to suspect one of our friends, lets call him L, is not attending classes anymore. We ask him about it and ask if hes alright, but he was always concered about apperances. So he denied it.
Eventually we are all playing games at the apartment and i ask to use his laptop so i could submit an assignment for my class. He lets me use ig and as i go to log in, i notice he is still logged i to his student account. I decide to peak at the classes he is registered for, and none came up. Checked his classes from last semester too, none came up.
In hindsight, i felt more bad than satisfied since he did not feel comfortable sharing this with us. University is vslued pretty highly in today's society, but none of us would have thought of him any less for dropping out.
Im a bit late, but I have a friend in my physics class who’s really academically smart but stupid in all other ways and lazy with his work. We had a large amount of homework due in and as per usual he hadn’t done it, when I asked him about it he said: “Nah I’ll finesse my way out of this I always do.” This is because the way our teacher (who is really ridiculously strict) likes to mark the work by asking each student in the class to give their answer to one of the questions. When the teacher reached my friend it was a six mark question and sir normally just shows on the mark scheme on the board for these. This time he decided to have a point from everyone, this meant that my friend had to admit that he hadn’t done that question and by extension the entire homework. He certainly didn’t finesse his way out of that one.
I was playing Xbox with this guy in a clan. He told everyone he was in the Army (he was) but that he was Special Forces, Green Beret and all that shit. Started talking about how he has a condition where he has no fat, all muscle. Talked about how we were deployed to some other country (Not Afghanistan or Iraq) doing SF Ops and that he couldn’t talk about it (why mention it). Other than being a typical gung ho control freak, my way is the way kind of guy, he was alright.
We become alright friends, we add each other on Facebook. He gets ready to go on a deployment and his girlfriend is sending mass messages to the friends saying stuff like “Pray for my baby, he’s going on a deployment”. Already knowing he’s full of shit, I decide to go through his pictures and find one with one of his patches. Turns out he was in some Transportation Brigade, going on a X month deployment to Kuwait.
So this guy goes around telling everyone he’s Special Forces and going on some deployment, girlfriend asking for prayers, but really he’s on a cushy deployment to Kuwait drive people around.
Kicker is that we were playing Xbox and in the background, you can hear his mom talking about his son is in the National Guard to some cable dude. And he gets all “ugh I hate it when she says that”. Yeah, fuck outta here.
I had this guy at a party, who was a really douchey preppie asshole, try to tell me about the weed we were smoking, when I knew that 100% of the weed at the party came from the guy I came with. "Nah, this is totally a sativa, you can taste it." It was Master Kush, a very earthy tasting strain, and in no way a sativa. I let him have it but then my buddy walked up, trying to make a sale to these guys we were blazing with, and goes "you liking that? That's good indica for you! Nice and earthy and super stony!" Lol I just laughed and dude walked away.
Assistant Principal was a sociopath and trying g to scare me and tell me if I didn’t make her happy she would file the paperwork that I could never teach again. The thing is I had just discussed with another teacher yesterday what happens if your evaluator files the paperwork so I knew she was lying about the outcome. I mention that to her as she is trying to scare me and she gets a weird look on her face and stops discussing it. A couple days later she said, “oh it turns out they had changed it and you were right, but you wouldn’t be able to teach in this district!”
She lied a lot, about all sorts of little things. That was the only time I caught her in her face but gosh that woman just seemed to enjoy spreading misery. I hate that I laugh at this fact but a student ended up punching her and causing her to stay home for a couple days.
I was just recently at a fast food place getting an order of chili cheese fries to go. It was my first time getting them so I watched as the employee was making them. She was scraping the ladle in the bottom of the chili crock... the amount of chili on the fries was honestly like a tablespoon worth. She then tried to hide it under a bunch of cheese.
I asked her, "Did you run out of Chili?"
"Oh, no..." She shakes her head and bags it up.
We then go through a back and forth and she tries to tell me that is how the C-C-Fries always come. As she is processing my refund, I ask her "Why didn't you just tell me you were out of chili instead of trying to pass it off on me?" (I'm the kind of guy that wants exactly what I pay for)
That's when I caught her, the look on her face was blank and scared and it was over something so petty.
"It would have been a 30 minute wait to make more chili"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Badass little cousins (I was a teen and they were pre-teens) came over to our house for a big family Thanksgiving dinner. After everyone ate, the adults talked, the kids played, etc. They went in my room to play GTA San Andreas until it was time to leave. They asked if they could borrow it, I said no, and walked away. Next day I went to play the game and it wasn't in the case or the PS2.
Went to their house a few weeks later, immediately went to their room, opened their PS2 and guess what I saw...GTA San Andreas. I asked them when they got it, they stumbled over their words, I punched them both in the stomach, took my game back, told their mom, and left.
They haven't been back to my parents' house since and they'll never come to mine.
At the time I was engaged something felt off. So I accused my fiancee of cheating on me. After months of guilt tripping and all that good stuff that comes from accusing someone. Found out she cheated on me day one, and multitude of times through our 6 years together.
I don't think it was satisfying at the time but it sure is now.
I have a house mate who lies constantly - on time he was showing me a chess piece of a black king on his shelf. He was telling me about how he was playing chess with his father on a barge whilst fishing. He said the chess set was knocked over and all fell overboard but he managed to rescue that king, he said he kept it as it reminded him of "better times".
Cue me and my other housemate trying to play chess weeks later. We had trouble setting up as my chess set was missing a black king. He gave it back to us very happy to gloss over the whole barge shebang.
Had a patient come into the ER I worked at about 2 yrs ago and said they hadn't taken any drugs. The patient was a woman who was lucid as hell and kept slurring her speech when responding no after asking several times. We gave her narcan, she pepped right up and said "busted" while looking me in the eye.
A kid at the after school camp I work at tried to tell me he had 40 kills in a fortnite solo match with a revolver. We knew it was an obvious lie but because its fun to mess with people, we played along. He realized he was caught when a couple older kids and I, who actually play the game, laughed out loud when he told us he plays on the Nintendo DS 4.
My son (8) went to a week long summer camp and returned home confidently confirming he brushed his teeth everyday after we asked him. Unpacking his bag we found the travel toothpaste unopened.
Catching him in that lie wasn’t satisfying at all as we realized he is a little dirt ball.
What was satisfying was being at our dentist a few days later for my regular cleaning and together with the dentist we developed a plan to scare the shit out of him next time he goes in for a check up with something along the lines of, “it appears you didn’t brush your teeth for some length of time and I am really concerned it may have caused...”
For some reason I think he will take it more seriously if he hears it from the dental authority and not his dad.
This creepy older dude tried to get me to come with him to get some shit back from his ex boyfriend "for protection" (bullshit because I'm not at all intimidating and can't fight for shit)
This guy has always given me the creeps, not because he's gay, but because he's like Kevin Spacey gay. He totally tries to take advantage of young guys like myself. So i declined.
About a month later he said he went in on his own a week after I told him I wouldn't go with him, and his ex beat him nearly to death. In a public location. And he claimed he had a horrible black eye.
I had had enough with this clown so I asked to see the black eye. He took about 10 minutes to send a photo, and the photo I got was a shittily edited photoshop of an almost cartoonishly swollen black eye, which a black eye would not look like 3 weeks later.
I then found exactly what app he used to edit that dookie-ass photo, found the EXACT black eye he edited on his face, and put it on my face. I sent it his way and said "wow, crazy, it looks just like my black eye!"
He tried to apologize but I cut that manipulative creep out of my life right then and there
"So you've never messed with my computer" to a dude I shared a house with when he had a passworded zip with my chicks nuddie pics (luckily passworded) tucked away in a random folder when I was helping him fix something on his machine.
PC's were each in our own room. We had network shares set up for moving files around but that one never got NEAR one of the agreed ones.
Sold cars for a year. It's incredible how many people think they can lie about things I have the clear cut info for. The offense was much more to deal with than just causally shutting them down with facts as nice as possible. And with a smile. Kill'em with kindness!
i was at a house party and showed this kid a cool pocket knife and he asked to borrow it, im like alright, it was kinda cheap anyway. couple hours later i realized he still had it and i find him and ask for it back and he says he thought he gave it back to me. the kid just had the look of a piece of shit i realized at this point, so my first thought is hes trying to steal it. i find his pair of shoes by the front door and what do you know it's tucked in there for him to take home when he leaves. i go back and tell him everythings alright, i found it in your shoe, and of course he denied knowing it was there.
Worked with a guy who used to tell some tall tales. It was satisfiying because he got pretty creative with them. There was the time when he passed out and a Python got into his house and was wrapping around him, and his 80 year old dad came in a wrestled it off of him. Or the time he caught a shark with his bare hands at the beach, then made soup out of it. Then there was the time he lived in the ghetto and got in a shoot out with some thugs, and shot the "rim" clean off their car with his rifle. We got a kick out of his stories, until the day he told a high schooler we worked with about his girlfriend blowing him in the woods and him refusing to kiss her afterwards. Yeah he got fired after that one.
A girl that was living with me had a lump in her breast. She told my whole family, everyone I worked with, all of my friends, and her friend (who had just had a double mastectomy) that she had stage 4 and needed emergency surgery and to start treatment right away.
I went to a separate doctor appointment (her gp) with her (she got hit in the head with a softball at a game and got a concussion) and the doctor said something along the lines of "I talked to so and so, she said you had breast cancer? I haven't heard anything! Who do I need to contact." She just mumbled some doctors name and I didn't think too much of it.
So the surgery day comes and I take her to the hospital and wait with her mom. The surgeon comes out after and said, "yup it's benign, just like I had thought". It freaking pissed me off so much, who fucking lies about cancer???!?
Anyway after I called her out she said she didn't know and thought it was stage 4 (which they do lots of testing for and didn't test her). I told her I wanted to move out. She asked if she could stay while her grandmother was in the hospital ( I did confirm this with her cousin). A week or so later, after she had been spending the night at the hospital with gram every night. I ran into her cousins and said they were going to grams for dinner, I question if she was still in the hospital. Nope she was in only for one day and the liar never even went.
Anyway I found out she had moved in with someone else and told them she had lost all of her stuff in a bad breakup (we were never together). I dropped it all off on her front porch and told the New girl to watch for lies.
I work at a pizza place as a manager and we’re allowed to make personal pizzas for free there. One employee used an ingredient in his pizza he shouldn’t have, and as I was cutting it, I figured I’d take him into the office or mention something about it leter to him, as to not be rude and scold him in front of other employees.
There’s this one employee who works there who no one likes working with. We can call them A. A has issues with their parents and really looks up to the owner of the store like he were their own father. Unfortunately, this means that they’re insubordinate and likes to go above my and other manager’s heads when they thinks there’s a problem.
As the initial employee’s personal emerged from the oven, A made some comment about the topping in question. I told them not to worry about it, that I would take care of it. A then went over my head and tried to covertly snap a photo of the pizza on their phone. I didn’t say anything, and told them to go get the magnetic sign from on top of their car as I was going to cash them out.
As they walk out the door, I see them stop on the sidewalk right outside (doors are made of glass) and I see them texting someone. I immediately know they’re texting the owner, to tell him about the situation. They come back in with the sign and stand near the pizza cut station and in the reflection of their glasses, I actually see the text conversation complete with photo of pizza.
At this point I am furious, because they know better than to 1. Bother the owner with petty shit and 2. Go over manager’s heads and authorities. I again don’t say anything. I cash them out and as they’re about to leave and walk to the customer side of the counter, I say goodbye. When they turn to say it back I say, “Let me know what he says.” All the color drains from A’s face as they stutter out a, “What are you talking about?” I don’t have time for this shit, and how dare he lie to me. I tell them in the most calm and non threatening voice I can manage while shaking, “Let me know what the owner says, about the pizza. I saw the reflection of the text in your glasses.” I slap a smile on at the end, and at this point, A refuses to meet my eyes and is pale in the face. They look down and don’t to respond for a few seconds. I just shook my head and asked them to let me know what he says again. They respond in a murmur that they will, and walk towards the door.
They leave and I go sit in the office, shaking from anger and anxiety, as I’m not a confrontational person, satisfied with calling them out on their bullshit. Unfortunately, my satisfied feeling was cut short as because of them, we had out personal pizza privilege removed “indefinitely” at the time. We eventually got them back, though, and everyone continues to dislike working with A.
TLDR; insubordinate employee goes over my head and bothers our store owner with something, I call them out, but it backfires and we get privileges revoked.
This girl I was talking to sent me a picture of her "friend" naked with ribbons covering her. She went on about how her friends so beautiful and everything, and then I told her it looked like Sarah Jean Underwood. It was. I found the same picture on her Twitter and called her out on it.
I work at a University and we send important documents to students through a system that tells us that they have read them.
These documents need to be completed before they can go on placements for their studies. So many times I will be called saying they didn’t see them and accusing us of not sending them.
I then tell them the day and time they read them. Shuts them up straight away!
My old manager saying that another manager did not want me on her team. Little did she know that I was good friends with that manager (of 7 years) and she told me that they never even spoke.
I confronted my manager during a 1:1 and her face just dropped knowing that I caught her in a big lie.
Had a professor that knew EVERYTHING. During one lecture he was talking about the presses that form metal car doors. So he plods on, saying “so in Spring Hill, Tennessee, at the Saturn plant, they use this to make their doors.”
I say in his pause, “aren’t Saturn panels made out of plastic? Isn’t that Saturn’s Thing?”
He pauses more, then plods on... “At the Honda plant in Ohio, they use this to make their doors.”
It was entirely dismissed by the prof, but me and my classmates loved it.
This was fairly recent and something kinda small but it was the final straw for my boyfriend and I.
So a little backstory. I live with my bf’s parents, my bf and his two siblings used to. Basically after a huge fight and other reasons with my bf’s stepdad, his older brother moved out. This left my bf, his little sister and I at home. His little sister is one of the most manipulative, cunning son of bitch I have ever met. Basically, she’s 18 part of the “I’m a human, so I demand respect from everyone including older people even though I haven’t done shit with my life yet to earn said respect” generation. She just acts super entitled. She’ll say she’ll do something and she never does, she’s messy, she lies about a lot of things, she steals from everyone in the house. This literally drove my bf’s mom crazy for awhile so little sister decided to move out with big brother at his girlfriend’s house.
She still hasn’t moved any of her shit out and it’s been three months. Shes slept over a couple of times and this last time she stole her moms Xbox 360 from upstairs. I play in the same room that the Xbox was and I noticed it missing. I call her pretending that I think her friend (who has stolen from us before) took the Xbox. She goes along with it thinking she isn’t caught and says her friend is moving to New York (most likely another lie) and she won’t be able to get it back. Queue to a few months later and my boyfriend is repeatedly having problems with his Microsoft account being kicked out over and over. It now takes a long process to sign in because she was using my bf’s account. We also saw that her boyfriend signed into YouTube. That moment of confirmation was satisfying and yet so sad because she straight up lied to me about it. I was dumb and thought I was only one she didn’t lie to and it made me think about everything she had ever told me in the 3 years that I’ve known her. The house is a million times more peaceful without her but I hope to goodness she doesn’t get caught up in something stupid and gets her ass beat or ends up in jail or worse.
Last year I organized a Secret Santa for the senior class. I asked everyone in the ap theory group chat to text what kind of presents they’d be interested in getting to make it easier for those who aren’t familiar with each other.This kid, who we’ll call Al, has a habit of trying to one up everyone and act like he knows everything. His response in the chat was that anything comic related is fine, but no comic books because he knows all of them already. I decided to challenge this. I asked him if he knows Adzuki’s delivery service, which is just something I made up. His answer was “yeah I know it, but I didn’t really get like it”. I then sent a screenshot of a google search if adzuki. He tried to defend himself saying that the title sounds like a lot of other comics. Yeah, sure Al.
Zoybaq · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A “friend” in our group wanted to seem cool and do her own thing by saying she had a boyfriend for a couple of years. She’d talk about him once in a while, and make him sound like the greatest person. He was “away” on a service trip when we were all getting together. Asked for a photo of him, and she got defensive. Eventually she did show him to us, but I wasn’t there, so I asked for the photo (someone said he looked like a friend of ours), again she got defensive, but eventually sent it, apologizing. Fast forward a couple weeks, and something struck my as off about the picture. Reverse image google search, and boom, the 6th image (at the time) when you look up “guy on a date”. Called her on it, her story changed and she struggled to keep it intact (saying she was just embarrassed of how he looked, that she wanted to impress us, that he doesn’t like taking photos, she just didn’t have any, etc). It’s crazy that someone you know and trust for years can just keep up a lie like that and go with it for so long. And hey, if you’re going to do it, at least pick a hard picture to find.
jijr · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend that lies about stuff all the time. I don't even need proof to prove it's a lie, I just tell him more than 5 reasons on why what he's saying makes absolutely no sense. He claimed like one or two weeks ago to have attempted suicide (this one is viewable on one of my posts). So, I'd say every time I catch him lying is super satisfying.
Back when Myspace was relevant, I had a solo music page where I would record/post my songs. I actually got a decent amount of traction with it, and had around 12k fans on the page. I played shows occasionally in random venues in my native Indianapolis, but as a whole, the music project was more of a therapeutic exercise than a serious career move.
A friend of mine lived in Chicago and told me a local band out there and been playing one of my songs, and recorded their own version and put it on an EP that they were selling. This obviously pissed me off quite a bit, as they were attempting to market something I wrote as their own material.
So, I went on their page and saw that they were playing in Fort Wayne, Indiana (roughly 2 hours from where I lived at the time)
So, I went to their show, and of course they played my song. Afterward, I went to their merch booth to call them on their bullshit. Hilariously enough, they didn't even recognize me! You'd think a band would at least look at the photos of a person that they're blatantly ripping off.
So... I bought a copy of the demo and asked them about the song and what inspired them to write it. Their singer went on and on about losing his mother (I wrote the song about my brother committing suicide) and how much it affected him blah blah blah.
So, after his fake testimony about losing a loved one, I dropped the bomb about being the original songwriter.
Of course the singer started flipping out and backpedaled, and tried to swing his statement of writing the song to being inspired to record his own version and put his own swing on it (the song was damn near note for note copied from mine)
So, I made an empty threat of a lawsuit and demanded credit for the song. After they refused, I posted a blog entry on my page about them and uploaded my version along with theirs. There was some drama online and some cyberbullying on both sides of the argument which led to me deleting Myspace permanently.
Worked in retail, in customer service. Had a customer come up to me FUMING. He screamed at me, ‘I’ve been over in x-department for 45 minutes waiting for someone to help me and no one has come!’
I said, ‘Sir, we just opened 15 minutes ago. But if you want to head back over there, I’ll have a sales person meet you.’
He didn’t even respond. Just stomped back over to the department.
I've got a coworker known for telling some pretty obvious bull shit stories about his personal life. Everyone gets it, we just kind of roll our eyes and laugh about it later. The stories escalate each time they're told which makes it even more amusing but the guy is a good worker and a good person so no one really calls him out.
We started a conversation about our significant others one night and I discussed the occurances leading up to my wife wanting her own xbox so we could game together. Nothing extraordinarily exciting but it was unique to us and fit the conversation. The next evening we worked together again, started on about video games (as the conversations often did) and he couldn't wait to tell me about how he had to buy his girl friend an xbox so they could play together.
I asked what happened, thinking maybe he relayed my story to her and she decided it might be fun to game with him too. Nope. He retold me the exact same story I had told him the previous night but with him and his girlfriend in place of me and my wife. I thought maybe he was fucking with me but he just genuinely forgot that I had told him what happened to me and made it about himself.
My Grandma gave me a pack of custom engraved pencils on my birthday in like the 5th grade - I don't know why, but it happened. One day in class, I saw a kid at a neighboring desk using one of my pencils so I went over to confront him. He quickly denied that it was mine saying he brought it from home at which time I turned the pencil in his hand around to reveal my name. Thug life.
This happened years ago in middle school.
A classmate claimed I stole her pen and told the teacher on me. I then showed the teacher my mothers company name and number on MY pen.
In military school we had a kid who would make up wild stories. Once our group was walking doing a litter pick up at a campsite and a cougar walked by. He then told us he fought and killed a cougar with a knife... ok.... then he spoke about his parents who owned a million dollar restaurant in Cambodia and were the highest level chefs who cooked for royalty. We met his parents during a parent visit and told us he always had an active imagination.
One of my worst employees was late for work. It was the third time since I started really thoroughly tracking and documenting, so that I could fire him without any legality issues. He was nearly one hour late. He tried to say that it was a simple mistake: that he forgot about Daylight Savings.
The trouble is that it was autumn. If he really had forgotten about Daylight Savings, he actually would have been an hour EARLY, so he was actually TWO hours late for the time he thought it was.
The only time I didn't feel guilt or remorse for firing somebody.
I went to visit my friend in college for he weekend. He had warned me about his roommate who lied about everything. In the first 30 minutes his roommate told a story about his aunt getting sued by a burglar that cut himself with a knife while robbing her house.
He basically told the story from this clip , which I showed everyone. Beyond ironic that he stole the story from the movie “Liar Liar”
I used to work with a woman that we referred to as The One Upper. Any ailments that anyone had, she unfortunately had too, only worse. Someone had a headache? Well, she's got a migraine. From a toothache that she's had for days. Etc. Well, at one point, another employee had been having some intestinal distress for a few days. Well, wouldn't you know it, so has she. And she was boasting about how bad it was and that the other employee must've given it to her. The look on her face when the employee took a pregnancy test and it came back positive was priceless. A third employee said Well, I guess you don't have what she has then, huh? Her face just dropped.
He doesn't exactly know that I caught him, but just found out my ex of 8 years was already having sleepovers and kissing his 'friend' goodnight in the car (that caused my jealousy and our break up) barely a month since breaking up--because our apartment staff had told me out of concern (thinking we were still together)
I once had a car rental charge me for mileage. I asked them why I didn't get the unlimited mileage contract I asked for. The manager told me they don't offer unlimited mileage except to corporate customers. I showed him my friends unlimited mileage contract and then asked him to explain to me how this could have happened. Was I too stupid to understand the subtly of car rental contracts or was he just a liar. He refunded my money with no further discussion.
When I was about 10, there was this girl in my class who was super annoying, who knew everything about any subject and the most annoying thing about her was that she declared herself an artist. She would be super inspired about something and would come into a (bullshit) kind of trance, were whe "felt the universe" and would produce a poem or a drawing. She would show us her artwork in school and the teacher would always be amazed even thought it would just be a drawing she would have printed from the Internet. She was obviously bullshiting all the way and just created this character of an inspired artist for attention. (I still know her to this day and she became a pretty decent person but hates to talk about that time because it's so embarassing for her)
There was this one time she came at school and clamed she wrote a poem, because she was inspired by I don't remember which bullshit, but there was a story about her feeling the inspiration and couldn't repress it, blah blah blah. The teacher stopped everything so that the whole class could listen to the poem. She read the poem. Very beautiful poem indeed. Teacher is extatic to have such a talent in her class. Turns out that is was copied from a newspaper for kids that included a poem written by a kid every week. It was a pretty obscure publication. Except my parents started buying it for me, following her parents advice. And I had it. In my bag. I exposed her in front of the whole class. She was really pissed and tried to explain that she was the one sending the poem to the newspaper (bullshit again). It was really satisfying at the time, but now I really regret doing that. She was just loooking for attention. But still it was satisfying.
Tl;dr Copied a database that proved overseas boss was lying thru his teeth and prepping to lay off my whole division.
I was at another division of my company, overseas. Our local team had been getting weird information requests from this division, about the product we had under development.
I was wandering thru the overseas engineering workstation floor, late one night. A friend from that group was working. The CAD drawing on his screen was..,oddly familiar.
He was happy to tell me about his project. His team was shadowing our development, mirroring our work to make an equivalent version. He was new enough that he didn’t realize his work was obviously a prelude to shutting my team down.
I went to the central data room and copied his database. Took it back to my home office, spilled the beans to my boss. Apparently he’s asked his counterpart about all the info requests but was told, no, these are mistakes. Overseas boss (OB) was obviously lying.
The database was pretty clear evidence. My boss called him on the speakerphone. OB denied everything. Kept denying.
My boss gave up, hung up. He said, “he’s been ordered to lie to us. At this point we’re just embarrassing him. “
We were shut down, but we had warning courtesy of my naive buddy that late night.
(Tech note: This was a while back, we used microvax workstations and I had a project access uid.)
Heard a dude at a surplus shop claim to be a SEAL. I thanked him and asked him "What was your BUD/S class number?" Just wanted to see roughly how long he's been doing spooky shit for fun. "Oh, that's classified, I can't tell you that!"
The shopkeep and I both tore into the guy, BUD/S class numbers are public info. Dude ran out with his face down under verbal assault and was yelled at to never come back.
I had gone out to this karaoke bar with my friends and my girlfriend. One of our friends, Alex, is apparently a regular at this bar we’ve never heard of but we trust him that it’s gonna be good (first mistake). Anyway we get there and it’s exclusively people over 30 (were all just turning 20) and kinda empty, the only people remotely our age is this couple that just got married.
Alex starts telling us that he noticed this woman who he had hooked up with before and he starts having a conversation with her before she storms off to another part of the bar. He comes over to me and gf and starts telling us that he had slept with her and stood her up on their next “date,” we had noticed she was in her 40’s, legitimately could have been his mom. We all kind of want to leave after not too long but decide to stay to see what happens (second mistake).
Our friends start doing the karaoke thing and while some are waiting his woman Alex had hooked up with comes over and starts talking to two friends of mine, eventually she tells them she’s going to another bar and tells them to come with, and we don’t stop them (3rd mistake). They leave and instantly my friend Alex tells me that she’s crazy but she’s obsessed with him and she’s texting him a lot right now about how she wants him or whatever, me and my gf are HIGHLY doubtful but don’t say anything and just listen nodding, eventually we’re “damn Alex, it seems this lady’s really into you why don’t you show us the texts we wanna see” and he freezes for a second and starts telling us that he had forgotten his phone at home and he had his moms phone with him and he didn’t know the passcode to unlock it, because for whatever reason that makes sense in his head.
I’m like “yo but how did you text us today and how is she texting you if you’re on your moms phone.” He starts babbling about something and I call him on HIS number (I also have his moms number) and the phone in his hand starts ringing. Then he starts trying to act drunk (we saw him only buy one small drink and he didn’t finish it) and walks away. Me and my girlfriend have a laugh but it’s obvious what had just happened.
Oh and my friends that had gone with the woman ran away apparently and ended up back at the original karaoke bar cuz she was creeping them out.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:45:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex was over my house and while we’re watching tv, I saw her closing her open apps on her phone and thought that I saw tinder. I asked her if she had tinder and she then blew up on me saying things like “wow so you don’t trust me” etc. I asked her to show it to me but she kept saying the same you don’t trust me nonsense. She ended up storming out of my house so I downloaded tinder and what do you know, she was in the first 5 matches to display, less than a mile away. Called her out on it and ultimately ended the relationship.
In college my apartments power bill started going through the roof and we couldn’t figure out why. After some excessive investigation on my part with my roommates, I called the power company and discovered that The apartment complex had been charging us for their late fees to the power company. I threatened to sue them and they refunded all of our power bills for the entire lease term
rye381 · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife's cousin has been a compulsive liar his whole life ranging from cars that he doesnt own to jobs he has never had. Two years ago, he told us that he was going to be on Deadliest Catch tv show and they hired him because he was so good at crabbing. We never really believed him until Season 12 came out and we were able to watch it.
If you watch or watched the series the crew basically just rip on him because he has no idea what he is doing. He was letting female crabs go through when he wasn't which is pretty basic knowledge for anyone working with crabbing to not let this happen. After a few episodes they found out he had warrants for his arrest and had to leave the show. Come to find out, he had no experience crabbing and bullshitted his was through the interview process as well.
Here is a People article talking about it. It was quite hilarious and his family was extremely embarrassed about it all.
Lived with an aunt. I always locked my doors and one day something didn't feel right, so I put my surveillance camera on before I left the house. Caught my aunt in my room going through my things and then locking the door as if no one was ever there.
When I saw her. I asked her if she found what she was looking for. She looked at me like she saw a ghost lol. Then she denyed going in my room, not knowing that I knew. Shes a "church" goer and claims to be " religious" so she looked at differently in the family. So in conversation she says "I didnt go on your room, on God that I didnt go in your room". My response was I guess this is between me, you, and God then.
So junior year of high school my English teacher assigns a literary criticism, bio crit, or historical crit. So I start aksing around to my brothers friends who are in college and many of his English friends mention they just started learning about them. So I prep for some fun, I mean hell. Turns out she's prego and the due date is the same day as the paper.
Fast forwarding: my teacher leaves on maternity leave and a sub comes in. Our original teacher doesn't let the sub take control of the class as she still has us turn in papers to her over email. I can see an issue coming but I'm not sure what it is.
Fast forwarding to the week the paper was due. This paper was at least 12 pages in length not I couldn't the MLA shit. We turn in rough drafts at the beginning of the week over email. She says we will see them back Wednesday in time for the Friday in class due date. Wednesday rolls around and only the kids she likes have their papers. So we mass email her asking about it and she sends out an email that we will have it by Thursday morning. I think, "alright I can deal with that, she's prego what do I know." Thursday afternoon comes around and nobody has their paper that emailed her. So me being relatively strong in the self advocating area, I talk to my parents then to the administration about it that afternoon. I'm at school till 6 or 7 in the evening expalinging this fiasco to the admin.
Everybody that didn't have their papers get them back that Friday afternoon. Enclosed in the body if the email is "sicne you didn't turn this in on time on Monday I gave it back to you late so your final copy is late. Please follow the rules next time." I was so mad when I saw this because I turned in my final rough draft a week ahead to avoid issues like this.
Monday rolls around and I kiss half a day of school because I'm taking with the admins again, showing them proof of the email, and her other messages to the class. For that whole week I had a Target on my back and the English department held the gun. The department was sticking with their teacher but didn't know the details. All in all, the headmaster gets involved, my parents get involved, the department is all geared up and ready to crucify (did I mention it was an all guys military catholic school. Stepping out of line required big balls and even bigger balls to pursue it). A meeting is planned; 6 people and a total of 14 degrees (2 English phds, the teacher with her master, my parents with master) all debated what the hell the assignment really wanted the kids to do. The English phds could not figure out why this assingment was allowed, even thought they reviewed her lesson plans, and why she had her students spending time on a topic that 5 really educated people couldn't figure out but her. So all in all the chair took the papers and graded all of them. I was told I wouldn't fail nor would I get an A. I got a 89 and passed the class. I was in danger of failing but what they found out is all the grades seocnd quarter werre thrown 15%+- either way. The kids she liked were 15%+ above last semester and the ones she didn't were the opposite way. Our grading scale was pretty tight. The grade ranges were 8-10% deep (74-82%=C, 82-92%=B, 92%+=A). I was sitting at a C and couldn't figure out why. I was strong in English. The previous semesters I was at 95%+. I suck at spelling and don't proof my shit btw. Yea so all in all she can't look at me anymore and can't teach my little brother who's in school there now. She's also still on warning from the administration. It's been 6 years I think? Anyways it was great catching her on her shit.
Oh, this is wayyy too late for anybody to read, but I had a life-changer.
My wife and I moved to England to work as teachers for a year. We moved from Canada on the promise of work in a town called Colchester.
Now what we know about England you could stuff into a PBS best-of-Fawlty-Towers VHS collection. We've seen fancy Cambridge/Oxford comedians doing lady voices, a few hard-bitten detectives, read a few luminous books about hyper-intelligent mice and stupid and/or child wizards, also the food is bad.
We know nothing.
So we move into some pre-delapadated new complex (like, first day, the toilet doesn't work and you can pretty much peel the paint off the walls with your bare hands) with a bunch of Australian couples (and one really racist North-Aussie girl). They're all qualified teachers, I'm working as a school assistant, or so I think.
After a series of mis-adventures, ask for the work, please. This company works in placing "supply" teachers (TOCs, in Canadianese) at schools all over England, and we figure, Okay, this Essex place is pretty big, where we gunna work?
Nowhere.
They've got NOTHING.
There are 2 housholds of teachers in the area and NO schools on this company's radar.
Our job? Sell the company school-by-school with information packages. They have no other plan.
I should mention that we were offered guarnteed income (a certain amount per month) and the contract says they have to pay even if we don't work. But we get more for full-time work, and getting them to pony-up is a hassle. So we WANT work. They just don't HAVE any. Also, apparently, the contract I signed doesn't guarantee ME more than a pittance (more on that another time) unless I find a bunch of schools or work to sell their service EVERY DAY.
So, if you don't know England, you should know it's pretty dense (compared to where we come from in Canada), but there aren't infinite schools. We have to train and bus and walk all over the place between our town and outer-London to find work. It's exhausting and depressing (not what we came here to do), but at least it gets us out of the house.
Eventually, we get the call from this "company" - They know the problem. Problem is, there's no manager for our region (oh did I mention that every time we have a problem we have to hoof it to London? A 3-hour tour, followed by another 3-hour tour back? ). So they hire this dude from Australia.
Now right away, the ladies of teaching notice warning signs. First of all, he's the youngest guy in our whole group. Not a problem in itself, but a bit weird for this seasoned leader. He's also really immature, hitting on the teachers, getting into weird parties (like inviting a hooker to hang with him outside one of the teachers' homes at 3AM), real fake smile on him.
Now we start to hear worse rumors. He keeps offering ladies "Ice," says he can hook them up with "Ice." One group of teachers complain their home has no grass, he tells them, "Oh, you want Grass, I can get you Grass." He's always offering girls drinks. Once, while drunk, he claims he put "sales" on his resume, and hints that he was mostly moving drugs. Yes, I'm not kidding. The guy knows how to work a resume anyway.
By this point, most of our band has found work in teaching, but myself and a couple others. My wife is full-time (before this guy came along), and things had been going a little better. I end up being the main "marketing" guy (vis, foots in doors, delivering packages, selling the "brand"), and this guy is supposed to take me around. Some weeks I've got a contract with a school (I got a good rep. in a few locations, but they only need me sporadically)
He almost NEVER does. He drops me off, says he's got other work to do then disappears. Sometimes he sends me off on my own. Sometimes he's just not around. Occasionally we come in together, but then, boom, he's off.
So now, I'm being to wonder what he's even doing here. He hasn't got anyone any new work they didn't scout themselves, he doesn't seem to have much time to be in the field.
One day, I call him asking "Where to today?" He tells me to go out on my own, that "The office says I'm not supposed to go out today, I have office work to do, you're supposed to go out on your own."
Now, I'm thinking, hmmm, that sounds very bullshit. To put it politely, this drug-dealing junkie asshole is lying to us. That's my guess, obviously. I just ask a couple of polite follow-ups and hang up. That's what I do. Gather intel.
So right away, I call head-office in London. I know the managers there pretty well by now, as I call in about issues we're having or new contracts we got pretty regularly. I had other "issues" with these guys before, but we do get on pretty cordially.
All I ask is this, "Did you ask [drug-guy's name] to stay in today?"
"No?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Could you just check, because he's telling me he's not supposed to go out."
Silence.
"We'll look into it."
Well, I never heard back the result of that check. I went about my business and didn't raise the issue at all.
A few days later, we get a message. Apparently [drug-mule] had some family issues, a girlfriend thing (he has never mentioned a girlfriend, especially during all the "Ice," "Grass," and drink offers to young teacher girls) and has to return to Australia. He says he won't be able to return in the foreseeable future.
He's gone. No more word about bringing in a regional manager. A few weeks later I'm working in a bookstore on the High-street. Retail wasn't a career move, or a resume-builder, but it paid money. Also, nobody at Waterstones tried to sell me or my wife even a single rock of Crack-cocaine. Just the Momma-Mia DVD and some Beedle the Bard.
Oh, and England? Yeah, apparently it's not all Footlights and crumpets.
So I have an ex friend who is a musician in my area and has played some house shows in my home when I host them and in the general area in bars and such. Honestly he's a terrible musician and cant hold a tune to save his life, but I always respected him because he didnt care what anyone thought and would get up and play anyway. That friendship came to a head with my friend circle when an acquaintance was with us playing some music in the car with my roommate. My roommate I
And his gf instantly recognize the song as his most popular one that he performs. Here's the catch though. This musician lied and said that it was HIS song and took us through his thoughts when writing it and even claimed he wrote it in response to my roommates song. So then we hear the actual song and freak out because he blatantly lied about it which in turn meant that ALL of his music is stolen note for note and word for word from other musicians which in my book is the scummiest thing a musician can do. I love covers of course, but you have to give credit to the artist who wrote them.
In response to this I took the audio file of the song (post party depression) stripped the vocals, rewrote the lyrics here and there to call him out and to let him know the jig was up. I then recorded my own version over the music for the original and sent it to him as an audiophile for him to give a listen. He never responded to the message, but his gf did asking why I sent it so I knew he had heard it. He has not contacted anyone in my friend group since and had avoided going to any shows we go to as well.
Great stories here! But I was thinking, the caveat of this thread is that we automatically trust the storyteller who caught a liar. What if some of these stories are actually being told by the liar and we've no reason to doubt or prove otherwise? Someone please tell me they haven't caught a convincing liar spin a story their way before.
I love how this thread makes you feel like every sorry you read someone might be making this up. I've already shared a couple of mine in response to others, but here's probably my most satisfying one. First, a little background... (Wall of text alert)
I used to work as an investigator with the government. It's interesting because we weren't typically in a position to make credibility judgments, we'd just always give the "claimant" the benefit of the doubt and it's left up to a judge to determine credibility if the case went anywhere beyond the initial investigation. This is probably a function of some legal concept, but all I know is that's just how our process worked and that's perfectly fine with me. However, that all changes when you have sufficient reason to question the witness' credibility.
This case I was working on had a critical component where I needed to know if and when the "defendant" might have communicated with the claimant. To be clear, in this circumstance, it was in the defendant's best interest to have contacted the claimant - and the sooner, the better. The converse was true for the claimant, and he was clearly aware of this.
So I was interviewing the claimant, and getting his version of whether contact had occurred and when. I ask him if they ever contacted him, and he says no. I rephrase and say, "so they never contacted you?" He reaffirms, no they've never contacted him. Unfortunately for him, part of my investigation obviously would be to collect any documentary evidence relevant to the case, in addition to witness statements. And in this circumstance I already had phone records and text messages showing he had been contacted. The text messages were more important because we could also see the content of the communication. So I start getting specific but try not to completely show my hand, "They never called you?" "Nope." "No emails?" "Nope." "And no text messages?" "Nope." Now I have him backed into a corner because these communications aren't something he would just forget about, they were a big deal in this. "So they never sent you any text messages?" He stops for a moment, and you can almost see the realization that I might have more information than I'm letting on. But that was my job - to get the witness' statement without revealing too much about what I know until it becomes useful for me to do so. "Well, maybe one, I think?" "Okay, and what did it say?" "I don't remember." Of course you don't - because it said exactly what you needed it not to say.
So I ended up drafting up his statement - he remembered receiving one text but didn't remember what it said. And when I discussed the case with my superiors I had to tell them we couldn't count on his credibility. He ended up "winning" the case - the defendant had done some wrong, but the claimant gained absolutely nothing from it because we knew this guy could be a serious problem for us on the stand.
The thing about all this is that people (on both sides of it) think it's so easy to lie through something like this, but if you're going to lie, you sure as shit better be fully aware of what information might be out there because it was my job to find it, and I took it very seriously. In any event walking this got through that sudden realization that I knew he was lying to me - it was both gratifying and disappointing.
My wife made up a bunch of stuff and got a personal protection order against me. I lost my CPL, and had to give my firearms to someone else.
The protection order was granted ex parte, which means there was no hearing.
My divorce attorney, who happens to be a criminal law attorney, and I exercised my right to have a hearing by filing a Motion to Terminate.
My wife had said I harassed her and threatened her through text messages, amongst other things.
We presented my text message logs and asked her where the messages were. She got tripped up at that, and the hearing was downhill (for her) from there.
The judge agreed that there was absolutely no reason to have this protection order and terminated it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Copying my response to another AskReddit thread
So there's this really terrible stand-up comedian who's kind of notorious within the community for being abrasive and sociopathic. He only works corporate gigs where he gets paid thousands, and prides himself on doing only "clean" comedy. The only reason I won't use his name is because I had an exchange with him on my personal e-mail address, maybe I'm being overly cautious but I don't want anything to get back to me. That being said some of you will probably know who he is.
So to give you some perspective, this guy is really, really, really not funny. He tells the most milquetoast and inoffensive jokes about being biracial while humblebragging about his money and social status. On top of that, he derides other comedians for swearing and drinking, basically acting like regular people do, and sends them dozens of e-mails with pictures of him on private planes, eating steaks and stuff. Guy is an absolute tool, he has no fans and nobody likes him. He opened a few times for Russell Peters and made a fake website called "russelpeters.com" (note the one L) where the contact info linked to him, and he'd say that Russell wasn't available but he could play, something to that effect.
And the compulsive lying part: He absolutely insists that he's 35, however it's been documented in a police report (where he punched some writer who criticized his show or something) that he's 55. He is very obviously in his mid 50s and I don't know how he thinks he can get away with a fib like that. He lies about random things all the time, he came onto a podcast who invited him to clear his name but he lied the whole damn way.
The story of this guy is absolutely fascinating to me for some reason. I became sort of an "anti-fan". Looking through his facebook page, I see a post about a sitcom script he wrote, revolving around an engineer/physicist/generic fancypants smart guy who hits his head on something and comes up with a plan to open the world's first "Clean Comedy Club". At the end of the post he gives his e-mail address and says if you ask for the script he'll send it. It sounds like the worst thing ever written and I need to read it.
So I e-mail him, say it sounds like a great show and I'd love to read the script. He sends me a link, the page directs to his personal blog about his awesome lavish life. I say it looks like you sent me the wrong link, he sends it again, this time it's a video of him on a private jet. I ask again, he sends me another link, and this time it goes to his Soundcloud profile. Now the 4th time he sends me a link, it actually goes to his script!
So I'm reading through it, the first few sentences are incredibly pandering and poorly written, just as I'd expected. It introduces a post-doctoral theoretical physicist whose "IQ is off the charts". He picks up a Rubik's cube on the table and immediately solves it. Then his roommate Sheldon walks in, and... wait...
I was getting a oil change in national chain place. After a few minutes of waiting, one of the mechanics call me over to tell me that I need a new radiator. He shows me a pool of green antifreeze. I open the hood, unscrew the top of the radiator and ask him what color it is. The face that he made when he saw that it was orange was priceless.
My dad told me a story about him and his friends trying to catch the kid that always one upped everyone in the act. The group baited him by having one of them say that he was out hunting foxes, and his dog treed one. The one upper proceeded to tell his story of how his dog treed TWO foxes. They all laughed and said foxes don’t climb trees.
Sophomore year of high school. 16 year old me, big band nerd, I was in drumline.
Some background. We had a guy who marched tenor drums(the ones who march 4-6 drums at once) who I'll call Rodney. See, Rodney was the only guy who played tenor drums, despite their being 3 lockers for them, all stacked on top of each other. He had a movie theater(albeit a small one) set up on the bottom locker, his drums in the middle one, and a bunch of decorations in the top. In this top locker had had his lunch box for the day too.
So one day, we were eating lunch with the band director and Rodney says he could've sworn that he packed something else. A couple days later, his girlfriend who kept her food in the locker also noticed something was missing. Rodney had the same thing a couple days later, and decided, yes, someone was stealing food from his locker.
We begin planning. Ghost pepper in the sandwich? No, the person is taking snacks. Laxatives? No, won't work. We come up with a place. We'll take an old smartphone and set up a security camera. We even run the idea by the band director and he says do it, someone in his choir class is stealing it.
The next day we have the phone and the app set up. Because his locker is messy, we tuck the phone, with the camera sticking out it, in the top of a binder. We hide it behind the lunch box so that it wont see anything except for blackness when the lunch box is there. We have it set to record and send to our phones when it detects motion.
Halfway through 2nd block, my phone buzzes. I watch in a nervous joy as 2 infamously promiscuous females move the lunch box, look around suspiciously, before realizing that there is a phone. I hear "OH MY GOD THERE'S A PHONE THEY'RE RECORDING US" followed by "the phones not on its just charging you fucking retard"
It was not just charging.
They ended up ratting out a couple more girls. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my Mam said she was going out for a walk and a looked across the road later to find her answer the door for a Chinese
In school, I had a friend, M, who was a constant liar. She was a liar all the time I knew her in primary school. Her lies were mostly impossible to technically disprove (like, "my eyes turn green at midnight" kind of shit) so if you ever called her out on her bullshit she would just double down and keep at it ("MY EYES DO TURN GREEN. ALL MY FAMILY'S EYES DO IT. ASK MY MOM")
Well for a while some cutesie collectable bobble head pet toys were all the rage in my school. She started going on and on about how she had every single one of them and even made up a few like "the golden Rio lizard" or whatever. So when I got fed up with her shit I said "well, do you have anything from the water emerald series?" And my other friend, C, immediately caught on and was like "oh yeah, they're super rare. They're like the other gem series." (There was like this other series like the sparkle-eyes series of them but that was one of very few other accompanying series to the main product) So obviously she started on how she also had all the gem series, all of them, so we just kept getting more and more ridiculous about which ones, getting more and more specific. "Have you heard of the Starshine Bubblegum series? They only sell them in France." And of course she had collected all of them. By this point if she had all the collections she said she did she'd have a few thousand of these plastic trinkets. So when me and C were finally satisfied by how ridiculous she'd gotten and that she was still definitely serious about owning all these toys, we broke the news to her that we had made everything up. She spluttered and stammered and then said we were lying.
From that point onward if she ever got too ridiculous (we let most shit slide) we'd just do the same thing and she fell for it every.single.time.
Met her again some years after leaving primary and she had gotten better at lying, but was still as annoying and ridiculous as before.
I went to coffee with this guy, and halfway through the interaction we start talking about art. I'm an illustration major, and apparently he had quite the portfolio himself, so we rambled on about it for a while and showed each other some of our work.
He drops the fact that he's done a bunch of illustration work for the World of Warcraft cards. I'm dubious, as this guy's stuff isn't on par with the artwork I've seen on those types of card game cards before, but I take a shot and ask to see some of the stuff he's "done". Upon showing me some examples...Yeah, no, it definitely wasn't his. I ended up pulling the same artwork up on my phone from the actual artist's portfolio site and showed it to him. His face flushed and he launched into this story about how he let that artist, (the real one) use his work free of charge, he's just that nice of a guy, etc. The level of bullshit coming out of this dude's mouth was off the charts.
I got up with my coffee, told him to delete my number, and left.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend said that he played as toad in super smash brothers melee, until one day when he made the claim to some of our friends and I explained to him how the video supposedly proving that toad was in the game was faked by cropping the silhouette of toad out of princess peaches neutral B, and put onto one of the "new challenger approaching" images. He confessed, because he was a good person.
I work at an info plaza for tourists and such. I will mever forget the day I had an angry older man come to the desk I work and complain to me, asking how we could charge to use a federal road and that in all his 20 years why they would do that now.
I calmly smiled at the man and said "sir, this road has been a toll road since 1956". He had little to say to that and thanked me for my help.
I get that a lot and as I write this I have already had it happen twice today. Sorry if the story is messy and quick, had to type quickly while I had a free moment.
I was in rehab in Northern California with this guy that was a compulsive liar. And boy could he spew them out, he told us that he was an Army ranger (he was 19 or 20 and had only been in for one year), that he was a cage fighter, that his dad was the biggest meth dealer on the West Coast and murdered his own mother in front of him. I left the army ranger lie alone because it was such a big part of his identity that exposing the lie probably would’ve caused him to lash out violently and I didn’t want to get sent home from rehab for fighting, he was about half my size so I wasn’t worried about fighting him, just the consequences. The one that I did get him on was he was telling everyone that him and his buddies in Iraq caught a camel spider that was the size of a house cat, he said they found it latched onto the stomach of a camel eating it from the inside out. My best friend is it 100% disabled Iraq vet (Army Cav scout) and he told me that all those photos that were going around our photo shopped, that camel spiders only get to be about 5-6 inches long (maximum) Which I verified by googling. I called him out on the lie telling him that my best friend told me all about them and I also Googled them before and that he was full of shit. He responded by saying, “are you calling me a liar?” And I responded by saying “absolutely”. Everyone that was standing around listening to his bullshit burst out laughing. It was awesome lol
My ex-husband was in school to get his masters degree in philosophy. He had done poorly in an advanced logic class and was going to retake it as an independent study. The problem was it was going to be his only class that semester, so we had to pay the cost out of pocket - to the tune of around $1,400.
Mind you, this class was an independent study and he was good friends with the professor. He literally needed to read a chapter, and answer some questions and email them to him each week.
The only other thing he needed to do in order to graduate was complete his thesis.... which was about 50-60% done I think. He had pushed the time limit on everything to the wire, and had to get it done by May.
February rolls around, he is barely working on his class / thesis. I notice, and ask how I can help... April rolls around and he tells me he got an extension to get everything finished through the end of summer.
End of May, a letter shows up from the head of the philosophy department and I opened it like we do everything else... Well, this letter said he never completed his assignments for his independent study after February, and due to his poor academic performance he was being permanently removed from the philosophy program and not able to return.
I left the letter open on the table for him to see, and he never even tried to defend his behavior. We separated two months later.
My friend Mark calls me a couple days ago to catch up and bullshit as we normally do every month or 2. He had been having some issues with his girlfriend last time we spoke so I was interested to hear of any updates.
So he starts off by telling me that he has moved out of his place with his now EX girlfriend and things haven’t been so great. He changes the subject to what seems irrelevant but totally throws me off.
He said a few months ago he was trying to get her to play video games with him and his friends online. She agrees to play and meet his friends. Marks best friend was some guy he met on Xbox live a few years ago and they play together very often. So Mark wants to introduce his girlfriend and mother of his child to his best friend. They meet and get along great. Mind you they meet over a headset during like a call of duty match.
Fast forward to now. They had exchanged numbers over Facebook and began messaging each other. Marks friend uproots his life in like Minnesota and moves to Delaware to not only meet this girl in person but to move in with her.
They now live together WITH his daughter. He found out because she had left her messaging app logged in on his computer. They were probably going to break up anyway but he didn’t know it was for someone else or his best friend. And neither of them let on to what was going on.
So he logs into his computer one day recently and scrolls through hundreds of backlog messages to discover what had happened.
When he confronted her he said he just asked if she had talked to his friend recently cause he hasn’t heard from him. She had some long ass story about how he said he was going through a hard time and hasn’t responded to anyone. Could imagine her reaction when he started sending her screenshots of her messages.
Either way, still sucks for Mark. But bizarre story nonetheless.
I was dealing wth a stubborn and deceitful customer service rep that was trying to convince me that I hadn't been fraudulently charged for a year of a service I didn't ask for. He said that I had added it on July, so I played along and he built up a story about how I signed and how he talked to the rep that sold it to me and they remembered me etc etc. Then after he was done I asked him "so if I added it in July... Why was I also charged for it in June....?" He hung up... But it was satisfying as hell.
This will probably get buried, but one time in grad school, I had to call financial aid because my loans hadn't come through yet. (I know some of you will know exactly what I'm talking about) The lady in the financial aid office is giving me the standard run-around yet again , when she said somehing that made my ears perk up: "Mr. Nipplezofthefuture, we have not received any notification from FAFSA that your loans have been approved." I distinctly recalled recieving an email from FAFSA a week before that didn't jive with what finacial aid lady just told me. So I'm like hold on a sec, I've got this email here, let me read it to you while you're still on the phone. It reads, "Your loans application has been approved. The following institutions have been notified: X University." Then I said, "X University, that's you, right?" This was followed by a long pause. Then she asked if I could forward her the email. My loans were in my bank account the next day.
I work in sales, I had been reaching out to a client about a package that we offered, I caught my coworker trying to snake the sale from me by changing the profile of a client from woman to a man in an attempt sell her first. I confronted the co-worker about these changes he had made he said "How dare you accuse me of trying to snake a sale", at that point I showed him that I could see all the edits made on existing profiles(3 days into using salesforce). He went silent when he realized that I had caught him. I left his desk hissing at him like the snake he is.
We had a guy work with us who claimed he was an ex-financial director who had retired, got bored of retirement and decided to return to a job to keep his mind ticking over.
He used to take groups of us out for meals at lunch, pay for us all pretty frequently, talk about his house in LA and show us pictures of his boats, cars etc. I did some fact checking as I was always ever so slightly suspicious of the things he had been claiming to do. The general daily chat from him portrayed this lavish life of always eating the finest steaks and drinking the most expensive wines..
Post fact checking - his knowledge of LA and the places he talked about all seemed to be pretty factual and his explanations and descriptions of the places all seemed to add up with another colleague who had also been over to LA on vacation.
Anyway... fast forward a few months and he is always constantly offering possible business prospects and fellow work colleagues use of his place in LA free of charge. Our group Managing Director decides to take him up on the offer and flys out with his entire family from the UK to LA, fresh newborn included.
On touching ground in America he receives a text to say that he has a compulsive lying disorder and everything he told him wasn’t true. He didn’t have a house or anywhere to stay. Our boss spent a fortune trying to find somewhere to stay for two weeks and wasn’t best pleased.
Safe to say he didn’t return to work the following week.
It took a long time for the pay off, making it even more exciting. A few years ago my brother got married, and there were a few bottles of sparking cider left over, and I took a few home. At my dad's house, I had a bottle, and it seemed that someone was drissnking out of it without my permission, so I put my name all over it, no change. I put do not drink, no change. When noone was home I grabbed most of what was left, but I left a little bit in the bottom, then brought the level back up with dish soap. It wasn't until a few months ago that I got the final satisfaction, when we were talking at a family get together about drinks, he looks at me and says "it would help of SOMEONE DIDN'T PUT SOAP IN MY DRINKS!" I just smiled and told him it was mine and I had notes and my name all over it. He just looked blankly for a moment and we got back into the normal conversation. That was the most satisfying day of my life, so simple, but so amazing.
Tl;dr: step brother drank my apple cider, I leave notes, still takes some, add soap, years later he finally says something, and my pants become moist from satisfaction.
This happened when I was in 3rd grade. We had a Halloween parade and were told to bring in our costumes to march around the school. I had a purple princess dress. At the time my mom was single with 3 kids and had saved up for a while to buy us all costumes. When it came time to get dressed, my costume was missing.
I was crying and asked my teacher to help me find it and she suggested that I had forgotten my costume at home to just do the parade without a costume. I went into the teachers office to call my mom (which was shared with other 3rd grade classes) and in there, I caught another little girl putting on my costume. The worst part was that her own mother was helping her put it on.
I told my teacher that was my dress and the mom flipped out on my calling me a liar.
I told her I had written my name on the tag with purple marker and to check the tag. Sure enough, my name was on it.
The mom immediately starts crying and saying she couldn’t afford a costume and this is the one her little girl wanted. She and my teacher tried convincing me to let her have it. I said no and marched in the parade.
I was a member at a private country club years ago. When the recession hit we started frequently noticing some people playing who clearly weren’t members. Asked one of them how they were able to play. They replied that they made a tee time online. As a fully private club we didn’t allow outside play so it sounded odd. A group of us went to the general manager to ask how these people were playing. He looked right at me and said “there is no way anyone made a tee time online!!!” I then proceeded to show him how i found tee times available online for the public. He fumbled through a few apologies and said he’d look into it but he knew he was caught. I left the club shortly after and so did a lot of the membership
Had to proctor some students for a physics exam yesterday and one student asked if he could get a calculator from a friend in another building. Immediately the Asian student in front of him offered to use his. The guy started fumbling with his words trying to say that the calculator wasn’t the one he wanted and needed this specific one. Almost couldn’t hold back my laughter as I told him he can’t leave
Hjordt · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An old classmate was a pathological liar.
He loved bringing cake to class and boasted about having made it himself. He even took pictures of the cake on baking paper on the kitchen table. This paper was all white and not brown as paper usually get when it's been in the oven...
He had also studied months ahead of the pensum and was very willing to show us his notes he had made. Problem was the screenshots he had put in from PowerPoint was of the last year's pensum. He had gotten notes from last year's students.
He's actually a good guy willing to bring cake and help other people but I don't get why he have to keep lying about where he got it.
I was 17 or 18 and it was a snow day. I had a few friends over to play some call of duty and go sledding later that day. After we get back to my house from sledding I notice about ~$170 missing from my wallet. Pissed as I am and know the only place I had my wallet that day was either in my truck or on my person, I knew it was someone I was with but not sure who.
Fast forward 2 weeks. At a basketball game, I overheard that one of the guys there that day had just bought a guitar and amp from one of my really close friends. The individual that bought it made the mistake of slipping up and telling one of his friends (not my friend) that he stole the money and word got back to me. I had already confronted everyone that was there that day and he swore he would never do such a thing.
Well since I now knew it was him, I thought I ought to confront him. It worked out tremendously because he and both of his parents were working the concession stand at this fairly packed house basketball game. I walk up to the counter, wait in line, get to the front and say very loudly, "so you're the one who stole all the cash out of my wallet?" And many other choice words that I'd rather not go into..He goes pale as a ghost and his parents turn red as can be. Publicly embarrassed in front of classmates, parents, teachers, you name it. Felt fucking amazing. Had my money back that next Monday.
A guy I worked with was a constant 1-upper and compulsive liar. He was a military veteran, was in the marines and made sure every single person he had a conversation knew that about him. Nothing against marines, but this guy thought it made him better than everyone else.
One day we're changing shifts and shooting the shit with the guys who came in after us. We get on the topic of police and compulsive liar claims that he was an active deputy of the auxiliary sheriff's department. He went on to claim that he recently diffused a hostage situation when he sniped a gun out of a guy's hand. A coworker of mine was married to someone in law enforcement and texted her husband about this guy. Turns out our county sheriff hasn't had auxiliary deputies since the 80's and this guy was clearly full of shit. We made sure everyone knew not to believe a word he said.
My roommate is a pathlogical liar. He has 0 self esteem, so he lies to feel impressive. He's actually a really kind guy besides that, but I digress.
A week after a Con he went to with a mutual friend, he said that he beat the Korpiklaani Vodka Challenge (i.e. listen to this song, and everytime the word "Vodka" is said, take a shot). The mutual friend kept trying to call bullshit on him saying he wasn't drunk any night, but he kept saying he kept his liquor well (which from experience, we know is a lie).
After a couple of weeks of trying to get him to stop spreading the BS, I did the math on the challenge's alcohol consumption compared to his BMI, and proved he couldn't possibly have beaten it. He wouldn't even have lived to finish the song.
My parents have owned a bar/restaurant for nearly 30 years in a small town. Before that we lived in a sleepy fishing town about 100 miles south of here in the mid '80s.
As I managed the restaurant one night a guy came in telling everyone how he had lived with the owners ( my dad and mom) "down south" " for a few years" dropping their names (my dad has a very unique nickname) often and loudly. The more he talks the more customers are glancing at me as I start asking questions feeding him rope. The stories get more outlandish. After about an hour I couldn't contain my laughter anymore as more and more side glances from long time customers were coming my way.
Finally I introduced myself as the owners' son and asked his name again since I had failed to remember him living with us when I was a kid at the time we lived "down south." He sheepishly paid his tab and left, never to be seen again.
Czral · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
an old property manager of mine was caught in a HUGE lie with the maintenance guy. my stove broke repeatedly and i started to pester the property manager. Everyday she would say the maintenance guy would knock on my door to take a look but at the time i was working from home. I tested this buy putting a big piece of paper stating "FUCK YOU (maintenance guy's name)" to see if there would be some sort of reaction. Alas, the same text was sent to me saying "so-and-so knocked on your door all day he missed you!" I reported this to the head office of the property management company and it turns our the cheques they were writing to purchase a new stove in my unit were being embezzled by the manager and maintenance guy. they ended up stealing roughly over 40k before getting caught.
Karaad · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was younger and out late at night smoking with friends, I came home and placed my almost dead phone on my desk and plugged it in. I'm very picky about where I place certain items, especially my phone.
My step brother was barred from having phone because he would only use it to ask for drugs from various people, mainly through texts, which were tracked via at&t's history service.
So I plug my phone in and go to take a shower, great shower. I get out and walk into the small foyer which has a door leading directly to my room, his room and our shared bathroom. I hear a rustle, a ripping noise and a slam. I walk i to my room and my phone isn't on its charger. We weren't allowed to lock our doors but he had locked his at the time because our parents were asleep. No problem, I use a metal rod and poke the hole to unlock the door and immediately tell him to give me my phone back, he tells me to fuck off and that he does have it, I must be stupid and lost my phone. I notice a hole in his screen for his window and ask him how it got there, he tells me to fuck off again, so I start screaming that I know he took my phone, I was on it as I was entering my room after all.
The screaming wakes up our parents, dad is in a fury, I explain the situation and he gets really pissed and busts out his laptop, I decide to walk outside to see if my phone is outside of his window, it's raining and behold, my phone is in pieces, battery removed, back plate removed, but still intact.
I come back inside "look at what i found outside of brothers window, in pieces..."
Mom and Dad at this point are on the verge of slapping brother and he is still denying it. The printer ramps up and out comes the hard facts. He took my phone and started texting every number he had on a piece of paper looking for coke, weed, heroine, pills, what ever kind of drugs he could get ahold of. "Hey dealer its me Brother, you awake? I need xxxx"
He still denies that it was him and it was all a set up, I finish drying my pho e off with a high powered blower to find out that the entire phone has been reset, pictures contacts, everything. Mind you, this was not a smart phone so transferring contacts wasn't the easiest and everything on the phone had just been erased.
Even with all of the proof, the little shit denies that he did anything wrong l, "If you deny it, you're not guilty" is his mindset.
He still isn't on the family phone plan to this date.
Friend was reading my phone over my shoulder. I began to write “stop reading my texts.” As soon as he read that he yelled “I am not reading your texts!”
First one was a cash scam. Guy had me fill four visa gift cards with $500, totalling to a little over 2 grand (cause fees and tax and stuff). Told me he had a cash card so I was like "cool it'll run as debit/credit" and hes like "no, its a cash card, youve gotta hit the green cash button." The green cash button is what you hit when someone gives you exact change in cash. It basically validates the transaction and activates the cards. I was like "uhh no that's for cash, I know what button to hit" he's like "no bro, you gotta hit the green button" and I'm like "yeah, the green card button, go ahead and swipe or insert your card" immediately hit a 248 action code and blinked my light. Hes like "don't blink your light bro you ain't need to do that" and I'm like "uh yeah, I do". And he just walks away, along with his friend who had like four more cards in his hand. Supervisor comes over, I show her my screen and she's like "yeah you just prevented a scam, I'll get AP over here". I got my first raise because of it. If you're a cashier, and someone is telling you what buttons to push, immediately call over a supervisor, AP employee or manager. That's a major red flag.
The other was this guy who was buying a whole shitload of groceries. He kept trying to keep the bottom of his basket hidden from view but I didn't really notice at first and we rung out the transaction normally. He actually paid money and all was well. He was pretty nice, but then he started walking away and I noticed he had a bunch of shit on the bottom of his cart. So I'm like "sir, I'm sorry I totally didn't see all the stuff on the bottom of your cart." His attitude IMMEDIATELY changes and he's completely silent and pissed off. I ring up all the stuff and it totals out to almost 80 fucking dollars. I call AP and my supervisor to make sure they check his basket before they leave. What a dumbass. We were so busy and he had a long line behind him, who were all pissed off that this asshole thief was trying to steal shit and doing a poor fucking job at it. I hope he was really fucking embarrassed and ashamed of himself. Asshat. That could've been my job right there.
I had an employee at a secure facility. One of my policies was that they needed to leave their computers locked when away from their desk, especially as he had admin access.
Well one day, I walk in to this remote facility and his laptop is unlocked, sitting in the middle of the call center. So I change the background to some obnoxious Trump photo.
A contractor and I go and find him and we strike up a conversation. I steer it towards cyber security and locking computers. He tells me how he always locks his, and we’re joking around, saying how people shouldn’t leave them unlocked. Casually mention that if I catch someone doing that I would change their background to something awful.
So he heads back and we are going in the same direction. We see him sit down, and his face just turns beat red. He looks up, and there we are, me and the contractor with the biggest shit eating grins on our faces.
I have it all on video. Was all in good fun, but he learned his lesson.
My dad has a pub where my nana was visiting. And this woman was telling everybody her mother had died and cried her eyes out, at which she got free beer. A couple of beers actually
So my nana, sweetheart as she is, called to the house of the diseased woman and her widower to give her condolences. Since its a small town and everybody knows everybody
But who picks up the phone? The “dead” woman herself!
The free beer drinking liar was shown the door
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty much everytime a co-worker says "I have 10yrs experience" or "I used to run my own company"
Yeah??
Why do I have to even check and fix your work then?? Where is your company now??
Shut the fuck up focus on coming to work everyday.
A colleague of mine claimed she met Damien Hirst at a party and they got on really well. She said how he kept texting her and telling her how smart she was with her art. She finished by telling us how he'll still texts her asking to leave her job and work for him.
One of my friends is Damien's IT manager. So I asked him to het Damo on Facebook live for a quick chat. I said it'd be no problem at all and I'm happy to tell Damo to leave her alone. She quickly made excuses and never brought it up again.
Took over a territory after the previous rep went to work our distributor.
He was trying to poach direct accounts from me but there was never proof UNTIL an account gave me notes in his handwriting showing that he would give them 'bigger' discounts.
We met to discuss his poaching, which he vehemently denied.
I then pulled out his notes to the account and his jaw dropped.
'I,I,I,......well, that's not related to you AT ALL! That's something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!! GIVE ME THAT PAPER!!!'
My boss and his boss ended up having a 'Come to Jesus' conversation that did not go well for the distributor.
Was working as a manager at Panera, where we typically did not question customers when they complained about things. (They usually complained about everything.)
A rough looking lady asked for the manager, as I approached I could tell she was very, methy. I asked her how I could help, and she said "I was just here and I order two peppermint mochas and there was NO peppermint! I want my money back!"
It was very busy and I just wanted her gone, but she was already pretty off so I decided to press the issue. I apologized and asked for her receipt. She replied "I went through the drive thru and they DID NOT give me one!"
I then replied loudly so the 50 customers waiting could hear "Mam, we do not have a drive thru." She stared at me surprised for a moment and said "Well I guess I wasn't here." and ran out the door.
A colleague of mine claimed she met Damien Hirst at a party and they got on really well. She said how he kept texting her and telling her how smart she was with her art. She finished by telling us how he'll still texts her asking to leave her job and work for him.
One of my friends is Damien's IT manager. So I asked him to het Damo on Facebook live for a quick chat. I said it'd be no problem at all and I'm happy to tell Damo to leave her alone. She quickly made excuses and never brought it up again.
We were 16 and I talked to this guy in a game store about some random stuff and out of nowhere he started talking how he have cottage next to nearby lake. Since my father have cottage on the same lake I started asking for the location and more he was explaining the more I was assured he is referring to my fathers cottage which in the end it turns out he was. I didn’t tell him the truth but it was fun to listen to his bulshit
As a kid, I would have imaginary fights with friends. You know, pretending we were Jedi or commandos or wizards or something.
We came to a standstill when one of my friends got Halo 1, and decided he would be a hunter (enemy in the game) in all our "fights". According to him, this meant his shield could block literally every attack any of us could throw at him. "Lightsabers don't work", he said. "Guns don't work", he said. We escalated, naturally, and got frustrated but none of us had ever played Halo (parental issues with FPS games) so for all we knew he was talking about some kind of invincible psionic barrier. Thus he never... ever... "died" in our mock fights despite the rest of us taking our fair share of hits.
Fast-forward ten years, and I get to play Halo (finally). I fight my first hunter, and kill it with a rocket launcher. My friend had moved away, so I couldn't even gloat about how he was full of shit.
I mean, the shield is just a hunk of metal. "Lightsabers don't go through it" my ass....
My then-wife was having an affair. It has give on for well over a year, in one form or another, as far as I could tell. She had lied so much about it, and I, of course, wanted to believe her.
Don't get me wrong, divorce is very painful, and I absolutely hate my ex's choices for what they have done to my children, but when I finally found incontrovertible proof, and she could no longer convince me I was just paranoid, it was a game changer.
The satisfaction came somewhat gradually, though, and it is still coming (I started finding evidence about a year ago). It's quite refreshing to realize that all those times you suspected something, you were right.
It's hard not to be bitter/jaded, but it's definitely nice to know that I can trust my gut.
I used to live with a couple of guys and someone threw snowballs at my window for 5 minutes straight. So I went outside and saw one of them and asked him: "What are you doing?" And he responded: " I didn't throw those snowballs at your window!" Me:"I said nothing about snowballs." And he geb me the 'i fucked up' look and started to run but I got him and rubbed his face with snow so it was all good.
hymie0 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder how many people in this thread are lying.
nuts69 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kicking this one kid out of the air force for being a total shitbag. I asked him twice before going out "you don't have your phone on you, right?" A big problem with him was the damned cell phone. Take your eyes off him for one second and he's instantly done working and on the phone.
Left him in the truck to go do something, but looked back briefly. His eyes were downturned. Fucking phone. I stealthily sneaked around to the back of the truck and popped my head up to the window and yelled "BUSTED". He started crying instantly.
A co-worker was bragging about how he wrote some software that I had written. Everyone knew I was the contact person for it, but he thought someone at an outside office did it. I gave him a “Oh really that’s very interesting! I didn’t know you had those skills!”, then I invited my team leads into the conversation. “Hey did you know X wrote that software? He did it in, uh, oh what language did you say you wrote it in?”. He went on to brag some more and couldn’t figure out why everyone kept laughing at him. Not sure he ever figured out I was playing him.
Oh man. So I worked at a coffee shop that was owned by a Christian/Politician (let's just call him Kevin). They hired this young douchebag kid from the youth group. He really wanted to be cool (he even wrote as much in a journal he left at work on accident). He listened to rap and just clearly tried and wanted to be a badass.
Well he was quitting and on his last day, hundreds of dollars went missing from the register. I knew that I didn't steal it so it was up to me to prove he did.
I used an email/im spoofing service to send him an email that looked like it came from Kevin, the owner of the business (the guy who had a strong presence at his church and a fairly strong political presence in our state).
Basically the email was some quote from the bible about stealing, I can't remember what it was exactly.
So the next day I was back at work and my manager came up to me and said that the kid had called Kevin crying and admitted that he stole the money. I broke out in laughter and glee, and tried to explain to her what I had done. She didn't believe me and just chalked it up to the kid having a guilty conscience.
Not sure if this counts, buttttt I found out my (now ex) boyfriend was cheating on me with his ex-girlfriend. Surprisingly, I was friends with her before the whole cheating thing happened. After I found out about it, I texted her asking how many times it happened. Within minutes I received a text from my ex instead saying ‘just tell her it was the one time please’.
My wedding was no alcohol (venue's policy, but we don't drink much anyways so nbd) and my mom called my sister, who put it on speaker because i was in the room, and asked to borrow her truck and all the coolers she had so she could basically be the supplier. My sister said no so my mom called me to tell me how awful my sister was and that she "just wanted the coolers to bring sandwiches for everyone." FUCKIN' NOPE!!
There's too many to name with my coworker. We all come to realize that she has an actual problem.. for instance here's a few from last night
-my grandparents own Wells Fargo
-i had a stroke last week
-the guy who campus out with his telescope on my parents property is an astrophysicist. He had glasses and a badge
This morning she told me she drove to work in reverse cuz her car was fucked up but she fixed it.
Once I took a guy lying about eating my pizza. when I confronted him about he was like "I didn't even go into the kitchen" to which my response was "how did you know it was in the kitchen?" (big house).
He then started sealed the deal when he said "I just assumed it was in the kitchen, besides I don't even like Salad Pizza". To which I responded "how did you know it was a salad pizza?" Nothing much came out of it in the end tho other than litterally everyone thought he was a piece of garbage for doing it. Also he never admitted to it even after getting caught like that.
Long story....
I worked in the middle of the night baking a year ago. There was a manager that got hired, whom the owner thought was her godsend of all holiness, we will call him Mik. She was obsessed with him. Anything and everything he said was the only facts, everything else was a lie from other employees. If the rest of the employees told her that whatever happened wasn't how Mik explained it she would still take Mik's word as truth. He didn't get along with many people except the owner.
Him and I started a project that was a success. A journalist from Forbes came in for an interview. Without telling anyone he decided to do the interview. Every sentence he told her was a lie. From the sales numbers, to him graduating from the local prestigious university. Best part was he conveniently left me completely out of equation, like I didn't even exist even though the work and business planning was 50/50. When I confront him he says something along the lines of the reporter must not have included me or had forgotten... sure...
Because I worked in the middle of the night I didn't see the other employees very often except Mik. I explained to Mik at one point what my goal was- complete community college and then transfer to the local prestigious school for computer science. The plan was more detailed, but for simplicity sake, I'll leave it at that. I end up seeing some other employees later down the road and one asks me what my ambitions are. I explain an outline of my plan. Other employee says hmm, weird, that's exactly what Mik said hes doing... flattering...
Ends up that the kid is a compulsive liar. I was having relationship issues and he explained his breakup. Couple months later he says hes been dating the same girl for 4 years. I get into prestigious school, whatcha know, Mik did too. Weird thing about the school thing is that he was only at community college for half a semester (he did have previous credits though). He said he got into the hardest school to get into at this already hard to get into University. The acceptance rate for that school is like 11% for external transfers. When I congratulated him I asked when he was doing the mandatory all day orientation. He explained he already had done it. He changed the subject very quickly, as I don't think he got as far into the lie to check out trivial things like the duration of orientation or the times. There are like 5 days for orientation that are all much later in the summer- he could not have done it already.
Fast forward, he gets caught stealing. But not just any stealing, it was desperateeeee stealing. Like, adding giant tips to credit cards. If he stooped to such an easy to get caught method, he must have thoroughly used all his other resources to steal (Note: this is an old school place of business- paper receipts, manual cash register without employee logins, etc. It would be extremely easy to steal). They found that he had added tips to multiple credit cards. When the owner fired him he sent all the work documents he had and explained that "someone stole his credit card at work and charged $400 on three consecutive days and I will be doing a charge back."
The owner finally caught on to what everyone else knew. This kid was a piece of shit. On the outside he was like I'm the golden child and will do anything for this company! But, fuck, was this kid malicious. He would throw away receipts to fuck over other managers (this was caught on camera and the boss still took his side). She loved him and would do anything to be blissfully ignorant of his malicious shit. She was literally thinking of paying for his education. Finally the stealing caught her up to who he really was. Although I feel bad for her, it is so satisfying to his shitty lying finally catch up to him.
coenw · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In an office I worked in our lunchroom and coffee corners where run by pensioners who couldn't stand not not working. Most where nice and smart people, one turned out to be extremely wealthy (different story).
One guy was a bit odd and was always bragging about his war, work and life experiences. So at some point me and a few co-workers decided to start logging his stories. Turned out that he seemed to have 142 years of working experience in vastly different fields and managed to fight in three separate wars during that time, we didn't even take the effort to calculate the hobbies..
We enjoyed his lying and talking to new staff that believed him :)
I work at a special daycare. Not special needs. The parent of one of the kids is always surprised to hear that I tell them their kid curses like a sailor. So one day they come in and the kid is in time out cursing like it's their Job and the mom goes ohhhhh myyy God.
It was my first girlfriend. At the time, I was very against smoking but I wasn’t such a stickler that I wouldn’t date a girl who smoked. I met this girl through my work at the time and we started hanging out and dating and we were together for about three and a half years.
As far as I knew, she was not a smoker. She didn’t take smoke breaks at work. I never saw her with a cigarette or a pack of smokes in her hand. None of my coworkers ever mentioned anything about her smoking. But then I noticed small little things that lead to a bigger picture eventually.
I remember one time I pulled up to her house and as I did, I saw her sitting on her porch and I was pretty sure I saw a small cloud of smoke in the vicinity of her face but I dismissed it when I parked the car and walked inside and kissed her and I didn’t smell any smoke. But I knew that I had caught her smoking and she can hide it well. After that, I was walking into a Walmart and just as I was walking in she was randomly walking out (this was during a time before smartphones were everywhere and social media was a tadpole). We were both surprised to see each other randomly and she was just grabbing a few things with her friend. I noticed that when she saw me that she had an almost shocked look on her face and quickly rifled through her purse and put in a piece of gum. We chatted for a quick minute before we said goodbye and I kissed her. The gum she was chewing wasn’t enough to keep me from detecting the slightest trace of cigarette breath but once again I didn’t care if she smoked or not so I didn’t give it a second thought. Not long after that we took a vacation together to Central Florida for a week. Being around someone for a couple years like we had at the point of the vacation, we knew each other pretty well especially demeanor and sense of humor. During the vacation, everything was fine on day 1 and day 2. But then I started to noticed on day 3 that she was a bit irritable despite being at the happiest place on Earth. She sort of stayed in this hazy funk for the rest of the week and definitely not her normal jovial self.
Despite the fact that I knew she was a smoker and I had caught her smoking no matter how fast or well she could cover it up, I didn’t care and never brought it up with her. It was a few months after the vacation when she finally told me how she knows I hate smoking and that she lied to my face for years about her smoking and how she was so scared to tell me because she “knew” I would break up with her if she smoked. That was the reason she was in a noticeable funk during the vacation because she had to go the whole week without smoking. It was really satisfying to have already caught her up in this massive years-long lie when she finally came clean and I let her know that I knew all along and that I also didn’t care.
So I work as a claims adjuster at a non standard auto insurance company. For those who haven't had to deal with the process before, I'm the person you call after an accident and explain how you or the other driver fucked up. With a nonstandard company, we deal with a lot of high risk customers and because of this we don't have grace periods when you miss a payment. This leads to a lot of lies....
I had one woman swearing up and down that the accident happened thirty minutes after she made a payment. She'd happened to have gotten paid that day and remembered she needed to pay for her auto insurance at three in the morning. I go along with it cause it's a lot easier to get people to unwittingly tell you stuff when you're being nice. Flash forward to a couple hours after our conversation when she sends me pictures of the deer she hit. Sure as shit the metadata on the photo shows a time an hour and a half before we got her payment, meaning she didn't have an active police when she hit the poor sucker. She was not happy when I called back and told her we were denying the claim, haha.
I had another one where me and my team were all positive we were dealing with a staged accident. Everyone in both cars (both of which were conveniently filled to capacity with "injured" passengers) were telling the same exact stories and everything was lining up. But the policy had only been started like two weeks ago and the 2000 beater SUV mysteriously had the most extensive coverage you could have... Nobody puts full coverage on that old of a car. Well, low and behold a couple more days go by and another team member gets a call from the policeman who'd written the accident report. Some sweet old woman, bless her heart, had seen these two cars meet up at the corner in front of her house and place the already shredded cars up to look like they'd been in an accident. Instead of just letting it slide as something weird that happened on the street, she found a way to show the cops her security camera and sent us the footage. I can't say I know exactly what happened as a result, but I know we didn't pay out and everyone in the "accident" was PISSED when they called back in and found out it was put with our special investigation unit. Not sure if they were charged with insurance fraud or not but lord I hope so.
My ex told me that her sister had died, and she needed money for bus fare to go to her sister's funeral. This ex also happens to be a lifelong drug addict, so I contacted a mutual friend who was also friends with her sister.
A little while later, I told my ex I had either really good news or really bad news, depending on how she was looking at it.
...and showed her the screenshots of her sister alive, and talking with our mutual friend.
A few stammered excuses about getting bad information later, she was gone. That's the last time she's ever asked me for money.
Money was stolen out of my wallet, which I had left in my toolbag, in the workplace. I lost $100. II had a feeling that my co-worker "Alex" had taken it. Mostly because he was a price of shit. I let my supervisor know and I hatch a plan with him.
Fast forward to the weekly meeting that same night, my Supervisor anounces that $200 dollars had been stolen from a toolbag earlier that night.
"Alex" immediatly pipes up and says "Goku, you lying bitch, they was only a hun'ed in your wallet!"
I received $92.50 back and the food he was currently eating during the meeting as he was walked out.
Had someone we knew vaguely come for an audition for our band. He gave us his show reel cd which was just a burn of Poison The Well - Opposite of December
When we called him on it he accused the band of ripping off his ideas.
Bonus Round
Had a tattooist apply for a job at our shop, submitting his portfolio, which happened to be made up of photos from one of our artists instagram.
I work at a museum where everyone under 18 is free. It's a pretty frequent occurrence that the 15,16,17 year olds don't have or don't bring IDs to prove it. Another common occurrence is that 18, 19, 20+ year olds decide to pretend to be under 18 to get a free ticket.
We catch liars almost everyday in this case, but this was probably the most memorable.
There's two people, one is a student member, their friend is claiming to be 17.
Me: Oh, you're 17, do your license or permit on you?
Friend: They're a child! They don't need an id!
Me: ok, do you go to high school? Do you have a school ID?
Her: Yeah, I go to school.
Me: Do you have a school ID?
Friend: She's a child, she doesn't have ID!
Me: Ok, where do you go to school.
Her: *Local college.*
Me: You're under 18 and in college? What's your birthday?
Her: XX/XX/1998
Me: Ok, so you're 20.
Friend: YOU DUMB! YOU HAD ONE JOB!! OMG, ONE JOB!!
Me: ok, that'll be $$
Friend: (now muttering) You so dumb.
They paid and went in. For once, the customer said what I was thinking.
Since I see a lot of car stories here I figure I’ll share some of mine.
Most recent: girlfriend’s car needs an oil change and tire rotation. We’re sitting in the shop when we get a call that they need to replace a tire because it has a nail in it, I say I’ll be right there and walk around the corner. The guy comes out the door in a rush to say “oh it was just the head of the nail, no big deal.” He couldn’t show me the nail head though, because they threw it out.
A few months before that, she brings the same care in to multiple shops (alone) after a fender bender and gets quoted astronomically high, like four times what it should cost, they tried to convince her the car was totaled blah blah blah. She did three different shops in one day and I said we’d go together after I get out of class. Go to another shop with her, get quoted a reasonable price and they fixed her door handle for free because they know happy people are return customers.
A shmuck of a used car salesman tried to tell me the reason the car I was test driving was sluggish every time it changed gears was because I didn’t know how to drive... I turned around, drove back to the dealership, and left without taking his card.
When I first started driving I hit a cement barrier and blew a tire out. After I replaced the tire I took the car into a shop, they tried to tell me I totaled the car because I bent some special pin that they wouldn’t even show me, said it wouldn’t even drive properly. Having driven it over there with no problems, I got in, drove it a hundred miles to a mechanic I know and lo and behold, that special pin doesn’t even exist - they completely made it up.
I’m very careful when I take my car into places these days, there’s too many people looking to screw you over for a quick buck.
One of my good guy friends (let's call him Jim) had a one night stand with some random girl he met at the bar. The morning after, the girl texted Jim frantically saying that she didn't take her birth control until later in the afternoon on the day they had sex, and therefore there was a chance she was pregnant. She told him that she needed $50 for a Plan B pill. Now, Jim was only 19 at the time and I don't think he fully understood how birth control and stuff like that works.
He gave her the $50. Less than 2 hours later, he checked Snapchat. She had posted a Snapchat story of her posing with an eighth of weed and a Big Mac meal. Now, where we come from, an eighth is around $35-40, and a Bic Mac meal is a little less than $10. She had so shamelessly finagled Jim out of the perfect amount of money for a new bag of weed and lunch. He was pissed at the time, but looking back its kinda hilarious. Although super unethical and wrong on her part.
Used to work at a Bdubs as a captain (white shirt). I was normally scheduled from 10:30am to 5pm, as they would only have two captains work a day at this location.
The same guy would always be scheduled after me from 6pm-1am. He would always call in with some excuse that he was sick or whatever and towards the end he just stopped calling in with excuses.
So I would end up getting stuck working 10:30am to 12:30am with no notice. One day was particularly hell, then the manager of the restaurant two doors down from us (mall location) comes in and greets me. I vent about how this guy was supposed to be working right now and how tired I am and the manager just laughs and says “oh he’s working cashier at my restaurant right now!”
Now he’s never mentioned he has a second gig at this fancier restaurant and apparently when he gets double booked, he doesn’t bother telling Bdubs that he’s busy, he just calls in sick or doesn’t show. Now I’m raging but I have to make my revenge complete.
I tell the manager of my store very very very sweetly if he could go over to the fancy restaurant and go buy me a cheesecake from the counter. My manager took pity on me and would do nice things for me like that.
Manager goes over to said restaurant and sees ditcher working counter/cashier. Manager comes back red in the face spewing every swear word in the book and hands me a $50 gift card to said restaurant and told me said dude is out of the picture.
Since February I’d need dealing with a fight where my mother in law started heavily gaslighting me and lying about me to the point my step daughter refused to come home for six weeks.
My husband decided we needed to have a sit down and she came over with that smug “I’m in control” attitude.
Little did she know I had mountains of evidence to support my claims that she was gaslighting me, lying to my step daughter about me and lying to my husband about his family hating me. There was so much evidence on my side to the point where during this sit down even her own husband wouldn’t even look at her.
Extended version, we were working out a parenting agreement with my step daughters mom and right of first refusal was brought up. At the same time we are dealing with extreme favoritism between the kids by my mother in law.
My mother in law lost her shit and started a smear campaign telling everyone in her family, in my family, my step daughter, her mother and my husband that I am insane and told my husband that if ROFR was in the parenting agreement his dad would disown him and that I’m dead to her. This went on for three weeks.
I came home from work one day and my in laws were here and decided to get it all swept under the rug via my husband and my mother in law said we’d had a miscommunication. I called bullshit and told her to leave since I’m dead to her.
She didn’t, I yelled at her. There’s an Am I The Asshole post about it. Turns out I’m not the asshole.
I threatened to call the police and she left.
I sent her an email stating that the consequences of her blatant favoritism and destroying of a productive coparenting relationship (with pages of examples) isn’t going to be tolerated and that she’s not welcome at our home until she works on it and apologizes to everyone she’s involved. I also explained how favoritism is emotional abuse to all children involved.
She sent this email and her response to her sister, my brother in law, my grandmother and my step daughters mom.
I almost hired a lawyer that night to sue for I don’t even know what but I wasn’t happy.
My step daughter came home the week after but refused for 6 weeks after because my mother in law showed her my email as well, told her I said she was physically abusing the kids and that I’d never let her see her grandma again. I guess she and step daughter’s mom were in agreement that a 9 year old should be given the full story. The story my mother in law was telling.
Anyways, the end came to the meeting where I clearly stated everything she had done that I had proof of either by my children telling me, school counselors, texts/emails/recordings from her to me, my husband and step daughters mom.
She never admitted fault and kept trying to put it all on me and make me look bad. Even going so far as saying I’m “good at alienating people” because I haven’t talked to my mom in 15 years. My mom is a child molesting/abusive alcoholic meth head who once broke my nose for folding the towels wrong so yeah, she’s not around and my mother in law knew all of this. I should’ve punched her in the throat there but instead I told asked her if she’d like my mom around the kids.
It went in circles until we finally mentioned that parental alienation is a felony and the lawyer that helped me with my mom is advising me in this case and that if she continues I will press charges.
She backed down.
My ex-wife. I was babysitting her daughter (my stepdaughter) why she'd gone out for a "well earned night out with the girls".
She came back 2hrs after we'd agreed and I watched her get out of some guys car and kiss him passionately before she exited.
When she got in the house she was all tra la la about her night and I asked her how she'd got back as I hadn't heard any taxis. She said "oh I got him to drop me off at the end of the street" which in of itself made no sense geographically.
I then proceeded to ask her about her night and which taxi and where did she get if from and who was with her to make sure she was safe, all just to see how quickly she could make some more shit up.
Then I asked her how much it cost and how much she paid. Then I asked her if she got a discount for kissing the driver, which she denied, then I showed her the video I'd taken in my phone of the none taxi that she got out of a bit up the street under a lamp post.
Then she said she was leaving me for him (he was a bouncer) as he had a "5 year plan". I told her good luck.
I walked out there and then and went to live at my friend's before shortly moving out the country a week later and starting life again.
She called me a month later on Xmas day crying...
Turns out she went round to the guys house on Xmas Eve to surprise him and his wife answered the door.
I laughed and put the phone down. I saw her 12 years later. She looked like a hag, had no job and had just been done for shop lifting, her excuse was "I wouldn't have her back and she'd struggled to hold down a job since I left her". I laughed again and walked off. Never seen her since.
Oddly enough, I raised her kid from 9 months until she was 7. The ex told me that either I go back to her or she'd slap me with an injunction to stop me seeing my stepdaughter.
Awful choice to make, but way I saw it, it would have been worse to bring the daughter up in an unhappy home than to not see her. She was the only thing I missed following the split.
Years ago, I was at a small house party with some at the time, close friends. There was a group of three of us and we would all bring over friends the other parties we did not know. A few hours into our get together, its winding down and a few of us are sitting around the table playing a drinking game. We end up doing what young men do around that age, talking about O̶u̶r̶ ̶l̶o̶r̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶a̶v̶i̶o̶r̶ ̶j̶e̶s̶u̶s̶ ̶c̶h̶r̶i̶s̶t̶ all of the women we've had relationships with. As were going around the table we reach one guy who is so irrelevant I cant recall the name of, so we will just call him "todd".
Todd brings up the countless women he's slept with and begins naming them off. (Unfortunantly my friends and I had a track record because we were douche bags.) I suppose he was just trying to seem relevant within our conversation. He then spouts out the name of my at the time live in girlfriend. I immediately knew he was bullshitting simply because I was the only person she had been with, and she was and is too crazy for me to have ever been with this person. So I let him continue, telling me when and were and how she was because I had been "wanting to hook up with her for a while now". After a solid 20 minutes into it, I finally in a drunken stammer began to explain who she actually was and how he had never had sex with her. His excuse, "oh did I say (insert name of ex 3d gf here) I ment (girl with same first name, different last name)." Which was also a lie due to the fact that I knew the second girl exceptionally well also. Was a very awkward night the rest of the night, but he finally admitted that he was lying. He brought up the truth about when and how he lost his virginity, turns out it was a girl from our school who was a very well known cheerleader and him and two of his buddies took advantage of her while she was passed out. :/
When the girl inevitably found out it happened she went off the deep end and I feel terrible about it. People can be so sick.
TL;DR
went to party someone claimed to be banging my girlfriend had dumb excuses and eventually admitted that he lost his virginity via rape.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A stripper said I had a ten incher.... we both knew it wasnt true.
This girl me and my buddies knew said that the military was training her to become a spy because her boyfriend (now husband) was training to be a seal (washed out). She went into an extreme intricate story etc. And at no time was anyone buying her bullshit. We all called her out when some buddies (who were in the service) were asking specific questions and she just had no legitimate response. I felt really bad for her at the time. Sad little bitch she was.
Before I was a cop I was a probation officer. I often used the first Probation meeting to get to know the person and give them the referrals they needed to get started with.
Things are going pretty normal with this guy until he tells me he is a combat veteran with a Purple Heart from the first gulf war. I ask him to tell me more and he tells me he was an army intelligence office and he was hit by rifle fire while sending information back via radio. I take note of this and tell him I’ll see him next month.
The next month comes and he is again sitting in front of me. I tell him I want to connect him with veterans services and organizations but could he tell me about his military service. I have so many people I see and sometimes it’s hard to remember all the detail people tell me.
He goes on to say he is a combat veteran with a Purple Heart again. He tells me he was shot in action in 1993 In Afghanistan. When he’s finished I open up his file and remove the DD214 I have inside.
His DD214 says he was in the military for three months in the early 90s and was discharged for drug abuse. I asked him if he wanted to try again and he said no.
This guy lied about everything and started filing all kind of complaints with the department and every organization he could think of. He claimed an officer came into the waiting room and punched him for no reason. Our waiting rooms have video and audio. This never happened. It got to the point no one was allowed to be alone with him and they wanted three officers present when he came.
Probation did not work for this guy and he went to prison when the judge imposed sentence on him.
In HS, in the early 90s, someone scrawled "I love SomeDude" on the inside of the pay phone. Well, I'd been going to school with SomeDude for 10 years at that point, and I recognized his handwriting when I saw it. I revealed that fuckers secret in front of a gaggle of giggling girls as he was bragging about it.
I've never seen another person turn that shade of red.
I wasn’t the one who caught him but, I basically knew all about it before hand and was nice enough not to call him out on it for quite a while.
One day, while I was out of the house, my brother decided it was an amazing idea to smoke some weed. In the house. With my Dads pipe (a nice tobacco pipe mind you, these things are upwards of $200). My brother, being probably the worst decision maker I’ve known in my life, also decided so get lit next to the main air intake for the AC in the house. Dumbass.
No doubt, within nearly seconds of him soaring to the moon, the entire house reeks of weed. It should also be known I have a 4 year old sister (3 at the time). So smoking weed in the house was not only illegal (in my state), but not super healthy for a baby.
You bet your ass my parents found him immediately with my dads pipe in hand. He had the guts to straight up tell them it wasn’t weed and he didn’t smoke any at all today.
My brother is undoubtably the WORST liar in the world.
I have a friend of mine, for some reason he lies all the time to be relevant in a lot of our group conversations. We live in Denver and a group of us just got done playing catch and I suggest "Hey do you guys want to watch that football game at my place tonight?" My lying friend replies "I can't I'm actually going to the game with my dad this after noon and tailgate before it starts, we got front row tickets." The rest of us all looked at each other with confused looks on our faces and I say "You know the game is Oakland right?!" He had the blankest look on his face and the rest of the guys get a good laugh in. My lying friend begins walking away and one of my friends yell "You better head straight to the airport from here, hope you got that plane ticket too!"
Yeah we're still friends, and sometimes friends are asses to each other because it's funny.
I was sent all screenshots of the full convo between them both along with videos of them doing the nasty. I asked her nicely if anything had happened that night and she lied to my face. I even gave her 1 full free chance to admit everything and I'll forget it if it was a one time thing... lied... So I dropped my phone on the bed and walked out... she saw I had seen everything and chased me crying... dude she was fucking had a mutal friend that thought it was wrong and told me everything face to face. Best hour of my life watching her break down because her own life choices just fucked her entire life up.
Last time I saw her was on FB with 4 kids with 4 dad's and none of them around. She now seems to live in a prison of 4 walls and talks to no one... I feel bad for her but please don't cheat. If you're unhappy talk about it and maybe work it out or break up. Also if given the 1 time chance to admit everything and have it forgotten don't fucking lie as the person offering this only ever get out of jail free card most likely knows everything already and just wants you to admit it and either show you're sorry and forgive you or show you don't care and leave you.
A member of staff stopped turning up for work and didn’t make contact to explain.
Three days of unauthorised absence and he comes in to the workplace with his girlfriend waiting outside. He asks if he can grab something from his desk, but I tell him to come and have a chat in the office first.
I asked him what’s going on and he says “I’m all over the place. My mum’s cancer is back, my relationship isn’t doing well, and it’s all getting on top of me. I’m suffering from really bad anxiety, I keep having panic attacks whenever I’ve gone to call in because I’m so worried you guys will yell at me.”
I said “ok, I understand why you’re suffering. It’s a lot to take on and I’m really sorry to hear about your Mum. Take some time, but text me every morning with an update to let me know when you’re going to be back.” He says “I’ll be back at work tomorrow, I promise. Today is the first day I’ve left the house, so I know I’ll be ok.”
The next day, he’s a no show and no contact from him. I mention to a colleague about him not leaving the house, and they reply “well I saw him 3 days ago, outside [nearby company]”.
So... I called the company. I spoke to the director and asked if this guy was working for him. He says “according to him, he stopped working for you last week.” I explained how this was a lie, plus the lies he told me to explain his absence. The director got him into the office, put me on loud speaker and together the three of us had a little chat.
I’ve never heard someone struggle so much to come up with a story that miraculously meant he wasn’t lying to either of us. He failed, the director told him to leave and not come back, and I told him that, as he hadn’t actually resigned, I was firing him.
There were four of us and we were all 17-18. Only one of us had a car. We acquired a half gallon of rum. After we drink for a while we get the idea to go to the beach. We are in Kentucky and the nearest beach is Virgina beach which is about 10 hours away. We convince the poor girl with the car that it was only a “few” hours away. After a few hours of driving she was starting to catch on but I kept saying it was just over the next mountain. After driving all night we finally made it and she caught us lying. We are still friends and still laugh about it today. This was around 1999 so no cell phone/gps.
Thyri · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Customer we essentially go out of our way to help all the time had software that they tested from months. Contacted us demanding we make it live now as it was urgent. We asked for signed off approvals - they sent hurriedly ticked off points.
They go live and it’s a shit show...obviously no testing was done and the urgent ‘go live’ turns into three weeks to get everything sorted!
When my first ex-wife told me my mother had told her I had had an affair while said ex was visiting her sister.
I said, "Oh, really? Let's just go down and talk to her about it."
The ex BEGGED me not to go. Literally hanging onto my leg as I walked down the hallway of our apartment building, dragging her behind me.
She finally admitted that she made the whole thing up.
I seriously don't know what the hell she was thinking. That I would never ask my mother about it? That I would think my mother was the lier and never talk to my mother again? Sadly, it still took me over a year to finally divorce that woman.
I had worked as a delivery driver and when I first started I realized I needed something to hold all the change in at the end of every shift (I used an office water jug). After a couple months I probably had around $40 maybe $50 in coins saved up (maybe more because there were a lot of quarters). Since this was a college job, I came home for the summer and immediately had to go away for a month, leaving the jug behind. Sure enough I came back to the jug completely empty.
It just so happens that my little brother had visited during my time away and so I asked my parents (at dinner when he visited), if they had seen anything and they said no. They asked my little brother and he denied it all but they called him out for it saying he had been the only one there in the time I was gone and since they knew they didn't do it, they called him a liar. They asked me how much was in the jar and said he was gonna repay me. I overestimated to see what he would say at $60 and he immediately defended saying, "It was only $43." Justice served.
I had a friend looking for a place to stay. I had told him he could crash on my couch for a night or two. He then asked his ex (who I am good friends with) if he could stay with her. He told her that he came me and I told him to fuck off. She was sitting on my couch relaying the entire conversation to my girlfriend and I, so I was able to call him out on his bullshit as he was spouting it. We aren't friends anymore
Not exactly lying, but I was taking the written portion of my drivers test at 16 years old. I was writing, silently, with everyone else, and I took a breather, as I sometimes did during tests. Put my pencil down and relaxed my brain. The instructor at the front leans to his colleague and whispers “that kid in the third row is COMPLETELY lost”. He said it loud enough that I could hear him. So i go up to the front desk when I’m done, and the guy is marking it in front of me. My Mom steps in and says “so how did you do?” I reply, “well I wasn’t COMPLETELY lost”, while staring at the instructor. He slowly stops marking, slowly raises his head, and his eyes meet mine with this “dying inside” look. He goes back to marking and passes me. Obviously because I got the questions right.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom thought I wasn't washing when I took a shower so she said "your teachers have been complaining that you smell". So I call bullshit on her. She tried to deny it but she eventually admitted it.
Girl I dated in college was "going out with her girl friends", which wasn't uncommon. They were a fun bunch. So I called a couple buddies to go grab a drink and a burger. I'm halfway through my beer when she and a mutual guy friend of ours walk in together. I just started laughing until she heard me. Dude looked at me and my friends, then turned and walked through the restaurant and out the back. He was so freaked out that I didn't even need to hear any explanation from the girl. She tried, but i just laughed and pointed at our friend who clearly felt guilty to the point of just leaving her there haha. I finished my beer and left with my friends.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was dating this chick who insisted that she was a virgin when we met and played the whole "good girl" game, always taking me to church with her and whatnot. I thought it was weird that she had stretchmarks on her belly and would only make love with the lights off, though i figured she was a former fatty and was just self-conscious or something. Then one day I went to her mom's house and I noticed her take a plaque of some sort and discreetly shove it into a drawer. While she was in the bathroom, I opened the drawer and looked at the plaque, and saw that it was a kindergarten graduation diploma, for a girl whose middle name was the same as my gf's. After some light interrogating, I discovered that this girl had a daughter that she was hiding from me. Dodged a bullet there.
I was notified at my university job two weeks prior to my contract ending that it was not going to be renewed. My boss, who never liked me, and her boss sat me down in their office and explained how sorry they were, but the provost decided to eliminate my position due to lack of funding. I let them do their rehearsed act, asked them questions that let them dig themselves deeper. Two weeks before, the provost met with me, reviewed my evaluations, and told me he’s glad they have me and hopes I stay for quite some time, as funding for my position had been approved for four more years. So, once these two finished their act, I said, “Well, that’s odd, because two weeks ago the provost assured me I’d have my job for the next four years, if I wanted it.” The look on their faces was priceless. I had no recourse, because I was contractual as well as within the one year probationary period and could be let go for literally any reason. Which sucks. But I get a lot of satisfaction in knowing they didn’t get to pull one over on me.
lilko_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex boyfriend stole my phone when I was sleeping and then locked himself in the bathroom. I woke up hearing him unlock my phone (I guess he figured out my passcode), and I knocked on the door asking for my phone back. He ignored me, walked outside the door minutes later, and said he “found my phone in the bathroom.” I just gave him a “are you crazy?” look. He never did admit he looked through my phone, although he was definitely lying.
I had a friend who I let stay in my apartment when he was in "rough times". I had been losing shit or it been getting stolen for months and me and my friends were just baffled by how some the stuff was happening. He was alone at the apartment for some of the occasions. We didn't want to accuse a friend of that but I brought it up to him a d he blew up. He freaked out and was mad at us, immediately saying "how could wethink it's him" and "I thought we were friends" it blows over after a couple days. Then shortly after he out if no where moves back to his parents which he recently said he could not go back to. Then he asks to come over to my house and update his PC games (he has terrible internet). So me and my PAYING roommate, which he never was, told him we weren't home. We were. Immediately after that he said "the back door was unlocked I'm just gonna update real quick" well go figure we were home and the backdoor was certainly not unlocked, and he certainly wasn't even there yet. So this proved that he had a made a copy of the key and he knew he was gonna be able to get in before he was even there. I had my suspicions before and that proved it. Really sad that someone who claims to be such a good friend will lie straight to your face for years.
L3tum · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was visiting my hot ex (still my gf back then) at her school and there was one dude who was super friendly with me. He boasted how he fucked every girl in his class (including my gf). At that point my gf comes walking out, he looks at her and says "Yeah, that's my gf. That's the ass im pounding. She's so sexy!". My gf reaches us and he tries to be really smooth but just makes the whole situation awkward. My gf says "Oh, you met L3turn, my boyfriend". He literally ran away
Had a guy working for me calling sick quite some times. It happens. One is an ox, the other is more vulnerable. He was a good programmer, but complained a lot and was sick a lot
After another bout that he could not come to work and was bed ridden and unable to do anything, i decided to google him. This was in the early years of Google. He had told me he was also political active and I just googled his name to see what he also did.
To my surprise, he was always at council meetings and very active at these meetings and listed in the meeting minutes of these council meetings whenever he was ill.
Next time he came up with another ill excuse, I showed him the meeting minutes and fired him. Not even the unions protested.
I'm kind of a book worm. One day, I was talking about a book I was thoroughly enjoying to a coworker and he kept bashing it, saying it was terribly written and had no substance. It felt off to me since he was saying that, but had no concrete examples of his points. The week after, I brought my book to work and he asked what I was reading. He then proceeded to reveal to me that he never read it, having completely forgotten that he was roasting it a week prior, apparently talking 100% out of his ass.
I never trusted a damn word that came out of his mouth since.
I'm sure no one will see this by now, but when I was in high school, I was dating this guy who was really untrustworthy, but kept me fooled. I had an event to go to and he told me he was hanging out with his guy friends. On my way home, we come up to a police car and flat-bed tow truck that had a car with the roof smashed in sitting on it. As we're driving passed, I looked over and realized it was my boyfriend's car. I freaked out and found out that he was at the hospital, and had my parents rush me there. He ended up being okay, and told me he and his friends were on their way home from the beer store. Later on, his friend happened to mention they were on their way home from the strip club. I ended things shortly after that. The lying and cheating got to be too much.
volvo1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is slightly different, but kind of similar:
Was playing Age of Empires 2, first game in probably 15 years. Had this teammate that was entirely focused on economy, wouldn't help me repel an incoming attack that was slowly destroying my base.
Look over to what he's doing, and he's ground-attacking my workers on gold with one of his catapults.
I am raging hard at this point, and in /all chat tell the opposing team "Red Player is ground attacking my workers on gold! and killing all of them!"
His response?
"No i didn't."
I was literally butthurt read in read that.
Anyways I told my co-worker buddy that story the day after at work, and when I told him when the red player says "no i didn't" him and another co-worker just start busting out laughing. Then i did too. I was able to trust my vision when that happened. Hope this story makes sense.
That would be when spez was caught faking people's comments.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was with a guy for 3 years. He told everyone he was ex army, ex fire fighter, traffic policeman and that he’d trained in the SAS! He would show people pictures of him and his “army buddies” in Iraq etc. Was amazing when I found his eBay account history to see he’d ordered the photos on there. The guy was a fantasist. He would be on a night out and he’d call me like “you’ll never know who I just bumped into, one of my SAS buddies, we just gave each other the nod”. Dodged a bullet with that one!
Training at a new job. Was myself, two others and a trainer at the time. This arrogant, obnoxious, know-it-all says he lived in Paris for a while. We pry further, he did a semester abroad in Paris for the same University myself and the other trainee had attended. Said university has no campus in Paris, the exchange is to a small town 45 mins outside Paris by train. Myself and the other trainee had actually gone on the exact same exchange during our time at Uni. It was just nice to have one over on this chump.
Back when I was a Team Leader Trainer for a fast food company; I had a special needs employee who was the the best at sneaking away from his station and the most clever with coming up with reasons as to why he did so, let's call him Aaron. I knew they were lies, he knew that I knew (I suspected him sneaking to the restroom to play a dragon egg hatching mobile game) , but the majority of the reasons were vaguely plausible so we continued this dance for almost a year with him flirting with the boundaries of my patience and humor.
Then I caught him in the lie. It was a noon lunch rush, pretty busy both kitchen sides are open and Aaron is a cook running the grill on side A. I am running the floor, jumping in to help both sides when needed. I notice my order timer average is climbing and quickly look for who needs help. Side A has order tickets stacking and a struggling makeup table cook with no grill cook. Aaron is no where in sight. His coworker tells me he went to the restroom but has been gone a while. I jump in to assist, clear the screen, and continue jumping around but looking out for Aaron. More time passes with no Aaron and then a lull in the rush starts.
I was also waiting for a text from the next manager coming in so I had my phone on me. I feel my phone go off and step aside to look. Waiting for me were text requests from Aaron in the mobile game asking to help with multiple tasks. Each individual request had time stamps coinciding with the lunch rush. Finally, Aaron appears from the restroom and makes a bee-line to me. He makes a great show of rubbing his belly and has the saddest pouty face on that I know he can fake. He precedes to tell me how sick he feels, how much his stomach hurts, and how he was absolutley not playing around.
All I did was hold up my phone so he could see his game requests.
Aaron's eyes buged out once he realized that he had been caught and the only thing he could say was "Oh" as he turned bright red. He apologized and we had a discussion in the office after his shift. We worked together a few more years, I would occasionally ask him if he was playing any new mobile games to fluster him. It felt great to finally catch him and I got a chuckle over how he went down.
Lifeguard here. Last summer, I worked for a neighborhood pool close to my house. My coworkers were really nice, save for one or two guards.
One of the guards (let’s name her Emily) asked me to cover a shift. Now, normally I’d be willing to say yes; however, I was working at a food pantry for senior service hours (required for graduation) when she asked. She all but guilted me into dropping everything and run, but after a time it got annoying, and I ignored her messages.
After I got home, I went through the lifeguard group chat and discovered the ONLY messages she had ever posted in the chat or sent to me were her asking people to cover her shifts. Our manager eventually kicked her out of the chat, and I haven’t seen or heard from her since.
I got a really cool Boba Fett action figure on my birthday and used to play with it every single day. Then one day it just vanished and I had no idea where it went. I was sad for months, my parents would just tell me that ill find it one day in the house somewhere.
Eventually i did find it, i complained about not having it so much that it randomly appeared back in my toy box one day. I could not believe it but his jet pack was missing. It was detachable so that was a bummer but I was just glad to have him back.
Years later I was playing at my buddies house when all of a sudden I spot Boba’s jet pack on the floor in his room. I could not believe it...it was my friend all along.
Lets just say that our friendship was never the same ever again. He even still denies it to this day.
Way late to the game on this, but I work in bail bonds. Nearly every person who fails to appear in court has a parent, SO, employer, friend, etc. who will lie for them. “I have no idea where he’s at, haven’t seen him in months!” When we do finally track the defendant down, the person who lied is almost always the very first person the defendant calls to tell they’re going back in.
One story that comes to mind is this dude who fails to appear and is running from us and the local sheriff. 3 warrants, long criminal history, past convictions(mostly violent, abuse on a pregnant woman, battery, etc.) His mother was his cosigner, and she swore up and down she didn’t know where he was at. Acted like he was screwing her over, leaving her on the hook for $3000.00. Insisted she hadn’t seen him in months, no phone number for him. “Can’t believe he’d do this to me! I don’t have that money!”
When we found him a few weeks later, he was living one block away from her. We let him make his phone calls and get his shit together before we put him in the car and he calls his mom. 3 mins later, she shows up at the house to give him money for his books. She wouldn’t make eye contact with us. That said, I never blame anyone for not wanting to snitch on their family. On a weekly basis, we catch people in active lies. Never take it personally, though. I get feeling compelled to protect the people close to you.
I was taking a karate/tae Kwon do class or something like that back in first grade. Some kid in my class was bragging about how he was already almost a black belt. Literally that night, I saw him come to my karate class for the first time and begged me not to tell the other kids he was lying. I can’t remember if I did or not.
My mother once told me she was going to do a “no alcohol” challenge and that anyone that caught her drinking would get $100 from her.
Came home early from work one day, went to go tell her something. Something felt... off, but couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Went and looked behind the couch and there was a glass of wine she had hidden when she had heard me get home. Got my $100.
My roommate called out of work and told me that his 3 year old niece passed out at daycare and went to the hospital with a fever of 103. He told me to ask my girlfriend, a nurse, if she knows what could possibly be wrong. My roommate gave me updates through the day and everything. She made a full recovery.
About two months later, we go to his brothers house for his birthday. We ask the brother (father of the niece) what had happened and what the doctor said. He looked at me like I was an idiot. I turn to my roommate, who says “oh that never happened. I just didn’t want to tell until why I really called out of work.”
He got fired for lying about being sick about two weeks later.
When I confronted my wife about cheating on me. I knew more than she thought I did.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was 26, some 18 year old I slept with at a party said she was pregnant christmas eve 2 years ago. I had anxiety for weeks until I caught her lying. The idiot put the pee test in my garbage can. Knew she was lying after she left one night
Gstary · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My now ex girlfriend got a new boyfriend and as soon as that happened I supposedly molested her son. One of her pieces of "evidence" was that he was terrified of me but was putting on a show while I was babysitting him. Really? The 4 year old got perfect acting skills overnight and didnt once show any sign of discomfort and constantly wanted to play with me? Highly doubt it. Hell I even have video of us playing together that night, Luckily no one believes her
A couple of months back my mom made this big deal about my dad (stepdad) having cancer. This is about a year after claiming to have cancer herself mind you. She kept having sit downs when ever me and my wife would visit with our daughter. The part that really bothered me was when she would so openly tell our daughter he was dying and wasn't gonna make it. She kept asking if we'd be willing to look after their house while they stayed up north at a Ronald McDonald house so he'd get treatment. After we agreed she started saying in small doses how nice this "Ranch" was. A ranch that some guy who wanted to hire my dad to take care of it. After a while it just stopped being about cancer and treatments. Turned into a great job opportunity. So my wife and I figured it was all made up. That they were planning on going to this ranch and having us believe that it was because of cancer. We've never been able to confirm she has cancer btw. Then the guy who owned the ranch moved them into a condo by the beach. Long story short they had a falling out and moved back. I always look at her like "hey what happened with all that death cancer talk" but I never say anything. Pretty much now I listen to my wife who had already warned me about my mother's lies.
My buddy used to lie about everything. One day told our group of friends how he had done stuff with a girl I was close friends with at the time and I knew the story. Called her on speaker in front of everyone and asked if anything was true. She said absolutely not. My buddy had the balls to say “why would you do that?” I just asked him why he’d lie about it. Never responded.
so i was in summer camp for a week(boy scouts). a large issue happened where someone shit on the litrene floor. Now this is where i decided to leave my troop. Our campsite is right accross from the pool so i would use those bathrooms( i didnt like the campsite one) and come back. someone shit on the floor and one of the "star/eagle scouts" made up a story(there was construction trucks at the time there) I was being lazy and didnt want to go around the truck so i decided to shit on the floor ibstead. The leaders BELEIVED IT. and called my mother. she was furious because she knew i wouldnt be doing that kind of thing. He then later admitted After i was punished, to lying that He was the one that did it. he didnt get in trouble whatsoever. i got punched in the face too and all the kid got was a slap on the wrist and that i was told that he was stressed out. my mother found out and i left the troop for good
Well constantly while working tech support. Customers who called in and couldn't get online, neglected to try any troubleshooting at all in hopes I could just press a button and fix it. I rarely got an honest answer when asking whether they had restarted their equipment. When I explained that I can monitor the uptime of their router they sometimes got embarrassed and yelled at me. I don't miss that job, I really don't
Used to go egging a lot, I know, I was a punk kid. We egged another students house and the next day he came in and complained to our first hour math teacher how he was so tired from cleaning his windows last night after his dad woke him up.
We drove by that night and the egg was still on his window, that filthy liar. We proceeded to egg his house 20 more times to teach him a lesson. Lying gets you nowhere.
My step brother would steal my video games every year when I visited my dad. My mom wrote my initials on them to prove they were mine before I left. One year I found stolen games he had hidden under his bed with my initials on them and I showed my dad. I felt amazing.
He said it was my fault they got stolen because I was "bragging about having games".
I had a roommate in college, let's call here Claire, who brought her "fancy" knives that had their own covers. Our other roommate, who we shall call Beth, never put the knives back in the covers because she thought it was unsanitary. She's always very worried about things being clean. Whatever. Claire was kinda (reaaaallllly) psycho, but I knew it pissed her off, so to try to avoid any confrontations, I put the covers on whenever I saw that they were off. But I guess she got really annoyed so she took them without telling us and hid them in her desk drawer in her bedroom that she shared with Beth. Well one day, Beth needed to use Claire's stapler (Claire had told her she could), which was in... wait for it... her desk drawer. Beth saw the knives and told us (me and 4th roommate) about it when we got home. So whenever Claire was gone (which was often as she was an RA and didn't like us very much), we'd use the good knives and then put them back. Which in itself was pretty satisfying after all the shit she put us through.
But the best was one day when I walked in and saw Claire using the knives. It went something like this:
Me: Oh so you found the green knife! That's awesome! Where was it?
C: jaw almost hits floor before she recovers and goes back to her pathologically lying ways Oh well it was all the way in the back of the silverware drawer. We must have missed it.
Me: Oh that's funny. I could have sworn Beth took everything out of that drawer the other day so she could wipe it down.
C: Oh. I dunno.
Me: Well I'm glad you found it!
It went "missing" again the next day. It was a fun game to see how many times we could mention the missing knives in front of her before she would leave, claiming to have somewhere to be.
No, she was the horrible roommate, I promise. I should have given more background, so that's my bad. A small list of things she did before we decided to use her knives:
Stole the couch pillows I bought the previous year and always "forgot" to bring them back even when I reminded her.
Was caught sneaking in our room one day when my roommate came home early.
Had sex with her friend (not her boyfriend of 3 years) while Beth was in the room trying to sleep.
While I'm on that topic, cheated on her boyfriend of 3 years with 3 different guys and wouldn't tell him.
I gave her leftovers from something I'd made and she snapchatted her friend saying "She thinks this is one serving. What a fatty." Friend was with me and showed me.
Tried to turn us all against each other by making up stories about each of us and telling the others.
Tried hitting on my boyfriend. And when that didn't work, tried to accuse me of being jealous of her relationship with my boyfriend (???)
Told the girl I shared a room with, my best friend Amy, that I came to her crying saying I couldn't stand to live with her (Amy) anymore. Not true.
Isolated our roommate from the previous year (before we found out she was psycho) and, as an RA, posted on Twitter about how she had "a few days left living with the worst roommate ever. Good riddance."
She's a terrible person. I feel noooooo guilt over using her knives.
I was pretty sure my girlfriend at the time was cheating on me. She would also tell me she thought she was pregnant when she wasn't. I actually found out years later that she had her pregnant friend pee on pregnancy tests to freak me out. It would cause me horrible stress and sleepless nights. So I ended up getting a vasectomy since I don't ever want children.
A few months later she turns out to really be pregnant.
an ex-friend once told us he had banged a girl in the middle school (creepy I know). The problem was, he doesnt go near the school ever. These claims were very suspicious from the begining as he had been on a desperate streak of asking many girls out and being rejected. He also had very strict parents who would never allow for something like this to happen as they monitor him all the time. When one of my friends asked how they met he said she was on the dance team for the middle school and they visited the school for practice. I found out this was obviously a lie when I grabbed my brothers yearbook for that year and found no dance team for the middle school. We never confronted him though and we stopped talking soon after.
Mom tried to get a jump start on a prius from a guy working at a drive in theatre. You would think with the amount of cars the dude has to recharge every night after the films he'd run into one prius. The guy was adament that the battery was under the hood even though we adamently told him it was in the back trunk area and we just needed to make some space to open it up in a minute. Had to go through the hoops of opening the trunk and showing him the battery without the right plug spots. Mom consistently through the entire hoop jumping kept asking him "Okay so you've jumped a prius before right? You've done this with a prius before?" Getting him to stumble affirm that he had followed immediately by finding the front battery couldn't be charged was pretty good.
Ninja Edit: Referencing the same drive in theatre two weeks later while at my job... Some lady asked me if we sold any portable radios. I told her our limited stock was over there, yada yada. She off-handedly notes she needs it for the drive in I had just been to. I offhandedly mention that worse case scenario they had the clothesline speakers you can put in your window from inbetween each parking spot. She then proceeds to try and tell me they don't have anymore of those speakers. She knows, she's been there twice in the last five years. I mentioned I had just been there two weeks ago and she just told me I'm wrong and walked away. What a dink.
One of the people I worked with at my old job told our boss he had a "family emergency" that required travel, meaning he needed the weekend off. Naturally, my boss complied, forcing me to work the entire weekend despite having already worked 50-ish hrs that week. And this wasn't the first time either. I had suspected him of lying to get out of the "bad shifts" for quite a while, but I naturally had no proof.
Cue saturday evening. Just as I'm closing up the store, I recieve a text message from my co-worker, with a photo of him and and a mutual friend at a sports bar nearby. Turns out he lied to get out of work to watch a football match with his (our) friends and had accidentally sent me the photo, actually intended for the other guy in the photo (we share first names, not the first time people mixed us up). Tired of his shit, I show the photo to our boss.
Two weeks later, he quits. Our boss had confronted him the monday after, and he had admitted to not only lying that time, but having lied to get out of shifts for months.
I recently worked with someone who would brag all day about his sporting achievements, how he runs the London marathon every year, rides his bike 10 miles a day and that he was meant to be in the Olympics as a table tennis player but sprained his wrist. Bullshit like that.
One day, I was on the bus into work and saw him get on, he didn't notice me, and I didn't really want to talk to him so just kept quiet.
When we got off the bus, he started walking up the hill to work, I slowly followed behind, but caught up with him when he stopped to take a breather.
He told me that he was only out of breath because he'd jogged all the way in from town.
I just said, "I was on your bus" and walked past him.
I woke up with an extreme hangover one day and was trying to rest through it in my living room. My stupid brother comes in and sees the pain that I am in and decides to spend the morning trying to annoy me. He starts going on and on about the benevolent fucking omelet he ate for breakfast. HE WON'T SHUT UP ABOUT THIS STUPID OMELET. He then starts rambling off all of the ingredients while I sit there, head throbbing, trying to listen to the TV over this cuck's blathering.
"Oh CreswellLane, you should've been there. I mean, this baby had tomatoes... Bacon... Ham... Turkey... Smoked Cheddar... Potatoes..." And I said, "Wait! We don't have any potatoes... You're full of shit." and he continued trying to play it off and list more ingredients but I wouldn't let it slide. I KNEW that there was no potatoes in this god damned house. Finally he starts stuttering, knowing he'd been caught in the stupidest lie in history, and just gave in and walked away.
This all probably sounds really stupid and doesn't make any sense. This is because it, in fact, is stupid and doesn't make any sense.
tl;dr: my brother is a cuck and lied to me about the ingredients in his omelet for no reason
-_-o_o · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend happens to already know every single band I happen to mention, so I make up some bullshit band name and ask them about then and the go on like "I like there old stuff a little more etc.." until I explain to them they don't exist.
When I was a teenager I went on a Disney Cruise and spent a ton of time in the “teen center” hanging out and making friends. We were all sharing stories about ourselves and one of the kids tells a story about a girl he had been making out with. It was going great, but the gum in his mouth was driving him crazy, so he pulled away, turned his head to spit it out, and the second he did the chick threw up everywhere.
Sound familiar? Well, it’s a story Joaquin Phoenix’s character tells in “Signs.” Which I knew, because I was obsessed with M. Night at the time.
We said nothing... until that night when a group of us went to see the movie on the ship (it was still a relatively new release then) and that scene came on, we lost our minds on him. He swore up and down it happened to him, too, but he had trouble meeting our eyes for a while.
I was in Houston attending school and traveling back and forth to Dallas (my home) a lot.
Short contextual story: My father won half a million dollars on a slot machine (we were poor) and bought me a brand new Ford Focus because I didn't have anything.
One weekend while I was driving up to Dallas, I (along with a lot of people) hit a massive pothole. It put about 30 cars on the shoulder with flat tires, but not me! I had the worst luck with tires, so I was ecstatic. What it DID do, though, was put a huge dent on both sides of my wheel, that stayed there for 3 years. Every time I took the car to the dealer for maintenance, they'd ask if I wanted to fix it, and document when I said "no."
Cut to 3 years after the incident, I'm traveling back to Houston for a wedding and have my first blow-out. I get my donut on, and take it to the nearest Discount tire in Houston. I'm bored while they're replacing the tire, so I'm watching them do it. I watch them get the tire off, then an overachieving tech decides to try and bend my dented wheel back. In doing so, he literally takes a chunk out of it, ruining it completely. I think, "well, I guess they're buying me a new wheel."
The guy talks it over with his buddy, then they come to me with the wheel in hand COVERING his mistake and showing me the other side where the dent is mirrored and says, "We can't get the tire on, because you messed up the wheel when you had a blowout." I said, "give me a minute." and walked over to my car and grabbed my owners' manual where I keep ALL my receipts and show him where I had the tire replaced once and have had a tire on it with the dents for 3 years. He finally relents and shows me the torn metal that I knew was there and they proceed to order me a new wheel from the Ford dealership across town.
A student was setting fires in the bathroom during a bathroom break and the janitor found evidence of the act.
I had strong suspicions of the culprit and started asking questions. He immediately starts crying and accuses me of picking on him. I ask around and low and behold I have multiple eye witnesses. Within 20 minutes I was able to find where the lighter was hidden.
As soon as I found it, I marched right back to the student. When he saw the lighter in my hand he immediately dropped the crying act and put on his tough guy act.
My detective skills paid off because eventually he started telling the truth about other things because he knew I’d eventually find out.
This isn't my story but my dad's. He took his car into a Toyota dealership and had them do an oil change. Turns out they did an inspection and some minor thing needed fixing. It was a small fee so my dad payed it but thought this seemed familiar. So he went home and made a log of what the dealership had done. Then on the next oil change the same problem occurred and they were gonna charge another small fee. My dad called them on their bullshit and, surprisingly, the oil change was free that day. He has kept logs ever since and I would recommend that everyone should keep track of what they tell you that they fixed.
Long custody battle. Trying to prove deadbeat dad was spending the money he made on himself rather than paying back support.
The look on his face when the judge ordered him to remove his shirts was something I'll never forget.
"You can accrue thousands of dollars worth of tattoo work, but still owe 6k in child support? You're in contempt until the defendant sees 10% of it, and arrears are to be started immediately with 10% payments due in 30 days."
ben70 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We got a new project manager at work. He was alright. He claimed to be a Navy officer, and an Academy graduate.
Well... that isn't difficult to check.
The third time he started knocking his ring on the table to begin a meeting, I asked why he wasn't listed as a graduate.
It turns out he was an NCO (sergeant) and he'd lied about his experience and qualifications.
And holy shit, did he ever fire me a day later. He was gone later that week.
My x wife lied to me that she was buying shoes but she was really making out with somebody in a restaurant parking lot. So satisfying walking up to that car, catching her and then her moving out a few days later. Now I have a dream life and family and fondly remember that moment.
I worked with a girl who was essentially the teacher's pet...even though she was extremely lazy. She did shit while she acted like she did everything and the boss allowed it. It annoyed me but not enough to ruin our somewhat friendship over. Well one Saturday me and her are working together. I was open to close while she was scheduled 8-4. She came in an hour late that morning because of some stupid excuse. It didn't bother me much because we've all been there before. Fastforward to noon. As she's sitting on her butt in the office, I'm in the warehouse doing all the manual labor. Once I was finished I came back out front to find her telling me she was headed home now because her shift was over at 2 oclock. Now mind you, I knew the schedule because I had literally checked it a few hours ago. As she's gathering her stuff I recheck the paper to see if I was wrong. Apparently she knew how to log in as a manager and change the times around and reprint a new schedule off. I came to this conclusion because in the top left hand corner the paper tells you what time the schedule was reprinted. Her dumbass didn't realize she gave herself away. I tried to give her a chance to fess up and ask if she changed it in which she denied. I pointed out the time stamp in the corner making it obvious I knew she was screwing me over and told her I was going on lunch and just left. This was the last straw for me. I blew up to my manager and made it clear that if things didn't change I would leave. Not to toot my own horn but I was the hardest working employee he had so I knew he wouldn't want to lose me. She apologized to me but after that moment I never looked at her the same. I made her stay past her organial clock out time to make up for it.
My friend lying about a 101 overall Steph Curry card on nba live mobile last season. He was so sure he have it in his lineup and keep bragging about he could make it splash everywhere. When i ask him to show me your lineup he told me he sell his account to another friend (yea right). Went to nbalive.gg immediately and show him at the time the highest rated Steph in the game is still 94.
I was 8 and decided it would be a good idea to bring my new gameboy to school and show it off. Well, it ends up getting stolen and i ask all over to see if anyone saw anything and this mutherfucking asshole gives me some bullshit story about seeing someone run off with it. I'm skeptical, because he is a motherfucking asshole, but believe him.
Cut to the end of the day and i go to him to get the story again so i can tell a teacher what happened and he gives me A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY! I nod and go straight to a teacher with my testimony, and his backpack gets searched. LO AND BEHOLD! MUTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE HAS MY GAMEBOY! Felt so good to catch him in a lie.
I caught Andrey Smygov, the guy behind RichKidsTv, lying to me about how he messed up the car he rented from me, among 29,999 other lies. Kid is a grade-A criminal.
I had a friend in high school. She was one of the two girls I took to prom (mostly because nobody else wanted to go with her, and she was also friends with the other girl). At the time, she had the other girl and me of the belief that she had a brain tumor, and was going to be undergoing a surgery soon. She had a bit of a crush on me, and I sort of just feigned ignorance because I didn't want to deal with that situation.
A few days later, she texted me that she was headed in to surgery, and then for the next few hours pretended to be her sister, giving me updates.
Come graduation, my mother ran into her father, and asked how she was doing post-surgery. He had no clue what my mom was talking about.
After my mom told me about this, I told the other girl. I then called the liar, and after an hour of poking, I got her to admit to the lie. I then told her that I wouldn't stand in the way of her life, but I wanted her out of mine.
The liar and I then went to the same college. After a semester, she tried to contact me to see if we could be friends again. I repeated my previous statement. I'm pretty sure she transferred after that because I never saw her again.
The worst part is that when she was a child, her mother had actually died of breast cancer. How someone who had been through that could then lie about having a tumor, I have no clue.
To this day, that is the worst lie anyone has ever told me.
Worked with a tech at a hospital in Vegas a few years back. She was always out partying and checking herself in on FB. She'd come in wrecked every morning. One day she calls in, saying she was helping a friend. Liar shows up 2+ hours late to work and has sleep marks on her face and puffy eyes. She goes on to tell us how she got a call from a friend who had previously been missing, and turned up in Vegas. Missing friend some how managed to reach out to the liar and had been kidnapped and forced into sex trafficking. So liar claims she hit the streets of Vegas and tracked this girl down and saved her from the pimp that was holding her. While she spun this great narrative, another co-worker wrote down the overall narrative ahead of the story. Turns out that the liar had used the story before and was telling the same story. We let her go on and acted engaged, but we knew it was bullshit.
I was friends with a girl who would lie about the stupidest things.
She lied about having 3 different mental diseases. I can't remember which but someone at our boarding school told me it would be impossible to have all of them at once. I don't confront her about that lie because I didn't really care.
She lied about winning a couple of hundreds dollars in a skater competition. I've seen her skate. Unless she was up against 2 year olds, she wouldn't have been able to win shit. Didn't confront her about this one either because I honestly didn't care.
Some people have the need to lie about themselves to make them seem more interesting and I don't really care about that but the thing that made me cut ties with her was when she lied about her father dying of cancer.
2 weeks before he apparently died she had told he had been diagnosed. I was so sad on her behalf.
I'll admit that I was a little bit suspicious since it had only been 2 weeks from his diagnosis till his departure but I knew that was possible so that it self wasn't THAT suspicious, but the fact that she was showing no emotions regarding her father dying was a little concerning, but hey, everyone grieves in different ways.
While all this was going on, my father was really sick. The doctors couldnt figure what was wrong with him and he was weighing about half of what he did 4-5 months prior.
A couple of days before she told me about her fathers "diagnosis" I was told that my father had maybe 3 months left to live if they didn't figure out what was wrong with him and I had shared this with her since she was my only friend at the moment and i really need to talk to someone about it. All of this was the reason why i was to quick to believe her because who the hell would lie about their father dying when they know the person they are lying to is going through something similar?
The way I found out she was lying was when her phone rang while we where hanging out in my room and it was her father that called.
At first I don't know it was her father, but it was obvious she didn't want to talk to the person. She kept answering in short sentences and yes and no. At one point in the conversation she says "no dad". She must have realised her mistake cuz she quickly said she had to go and hanged up. She immediately began talking about school work (something she never talks about) but I wasn't gonna let it slide this time.
I asked "dad? Didn't your father die a few weeks back?". She quickly answered "uhm... yes he did! It was was his brother. They sound so much a like on the phone and it was a slip of tongue" and started talking about school work again.
At this point I'm 90% sure she's lying about her dad but I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt cuz I still couldn't believe anyone would lie about that. Is wasn't until a couple of weeks later when it was parent day that I was 100% sure she was lying.
Her dad didn't show up or anything like that. It was when her mother started talking about him in present tense that I knew.
I cut all ties with her from that day on. I made some amazing new friends that I'm still friends with today (almost 4 years later) and don't worry, the doctors figured out what was wrong with my dad and he's doing as fine as an alcoholic smoker in their 60's can. He has some minor psychological problems, but that's mostly from his epileptic seizures he would get from not taking his medicine
Sorry if there's any spelling mistakes or if some of if doesn't make sense. English is not my first languages and I'm still learning :)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
400 dollar card? I didn't realise people who played Magic the gathering had jobs
Dgmexe · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You'll run into cards of that value
and more in bigger scenes. You don't need to spend that much to normally play but there are a few high value formats where decks can = the value of a new car.
Need the job to fund the addiction!
Edit: card was Gaea's Cradle for the MTG fans lurking here.
My phone had been stolen from our phone basket while in class. It became a big thing and everyone suspected each other. I use my (ex) best friends computer to log into find my iPhone, I absentmindedly press ‘save password’, then I looked at my phone and it showed that it was turned off an hour ago.
After school, a few hours later, i log into find my iPhone, and my phone had been removed from that service. So I start suspecting my best friend.
The day later, on Fr, it’s her birthday, and she says that “can you believe this, I got a black iPhone 7 for my birthday!” Which happened to be the same type of phone as my stolen phone. Now I know without a doubt that she was the one who stole the phone, but I have to prove it. So I ask her to send me the IMEI number. The IMEI is, for those who don’t know, a number unique for all phones, like a registration plate for phones. She opens my message and doesn’t answer it for 45 minutes, until she sends an IMEI number of an iPhone 6+, which meant that she got a screenshot of someone else’s phone.
The next day we go shopping, and after an hour or so I ask for her phone so I can call my dad, she hesitates, but then she realises that if she doesn’t want to give her phone to me, it would just make me think it’s her phone, so she gives it to me. I call my dad, and right after I’ve talked to dad for a while and say goodbye, I go to her settings and look at her IMEI number, which happens to be the same as my number.
The next day she’s taken into the principals office, and I get her to give me my phone back to me, which is the most satisfying confrontation I’ve done.
sdbear · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my old friends from my teenage years ,who was a pathological liar, posted a picture of an ultrasound on her Facebook saying she was pregnant. When we were teenagers, she would constantly lie to her boyfriends that she was pregnant then oh no she lost the baby. I just knew this was fake. I copied the ultrasound pic to google image search and found that she got the picture from an old mommy blog. I commented on her Facebook post with the link and explained what she did. I don’t remember what happened after but it felt good knowing she knew that I knew she was a complete fake. I apologize for being such a crappy storyteller.
Not really satisfying but me and a bunch of other guys were freezing in the back of a vehicle and one guy was talking about how he had served with the 173rd in Italy and that he had jump wings. I didn’t really know the guys but others did and they said that they never saw him wearing his jump wings to which said he never felt like putting them on his uniform. I think less than a week later I head that he was being charged with stolen valor or something similar and was in the process of being dropped from the army
I was probably about 10 years old at the time that this happened. My freinds and my brother had this tradition of all of us getting together to play pokemon. I think the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum generation was newly released at this time, so we were all extremely excited to play. We were all in my garage with the door open. I also had a new next-door neighbor , who I'll call Steve. I think he waa fucking around with his scooter in his driveway or something. Anyway, my friends and I left our shiny new Nintendo DS's with 4 brand new pokemon games sitting in the slots in our open garage for about a minute while we ran over to the friends house, which was also just next door, to grab drinks. Not a great idea in hindsight. In that small time frame, our pokemon cartrages had magically disappeares from each of the 4 DS's. We were 10 but we weren't idiots, so it was obvious that steve had stolen the games. Problem was, him and his parents completly denied that it could have been him. They even claimed that they searched his room abd found nothing. Over a month passed, and I think at this point I'd given in and just gotten a new copy of the game. Supries suprise, though, he and his mom showed up at my front door with all four of the cartriges, and an apology note. She was practically holding him by the ear on my front porch. Best part of it was, if you counted my brothers copies, we now had all 3 games from that gen, which I hadn't before as my parents didnt see the point. Anyway, me and Steve eventually moved past it and became friends, as next-door neighbors inevitably do when you're 10.
When I found pictures of him and his friend (girl) f*cking on the bed that we sleep in. With the same bed sheets. He used the bed for the first time with her. I moved to another country to be with him. He told me to respect her, and never introduced me as his girlfriend until I threw a tantrum.
When I caught my Boyfriend in his lie when he said he was graduating but he wasn’t and I had been suspicious for months and he acted like I was crazy and a bad girlfriend for not trusting him
He was a co-worker of mine when I was working part-time at a coffee shop. He told lies pretty often but not all the time. I literally couldn’t listen to his stories without wondering whether he was lying or not.
So there was one time I told my co-workers (including him) that my university requires an IELTS certificate to graduate.
Him: You know I took an IELTS test twice in the past and I thought it was pretty easy
Me: Oh really wow! Which band did you get?
Him: The first time I got 6.0, but I thought the band was too low I wanted to get higher band so I retook it. The second time I got 6.9
Me: Oh.
And we all know there is no 6.9 IELTS band.
Anyway I played dumb and pretend to believe him, but told the story to the rest of my co-workers who know very clearly about IELTS.
When she was facing away from me getting ready for a date while we were married. I asked her what movie she was going to see and could see her eyes in the reflection from the mirror and watched her eye movement as she lied to me. We got divorced soon after.
On Facebook someone posted a joke from a meme as if it was his own. I knew this because it was trending on Imgur. I posted the Imgur link to his status and then he deleted it lol
This is so dumb looking back, happened when I was a teenager.
I had this huge crush on one of the guys in my closest group of friends. We liked each other very much, wrote letters to each other, shit like that.
My then best friend who was obviously part of the group was going through a recent breakup which lasted a couple days, then she was back with the guy.
One day I’m hanging out with best friend and crush, and I just notice my best friend looking at my crush a certain way, and acting differently. She’s very giggly which is unusual as she usually plays it cool and very “bro-like”.
I swear my intuition is freaking spot on. So, crush and I go outside for a cigarette (I do not smoke anymore, yay!) and we’re chatting. There’s a brief pause and I say, “So... you and (best friend)?” And his eyes get huge and he says “How did you know?” And I say “you just told me.” LOL he goes on to say they had sex blah blah blah it’s whatever I move on from liking him.
So fast forward a couple hours, best friend and I go pick up some food and on the way back to her place, she starts talking about these hickey-looking bruises on her neck and chest and how “it’s from underground paintball” (lmfao wtf?) I mean she goes on and on about how she can’t believe where she got hit and blah blah blah. I laugh and say something to the effect of “Oh, (crush) said he gave them to you.” (Dumb, I know) and she starts crying in my car and begging me to forgive her and not yell (I was not interested in yelling at her lmao) and she admits she was lying.
It was dumb and kudos to you for making it this far in my dumb comment.
P.S. - she’s still my best friend lol
Memozx · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used ti call my friend only at his cellphone to go and hang out. But in consecutives days he couldnt go out saying he wasnt at home, so one day i called at his house and he answered and once again he said he wasnt home exposing his lies, after that day i still joke with that moment that was so hillarious
Late to the party (and this might be a bit polarizing to some people), but...
In January, I did a comedy open mic two hours from where I live because I wanted to properly prepare for a booked weekend I had (this open mic is a go-to for me when I need to prepare for something big). But there was a massive snowstorm that night, and I didn't want to drive home that night. My only friend in the city I was traveling to was a female comic who was dating a comedian from the town I'm from and is a regular at this open mic.
I told her about the shitty road situation and about how I didn't want to drive for two hours at 12am in a snowstorm, and after a moral debate about whether it's acceptable for a male comic to sleep in a female comic's apartment for one night, I asked her if I could crash on her couch and she said it was perfectly fine (direct quote - "You're welcome here).
Next thing I know, the comic from the town I'm from, who is also a personal friend of mine, starts blowing up my phone and is saying how it's weird that I wanted to sleep in his girlfriend's apartment and how I should instead get a hotel, so I had no choice but to look for other options. Luckily, a comic that I had known from awhile ago was at that mic that night and let me sleep in his frat house.
So, the lie part:
I talked to the comic about the situation months later, and he said that she didn't feel comfortable with me sleeping in her apartment (which I totally understood), but didn't know how to tell me, so she asked him to do it. However, I went back through the text conversation between me and the female comic, and she had explicitly stated that it was okay for me to crash at her place that night.
So, just this Monday, I did that open mic again to prepare for another big show, and I told her what her now ex-boyfriend said about her not feeling comfortable with me crashing there. She told me that she was, in fact, okay with it and that he lied to me about it.
Felt pretty good to finally get to the truth.
TL;DR - Went out of town for a night, bad snowstorm hits and I want to crash on a female friend's couch; her boyfriend at the time, who's also a friend, gets pissed and tells me that she's not comfortable with me sleeping there and I should find other options. Turns out, she was okay with it and he lied because he was insecure and thought I would try and sleep with his girlfriend, which was absolutely not true
My sister would always steal my clothes and anytime I got a new bra she would take it. My parents never believed so I went out and bought some new bras and stitched my initials really tiny in front of my parents as witnesses. A week later we raided her draw and found all of my new bras. My parents finally believed me, but the best part was seeing her face when she realized she actually got caught.
At a very diverse nightclub type bar in northern California and saw someone with an entourage who was dressed uniquely, lots of belts, looked a little like a pirate. My curiosity got the better of me, leaned over and asked him what he does for a living. Says he is a neuroscientist and owns pain clinics in the area. I got really excited as I had been reading about that area for fun but as soon as I started getting curious he told me to talk with one of the guys following him about it.
Little later in the night I see him talking to a woman I know. Little too young for me (in her mid-twenties) but I have to admit I was still working at it with her, you never know. Anyway, the neuroscientist, who is even older than me is hitting on her and she seems to be eating it all up. Couldn't help myself, walked over and asked him a question I had just learned about neuroscience. The difference between afferent and efferent neurons, very basic stuff a neuroscientist would know for sure. He hemmed and hawed, struggled for a few minutes, bowed his head, said he couldn't remember and skulked off. Win.
Happened a couple years before the "disaster artist" came out but have convinced myself it had to have been Tommy Wiseau. The movie was based on his relationship with Greg Sestero who was born in Walnut Creek, CA...the town the bar was in. Looked like Tommy too.
We have a close family friend who plays on the PGA Tour. Known him since he was in high school. He's had the same swing coach since he picked up golf - his dad.
One time i went to a PGA tour event with his dad. We struck up conversation with a guy in the crowd, who began to brag about being the golf pro's old swing coach.
Instead of calling him out on it, we just let the guy ramble on and on. It was so mesmerizing to listen to someone lie about something so inconsequential. He basically completely fabricated an entire life story.
My friends and I were playing The Werewolf’s of Miller’s Hollow. It was the second day and we didn’t have any werewolf’s killed. I had suspicions but couldn’t confirm anything because I was the huntsman. We were starting to vote and I just put it out there that I was a villager and didn’t care if it got me killed. I turned to my best friend who might I add is an amazing liar, and asked him what role he was. He told me huntsman. I immediately called him out. He was the kingpin to the werewolf’s and the game ended soon after.
I had a friend a while ago who was a compulsive liar (lied about allergies, family members, pregnancies literally anything she could think of) I have many stories where I caught her out. This is one that sticks in my mind the most - I wouldn't say it was satisfying to actaully catch her out but it was the time where I found that I literally couldn't trust anything that came out of her mouth. So doesn't really answer the question but I'll share anyway.
She told me that she had been raped and I was the most supportive friend and didn't doubt her because who likes about something like that? Well she does. About a year later when the #metoo thing was going around she messaged me saying she felt so sorry for all the people joining in. I was slightly confused here as she was talking as if she couldn't understand how they felt etc, but she had been raped right?
Nope. I asked her how she wouldn't know how they felt since she told me she was raped before. She said ah no I just said that because I heard youd been assaulted and I thought you'd feel better if I said it too. I was actually horrified haven't spoken to her since. I didn't share that information with her so I have no clue where she got it from. Very relieved I don't have to deal with her anymore though
A friend of mine got caught out 6 months into lying about having heart cancer.
I'd always known of the guy by seeing him around in college, but I didn't start talking to him until this fair our college had at Christmas. Needless to say, we bunked off it, went out to buy some food, and really got to know each other. He told me that the girl he was into (M) had been seduced by his former best friend (K) while this guy (P) had only 2 weeks left to live. K had essentially "stolen" M from P, though the two weren't dating, since everyone knew he had feelings for her. I felt bad for him, but had massive respect for him in the sense that he was mature enough to treat them both kindly anyway.
I wasn't mad at M, of course, but I was pretty mad at K for being such a shitty friend, and trying to make a move on a girl P was into when he found out he had 2 weeks to live. When word of this got out, everyone in our friend group essentially ostracised K, because he was a bit of a knob anyway, and M by extension, since she chose to stick with him.
P would always say that he had surgeries, or some new health problem, and that he was on some transplant list or another, and we were always concerned for his health. Looking back, it was all bullshit - he would say that he had an operation on Sunday, but be in class on Monday, completely fine. He said one time that he had a dog, but when M wanted to come over and see it, the dog died the day before in a "terrible car accident". Stuff like this, adding up and adding up. He also said that he invested in a lot of bitcoin as a kid - this was a more reasonable one, since he seemed to have money coming out of the ass. I don't know what he did for it, or if that part is true, but he claimed to be building his parents a house abroad; considering how lax he was with spending money, I took that part at least to be true. If someone invested in 400 bitcoin and sold it near it's peak, you wouldn't assume they were lying about having a life-threatening illness.
P also used to say that the money from his investing was what kept him alive, since it got him on operation lists and all that jazz ASAP. Again. Looking back, this is clearly fake, but the guy was completely trustworthy to all of us. He was kind, generous, funny, smart, warm... a few months into this fiasco, he developed "feelings" for a girl abroad, and the two had started a long distance relationship. I say "feelings" because he was, in actuality, obsessed with M, using another girl to displace his feelings onto. He would worry this girlfriend with all of the fake ins and outs of his illnesses, and tell her he only had 2 weeks to live, but - "Thank God! The operation managed to work." This kind of thing, on and off for a while, manipulating her into loving him, for... no reason. He did the same to me too - telling me the same things he told her, getting me worried for his safety. His seeming calmness about the situation appeared more like a person who accepted that they could die at any time, rather than a person who was in no actual danger at all. He towed the line between bullshit and truth in a "that might just be plausible" kind of way.
Anyway. So, one day, about a month ago, M wants to speak to me. Apparently I give good advice, but I was reluctant to talk to her after all these months since it'd be awkward. Anyway, we sat down, and she said that she was afraid of the way that P would speak to her and try to manipulate her over text. I read some of his texts, and she fills me in as to how he acts towards her and stuff, and... hmm. It did seem fishy, actually. He seemed like a completely different person when speaking to her. Rude, sarcastic, snarky, entitled... But somehow, he had some sort of "holier than thou" twist to his words. "Everything I did, I did for you..." that sort of thing. He once claimed that our headteacher had threatened to kick him out over his health issues since he was absent so much. He showed me a screenshot of her email, saying so. However, M wasn't convinced that this was true. I was sceptical, but the fact that he had changed, the dog story that I'd now been filled in on, I was beginning to think that this guy was actually lying. I suggested that we could do one of two things, since the end of our academic year was in 2 days - we could either leave it all alone since we'd never see him again, or we could go to the headteacher, confirm/deny this email, and see if he was indeed bullshitting. We went with the second option.
We went to the headteacher's office, and it turns out that our headteacher had never sent that email. It was photoshopped, well, in fact (me and P used to have these stupid photoshop battles, so I know that he can use it decently) and he was never absent from school at all. He had a 96% attendance rate (the only reason I didn't know about this is because our timetables are drastically different - most days we wouldn't see eachother unless it was at lunch, and even then it was plausible that his or my classes for the day were done so we could have went home). At this point, the puzzle pieces were starting to fall into place. We realised that he was never off school, our headteacher had never admonished him, and he was never actually ill - his medical record was spotless. We'd realised at this point, he'd managed to lie to us for 6 whole months about having a heart condition.
We brought him into the headteacher's office with us. By this time, the people that were closer to him had also been brought in, as well as K. Watching P try to worm his way out of the lie was disgusting. He said at first that "our headteacher's email account may have been hacked." That moved on to "It wasn't actually heart cancer, it was lung cancer." Apparently his parents both had it too, since they were heavy smokers! I've met his father, and been in his car. There was not the slightest hint of cigarette smoke. That moved on to "I had a hole in my heart." That moved on to " I'm Polish and my English isn't great, something must have been lost in translation." (bear in mind, he's been living in the UK for at least half a decade, is completely fluent in English, and has job offers from banks to work abroad) It was honestly just... sad. I couldn't even get mad. I just pitied him. Watching him try to recoup after each lie that he told, and that we pointed out couldn't be true, was just pitiful. P had lied solely because his crush started dating his best friend instead of him and wanted to alienate the two because of it. He eventually said that he felt like he needed to lie because he felt like he had no friends and couldn't be accepted... but he was honestly the sweetest person I knew. He was always the first person there when something was wrong, always offering money when someone was in a pinch, always willing to go the extra mile for other people... but his whole personality was based around a lie that spawned from jealousy.
I want to say it's satisfying; it's much better that we know the truth, and I've reconnected with M and K. Imagine, if his lie had gone on for 2 more days, I'd never have known, because M never would have brought it up. I want to say it's satisfying, but... it just felt hollow. No other word can really describe it. It's a truth that no one wanted to hear, but found that we had to, in a sense. More than that, I felt awful, because I'd gone along with everything that P said, without even thinking about it. I was a little adverse to K anyway, but the level of bias I had shown without any concrete evidence of anything was a little startling. I didn't know I had it in me. Most of all, I didn't know that P had it in him.
TL;DR - One of my best friends lies about having cancer for 6 months because he was jealous that his crush started dating someone else. Gets caught out as his spiral of lies drags him deeper and deeper in, tries to pathetically crawl his way out.
I was illegally riding my unregistered beater of a moped around town (I was about 16). As I started to go down a hill I noticed a cop in the distance coming my direction. I immediately hit the kill switch and put my feet out to imitate that I was pushing it and coasting. Of course he pulled me over and asked for my license and registration - I of course had neither.
I protested that I didn't need them, since I was only pushing it around. he said "I know you're lying because as you came over the top of the hill I could see your headlight shining at me."
"HA!" I laughed, couldn't help it. "I know you are lying, my headlight doesn't work!"
Apieceofshit Pie (Ajit Pai) getting money from large providers and shit, none of this “I’m protecting net neutrality for the future” bullshit, he got paid to lie.
My ex lies about everything. It doesn’t matter what it is. He would say the sky is orange just to tell a lie. So, over all the years I’ve known him, he’s always sworn he was allergic to coconut. I have always assumed this just another lie to, idk, make himself more interesting or unique? I don’t pretend to understand why he lies about the things he does.
So anyway, I had to take our son up to visit him for the ex’s birthday. The cake that he picked out was carrot cake. One of his favorites, he said. As I was eating it, I found coconut. And not just small amounts. How could it possibly be his “favorite” type of cake if he’s “allergic” to one of the main ingredients? I took pictures. It was one of the most satisfying moments of any of the years I’ve known the idiot. If he’ll lie about a food allergy, what else is he lying about?
jkuhl · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at a call center for a credit card company. Had someone call in, complaining about a late fee. They wanted it waived (surprise!) and claimed they were never late.
I looked at their account.
No.
They were late multiple times over the past year.
Of course I politely refused to waive the late fee and laughed when they hung up. Look you retards, I have your account history, I know every thing you bought on this fucking card for the last seven years. Don't lie to me about how you're always on time when I know more about your spending habits than you do.
There was this girl I was really good friends with in middle school. She’s known for lying, but she was “popular” so nobody rly cared. One day during spring break, I messaged her the normal “hey, how have you been, what’re you up to” sort of thing. And she replies “nothing much, I just went to Paris.” I was pretty confused because she said nothing about going to Paris before (if she actually went she wouldn’t shut up about it trust me) and it was about five days into spring break. So I ask, “you never said anything about Paris” and she replied with “I was going to go to tahoe but we cancelled it last minute and we had nowhere else to go.” Then I asked her to send me pictures of Paris and she told me “I didn’t take any I swear.” And finally she sends this picture - or something very similar to that, it was long ago. But still she refuses to send me any pictures of her but she sends me a tumblr photo of a girl jumping in front of the Eiffel Tower (which I cannot find) and she claimed it was her cousin Sarah. And that first photo she she me, she said that Sarah took that one. I did a reverse search on google and found the picture online (actually, many copies of the photo) and I confronted her about it. I asked her when she took it and she said on Monday, but the photo said it was taken in 2013. I told her that and she kept on defending herself. She wouldn’t give in.
So there's this girl at school, she has some kind of muscular dystrophy, and I mention it because it's very likely why she's such a liar, her lies are meant to make herself look better and when I realized this it pissed me, I've known her for like 2-3 years. There are five times I've got her clean that I remember particularly, but did not say anything to her, hopefully she'll learn herself that people will not trust her.
The first time: she had been "casually" carrying around an ID of sorts because she supposedly is in a social group I guess it would be and the thing is, I actually am in that group/association/whatever (it sucks), so I actually have an ID, and in two occasions I've been able to discretely showing it to her by opening my wallet looking for something making sure it would be in her field of view, and I know she saw it, because of the second and specially fourth time I caught her.
The second time: she was in a contest thingy and she participated, she told me she had to get there by bus and that she thought some guy was following her until she realized he was part of the jury or whatever, she told me she was very frightened, but when I was checking Facebook (which up to that point I barely used) and she had posted a big-ass story about how this person had seen her ID for that fucking association and said stuff like "you don't know the luck you have, I've seen your works, I've been looking forward to meet you" and she was like "that's the best thing someone has said to me and he was a total stranger". Fuck off.
The third time: this time it wasn't me, but a friend of mine. She said she played Halo in split-screen with her sisters and who knows who else in his dad's house, my friend asked her more about the game since he's a big Halo fan, and according to what she said about the game's mechanics and aesthetics, it was Halo 5, and Halo 5 has no split-screen multiplayer, only online play. She insisted, but eventually they dropped the conversation.
The fourth time: she had posted on Facebook about a contest ran by that association "she's in", and there were three wrong things: first it was in english, we live in Mexico, second I knew that contest wasn't happening, and third the image was amateur photoshopping at best. I said nothing about it, but like two days later she mentions the contest to me and I ask "who made the contest?" and she mentioned a completely unrelated association that doesn't even exist here and is unrelated to the contest itself. She knows I'm in that other association.
The fifth time: This is the one that satisfied me the most, because it was FUCKING CLEAN IN THE BAG. Some dude presented his book to our school, and he was playing a character (although we didn't know), he mentioned that he and his team had created a machine that can erase memories, she said "ah, yes" implying she knows about the machine, the dude then said "we tested it in a rat, it was supposed to only erase one hour" she immediately said to me "it erased everything" but the man continued "the rat woke up in the middle of a park where it was one hour ago". None of us said anything, obviously, but I knew I got her, until the man dropped his act and stated quite clearly: "I was playing a character of my book", and he went on to describe the plot of the book, so that machine was 500% bullshit and I simply thought "got you".
There are many other times but they were just little things and a lot of bullshit.
Oh, I just remembered that she's "sooo good at english" but she writes "this" instead of "these" smfh.
DrK1NG · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend lied about hating a teacher I disliked. I was being a bit distant because I was upset about something so she lied to get me to relate and open up a bit. She actually really enjoys the teacher's class.
I called her out on it and she smiled and said something to the effect of "People don't usually catch me when I'm manipulating them in such subtle ways"
So many kids copy and paste assignments from online, and pass off that on their first month of coding, they've mastered classes, functions, and 5 libraries I've never heard of, that we don't even have installed on the computers.
The kicker? The first day I give them the assignment, it's handed in within 3 minutes so they can watch other people play video games on YouTube.
I don't tell them until the last day the project is due. They learn quickly to not cheat in my class.
Rutiau · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone I know was bragging about going to the Wimbledon final and how amazing it was to watch Novak play against Djokovic and how she was a major tennis fan. Stumbled a lot when I pointed out Novak Djokovic is one man.
Was going over a job application referral letter.. Beautifully written by a Doctor who was recommending this young man... Turns out he forgot to change 1 name in the final paragraph.. Managed to change all the names except one.. Not even his referral letter.
It wasn't so much that I caught them lying more that I called them out for habitually lying.
In my hometown there is this local figure that's rather well known in our geek community. I first met this guy when I was in High school, going to a comic book store.
He would interrupt my group of friends and come to talk (mainly just to the women), about upcoming superhero movies... and would pepper them with the most absurd lies. Yet consistent lies.
"Did you know [upcoming film sequel] is being filmed here?"
-"Johnny Depp is slated to star."
-"I'm a good friend of the director. I can get you on set."
Fifteen years have passed. I moved away from my hometown, moved back to finish school, and because rent is cheaper.
I pick up a few shifts at a friend's comic book shop, and lo and behold... this guy is STILL a regular customer. STILL telling the same absurd lies (though they tend to revolve around the MCU these days, as opposed to the Raimi Spiderman films, or the Fox X-Men franchise).
What's crazy is that my hometown DOES have a good film scene. And Iron Man 3 WAS filmed here, so even a stopped clock is right, twice a day.
So, I'm in my last month at the shop before it closes (owners relocated), so I feel no obligation to continue catering to this guy. The rest of the staff and owners couldn't stand him, but he'd always spend money (even if he insisted on a discount for being a veteran and serving in Vietnam [the guy is MAYBE in his late forties]), but at this point, all patience has run out.
So, I'm in the shop and there is a female customer buying books. In he comes, and I immediately begin to cringe because I know what's coming, so I'm trying to wrap the transaction as best as I can...
"Excuse me," he says, in an inexplicable English accent (as he was wont to do), "are you a fan of... Doctor Who?"
"Uh... sure." She responds.
"Did you know," he continues, in a complete nonsequitur, "that Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is being filmed here?"
I roll my eyes and audibly sigh. "No it's not. The trailers are already out. Filming is wrapped."
He looks to me, and gets red faced... as he's clearly not used to people calling him out.
"They're doing reshoots here!" He insists. "I'm actually good friends with Johnny Depp." He claims as he turns back to the woman.
"Oh... uh... I don't really like Johnny Depp." She replies, uncomfortably, as she starts to edge out of the shop.
"Dude... you have been telling the same lies for over a decade." I finally say.
"What?! How?!" He asks, flabbergasted, his English accent inexplicably gone.
"You've been telling people this for years." I repeat. "Remember when 'Spider-Man 3' was being filmed here? Starring Johnny Depp as Venom?"
He looks stunned and confused, probably because he tells this lie so often, he has no memory of this specific incident.
"Yeah, well... I was LYING to you!" He says, very defensively.
"Have a nice day," I say to the customer, and after she leaves, he begins to tail her...
I never saw him again after that day...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught myself lying, on the first date with the most amazing girl I've ever dated. Glad I stayed true with her. I know this is some wordplay BS but let me have this one haha.
Zerbo · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a paramedic, years ago we had a police officer working our district who was a lazy, condescending asshole. Normally there’s a degree of professional courtesy between cops and medics, but not with this guy. He would constantly bounce belligerent drunks to us for “medical eval” only because he didn’t want to go through the hassle of arresting and booking them.
One day this officer called us to transport a particular homeless patient was known for getting combative with medics and hospital staff every time he was transported, and had also been known to pull a knife on a fire crew before. In light of that, I asked the officer if he had patted our patient down for weapons yet.
“Yep, already did. Quit stalling and put him on the gurney. I know how to do my job, time for you to do yours.”
As he told me this I patted down the patient’s pockets and found an 6-inch folding knife. So I held it up and asked, “So you either missed this or you’re lying, which is it?”
I ended up calling his watch commander and my field supervisor backed me up on filing a formal complaint. He got placed on administrative leave for a couple weeks and then transferred to different district. He’s still a piece of shit, but at least I don’t encounter him in the field as often as I used to.
I had a roommate once that I couldn’t stand for 100 reasons but the last straw was when I realized he was using my computer for porn while I was out. This was back in a time when not everyone had a computer and certainly not everyone had broadband internet.
I didn’t confront him right away. Soon enough the primary leaseholder in the apartment moved out and I made up my mind I wanted the gross roommate gone too so I could take over the apartment and move my girlfriend in. We all talked about it one night and he said he had the same plan and threw it back at me that I should be the one to move out.
So I confronted him about how he’d been looking at porn on my computer - in front of the entire household, including the primary leaseholder (a woman) and my girlfriend. He denied it. I took him and everyone else into my room and pulled up the browser history and cache. It was all dated to a period that I’d been traveling overseas for two weeks so it was clearly not me.
He bowed his head, apologized, and agreed to move out. If you think about it, it was a fucked up thing to do but it didn’t give me any more claim on the apartment than him really. It was just the well-chosen timing of the confrontation, and the fact that I did it with several women present, that utterly humiliated him into submission. Satisfying. I have no regrets.
After months of knowing something was up with my boyfriend I finally found evidence he'd had been sleeping with another girl at our place while I was out of town for work. He made me feel INSANE and told me how crazy i was over and over. As soon as the initial sting wore off it was such a relief to know i wasnt losing my mind. It was deeeeeply satisfying. Hes obviously an ex.
kosmor · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was actually the one who got caught.
I was 6 and learning to write my letters and a few others. A friend was visiting and we got a red pen and went behind the couch.
We didn't want to get caught so I wrote my sister's name on the back of the couch.
A few days later my mom noticed tos writing and asked me about who did this.
Apparently it didn't work out so well to blame writing on my 1 year old sister.
This happened when I was working for a particularly shitty branch of a certain retail pharmacy. Most is the customers in the neighborhood were low income and were forever trying to get creative with the pricing.
One woman in particular decided that she was going to try to lie to me about the price of a bottle of shampoo. She brought it up to the register and when I scanned it, almost $30 was added to her price. She had a fit. Said she was being scammed and that the store was awful and I’d better change it before she called corporate.
What this lady didn’t know was, since this store and it’s customers were so shitty, we were chronically short staffed. This meant that I usually got saddled with a lot of inventory work in addition to manning the register. I knew damn well what price the shampoo was and where she picked it up from. So I walked her back to the shampoo aisle. She tries to stop me and points to a cheaper brand of shampoo. She says she got it from that spot, so I should give it to her for that price. Another lie. I restocked the entire aisle and this group of bottles didn’t even have an empty space among them. The row hadn’t been touched since I’d fixed it up. I walk past the portion she claimed the bottle had came from and stopped at the correct section where the rest of this brand was located. Lo and behold, one empty space, with the price clearly labeled on the shelf.
I didn’t even say anything to her. I just pointed at the price sticker. What does she do? She gets very quiet and fidgety for a moment, the huffs and says, “well that shampoo isn’t worth that much anyway”. And she storms out.
In high school there was this girl who had read all the books. A book gets mentioned - she had read it. Us dumb, chubby boys get fed up and decide to make her a frickin’ bamboozle. We come up with a book by a famous author, the author was real, the book was not. It was titled:(translated from Danish) “Autum for the sad, fat girl”. Head first she comes:”Oh yeah, that one really got me!”. I go:”Especially the relationship with her dog, right?” SillyGurl:”OMG dont remind me.” Baffled by our great succes and embarrased on her behalf, we never told her the truth.
I was a CS major working at Walmart in college. We got a new hire one night and he was assigned to work with me in dairy. Not sure how it came up, but we ended up talking about games. He told this huge story about how he used to work for a game company and was a hero because he saved a project by "going in and flipping a 1 to a 0".
I congratulated him. I got called to electronics later in the night to help a customer (because I'm the tech guy that doesn't work in electronics). He asked why they'd call me, and one of my friends chimed in explaining my schoolwork, etc. Dude was white as a ghost and never spoke to me again.
Eazyyy · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a school friend who when he’d meet us out and about, he’d say he got into a fight on the way there or something crazy happened on his way to meet us. He was a total shithouse. There were too many times we caught him out on lies I can’t even remember an instance right now. We used to call him ‘10 men’.
Back in 4th grade this girl kept stealing my pencils but I could never really prove it. One day I wrote my name on the side. I went in to school and she took my pencil and denied it. I said check the side. My name was on it and she gave me the pencil back and got in trouble for stealing my things.
One of my pledge brothers claimed he got accepted in Harvard on the waitlist, but didn’t go. Nobody really believed him and shrugged it off, but he kept telling everybody at pretty much every party.
Eventually another one of my brothers called him out and asked for the acceptance email, which he was curiously unable to procure
Knew a guy who constantly had odd deaths happen to family and friends "back home". Overdoses, suicides, his 6 year old nephew getting hit and killed by a car. He would tell our group of friends, get sympathy, cry, etc. The whole grief cycle.
Then he told us his father suddenly passed away. We sympathized. Then someone asked where to send flowers, make contributions in his memory. He said don't worry. So, I thought maybe looking up the obituary could lead us to the answer. No obituary in the hometown paper. The whole week. No obituary for one of the biggest members of a major city business community seemed odd. Then someone ran into him at Home Depot on what was supposed to be his dad's funeral date. Really odd.
Then I gave it one last search for the obit. Nothing. But I did see where his Mom and Dad were getting a civic award that evening. The article had quotes from his Dad. So time goes on and we almost forgot about the weirdness.
That is until he told someone outside of our main group that his 6 year old nephew was killed that afternoon by a drunk driver on his bike. He was faking people's deaths for sympathy. He recycled a kid's death so he could have the emotional upper hand with a person.
One of the guys confronted him and asked how his Dad was and showed him a dated article from the hometown paper. He was no doubt Munchausen's by-proxy and denied every lie. He also didn't get help for it. He eventually moved away and it doing it to other people in another town. Uncool, but also a mental illness. A cruel mental illness, but nonetheless a mental illness.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always suspected my ex of being a pathological liar, but when I randomly came across their reddit account a while ago and they had comments that were blatant lies, it confirmed my suspicions and was vindicating af.
I knew a guy who moved from London up to the north east of scotland. A few small towns attend the high school.
Dude sat in front of me in art class and said he said to a group of girls that he was in a gang, and when they asked what the gang was called, he replied with, "Assassins Creed".... which amazingly was a game that just came out.
He also lied about his dad being the first keyboardist for Nazereth, that in his spare time he made a computer virus on a floppy disk.... in 2011. He was round at a friends house and they were all taking shots of a guitar and he boasted he loved Pantera, knew all their songs and was their biggest fan. Then he didnt know who Dimebag was, and someone else started playing 'Cowboys From Hell' and he didnt recognise it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interviewed someone for a sys admin esque job, they list that they had MySQL experience. When asked, they said "Oh?! Thats still on there? I thought I took that off. Do you have a copy of the resume you received? I need to make sure you have the right one" after that I had to ask "you have no my SQL experience at all? You can't list anything like what a query is or how to utilize it in an application?" (Basic things that any sysadmin working with this should know, especially considering its free software, you can literally see the job posting and learn it before the interview) she couldn't answer any of the questions at all. She claimed she had redeeming qualities. By the end of the interview however none seemed that redeeming.
Had a guy call into work saying he had strep throat, I responded that if he had strep he would need a doctor's note to come back to work. He texted me at midnight the same day quitting. Nice try!
For almost two years my boyfriend said that Valentine's Day was stupid, should not be celebrated and that nobody should ever propose on that day! He was very adamant about this. Though he celebrated it for me because he knows I enjoyed it. And that's the day he proposed. He now likes Valentine's Day, I made him realize it's for guys too!
I got caught in the most awkward lie ever and I didn’t even mean to lie. I was making small talk with a table I was serving, they were trainers over at the local college. They said that they worked with the baseball team and I tried saying that I lived some guys on the team. What I axtually did say was “I play with those guys!” And they assumed I was in the team. They asked which coach I played for and at that point my brain was 100% mush, I could have just corr free what I said but at that point I said “uh...uh.... so just water?” It was awkward the rest of their dinner.
I don't have a specific example, but back in secondary school there was a girl that hated me for an incredibly silly reason. I won't go into it, but basically the last three years of school were spent trying to avoid talking to her (she was friends with a lot of my friends).
Occasionally she would say something that I knew was bullshit and most of the time I resisted the urge to say anything out of fear of making things awkward for my friends, but there were a few times when I did correct her on specific things (most of the time related to me). The worst part about it was that she would always try and claim that I was wrong, even though I knew with 100% certainty she was lying. No amount of explaining would get her to drop her charade.
In the first of those three years she was pretty successful at convincing people that I was the one in the wrong, but as time went on it quickly became more and more apparent that she was full of shit. She frequently tried manipulating people or twisting the truth in her favour.
By the time we'd reached the last year (and the third year of her bullshittery) most people had an idea of who she actually was and would take anything she said with a grain of salt. In the end it wasn't just me but also other people proving her wrong, and it felt good to have been a key part in making other people realise that she wasn't who she seemed to be. In this case I guess you could consider the lie to be her personality.
As an extra aside, she was also the kind of person that would brag about getting higher grades than someone else and get defensive if someone did the same to her. She was a real piece of shit and I'm glad I don't have to talk to her or even see her anymore.
My friend was doing an internship at DisneyWorld. She came back to California on an injury, so she stopped by my friend's house to tell us all about her experiences working at the place where dreams come true. She went on about how she had to deal with adults being worse than children, and one such incident where she had to help set up some event thing and a family from England wanted to sit in the closed off area. She refused them a couple times because she said that guests weren't allowed to go there, and the family walked away crying.
I thought it sounded familiar, so I called her out. She copied Swoozie's Disney World stories word for word. When she didn't believe me, I pulled the video up. I don't believe a single thing she says anymore.
Many years ago my wife took her hand-written reports to Pat's Typing, and I saw Pat xeroxing her originals and asked him about it. He said he always did it, and he told me that once a minister wanted a free revision and came back and said Pat made some mistakes in his typing and showed the originals (which had been erased and corrected). Pat showed him the original xeroxes and got him to pay up.
My former manager claimed he'd been to Mecca as a young child with a security escort. I never said anything, but I know he lied because he's an athiest, and I know that no non-Muslims are allowed into Mecca period. End of story. He also went on to claim he was part of the Russian Mafia and I stopped listening to his stories after that.
My ex dumped me whilst I was staying with her for a week. It was in a different country so I had no way of leaving, so we agreed to ride out the last few days together before my flight back. I don't like to be jealous or suspicious but I noticed that the texts she was getting from one of her female friends were a bit more romantic than usual. I scrolled up in the conversation and realized that she had changed the name of her ex to name of her friend in her phone. She shit her pants when I confronted her and denied it at first but came round eventually. It was horrible at the time but still oddly satisfying getting her to admit to it
In college I dated a jealous GF. One day I was looking through one of my desk drawers, and I noticed a stack of old photos, some with me and other girls.
The NEXT DAY I went into the same drawer and all the photos were gone. If I had not seen them the day before I would have thought nothing of it, but I KNEW they were there yesterday. I knew right away she had made them disappear.
I asked about it and she lied (not very well). I knew she was lying, she knew I knew it, but she never admitted.
I was going to prank everyone on here and write the plot to a Friday Night Dinner episode and I realised it wouldn't make sense with the question. Shit
An old coworker of mine went on this big holier-than-thou "fact trip". In it, he told me a "did you know" about the original star wars, that they used florescent light bulbs for the light Saber battles because the tech wasn't there yet. Little did he know I knew wayyy more about star wars to immediately debunk his dumb ass. His excuse?
"oh... Really? I guess, you ARE the bigger star wars fan than me"
So he basically made this crap up off the top of his head to sound smart. What a turd. I never liked him.
In high school, I'd bring my 3ds and all of the pokemon games to school and play them rather than do school. one day, i discovered my copy of Pokemon diamond disappeared, I wasn't all that worried because i thought I just misplaced it or something, I'd turn up.
The next day at school, during class i tried to grab my backpack, but another kid had it at the desk next to me. the kid also played pokemon and was going into my ds case. he notices me and gives the bag back to me, i obviously asked about what he's doing, and he continually claims "nothing". I check my Ds case, and it's all disheveled, with the games loose in the case. And my copy of Pokemon Heart Gold was missing. I ask this kid where it is and he says "I don't know" as he puts my copy of heart gold back on top of my bag. I then figured out where my copy of pokemon diamond is. to make things worse for this kid, he let's me play his copy of Pokemon White, and he has my pokemon on his team, so yeah, busted.
The next day, when i got off the bus (me and the thief took the same bus), i followed the kid to his locker. I then, in the most intimidating way possible explain to him that i know he has my game, and that if he doesn't return it that we will "deal with this like adults", i had to be careful of what i said, as this kid was likely to go running to the admins about how i threatened him.
The next day, the thief's friend brings me the game and claims "he found it". The rest of my high school career, the thief stayed the fuck away from me.
I know this doesn't really fit the post, but fuck it, i want to tell a story.
Ok I have this cousin who always lies, but this was the best one. For context I am a 13 yr male.
My 11 year old male cousin was starting soccer, and he was already 3 or 4 weeks in. He is fast so I expected him to like soccer. One day when he around 3 weeks in he told me “dude my team sucks I carry every game, I get around 3 or 4 goals every game.” Now I’m thinking “wow he is very good!” But one thing is stuck in my mind. Whenever we play together in like a backyard, he is shit. So I was kind of happy for him. Around 2 weeks later I am at my grandmother’s house for the day cause my mom has a work thing. She is in real estate. My grandmother is pretty much the head of the family. She knows everything that is going on the family. In conversation during lunch I bring up the fact that my cousin scores three or four a game. Then she starts laughing. At this point I’m confused. What she says next makes me laugh to this day. “He just called me last week very happy, saying that he just scored his first goal that day.” To this day my cousin still lies.
One of my ex-friends and I had visited my boyfriend who lived in another town. Well, my boyfriend had a Blackberry he wasn't using on a regular basis and when my 'friend' was enamored with it because we were in high school and he wanted every opportunity to look 'rich'. Well, my friend and I left and the Blackberry went missing. I was already aware of my friend having sticky fingers so I casually asked him if he took it by accident. He denied it but I remember him being enamored with it so I wasn't about to just let things go. I made up a casual lie that my boyfriend would be able to find the phone via GPS tracking (this was 10 years ago, mind you) and my friend magically found it in his baggage. 😀
I think the most satisfying lie I caught / debunked was one my dad was trying to sell me about myself when I was like 12 or 13.
My dad was away at work and I was at home, watching TV in my parents' bedroom since my brothers were playing video games on the other TV in the living room. The phone rang. We didn't have an answering machine so it was my responsibility to get name, company, number, and what the call was regarding. The lady asked for my dad and didn't give me much of anything to pass on. I asked explicitly for the relevant information but she hung up instead of providing it.
When my dad came home he asked if anyone called for him and I said that there had been someone but they didn't give me any of the info I asked for.
He launched into a tirade about how stupid, incompetent and useless I was just like my mom/the rest of the family, etc.
I was tired of the verbal, emotional, and occasional physical abuse that he regularly visited upon the rest of the family. And I was at a point where I had enough feedback from other people, especially other adults, to know that this was bullshit and that I wasn't what he was saying I was. I finally mustered the courage to defend myself.
"IF I'M SO STUPID AND INCOMPETENT, HOW WAS I ABLE TO GET THE INTERVIEW INFO FOR THAT JOB?!" (I.e. the one that presently employed him)
That shut him down and shut him up.
I like to think that that marks the day that my dad finally had some respect for me. I wasn't someone that was going to take everything he said at face value any more, someone that was going to listen to the lies he told us about ourselves because we had nothing and no one to tell us otherwise.
A friend acted like she is a joker / batman fan just because of the suicide squad hype . She said that she has always been a batman fan and i said that she is just saying that because sq is hyped rn she got mad and said that thats not true and that she loves MARVEL i said "BITCH BATMAN IS DC NOT MARVEL" She still tried to talk her way out by saying she just wanted to tell us but it makes no fuckibg sense she basically helped me prove herself
Guy named SGT Braswell at a school I went to. He failed out.
Guy who always knew a little more than you or had seen something before you without being able to flesh his “je ne sais quoi” out.
One day we hatched a plan.
Next day as he is walking up to the lunch table:
Him: What are you guys talking about?
Us: This special on TV we saw about frontal lobe mitochondrial extraction.
Him: Yeah I saw that. It’s crazy.
As we started explaining our imaginary process to remove dreams of sleeping people through frontal lobotomies he would interject from time to time. We lost it and began laughing too hard. He figured out we had made it up. Never talked to us again. Failed out first week of phase II.
mae8e · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was complaining to a coworker about school. I guess my coworker told our napoleon complex-wielding supervisor, as she made a beeline for me and that led to this exchange:
Supervisor: Mae8e, you go to [specific university]?
Me: Yeah... why?
Supervisor: I went there too. I studied chemistry, biology, and physics.
Me: Okay.
Supervisor: Yeah, I really like the library there.
Me: Which library?
Supervisor: You know, the library. It's so big and nice inside.
Me: There are fourteen libraries on campus, which one are you talking about?
Supervisor: Oh.
And then she left me alone for the rest of my shift :-)
Someone I work with- brief backstory: he graduated from college last year and started working in my office like 6 months after he graduated, his parents pay for everything, including when he goes out for drinks with coworkers (he once called his mom while we were at a bar and said “mommy you’re paying for my Uber home tonight!” Even though we were six blocks from his apartment), and he just got into medical school so has stopped showing up to work on time; he gets in around 11:30 and leaves at 4 or 5 but puts down 40 hours per week- was saying that he couldn’t do anything else after I left for a meeting because I left the document open. I got back to the office after my meeting (around 6pm, after he arrived in the office at 11:45 that morning) and when I texted him sorry about that I’ll close it so you can finish (after I had been sitting there for about half an hour finishing my work), he said he would do it tomorrow because he just left. Yeah right, I’ve been here for 30 minutes, you definitely left right after I did because you thought I wasn’t coming back.
This actually happened a few months back. My violin was in need of some work as the strings were rattling against the fingerboard due to ridges and a poor bridge. I took it to a guy who was recommended by two different people and asked for his quote. After measuring the violin three ways to Sunday he gave me a number of quotes:
£1200 to sand the thickness down and make her sound like a stradavarius (I'm a student on a budget that doesn't study music)
£650 to make it perfect by doing everything bar the sanding down
£75 to fix the fingerboard plus £200 for a new bridge (which is extortionate because he made it himself with a special type of wood)
I declined under the pretence of "thinking about it"
My friend went back a few days later, to get an idea for her "friends violin". He increased the price of the bridge by £10 and basically fobbed himself off when she said I'd been given a quote by someone for £1200 before recommending himself for the same price again.
I told a friend who's dad happened to make violins. He fixed the fingerboard and put in a new bridge all for £80 as well as fine tuning other little bits. My violin has never sounded better and I can carry on paying rent for the rest of the year
When i was in the military, one of my soldiers came to me stating that his backpack is missing and he thinks his roommate stole it. I was thinking to myself that he couldnt be that stupod to steal such an obvious thing from his roommate. I went to their room with him and confronted his roommate about the backpack, and he said "i didn't steal his backpack, this one is mine, and i dont appreciate being called a liar and a thief". Thats when the satisfaction happened. I turned over the armstrap where my soldier had marked his name to see that the idiot tried marking out my soldiers name, but did such a poor job of it that you could still see the name as clear as day. It was so satisfying, i just said, " you dont like being accused of thievery and lying, but you stole and lied about it, you are unbelievable". Then i left and reported it to our higher ups.
Recently my friend mentioned she has a boyfriend but things she has said about him and the relationship dont add up, she gave me her phone really quick to change music while she went to the bathroom. I looked in her Twitter app to see that SHE runs his Twitter account so it proves he isnt real!
I had just finished work in my family's bar, long shift, 15 hours.
A few people from local business' stayed back and I was having a drink beside them.
The guy beside me was chatting with some girls and mentioned that he was the owner to them, I said nothing, but locked eyes with him.
2 weeks later he came in to get Ice and told them that he knew the owner.
Staff directed him to me, I sorted him out and gave him the same look as that night.
Still see him a few times a week and he is awkward as fuck.
A couple of years back, I was working in a restaurant, doing the closing of the restaurant alone like 5 days a week. My boss at the time was always getting back at me the next day about "This wasn't done properly" or "You forgot to do this... Again!" Every. Fucking. Time.
At first, I thought "Uhm, maybe I did forget things" So I focused more on my job. After a couple of days of her still being angry, I asked he to do one close with me and show me exactly how to do them.
I took notes of everything just to be sure I didn't forget anything.
The next couple of days went perfectly, she didn't say anything. One day, she even said that the job I did was perfect! So I did the following shift exactly the same. But, less than a month later, she started whining again about the same things!! That's when I knew she was just trying to find reasons to talk shit about me since I was closing The. Exact. Same. Way she showed me.
Needless to say, I quitted that job not long after that. She bankrupt her restaurant a couple of months later so, I guess karma caught back to her. Ha!
The time where my baby momma left me and a few days later I discovered she was married. Like still married. I had to go through court to prove I was the dad and not him. Results still pending
My boy scout troop was hiking in the woods, and one of the 11 year olds dropped trash all over the place, and when the leaders tried to find out who it was, the kid said it wasnt him even though he had cheetos dust all over his fingers and mouth.
Left a bag with like 25 Nintendo DS games in it at my friends house. Asked her about it later and said she couldn't find it, even though I KNOW it had been left on her bed and couldn't be lost. Later she "found" the bag and half the games were mysteriously gone! She picked out the ones she wanted to keep and returned the rest.
This was like 4 or 5 years ago but I ain't ever gonna forget it Ting Ting, ya bitch.
Used to be manager at Jack in the Box. Worked a 16 hour shift (kinda make my own shifts) and was exhausted but not stupid. A lady came in Drive Thru ordered Nuggets and was on her way. An hour and a half later during a dinner rush she comes back in the drive thru and claims we didnt give her nuggets and we gave her a fajita chicken pita instead and ask for 20 more. I laughed so hard on the spot because I put those nuggets in the bag and handed it to her the first time, plus since I was over seeing every thing my employees were doing, we actually had not sold or made a chicken pita the entire day. She probably had an extra or something from another time and tried to scam 20 extra nuggets during something like a 50 car rush and had to wait 40 minutes to be “politely“declined at the window.
Idk if anyone plays slowpitch Softball but my store manager was bragging to everyone how good he was and how he played on this great “C” ranked team. Well one weekend I’m playing and happen to run into him. I was playing on a “D” team and he and “E” team so naturally I told everyone about this tiny little lie. A lot of people lost respect for him because why the fuck does anyone have to lie about a recreational sport they do for fun? Looool.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every time my brother lies to me and I know by the look on his face that he's lying.
In middle school my best friend's CD player went missing, straight out of his backpack. We asked around and even asked on specific person but he denied it. Later that week a friend, who was friends with the person we suspected, confided us that he saw suspect #1 with the CD player. So we confronted him after school, and the guy kept on saying he didn't have it. There were like three of us, we weren't going to beat him up or anything but I guess we had strength in numbers because he caved and pulled it out of his backpack. He had written all over it in white out and nail polish or something similar to change its appearance.
I guy I was in sixth form with decided to tell a friend of mine that his dad was killed by Ray Charles throwing a piano at him at a concert. Seriously.
Caught my Ex-girlfriend cheating on me. I asked her a few nights that I was gone out of town for work what she had done, and she would give me stories about hanging with the cats and watching movies. I let this go on for a few weeks because I wasn't going to be home much anyway, so I didnt want to address it until I had the time. When I finally brought up that I thought she was cheating on me with one of her school mates, she denied it and accused me of cheating.
I calmly reminded her she had me install wifi cameras in our house because we lived in a shady area of town. They were above our door outside and in the staircase looking down on the front door, which also happened to be above our bedroom.
The look on her face was priceless, and I moved on with life when she moved out.
A while after my dad moved away, his wife, my stepmom, told me that "everyone" had told her that I complained to them about how she and my dad "abandoned me." I never said any such thing to a single person. In fact I felt quite liberated when they left. So I asked, "Who told you I said that? Who told you I said you abandoned me?" and her response was, "I'm not going to throw anyone under the bus just to prove my point to you." or something to that effect. And then the subject was quickly changed.
It may not seem like any big thing to anyone else but to me it was a huge moment to finally have caught her in a concrete lie, and to watch her realize she couldn't actually back up what she was saying, and turn tail and quickly find a new attack strategy.
After having suspected she had lied about so many things, and her always accusing me of being a pathological liar for ridiculous things.
I used to date this boy back in high school justin. We where about 3 years into the relationship when one night after hanging up the phone, "I love you goodnight." I had received a phone call seconds after from a close friend brian basically snitching saying, " did you know that justin is dating Lora, I just saw them making out." ( Lora was my best girlfriend at the time.)I was so confused because me and justin hadn't separated, I literally just got off the phone with him. So of course my heart drops quickly and before I can investigate. Suddenly I received a call on the other line from Lora, so I switch over and act normal obviously and she asks, "Is it okay if me and Justin date I want your permission." I flipped. "Wtf Lora he's my boyfriend why is everyone acting like me and him are no longer together.!!" Of course I call her out, your a liar! Blah blah. She starts stuttering and as much as I wished shed say I was wrong she admitted to it.. at this point I'm heated now. Hang up on her, call Justin basically to bitch him out for cheating. I dump him in the process. Lora apologizes over and over through text. Before I went to sleep I told her, "he's all yours have a great life."
They both tried to lie to me at the same time. Justin wanted to apparently cheat on me and my best friend was simply a fake friend. (Justin denied it, she admitted, Brian had snitched) I had my proof.
A couple summers ago a good friend of mine texted me during work and asked me to go fishing with him after work. Sounded like a good idea to me so I said why the hell not. He didn’t say where but I didn’t really care where, just wanted to get out.
He texted me back a couple hours later and said that his boss told him he has to stay and work overtime so never mind. I was a little bummed, but I said that’s fine. By now the idea of fishing sounded great to me and I wanted to go so I texted another old friend of mine and asked if he wanted to go and he said hell yeah. He told me about a spot along the river that nobody goes to that he had been nailing striper bass the day prior.
We meet up after work and we’re walking along this river bank fishing the shores, jigging our lines near the bank and I look down about 50 feet across the river and see a figure that looks an awful lot like friend number one who said he was working overtime and so I walk down closer and closer as I cast my line. By now, I’m literally right across the river from him and I’m like no shit, this is said friend. I cast out and say “working over time eh, “friends name”. He looks up like a deer in headlights and says “oh shit, hey Mikey, yeah uh, um...” completely at a loss for words. I just walked away.
He texted me about an hour after and apologized. Said he just wanted some time alone. Which I get. But he texted ME asking ME to go in the first place. The odds of us seeing each other on this random river in the woods was slim to none. I’ll never let him live it down.
I was in elementary school and had a friend who lived up the street. We both loved to play with legos. We would bring bins of all the sets we had to play together. I was always very particulate in making sure I had all my Minifigures and sets before I left, as I played with them alone a lot as well. One day after he went home I noticed one of Minifigures was missing. Some shark guy with a trident. I couldn't find him anywhere. So I called him and asked if he had and he said no. The next day I go over his house and he has the same minifigure. When I ask for it back he says he got it off eBay. I then tell my mom. It takes weeks for him to finally admit that he stole it and didn't get off ebay. Needless to say, It felt pretty good to get that Minifigure back.
Best friend in high school was a fun guy but completely full of shit to the point of absurdity. One day he said he got a job at a pizza place, and went on to pretend that he had to go to work or, if we were gonna go do stuff, he'd sometimes "call in sick" so we could chill. Stopped by the shop one time and asked them how he was doing and all they gave me was a blank stare. Apparently he'd been straight up lying about this job and had kept it up to save face. Instead of calling him out, I kept him going for a while year before finally letting him have it with the truth.
It wasn't satisfying as I was the one caught lying. I was a kid and would lie to get noticed within the friend group. I was a bit of a show off. Once we were talking about if anyone's seen a cricket game in the ground. I said that I had. Then one guy who had actually been there asked " really what stand were you in? North or south". Naturally I had to be smart. "I was in the west stand. Had a great view too. Away from the sun." then he said "wankhede doesn't have a west stand." I had no words. Ramnath if you are reading this, Good on you to call me out. I learned a lesson that day.
Not a great story. Had a real slacker employee who never helped out, barely did what was expected of him, constantly complained. Just an all around shitty person/employee. He said he wasn't available on weekends due to having a second part-time job. I believed him for a while, but after thinking about his general work ethic I started to wonder how someone with such pisspoor work ethic worked everyday during the week split between 2 jobs. Found out from another employee where he supposedly worked at on weekends. Reached out to that business via Facebook inquiring about his schedule in order to help me with my scheduling. Owner responded by saying no one worked there by that name. I felt dumb. Then i confronted the employee about it and was immediately satisfied by his look of dumbfoundedness. Total win
Probably too late for this thread, but I suspected my brother was stealing my money since I would lose it every now and then with no explanation, and I didn't put in much effort securing it.
I placed a $5 bill flat on my dresser in plain view, but I secretly marked it and took pictures. Sure enough, the next day my money was gone. I never thought I'd get so excited over having my money stolen but I was so prepared for this.
I got my parents to sit in the coach and wait like this was the new episode of Intervention. I hollered at my brother to come downstairs with his wallet and the poor kid came running.
I gave him a chance to say what he did, he didn't, so I put him on blast and showed my parents the pictures. Needless to say, I got my money back. In hindsight it was an asshole brother move but something needed to be done because we found out he had also been stealing from Walmart and my mother, so it was a win I guess
Disera · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work retail and one of my managers is really annoying. I realize a lot of people slack off while working, but I'm not one of them. I might half ass some things, but I'm always trying to get everything done. Occasionally, this manager will wheel some freight out to me and be like "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't know you already had some. I should have asked," Literally every time. This has happened, like, at least six times by this point. So, I quickly developed the theory that she thinks I don't do anything all day and brings stuff out to me on purpose.
Well, the other day I actually didn't have any freight at that moment. So, she wheels her cart over to me and says "Oh, I thought you already had some," And in my head I'm freaking out, like "I fucking knew it. You bitch," It was both irritating and validating at the same time.
We had someone new about to start a position after the previous employee retired, and my boss let someone else give our new employee her job description. It was really his job to explain it to her, but he didn't know enough about it to do so. He gave her the materials she needed, but didn't tell her anything.
The lady who he let explain didn't know enough either, so when I contacted the new employee and mentioned what she'd be doing, she promptly freaked out. She'd been given a comically poor job description, and felt like it was above her level of experience, so she quit.
I confronted the lady who did it, and she immediately denied any wrongdoing and blamed my boss, who was too clueless to pull off a stunt like that. She knew I was onto her and she wouldn't look me in the eye.
My gf's son was 5 and we caught him grabbing some extra candy from the pantry. When we confronted him about it he went ballistic in his defense. At least he didn't complain when sent to his room with no dinner.
The service manager told me I was a liar for saying my truck was skipping after the CV joint replacement. He stated the vehicle had to have been driven in that way and that I was trying to screw him into making a second repair free. His mechanic found that he had neglected to reconnect the MAF (mass air flow) sensor after putting the airbox back in post repair. Fuck you service manager, you accusing douche-bag, piece of shit, I hope you enjoyed the second poop hole I tore for you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was working a beach service job. They started a city policy that anything left on the beach overnight would get thrown away by cleanup crews. We had to get a permit for everything of ours that would stay out overnight on the beach which was a hassle. I got harassed for doing my job all summer by "beach patrol" (AKA not cops). "Do you have permits for these, are you gonna set these up behind the high water mark, are you coming back tonight, random BS, etc."
One day two beach patrol guys drive by and I immediately tell them we have permits and I am right next to/behind the high water marker. Ever annoyed that their go tos for messin with me were off the table they proceed to tell me I can't use a metal shove on the beach because it can be considered a weapon. I laugh and tell them I've never heard of that and I continue digging my holes. One of them says "what if someone had an AR on the...?" "LOL don't even make that comparison dude." "We're just letting you know for your sake, we don't want the cops (who never just go down to a random beach home and do a beach inspection because they're cops and have much more serious things to do in the summer in a tourist trap) to get on to you for this, but we can get them involved if you want." I tell them "that's bull" (refrained from cussing) and that they can come arrest me then if it's a serious issue but I'm not letting you tell me I can't do my job. They storm off and say they're calling the cops. These are two late 20s early 30s men btw.
Tell my boss who was on my case the whole weekend (both for things I messed up and didn't). He's 6'5" and ripped like nobody's business and is well known in the area. He and another friend come to help me finish my set up and the patrol cruises on back by us without stopping this time. Boss says "is that them?" "Yup." He chases them down and talks with them for a good little bit. Comes back and says, "they said we are fine to keep doing what we are doing (basically admitting they were trying to give me a hard time for no reason), but I don't ever want you cursing at them again man." "What did they tell you because the closest I came to that was saying bull without the shit?" "They said you were cussing up a storm loud enough for everyone to hear and that you were being really rude and disrespectful to everyone." "LOL didn't happen, but are you saying 2 grown ass men just tattled on me because their fee fees were hurt because I didn't bow down to their all mighty beach authority?"
So they lied about not being able to have shovels on the beach, about me cursing at them and blowing up at them. Boss scared them and they change their story. Weak AF, sorry if this was anti-climatic, made me mad just remembering this.
elixan · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend through high school and college kept telling me how she was thinking of joining the swim team at our university. She said that she had been on our high school’s swim team and that the coach at our uni contacted her asking her to try out. I had never seen her swim before, but didn’t care enough to call her out on this lie.
So the week before classes start, freshman get to go early and attend events and check out the campus and stuff. She has me tag along with her to check out the swimming pools. She’s recounting going swimming with a known swimmer at our HS and the meets and stuff and I’m just keeping quiet. She talks more about how this coach at our uni is practically begging her to join the team at this point.
My mom calls later on the week to see how things are going and I casually mention the whole swim team thing and how I don’t really believe her and my mom’s just kinda like “huh”.
Like a week later, my mom calls back and says she ran into my friend’s mom at the grocery store. She told her congratulations about the whole swim team thing. Her mom asks my mom what she’s talking about, so my mom relays what I had told her. Her mom proceeds to go, “why does she do this.......”
I never brought it up, but she stopped talking about the swim team shortly after classes started. We had been friends for six or seven years at that point, yet it’s the memory that sticks with me the most whenever I wonder how she’s doing.
I took my car in for routine service and the mechanic gave me a laundry list of things I needed to fix. As he's going down the list, he gets to the battery - "yeah, you're gonna need a new battery because the terminals are corroded". However, I had just bought a new battery less than a month ago at that point and I told him as much. He began to back track and stumble over his words.
This guy my best friend was dating was a total bullshitter. I think he just wanted attention, would pretend he didn’t know any pop culture references were.
“Whose Beyonce?”
“What’s Star Wars?”
Every time I would say, “You’ve never heard of Star Wars?” He would say he was from Minnesota. So Minnesota doesn’t HAVE STAR WARS???? Idfk man, drove me NUTS.
My friend was telling a story about how his dad woke him up by making strange noises snd sticking his fingers around the door, I made the joke that I would’ve slammed the door on his fingers later that day we were dismissed from school, I heard him telling the story behind me to a different kid and he integrated my joke into his story and told the kid that he slammed the door on his dads fingers and got in trouble. Then he got real quiet because I think he saw me directly in front of him. I didn’t say anything and just let it go.
I had one this friend that lied about nearly everything. We where around 10 years old and his parents made big birthday party for him. Everyone got him some nice gifts.
I stayed there till very end because I lived far away so my parent's friend that was also there would take me after he packed all cool stuff he brought for kids to play.
It's getting dark and all other kids are gone, I help with packing things to car and I hear birthday boy crying in home that he got Nintendo Wii game.
Funny enough he was bragging about having that console in school for quite long time.
In college I lived with a kid that was a pathological liar. I never much associated with him aside from when we had house parties and just generally chilling in the living room.
Over the summer, we both got summer jobs, and his was a door to door salesman for some internet company. Every day when he came home he would boast and brag about how many sales he’s been getting and how much money he’s been making. He even said that he would charm people into getting the bonus packages.
While this dude was a huge bullshitter, he would also talk someone’s ear off, so part of me thought he might’ve got some sales, but maybe he’s exaggerating his success.
One day we were out at a bar, and he offered to pick up the next round. He walked up to the bar, and I followed him because we had a large crew, and if he bought all those drinks there is no way he could’ve got them back to our table.
He asked me why I followed him and I tell him literally verbatim what I said above, and he immediately looked like he saw a ghost. I asked him if he was ok and he nodded, ordered drinks, and handed the bartender his card.
5 minutes later, the bartender comes back with his card and tells him it’s been declined for insufficient funds.
At that point I looked at him, and just shook my head.
It definitely solidified my opinion of him being a liar.
A few years later, he texted another friend asking to stay at his house for a weekend, to which my friend said no. His story was that he was coming for an interview, but it turns out he had to go to court for beating up his girlfriend. That’s when my opinion solidified into him being a lying sack of shit.
I always felt as if kids in my school would make random stories up to seem impressive or cool, so 8 year old me devised a genius plan to make up some random type of bread and ask the kids in my class if they've ever tried. I don't remember what the bread was called but it was something stupid like Flashami Bread(which doesn't exist). I was going around asking people if they've had it and this one little girl I asked nods her head yes. I call her out for being a liar and tell her the bread doesn't exist. She goes "Yes it does. It is SOOOO good..."
We were a ladies darts team and every year, we all would go away to watch the World Championships. One of the girls offered to organise accommodation as she knew personally the owner of the hotel that we planned to stay at. She worked out cost etc for us all and we all began to pay weekly in the run up. Strangely, every time we asked what rooms etc were booked, she was always pretty vague etc. However, every time we asked, she said she had spoken to the owner and everything was sorted. One of the girls was a treasurer and enquired about deposits etc but again she was vague. It was left to me to ring and ask the hotel in question. Not only had she not booked the rooms but he had no idea who she was! He was fully booked too.
In high school, one of my maths teachers really didn't like me. She also had the habit of setting five hours worth of homework in for the next day, which was usually impossible to do because of other subject's work and commitments to other none school activities. As she didn't like me, she usually ignored anyone who hadn't done the work unless they were me.
At a parents' evening with my other maths teacher, she had decided to join unannounced, and spent the whole time making snide comments about me never doing work when the other teacher was trying to talk to my mum. Eventually my mum got rather annoyed, and ranted to her about how I didn't do all the work because she set stupid amount for the next day.
My maths teacher insisted that she'd never set work for the next day, and I must have been lying to my mum about it, and if I had only had one day it was probably because it was already a week late. My mum shut up then, but was obviously annoyed but had no proof that she was lying. I decided to keep my nose out of it and started scrolling though my phone.
Fortunately, my maths teacher always puts homework on google classroom (so we have no excuse not to have done it). Just as my maths teacher decided to snap at me for being on my phone, I was able to hold up and example of homework she had set, which she had titled, "Homework, yes this is in for TOMORROW!"
She sat silently through the rest of the parents evening, and I'm fairly sure the other teacher reported her to the head of the year (it's against school policy to set homework for the next day, especially if it's more than two hours of work). After that she had to give us at least two days to do homework that would take more than two hours, and she kept the snideness about me in lessons.
When I was 21 (10 years ago) and very naive, I dated a guy for about 4 months that lied to me about having colon cancer. He told me it was too hard for his family to talk about, and not to bring it up around them. He would pretend he was at chemo, when in fact, he was at home playing video games. He would talk about wanting to kill himself. Eventually, I dumped him, and when he would try to talk to me about how sick or suicidal he was, I'd just Facebook message his sister and tell her to deal with him. He actually gave up and moved on. Cray!
Was a PhD student sharing a house with other (mostly PhD) students. One woman moved in and the house suddenly got dirtier. And small stuff, like laundry detergent started to go missing. I went to a conference plus holiday to New York for a couple of weeks. When I returned, by box of laundry detergent tablets was much emptier than I remembered. I trusted the other two women in the house with my life.
So I count how many I had after doing some post-trip washing. On Friday of that week, I return from the post-work pub outing and found her in the kitchen. I thought I'd check how many I had left while she was here. I looked on the box at a couple were missing, I ask her. Her response: a panicked and worried, oh no, nono didn't use any. And they are bio tablets and I can only use non-bio laundry detergent anyway.
I look all over the box and find the label saying "bio" on it and like, wow, "you know this stuff better than I do" and left it at that. A couple weeks later at the pub we see some people from the lab she works in. They are all fed up of how messy she is around the lab, like we are with her at home. They tell is she was "bragging" to them about how she was stealing our detergent and no one was noticing. We never said anything, it didn't seem worth it, it was just nice to know for certain that we were right and she was guilty and trying to gaslight us. I was so happy when she moved out (after 2 years).
Blueta · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh yes. My roommate was a pathological liar and my iPhones chargers kept going missing. I put a piece of scotch tape around the part that plugged into the wall and of course she claimed it was DEFINITELY hers. So I said oh yeah I guess, I mean, I put a piece of scotch tape on mine... oh waaaait here’s the tape GOTCHABYOTCH!! Still feels good.
I had a student who was so focused when copying his friends work that he signed it with his friend's name. It was a LOT of work as he only does anything just before report cards, when he copies anything he can get his hands on and turns it in.
It was glorious when I pointed it out to him. He lost his shit, but could only be angry with himself.
I had a friend while I was in school who lived a very dramatic life, we worked in the same place and went to the same school but she had dealt with some serious shit. After we were good friends for ~6 months it became apparent that she had very separate groups of friends, and would tell us that she didn't want the groups interacting with each other for 'drama' related reasons. After being friends with her for a few years she couldn't really keep the groups completely separate, and me and my immediate friends met her other friends and family members.
This friend had very intense things happen to her and apparently had for her whole life. It was the kind of stuff that you don't question when someone tells you about it, just tell them how sorry you are that that happened. The first thing was cancer, she had apparently had cancer when she was a teen but beat it, and was technically in remission when we met, but on her last checkup before being declared cancer free, it came back. Everyone we worked with was floored that she would come to work even after having radiation treatments earlier the same day. Luckily our manager was willing to make all kinds of adjustments for her, but my friend never took advantage of much accommodation, other than taking a day off here or there. One time she had taken a few days in a row and it came pretty close to meeting the requirements to go on short term disability, but friend was adamant that she wasn't going to do that. She also swore all of her work friends to secrecy on the matter, she didn't want anyone to know about the cancer, so no one was to post about it on Facebook etc, and she especially didn't want her family to know (who lived out of town) because she didn't want to worry them. Needless to say all of our mutual friends were relieved when the treatments were successful.
Another ongoing situation with this friend was to do with this guy lets call him Lance Vance. Now I can't remember all of the specifics of the stories about this guy, but he was no good. He had allegedly stolen money from a local fraternity, sexually assaulted her friend, and also 'raped' my friend (her description not mine) all of this well before we met. She knew Lance because he was actually the brother of one of her other friends Roger, and because of that she didn't want anyone to mention anything about Lance publicly on Facebook etc. Because Lance and Roger had their own drama/ rocky relationship, and my friend didn't want to make it even worse. She would tell us about occasionally seeing Lance at the club, or that he was in town for court proceedings or similar stories over the years without any of us (other friends) actually meeting or seeing 'Lance.'
Then about a month before my friend moved to another city she calls me very upset, and tells me that Lance just forced his way into her apartment had sex with her (ie assaulted/ raped her) and left. I told her in no uncertain terms to call the cops, she refused citing her usual reasons for not calling the cops on this guy, and we had a bit of a fight about it.
Fast forward a few years, and one of my best friends lives down the street from drama friend in the new city, and she's living with her friend Roger now, so they all become pretty close. One night my other friend is drinking alone with Roger, and decided he needs to ask about Lance. He asks something like "what is the deal with your brother Lance, and your roommate." Roger has no idea what my friend is talking about, he doesn't even have a brother. My friend then tells Roger a summary of all the stories we've heard about Lance, how he rapes women, deals drugs, steals money, etc. and none of it was true, and Roger hadn't heard any of those stories. Then the two of them started talking and called into question a lot of the things our mutual friend had told us over the years, but couldn't prove definitively that there were other lies on the scale of 'Lance.' No one confronted her about the cancer situation, but over the years I've heard stories from cancer survivors about how bad their radiation treatments were, and how it impacted their lives. They are all astonished when I mention my friend who worked an partied through it in her early 20's. Haven't talked to anyone involved for quite a few years, but I never looked at my one friend the same way after I found out about the lie.
We used to hang out with this dude in high school. I dont know why honestly but he was a compulsive liar. He played soccer with one of my best friends. Now we had a group of like 10 girls and 10 guys and every weekend we would hang out and he started to hang out with us. So the compulsive liar started to date one of the girls and told her that he was in the same grade as all us. He wasn't, he was a grade below us. All the guys knew this. Maybe the girls did, I dont know. When it came to graduation, he made up this whole elaborate bullcrap story how he couldnt come to our graduation to see her because he was graduating too. She fell for it. They kept dating a year after college and she thought he was going to college but in reality, he was a senior. So the amount bullcrap that dude had to make up to keep his lie going is unimaginable throughout that whole year. She found out eventually and of course broke up with him. I dont remember how she found out though. Now the question is that should we have told her? Maybe, but im not going to get involved into their drama or even start any. Wasn't my problem. Like you cant be that gullible!
In high school, my mom opened an email from my sister's music teacher. After some confusing looks and remarks my mom calls my sister in the room and ask her "who died?"
My sister had told her teacher that a distant cousin had died so that she wouldn't have to perform at a Saturday show. She's a bad liar so my teacher sent condolences to my mom to confirm the story. My sister ended up having to go to the show and confront the teacher dead cousin-less.
Not so satisfying, but I did catch a guy who outright lied to me. I met this guy at a friend’s birthday party. He’s really cool, and we make good conversation so I start talking to him about some goals of mine. I mention that I’ve become interested in x,y,z because my grandmother had breast cancer. The guy chimes in and says, “I totally get it. My mom has breast cancer too.”
Flash forward 30 minutes and a beer later, we’re sitting at an IHOP talking about family. He mentions that his mom had a stroke and her whole left side was paralyzed. Obviously confused, I asked him if his mom ever had breast cancer and he says no. So I asked him why he lied to me, to which he replied, “I just wanted to be relatable, it’s not every day you meet a cute girl.”
...Oooookaay.
That was the first red flag I shouldn’t have overlooked. After getting to know him, I’m almost sure he’s either an alcoholic or a compulsive liar. Plus, lying about your mom having cancer is insane imho.
Had an employee call in sick, told me his Grandma had died.
I found this odd, as over the last 2 years he has been employed with me specifically the last 2 months 3 of his Grandmas had passed.
So I asked him "Man thats so bad" (buttered him up) then I said "So 2 years ago...how many Grandmas did you have? Did you have like great, great, great grandmas? Or?" he said "No, this is my 2nd grandma to pass" "So you've always had 2 grandmas" he goes "Yup, and she was my last one :("
I then said "So according to our files your 1st grandma passed away on XYZ, and then your 2nd Grandma passed on XYZ and then your 3rd Grandpa passed on XYZ, so I guess my question is how did you gain a grandma in the last few months?"
"Um"
"Go to the funeral, and when you decide to show up to work next time you can pick up your last check and collect your personal things"
This dude is so thick he goes "So I can take today off?" I said "not only can you take today off, you can take as many days off as you want"
I legit didn't see that guy for 4 months, he finally got his last check and we fired him.
My old college roommate tried to say I didn't pay rent. I was living with him and his girlfriend, but since the office was strict on how many people could be in the apartment, she was paying him under the table, so it looked like he was paying 2/3rds of rent while I only paid 1/3. We got a notice saying that rent was overdue one, and that we owed 2/3rds of rent. My roommate got mad at me and that they paid on time and that it wasn't their fault. Then he said he talked to the leasing office, who said it was me who missed it. Now I always pay rent a few days early just to be sure, and I had the notice to back me up. So I just pulled out the notice, showed him the amount they was owed, and he immediately shut up.
Not me but a friend who owns several car dealerships. He's a bit of known figure in the community and also has large extended family. One day a guy walked into one of his dealerships inquiring about a car to him. This isn't something he typically deals with personally but was checking something else on the showroom floor. The guy then says " friends name said that he's giving me some ridiculous discount," all the while unknowingly speaking to the person he's name dropping. My friend said, "He'd look into it." All said and done, he ended up dinging the for 5k on the sale of the car.
Rhaifa · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister accused me of stealing the mentos from the cupboard while having them in her pockets. I ratted her out so fast.
I had a boyfriend when I was 14 that somehow always managed to make up the most ridiculous lies. We were both freshman in high school and when the time came around to saying how old we were, he for some reason said he was 16. I thought nothing of it and chalked it up to him just failing grades. Eventually I invited him to meet my family and he told them that he was 16. A month before my 15th birthday his mom picks him up from my house and my mom mentions that she’s planning something for my birthday next month. His mom says oh yeah of course he can go, wow I didn’t know Vixen was older than my son! My mom and I both exchange weird glances since this guy had basically lied for months about his age. My mom mentions that he had said he was 16 so he was older than me. His mom says oh no! He’s 14 right now, his birthday isn’t even until 8 months from now. Queue the blood draining from this guys face until he has the audacity to start arguing with his own mother about HOW OLD HE WAS. They kept going back and forth with him saying no mom, I’m 16 remember. He didn’t cut his shit out until his mother yelled at him and said she knows how old he is because of his birth certificate.
My coworker said “This one time I accidentally drank a whole glass of vodka by mistake. I thought it was water until my mouth got all numb.” I was dumbfounded by his utter failure.
I was married to a total ass of a guy. He constantly gaslighted me and did other shitty things. So one weekend, one of our friends invited us all over to her place. She and my hubs had some weird history, but I felt ok going because there was a big group going.
I was at work when we got the invite. My husband told me there was another couple that was already there, so he went ahead and went over to her place. I contacted another one of my friends to figure out when she would be there. That's when I found out that the other couple wasn't actually there. So, it was just my husband and the other woman.
I called the husband of the couple that was "supposedly there". Turns out, he already told my husband that they wouldn't be there for a few hours. So I called my husband back and was like "are you suuuure [other couple] is there?" He said "yes of course!" I asked "Can I talk to [wife]?" but my husband was like "well, actually, she's still on her way. But [husband] is here, I promise." I asked "ok, can I talk to him?" but my husband said he was in the bathroom. I said I would wait. He became uncomfortable. After like ten minutes of awkward silence, I was like, "he's not there, is he?" and my husband finally admitted it. I had never questioned something from him so adamantly and he didn't know how to react. He started sobbing and apologizing like crazy. I felt so validated.
It was such a shitty thing to be right about but I finally caught him in a lie that he couldn't back himself out of. It sucks that I stayed in that relationship for so long after that, but I'm out now and happier than I've ever beem.
My last high school was a weird charter school where we only went two days a week and turned in our packets of work at the end of the unit. “Independent study” type of shit. We were all assigned a main teacher who corrected all our work. Kind of a shit setup, honestly, because if you got assigned to a math teacher, like me, not only would they be grading math, they’d also grade your science, history, and English work too. Well, it got to the end of the semester and I was planning on transferring to a normal public school for second semester. My assigned teacher, or “facilitator” called me over to the side and told me I was about to fail every class. Now, my grades weren’t the best, but I had checked my grades online earlier that day, and they were all Bs and Cs, not anything that would put me in extreme danger of failing. I asked her what I needed to turn in to raise my grades, just kind of playing along. She told me I had only turned in work for 2 out of 5 units. I had turned in my work for unit two late, but that was the only thing I could think of as everything else was turned in on time. I asked about it, and she told me that she’d just give me a passing grade if I turned in one days worth of work for all the subjects I was taking. We talked for a bit longer and I brought that up again. She continued to insist I hadn’t turned anything in. Towards the end of our meeting, my dad came in to talk to her about some other problems we were having. She told him I hadn’t turned anything in. When I was about to leave, she said “I don’t want you to have to do double work so I’ll just grade what you turned in already” and pulled all my apparently ungraded work out of her desk. That’s not the only time we caught her lying either, she said I was sneaking off campus at lunch when my parents had signed a permission slip giving me off campus privileges, told my parents I had joined the school’s GSA, outing me to them, called me “hostile and guarded” because I usually had my headphones in and didn’t have friends, and told my dad that my English teacher had been reading all my essays when the English teacher had confirmed earlier that day that she hadn’t read any of my work and actually didn’t even know my name. Anyway, parents finally believed me and let me leave the school but the teacher didn’t get fired for some reason.
Student of mine missed a test because he was absent for some reason. I had marked and returned everyone's tests initially thinking that I was too lazy to write another test for him and he wasn't too clever to assume it would be the same test. Two students come to me to let me know that he studied from the tests I had given back.
So I thought ok, since the test was only MCQs I can still do something about it. So I keep the lengths of the questions the same (they were scenarios that were a paragraph long) so he wouldn't notice any difference but only make very slight changes by adding a "not" so the answer would get changed. I did that to most of the questions but not all.
Come make up test time, this kid comes in all confident that he will ace the test (he's actually a very weak and lazy student). When I marked the test, I saw that he had selected the correct answers based on the original test, meaning he got at least half of them wrong. He asked me for later how he did and I told him he got a 50% score. He was shocked and thought I was kidding. I showed him the test and asked him why he picked those answers cuz they don't make any sense.
The look on his face, not sure why he got those wrong and how he couldn't tell me why he picked those answers was priceless. I know I am mean but this was a year 11 student.
When I was like 8 I “lost” my copy of Pokémon mystery dungeon blue. Later that day I was playing at my grandma’s house with my cousin who was the same age, and he showed me this new game he had just gotten, which believe it or not was the same one. I asked him to start it up and I remember him doing it with a worried look on his face, and when I saw the save file name I just took it back then and there.
Start with the back story on this. I work at a customer support center. The company I work for did a technology upgrade in late October, now this caused some uproar with our customers, because most of them had to set up new passwords and it was a whole new process for logging into our website. We had a huge volume of calls from the upgrade till the end of the year, so much so that we had secondary rollover support for our phones. There are only about 12 of us on the phones on a normal basis.
Cut to last week, a customer called upset for several reasons, but in the complaints were that she had bee calling "lots" of time and never managed to access her account. She then said that she had called 3 previous times that morning, waited on hold for "more than 10 minutes" each time and never gotten to speak to someone. I have full access to the call logs and the records, in fact I keep an eye on the call volume to make sure hold times aren't too long. At this point in the morning, our average hold time was 28 seconds, and out longest was 2 minutes and 58 seconds. So I know this lady is lying through her teeth. I take the complaint down and file it with our official form to take care of the other things she is asking for, but I make sure to include that there is no way she had called 3 times and held for more than 10 minutes each time.
Out of curiosity, I pull the individual call numbers for that day to see when she had called. It turns out she had called once right at 10 AM (which is when some of our people are still getting in, so we were a little short on the phones). She had held for a total of 1 minute and 37 seconds before giving up. I then also got interested if she had, in fact, called multiple times in the past 8 months to get help. I already had all of the call history since the conversion, buy searching for every phone number we had on file, including the number she had called from that day. I found one entry. ONE. This person had called once, about a week after our upgrade, and never bothered to try again.
TL;DR - angry customer complains that she calls all the time and can never get logged into the system, in fact had called a total of 3 times in 8 months, and had given up after a minute and a half of waiting.
Liitke · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have the ever common coworker who repeats everyone's stories. Used at least three of mine but I think the most satisfying experience must be;
I was fresh out of highschool and my boyfriend was acting very differently. His whole personality changed and was becoming increasingly more disrespectful and impatient with me. I had a feeling he was cheating so I called him out on it. He had me nearly convinced I was just being insecure and "crazy". I thought maybe I was indeed thinking about things too much or my hormones were making me perceive things incorrectly. Well one day I drove to his house early in the morning as I often did and would wake him up and hang out all day. I got there and no... No other girl or anything like that... But the idiot left hand written paper notes out in his bathroom from the girl he was cheating with. I just put them next to his face on his bed and left.
The best part is she was underage 12 he was 20... Her mother caught them and now he is a registered sex offender. Lol
I was dating a recently divorced woman who started getting pretty squirrelly, lying for no reason. She thought of herself as a writer and had talked about trying to write erotica for a quick buck.
On a hunch, I googled her pet name for me and a couple of dirty talk phrases she used a lot. Up comes her anonymous blog about sex with me... and a lot of other dudes. Good points: I felt very flattered about the posts involving me and she could write some quality smut. Bad points: specific details made it very clear no condoms were used in the production of this smut.
I got her to come over, told her I was breaking up with her, she started yelling at me for accusing her of cheating... so I pulled up her blog. Complete change of personality, just a “you got me!” smirk.
I got tested, came out clean. She got into some extreme BDSM last I heard and never did (AFAIK) go into writing erotica professionally.
A few years ago and about 2 months into having moved into an apartment with my then girlfriend, she tells me that she is going out to dinner with her dad and stepmom one evening. I think its kinda odd that I wasn't invited since they always invited me to various events and it was typically a given that I would attend. Anyway I brush it off and figure I'll just have a chill night on my own and watch some hockey. No big deal.
To preface this, I had caught her being unfaithful with an old high school friend of hers about 3 months earlier, but stupidly wanted to forgive her and "make things work". Anyway, I hop on Facebook for a few minutes and at the top of my feed is a post from her stepmom showing them on a beach in Florida for a happy hour. I decide to keep quiet about it, but eventually notice she never gets ready or leaves for the dinner. She ends up taking a nap and blames it on not feeling well.
I confront her a couple hours later and it turns into a big argument. She said that she was actually going to do to dinner with a female classmate that I knew, but the classmate had to cancel. My girlfriend didn't want to tell me her actual plans because apparently her mom had thought I would become jealous of my girlfriend spending time with the classmate. Again pretty sure that was just more bullshit lies as I had no issues with her classmate and had known her for quite some time already. For the next month or so, I basically ignored my girlfriend's presence entirely when she was home because I was unsure of anything that came out of her mouth. It was petty as hell, but pretty funny to see how easily it got under her skin. She moved out pretty quickly because I was "being an asshole" and made her uncomfortable.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just yesterday my son comes out of his room and says his sister stole an egg. He had egg running down his shirt, and it was freshly cracked on his dresser running down his dresser, literally not enough time for her to have done it as she was in her own room at the time, he knew that I knew that he was lying. (These two often try to get eachother in trouble like this)
A friend of mine lied about that he has Rainbow Six Siege. Yes, this is dumb and I don't know why he did that. Someday another friend and me decided to ask him to play with us until he tells the truth, because we knew he lied to us very early, and when he did told us the truth we just wanted to finish him off and were really upset.
Sometimes people have a pair of stone lions on their doorstep. My friend's mom had a nice looking set so we decided to steal one. They weigh about 150lbs each so it was a hassle, but we got it done with a few extra hands. We didn't tell our friend that it was us who had taken his mom's stone lion, and he ended up getting grounded for a while.
Cut to two weeks later, me and a few friends (the same ones who stole the statue) are hotboxing a car and this random kid hanging out with us decides to brag about how he'd stolen the stone lion. It had been a topic of conversation in the neighborhood at that point. I shot back and said, "No dude, we stole that fucking lion."
We had both forgotten that the kid we stole the lion from was sitting right between us because we were so stoned. He was a little mad but more amused that I was dumb enough to admit it in front of him and we all gave the other kid shit for trying to take credit.
An old co-worker who was known to be a pathological liar (and a huge douchebag) claimed to have a FICO score of 890. This was especially satisfying because it was trivially easy to point out how he was clearly lying. Typically, the crap he claimed was obviously complete horseshit (my grandparents are secretly rich but live in a trailer for tax purposes kind of shit), but hard to conclusively prove to be false.
Years ago, I was leasing a Brand Honda Accord. (I know, I know... I've learned my lesson) I had done all my research, knew all the formulas, and could calculate the lease by hand on a piece of paper. I knew exactly what my payment should be. From using forums, I knew exactly what the "money factor" (interest rate for a lease) should be based on my good credit of about 760 at the time.
As I'm sitting at the salesmens desk, he gives me an application to fill out, and goes away (I'm guessing to talk to the sales manager). He comes back, and hands me a sheet of paper, showing my car payment, which is much higher than I had calculated myself. I look at the sheet and find the money factor is much higher than expected (something like .00240, or about 5.7% interest) when I had expected to qualify for their lowest, which was something like .00162 (about 3.8% interest).
I looked at the sheet of paper, and said "wow, the money factor is .00240?"
The dealer replied "Yeah, its really low huh?"
I said "Uhh..No, that is crazy high!"
I then asked him "How can you quote me an interest rate, when I'm still filling out the credit application??" and waived the application in the air.
The salesmen got flustered, and said "uhh, let me go talk to my manager". 10 minutes later he came back "well, they didn't want to give it to you, but we fought for you, and got you a lower rate". I looked at the paper, and it was exactly what I expected it to be.
I'm guessing he saw a young kid, and just assumed I had no idea about buying cars, or how a lease works and figured he could get one by me. I can only imagine how many other people they've screwed over with this same tactic. Fuck car salesmen!
On the plus side, I haven't had to go through this again, as 12 years later, I still own the car (bought it off the lease) and plan to ride it into the ground.
My friend told me he was going on a date with a girl that was in our math class later the same day.
That night I was at a party with another group of friends I saw the girl with another guy there.
The next time I saw my friend I asked hin how the date went that night knowing it didn't happen, and he lights up and says "It was awesome I got a blowjob!"
I didn't even call him out because I felt bad he got ditched. He's the kind of guy who needs people to think he's great with women, but it's not really the case.
lovatt · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was this girl named Kimmy who was a perpetual liar to find ways to flirt with people. My roommate ended up hooking up with her, and she now hates his guts.
So I was at a party in college and was chatting with these two guys, Diego and Tommy about the new Zelda game that was coming out.
Right after my conversation ended with them, I walked inside to a drunk girl named Kimmy saying that, "Diego is fucking someone in his room and my keys are in there. Can I crash at your place?"
I then opened the door and said, "I found Diego."
She was trying to come to my place to cuss out my best friend and roommate.
Later on in the night, she lied about it AGAIN and then I told her to stay inside while I talked to Daniel outside and then we just left. Love the story, hate the interactions.
There’s a Union Strategy called I Lie, You Swear. It usually works like this.
Boss: how come the work wasn’t done yet.
Partner: there was an accident down the block. The Fire Department made us move. Then we lost access.
Boss: is this true?
Me: I swear to god.
Depending on the circumstance, how familiar the bosses are with what we actually do and how long it could take, or if the boss knows we are lying and is just hoping to catch us in a lie, stories can get very elaborate and very amusing.
I once went on an online date with a guy that lied about everything to the point it was a mental illness. He said he was the president of Victoria Secret, lies about his age, said he played football for my rival college (he was only 4’ 11”), and said he was Jewish which I had mentioned in my profile was important to me. The only thing he seemed to tell the truth about was what high school he went to. Which happened to be the same high school my cousin went to. So after that crazy date, I went to my cousins house and we looked through his freshman yearbook since this guy was supposedly older than us. Wasn’t in there. Then we looked in his senior year book. Turns out he was a freshman when we were seniors so he was 6 years younger than he said. He even had a different last name, an Irish sounding one instead of the Jewish last name he had given me. I simply texted him a photo of his freshman yearbook picture with his real name visible. It was pretty wonderful closure.
Freshman year of high school this kid who was a serial lier told me he bought a rc airplane from my dad. I asked him which one and he replied with "a 747". My dad only sold 3 models and none of them were even close to a 747. I decided to go with it just to see what he what he would come up with. He made us the most absurd story about him flying it under water and the cops showing up. After that day I would make up a bullshit story everytime I saw him just to see how he could insert himself into my story. Apparently he chopped off his brothers arm while dueling with chainmail armor.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my last job, my training group was a group of 15 or so people, about 6 of us in the group got rather close during the whole training, and kept in touch even though we were all in different departments. One of the girls in this mini group (We'll call her Mary) was a real cutie, she would model clothes for some local businesses on the side. She was a really polite, laid-back, friendly person. There were two particular people who kind of kept themselves attached to her during training. I'll call them Steve and Tim.
Steve was about 10 years older than her, and if i'm being completely honest, they were more platonic/brother, sister type of thing, they just had a lot in common, he even went along with the jokes about all the time they spent together and didn't really care much. Tim on the other hand was something else, I wouldn't say he was a sleazeball, but would always seem to be inserting himself into conversations or try to appear as the alpha whenever she was within earshot.
So one day, we are on the floor each sitting with our mini trainers watching what they did to learn the system and me, Steve, Mary and one of the other newbies are chatting in between calls. The conversation skirts towards how some people follow Mary around like puppy dogs. Mary's a smart gal and she's noticed it as well and she whispers something like "Tim's kinda weird isn't he?" and we kinda acknowledge he's been toeing the line of innocent and awkward. I guess Tim overheard it and got pissed off because he just kept his distance from us.
Come to find out, Tim went to HR complaining that Mary was talking crap on him and trying to slander him or something like that. Mary finds out through the grapevine about this and starts freaking out, she likes working here and doesn't want to start any drama that never really should have started. We smooth things over and eventually things die down.
5 months later and we're all in the thick of it at our work. Mary, Tim and I are all in the same department, but Tim has the late shift while Mary and I have an earlier shift. One day I'm in my manager's office having my quarterly review, and Tim comes in asking how to file a complaint, because Mary was slandering him again. My manager asked what happened, and he said that she went to his supervisor earlier that day, and was talking crap about him and random stuff. Now, like I said, Mary and I have the early shift, I get in at 6am and Mary gets in at 7. I knew for a fact that Mary was sitting at her desk the whole time because her cubicle is right next to mine, unless this happened within the last 15 minutes, Tim was spewing BS.
My manager asked when it all happened, and he said around the time he got in, which was a good 2 or so hours ago, so I knew he was making it up. I quietly interject saying something like "I don't want to get in the middle of this, but I know for a fact that Mary was at her desk the whole day." Tim said that she must have done it on her break and I told him that Mary had been at her desk during her break and I knew because her break was scheduled after my break and I always tell her when I'm off break so she can go on hers and she just stayed at her desk and watched Netflix.
Tim started backpedaling saying that it was actually yesterday, my manager then went for what I guess you could call the dagger when she said that she could have his supervisor come in and get the story from her. At which point Tim said he decided he didn't want to file the complaint because it would be too much work.
I was a senior prefect in high school - each senior had to manage their own team and was given school events to help out at / organise. There's no real of knowing the truth but one of my prefects told me she can't come cos she got stung by a wasp in the foot.... She hardly used to come to help out anyways but this was a lie too far
Babpy · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a girlfriend once that had to move out of town, I didn't want to do a long distance relationship but she wanted to try. We were younger and broke so it was difficult to visit regularly, because of that we decided to video chat with each other every day using a website called ylive! The thing about ylive was that they had both private chat rooms and public chats that one person would host. eventually we started going into the public chats and talking with different people. There was this one guy Chad (real name, fuck Chad) whose chatroom was always popular so we ended up going in there pretty often.
So this goes on for a while and one day my girlfriend calls me and tells me that some friends she has out in the new city are having a beach party and they were staying at a beach house over the weekend, I say "okay have fun" and didn't think much of it because I'm a fairly trusting person. Well that weekend I'm bored and decide to go on ylive and see what is going on and I see that Chad has a private chat room which seems odd, but whatever. I go into a different chat and a guy private messages me and says "hey man, you need to go check out Chad's chatroom". I try to join his room but he denies it, so I decide to make up a fake screen name that sounds female, his dumb ass decides to let me into the chat, and wouldn't you know it, there is my girlfriend in his room. Not his chat room, his physical room, with her arms around him while they are looking at the computer, kissing his neck. I call her, she picks up and I ask what she's doing, she says "about to go swimming in the ocean!" I reply with "have fun with Chad you stupid bitch." And hang up, being able to see her face was priceless as she put her phone down and ran to the computer to turn off the chat.
TLDR; Caught my girlfriend cheating on my on webcam.
Asked to work more hours during the next contract year and was told by my boss we didn't have the money and never would/did. I then said the budget for each of the past 5yrs said otherwise. I got yelled at severely for calling him a liar to his face, but had a 45% raise when I came back the next week. Was the first person apparently in the 6yrs of that guy being around to successfully negotiate a raise.
Moral of the story: Dont lie about the budget when the budget is public record.
I work at a casino. Majority of my time is spent dealing poker . its cfl season. This bitch calls in sick , and on every single tv in the poker room , there she is in the crowed. Moral of the story , dont paint your hair pink .
I worked for one of three companies that shared a common right-of-way. One of the companies had a consultant who proposed a modification to the right-of-way to accommodate a testing structure. The terms of the common ROW agreement meant we all had to agree to the modification. The consultant sent me a message saying that he wanted my approval, that both other parties had agreed to it already, and it was the most optimum location.
The modification would have been a huge pain for us and I couldn't see why either of the other companies wanted it that way. I asked for a meeting on the topic with the other three companies. We met and the consultant made his pitch and that we should all agree now so he could get started with the contracts.
Nobody said anything, until the one company said that he was okay since the other two of us were. I said I hadn't approved it, and in fact it was going to be a pain for us. Then the first company (whom the consultant worked for) said they didn't like the location either, but the consultant had said that it was the only place we others had agreed to.
Consultant was lying to all of us and he was caught. Prime company fired the consultant a few days later, and the test structure was built on their private ROW before it joined ours.
My sister is a compulsive liar. But a couple months back she told me she was driving around with some friends and they got pulled over. Supposedly from what she said was that cop searched the car and found an ounce of marijuana. She boasted to me about how she ratted her friend out and that she got arrested. That next week she was posting pictured with said friend on facebook.
Suspected an (ex) gf was cheating on me with a co-worker. She assured me nothing was going on. She failed to pick me up one night, so on a whim, I called said co-worker house and asked to speak to her. Guess who got on the phone. Her shit was packed the next day.
Edit: I ended up walking home.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at Dominos and sometimes I'll get a call from a customer saying this/that is wrong with their order so naturally I have to investigate it to see what I can do.
When someone phones up we can see in store comments the staff might make about a customer - it's usually to say they are owed This or that amount.
This one customer phones in and starts complaining that they supposedly had a hair in their pizza - immediately I know this is sketch because we have to wear hair nets but as soon as I pull up the customer's info it's filled with comments like "she's a lying bitch always asking for free stuff".
Turns out she says it every-single time she gets an order.
Ex casino croupier seen lots of bull but thus ones my favourite.
Tl;Dr I speak Thai and called someone out who claimed to speak it.
Sent onto a roulette table, large group of people having a nice drink up will whilst gambling. Listening in whilst dealing the game ( Got to get involved to make some tips) about this ladies amazing travels around Asia. She bangs on about how she loved to get involved with locals and how she loved their languages and cultures. Asked her myself did she go Thailand ? She replies yeah and goes on about how it's amazing and she is going back soon.
I told her " that's amazing can you speak it?" Her mates all pipe up "Yeah she speaks it REALLY well!!" "Oh wow that's cool I could have taught you some but maybe you can teach me?" I asked.
Now the whole table is intrigued and focus on us whilst I continue taking bets and dealing.
I said, (in Thai) to her "how spicy do you like your food?" She calmly sneers at me and responds "That's not Thai your speaking".
I'm initially dumbstruck ( I have been at this point with a Thai gf for three years and she is heavily pregnant with our daughter and in my house with my stepson) whole table looks at me like I'm the stupid one!!
Taken aback I ask her in Thai " do you speak Thai?" She just sneers more and shrugs to her mates and then I change tactics ignoring their chuckles.
I ask her to teach me how to say "how are you?".
She says makes some bullshit Thai like phonetics that are completely incoherent rabble.
I look her dead in the eyes and said "That's not right" it's.....
All the table has gone frosty now.. annoyed at me ... as their precious mate is in the right with the exception of one guy at the back eyes wide grinning at me for more.
Ah hah! Perfect timing ! Mr dao makes his way over to me to say hi ( local Thai restaurant owner).
I wasn't supposed to speak to much other languages whilst dealing ( security risk) but it's going to be worth it.
I go full fucking Thai town on him doing my wai chatting for a good two minutes glancing over at this ignorant girls increasing horror and her "freinds" sniggering increasingly exacerbating me. Then I tell mr Dao she can speak Thai also..( in Thai)!!!
He turns to her but she has made a move to the loo ( she must have read my signs). This one guy out of her group grins at me says "told you all she was full of shit" necks his pint and disappears also. Next forty minutes was dead silence with the occasional "sorry" from her group and didn't see her again that night!!
Bloke later gave me a tip for " making his night and calling that stupid twat out"
my friend said his dad drove a r34 gtr and I showed him a picture of an rx7 on my phone and asked if it looked like that and he said the google image of a mazda rx7 was his dads exact r34. lol
I had this one Spanish teacher throughout all of middle school, I hated her with a passion. She was always smug about everything and acted as if she was the smartest person in the whole world, kept bragging about her qualifications.
I switched to another school after middle school, that year it was discovered that her college diploma was fake.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I spent twelve years in the RAF and most of those were working to support the Nimrod aircraft at RAF Kinloss in Scotland.
September 2006 and a Nimrod with a full crew is lost over Afghanistan. Saw the faces in the papers and a few were familiar. A few weeks after it went down I had got back from my offshore trip, I work on the rigs, and I am in the pub and there is a holidaymaker making out that he was an ex Nimrod pilot and he knew some of the guys etc etc. I asked him when he was at RAF Kinloss as I used to be based there. He is very vague and my Walter Mitty radar starts pinging. I ask him some questions any Nimrod pilot would know and its clear he is lying. Any Nimrod aircrew guy would know what D609 and D807 meant, what the max fuel load was and what Honkers Stew contained etc etc. He tries to lie his way out of it but gets so flustered that he admits he made it up. Turns out he was a trainee pilot in the RAF in his youth but flunked out of training.
He was invited to leave and informed the only reason I hadn't already punched him was because I would not have been able to stop. An ex Royal Marine behind him felt otherwise and physically ejected him from the bar.
I don't understand grief whores who do this, its utterly sick.
sweflo · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a cousin thary to this day (we're in our early 40s now) will brag and make up things he says he has done, but especially skills he have. When we were pre-teen he was going on about how he was pretty much a Judo prodigy, and how he was sooo good at badminton. I was really fed up about all this bragging, which I was fairly sure always were lies. This particular time I had a great opportunity to nail him at least one of his brags, I had the past few months gotten into badminton and was very familiar with all the lingo. So I asked him "Badminton, huh? You any good?" Oh yeah, he was competing left and right. I was like "Me too!" (He started to sweat a bit). Then I went in to invent all kinds of made up badminton rules and terms, and he just kept agreeing with me that he knew all about that. After a half hour or so of this I looked him in the eye and called him out on it. He just melted away a bit... I then asked his sister about his Martial Arts skills and she was a bit confused first, then she told me he had gone to check out the training ONCE but he was too intimidated to actually try it. And to this day he STILL keeps this shit up, but most everyone in the family takes it all with a grain of salt and roll our eyes at him. Except his mom, and in her eyes be is like the most awesome guy in the universe, and I guess that is how ours suppose to be. :-) He is married now with kids, and it's amazing how extraordinary his kids are at everything. According to him, that is... ;-)
Worked as a District Attorney and was doing traffic court. Pretty much where people come in with their traffic tickets and we try to offer them deals so they don't clog up courtrooms with speeding tickets. One lady had come in and had 4 tickets and there was an accident where she was at fault (per the police report). Swore it wasn't her and that it was a mistake. Previous co-worker bought it, but told her to come back so we could get the reports and body cam. When she came back I pulled her file, she still swore that it wasn't her, but this time her story was more in depth. Pulled up the body came, and guess who's the driver? The person sitting right in front of me.
I was pissed she thought she was going to get away with it, so I didn't show her the video, told her we believed it was her and would be moving forward on that basis, and set her for a trial. On the issue of identification. Not smart.
Not me, but my friend suspected that somebody was talking behind his back, so when he was in a party on ps4 with him, he said he’s getting food and muted his mic and listened. After a few minutes, the ex-friend started to talk behind his back. He then unmuted his mic and called him out on it.
I had housemates who I got along with well, but they were quite bad for nicking stuff.
I had a pair of brand new, relatively expensive earphones. I left them on the coffee table under my workbooks when I’d gone to stay at my girlfriends, I knew exactly where I’d put them.
Upon returning the following day, I pulled out my book and instead were a pair of cheap shitty headphones. Only my housemates had actually been in the house. I confront them; they’re like, oh no! I haven’t seen them!
I leave the room to get a drink. I come back the earphones have been hastily stuffed in my backpack. That was quite satisfying.
Quality manager at a manufacturing plant asked me to do something not part of my work instructions to try and fix a product. I knew what the problem was (the part was out of spec but she accepted the parts as being ok). She was adamant her fix would work. I did it on one but not the other. Told her A was one that I did it to and B was one I hadn’t. I had in fact not done anything to A and had done what she asked to B. She claimed A was so much better then B. She did not like when I told her it was actually the other way around and if she had done her job right at the beginning she wouldn’t look as dumb as she does right now. She quit two weeks later.
I didn't get to do the catching, but satisfying nonetheless. SO had a friend that I never really got on with & caused a lot of arguments (typical 'bro' type, with zero respect for my existence). I always felt it was a really strange friendship & that this kid was not a 'true' friend.
One morning SO gets a call from his bank's fraud department - "Sir, have you taken 3 Uber rides this morning?" "No... I haven't used Uber in ages." The girl just goes "Uh oh" and starts rattling off charges from Uber and UberEats. It totaled to around $800 over the last couple months. (SO is historically awful about bleeding money & not checking his transactions, so he just thought he was spending a lot). She asks if he's given his card to anyone ever and it dawns on him that he had let the friend borrow it to call an Uber.
He asks the friend who maintains that he hasn't used it, but I get the impression he knew the jig was up. SO finally says "Hey man, check your Uber account, maybe you just forgot to switch cards." Lo and behold, there's his card number.
Of course, more lies about that he didn't realize it. Then he started lying about paying it back. "When I get paid on Friday." "I'm coming over tonight with $100". "I'll bring $200 to work tomorrow". Etc. To this day, he's paid back $50 of it.
I was immensely satisfied that this kid had finally done something that proved how sketchy he was, without a doubt, and that I'd likely be rid of him. SO was satisfied a little bit, as we recently had had a conversation about his poor money management and he'd been consciously trying to do better - he WAS doing better, he was just being stolen from. OTOH, it was really sad to watch him come to terms with his friend's true colors.
Not quite the same as catching them in the lie, but worth sharing the story.
In college, my cousin comes down from his school for a drunken weekend. We go out with a few friends and acquintenances to a frat party that was trying to rush my new buddy and I. Well, cousin's peacoat comes up missing after a drunken night, and he's sure of where he'd left it. I ask the acquintenances (fellow rushees) and they say they hadn't seen the coat. Fast forward a few weeks and we get a knock on the door. "Taylor stole your cousin"s jacket. It's in his closet." Feeling pissed, but suspicious, I ask my buddy to come with me to their room. Taylor and other dude (Ryan?) start fighting like hell and one stabbed the other with something (want to say scissors, but I don't think that's right) at some point. I don't remember, I'll ask my buddy tonight. Did get the jacket while they fought and avoided the hell out of them from then on.
Had a lazy fucker work for me awhile back- I pulled out some prep tables to sweep under them and found a mess- including a to-go order slip dated for the night before.
I ask this lazy fuck if he swept under the prep tables last night because I knew he closed:
"Oh yeah, totally bro"
"So why did I find a slip from last night under their on a pile of food debris?"
"Oops."
idnyy · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My close friend isnt a bad person, but tends to lie a lot but it's almost like a condition in a way. But anyway, my parents both work for the state, and specifically my mother works for child support services or in that area. My friend, a few years back, was talking to my parents during a visit and claimed how he got a starting job as a manager for a department in the state.
Well my mother hardly ever believes him, so she asked "where?" Since he mentioned the state and she could look it up easily, he said "xxx" department I dont recall, but basically it was the department that managed her job or somthing like next department over; so essenchaly she knew he was lying instantly. My mother started to smugly pressure him on some questions and his answers were kinda shaky at best and ended the convo quickly by trying to talk to me and my pets as a semi distraction and then quickly left. My parents cracked up so hard and knew he was BSing from the start once he said "manager" but the fact that he happend to name the one they worked at as a connecting department so she knew, just, made it icing on the cake.
Bonus lie with same guy:
Used to "rent" from us and stay in our house for over 2 years in college, claiming his father would pay rent even tho we didnt require it, but wanted some help around the house as we were both Eagle Scouts. TL;DR eventually the father "paid rent" since he stayed longer than expected, giving us maybe 3 months of rent which gave us roughly a few hundred to make up for the 2+ years he stayed. Since he was with us for so long and then leaving shortly after claiming they paid rent and helped around the house every month...which once again was a blatant lie we as a family could all see.
TL;DR: Good friend, but him and his father tend to lie a lot. Unsure as to why, but it's always funny.
Girl at my high school lied about getting into UCLA and UC Berkeley before the acceptances were even out. She didn’t apply early and she stuck with her story despite the mistake.
I’m a hair dresser now but when I was still assisting my boss hired another assistant. She was moving up fast and I was a little jealous being as I had worked there longer. She was always bragging about being allowed to do haircuts and blowouts knowing that all I wanted was to do hair. She told my boss she had her temporary license and was going for her full license but she kept failing the test. One day she was talking about how she’s been doing hair for two years now without a full license just her temp. I’m not sure about other states but in new York a temporary cosmetology license is good for 6 months and can only be renewed once after that for another 6 months. I told my good friend who is a stylist that I think she was lying about having her temp because if she has been working for two years it’s been expired for a whole year. If you do hair without a license it’s illegal. If she were to get caught my salon would face a huge fine. I never told the boss until she got fired for something else but it gave me peace of mind that she was only getting by by lying.
TL;DR: In an attempt at one-upmanship, an acquaintance invented a V8 Hemi go-kart which needed to be triple clutched to shift. Immediately got defensive once he realized he was figured out. Haven't talked to him since.
My friend brought over his friend to hang out with us back in like the 8th grade, my first time meeting the friend I had him figured out. We got on the topic of go-karts because my grandfather built us grandkids one to cruise around on (it went maybe 20 km/hr nothing crazy). But anyhow my grandfather was a truck driver and I spent lots of time around trucks, my grandfather and his trucker buddies, and knew all of the jargon.
Here's the lie, the friend starts telling me about how his cousins had coincidentally also built a go-kart over the winter and had mounted a V8 Hemi engine to it (in my mind it was plausible if it were more of a dune buggy type thing) but what gave him away was when I asked him about what they did for a transmission, since my grandfathers go-kart only had 1 gear, there was just the clutch pedal and only 1 speed. Well he starts explaining how this transmission was custom built, so strong that they had to "triple clutch" to shift.
Well as many of you have already figured this out, this kid was a total bullshitter, as I began to explain to him what double clutching was i could see it in his face, he immediately became defensive saying that I didn't know what I was talking about and that him and my friend shouldn't hang out with me because I'm too confrontational and was trying to make him look like an idiot on purpose etc. Like he seriously went off on at least 10 different excuses as to why I created this scenario to make him look bad... Yea I never seen him since that day, my buddy still hangs around with him to this day (has it been 16 years?).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a (not so great) friend who ended up getting spun out, so I started parting ways with her slowly.
She started with small lies and I didn’t mind much, but one day I SAW her nab a pair of handcuffs from my room. They were just decorative but I called her out right then and she said “I don’t know what you’re talking about” so I let it go.
I went to hang out at her place and left my hat on her couch and came back one minute later to get it. Favorite hat, wore it ALWAYS and everyone knew it.
She said “it’s not here” and I insisted like, “dude, it was literally just here on your couch”. “Ummm nope I don’t think so, maybe check your bag or something” ( her acting all sweet). Since I couldn’t get her to confess I left, pissed off inside.
For days after I kept calling and asking about it and she said “nope, not here”. I went to hang a couple weeks later and went to use her bathroom. There it was! Sitting on the floor of her closet door, just barely visible. I said “dude!! You’ve had my hat! I knew it!” She played dumb and tried to make it seem like I was crazy.
Messed up thing, when I went to help her do yard work (for free) at her moms house, I told her I took a roll of TP for my place cuz her mom had a zillion and I was completely broke. (I pictured it as fair trade for the work and was outright honest about it).
She yelled at me when we got in her car saying “you stole from my mom?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!”
Don’t trust friends who do blow.
Edit: oh that wasn’t satisfying at all, I guess I just needed to vent to someone about that.
Politically involved. Be warned. Had a recent discussion with a friend about gun control, and he doesn't keep up with current events too often. He said that there weren't any mass shootings in Texas and I easily proved him wrong.
I had a friend in my first couple of years of high school who me and some of my other friends realised was a pathological liar. He would lie about anything for no reason at all. One time he was telling us that he worked for IGN (because IGN totally hires people with 0 experience who live in New Zealand) and that they had sent him a review copy of Batman: Arkham Knight. We usually didn't call him out on his lying, just ignored it, but one of my other friends called him out and he begun to get so angry and flustered. He obviously knew he was lying and it was hilarious to watch him try and save himself.
My girlfriend worked as a cashier and was checking out a veteran who was eligible for a military discount. Another employee passing by overheard the transaction and asked what war he was in. He said it was the Vietnam war. The coworker launched into a detailed account of his uncle's experience in the war that was word for word the speech the boat captain gave in Jaws, including the sharks picking off the soldiers stranded in the water, just short of "their eyes were black, like dolls' eyes." The veteran did not indicate that he recognized it as obviously fictitious but my girlfriend almost lost her shit listening to such an obvious lie.
She was always talking about her neighbor that she had a crush on and always would visit. One day when I was at her house I said that I wanted to meet him. She said I couldn’t because no one else knew about him and she didn’t want people seeing us walk to his house or something. From then on anytime we were outside at dark she would point to a random person and tell me that was him. So finally I decide to google him turns out she was pretending to be friends with a famous actor who lived in the other side of the world. I confronted her about it and she just stared at me then walked away.
When GTAV first came out a friend of mine at school the weekend after told me and my friend group about beating it over the weekend. But then I pulled up the progress bar on my stats menu and seen friends progress alongside mine and it had shown he was in the same spot as me.
I have no idea why he lied about beating the game but I caught him
My best friend has a serious issue with lying. I don't know what it is. He's done it since we were way young and now into adulthood. When we were in our early 20s, we shared a pretty wide network of mutual friends. I've maintained that network of mutual friends over time, but he has summarily ruined those friendships as a result of his lying.
A few years ago, he went through an especially bad lying spat that I can't explain. He would lie about simple to serious stuff. In terms of simple, "I can't hang out tonight, I'm going to a concert." I drive by his house on my way home from work because I live down the street and sure as shit, his lights are on, his car is there. Next day, "The concert was incredible, man. You should've come."
A more complex ruse was him telling everyone he had finally enrolled in school and was almost done. His mom even mentioning to me how proud she was. I, however, was really skeptical. Why wouldn't I be? He worked odd hours and often worked overtime, so I couldn't figure out how he was managing both schedules while I worked part-time and could barely manage that while finishing my undergrad.
Incidentally, the school he chose to say he was finishing his degree at was also one I worked at. I frequently needed to, as part of my job, look through student records. Well, one day when I was especially frustrated with him lying about literally everything, I decided to look him up in our student database (full disclosure, I don't know if this was a FERPA violation). I wanted so badly for this relatively large lie to be true, it would show me he wasn't a complete compulsive liar, maybe just a storyteller from time to time.
I searched his name and DOB. Nothing. So I search just name. Plenty with his name but none with his DOB. I tried other permutations using his middle initial or even +/- 1 day off the DOB, first initial full last, etc. Nothing.
What this means is he never even submitted an application to the school, let alone enrolled in any classes. In either case, we'd have his information. The next week, I asked how his classes were going. Conveniently, he had dropped out because he had received a "promotion" at work. Sure, buddy.
A couple years later, in an instance of him thinking my memory was short, he created another lie that confounded the promotion lie. He had never received a promotion, the one that caused him to drop out of a school he never so much as applied at. We don't talk much anymore because of this.
As time went on, I began to value his place and contributions to my life less and less. Advice and comfort from friends is only as good as its source, especially if that advice or comfort is grounded in experience. But with a compulsive liar like this, you can never truly know where from or why they're offering the advice they do. When he and I talk now, it's usually very one-sided with him subtly explaining how I need to get my life together, learn this, learn that. Trouble is, I have a master's degree, am a career professional, and my shit is together. He and his girlfriend are living rent free with his parents. He's been unemployed for almost a year, not seriously looking for anything either. His current lie is that he's pursuing some professional certification but it's been a year and at last check, he still hasn't even began.
I think the lying behavior is actually beginning to catch up to him.
Never anymore, my boss makes up a new lie by the minute.
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When I worked retail, there was a customer who would purposely come in when we were about to close, grab a bunch of stuff that were the same brand as a coupon she had, and then would claim every item was marked cheaper on the shelf and would demand the coupon be honored for the wrong item. Usually the cashiers would make the price changes just to gtfo for the night, but she came through my lane and I worked past closing anyway. I called a price check on every single item (some 20 items), and checked her out 30 minutes past closing. Every single price challenge was a lie, almost every coupon was for a different item or couldnt be doubled, and it was so satisfying to watch her frustration that I didn't just cave.
She didn't buy the majority of the items, and she stopped coming into our store after that. This kind of thing is super common in retail, but this woman took our store for a lot of money over the course of a few months.
Friend announces she brought us a bottle of some alcohol from Germany. I asked her why the bottled had a sticker only found on items comercially imported and then resold locally in retail stores. This sticker is not used for incoming personal imports at airports. She did not recover well from it. Oops.
This is going to get totally buried, but here we go. One of my friends in high school was a pathological liar. One particular lie that she made up was that she had a long lost brother who was in a British band she liked. She actually made it sound plausible. We both went to their concert when they came through town and waited after the show to meet him. She doesn't want to say anything, but pressured her to go talk to him. He has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. It was kind of cringey. Even after that she still maintained that they now talk all the time and have a real connection now. Yet she could never introduce any of her friends because he was in a different time zone and it was always inconvenient. We drifted apart after that because the lies just kept getting bigger and I couldn't play along anymore.
Once had to do a road trip for work with my own vehicle, Canberra to Sydney, then about 5 trips between a hotel and training centre, then back to Canberra.
As it was my own vehicle, rather than claiming petrol etc, I could just claim a standard rate per kilometre. So I wrote down how many KMs I did, put in the claim, and the boss came down like a ton of bricks, telling me that I was lying and he 'knows how far it should have been' and came up with some figure literally less than 100km than I had written down - maybe a $60 difference in the claim.
I was sure that I'd been meticulous with writing down all of my KMs, so I had a brainwave and logged into Google Maps, and punched in each and every destination one by one. My calculation was exactly what Google Maps estimated.
Printed it out, took it to his office and left it on his desk. Payment went through and it was never discussed again.
My childhood best friend catfished me when I was 14. She said "I know this boy who youd totally like" and gave me his number (one of those texting apps that gives you a new number). She was texting me as this person for a few days before I realized that this person had all of my friend's texting mannerisms (like always using "cuz" not because, "...." to end every sentence, and other things). I finally figured it out when I asked if we could meet up and he/she made up a bunch of excuses.
After that, I said "you know you text exactly like Friend does. Pretty weird huh?" And never got another reply.
When we were younger my friends and I just went to our first comic con. All of us had to leave early that left one friend being there alone with his dad.
At a Boy Scouts meeting we were talking about it and my friend that stayed after told a story that went like this “oh dude when this guys left I was walking the floor and there was this little boy crying and a Wonder Woman and flash cosplayer helped him find his dad”
Halfway through that story I realized that he ripped this story straight from a post that I saw on iFunny (leave me alone I was like 12) and once he was done I said “that’s crazy dude cause that sounds just like this post I reposted on iFunny” and he got red as a fire truck. I still bring it up and rag him on it
When I confronted my (ex) wife about cheating. We married too fast and too young, and then I took off for Iraq, and that's always a great combination. The first lie was that she faked a rape report to cover for a potential pregnancy. She didn't expect that the Marines or my friends at home would take it do seriously. That like broke down pretty quickly, but, she seemed interested in staying married, and so was I, so I never confronted her.
Years later, she I discovered her cheating again. I was done. I started getting confirmation and information. Then, when I was ready, I, came home from work one night and told her about:
me knowing about her affair
me having read her emails and texts
having called her dad and told him that she was lying about not being able to go on their annual father/daughter vacation, which is the only time he gets to see her. (She told me she was going, but was actually going away with the dude.)
asked for a divorce
It was a pretty liberating feeling.
And it's still satisfying. She got married again less than a year later (not even to the dude she was cheating with.) Her mom didn't even go to the wedding. That was cool. They're now divorced, and that's cool. And now, she's with (not sure if they're married) a dude ~20 years older than her, who's a total weeb and a neckbeard. That's cool, too.
It's petty as fuck, but it makes me feel less shitty about wasting my life since the divorce.
I used to work in tech support and a conversation that started with “it’s not been in any water or anything” almost invariably ended up with me finding water...
Ahh yes! Something I can contribute to! When I was 15 and a freshie in high school, I started dating a sophomore. He was my “first love”. Anyways, the douchebag after a month started becoming mentally and sexually abusive. The final straw for me was after I had a pregnancy scare, and he told me it was my fault and that he wouldn’t be in my life if I was pregnant. After I found out that I was, in fact, not pregnant, I called him over to my house to break things off. The kid had the nerve to tell me that the day prior he was in a lacrosse accident and broke his rib and it was puncturing his heart and there was no way to fix it. He then proceeded to tell me he only had a year left to live and I can’t break up with him because if I did I would be a monster. Well, I knew it was bullshit so I did it anyways. He even went as far to tweet, “If you only had one year left to live, how would you spend it?” After that I never heard from him again (6 years later) until a few months ago. I saw him at a bar in my town and just laughed to myself. He quickly left the bar after noticing me.
When I was in college I had a buddy who everyone knew was a compulsive liar. He was a good guy otherwise and his lies were harmless, mostly just making stories seem cooler than they were typical college braggart stuff. There was one story he kept telling that drove us all nuts. He would start off by saying his Dad used to be a drug smuggler back in the 80's. He said his dad talked about meeting Pablo Escobar and actually witnessing a man being executed shortly after meeting Pablo. He said his dad had spent some time in jail where he met a Colombian who taught him all about cocaine. Apparently he had been in jail for smuggling weed. Well he goes on to say his dad hired airline pilots to smuggle kilos of cocaine across the border in small prop planes and used flight attendants to do the same on commercial flights. He even said his dad stole away a Colombian bride , but was not killed for it because Pablo had his back. If you have not seen the movie or figured it out the movie Blow with Johnny Depp was basically the story he was telling about his dad. So all of us knew he was full of shit and I had a friend come over to hang out and drink one night. He proceeds to get a little tipsy and starts with the story again. Truly believing that we all took the story seriously. We had to hold back laughter for a good 10 minutes while telling this story to my other friend. New friend says at the end, "Isn't that the movie Blow?" We all lost it and he was mortified. Good times
TL;DR, Family story. Dads first girlfriend crashed dads car and used her dads car (same car, different color) to pretend she didn’t crash it
Ok, this is a family story that we tell all the time, my dads first girl friend let’s call he Emma. My dad was 17 and he had just gotten a nice car, have no idea the car all I remember is it was black (that’s important) Emma was going out to go to one of her friends house to pick her up and ran a Red light, completely totaling the car, beyond repair and then replaced my dads car with Emma’s dads car, her dads car was Navy blue and when she brought it home she told my dad that that was a gift and the paint looked better, my dad didn’t have the time to look into the cars color change until like 3 weeks later when the insurance claim came in the mail and that he had to pay for his crashed car.
You can say the relationship ended with a crash. Also my dad returned the blue car and was forced to by a new car.
My friend told me he was banging the ex girlfriend of a mutual friends for advices. Few months later, I'm back to enjoy my sweet sweet holidays and she's texting me, she wants to meet me because I'm ignoring her in our group chat (a pretty large one most of the people I know and a bunch of others are in).
I thought it was a joke at first but she was adamant about it, we setup a meeting at a restaurant with my friend and we text more after that.
She's finally asking to visit me at home. I decide to let her in and it became obvious that she wanted stuff to happen between us. I get my friend benediction first and we make out.
As good old buddies, we're talking about how hot she is and what she's up to when suddenly, we're getting that she's actually playing the "I'm starting to have feelings for you" card and the "hope you're only mine cause I'm only yours". After some investigation, it appeared that she was banging a lot of folks we knew and she played these cards with me too. Oh boi was it fun to cockblock her when we knew everything ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Girl I work with seems to be a compulsive liar. Was out at drinks post-conference. It was myself, her and this other guy. She was boasting about all the languages she's apparently fluent in, like French, German and Russian. I don't speak Russian but I learnt it for a little bit and said the one thing I know how to say confidently which is "vi ponymieta pongliske?" (Apologies for my butchered phonetics) which means "do you speak English?". She just stared at my with a blank face, stuttered a little and continued to keep boasting to the guy about other stuff. I tuned out from there.
Didn't happened to me but someone very close. Girlfriend said she was going with her female friends to a restaurant. She forgot to end the call and he heard his girlfriend tell her friend about meeting a guy at a club. He showed up at the club with friends and an engagement ring. He end up changing phone number because the girl wouldn't stop calling him asking to take her back
I left my hydroflask on a table at work when I worked late one night. Came in the next morning a few hours after everyone else. Couldn't find my hydroflask anywhere, was asking around everywhere. After a few hours said f it, I going to check the cameras, and sure enough one of my coworkers chucked it in the trash.
Texted said coworker "Hey are you sure you havn't seen my hydroflask, I'm pretty sure it was on the table I left" they replied "No, havn't seen it today" I replied "well I just watched you throwing a temper tantrum on video and tossing it in the trash." A few minutes later " I'll buy you a new one "
In 2000 I worked as an Fueler, fueling airplanes. While in the middle of a standard refuel, with me directly underneath a wing (the fuel tanks are in the wings), the wing flaps suddenly came down. Took me by surprise, but I shrugged it off. Usually when the airplane mechanics need to turn on the wing flaps, they would let me know. Turns out the mechanic didn't do the standard walk-around the airplane (like the pilot does), and didn't check for obstructions. Which is why he didn't tell me the wing flaps were coming down. Wing flaps came down into a small tractor, causing quite a bit of damage, I imagine in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mechanic swore up and down he did his walk-around, and let me know. Until they asked him to describe me, the Fueler. When he couldn't describe me, Management knew he was lying.
Sent coworker with 10$ to get banannas.
Came back with 4.99 worth of banannas.
Told him i needed receipt.
He had to go back to get it kuz he dropped it. Etc etc.
Came back and i recorded him telling me he didnt have the extra 5. Then he patted himself down a lot and *discovered the 5. Lol. On video.
I like to put my initials and the date on my oil filters, and on the edges of my car's intake and cabin air filters. It's easy and it gives me an excellent excuse for owning lots of Sharpie markers, even the fancy metallic ones. I also note down every oil change, every filter change and all maintenance generally along with every tank of gas ever in a cheerful little notebook with a glitter cover, because A. yay for sparkly things, and B. if one's going to be treated like an idiot and talked down to anytime one does anything with one's hobby, one might as well have the fun of really rubbing it in.
So far I have caught two dealerships and one quickie-lube place (on account of that killjoy obstetrician banning me from my own car repair for the duration,) trying to claim my car is overdue for maintenance when it is not. The best one was the first dealership, because when the maintenance tech who had been doing recall work attempted the upsell, the salesperson I'd been incidentally chatting to had already been a little startled by how much I knew about the model of car we'd been discussing, plus we had much the same taste in cars, which is always nice.
So when I informed the tech that no, this was not my air filter, because "first of all, this is a [model number] filter and my car takes a [different model number], secondly, I don't use [filter brand], third, it lacks the marking I put onto all my filters, and [Salesperson], would you be a dear and get me your manager, please?" that got to be rather interesting.
Turns out that maintenance tech was deeply hated by the people in sales (serial lunch thief, can you imagine?) and Salesperson was only too delighted to get a manager and corroborate my account of the attempted fraud. I don't buy cars from dealerships generally, but I've sent many a friend to Salesperson specifically, and their new maintenance techs are good people. I know because Salesperson brings me in to gently haze the new ones. He's dating a friend of mine from work and we see one another socially, and the running joke is that if I ever break tradition and buy from a dealership, it'll be when he hires a tech that impresses me. Or if they ever beat my credit union on financing and private-party on price. Someday, perhaps.
At my university’s hearing for my sexual assault case, the guy who did it said that he was “100% sure” I grabbed his arm as he was leaving. When his girlfriend (who he called as a witness) was up for questioning, she said that I hadn’t touched him. I asked her if she was “100% sure” and she said that she was. Because of the way that hearings of this nature work at my university, he was able to hear the question being asked, and hear her response, but was entirely unable to interject once he realized what was happening. The panel knew they were lying and he was ultimately found him guilty, and it was incredibly satisfying to follow up with his girlfriend and let her know that her boyfriend had been 100% sure of the opposite — I’ve never seen someone fumble for words like that.
I was at a party once, we were around the fire pit, and this guy starts retelling the comedy bit Christopher Titus has about him drunkenly trying to jump over a beach fire and falling in, but he started it as “I was at a beach party one time”. I was the only one who knew it was a comedy bit. I told a friend there and he looked it up to confirm. The guy was too young to have actually been there. I didn’t have the heart to call him out on it.
Deployed to Kuwait running convoys into Iraq, had a kid in our platoon lie about nearly everything in his life, he lasted about about two months in that theater before threatening suicide if he had to go on another mission so they flew him stateside. When he was a fort Riley he decided he needed a promotion so he promoted himself from private First Class to corporal and came to the conclusion that he also had earned a combat action badge and an expert infantry badge. Needless to say this was caught almost immediately by the cadre and he was made to write a letter of apology to every service member on post who had earned one of those badges. I found him on Facebook a year or so later and all his pictures are army photos that were taken of different units. I asked him about the photos and he claimed that he got put in an active unit in fort Riley then immediately got deployed to Afghanistan. When i pointed out that I had seen his file when I was doing admin work for our unit he blocked me and I haven’t talked to him since. The very last thing I heard about him was a news report that he had stabbed a marine vet outside of a strip club in Fargo ND. Screw your Brandon you’re he biggest shit bag I’ve ever met!
a friend from primary school was certainly a compulsive liar as a child - the main one I remember is her telling people that she had a rabbit that lived in her back garden
she lived less than a two minute walk away from me and I’d been to her house multiple times. she 100% did not have a rabbit aha
My boss told me that I needed to work faster (data entry), and that because I wasn’t getting enough stuff done, she had to come in on weekends and work on the other work-station to catch up (gesturing to the work station that she was allegedly using on weekends).
I knew for a fact that the monitor at that work-station hadn’t been operational for at least two months. I checked it after her admonishment to see if maybe they had fixed it, and lo, it still didn’t work.
Sorry if this offends anyone but it truly is the most satisfying one for me to date.
Step daughter behaves like her shit dont stink. I've known for a long time that she's a manipulating greedy little cow but until last night it was only my opinion and I wouldn't ask my partner to believe me. We've had a few conversations about her but I dont push it.
Well, last night my SO received a call from a friend asking if he knew his daughter was in the news paper. Unbeknownst to myself or SO, his daughter had used her friends identity to get out of a misdemeanor with police and been caught. She was in the paper for being convicted of identity fraud, lost her license and got a $700 fine.
All while playing that her shit dont stink.
Whilst I feel sorry for my man having to realise his daughters a cunning, manipulating liar, I am glad that it's out in the open.
The worst thing is that she's not sorry for what she did, had the cheek to brag about her friend forgiving her and tried to turn it around onto my partner that he could feel upset at 'your daughter' as she likes to say. I said to message and say that she's been snapped, stop lying and dont try the guilt trip anymore because he doesn't feel guilty.
This bitch is a psychopath. I'm glad his eyes are opening.
An ex-friend of mine, who I knew from the start of high school, was a pathological liar.
Among a variety of maybe-true-probably-not stuff he said, the line we all felt especially suspicious about was that he 'never slept'. He was not an insomniac, nor did he claim to suffer from insomnia, nor was he describing the symptoms of insomnia: he claimed that he never slept, ever, because his brain worked best at night. Of course, most of us knew he was lying, but it's hard to just call someone out on something when he's also surrounded by people who believe him and are prepared to defend what he says.
Then I went to sleep round his house with some other friends on his birthday and we found him asleep on the sofa the following morning. Just one of the many lies he told that he was eventually outed for.
(Also part of the reason why he's an 'ex-friend'. He got annoyed that we kept calling him out on his lies so he stopped talking to us. Still see him around school though.)
I'm a cook at a restaurant, one of the other Cooks kept saying my rice was flavorless. What I ended up doing making 2 batches of rice over 2 days that were identical. One had tumeric and the other didnt. Of course he said my rice was flavorless until he tried the one with tumeric in it. After that no one trusts his opinion anymore. I say he smoked one too many cigarettes and he can't taste so good anymore.
I went into a mechanic at Monro and told him to check the brakes because I thought it was time for the drums to be replaced, and left the car with him. In retrospect maybe that wasn't a wise thing to say up front to an unknown mechanic. He called me later to tell me the drums looked like they'd been replaced in the last 12 months, and I wouldn't need new ones for quite a while. Never figured out how I got new brakes, but that guy's been my mechanic ever since.
An ex-girlfriend from a long time ago told me she and some friends and co-workers were going on a little 3 day weekend trip a state over. I worked with one of the girls boyfriends. The trip was legit with multiple people going and plans made.
One night I was talking to this co-worker and he told me they had to cancel the trip. However, my gf at the time didn't tell me this. Later I asked her how the plans were going to see what she'd say as I suspected some fuckery. She said it was still on and was looking forward to it.
I can't recall what instant messenger she used at the time (this was like 12 years ago). She used my secondary desktop computer to game and chat and all that. I decided to set her messaging app to save all conversations to a shared folder that I could later look at as text files from my primary machine.
Turns out that trip was indeed canceled. She basically reserved that time to go meet some dude for an extended weekend while using the previous trip as a ruse. It took me like 2 minutes to find their scandalous back and forth chats talking about how they couldn't wait to spend the weekend together and what they'd like to do to each other.
I printed up a few of the more explicit and damning exchanges and left it on the table before work the next morning. We lived together and I rolled out about 2 months later after finding a good place to live.
My girlfriend worked in the mall and wasnt feeling well. Her manager had to come in to cover for her, but clearly didn't want to. So her manager pretended to call her son to see if she "needed to go home" because of a turkey in the oven or something. While she was on the phone it started to ring..she didn't even dial a number
Went to the liquor store and was in line behind a guy with a bandage on his head talking about the stitches he got from accidentally closing the bathroom door while his head was in the way...freak accident. What really happened was the guy was drunk and was lying on his front sidewalk bleeding with a baseball bat in his hands. I know that because I'm the one who found him and called 911 to help him a few days prior.
There was this girl at my school who pretended she knew everything. She knew about every artist, every new song, all the indie movies, etc. my friends and I knew she was full of BS so we decided to make up a band from Australia called “The Surfboards” ( a boy band similar to One Direction). One day she was sitting with us and we started talking about the Surfboard’s new album and asked if she heard it yet. She replied “yeah! It’s pretty good!” And we just kept the conversation going, but were all satisfied knowing she was a lying piece of shit. Didn’t have the heart to call her out right then and there though.
I've posted this one before. We had a compulsive liar hired when I worked at a major retail chain. When I say "compulsive liar", I mean "you could ask him how his ice fishing trip was in August, and he'd swear on his life that he caught 20 fish".
So one day, he's chatting it up about how he used to be a millionaire in England (we are in the midwest US), because he was part of a test show that the Osborne's copied (or stole from him as he would put it). So I looked it up online, and shocker, he's full of shit. So I call him out, mainly becuase nobody wants to deal with this kid so they let him lie about every fucking little thing to the point where you can't trust him to do even the simplest of tasks without having to double check it. His eyes get big and he says "well, we pay people thousands of dollars to make sure it doesn't appear on the internet". I told him it'd be impossible to keep every mention of it off the internet, and brought up some BS about how I even checked the dark web, which can't be monitored. His eyes got big, he turned around, and walked away.
So I followed him. "No, you can't just lie about shit like that." He ignored me and kept walking, trying to avoid the situation. I kept following him, I didn't care I was making minimum wage for someone who made literal magnetitudes more than I did. Eventually he told me that maybe he wasn't a millionaire, but he did have money.
A few weeks later he left the job because our AT&T rep had to install a signal booster, because our store was surrounded by hills and we didn't get great reception and he thought the FBI installed it to spy on him. Never saw him again.
So I wish it was more satisfying but I can't really bring it up as it's a superior and my Dept could retaliate.
But I reported a supervisor who isn't actually a supervisor (essentially is still given the power even though it was removed due to poor management) for outing a protected status of mine.
They apologized after HR said something. Claimed they discovered the accidental disclosure (I do believe it was accidental, but it violates federal law and federal law doesn't protect stupid) and felt so bad they told on themselves and just had to apologise from guilt. My coworkers all know about this status and I've told a few about the lie, so they all know this person is sketchy AF
Had one of those yugioh duel disks when i was younger and they would leave these little indents on the back of your cards if you didn’t use cases. a lot of my rare cards started disappearing when my friend came over. so one day i was at his house and found all my cards that had gone missing from my deck. he tried to claim they were all his but he didn’t realize they had the marks on the back and he was also left handed (duel disk only came right handed). so yeah called him out on his bullshit.
My ex-girlfriend. She would tell her controlling girl-bff EVERYTHING that happened in our relationship and often give bad advice. Even if the advice was fine, I would like to have some things in our relationship between us, which I think is a pretty standard desire.
So one day I decide to bring it up. I ask her to stop telling the friend every detail of our lives. She tries to explain that she doesn't, but then reluctantly agrees. I go to the bathroom and while in there I get a text. It was my ex, texting her bff every detail of the conversation she just had with me, only she sent it to me by mistake. That was fun.
Never confronted the guy but I did get a 35 dollar bottle of "moonshine" for free.
So a guy i went to school with(acquaintance at best) worked with me for a brief period, and one day he was talking about this moonshine he made which was 90% abv or something, and was apple pie flavored. Okay, neat. Sounded awesome. He offered me a jar for free.
So after work I go over his house to get the jar. Im in his room and he's talking and I see a jar that looked just like mine but with label on it, a brand Ive seen at the liqour stores. Its obvious mine is just a delabled jar and he didnt make it. I had to question it. I said "hey whats this jar?" and he goes "ohh...my friend had some moonshine and puked it up, so thats whats in there." Looked nothing like puke.
So I go home not knowing what to expect. I taste it and am doing shots of it. I planned on getting trashed in high grade moonshine. It tasted so good, just like apple pie, but I was confused as to why I wasnt drunk as hell after a few shots. Turns out it was only 35% abv instead.
So the next day I see him and ask him "hey how strong did you say that stuff was?" and he goes "uhhh, my friend was helping me make it and he screwed up the batch and it didnt come out as strong"
Okay, buddy. Never brought it up again, guy is a known serial liar. But hey, I got a jar of delicious apple pie moonshine for free.
Though it is sad he paid full price for an item them gave it to me for free as a lie claiming it was his own. Oh well.
I work at a dealership so kind of on the daily. No that dealership across town did not give you 10k off the car, 2 years of oil changes, and a free pro pack while paying 200 a month on a 40k car.
Quite a few years ago my friendship group would regularly talk on MSN before going out and hanging around town.
One weekend a friend of mine came online to brag that he'd just lost his virginity to this girl from another school. He starts going into detail about it, I didn't want or need to know about it so I just closed the window and didn't respond for a while.
A year or so later he started dating a girl we were both friends with and popped back up on MSN to tell me he'd just lost his virginity with our mutual friend. He probably forgot he'd told me a complete lie the year before.
My now ex gf thought it would be a good idea to lie to me about being pregnant "as a prank." I wouldn't have been nearly as mad had she cut it off right there and told me it was a joke. She ended up lying to my face multiple times over the course of 4 hours and giggling with her best friend behind my back. I was pissed so I drove home. As I calmed down I started noticing the plot holes in her story. First off, I wore protection and her excuse was that the condom broke and she stopped taking her BC without telling me. I know this sounds weird but I specifically checked to make sure the condom didn't break so there was plot hole number one. She then berated me for checking the condom so plot hole number 2. Plot hole number 3 was that they couldn't get the pregnancy test to see positive so they drew on it with marker. In hindsight I should have noticed it but I was panicking and not thinking straight. I called her on my way home and told her to take a 2nd pregnancy test in case of a false positive. She lied and said she did without telling me. After calming down and putting the pieces together I called her and gave her an ultimatum. Tell me you were lying or I'm breaking up with you. She stuck to her story and when she lied again I hung up on her. She then proceeded to spam call me both on her and her brother's phone apologizing profusely. I called her up the next day and broke up with her. I'm still great friends with her brother so occasionally I hear stories. Last I heard she committed credit card fraud and her current boyfriend is incredibly disrespectful to her parents and makes her sleep on the floor at his house.
At my job there are a lot of people who are close friends outside of work. This can be hard when you are a 24 hour facility and a group of employees all want to go to Puerto Rico together. But we try to accommodate and offer overtime to fill their shifts.
One of the guys who took the overtime to help out is friends with the group on the trip. The night he had agreed to work extra he called out, saying he was sick. We couldn't find anyone else to come in so we're short staffed. A few hours after the shift I saw pictures on Facebook...of him in Puerto Rico! I was so angry. He had agreed to an overtime shift weeks ago, when someone else could have had the flexibility to take the shift instead of him, then decides to take the trip and not tell anyone until the last minute.
I sent screenshots to my boss. He tried to say that the pictures were not from that day...that they were old. My boss asked him for his flight information to prove it. He then came clean.
A lady comes into our meat market all the time and tells us about her horses.
They were always winning races. Like always.
Seemed like once a month they’d birth a new colt and she’d raise them, then send them down to Florida to race.
We had no reason to believe she was lying.
Until her mom came in with her and we asked how they did this weekend.
“We haven’t raced horses in 20 years.”
Shock and awe folks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Literally any interview with dr Phil about an abusive parent that say that their kids say that the other parent abuses them, then get caught up in their lies
One time I’d thrown a little party with a $7 fee for Chinese food. Simple as that, everyone except one person attended, saying he got caught up with his mom. Fair enough, shit happens. Wasn’t going to return the money because I’d made it explicitly clear before hand to everyone that if you paid and couldn’t make it— sorry. Going towards food.
Few days later, I hear him detailing a story about how he fucked an 8th grader (we were sophomores), and smoked meth for the first time. Next day they kept the smashing going, and that he just knew the next day (the Monday following) he’d need to get high to deal with school. Sure enough, he did.
Turned out to be the same weekend that I had my party, and couldn’t go because he was busy stick his dick in someone younger than him, doing hard drugs.
The following week, he follows me home (he did this nearly everyday. He had a thing for me, but I wasn’t interested and had made this known in a kind way.) and asks for the money back. He starts saying all this stuff about his grandpa being sick (he’d had a lung removed because of cancer or something, so this wasn’t too far fetched if he’d used it to begin with) even though he’d originally blamed it on his mom. He’d wanted it for a pipe he wanted off someone, so that was another reason I wouldn’t give it up if I had the money.
I tell him and point out he’d said his mom wouldn’t let him go, and he tries to stick to his story on his grandpa, but also tried to mesh it in his original story. I got kinda frustrated because he wouldn’t leave me alone about it, so I ask him about the situation with the girl, and so on. He clams up and tries to say it was a few weeks before, but he knew I’d caught on, and eventually gave in and tried to demand it. I went inside and locked my door, and it wasn’t brought up again.
Just an extra: few months later, I had a Christmas party he was invited to because I felt bad, said he couldn’t go, turned out to be with his druggie girlfriend. She broke up with him halfway through our party, pleads to come over. My now boyfriend (at the time major crush) just takes my phone, texts him random shit, and leaves it be. Posts pitiful snaps to his story and asks me if I’m mad at him a bunch of times.
He was just an all around kind of shit guy, a couple months ago after a choir concert, he talks to my boyfriend and when I walk over straight up calls me hot in front of him. My boyfriends a kind of chill and underspoken guy, and he knew this. He just awkwardly laughs and says, “Yeah she is.” facepalm
I was at my first duty station fixing F-15's for the USAF. I wasn't quite super new but also wasn't quite experienced. I had just been tasked to drive a lift truck (basically a fork lift.) Across the flightline to pick up a part in an area I wasn't familiar with. It was about a mile of taxiway down and back. I took the side routes there the first time and then when I got there and couldn't find the location described I went back on the main route along the taxiway in case my shift lead drove by. I find him still at the building sorting stuff out.
So, let's paint a picture of this guy, he's been in the career field for about 15years, has been in charge of our shift for a few months and has already proven less competent than the average newbie. But he is very good at throwing everyone else under the bus, he'd already been caught disobeying orders regarding how late to keep people working. And despite being quite book smart in our job, seemed to have no real world experience with it. He sucked at his job and as a result made the rest of us work harder, so everyone hated him. I'd gotten into it with him a few times but he outranked me by a lot so it's not like I could do much.
Back to the story. So I ask him where I needed to go and turns out I misunderstood his initial instructions. No big deal, he was on his way out there to meet up with me anyways. On the way there the hubcap of my lift truck falls off. Now, there are people whose job it is to make sure these things work. They sign them out to us every day. We inspect them to cover our asses but things get missed. In the short term I screwed up here by not inspecting the lift well enough. I stop, boss comes back asks what is up. I inform him that the 4 screws holding in the hubcap are MIA. I have no idea when they came loose. They could be anywhere along the taxiway I drove down and back. A huge search area sure, but it's not uncommon for something to go missing and the entire flightline needs to be searched. Anything that could possibly get sucked into a jet engine needs to be found. It is rule #1. Arguably the most sacred rule in aircraft maintenance. As I tell my boss this, Jets begin to taxi. Legally speaking, and I mean it's mandated by law his response should have been to pick up the radio, and inform the powers that be, and they would stop the jets, the flightline would be walked, and then the jets could go. It would be shitty, but it's not the end of the world. His response was instead to say "I'm not going to stop launches for a FO search." (FO being foreign objects.) In front of the entire shift. I said "fine, it's on you."
He kept me tasked all night, I reminded him twice about the screws and he kept blowing me off. Finally at the end of the shift I brought it up one final time in the office with again the rest of the shift around watching. He freaked out at me "You didn't look for them!? You should have started a FO search earlier when it happened!" I lost it. I yelled back at him "You told me, clear as day, in front of the entire shift that you were and I quote! 'Not going to stop launches for a FO search.' So, if you want we can take this down to the production superintendent's (my boss's boss.) Office and when this whole thing wraps up we'll see who has more rank!" He looked around at the office filled with people who wanted nothing more than to see him gone, knowing full well they would call his bullshit about him doing something very illegal. And simply said "we'll handle it." And he covered it up with some bullshit. I nearly went to the pro super anyways but our next highest ranking guy pulled me aside and talked me out of it because he was leaving soon anyways and something like that would just keep him in our hair that much longer.
Last I knew he had a desk job that no one really cares about.
get an email from the boss at 930am when i just get to work. she said she couldn't come in cuz she was stuck in houston cuz of bad weather (I live on the East Coast). I reply and say I hope she gets home safe and all that good stuff. i leave work early at like 4:30pm and stop at the grocery store on the way home to get some stuff. guess who i bump into.......
I moved to a relatively quiet and clicky country town some 10 yrs ago with my girlfriend at the time (now wife, yesss) for work.
We lived in a rented town house where the highway entered the suburbs.
One Friday night before midnight, we hear a really strange "bang". We glanced at each other because of its oddness then looked out the upper storey window. A car tyre went speeding past. I slid on my shoes and went out onto the front yard. The road was covered in smoke.
Being from a rougher part of my home town, im used of seeing cars set on fire and expected the same deliberate act as i walked up the road to find a car parked a blaze.
I called the cops and continued up to the car as close as I could. It was less than a minute since the bang but the fire was intense and i could only get 20 metres from the fire due to the heat.
Taking the opportunity to watch a car burn, I kept drinking my beer at the car kept exploding till the cops arrived.
Cops came, i immediately said i was not involved- just watching the spectacle - and they told me to go home.
Monday rolls around and my colleagues are all standing around to talk about the incident on Friday night. The local paper had published an article also.
A colleague turns to me and starts telling me holding the paper how the car contained two drunk youths who hus a pole. the cabin was reduced to 6 inches across. turns out the car i witnessed burning to the ground contained two people in it.
I was quite taken back with thus news and whilst it was settling in, the storey continues with one of her close friends telling the harrowing tale of being first on scene, trying to rescue the occupants and calling the cops.
I retorted with a "bullshit" where I was then promptly handed the paper with the story in it with a glum gentleman standing in front of a wreck, the "witness".
Proceeded to debunk all the story in great detail.
I didnt last long in that town but it did call out a pathological liar everyone had suspected. I am at peace with it though.
In high school, 5 of us sat together at lunch. This one time, weeks before the incident below happened, slightly creepy boy A threw an apple which landed in ketchup and made a huge mess, which caused a big commotion.
One day when I left the table to sit with my then girlfriend. Boy B, a good friend of mine, but also a huge liar to everyone (except me for the most part) came over to the table that my girlfriend and I were at, claiming that boy A threw an apple and landed in someone's ketchup and splattered everywhere. Boy B said to my girlfriend and I "they're all acting like it was me! Go over and they will say I did it, but I swear I didn't". I went over and the 3 other boys all told me it was him.
I worked with and got along well with the IT department, which they all had access to all the security cameras in the district. I asked if I could see the camera footage from work, but they refused.
I always gave Boy B rides home, so the day of the event, I asked him about it again. Then I told him I watched the camera footage from lunch to see if he would change his story, and all he did was laugh. Silence the rest of the way home from him
I had this friend in college who just always had a story about everything. He seemed to have a story for everything. We were all big into gaming and he was always a competitive player in such and such game. Well one day he made the mistake of claiming to be really good at Tekken 3.
23-0. I've never dumpstered anyone so hard at anything in my life. I'm not really honestly even that good at the game. He was just full of shit and refused to give up. I didn't say a word about him lying, I just kept kicking the shit out of him.
Had a roommate in college. Noticed that my ADHD medication supply seemed to be dwindling a little bit. I left my medication in a toiletries bag in my bathroom. He had a shared bathroom with another roommate, and would oddly come in at times to talk and then say he was going to take a shit in my bathroom. But I prepared and counted, let him "shit", then went back in and counted them again. Walked up to him and calmy asked him to give it back, to which he broke down and told me he had an addiction problem and because of his past abuse could not get the medication and felt he had to steal it from me. So then he started talking about going into a good rehab program and disappeared for a week. I asked the girl he was dating what he was doing, and she said he was just in his hometown hanging out with her. After "coming back from therapy" he took trips to the pharmacy and wouldn't say what he was taking and started locking his door every time he left the room. A week later or so, one of my friends said that the guy offered him a pill to help him study. I asked him what it looked like, and Bingo! He totally got himself a prescription for the med after telling me he was blacklisted for it.
My sons mother and I are not together so we have split custody. At the time of this incident his mother and I did not really get along. One day I drop him off and a few hours later I got a call telling me he was complaining about his head hurting and she said his eyes looks off-putting so she took him to the er. Later in the day she tells me he had a concussion and pretty much said it happen on my watch and how dare I not know and continued to tell me what a POS I was. I then called the doctor and was informed he did not have a concussion and said he just had a headache. Confronting her with this new information felt very good.
When I saw the text between him and his ex first. He deleted it because he thought I didn't see it and he didnt want me seeing it. I asked him who texted him earlier today and he was like no one. I was like your such a liar lol i already saw the text dumbo
Several years ago, my buddy and I were in a class together. During down the me we happened to be talking about what to do on the weekend. We decided we were going to find the movies from Home Alone and Home Alone 2 that Kevin watches and uses the audio from. Angels with Filthy Souls and the sequel. The instructor from the class heard us and said he had those movies and he would let us borrow them. We looked them up that night and found out they didn't actually exist. Just made up for Home Alone. We keep bugging him the entire class to borrow them and he kept coming up with excuses why he forgot them or couldn't find them.
I was telling my friend about a game I'd picked up recently, and he told me he'd played it since day one, and had loved it since release. Surprised, and somewhat suspicious, I asked him if he'd hit the level cap, and he said that he had. I asked him how being level 100 was, and he told me it was kind of boring. The game only had a level cap of 30, and he just switched topics when I called him out on it.
I don't know if satisfying is the right word, but someone had a toolkit of mine that I had misplaced on a job-site, (he stole it) and he tried to sell it to a mutual friend, who told me about it. So, I gave the guy a chance to come clean, and said, "Hey Bruce, you ever find that toolkit of mine?"
He said, "No, it must have walked off the job-site."
I said, "That's funny, because Charlie told me you tried to sell it to him yesterday."
He returned it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My family helped out a friend of my brothers last year. She's gotta be a compulsive liar. She would tell my parents, my brother and I wildly different stories, about her mother, her schooling, her counsellor and her social worker, and she'd beg us not to tell one another. We never knew what the fuck was going on. Eventually she moved into student housing and things settled down but she was still lying. My parents were going to let it go; she's just a kid and she's got no support from her family. I just stopped taking anything she said seriously and distanced myself from her.
She confronted me recently and I let her have it. I gave her every instance in which she'd told my family completely different stories. She swore up and down that she'd never lied to me, that she'd never lied to my parents either. Then she started accusing me of spying on my parents and brother, going through their phones and listening to their conversations. I just walked away.
That night she called mum in tears. Told her that I'd attacked her and was throwing wild accusations around and that I'd been hacking their phones. She was worried that I was on drugs and that I was possibly going to kill myself. She told mum to make me see a doctor and begged her not to tell me that she'd called.
Mum calmly explained that we had told each other everything, that we all knew she was lying and that if we couldn't trust her to tell the truth then we couldn't help her anymore. She texted me afterwards and said my mum was having a psychotic break and she was worried my dad was abusing her. -_-
We all cut contact, except my brother because she's sucking his dick now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work for a guy whose stories are always 'the fish was THIS big' and would constantly change depending on who was being told the fib.
One night we were working away and out of the blue he told me it'd be in my best interests to start looking for a new job (I work permanent part time, 4 hours on a night shift as I'm joining the army next year and this jobs pays the bills) because I have no future in the business i currently work in. Told me he'd spokenwoth the big boss and a few others and they agreed with him apparently.
His b.s. story fell apart when I went and talked to the bug boss and the 'others' about this as it put shits up me thinking i was about to lose my job and theyhad no idea wtf I was talking about. Confronted Captain Douche Bag about it after I was damn sure i had all the facts straight and he got all defensive but eventually the truth came out that he made it up to try and get me to leave for reasons he wouldn't tell me about.
Told him if it happened again to me or to any others on my work team I'd take it straight to head office and make sure he couldn't try bully anyone again.
Dylmcf · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents had this thing called a “Green Dot” they convinced us that when we lied they could see a green dot on our foreheads , every time my older brother would lie he would whisper “There’s no such things as monsters” funny now that you think of it
A girl at work would fake her parent's death in a car crash. She was devastated, and, like she was kind of nice to the rest of us, so were we towards her. We were supporting her in whatsoever she might have needed to cope with the fact that her parents are dead. Eventually, more info starts coming out from her, and she's still not over it after 4 months so we're still supporting her emotionally. For some reason, the manager of our company decided to ring her next of kin, who happened to be her mum, as she wasn't changed yet from the system. Surprisingly enough, the lady answered and she was alive and kicking. The girl got fired shortly after
Amirn · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The final lie of my marriage. Wife was cheating since day one. Leave on deployment, ends up cheating again. Me still trying to work through everything kept giving her chance after chance. Coming home to a house that got robbed due to the fact no one was staying there for a month, a dog that lost a leg because she was too busy hanging out with her side dude, and the fact she didn’t even show an ounce of sympathy for anything. It took a while to come to terms, but I can say that final lie/affair was the happiest moment of my life looking back.
I started working out in college and I was a skinny guy. By the third month of lifting weights I was able to bench 60kg (~132 pounds) which isn’t a lot but I was pretty proud of that weight. I met this guy who now I regard as a compulsive liar and we were making typical chit chat. He asks me how much I bench and I tell him. He says he bench 85kgs (~187 pounds), I don’t make much of it other than that he might be stronger.
Cut to a couple weeks later, he’s at the gym benching and he looks like he’s doing 50kgs. I thought he’s warming up so I say I’ll do my warmups then join him. When I start with my usual weight he jumps trying to match it, but he’s struggling to as 10kgs (22 pounds) is a big jump. So I say “want me to lower the weights for ya”. I didn’t make mention of the fact that he said he benched more than me, but it was still satisfying.
I was doing a course part of my job, this guy claimed he was the creator of "lucky patcher"
I asked him a few basic questions that anyone familiar with the app should of been able to answer fairly easily: can you and how to patch google play; is it better to root phone or not; how to turn on or off various options; I even wrote the author name and he didn't even click.
The guy didn't have a clue but was still adamant he was the author.
Turns out no matter what the guy said (about anything) it was a lie.
I took the piss out of him the whole 6 weeks I was on the course and he didn't click.
He was a pure prick.
The factory I work for doesn't follow safety rules at all. One day some safety people came in looking at the machines only. One co-worker came over and told us another co-worker got busted for not wearing safety glasses. A few minutes later, I walk over to the guy that "got busted" and said "So I hear they caught you without safety glasses." He said no that's a lie. Then the co-worker who told the lie came over and told me out right that he didn't say the other guy got busted at all. So in front of like 3 people I busted him for his lie. I told him "Yes you did say that. I was standing over there and you told me directly."
One of our Linux servers rebooted unexpectedly when our windows guy was at the data center. Looked through the logs and saw the usb keyboard was inserted and then alt-ctrl-del was pressed. He obviously plugged the keyboard into the wrong server and tried to login.
Asked him about it and he swore up and down he didn’t do anything. Showed him the logs, and he was dumbfounded. He didn’t work there very long.
Ex-roommate caused a lot of problems for me and another roommate at the time. We had met her freshman year of college (the "bad" roommate was my dorm roommate and the "good" roommate was friends to both of us). Over time we noticed how sly and manipulative she was turning out to be. It started with little things like asking the same favors every day or telling a story and pretending to forget the correct details when someone corrected her. For the second year of college we moved into an apartment together (which I now realize was a mistake). "Good" roommate and I noticed more annoyances; for instance the thermostat would be on full blast when we would return from class, her room was full of old rotting food and dirty clothes, and we eventually realized that she was a manipulative, compulsive liar. Long story short, I return from a hometown visit to see "good" roommate seething, standing next to the fridge. She had caught "bad" roommate drinking straight from my milk container, eating "good" roommate's cookies, and a few other food items missing. "Good" roommate had marked her coffee creamer's bottle with a marker to track the amount inside, didn't use it for a couple days, and notice the creamer levels had fallen. We presented the evidence to her, she got really upset, moved out at the end of the lease, and we have stayed away from her since. I had a lot of headaches those couple of years.
TLDR: Bad roommate annoyed the crap out of me and good roommate, eventually we caught her stealing our food and haven't spoken to her since her awaited move-out.
My girlfriend/catfish wanted to write a children's book. As she "wrote" them, she'd email me the chapters. One day, I decided, on a whim, to google the names of some of the characters. It turns out that somebody else wrote the book, and it was published. I didn't tell my girlfriend/catfish that I knew she was lying. Instead, I ordered the book on Amazon and mailed it to her.
Shitty friend owed me money and said he didn't have anything on him. My puppy jumped on him and $20 fell out of his pocket. Told him to walk home and that was the last time I ever hung out with him. I loved that damn dog.
It was summer and my brother and I have identical desk fans, however I went to turn mine on for the first time that summer it didn’t work, thinking it’s a bit odd as it worked fine last summer I do a classic swap-aroo with my brothers fan. An hour later or so my brother goes to use his, finding it doesn’t work he immediately comes to my room and accuses me rightly of swapping the fans. However, his accusations were enough to tell me he made the accusation as he was in the knowledge that one didn’t work before he turned his on. Thus confirmation in my mind he had already swapped them, on presenting this to him ‘how do you know I swapped them, you’d only know that if you knew one was broke, and you wouldn’t know that about mine unless it was in-fact yours’. He then walked off and said nothing more about it.
Not me and I don't remember the whole story, but it went something like this:
- A bunch of friends watching a movie in a room
- Roommate gets a text/phone call
- Says he has to go because I just called (didn't realize I was in the room)
- Everyone else knew I was there and he got called out for it
Every week, me and the guys would gather for a WWE2K tournament that we called Mania. After two weeks or so of The Rock being reigning champ, I noticed that Randy Orton's overall rating was seemingly higher, now better than The Rock. So, I did my research and plotted to take him on and humiliate him the next week. I let my other friends in on it beforehand, but the tournament came down to our fateful match. I don't recall the details of it, but I kicked his ass, he got pissed. I revealed how we knew about his cheating and I've never seen him redder than that. All of us had a good laugh at his shitty behavior, right there in his own home. I don't think there has been a Mania since then.
Cross-examining cops. I can't identify a single time that was the most satisfying because it happens so often, but once you get it out there, you feel like going out, buying a football, coming back in, and spiking it on the floor in front of the jury box.
My son is autistic. My MIL claimed that she knew so much about autism, always telling me how to do this or do that when taking care of him. My neighbor was a good friend and had a nephew that had the same diagnosis, so she talked to me about him a lot. One night, my MIL came to spend the night at our house as she did a couple of times a month to see the grandkids. She had come over and we went to the neighbors house to hang out. We were all sitting around talking about the nephew of hers and the funny stuff he did, the cute stuff. I went to the bathroom, and I heard them talking about how the nephew had decided to try to wake her up in the morning several years ago by screaming in her face while she was completely asleep, because he didn't understand how else to wake her up. They went on to another subject, and I came back, and we finished the night, went to bed. The next morning, my son is sitting in the guest bedroom with the MIL and i walked in and started talking. She proceeded to tell a story about how my son had woken her up by screaming in her face that morning and how funny it was. She didn't realize I could hear her in the bathroom.
druj85 · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
8th grade. Buddy trying to be cool says he's so wasted. We point out to him that O'doul's is non-alcoholic
There was a lunch thief at work, and this one bitch insisted that it wasn't her. One morning, I vigorously shook my soda before putting my lunch in the fridge. Around noon, I went into the break room, only to find her drenched in Diet Coke. Truly amazing.
I was dating a guy who was madly insecure because he would frequently add random attractive girls on Instagram and like their pictures and message them. This happened before we were officially a couple so I let it slide and never mentioned it.
While we were dating I made an extra instagram account for my side business but never used it much. He had totally forgotten I was following him and since he was the only one that account followed, it was very easy to track his activity.
I eventually noticed he would sometimes cover his phone when looking at Instagram. Additional red flags included him freely using my phone to look stuff up, but being overly protective of his own phone if I even glanced at it. I always sensed he was somewhat insecure because he tends to lie about his height by an inch or two (he’s shorter than the average guy but hasn’t come to terms with this). He also talked a big dating game and would show me girls he’s come close to bagging.
It all snowballed when I grew weary of his Napoleon complex—we were constantly fighting anyway. I check his Instagram and notice his flurry of activities trying to get the attention of randoms to stroke his ego dick. I finally confronted him about specific girls by simply asking “Who is Sally?” just to see what his answers would be. He first claimed they were friends from a while back. He would also claim that they started following him and he only followed back to be nice. Obviously I had screenshots to prove otherwise, but after calling him out he couldn’t even defend himself.
I gave him a few more chances but he couldn’t help himself. He was also very addicted to weed—to the point where he was consistently irritable and lethargic—and promised he’d stop but he never did despite his attempt at therapy.
You would think he would learn his lesson on being a terrible liar by now but a day after we broke up, he asked if we could make it work again. Little did he know a mutual friend had already discovered he was already on bumble looking for matches and let me know. I asked him how he could possibly want to get back together when he was already back on bumble—he was a complete deer in headlights and apologized profusely and tried to admit it’s all from insecurity. He said something about how he needs to keep working on himself but I knew it was over for good.
About 9-12 months later after I began dating someone new he reached out to me knowing this. Tells me he’s changed and asks if he can have one last closure conversation. This is insane to me considering I’m now dating someone I respect. I decline and tell him this, and he didn’t like that I wouldn’t even give him a chance to explain his new sense of enlightenment. So he becomes a bit hostile and asks me to at least send pictures we shared together. Coincidentally around this time, I also hear through the grapevine he’s been semi dating a rebound girl while asking me to meet him up. I tell him it wouldn’t be fair to my new guy or his girl to do such a thing and that such a request was crazy disrespectful. Caught once again, he finally leaves me alone.
I would later hear from various sources that he’s back to smoking a shit ton of weed. Funnily enough, one of my girlfriends told me she got catfished into going on a date with him, showed up and he’s considerably shorter than the height he had in his dating profile (she didn’t know he was my ex). After finding out he dated me she proceeds to tell him he fucked up big time. It’s been over 3 years since we’ve dated and justice continues to be served to my ex to the point where I feel sorry for him not being able to break the cycle. He’s a very normal looking guy, socially capable, and can definitely get away with his height given that he’s extremely successful in his career. Oh wait, he was fired for lying about something at work...unfortunately this is the type of guy who’s smart enough to always get a new well paying job in an industry that surrounds himself with the same insecure tools.
Moral of the story, don’t date insecure people. Don’t date someone who can’t give up their addictions with honesty. Follow the red flags. Also, don’t be an insecure person before you get into a relationship. You can have insecurities but if you aren’t at peace with them don’t drag other people into your shitty baggage.
Growing up, we had this "friend"--Jason. He was this guy in our group who... well, we had never really invited him into the group. But, he kept on showing up anyway.
There wasn't much wrong with the guy... he was just... egotistical... and a compulsive liar.
Like, it's important to emphasize here... I'm not just arm chair diagnosing this guy as "compulsive liar".
It took us a good number of years... but we were eventually forced to conclude that "yes" he don't just lie occasionally... or his statements are unreliable...
No. We learned that this motha***** just couldn't restrain himself from spillin' falsehoods in every conversation he participated in.
So.
What do you do?
Well, this is what you do:
One random day, my friend Snack walks into the house where we all lived.
Snack has food in his hands and says, "oh man you guys, I just saw the sweetest Camaro downtown while I was picking up my sandwich... like, white, with orange speed stripes".
"Oh yeah. It's pretty sweet. I've actually driven it once. I know the owner, through work."
"Oh yeah?" Snack says. "Thats pretty cool, what's the purple sticker on the front fender for?"
"Oh! That purple sticker... That's his racing club. That sticker is for when he goes to drag races in Denver..."
"Oh really Jason? The white Camaro... with orange speed stripes... and a purple sticker on the front fender?"
"Yeah"
"oh yeah?"
"yeah, super fast"
"well... I doubt that Jason."
??
Jason just turns his head.
"I DOUBT THAT VERY FUCKING MUCH JASON!... BECAUSE THERE IS NO WHITE CAMARO DOWNTOWN. NO SPEED STRIPES. NO PURPLE STICKER. I MADE IT ALL UP! BUT YOU JUST COULDN'T HELP YOURSELF! ... YOU FUCKING LIAR".
Had a guy I worked with lie about every little thing compulsively
He was only 24 but had been and done so many different things. He’d studied medicine at university and been in the navy for two years. Also been a firefighter for a couple years then studied biology. And that’s the stuff I can remember
He also lied about his job a lot. He’d misplaced a file and everyone was looking for it all morning. When they found the file (on his desk the whole time) he blamed me for putting it there and not telling him except I was in a meeting all day so hadn’t been in the office
I eventually used to enjoy calling him out on his bullshit but everyone else would tell me I was being harsh and he was causing no harm leave him to it. Every time he’d start telling stories about where he’s been and what he’s done I would always press him for details until he said something that proved he was lying or if he stated a fact I knew to be wrong I’d just let him dig further until I proved him wrong.
Anyways the most satisfying time I caught him lying was when we were sat in the office talking about our worst customer experiences. I told them a story about a customer kicking off at me when I worked at McDonald’s (another story for another time)
The very next day I come into the shared kitchen on the floor and he’s telling someone the story I told yesterday as though it happens to him. I walked in made my drink and then said “Was this between your first degree and when you were a firefighter or your second degree and working here?” He just stumbled over his words and walked out
A small thing but very satisfying. Never understand why people insist on lying over stupid things
Teammate in high school had a Hyundai Tiburon that he claimed was awd and a turbo that was pushing 25 pounds of boost. One day I looked under his car and found out it was fwd and not awd. Then I asked him out the turbo and he sent me a picture of the one that had been “taken off”, which I google it and the exact picture came up. Then I knew he was full of shit, never said anything but I know everything else he would say was bullshit too.
Some huge douche guy on a forum (pre-reddit days) was posting how he has a bombass car and an extremely hot girlfriend, included pictures of said car and said girlfriend, who was indeed extremely hot.
One problem, this chick i recognized, because she actually dated my best friend (6'5" Van Wilder motherfucker who could actually pull in extremely attractive women like moths to the candlelight), so i knew that she didnt live ANYWHERE near where this guy lived. Also she was in reality a single mom, who did some amateur modeling, which was where he lifted the pictures online from, he claimed she was some super famous foreign model or something.
So i blasted him for that. And it turns out that the same way I knew he was lying about the girl, some OTHER forum user happened to recognize the pictures of the car...as belonging to HIS friend, whom he got to post proof of life pictures in front of.
Douche eventually got worn down by the constant ripping and deleted his account
Definitely not satisfying, but when I was young (8 or 9) I was saving for a build a bear. I did all of the research on clothes and different types of animals -- I knew exactly how much I needed and how long I would have to save my allowance for. It seemed like every time I checked my stash, there wasn't as much money as there should have been.. so I moved my money around a lot in case one of my friends knew where it was and was skimming.
It took me twice as long to save for that stuffed animal as it should have, but by then I was just so happy to finally have it that I didn't care about anything else. Years later it occurred to me that everytime I moved my savings to a different hiding place in my room, I was so proud of where I hid it that I would show my mother to brag.
Found out later she had been taking money out of my biological dad's wallet for months too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catch my friend in a never ending loop of lies I just kept letting it go on to see how deep they would dig themselves it was pretty damn funny how they reacted when I finally just said shut up
LOL
Ive caught people quite a few times, but one of my favorites is when someone tried to blow me off by saying he got into a car accident and sent me a picture of his bashed up front bumper.
Sonething seemed off about it, so I use image reverse search.
The same exact picture was the first that popped up with a link from a few years ago, as well as a few other websites.
Asshole saved a picture and pretended it was his. He could have just said he didnt want to chill.
Story 1
An ex of mine worked at a childcare centre, and would get up early to catch the bus each day to work. We'd been together about 7-8 months when I was at the shopping centre one day and saw a mutual friend of ours who worked with her.
Grommz - oh hey Jess how's things..
Jess - not bad, how are you guys going, how's Ex going with finding work ?
Grommz - finding work ?
Jess- oh err.. nevermind I shouldn't of said anything
Grommz - no what's happened I have no idea what you're talking about.
Jess - I'm sorry I didn't know, but they fired Ex about 3 months ago. Didn't she tell you ?
So yeah, Ex had lost her job 3 months back, didn't tell me and was still getting up when I'd stay over and going god knows where at 7am in the morning to pretend she was catching the bus.
The satisfaction came the next time I stayed over. I waited until the morning when getting ready for work myself, and just blunty asked her why she was bothering when she had no job to go to anyway. Jess told me everything.
Story 2
So I was young, and having a great time with a slightly more mature women. Me mid 20s, her mid 30s. She'd told alot of mutual friends she'd had a very hard life, ex husband that beat her up, she'd lost babies and all sorts of horrible stories you just don't really don't tell tails about when enough people live those out for real.
Anyway her big fish was that she had survived ovarian cancer, which had spread pretty badly over the course of her treatment so she'd had to have a full hysterectomy. Me being young stupid me.. ok it sounds horrible, but we still went at it like rabbits. Things eventually ran its course and we didn't see each other so much.
I hadn't spoken to her for about 2-3 weeks when I got a message saying she was in hospital feeling really sick and was scared she was pregnant. I did my best to seem "concerned" but also was careful not to feed her attention crave. She basically begged me to go help her and said how we were going to have a baby, how could I leave her in this situation. She even sent me a photo of some generic hospital name tag to try prove she was there.
Even after I called her out on how completely impossible it was to get pregnant with her past she just played it off as a form of "meant to be miracle".
Tl;dr. Older woman couldn't have kids but apparently I have magical cancer curing jizz and she got pregnant.
A friend of mine was living with me for a few months last year. At the time i was prescribed ambien XR and I had a few spare regular ambien pills left from a previous prescription. While getting ready for bed he asked me if I wanted him to get my medicine for me.
Hm. “No thanks I’ll get it after I wash my face”
So I go to wash my face and do my other nightly routines things. I come back out and tell him I’m going to bed. He goes to his room for bed as well.
I then go to take my XR for the night and realize there are four missing. I ask checked my regular bottle and low and behold three were missing.
I go to his room and calmly ask him if he took some of my ambien. He was also prescribed and usually ran out early because he would pop five to eight of them claiming they don’t work any more.
He said “no I swear I didn’t touch your ambien. You know I’m all about honesty”
I then proceed to show him the numbers on the bottom of the bottles I wrote the previous day to keep track of how many I had left. (I had some go missing the week before so i stared keeping track)
I can’t imagine how embarrassed he felt. Dude had a drug problem.
I was the manager of a Subway restaurant and my best worker called in and said he was in the hospital with a cracked vertebrae from falling in the shower. The guy was a good friend, an excellent worker and I was genuinely worried about him, so I told him not to worry about it because I would cover his shift if I couldn’t find someone else to do it. Now, his was a closing shift and I had been there since 6:30am, and the closer doesn’t leave until around midnight, but I was willing to work for him. I also had plans to go to a local music festival with my girlfriend and meet up with my dad and uncles who were in from out of state, but I AHS to work Blake’s shift.
My girlfriend saw him at the music festival. I was more angry at him because I had been worried that he might be paralyzed. Fuck You, Blake!
Second. I worked at a pizza place with a blowhard pathological liar. He would come in with fake bandages on him because of the “bar fights” he got into every once in a while, or his “MMA training got super rough” or whatever. Anyway, he was off for a few days to go to a metal show and when he came back, he had a picture with the lead singer of the band, and that was pretty cool. Until I went to his house and the lead singer of the band was also there. As a cardboard cutout. He stood in front of the cutout to take the picture, turns out he never even went to the show.
Years later, I ran into him at a local bar and he tried to fuck my sister in law.
My fiancé’s sister is a pathological liar no joke. She once lied that her brother (my fiancé) DIED in a car accident. She has also lied about being raped several times. She abandoned her children and would post that her one child was very sick and in the hospital (even when he wasn’t). She finally began posting that she was homeless all over Facebook. I finally had enough of it after talking to her mom and Dad (who both said that they would come and get her). I commented on her status and basically put her on blast in front of everyone about all her lies. She threatened to call the police on me because i was “harassing a suicidal person”
What a joke.. anyway, People who totally buy into her stories ended up messaging me and telling me how terrible I am. But the reason this is the most satisfying time I’ve ever caught someone lying is because I no longer have to associate with her!
I dated a dude on and off through my junior and senior years of high school who turned out to be a compulsive liar. He told me on our first date, to get my sympathy, that he had a half brother who died tragically in a head-in collision back when he lived in Canada (he also claimed to be Canadian). Because he was my first boyfriend I bought it for like six months. Had a conversation with his dad after he went to college, who told me that he did NOT have a half-brother, nor was their family from Canada. Later he cheated on me, dumped me over the weekend and posted his new relationship on Facebook before I could tell any of my friends we had broken up. He’s presumably lying to other people now, but hopefully no one is as gullible as I was.
zonk3 · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm in advertising and a few years ago I had boss who went nuts on me during an executive meeting where I presented a final proposal for a product ad. He literally screamed liked Harvey Weinstein at me in front of the 25 execs there, claiming I had made up the copy and that the claims I was making for the product would get the company sued for years on end and how stupid could I be, etc.
He then DEMANDED to know where I got the ideas for such statements in my ad copy, to which I pulled out a binder and slapped it on the long oak table, where every single word I had written was copy/pasted from his own work on a previous version of the product from three years earlier. I read each line from his, and then read the EXACT SAME LINE from mine.
Nothing but crickets. <<
They looked at him and he knew he was busted. He screamed to dismiss the room, everyone but me. I was fired on the spot, but I got my few things from my desk and smiled all the way to my car, laughing all the way home!
Friday. Caught someone committing insurance fraud with irrefutable proof. There are lots of clients that you think are sketchy, but you don't have the proof. This was really satisfying.
As a teenager I shared a room with my younger spoiled brother, sadly spoiled in all the most negative ways. He had a bad temper so my mum would just give into him and my dad just ignored everything. Either way he consistently borrowed, stole and sometimes sold my clothes and possessions. Parents just assumed innocence without proof as a way to avoid a huge fuss. One day I came home to find a pair of my jeans on my bed torn almost in half. Asked my brother about it and pointed it out to my parents, blank looks all round. Then as my brothers friend came into the house I asked him brightly if it had been funny to see my brother tear his trousers that morning. The friend told a great account of it happening while I stared at my brothers cringing face. Super satisfying.
Parents did nothing more than say he should have told me. Weirdly I think this was harder on my brother than on me. They basically had stopped trying to be parents to him.
Sitting in an empty classroom during my off period in high school. A group of obnoxious/cringey emo kids walk in. A girl with blue hair starts to tell a story of this "crazy guy" who got let out of an asylum and lives in a town near by, who she's buddies with. She says he has huge gauges, and she once locked a padlock on one and threw out the key. This story is literally directly from a popular tumblr post
Guy was bragging about being a division 1, two sport athlete. Hockey goalie and football place kicker. Said he was a backup goalie for a current NHL star and then transferred to another school to be their starting kicker and was roommates with an NFL Star WR. The guy was always full of shit, but I was curious and he was legitimately a kicker on the team while this future NFL guy was there, but then I looked up the hockey goalie and he didn’t even play a single game at school 1 until the WR was already done playing football at school 2.
Not even sure what the point of the lie was, he could have just said “I was a kicker at XYZ University” while Player X was there, cool seeing him blow up from when I knew him back then”
I went from working at a used car dealer to a luxury car dealer. At the luxury car dealer a customer brought a car in from the used dealer I worked for previously and asked if we could inspect it. We made a few basic recommendations and let her have it back. She flips her shit saying we damaged her car during the inspection. The pictures from the used car lot hadn’t been taken off the website so I zoomed in and could clearly see the damage from before she bought it. Texted a manager I was on good terms with and he said she made a big deal about it there too. Showed her the pictures and the texts and asked her to leave. Feels Goodman
Ex-friend of mine who turned out to be a massive douche was claiming he had gotten into some "heavy petting" with this girl we knew in the back of her car. Well my good friend (who I met through the ex-friend, was just in his wedding actually) was sick of his shit and called the girl up and put the phone on speaker. He asked her straight up if she did it and she basically said "ew oh my god no". He started crying and ran away. Sounds mean but shortly after this he tried to take my ex on a date and called my mother "a whale" when I called him out so it turned out to be very satisfying.
If it sounds like high school bullshit that's because it is. It happened years ago now but it still makes me laugh almost a decade later.
Oh goodness I don’t even know if this counts because it was so stupid.
I was managing a McDonalds and there was this one employee I really wasn’t too fond of. But it being a McDonalds and as long as you’re not killing someone, you can usually get away with a lot.
So this kid would call in and tell us how he had to drive his grandfather to chemo since he recently got his license. I mean, even at McDonald’s we wouldn’t say no to that. Also, to clarify, I was a shift manager, not running the store, or else he would have been out of there much sooner. He did the least amount of work possible and said some of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. He’d been brought up to the GM before, but the GM was a spineless bitch who was so two-faced it hurt. The only thing she did to control her crew was the fear that she would talk behind your back.
So one day I was sitting in there before work, talking to a good friend of mine, when the kid showed up because he was a friend of my friend. We were talking about girls, when he piped up about how he was seeing this one girl. He even told us about how whenever he called off to drive his grandfather to chemo, he was seeing her! His grandfather never had cancer in the first place. I was in awe. I told him, “You do know who I am right? You know that you just flat out told me you’ve been lying about your shifts?” And he just said, “oh yeah.”
The shitty thing was was that the GM still didn’t fire him until he just no called no showed a couple of times after that. But I have no idea how you can be stupid enough to tell a superior you’re lying to them.
I read a really good one on here where the guys Dad's friend had lied about basically his entire life including being in the military and that his wife and child were dead (they weren't) OP's dad had passed by the time anyone knew.
Back in middle/high school there was this guy my cousin hung around who always acted like he was in to her. I didn't like him for various reasons and incidents, but they weren't bad enough to show what a stupid person he was. One time he was courting her a poem and said he wrote it. I copied and pasted that shit into Google so fast while I was next to my cousin. We found the poem word for word and I knew I finally had proof he was a little tool.
anaj13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girlfriend denied cheating on me for months. She must have forgot that her location was shared on snapchat because she said she was at the house when in reality she was behind a billiards hall. Thought that was strange so, I took my break from work and drove to the location right up the block. She parked my truck in the parking lot next to the girls car. I walked up to the girls car and right there they were groping eachother making out. I opened the door and said what the fuck before they even knew what was going on. All she could say was fuuuuck in a whisper. smh never been so hurt.
I work doing customer service and there are, of course, security questions people have to answer and we can only speak to the owner of the product. Occasionally people pretend to be someone else to get stuff done. It's usually harmless even though it's technically fraud. When we get really lucky there might be two names on the account and the person calling as someone else also has to be verified as themselves for one reason or another, which they can't because they already said they are someone else. They get all mad and hang up. So satisfying
When i was a kid my parents used to put me to bed and I was always convinced they were watching my favorite movies without me.
One night I pretended to be asleep and snuck down the stairs only to discover they were in fact watching my favorite Ninja Turtles movie. To this day, my parents still claim they just "left it on by accident...."
I had a terrible, abusive ex-boyfriend who gaslit me constantly. He was paranoid that I'd leave him and spent a huge amount of energy spying on me, scaring away my friends, all the while convincing me that I was crazy and he was just doing normal boyfriend behavior to keep me safe.
Id like to point out that I never cheated, or even tip-toed the line of cheating on him. At this point in the relationship he'd threatened all of my male friends with violence so I didn't even have a guy I could have been talking to. Never the less, he regularly asked to borrow my phone and I was suspicious he would go through my phone to spy on me.
Sure enough, he borrowed my phone for 10 minutes to "watch YouTube". When I got my phone back I asked him if he did anything else on it but he said no, just YouTube. Well you can open a tab that shows all your active applications and the order they've been used. He went through my Facebook, email, Facebook messages, text messages, and through my Google drive. I held this up to his face and he absolutely floundered. It was the first time but not the last time I'd catch him doing this. He'd send out threatening messages to people and delete them. He'd read my messages, delete contacts, and block people on my social media without me knowing.
I eventually used all of this to dump him on his ass and never look back. One of the best decisions I ever made in my life. The unfortunate side of the story is that I'm very uncomfortable letting people touch my things, even loved ones that I trust. When a coworker, significant other, or parent asks to use my phone or computer, I'm always watching out of the corner of my eye and I don't think that habit will ever go away.
Was playing on a minecraft server with some friends, and one of them "happened" to find a giant diamond cluster right near my mine. Left it there to show it off, made a big deal of it. I recreated the seed, went to the exact coordinates, no diamonds.
On vacation in my teens, I met a whole bunch of people my age and we started hanging out.
One night, we're sitting around a camp fire on the beach and someone pulls out an acoustic guitar. A few of us can play, so we're handing it around, playing a few songs, desperately trying to impress the girls.
So, I've just finished 'Blackbird' (My go to: sounds complicated and impressive, super easy to play), then I hand the guitar off to the next guy who says "If no-one minds, I'd like to play a song I wrote." Then he goes into a detailed explanation of how he wrote it, what it's about, what it means... then says "It's not very good, but I kinda like it."
He starts playing... and it's 'Present Tense' by Pearl Jam.
He's playing and singing with his eyes closed like a proper bellend... then I notice a girl across the fire with the same WTF expression on her face as I have. I catch her eye, nod towards the guy and she mouths "That's Pearl Jam." I mouth back "I know."
We let him finish. He puts the guitar down and acts all emotional, saying something about how he's sorry, but the song makes him sad because it makes him think of the friend he lost who he wrote it about. Everyone's saying how amazing it is and how he should be a professional songwriter.
Girl across the fire says "Yeah, it's really good. Shame Pearl Jam already wrote it."
Deer in the headlights moment. He looks at her and says "Errr, I don't know what you mean."
I say "She means that song you just sang is Present Tense by Pearl Jam. It's on the No Code album. Unless you're secretly Eddie Vedder, you didn't write it."
Fucker sticks to his guns. He did write it. It was about a friend he lost. Dude's caught red handed and won't budge. Eventually storms off saying something about how he 'won't be called a liar."
It was particularly satisfying because him being a dickhead was a great icebreaker for me and girl across the fire. Best vacation ever.
Person "K" was trying some preschool tactics to try and get me to admit something that never happened and also to coax some information they believed I was withholding...except I never withheld info..sigh
Person K: Yeah we talked in depth about everything in life before ...and one time "B" said, "I can just marry Zasatienosco".
Me: You're lying. B would never say that.
Person K: Yeah B did.
If they legit talked and became close friends....K would definitely know that B has a marriage pact with J. (And by the way, everyone in our social circles know this fact. Also I am like basically known as B's older sibling who always watched over B...It is like an indisputable fact.)
K is a complete outsider and was trying to bark into a territory they did not know using real dumb ways of drama pulling. Because by the time I got know K they have seen me with B all the time as I was best friends with C (at the time).
But several years past and it had events that K was not aware of (and shouldn't because they were not in the inner circle and were not close to any of us).
So the lie showed pretty badly but this idjit kept insisting and I was laughing internally at how stupid our conversation was. As an amusement, I even tried to see if they would get the hint I was aware that they are completely bullshitting...but no.
What a dense individual.
Anyway that's when I started to plan out how to remove this drama llama leech from my life.
Nyu727 · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing all that interesting but my cousin gets really angry at video games and one day we were playing that racing game mode they had in Destiny for a little while and we were coming up on the finish and he slammed his vehicle into me clearly trying to mess me up so I would lose but in the end it had no effect and he crashed costing himself the race, he flipped out started yelling and going off about how I purposely crashed into him which I told him no you crashed into me and he denied it. Well luckily this was on the PS4 which records the last 15 minutes of gameplay constantly so I showed him the clip which clearly showed him slamming into me out of nowhere, He got real quiet and then stopped playing soon after.
Student turns in his programming project. The other lab instructor and I take one look at it and hold him after lab. This is back way before things like github or stackoverflow.
"We have reason to believe this isn't your work."
"No, it's all mine."
"This work is more advanced than anything you've done, and it looked like something we've seen somewhere else before."
"Well, I found some stuff on the internet and I sort of adapted and rewrote some of it."
"Some of this stuff doesn't look adapted."
"I mean, I reused some of the stuff."
"I don't think you wrote any of this."
"I wrote parts of it."
"No, I wrote this. You turned in my work. You didn't even take my name out of the comments."
"Oh..."
He had found a sample project I had written for advanced students on the network drive, grabbed it and tried turning it in as his own work.
Late to the party, but I'll tell my story anyway. There's this one girl in my class that is a compulsive liar. Everything that comes out of her mouth is at the least an exaggerations, and at most a complete falsification. It's all for attention, especially when she's trying to show someone else up.
I'm a very big fan of a certain band, and I follow all the members on social media. Once, somehow, by ridiculous pure luck, I managed to strike up a conversation with the girlfriend of one of the members, and we actually messaged each other for a while. I was 100% starstruck, and its still the highlight of my life. Unfortunately we've only been in contact once since then, but either way, it honestly was the greatest thing ever to me, as I look up to her as well as the band member. I'm sure I sound incredibly lame but that's not the point of the story.
I told this girl about it, because at this stage we were still "friends" and she also is a fan of the band. The next day, she came up to me, and said "Oh, last night I started talking to [youtuber] and he said he likes my theories about his characters so much that he was going to use it in his videos!"
Bitch what?
First of all, my "celebrity encounter" (who isn't even a celebrity, just dating one) was someone with well under 100k followers/fans. HER celebrity encounter was with a youtuber with almost 7 million followers. Also, it happened the same day as mine? wow!
So here's how I caught her out:
"Oh, show me the messages, and I'll show you mine!"
I opened the DMs, and scrolled through half an hour of solid conversation.
She said "maybe he wouldn't want me to invade his privacy by showing you..."
"Oh, no, if he was willing to discuss upcoming videos plans with one fan, I'm sure he wouldn't mind someone who isn't interested taking a look too! I won't even read the messages."
She went completely silent, and left the room. It was the first time I had the confidence to call out her bullshit, and basically ended what was left of our friendship. Amazing.
When I caught my older brother lying about eating my chocolate. The fucker told me he hadn't eaten it, whilst having a chocolate stain on his pure white shirt. After arguing for a few minutes I broke into laughter and asked him if he could explain what was on his shirt.
11th grade, we had this program at our school where for part of the day we would ride the bus to this separate school to learn hands on things. Had a lot of friends on this bus ride, and this one kid, who happen to be a compulsive liar about literally everything. An example: he was the world champion in Yugioh, yet couldn't name 5 cards.
On this day in particular, we were talking about girls and whatnot, normal teenage bullshit, when he comes out of left field, with "ive slept with like 43 girls! No big deal." Without skipping a beat, I follow up with "name 10 of them." And the bus goes silent. He starts to stutter out random names that are super generic, realizes he can't think of any more names after 4, then chooses the "I was drunk most the time so I don't actually remember their names."
Now I know this is typical 'that happened' style, but everyone started laughing and cheering, giving him a hard time, ect. I felt bad for making him look stupid, but he dug his own grave.
Man, this thread hurts way more than i thought it would. I thought it would mainly be like shady car mechanics getting shown what for and people getting back at their terrible bosses/professors or just shitty friends, but most of them seem to be like cheating SO's. I have so many times catching people lying but most of them are exes because ive never had a relationship where the other person didnt cheat. Also have caught a shop stealing viper parts out of a truck i had and another one trying to steal brand wilwood calipers i just modded onto the rear axle of the truck myself prior to a fuel filter change and inspection. Fyi: would recommend replacing your fuel filters each time you find yourself replacing a fuel pump or swapping into brand new injectors. They can apparently suck if theyre the thread in types thats a 3/8ths fuel nut but around a 16mm line nut, as the previous guy who worked on a truck i have knows because i looked under there once, said nope, and took it to my trusted shop for a repair. Previous shop didnt even look at the state of the twisted fuel lines under the truck that the transmission pan was leaking like old faithful before they sent it back to me with a "100% okay" and inspection charge of $250.
Worked with a girl who was a compulsive liar, not only was she a compulsive liar but she took other peoples stories and rearranged some of the places/names w/e to make them into her own. This took a little while for me and my other co-workers to catch onto but once we did everything about her finally made sense (she had a lot of 'secrets' that just kept coming out of the wood work like ants).
Anyways, one day we were all talking about past pets we had had, I had just told everyone about a pug our family had named Pugsly and how Pugsly would often fart and it would smell awful but it was just so comical because he was pug! So about a week later the compulsive liar decided to bring up the subject of pets (she must have forgotten our huge conversation we had had a week earlier) so she brings up this story about how her family had a pug when she was younger and how her pugs name was Pugsly and how he just had the worst farts!
Everyone in the room just stopped, looked at me, and my one friend piped up and said "Thats so weird, because (lets call myself 'J') had a pug with the same name and story!" Yea that girl realized we all knew her dirty little secret, she ran away crying acting like we should have sympathy for her. Pretty sure she was clinically insane too, shit got real weird after that and her lies grew out of control. She was eventually removed from our place of work because we work with weapons, and in her mental state she was unfit for duty.
There are some really scary people out there and sometimes they come clothed as the most innocent looking ones.
In middle school, I had a friend who would lie about everything, especially video games. I decided to one up things and come up with shit that was even more ridiculous. At the end of 8th grade, I called him out for his shit, and never spoke to him again.
I had a friend that was really confident in his science. He was actually good always top of the class. My other friend wanted to play a little trick with him so he said “ hey dude have you heard about this new metal called “adamantium” which like the new strongest metal on earth?” And my science friend was like “ was dude I saw that too then he started blabbering on about they are gonna use it on aircrafts and shit. We both knew before going into the conversation that adamantium is just some fictitious material which was supposed to be wolverines claws we managed to hold a straight face until the conversation ended.
Before the divorce, my ex started acting strange. Busy on her phone, would put it away when I entered the room. I began to suspect she was having an affair. But with whom? I finally saw enough that I came to the wild conclusion that she was having an affair with a female friend. Absurd - I confronted her and all was denied.
Fast forward a year after the accusation. I checked her Amazon account to see where she was spending money and found she'd purchased "Living Two Lives: Married to a man while in love with another woman" and "Dear John, I love Jane: Women write about leaving their husbands for other women." She'd been reading them since before I made the accusations, but when I confronted her, she said she started reading them because I accused her.
When I found the books, my heart nearly beat out of my chest. The image that came to my mind was (strangely) Indiana Jones. I'd found an artifact of my wife's disregard for our marriage. I was simultaneously horrified, angry, and excited that I had my reason to divorce her. To this day, she denies an affair and maybe nothing ever happened between the two of them, but I never got a straight (no pun intended) answer about some of the issues surrounding all of that and we are divorced. I'm much happier now.
I'm an exploration geologist by trade, and a lot of what I do is interrogate data, interpret it and try and come up with an exploration programme for a specific tenement or project.
Once these plans are made, the exploration team gets together and we discuss and critique each others plans, in the presence of the senior geo and exploration manager. This way we can assign a priority to each project, as well as allocate personal and funds to each project.
One of my "supervisors" a Project Geo, submitted my programme as her own in one of these meetings, tried to assume ownership of ideas, interpretations and modelling that I had done, and then forwarded to her for review. Pretty ballsy move in my opinion. At the end of her presentation, I began asking her very technical questions, that she should have been able to answer had she actually done the work. After she was giving very vague responses I called her out on it, I said that report is mine and you are presenting my exploration programme as your own. The exploration manager asked if it was true, she said yes. BUT. she wasn't presenting it as her own, it was a collaboration and she was presenting it on MY behalf. Well that was news to me. At that point I did't care, I got the credit I was due. Happy days.
After the meeting she pulled me aside and said that I handled that very unprofessionally and made her look incompetent. I replied with "You made yourself look incompetent". She still hates me to this day. Worth it.
My mother’s dumbass boyfriend had her convinced he was affiliated with the mob, and then when he was talking about his great uncle “Vinnie” that was a famous mobster I asked him if he was the guy that chopped off the horse’s head and sent it to some guy to send a message. I told him I heard about him in my AP United States history class, and he was all like “yeah! That was my uncle Vinnie”
TL;DR: I exposed my mothers boyfriend about not being in the mob by describing a scene from The Godfather
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Knafa · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This kid in middle school would always lie about random things to seem cool. One time he mentioned that Triple H was his uncle. I asked him what his real name was and he replied with a name that had 3 H's in it. Called him out and said nah dude his name Paul.
A woman and her boyfriend came into the bank I worked for with her boyfriend claiming she did not make an atm withdrawal. She didn't know the transactions were time stamped and admitted she did the transaction immediately before and after which were less than a minute apart. When I pointed out the timestamps she started stammering, her boyfriend gave her the stink eye and said "liar", turned around and left.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Them: I’ve never signed a letter of agreement in my life. We don’t do that here.
Me: Okay. So then am I safe to assume that the letter of agreement we have on file for (person) was signed by someone else that has the exact same name, job title, and works at the exact same company as you do on (date)?
Them: Let me check the records for (person). Oh. Well each case is different.
Me: even when they have literally the exact same circumstances and the only thing that would be different on the contract is the person’s name it applies to?
Them: Oh. We’ll sign it and send it back by the end of the day.
Years ago, I was renting a room in my house. I guy said he was a doctor in his email to me. He didn't anticipate the crazy way I interview people. I just chat and ask the person real questions about what they're saying. He made the mistake of discussing some medical stuff where I had some basic knowledge...he didn't. What a dope.
my dad. he was supposed to give my brother his laptop and then he accused me of taking its password. my sister and i opened it up and there it was. I called him stupid liar and he tried to beat me but at least now everyone thinks he has dementia and hopefully he goes to a home. i wouldn't be surprised if he did, he's always forgetting stuff, like a LOT
Given that tires are a significantly smaller purchase, it is absolutely essential that the reps at the company (yes they are salespeople, even if you didn’t know it) ask for your business. The likelihood that the customer goes along with it is pretty high. End of story. It’s really that simple. And nothing is stopping them from being repeat customers if the service is executed properly/quickly like jiffy lube usually does.
To put it simply, Jiffy Lube takes in 5 billion a year because they do this. Your strategy doesn’t scale, sorry.
I was probably in like 3rd grade. I went to stay with my brother's God Mom and her husband for the a couple weeks one summer. Her niece was also staying for the summer. She was much older and also a mean girl. Anyway, we were having a convo where I mentioned our pool. I was legitimately trying to tell her a story about one of those little cheap plastic pools parents get for the summer...she misunderstood what I was saying and she was INCREDIBLY impressed. As a dumb kid I figured - why not go with it? She thought I was cool for once and she'd never be at my house anyway.
Well, tragically my brother's God Mom died shortly after I returned home. The funeral was going to be in our state so the niece and husband came to our house. Somebody must have told the niece the truth about the pool because when she came in she almost immediately brushed passed me...walked to the back of the house and dramatically opened the curtains to reveal the sad plastic pool in the backyard. She didn't say a word - just smirked at me.
It was just lately at work before school ended. I work at a School as a Medical Aide, basically a cheap school nurse. One of my duties is to ensure that all my students are current with their immunizations. All my students were compliant this year so all I had to do is send letters with the students to remind parents to make sure they are still current for next school year if they are 6th graders, 7th graders and 8th graders. My Assistant principal who was leaving this year wanted me to send the same letters at the end of the year by mail. I said that’s fine and I was going to make my separate letters but my office manager asked and we decided to work with the registrar secretary to send them with the report cards. So I made me letters but I was never told when the report cards were going to be sent until the day before. I went the next day before school (taking college course during summer) and dropped them off.
I thought it was fine and I was done for the summer until August. Until one day I got an angry text from the old AP that why were my letters not sent out. I told her I worked with the secretary and we agreed to send them with the report cards. She then changed that she wanted me to re write them then because they all say “it’s almost the end of the year”. I was upset, because it’s 2 hours of printing each letter because each one had different letters and separating them. Then it’s 3 hours of folding each letter (with my two children btw). It’s 514 letters to re do! I told her to just send them since even if I sent them at the end of the year without report cards it will say the same. I explain this and said that if I am to 5 hours Of work then I might have to ask for a work day during the summer. She told me the principal said no and I have to come to do the work for free. Because this is not acceptable!
I decided to call my principal to make sure this is true, sure enough he said no and that it’s fine, I don’t need to come in and he’ll get someone to re do the letters or just send them and not to worry since she’s not in charge of me anymore.
Not me, but I had an online teacher who we thought was nuts, accusing my whole class of Medical Assisting that we were cheating but later found out she was right to be paranoid about it.
So one of our requirements was to take a business English and math class online for our program. I was ok with it and did my work like I was suppose to. I didn’t think twice about her rules which was basically she wanted us to do our work and show our work by taking pictures of the paper. A bit unorthodox but eh.
The teacher worked really close with our Medical Assistant teacher/director and at first she would tell us as a warning to do our own work, which is ok. But then after a while the MA teacher started to yell at us that someone is cheating and we need to stop. We didn’t know who was cheating but we tried our best to not do that. But it was apparent that our online teacher was becoming more paranoid because after a while our MA teacher told us that she was starting to leave emails and phone calls in the middle of the night to her about the cheating and seemed to be obsessed to find who is. She would send spreadsheets and such and my MA teacher got so tired she stopped answering her and told us to just pass the class.
We started with 25 and Little by Little we lost some people. One of them was this narcoleptic woman who was a bit weird but nice. The teacher didn’t like her much but eventually she got kicked out because she missed too much classes due to the flu. (She’s important to the story)
Later on, 4 years later I still didn’t know about who did the cheating or if it wasn’t even one because that teacher was nuts to me. But one of my friends who was with me in the program told me it was the Narcoleptic lady! She was cheating off with another girl together at the library but no one never said anything.
Now I feel bad for the online teacher but can’t do anything about it now.
I was caught in a lie that I thought would never be proven.
Spring break before my senior year of high school my buddy's family took me on vacation with them. We went to the cape and spent a lot of time on the beach. My friends father had some kites and after the second day or so I decided to try my hand at it.
I was alone on the beach on a pretty windy day. After a few minutes of kite flying my grip must have come loose and the kite just flew away. Not wanting to tell my buddy's father I wasn't careful enough I told him the string snapped and I threw out the handle.
No big deal, he took it in stride. The next day we decide to take the car further in on the beach and have a bon fire away from a majority of the spring breakers. My friends father parks the car and we're all taking in the scenery when he says "Is that the kite?!"
I shit you not, we happened to park not more than 50 feet away from where the kite landed. We walked to the kite and he's wrapping up the string and comes to the handle and just looks at me for a moment before laughing his head off. I was so ashamed but even I let off a chuckle between the tides of guilt.
My female cousin and her brother go to the same school, and the brother was in this pretty popular group of guys.
One day I'm invited to hang out with them and one of the guys (lets call him Jack) was the class president of their school. He was pretty outgoing, but most of the time he was pretty awkward but funny at the same time, all in all I thought he was a cool guy.
My cousin (lets call her Kathy) apparently hated Jack, every time he was mentioned she would try to say something bad about him, but somehow her tone didn't match her accusations. I wasn't actually sure if she disliked him or not, so one day he was brought up again, and she began saying like 'ugh I hate that guy,' and someone else in the group asks why, then she tells us about how he says stupid things or whatever. I jokingly told her she was jealous because she wasn't getting his attention. She was quick to deny it, but her face got pretty red after that. She didn't say any more after that, so idk if she was actually lying or not, but I felt like she had a crush on him and her reaction was pretty funny.
Had spoken to a cashier about not receiving personal calls while clocked in, unless it was an emergency. She had been walking around the sales floor talking on her cell phone to her husband, when I have signs all over the front end that say NO CELL PHONES. I really don't hold them to this rule as long as it's out of customer view. She obviously abused this though.
So I doing the lowest level documentation (Coaching, out of Coaching-Counseling-Final Job Warning-Termination in the write up chain) and consider it job well done. I even indicate in the write up that this is not just cell phones, but DO NOT USE THE COMPANY PHONES either.
Cut to a little over a week later and I'm watching my front end while she is on lunch. As she returns and clocks back in I step about 12 feet away to put a few items back on the shelf. As I am returning to the front I see a gentleman walking around looking for someone to ring him out. My cashier is standing in the photo printing area... on THE PHONE. RIGHT AFTER RETURNING FROM LUNCH.
So I calmly ring out the gentleman waiting as she sprints back over saying "I'm sorry u/Neoshinryu, I was on the phone with a customer!" As soon as the gentleman walks away I turn to her and say.... "The phone didn't ring. Did you call the customer yourself?"
She starts laughing(nervous laughter kind of way) and says "I'm so sorry, I don't know why I lied!"
Policy dictates I give a Final Warning and no matter how angry this made me I have to be consistent, but this is the closest I've ever went to going full on dark side as a manager and telling her to get the hell out of my store.
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I have to add I love my staff, this cashier was far and away an outlier
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My work friend's story. Where we work people attempt to switch price tags all the time when no one is looking. One day a man was taking tags off of things just a few feet away from my friend, in plain sight. When he approached her he and his wife became enraged at her accusing them of being thieves, and the wife threatened to call the police, she even took her cell out and staged a completely fake phone call to 911. Eventually they left and no police showed up. My friend and the supervisor giggles about them after they left.
R-JOON · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A girl I was seeing (we weren't together at this point, but still all "i love you" and "there's nobody else") told me she was going to dinner with a friend/coworker. I had a bad feeling in my gut and something told me that I should go with a friend to see what was up. A day or two passes, I decided to look at her IG at some picture she posted that day. I noticed a comment that said "I was your server that day. You and your other half are adorable!"
She came running when I fucking caught her, and it felt really good to tell her to get the fuck out of my place, slamming the door behind her.
I was bartending, and I carded this girl who ordered a drink. She looked maybe 19 or 20, so I carded her. It was an out-of-state ID (red flag), so I was suspicious. Normally I would try the bendy trick (you can bend a real ID all the way back, but a fake one will usually snap), and/or call a manager over, but I wanted to have some fun.
While I was getting someone else’s drink, I asked if she was in school.
Fell for that one with a cop. He said oh you’re a freshman??? I said uhhhh uhhhh I was held back twice...... im really stupid. Ended up getting off. I gave a fake name and everything and the guy just said he’s of age. I think after spending a lot of time talking to him about my future plans he felt putty for me and let me go
Mmm, my ID would snap and it's real. In fact it's coming apart right now because my wallet bent in a weird way and left a crease in my ID that if I go any further, it will split in two. How accurate is that trick?
Met a guy in a lab once and my first impression was to stay well away. Over time, he grew on me and we became friends. Always had a big fish story about whatever:
—A year ago he was making $90k but quit to go to college
—He could throw a 90+ mph fastball and used to play college baseball
—Could lift hundreds of pounds more than he looked like he could lift, etc.
I usually just let that stuff slide in conversation because it didn’t happen too often. Well eventually his gf breaks up with him and he’s pretty down. I play matchmaker between him and this old flame I had who I was still friends with. Cool girl.
I notice that four days after they meet, they’re just all over each other. I realized he was lying to her every chance he got about himself. She fell for it all.
This upset me because I set them and I felt it was on my reputation if he was going to be like that, kind of like recommending someone for a job, so I went over to her house one evening and told her that I was worried he was lying to her and wasn’t fully genuine. I also said I was just giving her a fair warning and to do what she wanted with the info, because she’s an adult. I asked for privacy about the conversation and of course the first thing she did was tell him about it.
Cue him absolutely livid with me for lying about him behind his back. Drama ensues and he has her on his side, not like I cared that much. I finally tell him that if he can prove he was a collegiate baseball player (the biggest reason she fell for him), I would rescind all my statements and apologize. I ask him where he played.
He tells me the school and I look on their rosters for the years he could have possibly played, which were the previous 3 years. Nowhere on there.
“Whatever man you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Okay... so I email an assistant coach and ask if he’d ever played for them. I get a reply that says Nope!
“...”
Didn’t hear from him after that. Two weeks later, the girl texted me saying she should have listened to me.
My gf at the time thought it was all very stupid, which it was, but if someone’s going to dig their own grave that deep and spit in my face, I’ll be happy to cover them up with the loose dirt.
This happened to me but when I was a around 13 my cousin came over to visit. I was in my "clean the pipes" every shower stage so i really didn't have morals back then. I stole my cousins phone after we went to the pool that day and when we went back i got ready for my shower. She asks if I've seen it and i say no and now my whole family is looking for this phone. So now I hop in the shower and start doing the dirty deed. Im seeing shit that i didnt even know was possible ( first time on a porn website) so i start choking the chicken. Half finished the phones buzzes. I silence it. It buzzes again. Twomore times. Silenced. I was becoming agitated that my video kept getting paused. I resume and im almost done when it buzzes one more time. I was so annoyed that I yelled " I DONT HAVE YOUR PHONE!" Shit. I realized what i had done. I finished, destroyed the evidence, hopped out of the shower and when i got out i saw my cousin. She found the evidence and she was pissed, I was grounded for a few days.
Tl;DR: stole my cousins phone to beat the meat and self incriminated myself mid process while in the shower.
a girl i was dating had 2 tattoos - a girl's name on her wrist, & someone's initials down the middle of her back. she told me the girl's name was her god daughter, & the initials were of a friend who died in a car accident in high school, & she was in the vehicle. (she later had that tattoo covered up by a feather with FREE written around it, which i thought was strange.) 2 yrs later, she joins the Navy, & after a very painful break up, i find out the initials were her ex-bf's, & the name on her wrist was that guy's daughter. the moment i found that out, it was like i had an enormous weight lifted off my chest, & i knew i had avoided disaster. the type of person that can lie about someone dying in a car accident, is a pretty twisted individual.
I work w/ kids and after they go to the bathroom I always ask them if they wash their hands. They say yes and I ask them to come over so I can check. They then proceed to put their hands behind their back, walk over to me and I just point towards the sink. It makes me feel like a good teacher haha
My ex “had lung cancer” but adamantly refused to let me go to his treatments with him. Eventually, after months of things just not adding up and me stumbling upon his craigslist profile (back in 09 this was something my friends and I did for kicks) I followed him to his “chemo appointment”.
He never had cancer. He was a prostitute. I watched him get out of his car, into another car, drive to a swanky house, follow a man into said House, and come out an hour later covered in sweat with his pants undone and shirt buttoned wrong.
I went home, packed my shit then and there, and never spoke to him again.
If he’d told me straight up that’s how he made money I would’ve been okay with it. It was the lie that pissed me off.
Like really? Who the fuck lies about having cancer?!
Edit to add more of his ridiculous lies
He told me he was a Navy SEAL. Partly true, he was in the navy, as a cook, but got kicked out for fighting too much.
He was the first bassist in some metal band (he wasn’t, and could barely play bass).
He told me he’d spent 3 years in prison for beating up the guy who raped his sister. He did actually go to prison, but it was for robbing a little old lady that owned a sub shop (he used a toy gun, gun lil detail), and was caught at the BAR NEXT DOOR bragging about how he’d robbed this Vietnamese woman. He also had a shitload of meth on him.
He would also lie about random shit that was so stupidly easy to catch him on.
Like one time he came into the bar I worked to meet some friends. They went outside to smoke (re: do coke together) and when the ex came back in he said he’d gotten in a fight with one of the guys and “didn’t you see him sucking his lip? I busted it wide open!”
The dude in question had zero marks on his face.
He also once gave me a line of coke, and literally moments after me snorting it informed me I’d actually just done meth.
So i went to this tutor and he was really abusive, he would hit kids for random reasons and had harsh punishments, eventually my mom took me out cause my brother went to one class there and realized how abusive this guy was and she took us out, but my math skills were very poor so she had to send me back cause we were new to the country and didn't know that many people and the people my mom knew kept recommending this dude.
So when I came back, he moved up the fee for tutoring from 60 to 70 dollars, and I thought the price was a bit too much and i always thought tutoring was cheaper. Any ways, he kept on changing the price each time and it came to about 100, and since we didn't have that much money since we just started a life here, my parents both had to get 2 jobs.
So, 5 months had passed by, i was complaining about this to my boyfriend at the time, who went to this tutor with me and his mom about how we had been changing the price (this is when he recently changed it to 100) and how they felt about this. They both told me he hadn't changed the price and that it has always been 60. Turns out this guy has been tricking my parents into paying them 100 a month and they have been working their butts off because they wanted me to do the best at math and it had been wasted. So my mom furiously walked into his place and asked if everybody was paying 100 in which he said yes but my mom rallied up the other moms and his face was priceless.
My mom took me out any ways, the last I heard, that place is booming and so many kids are going. Have to take lower level math though.
This girl I was talking to thought I was talking to girls over tinder and accused me of talking to her friend. I asked if the girl she was talking about was Hannah or Megan and she said Hannah. I wasn’t talking to a girl named Hannah or Megan so I caught her trying to trick me.
Jokes on her cause I was sleeping with other women.
Why bother dating someone if you're just going to sleep around? Promiscuity isn't a big deal these days, sleep with whoever you want. Just don't act like you're going to commit to one person.
I rang the doorbell to my house as I locked myself out. And after 2 times no one came and answered. Then on the third the guy who lives next to the door who never answers the door came and said said seriously "sorry, I didn't hear the first 2 rings". Needless to say I saw right through it and when I challenged him as to how knew there were a first 2 if didn't hear them, he had no comeback.
Employee said her mum was dying in hospital from a car crash because she wanted to go home early- I called her Mum 🙄
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone tried to send me a right tit and pass it off as a left. But I suspected something was up, so did a reverse image search on the mirror. Turns out it was not only a right tit, but it wasn't even their picture. Felt good to call them out, so that was satisfying. But I was left with no new left titties. :\
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's never satisfying when I catch someone in a lie.
It's either saddening or annoying. I already have trust issues in general, and they either disappoint me when I trust them or they confirm that trust issue.
We were halfway done with our organic chemistry final exam when three students walk in, obviously very late. They told our professor they just got done helping change an older mans tire. (Hoping the professor would excuse their tardiness and still let them take the test).
My professor thanked them for doing a good deed and proceeded to grab three blank pieces of paper from his drawer. He wrote a small note on each paper, gave them to the students, and told them to sit on opposite sides of the classroom.
The three students started to look very nervous when they looked at their exam. After the test I learned what my professor had written down on each paper: "Which tire did you change?" Turns out each of their answers were different. They failed their exam and then failed the class.
Isn't that a very, very old joke? I've seen it in a couple of places both as a cartoon and written joke.
Anyways, if it's true he pulled of a old joke on three students. Good for him :)
My best friend through childhood did something similar. We skipped school one day in grade 9, we were 13-14. She had always been a manipulative girl with zero respect for her Mum & sisters. The eldest daughter in a family of 7 girls. Her lack of respect moved to myself & my family when we hit higher school years. Let’s call her J.
So, we’ve skipped school & we’re hanging out at my place. I think we were looking in my mums room for a pack of cigarettes we could pinch one from. J points to a pile of clean clothes on my Mums bed & the rolled up pair of new nike socks Mum had bought while shoe shopping for me a few days earlier. (Nike was huge at the time, and we lived in quite a poor area with poor families, the socks were almost a treat for my Mum).
Next morning I’m walking down the street to collect J on our way to the bus stop for school. I kid you not, I tune up at her place & she’a got my Mums socks on. I was fucking stunned. How do you approach someone for stealing your Mums socks? For reference; she had already washed/worn them since purchase, they were not brand new. I looked at J & said something to the effect of “oh , you got some new nike socks too hey?” Knowing her she had this bs story lined up about how she got home & her Mum had bought them for her that day, she bought her a 3pack of different colours. Never saw any other colour except my Mums which she wore into the ground. Told my Mum. We never knew how to address it as we’d known J & her family since J & I met in grade 2 at 6-7 years old.
This was one of her tame stories. Like folks who travel down the path of theft, starting small & moving up, so did J. First it was my Mums socks, then it was any male I set my sights on. She successfully coerced 2 high school crushes of mine to be her boyfriend; once in grade 8, once in grade 9.
There was a love triangle between her high school boyfriend & my boyfriends best friend L. Cutting a long story short - my boyfriend B moved back to his home country towards the end of year 9, I was heartbroken. His friend L, J & I were close so we’d go for night drives, smoke cigs & just hang out. L & J were seeing each other at this time. We go back to L’s place to hang. J & I had been drinking that night. I laid down on the bed & J nestled next to me & said she wanted to make out with me to get L excited. I was used to her silly tricks so I kissed her a few times half heartedly & rolled over to sleep while they make out. Wake up out of nowhere, room is dark & L is on top of me, about to do the deed/possibly started. I freak out & see J sitting there watching angrily. I push him off me & J runs out of the house screaming that I’m a slut.
Next day at school - everyone is under the impression that I banged her sometime boyfriend. Not that I was sexually assaulted while under the influence. Back then I believed that it was my fault because I was underage drinking with a guy. We were well known in high school as the popular party girls. Everyone “knew” & J turned them all against me.
Within the year I found out that J had an abortion. I was by her side when she was home. I spoke to my boyfriend who I stupidly told under strict rules not to say anything. He hated her & told one of his friends. That friend, let’s call him C, told the whole school. J turned it on me again, almost rightfully so though as I betrayed her trust. She told everyone that I was jealous of her so I made up the abortion story. I was hated by the masses again.
Once we were out of school she realised she needed to change tactics.
1) None of the boys I was interested in thought J was a good person.
2) She’d settled down with someone at 17 so she couldn’t actually take my love interests. (They are still together and have 2 spawn) (Bonus Round - the person she shacked up with is C! She knew he told the whole school she had an abortion & she had 2 kids with him)
That’s when J started telling my partners I’d cheated on them so they would leave me. I cut all ties with her when she pulled it on someone I really cared about. We’re not together now but he was the first man to treat me with care & I wasn’t about to let that ice cold bitch ruin my life any longer.
A little while after school people we knew started seeing her for what she was. J was a compulsive liar who used manipulation to get what she wanted, whatever that was. I hope those who knew us as the 2 best friends joined at the hip see the lies she created. She really did leave her mess through my life. I don’t really do friends now.
I was with a friend in a shop and he asked him “do you know so and so?” He was introducing me to this guy but it took a very weird turn. He said “yeah, I know her” and continued to talk about me. It was obvious he didn’t know it was me standing right there.
This happened when I was in school.
One friend brought an expensive chocolate and asked my another friend to share it with me.
Later that friend became reluctant to share the chocolate. So during the break when he went to the toilet, I took that chocolate from his bag and ate it.
During the end of the break, I asked him if he was willing to share it now.
He lied to my face saying that he can't because he already ate it.
Later when I told him that I already ate the chocolate, the look on his face was priceless. He was caught lying and he didn't have a chocolate to eat!
I'm a military Air Traffic controller not the most satisfying but a good one that happened this week on the tail end of a busy night shift:
Me at 3am (back story) ..I taxi a 747 from the east side of the airfield to the west side of the airport using the runway instead of the min taxiway due to construction on the main taxiway. Then I cleared him for takeoff.
Phone rings as I get done clearing 747 for takeoff.
Me: this is X tower.
Pumpkin spice latte drinking pole smoker "big shot" maintainer working his one weekend of the month: stop that 747! He can't taxi on that closed... There is a NOTAM! THE TAXIWAY IS CLOSED! Basically, you can't have aircraft on that taxiway. Do you know that? I mean I was watching him and he drove right over the cones. We need to have him shut down present position to check his engines for debris, I saw FOD get sucked up by the aircraft.
(747 is midfield airborne and I'm rolling my eyes as I listen to him explain the situation.)
Me: Sir, you saw the 747...taxi on the main taxiway... And, his engines sucked up a cone from the closed taxiway?
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM: Yes! He needs to be checked out!
Me: No he didn't. No he doesn't.
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM: what!?!
Me: no he didn't, hold on... (on freq) "747,change to departure, g'day. (back to phone) what were you saying again?
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM: I saw his wings over the cones!
Me: no you didn't, I taxied him. That NOTAM you are referring to has been in effect for the last 3 weeks. Not to mention there is no concrete on that closed portion yet. If the 747 would have taxied down that taxiway and over the cones you are talking about... He would have struck 4 pieces of heavy equipment, fell into a 200'x1000'x2'deep dirt hole. Now I'm no Engineer, nor am I a maintainer of any kind but seeing as how it's 3 am and i am just an Air Traffic Controller. Why would all of that happen and the pilot still call ready for departure?
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM:......... From my angle it...
Me: alright, (my initials) (it signals to people end of the message)
Small, but I once had a roommate that was just awful. The other tenants and I put up with her shit for a year (smoking cigarettes in the apartment, being constantly fucked up on xanax, never taking the trash out, never getting a job because her parents paid her rent, never buying food for the house but eating ours, throwing parties where our things got destroyed, etc etc). Come move out day I caught her trying to take my modem and router. Knowing she'd pull something like that due to her past behavior, I'd saved receipts for months. When I caught her taking it, she insisted she'd bought it (first off, with what money? Second, fuck you). I whipped that receipt out so fast, like you wouldn't believe. After all the crap she'd put us through it was so satisfying to watch her face crumple as she begrudgingly handed over MY things. She's now an 'Instagram model' and had to move back in with her parents because no one else we knew would live with her and she was too lazy to find someone on Craigslist. Bye bitch.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:46:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My high school sweetheart (2007) had a secret facebook account. I found his account, reset the password, and then made his page into an advertisement for cross-dressing enthusiasts. He was furious! I felt great :)
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 17:34:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because you posted it saying “I guaranteed she was a virgin” and that’s laughable
There was this guy I worked with a few years ago named Dave. Dave was absolutely the worst, we were all sure he was a compulsive liar. You could name anyone in the world and Dave would say he knew that guy. One time, I got tired of his antic so I decided to ask him, straight up, if he knew Tom Cruise. The idiot actually said he knew Tom Cruise, so I figured this would be easy. We actually called up Tom Cruise and to my utter bewilderment Tom Cruise was on his contacts and he answered the phone and started talking about how he wish they talked more and how they were buddies in college. I figured Dave got lucky on that one, so I decided I would try someone else. I asked Dave, straight-up, if he knew Donald Trump. He not only said he knew Donald Trump but that Donald Trump gave him money right after college so Dave could start his own small business. I knew this was so far out of the truth, but he pulled out his phone and Trump was on his contacts. He called the number and the literal president of the United States asked him how he was doing since he sold his business, and said the two of them should get a beer after Trump's not so busy.
I couldn't believe it, but I knew Dave was probably just getting really lucky. So finally I said "Okay Dave, Pope Francis. You don't know Pope Francis." Dave had a stupid grin on his face and said "Sure do, I went to Catholic school with Pope Francis in 3rd and 4th grade." I knew he was lying though because its not possible to just call Pope Francis so it wouldn't be easy to catch his lie, but he insisted that Pope Francis was a good friend and that he would buy plane tickets for the two of us to visit Vatican city and meet Pope Francis. I could believe how utterly full of lies this guy was so I bit. Sure enough in another week, he had plane tickets, paid for by himself. We flew out to Vatican city and went visited the Vatican while the pope was giving a speech there. Idiot Dave walked up to the security guys and before he even reached them I could see them yelling "Hey! It's Dave! I haven't seen you in forever!" Dave said he would go up to the Pope before his speech. I fall over laughing at how delusional this guy is.
Unfortunately, as I'm waiting in the crowd, I'm amazed to see both Dave and the Pope walk onto the balcony, the Pope with his hand on Dave's shoulder like some old friend. Everyone starts cheering and I absolutely lose it, there's no way Dave knows the Pope. Just then, a guy standing next to me nudges my shoulder and asks, "I don't know if this is a stupid question, but who's that weirdly dressed guy on the balcony standing next to Dave?"
I guess this isn't technically a good answer to the thread since I'm still waiting to catch Dave in his lies.
That's the last thing I remember before I had a heart attack.
It's never satisfying to catch someone lying. It's awkwad and uncomfortable for everyone involved. I usually just end up feeling embarrassed for the person.
Oisyr · 0 points · Posted at 17:00:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a buddy like that growing up. We decided to do the same thing one day but with a video game we came up with. He was completely in the know with this make believe game.
I was working as a non emergency patient transfer specialist. A lot like a paramedic minus the tragedy.
My partner, a mother of three in her 50's and I were waiting with our stretcher for a patient to finish up his appointment for a tube change in interventional radiology.
To pass the time, my partner decided to start talking about random things with me. And she eventually got onto the topic of the universe and more specifically horoscopes and how accurate they are.
Horoscopes are complete nonsense. We all know that.
So I said to her that I'd be happy to read her a horoscope and then she can tell me if it really is absolutely accurate for her. So I ask her birthday, she's a Scorpio.
I read a horoscope to her and she's really excited and says that yes, that's definitely spot on and it's making so much sense to her, specifically as a Scorpio.
And that's when I show her the page I was reading and put my finger on the one I had just read.
I read Aries to her.
Boy was she upset with me after that!! Worth it.
Horoscopes are lies. It's all nonsense. Snake oil.
It happened when i reconnected with and started dating my current S.O. My then best friend had invited both of us to her house for a party. She even made bets with people about how long it would take for us to start dating.
Well, flash forward a month and it went public that we were dating. All of sudden his ex is calling him up with all these little details that not many people would have known about us. And around that time i started noticing my then best friend getting super jealous of me. Oh, and she claimed that she was no longer friends with his ex.
The lie: Ex best friend had contacted his ex just to be a snake. I cut off all contact with her once I found out what was going on. She ended up throwing a little hissy fit that caused her to loose all her friends.
In freshman year World History we did presentations weekly, just short ones where we went over a topic for the next chapter. This kid, (we'll call him Dave), goes up and starts his presentation. Given that these were freshman level presentations, they were usually awful and full of full length paragraphs. This one was, and he stands there reading the whole thing.
The lie: I noticed the text, on his white presentation, had a slight off white highlight. A telltale sign it was from Wikipedia. After he's done reading this novel, in the beat of silence I say: "You know, when you copy-paste from Wikipedia, you should really make sure your text matches your presentation."
Dave missed out on points for that week. I was just so tired of seeing my classmate's garbage presentations and watching them get points for it later. (No hard feelings between me and Dave, happy graduation bro :) )
Not completely on topic, but in fifth grade one of my friends told me that she was born with six toes. I was sure that she was lying and got really mad at her for trying to deceive me. The next day she brought a picture to school of her as a baby. Sure enough, she was born with six toes.
TLDR; destroyed Christmas as I caught my parents in a lie
I was a four year old girl who loved the fuck out of Christmas (still do), but alas my belief of Santa Clause didn't last for as long as my love for the holiday has. I was one of those kids that would leave out a plate of cookies and a thank you note that I had scribbled myself. That night I fell asleep early to wake up at dawn for Christmas morning. My room was right next to the living room, where the tree stood in between, being close to my room.
I was very fixated on catching Santa in his act this year. This was my year to bust that little fucker, or so I thought. I surveilled the tree for what seemed to be the entire night, with the door ajar. I get out of bed at the crack of dawn, with the house completely still, everyone sleeping, except that suddenly there were presents underneath the tree! the cookies were GONE, and my thank you note replaced with a letter from "Santa" - none of which were there a half hour ago.
I remember feeling so frustrated that I didn't get to meet Santa, or his deer, that my mission was unsuccessful and that I lost out on sleep, but that's when I opened up the letter from Santa.
As beautiful and sweet as the note was, thanking me for the cookies and apologizing that I didn't get to see him arrange the presents himself, since his invisible elves do it for him as his bones hurt - it was ruined by the fact that it was written in none other than my own dad's hand-writing. How could a 4-year-old know that, you ask? Well, my father was an artist with a very particular & unique penmanship. This was the moment that my illusion of the 'Christmas fairytale-magic' crumbled apart, as I realized my own father forged the note. Since I was the first one to wake up, I figured the rest of the house was asleep.
I sat down by the tree, note in hand, soaked in betrayal, waiting for my parents...until I thought of a better plan; wake them the fuck up and confront them. So my lil 4yr-old livid self walks over to my parents bedroom, (who were awake by the way - shocker - I know), and very loudly proclaims that Santa had arrived. My parents are gleeful, excited, and overjoyed assuming they've successfully stretched the lie for yet another year. I continued standing there, not yet finished with what I had to say:
"He left me a letter."
"Wow, that's so nice of him! What did he say?!"
"Either of you want to tell me why his note was written by dad?"
Silence.
My mom looks puzzled for a sec. My dad's face DROPS. The ultimate "oh shit" moment, I could see it in eyes. His 4yr old kid had caught on to their bullshit, this is the year that it ends and the magic stops, this is when the lie dies. My mother and father jump on the defense "no sweetie, that's impossible" , "Maybe both dad and Santa just happen to have a similar handwriting" as if I could continue to believe such a lie. Dad even goes as far as rewriting the note in a different fake script, to argue that the potential evidence disproved my theory as his handwriting was completely different (as was suggested by my mom).
Watching them stumble over about how Santa is so totally real and travels every year by sleigh from the north pole, etc. - I wasn't buying it, so I asked them to prove it. Go into your nightstands and find your signatures for comparison. As they slowly "looked", I went over to my dad's painting studio to look into his notebook but didn't have to go that far, as the back of one of his canvases was left turned over, covered with his own handwriting.
I held it up alongside "Santa's" letter. They were a complete match.
Eventually, after about a half hour of going back and fourth, they finally confess and tell me the truth, explaining the story and mythos of Father Christmas, traditions, etc. I will never forget just how satisfying it felt to catch my parents in a lie.
Etaec · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a teacher and catch kids lying so often it isn't fun at all anymore. My main concern is over the course of my 22 year career as an educator is teenagers have generally gotten more and more terrible at lying.
I used to work with a guy that would tell you a story, then forget he told you months/year later and tell you the same story but now story is more....puffed up.
Every time he told the story it would be a bigger and bigger version of said story. Really dude?
I gave my friend my old graphics card so he could upgrade his computer, turns out his old PSU was not powerful enough to power it (gtx 750 > gtx 770) so him and another friend went and bought a PSU that I told them did not have the required connectors, which are 2x8 PCI-e power connectors, but his friend insisted that his PC at home with the same graphics card works just fine with 1 PCI-e power cable connected.
Nothing I said would change their minds so they went ahead and tried the graphics card. Next thing he messages me? a picture of a black screen that says "Please power down and connect the PCI-e power cables for this graphics card"
Maybe next time they will listen, luckily the shop accepted the PSU return.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's not a lie that's just ignorance. As a computer tech, I see it a lot. People like to think they know what they are talking about. Any profession will see this, really.
sure, that happens, but in this case it wasn't. He helped him build the computer and knows his stuff, he just lied to be an asshole towards me/because he thought i didn't know anything
From one veteran to another: Shut the fuck up. Nobody's impressed by you, nor should they be. You're not an impressive or virtuous person just for joining the military. If you want to get your ass unquestionably kissed, then go find the crowd that whines about football players kneeling for the anthem.
From one veteran to another: your opinion means nothing just like my opinion means nothing. What gives you the moral authority to pass judgement on somebody and tell them to be quiet? You're not a impressive or virtuous person just for joining the military like me so what makes what you say anymore valid? It doesn't if you needed the spoiler.
Now, you'll notice the key difference here is that I never claimed to impressive or virtuous, I just called you out for talking some stupid ass bullshit. You're the one who started in with your "Jealous of us for signing our names and going where we were told". Which is some stupid shit that you got off of a moto shirt if I've ever seen it. And it's condescending as fuck.
Everything else you've said is nothing more than another way to say "Waaahh my opinion". Well, no shit it's your opinion. And dumb ass opinions have the right to be called out. And from the looks of it, I'm far from the only one who thinks you words were fucking stupid. And if you don't believe me, visit any veteran community here. You'll find that they're not filled with people who think they're special for "Signing that blank check". You can reflect on it, or you can take another week from now to reply. But what you said was fucking stupid. And it deserved to be called out. And it was. Next.
Yeah thats the glory of being in america on social media i can say stupid things and people will take me seriously and get triggered and then say their opinion means more lol its satire
I guess you think I was born yesterday. The "Lol I troll" you excuse is older than you. I would have had more respect for you if you just stopped replying.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 17:38:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think I should give two hoots about the guy who lied to me about having a girlfriend. Then convinced me he was dumping her for me. (I'm dumb for trusting him) Then told me he did the deed. And lied about that.
Catching him and letting her know she was cheated on was the best thing I did. I stood up for myself. That was satisfying. What kind of hurt is he feeling that he thinks that's okay to do and why should I feel bad about it?
You can't have both. If you cheat.. there are consequences. If you lie about something as big as that.. there are consequences. It's not a difficult concept.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 13:44:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My younger brother’s pathological liar of his oldest sons mom decided she wanted to go out one night when my nephew was about 3 months old and, since my bro told her she should stay because they were short on cash, she left and didn’t come back.
I helped him out by watching him while he was at work and since my daughter was 6 days younger and they were both very mellow kids it wasn’t a problem and I adored him.
Couple of years later she was living with her dad and wanted to spend time with him. My brothers cool, it’s his mom. Dumb broad thought my bro should pay her for watching her own kid. Since he told her to shove it she decided to try and get partial custody so he’d have to pay support.
During school age our kids went to the same school so my bros week I’d pick them both up and watch him until my bro got off work.
In 8th grade she got a wild hair and decided she wanted full custody. She tells her lawyer she’s been a great mom and she should just get him on my bros weeks since he couldn’t pick him up. Why was I doing it, “he didn’t even know me!” Wtf!
Goes to court, spreads more lies of my bros lack of commitment and me being a stranger, blah, barf, blah. Judge pulls my nephew into his chambers and they come back out. She gets chastised for lying and she ends up with the same visitation and having to pay back support.
Yeah, screw if Rebekah! I know longer have to play nice cuz they’re 21!
Never. I’ve never been in a position to enjoy catching someone in a lie. It has happened many times in my career, but I’ve never gained satisfaction from it because it has ALWAYS been the lies of a superior. When you’re a subordinate, I’ve learned, you must tow the line, or pay the price. Shining light in an upward direction doesn’t illuminate anything.
been reading through these comments for like half an hour and only just remembered this.
So there's a tumblr post that is a few years old about a girl stating how much tea means to British people. She then tells a story about how her and her mother had an argument and her mum made her a cup of tea as an apology. She then apparently poured it down the sink and made another.
Less than a week ago, a girl (from south africa), who lives across the road from me posts a status on facebook telling this exact story but instead of it being about her and her mother it's about her and her brother.
When i was younger I never used tumblr but i loved reading tumblr posts on facebook and followed a bunch of pages so I had seen this story at least twice and I instantly recognised this.
I commented, saying "Isn't this a tumblr post?" and screenshotted it in case she deleted it. Sure enough, in the next half hour or so, I get a notification saying '[Redacted] replied to your comment on facebook.' Now, this is either her deleting it or actually replying, so I checked. As i had expected, she'd deleted it. I commented something about her deleting it and she just replied "yep." Now, her mother posts a comment on the status about how her and her brother are always arguing or something in an attmpt to back her up. It sounds completely forced, itherwise I would have backtracked and thought "Wow, this really happened!"
Even to me this sounds stupid and made up and I thought i was having a bad dream or something because this is the stupidest thing I, myself have ever seen someone my age do so blatantly.
I made a stupid joke about a pussy cat and it was a squirting joke and i.told my friend. He then was like HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? Then he told my other friend and then I asked them and they said they have a inappropriate sister. The other one said, I kid you not, said I HAVE A LiTTLE SISTER. His little sister is 4. He Clearly has no idea what squirting is. It was disgusting.
I worked for a company for 4.5 years. Within 4 months I became assistant manager, and my manager made it clear that she had cancer. Hodgkins lymphoma, to be exact... and she states she has had it since 1988. She took every opportunity to tell any and everyone she could. Tons of customers felt sorry for her, employees as well, and she would take off weeks and months at a time for chemo treatments.
I didn’t believe her from day one. I’ve had multiple family members die of cancer, and I knew what chemo treatments did to you. It was a struggle just to come to work every day, watching her make people feel sorry for her. We caught her cutting her hair in the bathroom a few times, and she’d come out saying “omg look my hair is falling it from the chemo”. When her husband would come in the store, I’d purposely mention the cancer. He would just look at me weird and not say much.
So I made it a life goal to out this woman. I quit that job, went to college for the IT field, and decided I must get a job in the medical field. 2 years later I landed a job at the local hospital, and had access to medical records, radiology images, so on.
The very first thing I did was look her up. I found only a few records, but the first one I pulled up was from 6 months prior to that date (1.5 years after I had quit). It clearly stated “no prior cancer” in the records. I looked up the others... none of them said anything about cancer. As a matter of fact this lady was perfectly healthy, nothing wrong with her.
Of course I couldn’t say anything... I had already broken HIPAA law, and telling anyone would just land myself in a world of trouble. So I’ve just kept it to myself... but the satisfaction I got from finding out the truth was one of the best feelings in the world.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 21:52:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even at a young age I rarely lied and I hated doing it. It came to the point when I told her to own her shit and I'm not doing that for her anymore. Like don't bring me into your false world. Great parenting mom.
Recently took my phone in to get looked at the guy did nothing and said it wasnt repareable but said dont worry we got a promotion where your balance paid off if you just buy a new phone said it only lasted till the end of the day. I told him the phone worked so id wait as soon as i got outside the sound worked again.
"Spent the night watching Harry Potter wiht my girlfriend. When the movie is finished, she started talking about how amazing the movie is. Then, I asked her what's her favorite part of the movie, she didn't respond. Never watched a movie with her again.
She just wants the D."
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It was extremely painful when this first happened but now it is very satisfying. A girl I graduated with from Highschool had stayed in pretty good contact with me in college. Shared her struggles with me and I tried to carry her. One day she tells me I was one of five individuals who did the same thing for her and that she was going to ghost me. Which began the 3-nights of conversations—revealing each and every little lie. My favorite lie was when she said I wasn’t good enough to her. Her last words to me had said I was too good to be true, making a complete reversal in that short time.
This is so satisfying because I actually doubted myself and believed her—that I didn’t treat her or anyone right. After 3-nights of conversation it turned out that I was doing the right thing all along. Moral of the story for me: listen to what others say, but don’t blindly believe them, especially if the belief is of yourself.
I don’t have any actual good ones but a few weeks ago on Overwatch, there was some dipstick in voice chat calling all of us trash players. I argued back because it was funny to hear him try to insult me (“you ugly woman”) and think he could get a reaction out of a 14 year old boy. He died, talked shit about me not trying to protect him, a dps. Like what? I’m a Hanzo, shut up.
He calls me a piece of shit, says he as all gold medals and tries to avoid my question when I ask him his stats. Me, with gold 30 kills, asks him how many kills he’s got. He responds “I’ve got 40 you ugly cunt” and I feel all of the stars align as I prepare to tell him. “I’ve got gold actually, you fuckin’ loser, and I have thirty.”
And then the best thing ever, “Shut up you’re a girl” and doesn’t try to even listen to anybody else in voice chat. Pure gold. Reported him and the next time I logged on to find he got a punishment.
I recently disclosed to my Taekwondo teacher that I had also been taking judo from another teacher. The taekwondo teacher got really mad and at one point accused my judo teacher of not buying a building because he didn’t really have enough balls. I told my judo teacher this, who then messaged my taekwondo teacher.
The next time I saw my taekwondo teacher, he exclaimed: I never said that about his balls! I’m like: yeah you did. He’s like: no I didn’t. I’m like yeah you did! He’s like: well if I said that then it’s for good reason. Yeah right, friggen liar. Trying to make it look like I was lying about what he said. I’m no longer associating with that Taekwondo class lol
About two year ago I was on the subway and some girl was laying down on the guys lap with a jacket over his head, clearly giving him head. It was like 3pm so the train was kinda empty but and I said, "excuse me is she sucking you off under there?" he's eyes popped out his head as he went red and said "No" so I got up to pull the jacket off and he quickly stands up and knees the girl in the face.
This happened recently while I was playing as SCP-173 on a Garry's Mod SCPRP server. A big rule is that you can't handcuff SCP-173 and restrain them, you can only use a cage.
This one player, Pete, broke that rule, blindfolded and gagged me as well, a statue, and then started punching me, acting like he had made me his bitch. I was screaming at him the whole time about he broke the rules, wanting his head. And when another SCP researcher showed up and told him he couldn't restrain me, this asshole has the gall to say I had asked to be restrained, while right in front of me. Where I could hear him and was screaming he had broken the rules.
I believe my rage was so pure it straight up broke SCP-173's key feature of being frozen when looked at just so I could chase him down and snap his neck.
My mom has a really close friend and sometimes would spend most of her time with him rather than me. She said she was coming home to cook me dinner but I tracked her phone and found her at his house, 15 miles away.
Long sad story.... someone asked me to notarize something..... I found out later, when The Police knocked on my door.... that the person and documents were fraudulent. I found out the real "Crystal" was 5'10" and the imposter he brought to my home is 5'3".
I could have gotten 5-10 years in jail for fraud and/or perjury.
There's a lot more lies and drama and evil from that man -- but I don't want to spend any more time thinking about him. :(
OOOOOOUUUUUUCCCCHHHHHH. :(
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 04:57:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school I had a class mate who was extremely entitled and a real nuisance to everyone where he would get into arguments with the teacher and the last thing he did that really got on my nerves was that he would be very boastful and try and act as though he was 'bad' well one day he was boasting to the teacher about how he supposedly spent a night in jail and since I was really just done with his shit I interrupted him while he was boasting and said 'Oh what did you do steal a Snickers bar?' so I start mocking him and making up what he would be telling his cellie 'Yeah man I am here for stealing a snickers bar what about you?' Causing him to shut up where when ever I would catch him in a lie I would remind him about the Snickers bar jab where I would say 'Oh what did you do this time and does it involve a snickers bar?'
daBO55 · -11 points · Posted at 13:37:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and this dude got in a fight and he snitched about it and said I stated it so I pulled out a clip of him saying he was gonna kick my ass
I had this abusive girlfriend. Total bitch. Beat me physically, controlled me emotionally, and I suspected that once she had cheated on me. She denied it. I let it slide for just about a year, and I found out that she had started blabbing to her girlfriends about how big my dick was. So much so that one of them was a little too interested.
Instead of breaking up with her and pursuing the friend, I decided to fuck the friend. Friend told another friend. Fucked that friend too! Then, my favourite awful thing I did was fuck her brothers girlfriend. (He was a douche apparently with a small dick too.)
Eventually I decided that there was much better pussy out there than the abusive gf, so I decided to break up with her. When I did she was apparently distraught and couldn't believe it. She kept begging me to stay, asking me WHY WHY WHY!! and I told her "I slept with someone else"
And here's where her lie comes out.
"OOhhh no its ok! I cheated on you too! It was a one time thing" and confirmed my single suspicion. With a grin on my face, and her future sister-inlaws crotch sauce still on my mouth from the night before, I gave her our final kiss goodbye and left her at her home.
I walked away so damn proud of myself. It wasn't because she cheated on me. It was because she treated me like shit. Fucked her one friend a few more times and then found the love of my life who I have remained loyal to for years.
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Jonny_Wurster · 12683 points · Posted at 15:58:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I travel for work. I 90% of the time park in economy at the airport (I think $14 per day). about a 10 to 15 min walk. A few times out of necessity to catch a flight I park in the garage (I think $24 per day, 5 min walk). Usually 2 to 3 day trips, not a huge expense.
My boss suggests I park in Off Site Shuttle parking (about $11 a day, but a pain in the ass as you need a bunch more time to plan for the shuttle). He said he does it, because it is cheaper for the company (which he owns).
One day while walking through the garage from on site economy, there in the reserved parking (closest and like $40 per day) is my boss's truck. And reserved takes planning, he wasn't just running late and needed to park in the garage to make a flight.
I just put my business card under his wiper. I never brought it up, and I haven't heard any complaints about parking on my expense reports since.
kaizenvanilla · 6444 points · Posted at 18:42:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love the elegance of your method.
makdaddy63 · 867 points · Posted at 23:32:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was gonna say "smooth as fuck" but elegance sounds much better
blitz-dropshot · 185 points · Posted at 23:49:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's smooth as fuckier.
pm_me_ur_demotape · 50 points · Posted at 23:52:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is much more doper
AthenasApostle · 28 points · Posted at 03:52:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Elegant as fuck
Chickenbones369 · 11 points · Posted at 04:50:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is strangely perfect
AdvocateSaint · 4 points · Posted at 13:46:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A more elegant term from a more civilized age
thecrazysloth · 2 points · Posted at 09:49:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smooth as elegance?
Heel-Toe · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smooth as fuck sounds better.
Actually was smooth af
Smifwiz · 90 points · Posted at 00:13:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most passive aggressive thing I've seen all day.
rustinthewind · 160 points · Posted at 00:51:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not even aggressive. It's a simple statement, "I know you're bullshitting me." It's subtle as hell, but classy.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 06:18:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Discombobulated_Ship · 15 points · Posted at 09:30:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Arguing with the company owner over his own expenses is an argument you can never win though.
1011010010110 · 3 points · Posted at 10:32:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nevertheless, this argument would cost him so much respect points.
Jonny_Wurster · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If there is one thing Jonny Wurster is know for, it is elegance.
adamsuth · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:32 on July 13, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wsdddddrffccxx, w
merr_99 · 313 points · Posted at 18:49:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your boss isn't very cognizant of time value of money; if he's concerned about $9 for a 3 day trip, and you're spending 30 mins each way for the shuttle, he's saving $9 for a half hour of work, and considering you're traveling via air, I'm sure your time is valued at more than $18/hour.
If I were him, I'd want my employees optimizing the reliability of being on the flight instead of optimizing the cost, because missing the flight is a much greater expense in both time and money.
17399371 · 126 points · Posted at 22:53:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing you don't work on salary...
OneMillionMiles · 113 points · Posted at 23:19:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What? Time can still have values attached to it as a salaried employee. Not all employers waste salaried employees time as you seem to suggest.
17399371 · 53 points · Posted at 23:44:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because the 10 minute walk vs 30 minute walk has no bearing on his pay because he may be salaried and in the real world it's not going to have any effect on his productivity either as far as his employer is concerned.
elcarath · 51 points · Posted at 23:49:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Missing a flight can have a pretty big effect on productivity though.
Speclination · 9 points · Posted at 02:11:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Giving him an excuse to bitch about missing flights though.
TheOneShorter · 3 points · Posted at 05:04:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
yeah at that point it gives reason for firing, which is leverage for him and not for the employee
17399371 · -31 points · Posted at 23:56:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If parking in the further lot makes you miss a flight then you don't deserve to keep a job the requires a lot of airline travel...
Gordon_Frohman_Lives · 23 points · Posted at 03:52:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This sounds like a guy who has never, once, had to fly anywhere as part of a job.
Jonny_Wurster · 6 points · Posted at 15:38:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Here is the thing about travel...It is unpredictable. Going to the airport and there is a crash on the expressway that holds up traffic is out of my control. Flat tire is out of my control. All of the economy parking is full and I would need a shuttle is out of my control. The extra 15 min I spend at the office dealing with an issue so I can leave an travel is (for the most part) out of my control. Bad weather and flights being canceled are out of my control. TSA back up is out of my control. The damn luggage handling system breaks and everything at the airport is backed up is out of my control.
These are all things that have caused me to almost miss a flight.
When possible, I do get to the airport early, and just find a desk to work at. That isn't always possible.
elcarath · 2 points · Posted at 02:23:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, when your boss is making you park in the farther lot so you're not paying as much for parking, it's no longer a matter of whether or not you deserve to keep the job, is it?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:46:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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17399371 · 8 points · Posted at 02:17:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Clearly no one that's answered has traveled for work on an airplane. You don't go to work then go to the airport. You go to the airport from the house. You don't work first right up until the second you leave for the airport. A fifteen minute swing on travel time to the airport for what is likely a several hour flight doesn't register as wasted time for the employer.
I know this because I literally send employees on air travel trips. I don't expect my people to work when they wake up, go to the airport, work at the gate, work on the flight, work in the cab on the way to hotel, etc.
monachopsiss · 16 points · Posted at 02:59:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uhm, I work at a law firm and this is literally exactly what happens. Lawyers go to the office and work until it's time to leave for their flight, work in some capacity on the way to the airport, work while waiting for the plane, work on the plane, etc. Many clients won't pay for travel alone, the firm eats that cost. They'll only pay for the time you actually bill to the work you're actually doing. And if you're busy, you can't afford to be "wasting" that much time anyway. So please don't act so sure of yourself.
AndyRandyElvis · -5 points · Posted at 03:35:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So the lawyers work while driving to the airport? Also, do they work while sitting on the toilet? What else do they do while working?
Deadpoker · 6 points · Posted at 04:48:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bro, uber....
monachopsiss · 3 points · Posted at 13:40:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
..... Uhm, they are sitting in a car being driven to the airport... But please, go on.
noralily23 · 3 points · Posted at 10:44:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are some industries where it would be scandalous to not work the morning of your flight.
Jonny_Wurster · 3 points · Posted at 14:02:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I often do go to the office before my flights. I tend to take afternoon flights so I can get hours in before.
KurrKurr · 2 points · Posted at 00:47:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you got this wrong. Sure, the productivity isn't affected, but with shorter travel time you can write more billable hours. Huge win!
17399371 · 2 points · Posted at 00:51:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Travel time is nearly always billable...
KurrKurr · 0 points · Posted at 00:55:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sure, but usually not at the full rate, right?
So less shitty rate, more full rate.
Jonny_Wurster · 1 points · Posted at 14:01:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No billable hours in what I do....
flyingwolf · 3 points · Posted at 02:19:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lots of salaried people are not exempt from over time.
In fact, the vast majority of salaried employees are due overtime.
Jonny_Wurster · 3 points · Posted at 14:00:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a very unique set of skills. I am part sales, part engineering, and part project management. I get paid on the profitability of my projects.
JohnjSmithsJnr · 2 points · Posted at 00:41:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The principle is still the same....
BigSmoke3856 · 6 points · Posted at 23:06:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is there something wrong with the calculations?
dreterran · 25 points · Posted at 23:16:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its not about the calculations, salary is a flat rate regardless of the amount of time worked. Whether OP spends 10-15 minutes walking or over 30 getting to the airport he gets paid the same, so the boss doesn't care how much longer it takes because he's not getting paid any more for the longer trip.
7zrar · 16 points · Posted at 23:49:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Along the same line, it doesn't matter if OP spends 10 minutes walking or the whole workday, since the boss pays OP the same either way. Might be something wrong with that logic.
dontforgettocya · 16 points · Posted at 23:15:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea the calculations assumed an hourly wage, if you're on a salary you get paid the same regardless of how many hours you put in/travel for work
AlexisFR · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, the thing that's standard in most of Europe, where you can tack on overtime and travel time on top, yep, that's it.
Find a better company that pays salary and OT.
occams--chainsaw · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Doesn't matter if he's salaried- that's still going to cut into work time. It just makes the impact less measurable.
JaSkynyrd · 97 points · Posted at 22:59:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't smoke, but after reading your post I feel like I need to light up a cigarette in bed after sex like they did in old movies.
Most satisying story in the whole thread.
AlabasterButthole · 34 points · Posted at 22:54:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think out of all of these stories, I like your one the most.
So simple and effective with the buisness card.
Spavid · 22 points · Posted at 23:04:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, that's a classy move
zdakat · 16 points · Posted at 23:36:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"We know"
Nrgdragon · 5 points · Posted at 01:51:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hail sithis
madjag · 7 points · Posted at 02:39:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude dude.. that's brilliant. Imagine the look on the boss' face when he saw the card.
Bakzz64 · 6 points · Posted at 23:58:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smooth execution.
Mandalf_the_Ghey · 10 points · Posted at 23:27:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oooooooooof. You must have had a good rapport with him because this is BALL-SY.
Bravo!
Jonny_Wurster · 5 points · Posted at 14:04:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually, no. But I am starting to make them good money so it is improving.
kraesenpind · 13 points · Posted at 00:44:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm super stoned rn, and didn't really understand, but i like it.
rustyisme123 · 28 points · Posted at 01:08:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He put his card on his bosses windshield to let him know that, "hey, I saw you parked in a $40/day spot, and i know you are full of shit about putting up with the inconveniences of parking in the $11/day spot you said you used." Simple, effective, tactful, and elegant in a way.
kraesenpind · 15 points · Posted at 01:46:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice
rustyisme123 · 8 points · Posted at 01:59:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right?
Arctic_fucks · 4 points · Posted at 02:18:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Flawless victory
JoyFerret · 5 points · Posted at 04:43:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like your style
tsgheric · 7 points · Posted at 23:21:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well played good sir.
uwl · 3 points · Posted at 03:40:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
epic
ftcollinsceo · 3 points · Posted at 06:55:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like DIA parking prices
Pradidye · 2 points · Posted at 05:11:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you in Houston, Texas by chance?
TrampMcVamp · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:06 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Saucy!
412budstep · 2 points · Posted at 23:00:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's so rich
DrivesAKangaroo · 1 points · Posted at 08:38:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was his name Anthony? Sounds like my dick head boss at my old job
Jonny_Wurster · 13 points · Posted at 15:42:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, and over all the guy isn't a dick. He is a person. Not the best boss I have ever had, not the worse. This one incident doesn't mean I hate my job, or hate my boss. I love my job, and my relation with my boss is improving. This is just an item we disagree on, and I caught him on the wrong side of his previous statement to me.
laxt · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your boss is a douche, even if he wasn't lying. Glad you caught him.
[deleted] · -103 points · Posted at 00:22:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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jobblejosh · 113 points · Posted at 00:50:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You also said once that you won around £8 million in the lottery and never need to work again in your life, but at the same time couldn't justify spending £60 on Football Manager.
You also allegedly know the Cumbox guy even though you live in Bournemouth, according to your comments.
Something here smells of bullshit, and it sure isn't my shoes.
melficebelmont · 40 points · Posted at 01:16:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you have really caught this lie is it your nomination for "What was the most satisifying time where you caught someone lying?"
jobblejosh · 20 points · Posted at 02:10:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. Yes it is.
Stunto · 24 points · Posted at 01:10:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He used the £8 million lottery win to start his very successful company. He spends low, which explains the reluctance to spend £60 on anything. He's jet set (but parks off-site to save money), so living in Bournemouth wouldn't stop him knowing the Cumbox guy.
Or, he's completely full of shit.
MyPasswordWasWhat · 21 points · Posted at 00:48:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think it's so much about what he's doing, more the fact that he lied about it. The whole thread is about being caught in a lie.
Firing someone because they caught you lying and put their business card down is pretty ridiculous.
sounds_n_stuff · 13 points · Posted at 00:49:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If that’s your attitude I hope you enjoy running as company alone, because no one is going to put up with you as their boss.
verbal_pestilence · 25 points · Posted at 00:34:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
no one cares what you think
silly_gaijin · 9 points · Posted at 05:29:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A hint if you ever do own a company: A boss who's extravagant with the company's money when it comes to his own needs, yet chisels his employees over a couple of dollars, is not a well-respected boss.
mikeash · 8 points · Posted at 03:03:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you miss the part where the boss was using extravagantly expensive parking...?
btoxic · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing your company doesn't specialize in using grammar correctly.
Jonny_Wurster · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think you would have a successful business with either the spend low or fire your ass attitudes.
If you did have a business, and you at every perceived slight you to the opportunity to "fire your ass", you would have no employees. Ever. People would quit, or get fired. No one wants to take a job that has had a lot of turnover because of bad management.
Business run on people with all their strengths and flaws. Embrace their strengths and mitigate the damage of their flaws to be successful. "Fire your ass" is not a path to success.
snukebox_hero · 5049 points · Posted at 15:40:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oohhh boy. So in college I had this friend who was a very good pole vaulter. Seriously, one of the top in the state for his division. This was back in 2008. He tells ALL of his family, and friends, and even his boss that he was recruited to compete in the Beijing olymipcs. Well his close friends, including myself already call bullshit but when the "day" comes he is nowhere to be found. In fact, we didnt see him for a couple of days, and he started texting pics from Beijing. So we were doubting ourselves a bit. Then we were driving along the freeway, and guess whos broken down on the side of the road like 2 days after he left? Mr olympian! When we pulled over the look on his face was priceless. He stood by his story too, and said because of the time difference he already went and came back. Haha he's a fucking idiot. I still dont know what he had to gain from such an elaborate bullshit story.
AmateurIndicator · 662 points · Posted at 17:31:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is weird... Did he ever admit bullshitting?
snukebox_hero · 929 points · Posted at 18:04:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bonus, all the "pics from beijing" were from a google image search of beijing olympics.
AmateurIndicator · 83 points · Posted at 18:26:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amazing.. People are so strange..
seamusmcduffs · 50 points · Posted at 04:24:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Couldn't you just easily Google the Olympic roster to see that he wasn't on it? Why would he like about something so easily debunked.
Mean_Mister_Mustard · 41 points · Posted at 05:36:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also, isn't the olympic pole vaulting competition shown on TV? Wouldn't people who personally know one of the alleged competitors be likely to tune in to watch the competition, no matter what time it aired, or at least catch the results in the news the following day?
k-ozm-o · 3 points · Posted at 13:03:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well wouldn't that have to be the case being that he never actually went?
snukebox_hero · 72 points · Posted at 18:00:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope, even to this day. Is it really a lie if you believe it.
metastasis_d · 41 points · Posted at 21:52:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. Yes it is.
Philyeagles710 · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/vn_PSJsl0LQ
EhhWhatsUpDoc · 1 points · Posted at 12:21:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not from the point of view of the liar.
Yanny_or_Laurel · 0 points · Posted at 14:01:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lying means deception. If you believe that Pluto is a planet, you are not lying if you say Pluto is a planet, even if Pluto is not a planet.
InterdimensionalTV · 18 points · Posted at 00:14:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. Just makes you sick in the head in addition to being a liar.
KJParker888 · 119 points · Posted at 18:12:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did he think the time difference between home and Beijing was two weeks?
snukebox_hero · 130 points · Posted at 18:21:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
he was clutching straws at this point. But get this, his boss (aka my friends uncle) approached me in like 2012 and asked if he really went. When I said hell no, he was like I KNEW IT!
eatonsht · 49 points · Posted at 20:49:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope he got an Olympics tattoo to really sell it. It isn't like the qualified competitors aren't listed as a matter of public record
Mcb17lnp · 33 points · Posted at 01:54:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I honestly just feel bad for him. What could cause him to push this delusion so far? What would happen in his head if he admitted he was caught lying?
goldieluxe2 · 6 points · Posted at 02:14:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people are just shitty people who enjoy the attention they get through lies. Lots of teenagers do it, especially teenage girls. Some people are immature enough to keep doing it into adulthood so they seem cool and interesting when they are in fact not super cool or interesting. Not everything is deep.
EhhWhatsUpDoc · 5 points · Posted at 12:23:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Behaviors this extreme into adulthood are very deeply rooted in childhood trauma.
goldieluxe2 · 1 points · Posted at 14:03:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not always, and not even often. Adults lie. Some people get kicks out of lying. The end.
EhhWhatsUpDoc · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lying about going to the Olympics is more than "just for kicks". The end, final post credit scene.
OldTechnician · 21 points · Posted at 04:15:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was raised being told my Father won gold and silver in the 1956 Olympics. When I got older it occurred to me that I could look it up. Nope, just an insanely narsassitic father and delusional mother. My siblings are just now realizing this in there 50s.
MathPolice · 9 points · Posted at 17:24:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was the 1937 European Fencing Champion.
It's just that the official records were lost during the war.
But you can believe me on this. I won in both foil and épée.
Godlyeyes · 6 points · Posted at 09:18:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't know about pole vaulting for sure but you gotta go a year in advance to qualify and be checked out and set up. Plus you gotta go back every month for 5 months and the last 7 months they set you up with a living quarter where you stay and train and eat there. Like I said though I don't know about pole vaulting I just know this to be true for boxing.
Ikegordon · 5 points · Posted at 13:21:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You also have to qualify make it through the olympic trials. The standards for the trials are wayyyyy better than your average high school state champion’s height.
Godlyeyes · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And this too
often_drinker · 5 points · Posted at 00:53:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like, I understand if you've never seen RoboCop, but you've never HEARD of RoboCop?
EhhWhatsUpDoc · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stay out of trouble.
steveex · 4 points · Posted at 16:20:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Omg! Same thing happened to me.
Pretty good friend of mine in senior year Trained a lot for marathons and made us all believe he was going to Beijing as well. He had a solid build up so when the time came, he didn’t show up at school and we were eager to see him on TV. Suddenly after a few days his Mom called me and asked if I had seen him. I am totally confused and said “erhm... he is... in Beijing?” The only logical reaction to that answer from her perspective was “are you bullshitting me? Tell him to come home” and I honest to god didn’t know where he was. I tried calling him quite a bunch of times, texted him after some research the official list of the country participants and asked for an explanation. Turns out he just had a fight with his mom And ran away from home and stayed with his aunt. In our friends group this wasn’t tolerated and sure enough some of them didn’t forgive and never talked to him again. I did after a while and we’re still pretty good friends. He hasn’t lied since.
unrefusableoffer69 · 3 points · Posted at 02:20:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lie. But lie smart.
CyborgSlunk · 3 points · Posted at 10:34:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow your friend hacked timezones
Olympian78 · 16 points · Posted at 21:54:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You called?
HereticxAnthem · 2 points · Posted at 03:07:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
LMFAO
thecrazysloth · 1 points · Posted at 09:51:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahahaha does he think the time difference is like a week or something?
not-quite-a-nerd · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't he realise that this one would be found out with a simple Google search or watching TV?
CarlosFer2201 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can also google the list of athletes that went...he's really stupid
_APA · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha, although extreme, I think we all have a friend that pulls this kind of shit.
mypoorbrain · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:47 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
Abe Liu???
AltKhaiden · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:03 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, I'd take his word for it at that point. He deserves it after going through such effort to keep it up.
muthmaar · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:40 on July 1, 2018 · (Permalink)
wouldnt you have seen him on TV then?
PirateJohn75 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:20 on July 3, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah. Time difference.
PirateJohn75 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:08 on July 3, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Recruited" to compete in the Olympics? Yeah, no...
Next2LastJedi · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wooooooooooow. Came for something epic like this and was not disappointed.
bbbberlin · 4304 points · Posted at 15:48:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wasn't me, but a professor caught a student plagiarizing an essay... as she was reading it aloud to the class.
"That's an excellent essay by my friend, Dr._____ you're reading. Please keep reading it until the end."
He made her stand infront of us and kept going until "her presentation" was over.
Theolaa · 1101 points · Posted at 20:28:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's brutal lol
somewoneelse · 271 points · Posted at 23:25:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A similar thing happened to a friend of mine in college, except he didn't have to lie or plagiarize anything, just work harder.
He was writing a final paper for a philosophy class, and he had chosen a topic that seemed vague enough that he could skim a few papers and wrote something convincing. I think it was the social effects of AI or something like that.
Anyway, he's going to cite the main paper he's working from, and it was written by his professor who just so happens to be a leading voice on this topic.
bbbberlin · 238 points · Posted at 23:49:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, when I was an undergrad someone warned me "don't write on your professor's specialty."
Really though that's bad advice, since professors love it when you write on their topic. Yeah, you can't be sloppy about it, because they'll recognize any mistakes, but they're usually pretty happy to dork out over the subject with you.... and if you go to grad school, it's all about finding a professor who is an expert on the topic you want to write about.
mikeash · 85 points · Posted at 03:23:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Any advice on how to get away with doing shoddy work in college should make you suspicious. The whole point is to come out with new knowledge and skills. This basically boils down to "how to punch yourself in the dick without getting caught."
mikebrady · 45 points · Posted at 03:44:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know your last sentence is just to illustrate your point, but if any one actually knows how to punch yourself in the dick without getting caught, please let me know. I've been struggling with this for years.
mikeash · 28 points · Posted at 03:48:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The trick is to use a diversion. Call in a bomb threat at the local supermarket or something, then do it while all the cops are busy with that.
mikebrady · 12 points · Posted at 03:54:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Brilliant.
Schattentochter · 1 points · Posted at 13:49:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
couldn't one just punch themselves in the dick at home?
Stagamemnon · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:33 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
yeah. sure. *scoffs*
LeakyLycanthrope · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:37 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you wanted to take the easy way out, I guess.
iamfunball · 4 points · Posted at 16:01:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I only BS the busywork. Research papers? Na. Im paying to learn so I'll take the harder road. Paid off. A in my English class and was told by 3 professors in the department I should modify my essay for publication.
I learned some better techniques and gained epic amounts of confidence.
TooLazyToBeClever · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The difference between "How can I do the least amount of work and still graduate" and "how can I maximize my time and accomplish the most?"
Thatguyinabowtie · 82 points · Posted at 03:56:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had an english teacher in back in year 9 who noticed that the essay the kid was reading out was super advanced compared to the kids english level. He searched up a sentence and finished off the last paragraph for him. I have never seen a kid go so red.
coffeewithoutkids · 129 points · Posted at 00:39:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I taught high school for 6 years and almost always caught kids plagiarizing. One year I had caught a handful of kids and let all of my classes know that I had a bunch of papers that would be getting zeros because of it when a kid approached me after class to ask if his was one of the papers. I hadn’t gotten to his yet, but it made it easy to check his.
Chugging_Estus · 87 points · Posted at 02:22:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, the elusive self-snitch
bbbberlin · 48 points · Posted at 10:41:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, the Canadian government literally did this a few years back, when they got their hands on some leaked European bank records for people who were hiding assets.
"We have the names of 150 people who were banking in Switerland, who are going to jail for tax evasion, unless you make a deal."
Needless to say more than 150 people made plea bargains with the Canadian government.
sillybanana2012 · 50 points · Posted at 04:03:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I witnessed a Professor speaking to a student about plagiarism. Turns out that the student had plagiarized an essay that the Professor himself had originally written. Student was asked not to bother coming back to class and was reported to the Dean.
bbbberlin · 3 points · Posted at 10:44:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow... that is so dumb. That ex-student is definitely going to have to come up with a lie, for when they explain this story anyone else, haha.
BBrown7 · 33 points · Posted at 06:21:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my English professors was reading a paper a student wrote. She had a hard time following so she started reading it aloud at home, with her husband in the room. The paper was over some civil engineering project, and the husband is a civil engineer.
Her husband was reading the exact same paper that this student "wrote" at the same time my professor was reading it aloud. He almost got away it. He failed the class, his last semester.
bbbberlin · 12 points · Posted at 10:49:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man... well, he was probably plagiarizing all the way through, I doubt it was his first time doing that. Most schools too will have you expelled, and then good luck getting admission anywhere else, it's like the academic version of a felony conviction.
Muphsi · 3 points · Posted at 18:57:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's best relation to what it is. You get one cheating "charge" all the schools don't want you.
Lowtiercomputer · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:28 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've found that to rarely be the case where I am. I've actually proved a handful of my classmates were cheating twice and they either got slapped on the wrists or nothing at all.
Specifically a female engineer I knew. They've got to keep their numbers up I guess.
antoniofelicemunro · 27 points · Posted at 05:19:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similarly, in grade 12 English the teacher starts reading exactly what the student was reading because he found where the student had plagiarized from. Made him finish the presentation too and he was almost crying the whole time.
Muphsi · 3 points · Posted at 18:58:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you're going to cheat. Atleast be smart about it.
TooLazyToBeClever · 70 points · Posted at 21:05:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right? I used to get away with cheating all the time, because I was smart about it.
First, instead of just copying another essay word for word, I would look up a couple different articles in the same subject, and sort of combine them.
Then, I would take all the different articles I had looked up, and read them thoroughly. Once that was done, I would spend a little time thinking about then, so I understood basically what they were about.
After that, I would take all the infor.ation from my multiple sources and wright a new essay in my own words, with a few differing opinions of my own to throw the professor off.
And finally, to hide my trail, I would list all of the articles I got my info from, so the professor was fooled into thinking I wasn't cheating. Worked like a charm. I was never once accused of cheating.
EDIT: See? With a little forethought, planning, and a few hours worth of work, you too can cheat your way through school. And look at me now. Gilded.
But, thank you sir or ma'am, much appreciated. Have a good day.
beefforyou · 16 points · Posted at 21:57:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, great tip! Reminds me of one I used to use for tests. Instead of writing notes, which can easily get you caught, you just memorize everything. I got away with cheating so many times this way
TooLazyToBeClever · 11 points · Posted at 01:31:39 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice! That's a really good tip! Hey, we should get together and write a book, like tips on cheating without getting caught! Like, another way I would cheat, is when the professor was talking, I wrote down what they were saying when they weren't looking. That way, I could look at them later, in case I missed anything. I had one professor who saw me doing this once, but he was cool so he just pretended it was no big deal. I was like, "sweet!"
TwistedM8 · 32 points · Posted at 01:25:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Know a college English professor and he had a student turn in a paper that he wrote. There's some funny event to go along with it but I don't remember. How can someone be so lazy that they manage to do that.
xmindallas · 12 points · Posted at 14:16:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So lazy that they manage to do what? Tell half of a story? :)
Muphsi · 4 points · Posted at 18:58:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/Maimedbywords
TooLazyToBeClever · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think /r/woosh might be more appropriate.
ApprehensiveEmphasis · 8 points · Posted at 01:52:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Savage.
silly_gaijin · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn. He was probably the toast of the faculty lounge after that.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:51:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
At what college do you read your essays out loud.
bbbberlin · 4 points · Posted at 10:51:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean she was doing a presentation, but was reading a script which was basically just the essay broken into pieces.
not_homestuck · 2 points · Posted at 03:54:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's literally amazing. Props to him.
rex1030 · 1 points · Posted at 09:12:47 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Imagine the feeling of knowing you are going to be kicked out of college and having to continue your speech.
thecrazysloth · 0 points · Posted at 09:54:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is like something that insane camp commandant in Schindler’s Lost would do
[deleted] · -14 points · Posted at 05:01:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love the fact that the stupid bitch had to finish reading it. Extra shaming!
spacialHistorian · 552 points · Posted at 18:27:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in the customer framing department at a craft store and there's this one woman who always talks down to all the employees. Her husband is rich and she shouldn't be kept waiting blah blah blah (She was waiting for like five minutes because I was helping another customer) and she just keeps trying to get ridiculous discounts.This glass has a scratch on it? Oh, sorry, I'll just replace it real quick. Nope. She wants to be upgraded to museum glass (a $90 difference) because I made her wait a few minutes to fix a scratch that only she could see. I'm pretty sure she got off on being a bitch because if I can't understand why she would come back several times for different pieces if I was really such a terrible worker.
Anyway, she came in one day with a painting she wants re-framed. And then emphasizes that it was her grandmother who painted it and it has such sentimental value. Also, her grandmother was a professional painter so it's probably worth like so much money.
It's a generic painting of flowers in a vase and I'm like 80% sure at that point it's not really that old. She's just playing it up so when she gets the art back she can point out a flaw in it that we caused and she can demand we give her the whole frame for free.
So I'm taking the canvas out of the old frame and she's reminding me that it's super valuable. I take off the dust cover on the back and lo and behold there's a sticker already there: Clearance: $19.99.
I wish I had a photo of her face when she saw that.
Adrienne926 · 178 points · Posted at 18:47:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now I don't want to alarm you, ma'am, but it appears that your pants are on fire.
n0vaga5 · 5 points · Posted at 02:39:18 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's the difference between regular glass and museum glass?
spacialHistorian · 13 points · Posted at 03:25:14 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Less reflective and more UV resistant.
n0vaga5 · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:52 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah thanks!
RiddickOfRivia · 9 points · Posted at 23:39:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I bet her old crusty clam dried up at that moment.
givemecookies456996 · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:59 on October 8, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work in a frame shop at a craft store too. Holy cow the stupid stuff idiots would try and pull. My favorite lady to cause issues had the worst last name... Buttdorf. She would be the biggest pain in the ass and whenever she came to pick up a painting she would never say her last name out loud, only spell it.
[deleted] · 6232 points · Posted at 15:43:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a daycare. If a child is sick they will be sent home cause we don’t want to risk infecting the whole class (generally happens anyway).
A lot parents don’t agree with this policy which leads to parents arguing with us that their kid isn’t sick when they obviously are.
My favorite time this happen was when a mother dropped her little boy off in an eye patch. Yep the toddler was wearing a damn eye patch. I ask what happened and she says he hit his eye or something. Which I didn’t really believe.
She says whatever I do don’t take off his eye patch. I pick him up and immediately lift up his eye patch.... pink eye. She was sooooo pissed at me for doing that. And she was shocked I did it.
The look on her face was so satisfying. Although I got yelled at by my supervisor for it.
RamblyJambly · 4130 points · Posted at 17:46:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have asked the super whether they'd rather have one pissed of parent or 30
kopecs · 1237 points · Posted at 19:33:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You arent upvoted enough for this. I take my daughter to daycare as well, and like, 40% of the time she ends up with something minor. One time, it ended up being strep throat. The god damn audacity of some parents...
RamblyJambly · 89 points · Posted at 19:51:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had strep throat once. Sucked horribly and I wasn't a kid at the time
AmDerps · 70 points · Posted at 20:09:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I grew up getting strep throat often, can confirm it's shitty.
DelliePickle · 34 points · Posted at 21:57:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same, but the medicine I was prescribed actually tasted like bubble gum. Getting strep wasn't as shitty (literally and figuratively) as getting the flu and having to take cherry or grape flavored bullshit medicine to help with the symptoms.
godless_guru · 23 points · Posted at 03:36:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amoxicillin. Mmmmmm
Scummycrummyday · 3 points · Posted at 12:40:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amoxicillin makes me this up and it’s for some reason really funny to me that y’all love it.
_Starry_Night_ · 4 points · Posted at 05:22:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish they made it into some protein drink flavor. I wouldn’t wish to get strep, but I sure wouldn’t mind if I did if I got that delicious medicine.
Fear_The_Rabbit · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:14 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yellow Triaminic was the worst of all the cold/flu medicines. My parents had to chase me around the house to take that shit.
ForgotMyUmbrella · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Strep throat can lead to mental issues as well (like ocd).
Muphsi · 3 points · Posted at 21:00:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please elaborate, I'm actually curious how ocd and strep throat are related.
ForgotMyUmbrella · 3 points · Posted at 09:38:40 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://www.empr.com/news/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-streptococcal-throat-infection-tic-disorders/article/664627/ There's a lot more out there. It's a shame because for many people going to the doc can be out of the question and I doubt parents realize this is a risk.
Charyou-Tree · 8 points · Posted at 05:07:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once? I am envious. I had it 3-4 times a year until I got out of elementary school. Thank god for antibiotics, my immune system was apparently slacking off.
rockthatissmooth · 4 points · Posted at 05:56:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have never had strep in my entire life. It went around my middle school like wildfire, I don't know how it missed me.
I've had various other interesting illnesses though, like chicken pox (despite being vaccinated), a cold that suddenly turned into pneumonia (don't get that, it sucks), and mystery ulcers that resulted in a hospitalization for eight days, and eventually vanished without ever being diagnosed.
monkeymermaidbutt · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:24 on July 13, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amateurs! Until I got my tonsils out, I got it nearly every month. Then after that, I only got it 5-6 times a year. Now I'm adult, I rarely get it. I think somebody around me kept giving it back to me when I was younger.
Fear_The_Rabbit · 2 points · Posted at 02:30:19 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s worse as an adult. Kids can withstand higher fevers. Strep as an adult can feel like you’re melting.
Source: Me and my doctor after I got strep several times in my first couple of years of teaching elementary school.
veritasquo · 66 points · Posted at 01:44:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a thirty-something, I understand your frustration, and unsurprisingly, as a kid I didn't.
When my sister was 1.5 yrs old, she contracted viral (?) pneumonia from the daycare she was in. I don't recall all the details and would never ask my parents because it was a dark time for them. My parents unknowingly took her to a teaching hospital, she was misdiagnosed, and long story short we almost lost her. She went from being fine to being on life support in a matter of a couple days from what I can remember. I remember leaving 3rd grade early every day and saying nonchalantly to my teacher that my sister was about to die (creepy, I know... but in my defense, I was 8 y/o and didn't fully understand death or even having a sibling). I remember my parents being absolutely furious after learning about the delay in diagnosing her, which led to marital problems that continue to this day because my dad from that point forward resented my mom for trying to work and thus having to put me and my sister in daycare, after school, have a nanny, etc. I remember a counselor/SW at the hospital coming to talk to me one-on-one in the playroom at the hospital (some room with a tv and ton of toys) and she asked me if I understood how sick my sister was.
This is the first time I'm thinking about the incident in years and that's probably why I'm suddenly tearful. As an adult, I obviously resent the dick who shows up to work very clearly sick (upside to being unemployed and sick for nearly 2 years?), but when you're dealing with young children, trying to smuggle your sick child into daycare is a different level of douchiness. The potential repercussions are much more serious.
kopecs · 23 points · Posted at 02:20:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing your story. Hope you and your sister are doing well.
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 22:05:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
seriously, I went to daycare for years and never got sick. My niece regularly comes home with rashes, coughs, etc...do these people not regularly sanitize their areas?
InsOmNomNomnia · 34 points · Posted at 00:30:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It might actually be that their lives are overly sanitized. There's an idea floating around that we catch bugs more frequently and they affect us more severely because our immune systems are weaker these days because we don't get exposed to as much stuff when we're very young as we used to.
FancyKetchupIsnt · 14 points · Posted at 01:30:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder if that is why humans started lumping all their kids in with each other in the first place. Obviously they didn't know germ theory but they could have noticed that when raised in groups like that, more kids survived despite getting the sniffles more. If there's an anthropologist in here feel free to hop in haha
Silegna · 15 points · Posted at 02:18:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Herd Immunity I believe its called. Its why not vaccinating is so dangerous as some kids literally have to rely on Herd Immunity because of immune system failures.
demieert · 12 points · Posted at 08:02:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Herd immunity is not the same concept the person you were replying to described.
HappiestIguana · 6 points · Posted at 16:13:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Herd immunity is something else.
GegenscheinZ · 21 points · Posted at 00:43:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s proven true, iirc. Too much antibacterial soap.
jem4water2 · 14 points · Posted at 01:24:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I work in childcare and our cleaning policies are quite strict with a lot of disinfecting (especially so in the nursery). There’s a 12 step nappy change procedure with three separate hand washes and a glove change, which I find ridiculous. I stick it to the man and go in bare handed, whiz them through like a conveyer belt without disinfecting the mat a hundred times.
Science has shown time and time again that germs are beneficial to children’s immune systems and I feel like my centre’s policies don’t reflect that, so I don’t follow. But then again we can’t stop natural contamination like children drinking from another’s drink bottle, or them taking someone else’s dummy and sucking on it.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 03:37:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
just know that certain diseases can be spread via fecal matter, Hep A is a big problem on the west coast right now because of the homeless populations. I wouldn't bother washing my hands three times, but I would definitely wear gloves if it werent my kid.
jem4water2 · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s fair enough. For me, there’s no part of my skin that touches that child’s skin when I’m wiping fecal matter, and it never makes contact with the change mat either. I always sanitize if the mat is contaminated, but I don’t see the point of gloves and spray if neither my hands or the change mat are making contact with the child’s bottom. I do wash my hands multiple times throughout the day and use gloves to handle food, but don’t bother during changes.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 07:06:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
the 12 step process with 3 hand washing is absurd, but remember you don't see bacteria or other pathogens. I only have to wash my hands when leaving a patient's room who has something like MDRO or CDIFF, but it amazes me that once the infection has been treated, other staff don't bother to put the gown or gloves on anymore. CDIFF spores can survive for up to 90 DAYS on surfaces. I guess I'm more cautious because I see how fast infection can spread amongst people.
gracelessangel · 2 points · Posted at 21:37:38 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I managed to get CDIFF sometime about 5 years ago and wasn't diagnosed until this year, we're guessing I got it at some point when I was in a hospital after I took antibiotics that wrecked my intestional bacteria. Somehow managed to not spread it.
myukaccount · -10 points · Posted at 04:22:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meh. Hep A is incredibly mild and gives you lifetime immunity once you've had it. Better to get it out of the way at an age when nothing much'll happen.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 04:59:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you were caring for my kid and told me this, I would be a pissed off parent. Just saying. Hep A does run the risk of acute liver failure, so it's pretty irresponsible to blatantly disregard basic infection control measures. Not to mention that you don't necessarily know the other health problems these kids might have that parents don't disclose.
kopecs · 4 points · Posted at 22:21:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Idk, it makes us wonder a lot. Were about to move to Hawaii after summer, so I'm hoping our next daycare is better.
FlowJock · 25 points · Posted at 22:53:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With most illnesses, you can spread them before symptoms. It may have been an innocent mistake.
kopecs · 12 points · Posted at 23:46:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fully understand that. Except we dont take her everyday. When shes happy and cheerful all week and on Friday we pick her up at the end of the day and she's miserable looking, it starts to get obvious.
Why-am-I-here-again · 14 points · Posted at 02:16:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What OP is saying is that maybe the parents aren't being inconsiderate by dropping their child off at daycare. Perhaps their child is sick and contagious but not showing symptoms yet so they're not aware. If I misunderstood your comment then disregard this lol
kopecs · 9 points · Posted at 02:22:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No that's probably it. I was stillaimed at the daycare. I guess if that's the case you can't really know. But deliberately? Fuck that person.
Why-am-I-here-again · 3 points · Posted at 02:40:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree. Thank God I don't have to deal with that shit yet, but I will soon and I'm not looking forward to it.
FlowJock · 0 points · Posted at 16:05:13 on July 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
Incubation is almost invariably more than just a few hours. (More like 1-5 days.) So you may want to investigate other variables in your life.
MADD_alcoholics · 5 points · Posted at 12:02:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Currently at home with hand foot mouth after my son just got over it from daycare. It's not fun for us adults.
GutShotRunningGin · 3 points · Posted at 13:15:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My kid gave me hand foot and mouth when they were three, and I suddenly understood why they were so miserable. Those tiny blisters HURT.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 08:18:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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iamfunball · 3 points · Posted at 16:21:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cultural work policies need to change. I had Dad pick up sick LO because the side eyes I get if, as a mom, get for leaving work for a sick kid....
Now my former boss would never say anything but there was a definite annoyance about it. Great tiny company most of the time, but man, missing any time during the busy season was tantamount to heresy.
So...I'd both be really upset with the parents (not just the parent dropping them off) but also with the way our culture views work and how it's paramount to everything else.
Kidminder · 2 points · Posted at 23:51:02 on June 30, 2018 · (Permalink)
This makes daycare workers mad as well. Parents sometimes forget that we have families too. Another thing that ticks us off is the “dope and drop”.
TooLazyToBeClever · 2 points · Posted at 21:46:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
< aren't upvote enough. <3316 upvotes.
I agree. Every parent should know this. I'm sorry your kid is sick, truly, and I know you're a "busy person", but that doesn't mean I want my kid sick.
I_Ace_English · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
40%? Dang, for me as a child it was more like 100. Where do you go to daycare?
kopecs · 1 points · Posted at 02:18:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Live in Idaho at the moment...
Mic_Check_One_Two · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:36 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wasn't there a fucking measles outbreak in Texas like last year? IIRC, it was caused by a bunch of antivax parents sending their sick kids to school. Then one of those kids somehow caught it, and the parents still sent the kid to school. And naturally, it spread to all the other unvaccinated kids.
Crowbarmagic · 2 points · Posted at 06:55:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to mention that if multiple kids got infected the media might got involved, resulting in bad PR. I think the Health Board might also be interested if that would've happened.
zachdog6 · 2 points · Posted at 04:27:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously. I'd be pissed if my kid got pink eye because some supervisor bought such a bullshit story.
SicilianFork · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You sir, are what makes Askreddit what people like.
56149 · 2158 points · Posted at 19:22:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked daycare and was told to never accept babies sleeping in carseats or sleeping children at all. So if Mom or Dad brought a kid asleep, I immediately woke them up and pulled them out of their car seat. This made so many parents displeased with me but it's policy.
I used to think it was to help the kid be on a schedule then one day a grandma brought a baby asleep and he was not waking up at all. Just raise his head, whimper and go back to sleep. Immediately my boss called 911 and grandma was trying to down play "he had a rough night, he's just tired, ECT" I knew this baby, he wouldn't sleep if he thought he was going to miss out, we had music playing and kids loudly singing and dancing. In the chaos, grandma slipped out and at some point someone called the parents.
Turns out Granny had a history of giving kids stuff to knock them out when she babysat but this time she did it to a 6 month old and that's why he wouldn't wake up. I think they pumped the kid's stomach and he had a stay at the hospital. Legal actions were taken and the family moved away.
To clarify, the policy was put in place because my boss knew abusers have been known to do this. They'd break the kid's arm, dose them, dump them with the sitter who lets the baby asleep all morning then because the kid was with the sitter all day, it's easy to blame them for the baby's injury. Or worse, the baby died and they do this to blame the sitter.
So yea, to this day if I'm babysitting, I don't accept sleeping children. I flat out refuse to watch kids at their home while they're sleeping for the same reason. I've pretty much stopped doing any child care because as much as I love kids, watching parents make bad decisions on purpose, when they know better, was killing my soul.
amazingbugcat · 535 points · Posted at 19:34:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. I had never thought about it that way. TIL.
Grandure · 30 points · Posted at 02:10:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I immediately saw it that way... I've been in healthcare too long
amazingbugcat · 17 points · Posted at 02:16:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've never been in healthcare or child care, I've babysat before but it's usually the afternoon when the kids are awake.
Miyamaria · 264 points · Posted at 20:52:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is truly horrible. Poor kids :( I can totally see why you have that policy.
Our daycare has a rule to greet all kids coming in regardless how early they are dropped off, just to vet their general condition before being allowed into the groups.
A system which works ok, but yet parents constantly try to leave kids with fevers, infections, tummy bugs and the like, eventhough we even got paid leave if our kids are sick... beggars belief really...
But your story that parents and carers drug their kids maliciously, just makes me shiver, talk about pure evilness...
UnicornPanties · -22 points · Posted at 02:19:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I doubt they intent it with malice when they do it, they probably just want to be left alone without the responsibility of a child.
livesarah · 24 points · Posted at 04:47:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is a kind of malice, though.
UnicornPanties · -3 points · Posted at 10:44:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mostly selfishness I think, which is a type of neglectful ignorance and often without malice.
Barnowl79 · 11 points · Posted at 08:04:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wtf? No. That's like saying, "I doubt he killed his wife with malice, he probably just wanted to be free of responsibility." No, that's not a reason you get to drug your children.
UnicornPanties · 7 points · Posted at 10:45:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean... I wasn't excusing the behavior geez - just saying these people are usually selfish and not considering the impact of their actions. This is why I don't have children, they sound like a real pain in the ass.
ci1979 · 2 points · Posted at 06:46:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That level of selfishness is the definition of malicious intent.
UnicornPanties · 3 points · Posted at 10:41:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually quite the opposite. Only thinking of one's self is selfishness.
Hurting someone else with the intent to damage them is malice.
They are not the same.
You can be selfish to the degree you are completely unaware of the damage you are doing to others. This is often the foundation of neglect.
So no, that level of selfishness is NOT the definition of malicious intent. Not at all.
meanotaur · 62 points · Posted at 19:35:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s horrendous. I never would have thought to check for that :(
bluestarchasm · 37 points · Posted at 21:00:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
this is so sad, but definitely a good thing for people in childcare to know. thanks for sharing.
opxum · 7 points · Posted at 01:01:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Crazy knowing this is a common thing. Happened to me as a kid.
Pretzel7683 · 8 points · Posted at 03:20:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
All I keep thinking about is how much MORE uncomfortable pink eye must be if you also have an eye patch stuck to the goop and crusties. Poor kid.
ziwi25 · 5 points · Posted at 03:46:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a parent this is heartbreaking and I am so sorry you’ve had to experience this
On another note, my children never sleep so maybe you can find other people who have kids like mine and babysit for them?
Reallychelseawow · 6 points · Posted at 15:05:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy cow. When I read the first paragraph I was thinking that's a weird policy. I can totally see why. I never would have thought people would do that
Mic_Check_One_Two · 4 points · Posted at 06:56:42 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to be friends with someone who ran a day camp at the local YMCA. He said that one of their rules was that they had to wake a sleeping kid at least once an hour, to make sure they were still alive. He said he had one camper in particular who had a medicine that made her sleepy all the time. So she slept for a solid 6 out of the 8 hours they were there. But every hour, they had to give her a gentle shake and make sure she was still responsive.
All because some kid apparently had something very similar happen - Their parents dropped them off and had already dosed them. Then they went to sleep at camp and wouldn't wake back up. Then the parents tried to blame the resulting ambulance bill and medical costs on the YMCA.
Llohr · 12 points · Posted at 02:24:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, electroconvulsive therapy can really take a lot out of you.
greentrombone · 5 points · Posted at 10:06:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Glad someone else picked up on this!
TheCatofDeath · 3 points · Posted at 19:50:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck I thought your name was your number of upvotes. Based on your post, I'd believe it. +1
steffnizzle · 2 points · Posted at 03:42:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is horrible! I can’t believe people would do that to their own child or family member!
TechForensic · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Unbefuckinglievable.
sunrisinn · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
sounds like Casey Anthony
reitoro · 862 points · Posted at 18:34:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
wtf, pinkeye is incredibly contagious, what was this idiot woman thinking? The supervisor is a moron too.
morepandas · 103 points · Posted at 19:32:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The idiot woman is thinking, "I don't want to inconvenience myself to take care of my kid, lets make it everyone else's problem instead".
It's really sad when people don't want to take off work to take care of their own sick child.
IwantAnIguana · 48 points · Posted at 01:12:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once upon a time I worked for a child development center. Our hours were weird because it was the week before Christmas. This was a long time ago, so I don't remember exactly how it worked--but most of our clients were college students and our hours coincided with the college schedule. So, we were on weird hours and had very few kids in our care during this time. One mom--not a college student-brings her toddler in who is clearly sick. She told us she was desperate because her boss demanded she be at work and her husband had to work too. Our director told us to go ahead and keep him.
This poor kid was miserable. He was stuffy, feverish and just lethargic and whimpering a lot. We took turns cuddling him and keeping him comfortable. I had worked early shift--early morning to about lunch time. I got off shift and went to the mall where I had a second job at Hallmark. Guess who is there? This kid's entire family--mom, dad, and what appeared to be relatives apparently visiting for Christmas. They're Christmas shopping, having a great time and talking about where they're going to go eat. I don't think the mom even recognized me because she didn't acknowledge me at all. I was was ticked and so sad for that little boy.
Later--after having my own kids--I'd think back on that and just find myself stunned that a mom could so easily dump her sick kid at a daycare while she went off to have a good time.
Why-am-I-here-again · 26 points · Posted at 02:30:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is truly awful. That poor baby. Did you guys ever call the mom on her bullshit? I wouldn't have been able to hold my tongue, she should have been shamed. What a selfish piece of shit.
IwantAnIguana · 19 points · Posted at 02:55:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We didn't. I told my coworkers and they were all livid and one of them said she'd already suspected it was something like that because the mom had previously mentioned having family in town for the holidays, and this coworker had been confused as to why the kid couldn't have stayed home with them. I told our director and she said to let it go. I had many issues with the director that led to my abruptly quitting--that is a whole other, very long story.
Why-am-I-here-again · 9 points · Posted at 03:08:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh. You did what you could. It's maddening though.
ci1979 · 4 points · Posted at 06:46:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Narcs gonna narc
PunchingChickens · 140 points · Posted at 20:05:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Um I'm pretty sure it's not so much not wanting to so much as it's about not being able to afford it. She was 100% in the wrong for what she did but let's not pretend that working parents simply choose work over being with their kids because they like it so much lol
jsparker77 · 69 points · Posted at 22:18:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This and a lot of jobs have very strict attendance policies. People have been fired because they've had to take off too many days due to a child's illness or unreliable child care. There's no law that says a company has to excuse someone from work because they need to take care of their kid(s).
ChaoticGonzo · 23 points · Posted at 00:28:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are a lot of things where the ethics involved in the work place is atrocious. Childcare definitely needs to be subsidized but good luck convincing people to help people pay for other peoples safety nets for children. One of my favorite parts of being salaried rather than hourly, a well explained situation to supervisor could easily mean non docked PTO, personal days and otherwise on case by case basis,as long as the work gets done(work from home). The working class are often not as fortunate to have some of those benefits. Many of those people are living paycheck to paycheck.
jhuskindle · 14 points · Posted at 02:36:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. This is USA.. we can't afford to miss a day and pay for daycare.. or be potentially fired.
PunchingChickens · 11 points · Posted at 03:38:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. Working parents have to split their sick days between themselves and however many times their kids get sick. Not to mention all the appointments/checkups. It's not easy and some jobs just don't care.
didact · 4 points · Posted at 04:32:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the illness. If it is chronic and serious, 12 weeks of job-protected leave is provided per year under FMLA. In context, pink eye or flu in an otherwise healthy child doesn't quality.
jsparker77 · 4 points · Posted at 05:58:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an employee still manage to get fired even with FMLA for his kid. All he had to do was call in and say he couldn't make it. That was still too much for him. We had a strict no call/no show policy, but I let his first one slide because I'm a nice guy. I made it as clear as I possibly could though afterwards, that he needed to call. He didn't even have to talk to me. He could call an hour or so before and just leave me a voice mail if he wanted. Less than a week later, he did it again. Then a few weeks after that he didn't answer his phone for his unemployment hearing and it became the only time I ever "won" one (they were almost impossible for the employee to ever lose). He was on his way out the door before his child got really sick anyway, but the FMLA was a good chance for him to be able to hold on to his job longer. His complete lack of a work ethic was just too overwhelming to overcome, I guess.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PunchingChickens · 8 points · Posted at 03:36:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its not really about the cost of treating of pink eye but the cost of missing work hours. Missing a day of work can cause huge issues for ppl so I don't really get what you're trying to argue.
leftylugnutz · 68 points · Posted at 19:51:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not that I have children, but I'm pretty sure a lot of that has to do with not being able to afford it.
morepandas · -26 points · Posted at 21:33:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s not about affordability. If they can afford daycare they can afford a day off to take care of their kids, so that 30 other families don’t have to also take time off
DelliePickle · 30 points · Posted at 22:11:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree, if your child is sick, and you need to take off work to care for them than infect their classmates, do it. However, some people work jobs where if they don't have PTO banked and they take time off, they can be penalized. Working a full time job, the company expects you to be working a certain number of hours a week because the company provides benefits beyond paid time that may not be available or available to a lesser degree to part timers. Like I had a full timer consistently working 25-30 hours a week rather than the 40 with little or no PTO for a few months. She worked part time essentially while we still provided health insurance benefits and PTO accrued for her at a full time rate. She was fired after given two chances to shape up and work the full 40.
But if they also can't financially afford the time off, they may also be receiving benefits that help subsidize the cost of child care. When I was managing a call center, I had a lot reps from the temp agency that would request I sign the employment verification paperwork for child care assistance. Temp agency paid them $10 which is the max amount they could make an hour and still receive benefits like that.
GeneralBurg · 14 points · Posted at 00:06:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You must be very lucky but also very sheltered.
JaqSmith · 24 points · Posted at 23:04:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have to pay for child care if you want to make any money. So unless your job pays less per year than childcare costs you'll make more working and paying for care than staying home. Meaning you can "afford" it. Even if it leaves you with very little money to live on.
Also, the problem is almost never about a lost day's wages. It's about losing your job entirely due to being fired for missing shifts.
timewontfly · 13 points · Posted at 23:44:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is it, this is the dumbest thing I've read today.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 03:17:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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morepandas · 3 points · Posted at 03:22:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its not even that.
If you're too broke to take care of your kid, why did you have a kid.
And if there are a ton of bad choices or just bad luck that happened to you, so you have to make in order to make your family work, hurting other people's kids should be the lowest one on your list of things to try.
Darkcerberus5690 · -8 points · Posted at 10:15:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every downvote and response you've received are from shitty people in shitty situations that they have no intention of ever fixing. They judge others on their actions but themselves on their intentions.
throw_karma · 3 points · Posted at 14:35:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
...so exactly what you're doing? Judging people on their actions?
celest3alove · 13 points · Posted at 02:12:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people CAN'T take off work to stay home with their sick child. And it's shitty for everyone involved, from the parent, to the child, to the caretaker to the children who come into contact with the sick child. Many parents have lost jobs trying to manage a staying at home with their sick child, and it's bullshit. Many more parents can't afford to miss a full day of work to stay at home with their sick child, for so many it comes down to being able to afford to pay rent that month or staying at home with their kid for 1 (but usually more than 1) day, that on top of having to pay for the spot at a daycare whether or not the child is there makes the whole thing absolute bullshit. I'm not saying it's okay to dump your sick kid into a pit of other kids who will likely get whatever your kid has, but sometimes the options all around suck. And I say all this as a stay at home mom who doesn't have to make any of those hard choices, but so many families don't fit the mold enough to where one parent (if it is a two parent household) can take off like that.
Aciddrinker90525 · 7 points · Posted at 00:52:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is pinkeye?
2059FF · 7 points · Posted at 01:47:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Conjunctivitis.
Waniou · 3 points · Posted at 03:50:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, pinkeye is conjunctivitis? Holy crap, how did I not know this?
kippypapa · 9 points · Posted at 23:45:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But it's also not that dangerous and very easily treated with antibiotics. The parent could get it diagnosed and begin treatment in under an hour at any urgent care. With the proper medicine, it starts to go away after two doses of medicine. By the third day of treatment, it's like you never had it. Makes no sense why it wouldn't be treated to the point where no one would have noticed.
eegrlN · 12 points · Posted at 02:23:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's contagious for 24 hour after starting treatment, and before symptoms show. She may have just started treatment.
Baked__Bread · 19 points · Posted at 19:45:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus this makes no sense. “Let me yell at you for preventing a pink eye disaster”
Alliebunz · 14 points · Posted at 00:30:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work in a daycare and had a similar policy. We had a parent who picked their kid up. He was shaking, vomiting, and had had a few accidents. She brought him back an hour later saying the doctor said he was fine.
I also remember one child had rubber bands in their BM . The parent made a big fuss about how it wasn’t that big of a deal and they did it all the time.
_kellyjean_ · 14 points · Posted at 02:41:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had parents who would yell at us when their baby was sick and we told them to not bring their kid in. Like, a year old baby constantly screaming with green boogers coming out of her nose? Not happening in an infant room. One parent was so pissed that we told her to come pick up her kid because she was obviously sick, talking about how dare we call, she can’t take off work every time she was sick (this kid also bit every other baby she could get a hold of when she could) . My manager did not care because she was badass and cared that the other children (18 babies between the 4 of us) didn’t get sick. Good on you to lift up the eye patch! If your kid is sick- take care of them!
bluestarchasm · 14 points · Posted at 20:56:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that's awesome. i'm picturing the woman's face as karen's face, and what a priceless look of shock! my kid's daycare has this policy, and it doesn't seem like some parents give a shit. pink eye, lice, scabies, something different every week. it's supposed to be a great daycare!
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 21:10:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was priceless. I know I shouldn’t have done it but I was pretty sure she was lying about the eye patch.
I have 2 kids as well so I know how quickly one sick kid can get the rest of them. I try but it’s hard to catch them before they infect everyone else.
newsheriffntown · 9 points · Posted at 20:54:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn I can't believe your boss yelled at you. Pink eye is contagious and I know you knew that.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:42:21 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
You've obviously never worked for a daycare. Most directors only care about profit. Better in their minds to infect all the children than to lose a customer.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:14 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would never work in a daycare or anywhere else where kids are. I don't like to be around children.
IWearMensSocks · 8 points · Posted at 00:42:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son has to wear an eye patch because he has a lazy eye. I had to bring a doctors note for his teacher haha. I don't blame her, I actually appreciate it because it helps keep my son healthy, but your story just reminded of it.
SchoolOfTheWolf93 · 9 points · Posted at 06:01:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My personal favorite from my work is when a parent brought in their child with spots all over their hands, feet, and mouth, with a 101 degree fever and when we told them they had to go home it was “they’re just teething”.
Yeah. No. That is textbook Hand Foot Mouth. Go home.
littlemsmuffet · 8 points · Posted at 03:25:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was working in daycare the same rules applied for us as well as the kids. So one time I walked out of a job because I had a stomach bug and couldn't work. My boss got furious with me because I wouldn't come in and couldn't find someone to work my shift. She didn't want to work outside of the office. Anyway, I politely quit via email and said that she wouldn't want a bunch of angry parents when I infected them all working sick. She was such a bitch about it when I applied for EI later in the year from being laid off from another job (if you don't have enough hours they will count your working hours from a previous job) and told the EI case worker that I quit because I couldn't get time off for a wedding. I didn't get my EI and I hate her.
TheTorAnon12 · 6 points · Posted at 09:23:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So... That's illegal. Lying to EI is like one of the few things that can fuck up your day as a business.
littlemsmuffet · 3 points · Posted at 15:05:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know. When they called me to tell me they believed her and not me. I told them the whole story and the guy who worked my case said it wouldn't have mattered what the reason was, the fact that I left without notice makes me ineligible for EI. This was 9ish years ago.
galendiettinger · 21 points · Posted at 20:28:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Other side to this story: last year, my kid's daycare made me rush home from work at least 4 times to pick up my kid because they were "sick". Usually it was that she had diarrhea, or was vomiting, etc. My kid was then banned from their daycare for 48 hours and couldn't come back without a doctor's note, which means I had to take time off work and pay for a doctor visit.
My kid got a clean bill of health from the doctor. Every. Single. Time. Of course, I still had to pay for the days my daughter couldn't attend.
The 5th time they tried to pull this shit, I read them the riot act. I told them that I would comply, but that if the child is perfectly healthy again, I will be suing them for all my costs - daycare I paid for and couldn't attend all those times, doctor costs, tests, babysitter, etc.
One or two false alarms I can understand. Could be an honest mistake. 5 makes a pattern that can be proven in court.
They cut it out after that. I don't know why they would keep doing this, my only guess is that the daycare worker in my kid's class had it in for me - they know full well how difficult and expensive it is for parents to lose daycare access for a few days on short notice, and must have enjoyed the power trip?
CopperTodd17 · 9 points · Posted at 00:47:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know in my country - it's a policy that they can't return for 24 hours after a vomit or diarrhea, and no doctors note required unless there's an outbreak. I can't speak for other countries or what not - but it's because educators aren't doctors and you can say "Oh it's teething/constipation/whatever" but I'm not legally allowed to accept that because I can't prove that.
Kiyomondo · 42 points · Posted at 18:44:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, if she had been telling the truth you could have risked causing potential pain/distress to the child or even damage to the eye by removing the patch.
Satisfying as it is to catch someone in a lie, if I were your supervisor I would have done more than just yell at you.
(edit: me dun spell gud)
56149 · 94 points · Posted at 19:31:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If a CHILD is that medically fragile, then a daycare wouldn't and shouldn't let them attend. The liability of injury would be too high. Plus if it's that bad, he would need pain pills and a doctor's note or something. Eye injuries are taken pretty seriously in child care.
It could be as simple as another kid could have just as easily lifted the patch. If it needed to stay covered, he wouldn't have been safe enough to be at daycare
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 21:16:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you that’s was my reasoning too.
I do agree that there was probably a better way to handle it. Like getting my super involved. I was so burnt out at that daycare I just didn’t care if I got fired and I was pretty sure she was full of it.
imaliberal1980 · 8 points · Posted at 02:31:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I scratched my cornea when i was a kid and my eye was red and doctors told us not to remove the patch under any circumstances. I was still allowed in school as it wasnt a contagious infection. Couldve easily been the same scenario. If a non-medical professional removed the patch and it caused a problem, im sure that would be lawsuit worthy.
CopperTodd17 · 18 points · Posted at 00:44:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She shouldn't have lifted it - but her next sentence should have been "Okay - so unfortunately without a doctors letter clearing the child for care, I can't accept him. I can't guarantee his safety with an eyepatch, nor that another child (or himself) won't take it off. Sorry" and sent him home.
LordBiscuits · 28 points · Posted at 19:48:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If she had been telling the truth the child shouldn't have been there anyway. If the eye could have been damaged by removing the patch the kid would have been at home or even a hospital.
DMCFRS · 21 points · Posted at 19:27:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup, this checks out, once I hurt my eye pretty badly and was forbidden by the doctors of seeing bright lights. If I didn't "comply" I would probably get opaque scars, which would have impaired my eyesight
Miyamaria · 23 points · Posted at 20:55:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It does, and if your eye needed such careful care to heal properly a daycare setting would be far, far too wild environment to keep it safe. Besides a daycare carer should never put in a medical responsibility situation (except in emergencies of course). Best place for any injured sick kids is to be with loving family carers or parents and be pampered!
pinktoady · 7 points · Posted at 03:35:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't believe nobody in the comments has asked your medical credentials for identifying the difference between an eye injury and pink eye (which with a casual glance by an untrained observer would appear identical.) So I am calling bullshit. I get that parents will try to pull this kind of thing. But the reality is that daycare workers really have no choice but to accept a parents claim or require burdening the health care system with the need for a note. Day care workers should not be playing doctor and diagnosing children. Policies should be clear. If a child has redness in the eye and the facility decides that pink eye is means for removal (which is medically controversial) then a doctors note should be required for readmittance. Not an average worker diagnosing on the spot.
dropkickhead · 3 points · Posted at 10:34:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
OP shouldnt have even touched the eyepatch in the first place, and sent them away since it would be a huge safety issue. There's no need to prove pinkeye or not, an eyepatch at a daycare is going to come off at some point, and if the parent insists that could cause injury, the kid shouldnt be at the daycare.
captain-carrot · 4 points · Posted at 06:44:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son (our first child) started daycare in January and within about 4 weeks contracted conjunctivitis (what you across the pond call pinkeye, I believe). No big deal, I took him to the doc, confirmed it wasn't serious and got some drops for it. Next day I phoned nursery to check with them, as I assumed they wouldn't let him in with it (knowing it is quite contagious). They said it was fine to bring him in but if he had any medication they needed to see the PIL.
I was a bit surprised but also relieved as my wife and I both work, so not being able to put him in daycare would have been a huge pain in the ass for us.
Why does everyone make such a big deal of it?
efsurmom · 2 points · Posted at 00:44:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuuuuck that lady
LowFatBacon · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn. You could have lost your job if she hadn't been lying. Eye injuries (and the healing process) are no joke. Which is why the toddler probably wouldn't have been in daycare if recovering from an eye injury.
Still, be careful when questioning medical things like that.
dropkickhead · 1 points · Posted at 10:30:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree. Parents can be irresponsible as fuck, sometimes, and I wouldn't be surprised if one has ever tried dumping their kid off at daycare with an injury like that. This situation should have certainly been taken more seriously
vicanksolanki · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to talk to your supervisor
bradshawmu · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worst kind of pirates.
TogetherInABookSea · 1 points · Posted at 11:43:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My family has been sick a solis and distinct dozen times this year. A dozen!! All because of people bringing their sick kids to daycare at church. My kid even developed asthma from all the chest colds. You can watch the damn service online! We've started skipping church, which sucks, just so we can be healthy again.
You can always tell, too. You walk in and there is one or two kids losing their minds screaming. A mom is muttering something about teething as she walks away.
sunrisinn · 1 points · Posted at 13:02:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
this happens in the kindergarten class I teach so much. One boy has lice, parents don't tell anyone. boys wrestle on the carpet. now 3. boys have lice, first mom doesn't see the problem as "we're treating it at home" but now 3 boys have lice and I'm getting yelled at because one mom was too stubborn to keep her 5 year old at home for 2 days. I don't get it. But it made a hellish week of teaching
carlotta4th · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like a toddler would keep an eyepatch on all day anyway. She was going to get busted regardless of if you had looked or not.
MoreRITZ · -14 points · Posted at 19:21:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's great and all but you for sure should have been fired.
All of you people downvoting me seem to forget the kid could have had a serious issue and negligence could have made it worse and put the company liable. Grow up.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 21:13:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually agree with you. I totally deserved to get chewed out and probably should have been fired. If the child had a legitimate medical issue I could have made it worse.
But the parent should have notified me of what the medical issues was if he had one. Then we probably wouldn’t have accepted the child anyway.
While this doesn’t justify it I was pretty sure she was full of shit.
hare_in_a_suit · 10 points · Posted at 22:09:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you're one of those weird people who actually will admit when they're wrong.
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 22:34:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha I’m not being sarcastic I was definitely in the wrong. I still called her on her lie and that was hilarious.
She was also wrong for being a child with pink eye to a daycare. That was extremely selfish of her.
MoreRITZ · -14 points · Posted at 22:10:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for being rational about it. Look at all the downvotes, don't think most redditors are mature enough to understand how the real world works.
bringmycadillacback · 20 points · Posted at 22:37:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The "real world" keeps insisting that if an eye injury is that severe then daycare environment, which is essentially a bunch of little kids with zero idea of discipline and care about each other is NOT a place for a child with this kind of trauma. Because, as stated multiple times above, the patch would have been lifted 5 minutes after the child is taken in. By other children or that child him/herself.
Your reasoning could have worked in other situations. Not this one.
"Most redditors" are also people who have their own children, had baby siblings or nephews/nieces, work in daycare or have general observations becaus ethey have probably saw kids not only on pictures. Don't discard it only in favour of your own opinion.
dropkickhead · 6 points · Posted at 10:26:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Parents can be stupid, though. Suppose the parent didnt even think about how dangerous it could be, the child's eye was really injured, and they still brought them in hoping the daycare would take them? If that was what was actually going on and OP did what they did, this story would be on r/TIFU instead. OP should have turned the parent and kid away because of the safety issue of an eyepatch that can't be moved. Nobody should be removing eyepatches like that after being told by the parent that it could cause injury.
It's a funny story about a lady's BS getting called out, but it's definitely not one that anyone should ever reenact themselves. OP risked legal action and possibly harming a child for the satisfaction of calling a lady's bluff, when it wasn't even necessary to do so.
bringmycadillacback · 3 points · Posted at 19:05:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Agreed. If I were on the OP's place, I would probably just send them away without looking under the patch. But I can also see where the pattern "claims there is a serious condition - cannot provide any diagnosis or description or reference - acts as if caught red-handed" just spells BS and you just know it's fake.
But that's us and then there are professionals. A friend of mine works in daycare and also has a blog (closed, invite only) where she describes her experience there. She claims that there has not been a single case when a parent who showed up at daycare actually admitted the child is sick, even if it's obvious - they always try to present it as less of problem thn it actually is. So when a parent comes in the morning and says that the child has a serious condition (not in advance, not in the file, not via the supervisor or doctor's office, just while dropping the child off), you just know 100% it's a lie. maybe it's professional burnout, but maybe the intuition you develop when working there.
MoreRITZ · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a funny story about a lady's BS getting called out, but it's definitely not one that anyone should ever reenact themselves. OP risked legal action and possibly harming a child for the satisfaction of calling a lady's bluff, when it wasn't even necessary to do so.
cambo666 · -1 points · Posted at 05:35:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What an irresponsible cunt
captain-carrot · 4 points · Posted at 06:37:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Little OTT. Pink eye really isn't that big of a deal and sitting last minute childcare alternative when you work is a pain in the ass
kippypapa · -12 points · Posted at 23:41:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What if under the eye patch was no eye but just a hole because they eye was gouged out? How bad would you have felt?
Iokuas · 6278 points · Posted at 15:31:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a grocery store. One of my coworkers was constantly calling in sick, claiming she had one illness or another. Management couldn't just can her for it as it was a union shop, so she had protection unless she could be caught in a bald faced and indefensible lie. One Friday I get called in to cover her shift because she called in claiming she was very sick and needed a kidney transplant. On her next shift on Monday she's wandering around with gauze wrapped around her stomach and back claiming that she had that kidney transplant on the weekend. That she had been so sick that they rushed her into surgery and put her at the top of the transplant list! When she does it to me I stop her and say "Isn't the recovery time on a transplant at least a month or two? The hospital shouldn't have let you out." Realizing I've caught her in a lie she rushes to the front desk, claims she shouldn't be here and that she needs to go home or she'll pop her surgery stitches. A few days later she was fired when she couldn't provide proof of the surgery, she tried to sue but no lawyer would take her case. It was hilarious.
oRac001 · 2980 points · Posted at 20:40:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How detached from reality do you have to be to think you can fake a kidney transplant and get away with it? Wow.
Rapiero · 184 points · Posted at 23:31:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was probably thinking about appendix removal. Still takes a week to start moving properly but at least it's completely feasable.
I_am_BrokenCog · 62 points · Posted at 23:39:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And, that IS how they do it you know ... they wrap bandages all around you stomach!
Rapiero · 2 points · Posted at 14:44:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's not how it was done to me. Just bandages on the incisions no wraps around anything.
iamng3 · 2 points · Posted at 21:02:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
/s
Rapiero · 3 points · Posted at 17:01:04 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah good call I missed it.
GuruLakshmir · 43 points · Posted at 00:23:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Er... when I was college, a classmate of mine had his appendix taken out during the weekend and he was back in class on Monday because he didn't want to miss anything.
GuitarHeroJohn · 59 points · Posted at 00:53:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but he probably wasn't re-stocking shelves in class though
Fishing-Bear · 26 points · Posted at 03:15:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ya I just got mine taken out a few months ago....definitely not stocking shelves the day after. I went grocery shopping the next day, but I was also high as fuck on Percocet and completely incapable of working. I did buy a bunch of weird incompatible ingredients though!
mmicecream · 22 points · Posted at 04:30:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Only cowards believe in incompatible ingredients!
Fishing-Bear · 8 points · Posted at 05:30:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
frankly, I was in no state for culinary experimentation, haha. In fact, I think I just ate toasted tomato sandwiches for a week or so.
muthmaar · 1 points · Posted at 07:10:00 on July 1, 2018 · (Permalink)
grocery shopping does take a fair bit of effort though, unless it's just a small amount of items. you gotta carry those bags home.
crispycrussant · 18 points · Posted at 00:55:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You don't know. They've got some crazy specialized classes these days
GuruLakshmir · 3 points · Posted at 01:14:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol no I missed the context!
Rapiero · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
For a week it will be difficult to go to a sitting position from laying down because they cut through your ab muscles. I know because I've actually been through the procedure rather than because of some hearsay from a friend.
GuruLakshmir · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:45 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't need to be a dick, dude. I'm sure he was HEAVILY medicated. And it's not like he was doing a bunch of running around afterward.
Rapiero · -1 points · Posted at 17:00:28 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol dude check yourself. You started with the er stuff and now you are calling me the dick. The ultimate dick move is to try to label someone else as an asshole or a dick.
GuruLakshmir · 4 points · Posted at 19:06:36 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
What? You were acting like a dick because you acted like I was making up a story.
Rapiero · -1 points · Posted at 20:12:04 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol you are rich dude. You started with the pretending not me. So you bring this shitty energy and then you try to blame me for starting it so you can be the victim. You first insinuated like I was making up that you need a week off work, when I in fact know from first hand experience that's what the doctor will give you and you need 3 weeks to be able to workout normally.
So you've started both the acting like it was made up and being a dick and now you are pretending as if I did so you can be a little victim, grow up dude. Some bitch tactics you are using.
GuruLakshmir · 3 points · Posted at 00:46:42 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
????? I didn't say you made it up. I did NOT call you a liar. And I'm not making up my story like you implied. I just said I know someone who went back to school a couple of days after their appendicitis surgery. That's it! I didn't say he was fucking running around or doing anything other than sitting and being heavily medicated in class! And then you come back with some snarky comment when I was just fucking sharing what happened with my friend.
Did you know that... crazily enough...people can have fucking DIFFERENT experiences than you and they can both be legitimate? Fucking insane, right? It's almost like not everyone is literally you.
Rapiero · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:51 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol I know that you don't. You were the one starting to undermine what I said then when I did it back you go princess mode and start blaming me for starting what you started. I only returned your energy, so take responsibility for what you started and stop pretending to be a victim. You got a problem dude.
GuruLakshmir · 4 points · Posted at 06:50:14 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
When did I "undermine" you by providing conversation? Jesus fucking Christ.
triciawoy87 · 2 points · Posted at 16:13:08 on August 7, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to be "that" person but he really didn't imply or call you a liar. He was basically saying that his friend was so concerned about missing out on anything important in class that he went back after three days. There was no sarcasim or snark or attitude in any way shape or form. You definitely went full blown asshat because you projected your own attitude and meaning on to a completely innocent, "Hey let me share my friend's story about what happened to him" type of comment. Or maybe after hearing about how long it took and normally takes to recover from that surgery he thought "Dude my buddy is a badass for pushing through like that. Thanks for sharing your experience because otherwise, I never would have known just how much badassery it really took for him to come to class. I just thought that was normal!" You read WAYY to much into a throw away comment that wasn't even that serious.
pandavega · 18 points · Posted at 03:07:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its so much easier to just fake having diarrhea.
ratgoose · 11 points · Posted at 03:44:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly why would anyone make up something so complex and easily disprovable? If you say diarrhoea no one wants to know any more than that and won’t want you to risk leaving the house and shitting yourself
The_user_of · 3 points · Posted at 19:48:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was hiking a mountain less than 24 hours after my appendix removal. Everyone is different.
knine1216 · 26 points · Posted at 23:57:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
1st rule to getting away with things. Dont get greedy.
jamntoast3 · 11 points · Posted at 01:11:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even tho if she pushed it to 2 weeks it might have been more believable. Although they'd still need some proof. What a dummy.
hrakkari · 28 points · Posted at 00:46:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes when you just get away with shit all the time you start to push your boundaries just to see. I had a girl skip high school chemistry claiming it was her period. Eventually she skipped more and more until she was bleeding 20 days a month. She got the answers for the tests from a gay bff or hardcore friendzoned dude in a earlier class. But our test was different from theirs for the mid term and she ended up getting a 0 or a 2 or some other comically low score.
ratgoose · 20 points · Posted at 03:45:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tbf I have bled for three months before. Fuck people who lie about that.
34HoldOn · 7 points · Posted at 07:15:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man, that's gotta be painful.
KindsisterKathy · 26 points · Posted at 02:14:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had an employee call in claiming to be undergoing her second hysterectomy, but no worries, she'd be in tomorrow.
scorpiolafuega · 14 points · Posted at 03:50:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well my girlfriends husband is almost certainly faking cancer. And she and I both know it. She's never seen any hospital papers because he says he doesnt want her to worry, but she knows whats up. Never consistent with his "treatments." She hasnt been to one doc appointment... she just laughs and shakes her head. I'm proud of her for her commitment to playing dumb. I couldn't if it were my husband. Just why lie?
a_birthday_cake · 12 points · Posted at 06:13:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How could he think that would work? Nobody tells their wife "Oh babe I have cancer, don't worry about coming to the doctor with me though I'll be grand"
scorpiolafuega · 5 points · Posted at 16:02:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tbh... He may even believe it himself. I have no idea. She's a trooper though. She is dedicated to seeing how this all plays out.
I_overanalyze_things · 6 points · Posted at 01:46:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It seems like so much more work than just.. doing the actual job.
OhMaGoshNess · 6 points · Posted at 00:07:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is sitcom level of stupid
darkenedgy · 6 points · Posted at 02:34:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you've read Jon Ronson's 'The Psychopath Test,' that detached.
embl0r · 5 points · Posted at 00:55:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I bet she was considering giving herself a real 'surgery' scar for the case too by that point.
Funkt4st1c · 4 points · Posted at 02:55:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And then try MULTIPLE lawyers to sue the company about your obviously faked procedure, with absolutely 0 evidence other than some gauze.
WillTank4Drugs · 4 points · Posted at 06:17:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's funny that she "planned" enough to think "some gauze will tick them", but didnt think to find out anything about the actual surgery.
On the other hand, am I surprised that a person who calls on sick all the time didn't do their research?
suicidemeteor · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, just go with a burst appendix or a tonsillectomy or some shit? You have to be something special to think you can get away with faking a kidney transplant.
wisconsinwookie78 · 3 points · Posted at 06:08:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think some people get a kick of adrenaline or something similar when they pull crap like that. The kick comes from thinking that they might get caught.
sarahgene · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:53 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a co-worker who told us she couldn't come in because her dad died. Problem is, she had left her Facebook logged in on a company computer(which wasn't allowed in the first place), and we watched her messenger conversion with her dad, telling him she was staying home because she was sad about her boyfriend.
cuteintern · 3 points · Posted at 14:52:16 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know I'm four days late to this thread buuuuuut...
I dated a pathological liar when I was young and dumb. All kinda of ailments and medical issues and whatever. With the help of amazing friends, it only took a couple weeks to see through the monumental bullshit (I was incredibly naive/gullible at the time and was blinded by the sex) so sometimes people just do it because attention (that was my theory, at least).
So it isn't necessarily simply being dumb, sometimes it's jut plain malignant desire to be in control of the relationship.
Harbinger387 · 2 points · Posted at 00:15:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
i actually had a coworker claim the same thing
ChimericalChemical · 1 points · Posted at 03:08:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
King of queens I think some point in season 8. Could get it there it was a running joke in one of the episodes
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:08:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ChimericalChemical · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. Good bot
Workaphobia · 1 points · Posted at 12:18:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was one of those 24-hour kidney transplants.
[deleted] · -89 points · Posted at 23:53:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 50 points · Posted at 00:00:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why bring race into this?
scorpitarius · 52 points · Posted at 00:01:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Racism
Megandapanda · 11 points · Posted at 00:02:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, lol. It was a rhetorical question.
RonstoppableRon · 7 points · Posted at 00:06:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you mean rhetorical; the question certainly isn't hypothetical... he DID brought race into this!
OhMaGoshNess · 11 points · Posted at 00:07:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you mean bring. He did bring race into this.
Megandapanda · 3 points · Posted at 00:07:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks
RonstoppableRon · 5 points · Posted at 00:05:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why bring race or gender into this?
GuitarHeroJohn · 9 points · Posted at 00:54:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not defending the dude, but OP DID say "she" and "her" multiple times.
That other dude still racist tho
wavs101 · 2 points · Posted at 01:17:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats necessary because what are you supposed to say "the person" ?
GuitarHeroJohn · 6 points · Posted at 01:35:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
... uhm yeah, I agree? I was just pointing out that the racist dude wasn't bringing gender into it
wavs101 · 5 points · Posted at 01:38:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know you agree with me.
Lol, i was siding with you. Just adding to what you said
GuitarHeroJohn · 3 points · Posted at 05:33:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My bad man
wavs101 · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
All good bro! 🙂
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 01:19:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 9 points · Posted at 01:21:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Probably a dumbass black lady". There is zero reason to say something like that. I'd get it if you were simply telling a story and described one of the people in it as a black lady, but what you said is just racist.
ButteryElbows · 159 points · Posted at 18:12:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one takes the cake
CommodoreBelmont · 30 points · Posted at 22:56:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What really gets me in cases like these is the outlandish nature of the lies. Like, it's not enough to get out of work, it's not even enough to get sympathy, one has to have the topper of all toppers. Just claim you ate some bad fish or something. Nobody's going to ask for proof that you were shitting for four hours straight.
jonaheim88 · 85 points · Posted at 22:02:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My father was on the list for 7 years before finally having a transplant and recovering from complications. Fuck. Her.
GitEmSteveDave · 44 points · Posted at 20:32:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it was a union shop the union would have provided her with representation. Happened to me when I was fired for supposedly giving alcohol to a minor.
notarealfetus · 26 points · Posted at 23:35:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it was total bullshit the union may have said to get fucked too. To kick up a fuss over such bullshit might stop them being taken seriously about real issues, and possibly even lose them members like the other staff who had to cover all her shifts. I'm Australian though so maybe unions work different there.
Endalyne · 14 points · Posted at 23:39:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's definitely how it works around here. A good union won't waste money on a case that is not worth fighting.
GitEmSteveDave · 2 points · Posted at 23:42:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that’s not true. Just like a lawyer has to represent you even if they know you are guilty, unions appeal almost all firings “automatically” especially if you ask. That’s why there’s usually a period between being hired and being in the union, so you can get fired for cause or apathy and not have to worry about fighting something meaningless.
sweetpotato37 · 15 points · Posted at 22:14:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Supposedly? What happened?
muntoo · 50 points · Posted at 22:17:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, they claimed that the narrator gave alcohol to a minor, but the narrator implies that they didn't do such a thing.
IAmANobodyAMA · 12 points · Posted at 22:45:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Verily.
cake-jesus · 3 points · Posted at 23:57:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's your favorite color?
IAmANobodyAMA · 4 points · Posted at 00:10:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Blue.
Edit: No! Green!!
itsnotcaligula · 4 points · Posted at 23:07:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's how I read it. Surely you are not the only one who caught that.
GitEmSteveDave · 7 points · Posted at 01:58:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went into the liquor store attached to the store I worked at on break and legally bought some alcohol. While walking outside to my vehicle, the clerk saw me talking to one of the maintenance guys, who was outside collecting carts. Since I purchased some items which weren't my "norm", mainly a bottle of Rum, she went to her boss and eventually to our management and stated she was suspicious of the sale and saw me place the alcohol in this kids car. We(maintenance kid and I) were both "suspended w/o pay pending a investigation" and a week later both fired.
The kids mom was our Shop Steward and we both fought the firing. We had a lot of things going for us, mainly, by ABC(the government agency in NJ that regulates alcohol sales) rules, if you suspect an underage purchase, you are to either deny the sale and/or call the police, neither of which was done. I also tended to park in the same place in the "employee area" every day, so it was easy to prove with pictures taken over a few days that there was no way the clerk could have a clean line of sight to my car, due to the massive amount of neon and other signs in the store window and also that even at 10pm at night(we were 24hours), the parking lot always had enough cars in the rows in front of the doors, which included handicapped spots, to block a clear line of sight to the employee parking area, which was far away from the customer area.
So if they tried to bring it higher, the liquor store and the clerk would have to admit they allowed a suspected sale to happen and didn't alert everyone till a week later, which would have meant a MASSIVE fine, because like most busy places, they had a strike or two on their record anyway.
We were both re-hired but I shot myself in the foot by filing a grievance for back pay missed during the suspension. Management made my life hell, like scheduling me on afternoons for 4 hour shifts on the weekends, and our store was in a beach town and I had just moved 35 minutes(on a day w/no traffic) away, so any little extra traffic put me in danger of being late, which was a fire-able offense.
dog_of_society · 3 points · Posted at 04:16:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, they could fire you for being late?
TrickApricot · 7 points · Posted at 00:36:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why not fake a stomach flu like a normal person?
I haven't faked sick since high school, but puking was always my go-to. No one wants to see that shit.
Iokuas · 7 points · Posted at 00:49:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In retrospect I'm pretty sure there was something actually wrong with her, some kind of mental or emotional condition that caused her to act out in the way she did. She was constantly calling in sick with a myriad of strange and wondrous symptoms. "I've got an ovarian cyst! I need to go in for surgery!" or "My doctors think I have brittle bone disease! Call Iokua to cover my shift!" She pulled the kidney transplant excuse in June, prior to that I covered literally every shift she was given from January all the way to May of that year. She called in sick for five months straight, and our inept, worthless management couldn't find a reason to fire her until I handed them one on a sliver platter.
TrickApricot · 5 points · Posted at 00:58:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This makes me really sad.
I hope she gets the help she needs.
I've known people like her. I had a rough childhood, and bounced around a lot in my late teens after leaving my bio home. I knew this kid who was in the same situation as me. He would claim to be a psychic. Even going as far as to giggle at nothing, and then when the side-eyes began, he would say something along the lines of "Oh, so-and-so from the civil war era just told me this hilarious story."
It was insanely sad.
I always wish people like this the absolute best. I hope she finds her way.
I used to be somewhat similar. Never to that extreme. But I was passable pretty, and would flaunt everything I had. For a long time I drowned my emotions with male and female attention. I also loved to write song lyrics in my arms, and was a huge emo chick.
It took me a ridiculously long time (I was probably 20 when it clicked, and I had been dressing for attention since like 14) to realize that people would like me without being weird, or eccentric. I didn't need a gimmick. Just needed to be genuine.
I hope she learns the same thing.
kvngrdnr · 6 points · Posted at 01:23:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a coworker like this a couple years ago. Took a week off with very little notice because he had a cyst of some sorts in his esophagus and needed surgery. it was “some new type of procedure” that left no scarring or marks of any kind. He had a raspy voice the day he came back. That was, until a customer approached him and none of us were in his immediate vicinity (as in, we were about ten feet away within obvious earshot). Raspy voice changed to normal without hesitation, then back to soft coughing and throat clearing.
He also “pulled a hamstring” one day. Same premise as above. Would limp around while talking to us, then shift back to his normal gate for customers like some off brand Keyser Soze. Only kept that one up for a day though before forgetting or realizing it wasn’t worth the charade.
My favorite over the course of two years working with him was his exit from the job. He had a fascination with guns and claimed he wanted to be a cop. Well wouldn’t you know, he managed to get a highly coveted job at our city’s prison as a member of their elite SWAT team (not a real thing). He talked about it nonstop during his last two weeks. Cue time to come in for his last check, wearing a uniform shirt for some local building supply company, tried using the envelope to casually cover the logo while chatting.
So many odd stories came from the short time I worked with him. Each one created and reported to us as complete truth.
llDurbinll · 8 points · Posted at 02:07:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll do you one better on the faking being sick. At the place I used to work at, not a union, this girl for some reason added the store manager on Facebook. She tried adding everyone for some reason. Anyway, she called out sick a lot and asked to leave early when she was there because she "wasn't feeling good" and it was always on the weekend or on a Monday.
Well remember how I said she added the store manager? Well one day she calls in sick and I am called in to cover her shift. It's a slow day and my store manager was working with me but was on his phone. He calls me over "Hey, look at this shit" and shows me a selfie of her and her friends at the park with the caption "Enjoying this BEAUTIFUL day at the park!"
So my boss commented on it "I thought you were sick?" and she promptly deletes the selfie. She some how didn't get fired for it but he cut her hours drastically to where she only worked one day a week for 3 hours. She ended up quitting because of lack of hours.
Skylion72 · 4 points · Posted at 06:20:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's likely your boss did that to get her to quit on her own instead of firing her. If he had fired her, she could have filed for unemployment. If she quits, she can't file.
I'm not 100% certain on this though, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
llDurbinll · 3 points · Posted at 06:49:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're absolutely right, he does this with every person he wants to fire. It has worked every time.
TheTorAnon12 · 2 points · Posted at 09:30:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Constructive termination.
Honestly, wait until someone who actually wants to make a fight of it shows up.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 23:17:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work with someone like this. She has been able to call in sick and claim she had many surgeries for the last 8 years. She has had so many shoulder surgeries but no scars! No stitches! Nothing! We are union members, so this girl has been able to get away with it. I think she has a friend who works in a doctor’s office. Management hasn’t figured out how to fire her.
Stardustchaser · 10 points · Posted at 23:37:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’d report the doctors office for fraud
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 23:39:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Management hasn’t been successful at catching her, and they have to follow HIPAA laws.
TheTorAnon12 · 2 points · Posted at 09:31:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Report the Doctor's office to their licensing board, they'll quickly figure out if it's fraud or not.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:45:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I know where it is I would. It’s up to management
domixify · 5 points · Posted at 00:19:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not condoning this in anyway but actually the turn around for a kidney transplant can be very quick. I knew one woman who went home six days post op. But you wouldn't want to be going back to work. In a way it's almost a shame that the story isn't true because I know a few doctors who would like to take a look-see at that particular miracle of modern science. Never mind a few patients who would love that story to give them hope for a quick recovery.
Iokuas · 7 points · Posted at 00:29:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Going home six days post op is one thing, going back to work where you spend eight hours on your feet slinging groceries and carrying things for people is another thing entirely.
heloderma_suspectum · 5 points · Posted at 02:54:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an acquaintance that would lie about stuff all the time and ask for money to help pay for it. She asked everyone for money to get her car fixed once and took a trip to Vegas, so we were all a little wary of her antics. She was in our dart league, and we would use the money we raised for a party at the end of the season. She said she had stomach cancer and asked if we could give her the money instead, to help pay for treatment. We all basically told her to fuck off and that was the end of it, she didn't ask again. About a year later, her cousin called me and asked if I was going to her funeral. Turns out she really did have cancer.
Likalarapuz · 3 points · Posted at 23:35:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How do you know no lawyer would take the case? Sounds like something only a person very close to her would know.
Iokuas · 5 points · Posted at 23:48:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my former coworkers was her boyfriend at the time. He dumped her during the whole thing, but hung around long enough to get some information on how she couldn't find a lawyer.
Likalarapuz · 4 points · Posted at 00:12:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok, that makes more sense!
Iokuas · 3 points · Posted at 00:30:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Believe me, even a desperate, pathetic schlub like myself wouldn't touch her with a 30 foot pole.
JardinSurLeToit · 2 points · Posted at 05:00:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a fine example of when a stupid person does not realize how incredibly stupid she is. Frankly, it sounds like drug addiction lies. I love it how the "stitches" are the issue in her mind! First of all, surgeons work Monday-Friday, so they would've had to call in a transplant team to do this work over the weekend. You wouldn't call them until you have the results back from her work up, which I doubt could be done in 24 hours, especially on a weekend. But let's say it could. After surgery, you're in the hospital 4-6 days. You can't drive for the first 3 weeks. You have to avoid others and control germs for the first 3 months, especially. Not only that, you have a bunch of doctor's appointments for the first month that allow you to do nothing besides sleep and go to the doctor.
oftenwrong_soong · 3 points · Posted at 02:25:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone who HAD a kidney transplant, I was only in the hospital for about 5 days. I went in for surgery on Thursday, and they let me go home on Tuesday.
Iokuas · 2 points · Posted at 02:42:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, but were you back at work on Tuesday? Not being hospitalized is not the same as being strong enough to work a job that requires physical labor.
oftenwrong_soong · 7 points · Posted at 03:11:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a programmer so I started back working from home the next Monday. Doing physical labor, you'd be out for at least 2 months.
I really wasn't trying to say she could be back at work, just that there is a surprisingly quick hospital turnaround.
filliamworbes · 2 points · Posted at 23:31:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a dumb thing to get fired for. You're not payed for your time sitting at the house nor spending money goofing off intown. . .and you're sure as hell no payed to have some major surgery. Way to go for calling them out and good for you.
Talon2004 · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I certainly wouldn’t want to work with someone that simple minded.
occams--chainsaw · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
you gotta be kidn'me
GeniGeniGeni · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh....just UGHHHHH!
-RDX- · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
wow! she was too ridiculous for any of the bottom feeding lawyer scum available
littlebithippy · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jump the shark much? How many more orgnas would she continue to lose? Or just milk the kidney angle?
cambo666 · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm so happy this happened.
Promise she'll be on disability in a few years though. That's the kind of person that'll game the system. Disgusting.
The_Sown_Rose · 1 points · Posted at 10:19:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
An old manager was suspended; it was meant to be a secret, but her manager had a big mouth and we all knew. When she was coming back, we were advised that she would be telling us she had been sick in order to save face. She told us she was sick all right...
Apparently she'd had a collapsed lung from sudden onset pneumonia, and had been in intensive care on a nebuliser for the last two weeks. Because we already knew it was bullshit, we all started asking the most ridiculous questions and expressing surprise because "nebulisers aren't how they normally treat a collapsed lung". Having committed to such an elaborate lie, she just had to go with it but it kept on getting more amusing.
If she'd just said "I had a nasty chest infection" we would have just gone along with it...
laxt · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah.. hospitals tend to have paperwork for their life-saving surgical operations. Makes it much easier to handle the payment.
Even McDonald's gives you a receipt for its food.
Mic_Check_One_Two · 1 points · Posted at 07:05:39 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, this was my first thought too. I have a childhood friend who had a transplant when we were like 10. She couldn't come out to play for a solid month, because she was basically stuck in quarantine the whole time while her body adjusted to the anti-rejection meds. I also remember her nightly dialysis, while she was stuck on the waiting list.
Also, they don't actually put the transplanted kidney where your others are - They put it down below your waist, near the front curve of your hip. The incision is just above your groin. Unless they have a good reason to do so, they'll just leave your diseased kidney where it is. Putting it near your hip helps, because it's a shorter path to your bladder, and there's less stuff they need to move out of the way.
piper1871 · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:10 on July 22, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in the hospital for a freaking month after my transplant. What a b*!#h!!!!!!!!
icetea32 · 7143 points · Posted at 17:45:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a librarian and I'm actually very proud of this one. Back then I was in charge of the cinema and music section of my library. This guy came with his son and asked me where to find our Puff Daddy CDs. We have one and I show him on the shelves where to find it. Then I was called in another place of the library and go check on my colleagues. On my way back to the music section, I see him coming out of the library and I don't know why (maybe he seemed dodgy) but I have a feeling something is wrong. I go check, the CD is gone. It's not appearing on his library card, so he didn't borrow it. I have a look if he didn't misplace it but it's not there. The guy just stole the fucking Puff Daddy CD, WITH HIS 8 YEARS OLD SON. FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARY. WHERE YOU CAN BORROW IT FOR FREE. At this point I do nothing because we have no proof, and no security camera. A few weeks later, the son and his sister (8 and 10 years old) come to the library again and borrow some CD. I'm watching them and to my knowledge, they didn't steal anything, and I don't want to confront them because it would break my heart to have them stopping to come to the library because of their father bullshit.
But this whole story still bother me. So a few month later, I decide to try something. I still had the stolen CD barcode and I just decided to add it to their library card, as if they borrowed it. Worst case scenario, they say they don't have it and I apologise and say that it's a mistake from the library. A few days later they arrive, take some documents, return some, and just before leaving I proceed to explain them that they still have a document, a "Puff Daddy CD" that they need to return. The look of panic in their eyes and incomprehension was just delightful. They didn't say anything and a few days later they came back with the CD. I don't really care about Puff Daddy, and we could easily have replaced it, but just for the principle, it was one of my greatest victories.
BrickGun · 1779 points · Posted at 23:07:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The best part of that one is not that they were taught a lesson not to steal, but rather they now probably think the library has some "magical" method of knowing when an item leaves, even if it isn't properly checked out. "They got some sensors or sumthin'!" Which means they'll likely never do it again (in any library) due to the futility. Nicely done.
Funkt4st1c · 62 points · Posted at 02:53:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my Walmart at least, the only things that send off the alarm are things that make the registers "click" because they have the actual system that the door uses to detect theft. A stunning amount of people think that if I don't scan that specific bar code, it's gonna set off the alarm. We can't afford to investigate every theft, it's impractical. We only care about electronics and expensive things.
PatatietPatata · 17 points · Posted at 10:20:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My retail store is set up like a loop (think Ikea) and people often want to make another pass before checking out but the way they ask us (at the till) while holding a 0.28€ eraser if that won't set up the alarm is funny.
I don't want to dispel them of that idea of magical anti thief alarm on every damn product, so I tell them that as long as someone is at the till it's good ;).
misterZalli · 164 points · Posted at 00:59:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or they think that they never need to declare that they borroe anything since it's logged automatically
sockalicious · 11 points · Posted at 04:49:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Twist: librarians are magical.
teknomaker18 · 7 points · Posted at 03:34:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Still telling the story around the campfire to this day.
LeoMarius · 5 points · Posted at 02:54:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lots of libraries use rfid.
Madk306 · 20 points · Posted at 03:27:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's rda? Do you mean RFID?
icetea32 · 3 points · Posted at 14:39:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We didn't have RFID (it was 10 years ago) AND our anti thief alarm didn't work at this point
LeoMarius · 4 points · Posted at 14:41:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I first worked at a library, I asked what we should do if we see someone stealing something. My boss said to call the police if we were sure, but otherwise to let them go. It's not worth getting hurt to chase them down.
thecrazysloth · 1 points · Posted at 09:50:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amazon Go, baby
mcgarnikle · 153 points · Posted at 00:02:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar story at my library a rather notorious patron couldn't check out on any of her family's cards they were all blocked by fines. So she breezes through our exit when the staff is all busy and keeps going when the alarm goes off. I just finished helping the other patrons and then added them to her account.
A few months go by and she's in collections (our library will report people to collection agencies but only if you owe more than $30 and have actual missing items not just fines). So she comes in and insists that she never checked those items out and that we couldn't prove it was her. Apparently not appreciating that her second argument undermines her first.
My boss stood firm because we knew her so a few days later the items came back in completely stripped of anything identifying them as library materials (barcodes, RFID tags, the library DVD cases) and she still insisted that we shouldn't have put them on her card. When informed she was going to be charged $2 to for the missing DVD cases, barcodes and what not she claimed that they had been checked out to her that way. We just said no they hadn't.
On the one hand it was nice to call her on all her bullshit but on the other hand it was a little frustrating that she'd never acknowledge it and just kept trying more and more obvious lies.
cisco40220 · 42 points · Posted at 04:40:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at a convenience store a few years back. This lady comes in late night, walks over to the beer coolers. I keep an eye on her through the CCTV. She grabs a tall can and sticks another in her coat pocked.
She comes over to the register and presents me the single can. I give her a moment to give me the other one but she does not. I scan it twice. She tries to protest about that but I told her it's for the extra one in her coat. She makes a face at me and gives it up and pays for a single beer and leaves kinda huffy about the whole thing.
I told my manager about the incident the next day and she was banned for a week.
All this over a $1 beer...
nurpdawg · 32 points · Posted at 22:25:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very nice
misamay · 16 points · Posted at 03:48:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Poor kid having their dad pull them into that. Why teach a kid to steal smh
MathPolice · 10 points · Posted at 19:36:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The weird thing is that if you have a compelling need to steal a Puff Doodley CD you can do it at home!
Just check out the P. Diddley CD from the library and put it in your computer CD player at home.
Then you can rip the entire Sean "Poofy" Combs CD and convert it to MP3.
You can then also burn several copies of the Puft Addy CD. One for you and two for your kid.
Then you return the P. Diddlerooni CD back to your library the next day no harm no foul. Just the issues with you, your conscience, ASCAP, and the Copyright Office.
But the library gets its vintage Shaunie Combover back in just a day, while your iTunes library grows and you have three sweet new CD-R's of P. Diddit for your car.
emeraldpity · 8 points · Posted at 04:08:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fellow librarian here. See this type of behavior all the time. May I borrow your method?
breathekeepbreathing · 3 points · Posted at 02:55:12 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
not OP, but I think you should be fine to borrow it as long as you check it out properly and return it before it's overdue! 😉
NotAModelCitizen · 11 points · Posted at 04:00:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read this whole post wondering what being a libertarian has to do with any of this. I think I should go to bed now.
JoyStar725 · 3 points · Posted at 03:57:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, you rock!
I_giveth · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a (former) public library librarian, I salute you.
4our_Leaves · 10 points · Posted at 00:35:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Blasphemy.
TourGuideOutback · 9 points · Posted at 01:24:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't care for Puff Daddy but I love P Diddy
silly_gaijin · 5 points · Posted at 05:32:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't care about P. Diddy, but Sean Combs is okay.
Lamberly · 2 points · Posted at 03:39:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's hilarious!
madametaylor · 2 points · Posted at 15:53:10 on July 3, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my small branch we have some notorious thieves who will get stuff in on hold and then just walk out with it. We use this method fairly often. Best thing was, recently we got a call from a lady saying one of the thieves lived with her and he had a massive collection of CDs stolen from the library.
mcmastermind · 4 points · Posted at 02:50:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A bunch of Bad Boys huh?
Its_my_dck_in_a_box · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love this one lol
Eternalconundrum · 0 points · Posted at 00:56:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Victory was a great song, track 2 😉
OlanValesco · 0 points · Posted at 01:27:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
/u/josiahbancroft
Sounds like something Senlin would do
apwinters · -6 points · Posted at 02:19:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Although I would probably come to the same conclusion as you did in this case It seems tantamount to a police officer planting incriminating evidence on a suspect because of a hunch.
grep_dev_null · 21 points · Posted at 04:03:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it’s more like a police officer telling a lie to get you to incriminate yourself. If they had not borrowed (or stole) the puff CD, they’d probably be very confused. Instead they likely had the look on their face that your dog does when he chews something and you get home.
031-ExuberantWitness · -1 points · Posted at 07:06:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did you know the kids ages?
corptio · -5 points · Posted at 08:28:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wheres the lying part?? Do u seriously mistake stealing for lying !
gidonfire · 2292 points · Posted at 16:49:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I helped an older woman who mistakenly rented a room in her house to the most evil family I've ever met. She offered the 2 rooms and private bathroom to the family of 4 because the house they were renting caught fire and they were forced out into a hotel. She just wanted to help. Took them dinners out to their hotel and all the insane things you'd imagine the nicest person in the world to do.
So they stabbed her in the back. Never paid rent. Abused the hell out of her laundry machine and ate her food.
So I went over one day and could hear the toilet running from the hallway. They didn't give a shit about wasting water. So I grabbed a recorder and knocked on the door asking if I could come in and check on the running toilet. The mother just banged on the door back at me so loud it sounded like she was going to break the door. Then shouted at me through the door about how she was going to bury the old woman in the back yard.
She eventually let me in, I fixed the toilet and moved on to other projects around the house. Figured that was over with. NOPE. About 15min later I see a cop car in the driveway. Ok, this is bullshit, but I guess I should go talk to them.
Cop sees me coming and as soon as I was within ear shot he starts lecturing me about how illegal it is to harass tenants. I stopped him and said "you're yelling at me without even asking for my side of the story. Would you like to hear what actually happened?"
So I played the recording. He spun around and unleashed hell fury on this woman for lying to him. All while I stood there smiling at her from over his shoulder. I'll never forget that feeling of actual justice in the middle of a 8 month long nightmare.
Malonik · 306 points · Posted at 02:54:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please tell me the "tenants" were removed...
gidonfire · 181 points · Posted at 14:16:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate to ruin what was a story about justice served.
Yes, they were removed. Although, in court they lied about the rent and had their children lie to the judge. They claimed she offered them housing if they'd attend her church.
The fuckin judge sided with them and they left without paying anything. But at least they left.
Nicest woman in the world never got them to sign a lease. Everything was agreed on verbally.
Rationalbacon · 61 points · Posted at 16:42:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
if there is no paperwork or proof of rent why cant they just chuck them out as tresspassers, as there is no evidence they have any rights at all.
gidonfire · 69 points · Posted at 16:47:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
because you can't just throw people out of their living situation without due process. They had to be evicted. Why the judge ever thought this old lady, who had other roommates who paid rent (huge house and all her kids were gone) would ever exchange rent for church attendance is beyond me. They fuckin asked her if they could go to her church and went once.
And when she started the eviction process they went and got free legal advice from the city. Their first move? Postpone the first hearing for no reason other than to delay the process and force us to take a day off work for NOTHING.
This is not a happy story other than that one instance.
Moofooist1 · 9 points · Posted at 17:04:25 on July 7, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn I’m actually shaking with anger, I hate those people and I hope they get their kids taken away Jesus Christ.
Malonik · 4 points · Posted at 22:21:18 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
God damn it.... I mean yay they're gone... but that is so infuriating... why can't people be decent human beings... -.-
TabletopCatt · 101 points · Posted at 02:51:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also embarrassed the cop for being a dick and not hearing you out. GJ lol!
koinu-chan_love · 89 points · Posted at 02:53:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
IANALawyer, but it sounds more like they were squatters than tenants to me. And squatters do have rights, but I’m pretty sure those rights don’t include police protection from harassment.
silly_gaijin · 45 points · Posted at 05:37:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nor do they include being free from the consequences of threatening people's lives.
Dancing_Burrito · 25 points · Posted at 07:59:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, the people in the story were just assholes. They were renting from a woman, and the area was occupied and owned. Squatting refers to people living in an unoccupied area or building for an extended period of time without owning it, and sometimes this can lead to the squatter gaining legal ownership.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 08:48:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's fucked that people can just occupy your property and get legal ownership for it
01011223 · 21 points · Posted at 08:51:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Squatting is for pretty specific situations where the property is abandoned and nobody else uses it. Where I live you have to have openly occupied (and improved) the property for 12 years (33 years for crown land) without anyone asking you to leave before you can lay claim to it.
Dancing_Burrito · 11 points · Posted at 08:53:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it makes you feel better, it really doesn't happen much anymore. It's super rare that someone gain rights to someone else's property just because they squatted.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks
Time_Punk · 14 points · Posted at 15:57:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is way more fucked is the banks and development corporations who intentionally leave houses abandoned in inhabited areas in order to blight them out. Banks foreclose on huge amounts of houses and then leave them abandoned for decades. Any individual person who did this would rack up ‘blight fees’, but the big entities that do this don’t have to worry about that because they are in bed with politicians. This also keeps individuals from ever acquiring those houses, because the blight fees, and back taxes, stay attached to the house. (The city often ‘auctions’ these houses off to unsuspecting people without disclosing that there are $100000 in fees and taxes attached to it. If they don’t pay the fees in a year the city takes it back and does it again a few years later. It’s a fucked up scam that assures that individuals can never acquire property.) Anyway, eventually you end up with these ghetto communities with half the houses uninhabited because they’re owned by banks and large corporations that can just ignore the blight fees and back taxes because they have big money and politicians in their pocket. Eventually the politicians wave all of their fees and taxes in the interest of ‘cleaning up the city,’ and they come in and demolish everything and put in high rise lego condominiums. This is a 30+ year process that destroys entire communities and causes untold suffering, and it’s all just a scam to take houses and property out of the hands of individual people and into the hands of corporations. The only way to fight it would be for real people to just move in to those houses and fix them up. Otherwise they’ll inevitably be used as trap houses by gangster pimps anyway.
Corgilover0905 · 5 points · Posted at 02:41:27 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow I didn't know that... Me and my fiance have been looking to potentially buy a house soon, and I see lots of bank owned properties for sale for very cheap in our city. I didn't realize there would be large fees associated with the property just because they are bank owned... Why are there fees and high taxes on these properties? (Forgive me, I'm young and naive lol).
dromayr · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:49 on July 12, 2018 · (Permalink)
(Edit to fix a typo) Sorry this is coming so late, but I was just now reading the thread. Even though the property is owned by the bank, it still has property taxes, charged yearly by the govt for use of the property, due. As the last user mentioned, there can also be blight fees, charged to the bank for having an eyesore abandoned house under their ownership. Often times, if the property is sold, all financial obligations tied to the home are transferred to the new owner, like if you buy a car with a lien on the title. And yes, it can happen without your knowledge.
Corgilover0905 · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:23 on July 13, 2018 · (Permalink)
So kind of like a backlog of expenses the property has acquired during the time the bank owns it?
dromayr · 2 points · Posted at 03:52:40 on July 13, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly!
koinu-chan_love · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:49 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, gotcha. Thanks! TIL.
thecrazysloth · 19 points · Posted at 09:57:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
For some reason, right up to the end of that story, I thought the recorder in question was a musical recorder, like the instrument, I just had no idea why the hell you needed to take one with you to fix a toilet.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 13:36:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
OP was going to drive the evil tenants out with shitty recorder music.
DontTedOnMe · 8 points · Posted at 14:23:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I usually just bring my pan flute along for plumbing jobs.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 06:54:27 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just like how Op just happens to carry an audio recorder?
the_revenator · 14 points · Posted at 06:50:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What happened to the elderly lady? Was she able to get rid if those people from her home? How awful. Thanks for helping her!
potentialnamebusines · 5 points · Posted at 11:31:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She sounds a lot like my mother.
*The evil tenant. That's essentially my mom. And she basically did that to my grandma who is sweet beyond compare.
ChocolateBBs · 6 points · Posted at 07:31:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who were you in relation to the old lady?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats depressing that you had to deal with the family of cunts only to be so quickly judged and had a go at by a cunt officer.
rrh058 · 1941 points · Posted at 17:18:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was around 15 years old and had a package delivered to my house. My crackhead neighbor came over, paced back and forth in front of the door before smoothly opening our gate, coming to the door, and picking up my package. I opened the door as she was walking off and she turned white as a ghost when she heard the door open. When I asked her WTF she was doing with my package, she explained to me that she was going to protect it for me, that she didn't know it was mine (?), before I demanded she hand over my package and leave.
I snapped at this lady, which was abnormal for shy little 15-year-old me. I was furious because what was inside that package was a gift for my mother, who was at work at the time. I'll never forget that.
LeeChurch · 248 points · Posted at 21:25:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's unbelievable to me that it's normal to just leave shit outside in the US.
Here I'm the UK (at least everywhere I've lived: "largeish towns/cities" ), if it didn't fit through the letterbox, or you didn't designate a safe drop-off spot (usually only doable for specific couriers) you're shit out of luck and have to reschedule or go to the depot. It's a pain in the arse. But all my shit would get jacked otherwise.
BothBawlz · 110 points · Posted at 22:26:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The more I learn about the US, the more different I realise that it is from the UK.
Onion_Guy · 62 points · Posted at 23:14:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Realise”
Same
HardcoreHybrid · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
he
g-g-g-g-ghost · 30 points · Posted at 23:14:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
90% of the time in the US packages say "carrier - leave if no response" which means the sender is taking responsibility for it
LeeChurch · 6 points · Posted at 23:21:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So another would be sent if the 1st goes walkabouts?
normangrm03 · 17 points · Posted at 23:29:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the US, if no one answers the door, you leave the package at the front door. And you (the mailman, FedEx, Amazon, or UPS person) leave the house. They’re not going to take the package and come back another time.
Can you specify if I got your question wrong? Are you saying that if your package was stolen, will the company/service send another one? To be honest, I don’t know but I feel like you’d have to have proof that it was stolen.
Klonopimpin · 5 points · Posted at 07:42:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it primarily depends on the company
g-g-g-g-ghost · 7 points · Posted at 23:23:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the seller, and if it had that endorsement. Amazon will send it out, others might only if they have that endorsement
IAmA_Risky_Click_AMA · 3 points · Posted at 11:59:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've had this happen with several things, yes.
AcrossTheNight · 20 points · Posted at 23:59:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A couple weeks ago, I had a package that required a signature on my mail route. I rang the doorbell, and left a notice as they weren't home. An hour later, when I was in my next neighborhood, the customer found me, got out her phone, and showed me a video of me writing up the notice on her front porch. I was a little creeped out.
Klonopimpin · 13 points · Posted at 07:43:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would she show you the video??
SilverParty · 6 points · Posted at 08:37:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm confused as well.
AcrossTheNight · 5 points · Posted at 16:30:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe to prove it was really her?
9100 · 3 points · Posted at 22:11:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In what context though? What's the rest of the story?
AcrossTheNight · 12 points · Posted at 22:15:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She had a package she needed to sign for. I tried delivering it when I was at her house, but she wasn't home. She found me in another neighborhood, not near her home, and wanted to pick up the package from me right there. The video proved she was the right person and she wasn't just some random person.
9100 · 7 points · Posted at 23:19:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That doesn't sound that weird.
Katzekratzer · 3 points · Posted at 02:27:25 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
But why would she take a video of him instead of just accepting the package?
9100 · 9 points · Posted at 07:26:02 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess it was probably from CCTV given the context.
BlackDave0490 · 1 points · Posted at 09:57:26 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Imagined a woman holding a video through a little gap in her curtains then chasing him after he left
DefinitelyNotABogan · 9 points · Posted at 06:25:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it looked like she had photographed you from the street that is creepy a.f. If it looked like security footage that is less creepy.
Mackem101 · 56 points · Posted at 22:33:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fellow Brit here, when couriers leave my deliveries behind my wheelybin, behind my fence etc. I'm always tempted to say I never received it, either get two of the Items or a refund. But then my morals take over and I can't do it.
AcrossTheNight · 62 points · Posted at 00:09:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a mail carrier, thank you for not doing this.
I just returned to my route this week after doing a different assignment for a month, and the people doing it while I was gone completely screwed everything up. I'm dealing with constant complaints about missing mail and different packages. My manager knows it wasn't my fault but I still have to deal with it.
the_one_tony_stark · -14 points · Posted at 10:41:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That really isn't his problem though.
Cytrynowy · 15 points · Posted at 11:06:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Found the guy without a moral spine.
AcrossTheNight · 4 points · Posted at 16:29:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I care about my customers.
K-Shrizzle · 11 points · Posted at 11:06:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm in the U.S and recently had a new TV delivered to my house. I answer the door in my underwear (I sleep late and woke up to the doorbell) The guy asks,
"are you u/K-Shrizzle?"
"yes."
"I have a TV for you."
"Okay."
I put on pants, he gets the TV from the truck, slides it through my door, and thats it, no signature.
So yeah, if you ever want to steal a package, just break into someone's home and say "yes" when the FedEx guy asks if you are any given person. You don't even have to wear pants.
FluffySquirrell · 6 points · Posted at 18:25:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one trick works for stealing most household goods too!
Police hate him!
9100 · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I saw a courier knocking on the door of a neighbours house so I went over to sign for the delivery. The driver said I could be anyone, fair point so I get out my keys and open the door then go to sign, and he says I didn't come from inside the house so he still won't leave it.
K-Shrizzle · 2 points · Posted at 23:53:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah let me clarify, im sure there's a lot of postal/delivery workers who actually give a shit about protecting the customer. Im just surprised there aren't more rules within the company to enforce it on those that dont care
YM_Industries · 14 points · Posted at 02:10:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In Aus if a package is delivered by AusPost we can use the tracking number (all parcels are tracked, no extra cost) to choose whether we want it to be taken to the post office for pickup or left somewhere safe. We can even leave a note asking them to leave it in a specific place. This is a godsend as I commute an hour each way for work, and the post office near my house is only open during business hours.
If something is posted using a private delivery company then we are usually SoL.
DefinitelyNotABogan · 15 points · Posted at 06:25:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
hahahhahahahha yeah nah hahahhahahha
YM_Industries · 15 points · Posted at 06:28:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe my local branch/postie is just really good, but AusPost for me are far more reliable than TOLL or whatever else. I'm in Northern Beaches Council area.
DefinitelyNotABogan · 11 points · Posted at 07:07:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually my posty is great. I'm just being a jerk.
How fucked is Fastway, though?
YM_Industries · 5 points · Posted at 07:09:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm just glad that I rarely get anything delivered with Fastway.
DefinitelyNotABogan · 10 points · Posted at 07:10:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Problem is most of us rarely get anything delivered with Fastway.
KingCatLoL · 6 points · Posted at 11:53:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Toll is fucking horrible, moved to aus a few months ago. Bought something online with toll express shipping, 2-3 day delivery... 7 days later I finally got the package, delivered to my next door neighbour... only used till one other time, my package got taken out to delivery in the wrong part of Victoria and delivered back to Melbourne about 150 kms from my house, stayed in the Melbourne facility for another 2 days before re delivery, I've never encountered retardation on this level before. Also had a friend send their phone in for repair, took toll a week and a half to get it there, and his phone took another 3 weeks to be delivered back on express delivery.
PseudonymousSoul · 5 points · Posted at 06:16:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
UK here too, sometimes our packages are left outside if we aren't home, but mostly left with the neighbours. Sometimes it is just taken to the local post office to be picked up, but I don't think I've ever had to reschedule a delivery. It's interesting seeing the differences.
MyNameIsSushi · 7 points · Posted at 00:20:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Doesn‘t it get dropped off at the nearest post office ready to be picked up?
LeeChurch · 4 points · Posted at 10:08:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The "post offices" are basically small convenience stores that have a post desk where they will take outgoing parcels etc for you (also have tax forms and shit like that). Sometimes they also function as things like amazon drop off points.
But in my experience, royal mail parcels which you aren't home to receive won't go to one of these post offices.
Instead they go through depots which serve a larger area (e.g. There is one in the city center in my city). This is where you'd have to go to pick up a parcel. Or you could use the info they put on the "we missed you card" to ask for redelivery.
9100 · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's because you are in a city, and the same applies to larger towns. If you are in a smaller area then your parcel is dropped in one of the local post offices.
LeeChurch · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks. I've only ever been in largish towns/cities.
It sounds like it's pretty much the same system just scaled down to accommodate for places with lower population density.
Thedarkb · 2 points · Posted at 10:31:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My post man is nice enough to hide the package somewhere on the property and shove a note in the letterbox.
9100 · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is not true at all. I have had packages left on the doorstep, down the side of the house, on the bin, in the bin... basically anywhere but in the hands of the receiver. I found one on the bin round the back behind a locked gate after 3 days. Another one left it on the back doorstep with no note so it was there for a week. Then there's this guy.
Also some more.
LeeChurch · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tried to indicate what I wrote was anecdotal on my part. Probably could have done better.
milfandcookies4santa · 24 points · Posted at 06:03:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
similar story, my landlord lived in the building, she had her own deck and door way. her boyfriend was weird, he’d sit on the deck all day with no shirt on and just watch everyone. there was another entry way that lead to the other apartments and the mail boxes.
i got a package sent to my moms one day, it had my name on it, it was a bath and body works package and said it right on it. my mom dropped it off in my mail box and called me as she was pulling out, literally just “your mails outside your door”, i went out to get it and he was in the door way carrying my package out, i yelled “ hey that’s mine” he just stops and puts it down and says “oh thought it was mine”. i called my mom when i went back inside and she told me he’d watched her drop it off. what the fuck a 45 year old man wanted with 17 bath and body works body sprays is beyond me.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 20:50:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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onceuponatimeinza · 25 points · Posted at 21:12:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A cast.
For his arms
Arsinoei · 19 points · Posted at 21:22:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh dear...
darthholo · 2 points · Posted at 04:27:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not this again.
WillTank4Drugs · 6 points · Posted at 13:10:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can almost picture a crackhead rattling off terrible excuses one after another to try and explain this away.
rrh058 · 1 points · Posted at 13:53:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, it’s like you were there!
Gaybabyjail64 · 4 points · Posted at 09:36:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a bitch
SalamChetori · 3 points · Posted at 07:54:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This actually happened to me by accident, I took my neighbors package thinking it was mine (was expecting delivery on same day) and when I took it home, before I opened the box, I read the address and the door number was wrong so I put it back in the mail room in my apartment. I felt really embarrassed
ducky4lifehomes · 2 points · Posted at 10:21:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hyup
Reallychelseawow · 952 points · Posted at 16:49:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my staff (who is unfortunately family with the owner so he's not getting canned anytime soon) is the biggest liar I have ever met. We'll call him Jim.
He lies about everything, regardless of importance. He's been caught in lies multiple times and really just doesn't care.
If someone is sick, guaranteed he will be off the next day having "caught" whatever someone had. My whole department is female (5 females) except for him. One day almost all of us were suffering from some horrible period cramps. Everyone was complaining about the pain but no one said it was because of their period, because it's usually pretty obvious why.
The HR department has a wonderful supply of meds and so I had to empty their stock of midol and heat pads. Some of the staff was teasing that they will bring chocolate as a peace offering before entering our department.
The next day he emails in that he's sick and he caught the horrible stomach bug all the ladies in the department had. He's so sore he can't move, has a migraine, blah blah.
Word spread quickly and Jim has forever been mocked as the dude who had to take time off work for his period. He won't be let go but he does get his pay docked when he flakes off like this. It was worth it to be able to make fun of him forever.
Colin_XD · 49 points · Posted at 05:40:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love this thank you
bored_imp · 10 points · Posted at 12:06:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao
RepresentativeLawyer · 12 points · Posted at 08:16:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey the story behind your username would be really appreciated
Reallychelseawow · 57 points · Posted at 14:57:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whenever I got in shit as a kid, my parents would always say "really Chelsea? Wow..." In this mixed tone of amusement and frustration. I have severe ADHD (so does my father) so I got into a lot of trouble.
Bonus story: the first time my mom said this, I wrote my brothers' names on the wall with Chapstick which bled in. My mom gave me multiple times to confess saying she wouldn't be mad and I dug my hole deeper. I pointed the finger at everyone then finally at my youngest brother. My mom yelled "really Chelsea?? Wow!! Younger brother can't even spell!!!" (He wasn't even 2 ha) 🤷
RepresentativeLawyer · 11 points · Posted at 11:59:20 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
"really Chelsea? Wow..."
FrightenedOfSpoons · 929 points · Posted at 15:24:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I moved out of a house I had been renting years ago, the landlady decided that she wanted to keep my security deposit. We had been on friendly terms for the 5+ years I had lived there, she even invited me to dinner parties at her house. I had been a model tenant, so I don't know why she turned on me aside from pure greed. When I persisted in asking her for the money she started making up reasons to keep it, claiming that she had to do costly cleanup of some mess I allegedly left.
By luck, before things went sour I had arranged to store some furniture at the property until I was ready for it. When I went to retrieve it, it was obvious that the property was exactly as I had left it, and the details of what she had claimed were entirely false. She had no answer when I confronted her with this fact, and she finally grudgingly paid up. I still see her around and she tries to act like nothing ever happened, but she is dead to me. How someone can let a little money trump all reason and integrity is beyond me.
samstar25 · 70 points · Posted at 20:00:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me when the house I was renting. We were told by the landlords when we moved in that we could treat the house as our own and decorate as they were moving abroad indefinitely. A few months later we find out we’re having a baby so by email ask permission to decorate the nursery and they said yes and are really excited for us. Not long after baby is born the landlords decide they want to sell the house, annoying for us as we’d decorated this beautiful nursery and baby hadn’t even slept in yet! Whatever though, shit happens and we find a new place. Before we move out we ask if they need us to redecorate back to the original room as it was in our contract that the house must be back to the way it was when we moved into it. The landlords say no as the house is sold so we don’t need to worry.
Months go by and we’re still fighting for why our deposit hasn’t been returned. Lots of shitty excuses and eventually it comes out that it’s because we decorated the nursery and it wasn’t what they thought it would be. They expected it to be pink or blue and the new owners weren’t happy with it (what?!) As we had all evidence that they allowed us to decorate THEN told us we didn’t have to put it back to the original state they pretty much folded when we threatened them with legal action. Cunts.
CommodoreBelmont · 24 points · Posted at 23:01:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone currently home-hunting right now, I'm going to chime in with you on calling your ex-landlords on their BS. The new owners know how to operate a paintbrush, and if the landlord didn't paint every room themselves, the new owners are probably expecting to do so. Unless you did something like paint the ceiling neon green I don't think most would care -- and that case would mostly be because ceilings are kind of hard to paint.
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 21:26:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always take tons of pictures when you move in AND when you move out.
LadyDoe16 · 16 points · Posted at 21:51:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She likely spent the security deposit years ago. She probably thought you'd forget to ask for it back if you'd been her tenant for so long or something... But yeah I agree it was shitty of her to ruin a friendship over a little bit of money :(
Obi_Jon_Kenobi · 2 points · Posted at 02:08:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why don't you like spoons?
thehorrorofspoons · 2 points · Posted at 23:29:31 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
They are awful :/
ekalidrebeck · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
it 'feels' beyond me too. it blows my mind how shitty people are all the time. but then i see in my own life how easily it can happen. gotta try and stay centered
Red_bearrr · 6761 points · Posted at 15:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a large business meeting, boardroom style. Something went wrong on a project my company did. The executives were nervous as hell because we were being blamed for a failure and the client was demanding we pay for it. The thing is I was the project manager for this job, and had recently been promoted. I warned the client about a potential problem when the project was underway, but they chose to ignore it and press on. Now that it was failing they wanted us to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix it, and our competitors were already about to take the next multimillion $ project.
So the clients manager outlines his case and asks when he can expect us to fix it for him, assuming we'll just cave in hopes of getting future business (that's my company's MO). They even said our on site Rep should have caught the problem so this whole thing was our fault. Our project manager clearly didn't know what he was doing otherwise he would have caught this. My boss was about to respond, but I gently interrupted. I basically said "I was the on site PM and did catch the problem immediately I have a few documents for your perusal". I had with me the printed email exchange where I warned about the problem and advised how to fix it, as well as the clients very clear response that they thought it was worth the risk and wouldn't change anything. The clients face turned red. He looked at my bosses and said they should have told him who I was. We wound up paying for the fix anyway in exchange for being awarded the next project.
This kind of thing happens constantly in my business, though usually on a much smaller, less grand, and less public scale. My entire job is CYA.
muskratboy · 4106 points · Posted at 16:53:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“You should have told us ahead of time so I know which lies to use.”
asmodeuskraemer · 1038 points · Posted at 19:05:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right? Fuck that.
brainiac3397 · 137 points · Posted at 19:55:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why before I became a consultant, I was the guy who did everything at the company I worked at and thus it was harder to craft lies because I had a view from every angle. If they blamed somebody or a department, odds are I was connected to them during the operation and knew the truth very well.
Some wise asses even tried to re-do their lies like three times. I just kicked them up to the GM and she tore them a new asshole.
ahavemeyer · 51 points · Posted at 22:53:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You set me up! How DARE you try to catch me trying to defraud you for six figures!
Mandalf_the_Ghey · 39 points · Posted at 23:29:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Wound up paying for it anyway so we could get the next project."
Fucking hate construction/business.
hot_like_wasabi · 38 points · Posted at 19:14:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, if it works for the president it should work for the rest of us.
Ninel56 · 90 points · Posted at 18:45:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
CYA?
Red_bearrr · 192 points · Posted at 19:02:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cover your ass.
Document everything you do and why you do it.
embracing_insanity · 42 points · Posted at 00:36:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup! I learned this the hard way when I was fairly young and inexperienced.
Story time: I worked for someone as their 'assistant'. My job was told to me as just filing, scheduling appts, answering phones/emails/vm's, etc. She was tasked with setting up another similar office site in a city 2 hours away.
Well it wasn't long before it was clear she wasn't really doing her job. I kept getting calls from the other site asking where she was - she had a client waiting; when I'd track her down, she always had an excuse - 'I thought they cancelled, they called to cancel, the office told me they cancelled, I thought it was tomorrow'. Like - not even creative/varied excuses.
She was rarely in town where the office I worked in was - but when she was, I would hear tons of stories of her and her new boyfriend's adventures - he was a cop and worked nights - so she really could only spend time with him during the day (ya know, when she should be working).
It became clear to her boss after a few months that the new office wasn't up and running as well as it should be by then. And I suddenly got my first (and only) 'write up' over something she never told me I was supposed to do. Apparently, my actual job - according to what she was telling me at this point - was to 'manage and grow' the office I was at, get new clients, visit clients, etc. None of which she had ever said before. Prior to that point - I was only told I was her 'assistant' and given assistant tasks. So in this moment it was clear shit was hitting the fan and I was the scapegoat. But I confirmed this while picking up vm's (I guess she forgot part of my job was taking her vm's? It was something she had me do from the start - all day, every day) and picked up a message from her boss telling her 'not to worry about u/embracing_insanity, we'll deal with her and all the issues she's causing'. She was telling her boss she couldn't get the new office up and running because of 'all the trouble/time' she was having to spend on me and my mistakes, etc. All of which was a complete lie, of course. But she even went so far as to go back and literally falsify notes in files, etc. But the worst part was - I had no way of proving enough of it to do anything about it.
Thankfully, I was friends with someone from my previous job, where we had all three worked together and was actually how I ended up in the position. She had left that company and come back about year later seeking me out to come work for her. I took the job because the other company was pulling out of state. My friend was now working for that previous company's competitor. I called her to vent and she ended up getting me a position there - so I gave my two weeks notice right away. My boss obviously knew I knew what was up - and she told me not to worry about coming in for my final two weeks - but I'd still get paid.
Side note - when I talked to my friend about what was happening, she said she wasn't surprised. She had actually taken over the marketing position after she left and when she would contact clients based on the notes in their files, she kept getting told time and time again that what was noted never happened. She had not been in contact with the clients for months, or had never been there, never called, never talked to the people, etc. So apparently, this was her MO.
Anyway, even after leaving, I was just so angry that I couldn't prove all that she blamed on me wasn't true and it ate at me for a very long time. It's one thing if it were true, I own up to my mistakes no problem. But to be blamed for things I didn't do - that just really upset me so much more than I expected.
BUT...it was that very experience that taught me to CYA - ALWAYS! And from then on, I was meticulous at doing so. Excellent, thorough record keeping, saving emails/correspondence, getting things in writing, etc. Later on in my corporate career - it really saved my ass more than a few times. Obviously, my former boss wasn't the only shitty person who tried to blame their mistakes on other people.
I actually gained a reputation for my CYA record keeping and people would often come to me when they needed prior emails/files, etc. for something. And usually - if we had ever worked together - I'd have what they needed. Another plus - people stopped trying to blame me (and even my team, by proxy, as other teammates were saved from this same fate via my CYA records) for things we didn't do. I guess people didn't like being in the hot seat when the spotlight shifted back to them after it was clearly supported the BS they were trying to pull was just that.
CYA - is a MUST. It's absolutely worth the time and effort and has saved me countless times in both my professional and private life. It's sad to say that, but it's true.
edit: spelling,etc
Red_bearrr · 17 points · Posted at 01:21:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, I've gotten to the point where my CYA reputation precedes me. I have a classic style big green construction log book where I write down my official activities., as well as a small black moleskin notebook in my back pocket. No one knows just how much I put in that, but they do know that if they have a question about something someone said in a conversation I was involved in last April then I will have notes on it.
jesusworesandals · 20 points · Posted at 00:12:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep. Recently had a customer bitching about how a tool was setup, and how dare we take liberties and change the functions of it and that it was messing up their production.
So I sent her my archived email with her name on it, my bosses name, my directions name, all telling her this was not a good idea, and we highly recommend against it.
Oddly enough I stopped getting emails from her.
DuckyChaos · 8 points · Posted at 02:22:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We used the line from Training Day at my old job.
"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove"
skulX · 1 points · Posted at 07:05:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really wish theres a subreddit for cya
evilmime01 · 25 points · Posted at 19:02:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cover Your Ass
dflows13_0s · 52 points · Posted at 19:09:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess it was worth the risk to the company because they had it fixed for free. Idk if I could continue working for a company that would operate with those issues.
Red_bearrr · 34 points · Posted at 19:17:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's complicated. We actually paid 1/2 the repair cost and took it off the top of our bid for the next project. I didn't do that project as I'd been promoted above PM, but it had similar issues. Can't stand dealing with companies that operate like that but it's not often my call
PathToEternity · 2 points · Posted at 01:35:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you mind if I ask what you were promoted to from PM? I've been considering getting into project management
Red_bearrr · 5 points · Posted at 01:48:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Regional Manager. Had 2 dozen PM's and inspectors under me.
byahseeker · 2 points · Posted at 02:48:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most companies will absorb something like that for repeat business. If it leada to a new cobtracr it's often worth it
AT1787 · 32 points · Posted at 19:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I spent time in consulting and the worst was when the client sabotages their own project by being negligent, then proceeds to blame the consultant.
Though, sometimes for nefarious reasons, the consulting firm will create a low-balled quote on a project to beat the competition, making inflated assumptions on how the client will add additional resources to the project (rarely happens), then when things screw up, expand the scope of the project and send in a revised proposal.
dramboxf · 30 points · Posted at 19:38:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I keep every single email. Every. Single. One. Even ones that are just "Ok" to a statement I make. Saved my ass at least a dozen times.
Duplicated · 23 points · Posted at 19:27:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I fucking wish my boss would take a page out of your book, since he’s a PM as well.
He’s been overselling our project to many departments, to the point that a couple plant managers have managed to catch on to his BS and are literally calling him out mid-meeting these days. Even the regional director who’s like his best bud is berating him these days due to the project’s multiple delays. It’s pretty embarrassing.
CYA? I’d be damn impressed if he can even remember half the “features” that he had invented in his mind and told the upper management team about.
BrickGun · 19 points · Posted at 22:13:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Attaching previous emails is one of the most satisfying moves I get to make in my work life. Starting a second, third, fourth, etc. email with the words "As I previously stated (attached)...." is the fucking best.
Red_bearrr · 7 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes! I LOVE it when someone acts like they're shocked to hear something they don't like and I attach an email from 3 weeks ago. You were warned buddy.
demthrowawaysboo · 16 points · Posted at 20:10:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I document everything at work. Everything. It's because of situations like this. I had someone question a decision that was made a few months before. "Why would we do that? Who said we should? That doesn't make sense and we would never agree to that." I simply responded to his email by saying it was a decision made months ago BY YOU and I attached the email he sent months ago saying to move forward with the decision and why we all agreed to that decision. His response? "Oh okay, well that makes sense." Siiigh.
Eggslaws · 11 points · Posted at 19:19:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn clients..
We had a client go lie about the type of contract we had to our local team (our team was site-based) and got the team to do the job which are not part of their contract. When I joined, I refused to and he point blank lied to my manager that I wasn't willing to do any work at all.
Fortunately my manager was someone whom I worked with for 5 years at that point and he knew how to handle shit like that.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 18:35:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice job my dude.
AnalLeaseHolder · 10 points · Posted at 21:56:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I learned CYA as a corrections officer and I do it constantly now in tv. When sales coordinators tell me an advertiser doesn’t mind breaking separation between their ads (advertisers usually require a certain amount of time between ads. 15 or 30 mins for example), I’m sure to save and usually print these emails. Sometimes they try to call to give these instructions or instant message on skype, since they’re not actually going to contact the advertiser to really see if they’re ok with changing the separation time.
If I ignore separation, it will come back on me and the first question I’ll be asked is, “do you have confirmation to break sep for [advertiser]?
mlpr34clopper · 8 points · Posted at 19:21:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the whole freakin reason outsourced project management is a thing. Gives ya an extra layer to pin the blame on when shit goes south because you were forced to start with an unreasonable budget and unrealistic goals.
Just hire outside contractors. Win/win, contractor makes $$$ (in theory, anyway), and (usually) no one gets fired.
birdmommy · 9 points · Posted at 19:49:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s why I stick with testing, not PM work. I still have to document the snot out of everything, but I rarely have to deal directly with an angry client.
Red_bearrr · 15 points · Posted at 21:01:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like dealing with difficult clients. The reality of it is if you're good at it then it's easy, but to everyone else it seems very hard. People think my job is hard, but in reality I've had time to watch most of the World Cup so far. My real work is in decisions, not tasks.
birdmommy · 8 points · Posted at 22:21:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A good PM makes everyone’s job easier. A bad PM can destroy an otherwise straightforward project.
My line is that I came back to work after my mat leave so that I wouldn’t have to be anyone’s mommy for 8 hours a day. Being a PM for my team is more parenting than anything else. :)
smmstv · 6 points · Posted at 22:25:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
CYA even if you think you don't need it, CYA
Sugarlettuce · 7 points · Posted at 23:55:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why I get everything in writing. My boss likes meetings and "sorting it out face to face". That just leads to a he said she said situation. IT told me to clear out my emails recently. I refused. I had a situation come up and if I didn't have the email from a former manager from 2013, I'd look incompetent.
NeenerNeenerNeener1 · 8 points · Posted at 19:16:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like so many oilfield projects I've been on. Way to go my man.
ninjamonkeyumom · 3 points · Posted at 23:07:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Came here to say this
8th_theist · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in PVF sales. Ive had to point out so many things to roustabouts and consultants. Of course it was in ND and not many had much experience.
Super_consultant · 4 points · Posted at 19:31:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sympathize. :(
MrWhippie · 3 points · Posted at 00:01:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Construction? Shadiest industry there is.
Red_bearrr · 3 points · Posted at 01:14:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heavy construction. Steel fabrication and painting. Buildings, ships, bridges, etc.
iasqzhzb · 4 points · Posted at 02:07:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
of course not if they know they'd just make you pay for the screw-up anyway. why even do business with people like that?
Fartsvoided · 3 points · Posted at 22:24:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a fellow pm I have been here too. Smaller scale though. It's a thankless job but we do what we can.
PAWG_Muncher · 3 points · Posted at 22:30:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How does the client side rep not know who the pm is? Idiot.
Red_bearrr · 6 points · Posted at 23:42:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was the boss of the boss of the highest guy I worked with in the field. My contact in the field (who was the guy I was emailing) was also in the meeting and was cringing every time his boss spoke.
Schmuppes · 8 points · Posted at 19:13:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck. I am distracted and read the first sentence as "In a large business meeting, bedroom style".
mulletprooftiger · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stop it. This is way, way too familiar.
KozzyBear4 · 2 points · Posted at 01:25:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
CYA? So you're an engineer?
Red_bearrr · 3 points · Posted at 01:36:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, didn't even go to college. But my job is often done by engineers. I do third party consulting/project management/quality assurance.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read this as "I was in a large business meeting, bathroom style". and was like, what? you work with Ally McBeal? I'm tired.
entebbe07 · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you an architect? Just got that vibe reading this...
Red_bearrr · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope
arcanition · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you in construction? You just described my whole job.
RockyMountainDave · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude I gotta know what you do. PM me?
223am · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't understand why he would say that they should have told him who you were. How would this have helped the situation? Is there more to the story?
Red_bearrr · 1 points · Posted at 09:19:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He had just bashed me without realizing I was the guy he was bashing. We did introductions, but I had a new job title, and others present knew who I was. He didn't. I think his response was due to embarrassment and an unwillingness to accept blame for a blunder.
223am · 1 points · Posted at 12:57:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah got it. You handled it well :D
IllBeGoingNow · 1 points · Posted at 13:40:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Program manager here. It's insane how much of my job is searching for that one email that provides evidence to cover my team's ass.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:48 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rule 1: Get everything in writing - cover your ass.
garfieldsam · -13 points · Posted at 22:01:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I was above you I’d be super fucking angry you decided to pull that gambit without consulting us first
Red_bearrr · 10 points · Posted at 23:40:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was there because it was my project we were discussing. My defined roll in the meeting was to make sure they didn't get away with any falsehoods since I was the man on the ground. Also, my direct supervisor knew what I had printed out, though apparently he didn't tell the other executives.
makkynz · -59 points · Posted at 21:01:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No offence but this sounds unprofessional on your part.
Relying in an email convo and continuing on with the project knowing that this problem could arise is immature.
Red_bearrr · 41 points · Posted at 21:04:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some more detail: there were days of conversations and discussions about this issue. Verbal, phone calls, emails. In the end I wrote a concise email stating my case to cover myself. The client responded with his lack of concern. That's not immaturity, that was doing my job to a T.
bladedfrisbee · 20 points · Posted at 21:25:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The client said the risk wasn't worth the concern. It is not like you can just ignore what the client says. If they say they don't care, thats policy.
2farty4me_irl · 2079 points · Posted at 15:52:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I come from a small-ish town. Brother made it the MLB. Was at the grocery store with my dad (who was wearing the MLB team’s jacket at the time) - checker says to us “you know I helped that kid get to the majors.” My Dad just politely pulled out his ID and told him to check the last name. Checker just laughed embarrassingly, immediately shut up, and gave us extra monopoly tickets for our time.
Edit: to clarify, my brother made it to a non-local team, so my dad wearing the jacket is what sparked the conversation.
DeadSheepLane · 936 points · Posted at 19:36:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know this can't be that common but just last month had a similar thing happen to me in the grocery store. My daughter signed an NLI for track and it was kind of a big deal in our small town. Had the cashier tell me all about how she did this and that and if it wasn't for her, the girl wouldn't have "made it". Never saw the woman before and am 100% certain I was the one buying those shoes and getting her to the team bus at those ungodly hours for away meets.
sliceanddice8 · 114 points · Posted at 21:54:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Congratulations to your daughter! I'm a former college athlete and it was some of the most trying times of my life, but it helped shape me into who I am today. Tell her that no matter how much a coach might push their sport to be the number 1 priority, school is the priority. Can't participate if you don't have the grades for it.
Good luck to her!
DeadSheepLane · 101 points · Posted at 22:39:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, Thanks !
If it wasn't for her drive to do athletics, she may not have stayed in HS and taken the GED route. Crappy small rural school district, from the "wrong side of the tracks", and first generation HS grad added up to a lot of BS. She's really thriving in uni now. Deans List and all that. I'm in absolute AWE of this person ! Tears, That's my daughter. :-)
sliceanddice8 · 22 points · Posted at 01:53:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly it was the same for me. When I started to get looks for college baseball, my grades were sub 2.5 GPA through sophomore year. Baseball made me work much harder and I ended up with a 3.6 my senior year, in addition with a good junior year, and it raised my GPA to a 3.02 when I graduated.
It's obvious she has a great support system. That's all you can do for her now. I remember being yelled at by coaches for stuff that wasn't my fault and it was my parents that were my encouragement. Good for you.
leavesofmytree · 33 points · Posted at 23:45:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's kinda chilling how easily some people can lie like that.
SmooveTrack · 5 points · Posted at 02:05:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's an NLI?
DeadSheepLane · 14 points · Posted at 02:41:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
National Letter of Intent. High school athletes sign a commitment to a uni.
CarlosFer2201 · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you tell her off?
Bcrazzy03 · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:55 on September 2, 2018 · (Permalink)
No way was this picture taken at capital high in ID?? Alumni 3003 here...the BSU stuff it what got my attention.
go123ty · 8 points · Posted at 23:56:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a grocery store, and every spring we do Monopoly tickets. Monopoly has given me PTSD. Your mention of Monopoly tickets made me panic slightly.
gelitele · 2 points · Posted at 14:53:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tops?
go123ty · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No Shaw's
TNS72 · 6 points · Posted at 19:59:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice name
End-OfAn-Era · 2 points · Posted at 00:39:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyone needs to latch onto the sweet tiddays of success.
emeril32 · 3 points · Posted at 23:47:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tops Monopoly?
2farty4me_irl · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No it was those monopoly tickets that you collect at Lucky’s stores and save up. Can trade in for a cheap pan or something if you have enough
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought it was the monopoly things at Albertsons in the US? The ones that you paste onto a "game board"?
2farty4me_irl · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve seen it at luckys and Safeway (don’t have an Albertsons in my home town). I think Albertsons might own luckys also
SilverParty · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The ones where no one wins. 😠
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what I thought too, until I won $50 from it. I was pretty shocked.
RockyMountainDave · -20 points · Posted at 04:29:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
For all you know he did help your bro make it. Could have given him a "little something" extra if you know what I mean. Might not have wanted to tell your dad about the after practice BJs
sebrebc · 11081 points · Posted at 15:30:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At work one day a co-worker started telling me and another co-worker a story about being stopped by the police.
He went into great detail about how he stopped at a gas station for a drink and there were two cops standing out front and nobody else in the parking lot. He gave the cops a wave, being nice, bought his drink, and left. Less than a hundred feet down the street these same two cops pulled him over. They told him that they smelled weed when he got out of the car. He asked the cops if they could smell it now, standing next to his open window, they said no but it was obvious it came from him. They asked if they could search his car, which he angrily let them, telling them he wanted the cops to climb through his hot car to find nothing. While one cop did the "Search" the other cop told him to calm down, he looked nervous. To which he said "I'm not pissed, I'm angry. You didn't smell weed, you smelled a shaved head and tattoos." The cops found nothing and let him go about his business.
THE LIE:
It was MY story. It happened to ME months before and I told that story at work back then. He even quoted me, except I said "Long hair and tattoos". A few minutes into the story my other co-worker and I start giving each other the side eye, realizing he was literally telling me my own story. I think he realized it towards the end because he quickly finished up the story and left without ever mentioning it again.
We never brought it up either, I had such a bad case of second hand embarrassment for the guy. Plus everybody else already heard about it and he was forever branded the liar.
BlopBleepBloop · 3106 points · Posted at 17:27:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On boyfriend's account - I've had this happen. I had some hip pain when I was about 13 and got an x-ray and the tech asked me if I was pregnant and I said, "No, what?? I'm only 13." and the tech said, "We always ask, because we didn't ask a 12 year old once and she was. . . ". A few years later I told my friend the story as an interesting anecdote and she repeated my story back to me a few weeks later. I was like, "Oh what were you having x-rayed?" and she said she didn't remember and I just nodded and let it go.
pointyball · 1929 points · Posted at 18:59:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who does that, but he honestly has such terrible memory that he thinks those stores happened to him.
It's really sad to see his crushed face when I keep needing to correct his childhood "memories"
[deleted] · 271 points · Posted at 20:13:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same I have a really good friend who would absolutely not lie and steal stories.. but sometimes he remembers my stories as things that happened to him.
Trikids · 169 points · Posted at 20:17:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happens to me sometimes 🤕
SnackalackaSmash · 63 points · Posted at 22:44:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same dude. Dementia here we come!
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 23:08:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 33 points · Posted at 23:27:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I will try to hold onto this stuff. The sheer amount of stuff that slips through is driving me crazy. I'll be telling a story, and somebody will chime in "Well no, actually..."
I don't even argue anymore.
My wife will see things and say "Hey, doesn't that remind you of [seemingly precious childhood memory I told her about]?" And it doesn't. I'm drawing blanks at every turn. Seems like pretty much my whole life from age 8-16 is completely gone, with a tiny handful of exceptions.
I definitely don't sleep well, that might be all it is.
leavesofmytree · 16 points · Posted at 23:50:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah.. huh... That sounds like me. My friend just sent me a text bringing up some big inside joke we apparently had as teens and I seriously cannot remember what the heck it means. I had to ask her. I'm so embarrassed.
DorothyInNeverland · 8 points · Posted at 07:09:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't be embarrassed, it's just a thing about you. There are plenty of worse things you can be. I've begun to rely on my bestie for her accounts of our high school exploits - at first it did kind of bug her that I couldn't remember all our silly inside jokes, but all it took was some reminding. Now she glows whenever I defer to her, I may not remember it all but my trust in her memory makes her feel as important to me as she is.
MalakElohim · 3 points · Posted at 00:35:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know that feeling well. Except it's everything before I was around 12-13. There's one or two memories from before that, but otherwise it's blank. Only memory I have that I know isn't original back then, but actually a sorry told to me, at least is a story about me told by my parents to I've added in.
bulletproofsquid · 11 points · Posted at 00:33:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Source confusion! Our brains don't worry nearly as much WHERE we got the memories and habits we learn/remember as the tidbits themselves, so it can be embarrassingly easy to "lose" the fact that a story came from someone else, but remember the story and assume it's a memory thanks to a vivid imagination.
SilverParty · 3 points · Posted at 04:04:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me too. And it scares me. I can literally picture it all and feel it. But nope, happened to a sibling/friend/SO.
pointyball · 110 points · Posted at 20:15:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's welcome to my stories anyway. We're best friends since childhood ❤
blendertricks · 38 points · Posted at 21:17:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s really sweet. You are a good friend.
pointyball · 8 points · Posted at 23:57:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aw thanks! I love him a bunch. I feel like I should show him this thread now
fadiphatu1 · 4 points · Posted at 01:04:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're a go
od person.pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
❤
Adventchur · 8 points · Posted at 21:33:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Awww
EelRoll · 8 points · Posted at 21:59:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I also awww'd out loud lol
Arcane_Pozhar · 24 points · Posted at 21:07:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean.... if it was something when you were really young, the memory is surprisingly flexible sometimes. But if it's going on as you get older and older, I feel like that's probably some sort of bad sign.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 21:42:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s only old stories from childhood or early high school. Really only a few. Ya I think his brain has just integrated them as his own lol
SnackalackaSmash · 15 points · Posted at 22:47:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Memories are like that... I have a few "memories" of stories I've told so many times I don't know if I'm remembering the story or some lie I made up as a child
jigokunotenka · 8 points · Posted at 23:02:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The effect most of you are experiencing is something that’s highly linked to mental suggestion. In an extremely lucid state, you tend to visualize things that are told to you and in some cases can cause you to imbed what was told to you into your long term memory and any term that defines when the memory was made will slot it into the specific area where that years memories are held. Being told the story happened when they were thirteen is enough to make you visualize the experience from the perspective of your thirteen year old self, tricking your mind into mixing it in to where all the memories of where you were thirteen are located. It’s a thing that’s actually very common.
General terms such as my dog, my house, my room, etc can simply be filled in with what you remember about those things at that age and so when you try to remember this false memory, it explains why you can’t remember much of the details. Your mind is tailoring the experience to your memories in order to make it so that it as closely resembles other memories.
SnackalackaSmash · 4 points · Posted at 23:29:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is what dejavvu is, no? Your brain fucks up and instead of putting a new memory into the "this just happened' pile it sorts it into the" remember when this happened?" pile... So you feel like you're living a memory. Holy fuck that is scary as fuck now that write it.
squid_cat · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:20 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have epilepsy and sometimes get deja vu. It's VERY weird, at least how I experience it.
It's like I'm zoning out into a daydream and as my mind wanders, whatever I'm thinking about feels really familiar. So I try grasping for more details and zone out a little more like you do when you're trying to remember something. But suddenly I realize that I'm not remembering a real thing, it's just like a dream I'd have while asleep. Then I start getting really anxious because my brain is confused about reality and then it either stops like slowly waking from an actual dream or I have a seizure. I was afraid I was going legit crazy until someone realized I might've been having seizures.
jigokunotenka · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. Basically, if anyone has ever described something vividly while your in a lucid state, there’s a chance that your brain will write it into your memory and even though you know that you’ve never done anything similar, your mind will tell you otherwise, no matter how ridiculous.
The feeling of deja vu is when we recognize that we’ve never done anything like what we’re currently doing subconsciously, even though we have memories of doing it. That weird feeling you get is your brain going oh shit and wiping the memory due to self preservation. The mind doesn’t want to risk the body copying what happened in this false memory from muscle memory due to possibility of injuring yourself by reacting wrong in the current situation.
That’s why you can never repeat the feeling of Deja’s vu from the same act even if you have perfectly recreated the circumstances.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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jigokunotenka · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s basically your brain realizing that it’s fucked up and it goes into damage control. The brain doesn’t like when things aren’t right and goes to extremes to correct itself. I can give you an example. Look up brainstorm vs green needle and get back to me. It’s a great example of the lengths the brain will go to make sure that it’s information is correct. Simple things such as audio reactions, how you perceive depth and distance, how your brain fills in the things outside of your vision, whether your aware of them or not, and many other things get f’d up almost all the time and the brain has to constantly fill in the blanks or correct it’s mistakes and some things are just lost in the shuffle.
Edit: the brain doesn’t always destroy the false memories but it’s more often than not that you lose the false memory after experiencing something similar enough in he real world. Some people do keep the memory and others can actually recognize when the original false memory was made.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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zdakat · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If deja Vu is when the memory is deleted,what is it called when you see something you shouldn't have been able to see before,but the refference remains?
jigokunotenka · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t know. I know what your talking about and have experienced it but deja vu is merely a feeling of doing something very similar based on a mistake your brain makes. What your talking about is more along the lines of recognizing something in the real world that you saw in a dream or living the real life equivalent of something that your mind made up.
g-g-g-g-ghost · 29 points · Posted at 20:33:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you my friend? If not can I take your stories too anyway? I never remember things and get my proudest moments corrected "that wasn't you, that was JFK" or "you didn't cross the Rubicon, that was Caeser" I'm only kinda kidding it's usually "no, that happened to me not you"
pointyball · 6 points · Posted at 23:54:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are my friend now! ❤❤ Hugs
g-g-g-g-ghost · 4 points · Posted at 00:01:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yay! Hugs
pointyball · 5 points · Posted at 00:04:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So there was this one time that I was walking down the street and a car lost control and did a complete flip and landed on it's wheels in the opposite lane and just zoomed off without hesitation.
It was pretty nuts.
Feel free to take that one ❤❤
g-g-g-g-ghost · 4 points · Posted at 00:43:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You got it
FreeKillxP · 13 points · Posted at 20:43:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's happened to me once where I get someone's story mixed as my own. Can't explain it to you, just kinda happens.
pointyball · 3 points · Posted at 23:54:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, he can't explain it either
blendertricks · 25 points · Posted at 21:17:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually have a pretty awful memory, and I have at least told these stories to people “about a friend of mine” and it turned out to be that very friend to whom I was telling the story. It is good fun. I love my awful memory.
Just kidding. It’s pretty awful to basically gaslight yourself forever.
pointyball · 6 points · Posted at 23:56:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is. My memory is bad, so I make those kind of mistakes sometimes.
Thankfully not as bad as his when he's wholesale reimagining his youth
BoyRichie · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:30 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate doing this, but I kinda love when people do it to me. I like seeing how they've reimagined the story. I especially love stories that people tell me over and over, even stories from their own lives. And the stories change very slightly each time as their memory blends stories together and otherwise sucks at filing
KittySky · 33 points · Posted at 19:51:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dawww :(
pointyball · 34 points · Posted at 20:15:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. He's sad but adorable. We're worried about his memory though
KittySky · 9 points · Posted at 21:09:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you got him a doctor?
pointyball · 5 points · Posted at 23:55:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's an adult with kids. He should pay for his own doctor 😎😁
Seriously though, I'm sure he's considering it
KittySky · 3 points · Posted at 00:07:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hope so.
Maybe you could ask him?
pointyball · 5 points · Posted at 00:09:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I should. He looks so pathetically sad when I bring it up though.
I think he feels like his brain is stealing his childhood from him.
CactusWorthHugging · 8 points · Posted at 20:50:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like we all have at least one friend like that. It used to drive me crazy because my friend is stubborn and gets defensive when I would correct him. It was to the point where even when I would correct him he would still forget. I can’t wrap my head around how someone’s brain can function with such a drastic memory issue. Still love him, though
pointyball · 3 points · Posted at 23:55:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
❤
SnackalackaSmash · 4 points · Posted at 22:54:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to tell stories to friends... And then halfway through it they'd say "... Eh... Yeah, i was there" or "yeah, that's me(when talking about a reply someone said)"... I guess I'm just so caught up in the moment I forget the details and...??? I dunno... But now I'm worried its not a normal thing lol
CactusWorthHugging · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I see it as the same level of cute that a puppy gets when you come home after a long day
whiskeycrotch · 7 points · Posted at 23:57:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom tells me things I told her like an hour before. She’ll be like, “omg whiskeycrotch did you hear about Yada yada yada????” And I’m like, “mom. I literally told you that two hours ago”. “Oh, sorry”. And she always sounds so crestfallen but I don’t want her getting credit for my stories and discoveries and theories!!!!
pointyball · 4 points · Posted at 00:00:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes love means hearing your stories again 10 minutes later... ❤😁
d1rron · 6 points · Posted at 22:55:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Memory isn't nearly as reliable as people like to think. But also, if he's anything like me he might see your stories visually in his head, and so when he thinks back on it it's that scene that replays in his head and he forgets that it was just because he also "experienced" it in his head while hearing the story. I often second guess memories because my memories of stories are similarly vivid. Luckily so far all the major memories have been corroborated by other people or evidence. I've had a strange life though, so maybe that's why I sometimes question it. Lol
pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 23:57:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that's exactly how he described it!
d1rron · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he unusually empathetic, but socially awkward? Lol
pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 00:06:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mmmhhmm he is yes
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:16:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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pointyball · 3 points · Posted at 00:20:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's facinating. I'm going to check into it tomorrow!
Thanks so much for sharing. You seen like a pretty awesome person
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:09:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks so much! I'm on mobile so I can't send you a wall back, but I read it all and will think on it :)
boredjustbrowsing · 3 points · Posted at 23:09:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
aww. :( the next time he looks sad, just tell him that it means that the two of you were that close that he remembers it as if it happened to him
pointyball · 3 points · Posted at 23:58:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll try that. I'm not sure it will make the "sad puppy" face go away, but it's worth a shot!
PudsBuds · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why I just let my wife remember everything for me...
pointyball · 3 points · Posted at 23:58:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good call. Just make sure she isn't messing with you
PudsBuds · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How would I know? Blissfully ignorant!
DirtyDerb19 · 2 points · Posted at 23:49:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy crap this happens to me , I blame it on my concussions lol
misternikitas · 2 points · Posted at 02:23:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's become part of me saying "not sure if it happened to me or someone else, but...". I really get confused when something happens to a friend, while I am there, cause I remember it, but it didn't happen to me.
Locked_Lamorra · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I might be the friend, I have a terrible memory
pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 23:57:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Could be. You can be my friend either way
Locked_Lamorra · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thx bby 😘
pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 00:08:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
❤❤ how was your day today? Mine was long and crazy, but that's kind of my life. Boss called and needed help at 11-2am
And now it's 3am and I'm hanging on Reddit with my new friends 😎
Locked_Lamorra · 1 points · Posted at 01:30:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus that's a shitty time to get called in, hopefully you got paid well for it. My day was good, did a brain cancer walk
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's a brain cancer walk? That sounds interesting and productive, assuming it didn't give anyone cancer
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:04 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
...so did this go to PM's or what? This cliffhanger, man.
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:18 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope. Hopefully one day we'll learn the truth
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:28 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought you guys were developing a genuine, lifelong friendship here but it seems they weren't up to pace with your wit. So it goes, I guess.
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:23 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know sob
Either that or they just don't check Reddit every 10 minutes like we do.
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:44 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha good one!
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:56 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
❤😎 I have hope
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:45 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
So what's a pointyball? Like an American Football...ball?
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:40 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just made it up. I figured pointy is the opposite of a ball, so its just like me. opposites made real.
what's a fripletister? ;-)
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:01 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
😈
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:03 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
O.o
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:50 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll take you 'round the world, babydoll
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:51 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm in. lets start with rocking my world.
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:40 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why aren't you naked in the crib yet?
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:17 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't find my cape, toe rings and baton. I think I left them at the hotel room
fripletister · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:13 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Goddamn it, Bobby!
bg-j38 · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a tendency to tell friends stories that happened to them, but I can't remember who told me the story. So like someone will say something and I'll be like "Oh yeah a friend of mine, I can't remember who, had this thing happen to them." Invariably I'll get the "Yeah, that was me that that happened to." We always laugh at my shitty memory. At least I'm not claiming the stories as my own!
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that's more normal I think 😁
StillAFelon · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a similar friend. If any of us tell her stories she tends to repeat them back to us, but not as if they we hers to tell, more like she was there when usually she wasn't. And when we point that out she says something along the lines of "yeah, but you told me about it right after" or "but I was the first person you told" when usually that also isn't true...
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's funny how far people will go to cover memory lapses
GloriousIncompetence · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Am friend who has accidentally done this. It’s VERY embarrassing.
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Generally if it's not important or if it's in public I'll let him get away with it.
Otherwise I'll quietly and lovingly correct him and deal with the sad faces
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:07:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 07:09:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's okay. Your friends love you anyway as long as we realize it isn't intentional.
Sometimes love is sharing credit for a story that only happened to you
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:09:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 07:16:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
❤❤😎
Hexalyse · 1 points · Posted at 11:14:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Our brain is weird. False memories are very common.
pointyball · 2 points · Posted at 11:16:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, like the time my boss promised me a weekend off. I could have sworn, but it never materialized, so it must be me
GayGoth98 · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:45 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is me. And I'll just kind of supplement memories out of nowhere? Dreams I suppose? It's terrible.
One time I vividly remembered getting one jacket at a secondhand store with one friend, and a conversation surrounding it. Recount this in passing for something else, to another friend, who gave me the jacket. His feelings weren't hurt about it, more just completely confused.
I have no idea why this happens.
pointyball · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:52 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aw. Write stuff down maybe?
[deleted] · 95 points · Posted at 20:24:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Chocolatefix · 39 points · Posted at 20:51:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Be very very careful with that woman. I've run across a mother-in-law who did the same thing and she turned out to be a huge troublemaker.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 21:00:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Chocolatefix · 13 points · Posted at 21:47:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh no! Sorry about that. I didn't know you knew her for that long I thought it was a newer relationship. Have you mentioned to you S.O. to have her tested?
im_twelve_ · 2 points · Posted at 01:57:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is that a sign of dementia? My mom does this horribly. She'll recount "memories" of mine and thinks that she was there with me, when i know for sure that I was alone when these stories took place.
thatcondowasmylife · 3 points · Posted at 00:20:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What if it’s you who took her memory and made it yours?
Raff_run · 3 points · Posted at 02:12:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What if she was one of the pigs and is making sure he remembers before getting her vengeance?
nesfor · 19 points · Posted at 20:36:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My doctor told me they had to start asking about pregnancy at 11 years old. Basically when puberty starts and it becomes physically possible to be pregnant.
Mackem101 · 19 points · Posted at 22:10:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors, a young girl could end up pregnant because of rape or coerced sex.
It's an uncomfortable fact, but needs to be taken into account by medical staff.
MyOldMansADustman · 8 points · Posted at 22:12:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Student radiographer here, we're taught to start asking at age 15+, even got a whole lesson dedicated on how to ask it in the most discreet manner without the parents overhearing.
drebinf · 3 points · Posted at 23:24:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brothers's sister had her first child at 13. (No relation to me - half-brother -> half-sister). Yes it was Kentucky. So yes, that happens.
jimthesquirrelking · 3 points · Posted at 22:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its also highly possible that the tech asks most people that, and cites an urban legend to back it up
touchmetitus · 3 points · Posted at 02:05:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve had this too. We have this one friend who like to tell random fibs about nothing important. We don’t know why, but our best guess is he thinks it’s making him fit in.
One night we were having a casual hangout, about six friends at my house, including the liar, just sitting around talking and sharing stories. I don’t remember how we got on the topic, but liar starts telling a story about how his mom is a nurse and how the other day she was helping a patient who managed to get some billiards balls stuck in his mouth. Then my bf goes, “Dude, that story is a joke. I saw it on reddit last week. I told it to you yesterday.” His face just dropped and he went, “oh, really?” Didn’t say anything else all night.
Libertyreign · 5 points · Posted at 21:31:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A pregnant 12 year old blows my mind. What the fuck.
atomictartar · 6 points · Posted at 23:40:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've seem them :(, mostly due to rape.
Rahoo57 · 2 points · Posted at 21:44:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wtf
jaredjeya · 2 points · Posted at 22:18:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I honestly somehow once misremembered a story my friend had told me about his school as one about my school. Not out of malice, it had just got scrambled in my brain.
mozzribo · 2 points · Posted at 23:19:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It might just have been a "borrowed memory". In OP's case it was obviously a lie since the story was presented as something that had happened on that day. But Your friend might have genuinely believed in the memory, complete with visualising. I had this once and caught my own self, then corrected myself. It was a concerning moment, to realize just how illusory memories can be.
Relevant reading material.
whatsername717 · 2 points · Posted at 23:34:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister does this all the time! Shell tell stories that were actually my life and i cant figure out if shes lying for the attention to pretend these things happened to her or if she honestly thinks these are her memories. Its usually not worth bringing up or correcting so i just sit by silently at this point
_LulzCakee_ · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why dont people say "One time my friend-"
Or "So there was this guy who-"
Instead of flat out acting like it was their story??
One_Huge_Skittle · 2 points · Posted at 00:21:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've done this, kind of. More like when I tell someone's story back to them saying "my one friend was telling me..." and the I'll embellish or fill in details I don't remember. It's less embarrassing, more funny when we realize I'm telling their story back to them lol. Probably because it's obvious that it's an honest mistake.
yiliu · 2 points · Posted at 00:35:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your friend probably didn't deliberately steal your story. Study after study has shown that our memories are pretty dodgy, and one thing they sometimes do is conflate other people's stories with our own. There are plenty of examples of people remembering the plots of TV episodes as events that happened to them personally. Some significant percentage of Americans vividly remember watching the first WTC tower fall on live TV, even though there wasn't a live feed. Your brain reaches back and finds fragments of a memory, and stitches it back together, putting you in the title role and making pieces fit. And yet they always feels solid, concrete, and accurate--because your brain tells you they are.
Jozrael · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've...done this. As a high school kid I copied someone else's story about microwaving a hamster. I have NO idea why I did it and would never do the same again. Rush of notoriety I guess as an outcast kid?
GoonerKitten · 2 points · Posted at 01:57:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who would always insert herself into my stories when we were teenagers. I'd be talking about something that happened when I was six, and she would chime in with "Oh I remember that, then I did XYZ!"
I called her out on it in front of our friends by saying "No, you weren't there, it was a family holiday in a different country."
She stopped talking to me.
defiance131 · 2 points · Posted at 11:28:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
you guys share accounts?!
BlopBleepBloop · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not really. It just automatically logs into his on his computer and I work on his desktop setup until he wakes up and then I go on my laptop.
OriginalFartonaut · 2 points · Posted at 21:23:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't just nod and let it go, people who lie like that are jerks and may even steal from you. (I know this from experience, i felt (and still feel) like an idiot after realising how many lies i believed)
thats0K · 1 points · Posted at 08:09:33 on June 30, 2018 · (Permalink)
is your BF Bleep Bloop? 😍
HollowScope · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:09 on July 9, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes I relay interesting facts I hear or read about to my girlfriend and she'll stop me and say "Yeah, i'm the one who told you that"
Sometimes I forget where I learn something but I don't ever pretend to have a "personal" story that isn't mine.
TheConqueress · -5 points · Posted at 21:34:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“On boyfriends account”
Riiiiiight.
This is my most satisfying instant of catching someone in a lie btw.
WideEyedJanitor · 27 points · Posted at 20:28:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Memory confabulation is a real phenomenon. It is very possible he believed it was his own story and accidentally made it his own memory.
Gsusruls · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's called a "synthetic memory". OP's fibbing coworker may not have genuinely believed it was their own, but they actually may not have been sure, and were just making conversation at that point.
II_Confused · 21 points · Posted at 19:34:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of this scene.
lowtoiletsitter · 4 points · Posted at 20:44:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah shit now I gotta get my vcr and watch this.
RatchetMoney · 3 points · Posted at 20:42:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What movie is this?
Edit: haha I just opened it in browser it's Go. Never seen it... I think....
boomchacle · 21 points · Posted at 19:52:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ah ha but how do we know you didn't just steal his story?
GoBucks2012 · 8 points · Posted at 22:29:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, a deception within a deception. Deception. Wait, that didn't work.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:33:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nausea, heart burn, indeception, upset stomach, diarrhea.
TheLittleUrchin · 15 points · Posted at 19:52:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's....just so weird.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:31:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's actually a real thing where people will be told a story by someone else and at some point become convinced that it happened to them (or that it didn't happen to them, but they were actually there rather than hearing about it later). Memories are a funny thing.
Geshman · 21 points · Posted at 20:16:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like telling other people's stories, and quite often I will be telling a story, and mid-way through realize I am telling a person their own story (essentially the same thing this guy did only not claiming it was me). And even then I am embarrassed as hell. I don't think I could even work there anymore if I got caught doing something like that.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:19:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats different. Youre telling that persons story and i assume youre saying ‘and then HE said’ instead of ‘and then I said’
Youre not stealing stories. Youre just sharing. Thats different.
Geshman · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My point it's embarrassing when that happens, I can't image how embarrassing it is when you're caught telling it as your own.
--cunt · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This used to happen to my best friend and i. One of use would get halfway through a story, the details would get kind of murky and then we would ask the other one "wait did that happen to me or you???" I've told a lot of her stories just bc I've heard them so many times I literally forget who they happened to.
tevelizor · 10 points · Posted at 19:51:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds of that thread about stories of yourself you heard from others as their own (or something like that).
happyherbivore · 9 points · Posted at 20:12:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A past boss of mine did this to me once while I was working on his painting crew. A unique and interesting guy that I met changed to a customer he painted for "a while back" and other details changed slightly to fit his life but the story was the same. No one but me caught it and I kept it to myself, but it rubbed me the wrong way. For other reasons as well as this I left his company right as busy season started, and started working for a competing company
7in7 · 6 points · Posted at 20:10:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who does this... I actually commented about it a while back. But he'll always own up at the end of the story, explaining that everyone enjoyed it more thinking it happened first hand..
One time he told some story to the original storyteller who realised halfway through. Hilarity ensued.
Insipid86 · 7 points · Posted at 22:09:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
holy shit, I had a coworker do this to me not that long ago. he told me a story about hooking up with a chick. he started telling this story as a brag. but by the point in the story where the specifics started to sound pretty familiar I interjected. "wait, no, stop. this is my story. carnival, dennys? birthday? you're lying. this is my story" he would not stop insisting it happened to him. we were waiting for a meeting to start so by the time he finished the story the meeting had started. I couldn't tell you what that meeting was about because I couldn't stop thinking about his narcissism. he tried acting like he was a player but him and his wife have been together since middle school.
I'm so glad you shared this story. I'd never known there were people like this until that day and have never heard of another instance in which this happened. we need a name for this. I don't feel like "GOD DAMN DIRTY STORY THEIF" is accurate enough for the resintment and embarrassment I feel for these people.
SpiralToNowhere · 13 points · Posted at 21:09:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a common memory error that happens to humans. From the book "the Invisible Gorilla": "
"I Sat Next to Captain Picard"
About ten years ago at a party Dan hosted, a colleague of ours named Ken Norman told us a funny story about sitting next to the actor Pat- rick Stewart (best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek and Charles Xavier in the X-Men films) at a Legal Sea Food restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The story was prompted when Chris noticed that Dan had a small figurine of Captain Picard perched next to his television screen. "Can I buy your Captain Picard?" asked Chris. Dan said that it was not for sale. Chris offered five, then ten dollars. Dan refused. Chris eventually raised his bid to fifty dollars — for reasons that escape him now — but Dan still refused. (Neither of us remembers why Dan refused, but to this day, Picard has not left his place amid Dan's electronics.)
At this point Ken told us that at Legal Sea Food, Patrick Stewart had been dining with an attractive younger woman who, based on snippets of overheard conversation, appeared to be a publicist or agent. For dessert Stewart ordered Baked Alaska — a choice that stood out in memory because it appears rarely on restaurant menus. Toward the end of his meal, another distinctive event happened: Two members of the kitchen staff came out to Stewart's table and asked for his autograph, which he readily granted. Moments later, a manager appeared and apologized, explaining that the "Trekkie" cooks' action was against restaurant policy. Stewart shrugged off the supposed offense, and he and his companion were soon on their way.
The only problem with the story was that it had actually happened not to Ken, but to Chris. Ken had heard Chris tell the story some time before and had incorporated it into his own memory. In fact, Ken felt so strongly that the memory was his, and had so completely forgotten that Chris was the original raconteur, that even Chris's pres- ence when Ken retold the story did not jog his memory of the way in which he had actually "encountered" Captain Picard. But when Chris pointed out the error, Ken quickly realized that this memory was not his own. This anecdote illustrates another aspect of the illusion of memory: When we retrieve a memory, we can falsely believe that we are fetching a record of something that happened to us rather than someone else. "
Peace_Is_Coming · 3 points · Posted at 23:02:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wrong. It's MY story. I told that story on Reddit (including someone stealing it) months ago. You even quoted me except I said "A green afro and a pink moustache" back then. You have been rumbled.
AnalLeaseHolder · 5 points · Posted at 21:36:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At work one day a co-worker started telling me and another co-worker a story about being stopped by the police.
He went into great detail about how he stopped at a gas station for a drink and there were two cops standing out front and nobody else in the parking lot. He gave the cops a wave, being nice, bought his drink, and left. Less than a hundred feet down the street these same two cops pulled him over. They told him that they smelled weed when he got out of the car. He asked the cops if they could smell it now, standing next to his open window, they said no but it was obvious it came from him. They asked if they could search his car, which he angrily let them, telling them he wanted the cops to climb through his hot car to find nothing. While one cop did the "Search" the other cop told him to calm down, he looked nervous. To which he said "I'm not pissed, I'm angry. You didn't smell weed, you smelled a shaved head and tattoos." The cops found nothing and let him go about his business.
THE LIE:
It was MY story. It happened to ME months before and I told that story at work back then. He even quoted me, except I said "Long hair and tattoos". A few minutes into the story my other co-worker and I start giving each other the side eye, realizing he was literally telling me my own story. I think he realized it towards the end because he quickly finished up the story and left without ever mentioning it again.
We never brought it up either, I had such a bad case of second hand embarrassment for the guy. Plus everybody else already heard about it and he was forever branded the liar.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 07:14:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a buddy try to insert me in to a story while he was telling it to me. Uh, no buddy, I was NOT there the day that you claimed that the one hot chick was totally coming on to you. I was in a different city. Maybe he confused me with someone else, but he was known to be full of shit, anyway. I'm sure his wife would have loved the story, though.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds of my friend in high school who showed us song yrics he wrote and they were almost identical to Civil War by Guns & Roses. I guess he didn't count on a bunch of rockers in guitar class recognizing a super popular song at the time…
Dumbledickhead · 3 points · Posted at 22:40:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I told my ex a funny story about my friend having a crush on sonic the hedgehog as a kid and a few weeks later he repeated the story in front of me whilst drunk as his own story when we were having a group conversation about childhood crushes. I didn't say anything but he told the story word for word and said "my friend..." He had never even met my friend.
EasilyConfusedToday · 4 points · Posted at 20:22:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe those cops don't like tattoos, with or without hair, must be profiling...
knockknuckles · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You could save yourself in this situation by slowly starting to exaggerate and then passing it off as a bad joke. I'd rather be known for my shitty sense of humor rather than for being a liar.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:35:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, the real thing to do is to not lie.
Although it is entirely possible for someone to do this accidentally and actually be convinced that it happened to them. Humans aren't great at remembering things. The problem with that is that even if you claim you genuinely thought it happened to you, most people won't believe you and will assume you're still lying.
outworlder · 2 points · Posted at 21:02:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend that developed a reputation for “stealing memories”. He would listen to histories and had such a good memory that he would correct you if you told it a different way. Apparently the memory was very selective, because he would not remember whether or not he was actually present during the event, but would totally recount the tales down to the tiniest details. There was no malice though.
cantbeconnected · 2 points · Posted at 21:25:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I enhance my stories with tiny little lies to make the story telling aspect more fluid but this is just dumb.
Point79 · 2 points · Posted at 22:09:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have "that guy" at my work too. I told a story of a guy accidentally hitting a game warden with his ATV. Few years later "that guy" starts telling the same story to a group of people I was standing with.
sunburn95 · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But you dont have tattoos?
..oh I was wearing temporary ones at the time
ManOfNinetyNine · 2 points · Posted at 23:25:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's a guy where I work that does that almost. He makes up all kinds of lies for no reason. He also likes to tell you back things you just said. He also likes to take control of everything and push everyone out of the way. He also likes to show off. He also likes to flirt with every woman in the plant. He also talks a whole bunch about useless stuff. He also shakes his head no and looks pathetic every time he looks at anyone. God I hate that guy.
Edit: some words
ShutUpAndSmokeMyWeed · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's possible they really remembered it wrong and thought it happened to them. It's scary how malleable memory is, and a lot of things can influence it. There are even people who admit to crimes they never did lol.
party_tattoos · 3 points · Posted at 21:18:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve been the liar in this scenario, but it was an honest mistake. A while back my best friend told me a story about something funny that had happened to him. Years later, I repeated his own story back to him, but in my version the funny thing had happened to my husband. I genuinely thought I remembered my husband telling me that story as something that happened to him. But it obviously wasn’t a big deal in this situation, my friend just thought it was hilarious.
Liitke · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a kid at work who has done this at least thrice to me. I dont know if i get angry or sad..... angry that he stole my story or sad that he thinks so little of me he can't even remember im the one who told him. He is such a compulsive liar it's incredibly frustrating.
SpiralToNowhere · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Remembering other people's stories as your own is actually a common memory mistake. "I Sat Next to Captain Picard" is an anecdote in the book, "The Inivisible Gorilla " This anecdote is basically the same - a friend tells another friend an entertaining story that happened to him. They say " [It] illustrates another aspect of the illusion of memory: When we retrieve a memory, we can falsely believe that we are fetching a record of something that happened to us rather than someone else. " So, unless you havereason to think they're being deliberately deceptive, the kid probably isn't lying to you - they are likely just more suceptible to this memory malfunction than others.
Liitke · 5 points · Posted at 21:15:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well besides stealing stories he literally lies about everything. While your information was interesting i think hes just more inclined to be a dick.
Things hes lied about;
Working at several jobs. (Didnt) Owning a car. (Moms) Owning a house. (Gfs dads basement) Having a miscarriage (i know his gf unless he was cheating) Purchasing items at work (i did) Singing in a band (his brother does) Being drug free (does meth) He has a forge and makes knives (think he just watches a show) His mom saved red lobster a million dollars a year by putting one olive in their salads instead of two (common american airlines story)
SpiralToNowhere · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eep, well he sounds like he's blown through the benefit of the doubt then for sure!
cristeljade · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do people do this
TheREAL_MNKush · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol was his name Rob by chance?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh no! Poor guy.
ItchyTriggaFingaNigg · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend does this. He exaggerates stories all the time, and has even told my stories as through they happened to him.
It annoys me but it's weird because he's so passionate about it.
MDCCCLV · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That reminds me of a key a Peele sketch, like your story but where the guy didn't change the description of himself in the story.
Dyllock105 · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar but not anyone stealing my story. A friend of mine was once telling me how someone in her friend group had so much crazy shit happen to him. She told me one of the stories. It sounded familiar. Then another. It didn't register until I went onto TIFU and realised her friend was bullshitting her reddit stories.
_LulzCakee_ · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do people do that?
Ive had a friend who told a story that I was present in, and added new things to it that never happened and that he never said.
I had another friend try telling me he saw a baby in a hot car, so he threw a rock through the window, and I was able to finish exactly what he was going to say next: "but the window was down" How did I know? Because its an Anthony Jesselink joke.
Why do people try to pass things off as their own and/or add things?? I dont understand.
Its more satisfying to tell stories that actually happened, doesnt faking stories about yourself make you feel LESS interesting because you know it didnt actually happen? Like you must be a boring person if you have to use your friend's stories to seem interesting.
LalalaHurray · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How you doin'?
Oh. How YOU doin'?
JohnjSmithsJnr · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And this is why lying about shit is dumb, the second you're branded as a liar there's no coming back
Long_Tetris_Piece · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of this one time I went to a gas station and there were two cops standing out in front and nobody else in the parking lot....
wavs101 · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happenes to me sometimes. I think certain things happened to me, when in reality, they happened to someone else. But i always clarify it happened to someone else once i remember who it happened to
FYF69 · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh... had a co-worker do that to me a few years back. Can't remember the story I'd told (I'm decades older'n him), but he re-told one of my old stories. Just when co-workers were busting out the "Hey, that's really cool man" type shit, I said "Yeah, I told you that story months ago." I'm kind of a plain speaker these days.
He at least had the grace to look embarrassed.
Llohr · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have literally done this (told someone else's story) without realizing it until part way through. Not that I didn't realize I was telling someone his own story, I didn't realize that it didn't happen to me, until something didn't feel right; I couldn't remember details that I should have been able to remember. I stopped, and asked of the group, "did one of you guys tell me this story? I think this is something I heard."
Alcohol may have been involved. Still embarrassing to think about.
PrincessSluggy · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a roommate steal a secondhand story we had heard from a mutual friend my freshman year of college. It was about our RA and it was initially told as, “hey guys my friend told me he saw her at a party flash somebody!” When it was retold suddenly the ex-roomie was the person who saw her at the party. 😂 It was so cringe.
wisconsinwookie78 · 1 points · Posted at 06:48:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Wow, that was a really interesting story. And you told it so well. Its almost as if I was there..."
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 06:56:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a buddy in the Marines like this. He became known for telling some tall tales. But one that stood out was him repeating a story that one of our Sergeants had told. Apparently, he had a vial of LSD taped to his leg at a club, it busted, and absorbed in to his skin, and gave him a fucked up trip. I have no inclination to believe that story when the Sergeant told it. But when he repeated it, I was just like "Oh brother..."
steam29 · 1 points · Posted at 12:16:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's pretty crazy how you catch a person lying 1 time and then all of a sudden everything you and them have ever done or said together all comes together! Like you can instantly tell what's a lie and what's real
paxgarmana · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of the time I was stopped by the police.
I stopped at a gas station for a drink and there were two cops standing out front and nobody else in the parking lot. I gave the cops a wave, being nice, bought his drink, and left. Less than a hundred feet down the street these same two cops pulled me over. They told me that they smelled weed when I got out of the car. I asked the cops if they could smell it now, standing next to my open window, they said no but it was obvious it came from me. They asked if they could search his car, which I angrily let them, telling them I wanted the cops to climb through my hot car to find nothing. While one cop did the "Search" the other cop told me to calm down, I looked nervous. To which I said "I'm not pissed, I'm angry. You didn't smell weed, you smelled a short fat dude." The cops found nothing and let me go about my business.
h0ldkaylad0wn · 1 points · Posted at 10:00:11 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
Omfg very similar thing happened to me too, me and my best friend were at dinner with a couple other friends, one of them starts telling a story that my best friend told me and we just looked at each other like WTF?? The most embarrassing part is he obviously forgot that she was the one who told him and he didn't even seem to notice that everyone was just giving each other the side eye. How and why people do this is beyond me
Findanniin · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-for-a-reason did this with a story of mine a few months into the relationship.
So, yeah, turns out - this can in fact be a red flag for compulsive liars and I should have totally been less of a sucker.
KrackerJoe · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love it when people do that, it shows people actually listen to you.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 22:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do that sometimes (repackage stories as my own) because it's way more engaging to tell a story in first-person than to be like "so my friend one time" or something oblique like that. I don't think I've ever re-hashed some else's story to their face, though. That would be so fucking embarrassing lol
rubbersforwork · 4277 points · Posted at 15:35:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When his ex girlfriend sent me a picture of a pregnancy test...but couldn’t hold it up to a daily newspaper. She broke and admitted it was fake... Queen of Douche
hiyeuh · 1002 points · Posted at 21:29:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck that shit. I had a girl do the same thing. Found out that she lived in so many places because that’s how she makes money. Fake abortions. It made my heart hurt and my dick feel sick.
mollygk · 31 points · Posted at 23:36:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
”made my dick feel sick”
cake-jesus · 9 points · Posted at 23:39:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
mollygk · 11 points · Posted at 23:50:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks!! :)
johnhitlerpizza · 48 points · Posted at 23:20:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Abortions are free over here. I thought they were free in most places. What country are you in?
[deleted] · 104 points · Posted at 23:24:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 36 points · Posted at 23:31:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably. They're like $500 in my area, not sure if they're more or less elsewhere in the country.
AeolianMelodies · 66 points · Posted at 00:29:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus what. Do they not realize that "I fucking don't have money" is a reason to get an abortion in itself??
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 01:44:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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AeolianMelodies · 16 points · Posted at 01:50:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And are you saying you can't be in a situation where you don't have a free 500$ hanging around? I certainly did not when I had to go through an abortion.
UnicornPanties · 22 points · Posted at 02:15:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No actually, I think OP was agreeing with you on the same principle but with different words. She's saying not having 100K is one thing (not enough to raise a kid) but not having $500 is even less than that (not enough to do shit) and even more of a reason to end a pregnancy.
AeolianMelodies · 3 points · Posted at 02:35:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And yet it would seem if you're American you can't do it..?? wth? I might be missing something since I'm Canadian
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:05:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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AeolianMelodies · 2 points · Posted at 03:49:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
much better to have super poor people have unwanted kids /s
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:20:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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AeolianMelodies · 2 points · Posted at 14:22:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you missed my /s
NXTangl · 1 points · Posted at 07:23:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pro life bullshit, see?
UnicornPanties · 1 points · Posted at 10:43:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm American and have always lived in the North - Washington State, now NYC - I think abortions have always been available to me and my lady brethren. It's in the South and parts of the midwest/biblebelt that have trouble with access. I'm glad I don't live in those areas.
dropkickhead · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Welcome to Reddit! Something you'll commonly find here mentioned again and again is that American healthcare for the poor is absolute shit. Some places won't let you abort at all! If that surprises you, just wait until you hear how well we take care of our combat veterans!
ephony5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know you posted this a while ago, but I thought I would answer your question.
Most doctor's offices will do payment plans if you can't afford their services.
Also, if you have insurance they usually just have you pay the copay ($20-40 depending on your insurance) then will send you a bill for what insurance didn't cover.
hiyeuh · 1 points · Posted at 13:44:33 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had it. She told me it was 700 though. I thought of myself as a good guy though so I should just pay it. Got the money out and everything but her friend, who is also my friend, filled me in that day before I gave her the cash.
SubcommanderMarcos · 10 points · Posted at 01:32:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Abortions are extremely risky and expensive where I am
That's because they're illegal
johnhitlerpizza · 21 points · Posted at 01:41:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I heard that if you yell into the vagina for the baby to leave it will sometimes go on its own accord. And if that doesn't work you can always slide an eviction notice in there.
But seriously that sucks.
SubcommanderMarcos · 9 points · Posted at 02:14:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It does suck a lot, a lot of people are trying to get that changed
Problem is, a lot of people honestly believe it's better this way.
hiyeuh · 2 points · Posted at 13:42:12 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
US
WolfeTheMind · 6 points · Posted at 23:24:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a fucking nightmare
EyeKneadEwe · 11 points · Posted at 23:27:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Candidate for least erotic euphemism for male orgasm:
Dick Sneeze
ImpliedPenis · 11 points · Posted at 23:33:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As opposed to jizz, splooge, bust and ejaculate which are all sexy af. Did I miss any?
rubbersforwork · 2 points · Posted at 15:06:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I thought it was dick snot
BigBenRoethlisburger · 5 points · Posted at 02:00:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am not trying to be a dick honestly. Watch out for girls that ARE TOO INTO you ya know what I mean they miight be scammers. OR they are your soul mate....fuck it dont take advice from me
Stardustchaser · 4 points · Posted at 23:25:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, I should have known there was such a thing.
iamdevo · 5 points · Posted at 01:09:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sucks. Sorry about your dick.
everytimelose · 9 points · Posted at 23:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What does a sick dick feel like?
grizzmanchester · 34 points · Posted at 23:20:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know that moment when you're about to throw up your mouth starts to water and drool falls everywhere?.... Kinda like that but in the britches.
ImpliedPenis · 11 points · Posted at 23:32:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my fucking God
MissingVanSushi · 3 points · Posted at 23:57:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ROFFLOL
synfulyxinsane · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I call that feeling sweaty mouth.
hiyeuh · 1 points · Posted at 13:45:54 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha just felt gross. My dick was healthy.
Raincoats_George · 2 points · Posted at 01:14:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats fucking vile.
WolleyAilongam · 148 points · Posted at 19:55:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's an app when you can make "stickers" from pictures. I made a sticker from an ovulation test, which almost always shows two lines and good gosh, the amount of people who've used it in pictures holding them. I always think it's funny because it says "Lh" all over it where pregnancy tests are "HcG".
DeepFriedTaint · 33 points · Posted at 22:58:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People you know took your sticker and are using it to lie about their tests?
WolleyAilongam · 11 points · Posted at 02:53:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No. They're for public use. I submitted it to the gallery and others can use whatever I make. Perfect strangers making fake pregnancy announcements with an ovulation test.
Edit - the app is called PicsArt Photo Studio: Collage Maker & Pic Editor. If you search pregnancy tests, you'll likely find mine in there. I've gotten a dozen hits on it or so.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:14:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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iamthegemfinder · 1 points · Posted at 13:15:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Relevant username?!
Edit: what is the point of downvoting this comment. PicsArt is the app most commonly used to deep fry memes...
I_Rain_On_Parades · 40 points · Posted at 23:32:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a long distance ex tell me she thought she was pregnant. She was on the 3 month shot, it was REALLY fucking unlikely and her reasoning was garbage. I asked her if she took a test. no.
I asked her why she was even be telling me if she could just go to the store and find out. She goes, checks, texts back that she took a test and it was negative. I told her to send me a photo of it. She tells me she can't, it's in the trash already. So fucking dig it out! Oh, uh... I'll just go buy another one. Why would you do that? those things are expensive, which you would know if you had actually gone and bought one in the first place.
shamdock · 11 points · Posted at 03:19:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can get them for a dollar at the dollar store and you aren’t supposed to read them after five minutes and rely on what they say (not just the dollar store ones).
I_Rain_On_Parades · 4 points · Posted at 04:22:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was on depo which is one of the most effective forms of BC outside of sterilization, we had a fight and she was using that as a way of getting to me. she was a toxic and abysmal human being who thanks to years of abuse at the hands of her ex was incapable of being anything but dependant on the person she was romantically involved with, and unable to make even simple life decisions for herself. She was a shell of a human being who refused to get therapy and thought the idea of getting her pregnant would keep me from breaking up with her. My only regret is not leaving that relationship years earlier.
kmmy89399 · 8 points · Posted at 04:44:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just so you know, a pregnancy test actually isn't valid after a certain amount of time- like if she took it and threw it away and you asked to see it 20 minutes later, and it had said "positive", you may have called her a liar. But outside of the time frame for that particular test, the result can be different. It doesn't happen often, but it could. Just in case you ever find yourself in such a situation again lol. The girl should 100% go buy another test.
I_Rain_On_Parades · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was on depo which is one of the most effective forms of BC outside of sterilization, we had a fight and she was using that as a way of getting to me. she was a toxic and abysmal human being who thanks to years of abuse at the hands of her ex was incapable of being anything but dependant on the person she was romantically involved with, and unable to make even simple life decisions for herself. She was a shell of a human being who refused to get therapy and thought the idea of getting her pregnant would keep me from breaking up with her. My only regret is not leaving that relationship years earlier.
kmmy89399 · 4 points · Posted at 05:41:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wasn't trying to say she was in the right whatsoever, and I'm glad you got away from her!! I'm a girl, and i had an ex that tried to convince me to stay by saying I was probably pregnant (???), people will desperately grasp at anything to "keep" their partner sometimes. I was just referring to the part where you said she should just get it out of the trash. Just thought I'd be helpful and let you, and anyone else who may read it, know that you can't rely on a pregnancy test that's more than a few minutes old.
And just to give you a laugh with a funny ass coincidence, I'm currently 35 weeks pregnant with my son. I was on the depo shot AND using condoms 😂😂 luckily my partner and I are happy about it lol. You are correct though, it's supposed to be one of the most effective/foolproof.
I_Rain_On_Parades · 3 points · Posted at 05:57:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wasn't in doubt that it was negative, i was in doubt it ever existed. it didn't she never took the test because she knew she wasn't pregnant.
Yikes! Those are some odds lol
Glad the two of you are in a place where it works for you!
kmmy89399 · 4 points · Posted at 06:02:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh, ok. That makes sense! And yeah, I didn't find out for a while because I don't have regular periods and once the symptoms started it was flu season, thinking I had the flu made more sense than being pregnant 😂
Fenbob · 12 points · Posted at 23:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a girl I was temporarily seeing. Who did something similar. She sent me pictures of pregnancy test, saying all kinds of shit like she had morning sickness. Even sent me pics of her sick one morning. To “prove it”
In the end I just told her I’m shooting blanks so fuck off lol.
YayMayonnaise · 22 points · Posted at 22:37:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like if you needed to ask her about taking the picture with a newspaper she wasn't that trustworthy from the beginning.
Haremjutsu · 65 points · Posted at 19:29:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What?
aaaouee55 · 198 points · Posted at 19:36:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To prove it was current/hers/not a stock image/etc.
[deleted] · 100 points · Posted at 20:32:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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buttons987 · 16 points · Posted at 22:42:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How does one google image reverse search?
NedelC0 · 64 points · Posted at 22:46:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Google 'reverse image search' for starters
Jeffrey678 · 28 points · Posted at 22:59:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How does one Google "reverse image search"?
FacelessBraavosi · 36 points · Posted at 23:01:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Go on bing.com and search for "reverse image search."
buttons987 · 13 points · Posted at 01:04:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can I Google Bing first
Jeffrey678 · 21 points · Posted at 23:13:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks this helped so much!
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 03:08:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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TheSilverShroudette · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:29 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/woooosh mate
DryMoment · 12 points · Posted at 23:03:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Go to images.google.com and drag your image in, it searches the internet for that image
Zeegh · 8 points · Posted at 22:57:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Drag and drop the image into a google search bar.
HopelessTractor · 5 points · Posted at 23:00:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right click on image > search with Google. Way simpler
Zeegh · 7 points · Posted at 23:01:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’re right. Options are fun though.
buttons987 · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks I didn’t realise it was that simple [facepalm]
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 23:01:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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mizzbrightside · 5 points · Posted at 23:10:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This site lets you upload images directly from your phone’s library.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:18:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PalladiuM7 · -3 points · Posted at 22:46:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's an add-on for most browsers.
candreacchio · 9 points · Posted at 22:54:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No add-on is needed... You can do it directly at images.google.com
twirlingpink · 73 points · Posted at 19:36:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How kidnappers prove their hostage is alive.
Captain-Cactus · 32 points · Posted at 20:39:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The real life tip is always in the comments
darkhalo47 · 10 points · Posted at 23:26:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But what if they just use tomorrow's newspaper
LurkingArachnid · 5 points · Posted at 23:04:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She killed the pregnancy test. What a heartless douche indeed
shiupai · 11 points · Posted at 22:58:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I believe it has something to do with how people ask to take pictures with a copy of today's newspaper in the shot to prove its a real and recent picture you took yourself.
alluvicqueen · 5 points · Posted at 23:25:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"his"?
rubbersforwork · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes his... I’m the current gf. She was way too drama...and way too high school for a forty something
Musaks · 11 points · Posted at 23:08:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck her..or well no...dont fuck her anymore. She doesnt deserve it
There are things that you dont joke about ....faking pregnancy is one
rubbersforwork · 2 points · Posted at 14:58:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m in complete agreement with you since I’m unable to have anymore. Babies are too important for some of us
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:46:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion/ This is the website for the National Abortion Fund with funding by state. Give her this info if she happens to need another abortion. 😑 This is also valuable info to anyone else out there who is unable to pay. They offer accomodation assistance as well if there is long distance travel to the clinic.
unsignedcharizard · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:37 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
When was the last time you had a daily newspaper lying around?
rubbersforwork · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:37 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not the point... if they don’t cough up the lie, they will find SOMETHING or someway to validate. I mean, when you knew her tubes were tied, that makes it easier to figure out it was FABRICATED
CalvinsOlderBrother · 5022 points · Posted at 15:09:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught my mom eating my Halloween candy when I was little after she told me it wasn't her. Getting new candy from the store because of it was pretty satisfying.
12visionsdancing · 2636 points · Posted at 18:04:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my house, that was called Dad Tax and everyone had to pay.
ilikeeatingbrains · 220 points · Posted at 19:38:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've only started using that. I see why working for the government must be fun.
aintmybish · 25 points · Posted at 23:32:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Has PTSD flashbacks to the "Tax Man" scene from Stranger than Fiction
ilikeeatingbrains · 10 points · Posted at 01:26:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You brought me flours?
aintmybish · 6 points · Posted at 01:39:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
JUST EAT THE DAMN COOKIE, WILL FERRELL
D_Winds · 60 points · Posted at 21:18:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For Dad it's a tax, for Mom the goods were never deducted in the first place.
whitemothburial · 18 points · Posted at 23:02:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dad tax! Thank you for bringing me back
WailordOnSkitty · 11 points · Posted at 23:39:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The dad tax is fine when you know you’re paying it, having the tax man break down your door while you’re at work and pawn your computer is fucked up though.
TheYoungWolf0 · 23 points · Posted at 22:20:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For us, it’s the Eldest Brother tax and I’m the one who got paid 😎
show_me_your_corgi · 8 points · Posted at 23:26:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always the good candy, too. I lost one too many peanut butter cups to the Dad tax
MoneyTreeFiddy · 28 points · Posted at 21:41:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Taxation is theft!
THIS_MSG_IS_A_LIE · 9 points · Posted at 23:47:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
property is theft, therefore theft is property. -Zaphod Beeblebrox
Laz0r_dick · 1 points · Posted at 10:23:47 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
... If theres a person actually named Zaphod Beeblebrox... I dont know what comes next... I dont wsnt this to be true
cherry42 · 15 points · Posted at 22:32:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Try saying that to a dad
musicninja · 6 points · Posted at 04:11:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why did Karl Marx hate Earl Grey? Because all proper tea is theft.
riflebrony10000 · 6 points · Posted at 03:23:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am allergic to peanut butter and I used to ask for non peanut treats, but my dad used to tell me to get them anyway so he could eat all of them. We had a pretty good system going on there for a few years.
Leafblight · 6 points · Posted at 22:49:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm stealing this, thanks
IFreakinLovePi · 4 points · Posted at 06:49:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad claimed he was checking for poisoned candy and razor blades, because apparently that was a common urban legend.
SansCiph · 3 points · Posted at 23:31:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh no... It's spreading...
agentspinner00 · 3 points · Posted at 23:38:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was even more if they had to help open a piece of candy.
Skyline99x · 3 points · Posted at 00:26:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad established that without a single word. He just took some candy each year that he liked.
fmxexo · 3 points · Posted at 01:13:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Half of all Snickers. Dad tax.
jjackson25 · 3 points · Posted at 04:33:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"perhaps you are unhappy with the terms of our arrangement?"
Limitr · 7 points · Posted at 09:15:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am altering the deal. Pray that I don't alter it any further.
jjackson25 · 2 points · Posted at 14:24:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm glad someone got where I was going with that
Neuroleino · 3 points · Posted at 10:40:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mom: eats candy in secret, lies about it, gets caught.
Dad: eats candy, tells others to deal with it.
yoku651 · 2 points · Posted at 23:30:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m going to do this to my children. Trick or treating may be for kids but damn it candy taste good ok?!
puffpuffitsgone · 2 points · Posted at 01:47:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
adding this to my future parental bucket list
BigBenRoethlisburger · 2 points · Posted at 01:58:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
fuck this taxation without representation. Flooding my dads toilet with T.P when I was about 7 was my own personal boston tea party.
LadyFoxfire · 2 points · Posted at 02:21:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my house, my parents just ate the leftover candy from the handout bowl.
RelaxPreppie · 2 points · Posted at 02:25:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Beats paying the Troll Toll. That one's a real doozy.
BallsDeepInReality_ · 2 points · Posted at 02:45:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn straight.
That tax exists every where, and if you don't pay, you still owe.
West_Yorkshire · 2 points · Posted at 07:45:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Woah there Sips
Jellyfish_Princess · 2 points · Posted at 14:20:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just called it candy tax when I was stealing from my niece and nephew.
It's crazy, I thought my "candy tax" was original and hilarious, but it turns out every kid's been paying taxes on their candy.
LotionInMyFannyPack · 2 points · Posted at 02:09:12 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
woah I thought my dad came up with that!!
RegretfullySo · 4 points · Posted at 22:26:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to struggle with this so called "dad tax" for quite awhile, even as I supplied groceries and such. I feel in hindsight it's just a narcissistic excuse for someone that feels entitled to everything they see just because "it's in my house." I don't resent my old man for doing it now because I would probably do the same thing but I want my "son tax" for all of those lost Publix subs I lost :(
MizukiAyu · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
But he was honest about it at least.
ZNasT · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:01 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
For real, don't steal it. Just tell them you're taking it, because you can.
SomnambulisticTaco · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:39 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least dad was honest about it.
[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 20:18:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister kept a written inventory of her Halloween candy.
Daftpunkthrowaway555 · 2 points · Posted at 03:58:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck yeah, hands off my candy you assholes.
BatgirlPhoenix · 26 points · Posted at 19:50:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents just took the bag at the end of Halloween night and stashed it somewhere for their consumption. One year I hid it before they could get it and I managed to make the candy last over twice as long as they ever did. They never took my candy again.
Popular-Uprising- · 41 points · Posted at 19:03:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mom's an amateur. Do it boldly and in front of them. It drives them to collect more next time.
silmarillionas · 17 points · Posted at 16:38:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jimmy Kimmel?
8jac0b88 · 10 points · Posted at 20:10:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jimmy kimmel is Not eating the candy but telling the kids you did eat it. This is eating it and lying about it.
Busybodii · 8 points · Posted at 21:37:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That hilarious, why lie? I eat my kids candy and tell them.
gonnagetacandybar · 3 points · Posted at 23:48:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha me, too! I actually end up just bringing most of it to work and sharing.
fokkoooff · 6 points · Posted at 21:41:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, yes the Shaggy Defense. Bold.
EngineeringNeverEnds · 5 points · Posted at 01:25:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't me.
IzarkKiaTarj · 4 points · Posted at 00:04:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom used to steal from my Easter basket. When I caught her, I asked why she didn't take it from my sister.
"Because she would notice!"
Honestly, I can't fault her reasoning.
bun-nie · 5 points · Posted at 21:05:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents used to take all my halloween candy and eat it. I would only ever get about 10 pieces max :-(
MidorBird · 3 points · Posted at 01:34:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The Parent Tax. Five candy bars of their choosing, per parent, from every child, every year. Even when I got old enough to take my little brother out on our own (I was around fourteen) they still charged this "fee" for letting us go in the first place.
We pretended to grumble, but we always paid up. We were dirt poor and loved our parents.
happytrails1 · 2 points · Posted at 01:45:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hide the snickers inside a carefully cut bag of frozen mixed vegetables.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:26:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those Halloween pranks parents pull And post on youtube. "Kids, we ate all your candy" "FUCK YOU MUM AND DAD!"
aniar00 · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, we knew the best chocolates were up for grabs when my cousins, brothers and I stopped at the aunts house.
Thank goodness my parents aren't big candy people.
LPT: Take the candy from the beginning, the child will learn.
zdakat · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least they got new candy when they're caught,and not punish you for finding it or denying or justify it haha
PantyAssassin18 · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You sure Jimmy did not ask her to eat your candies?
wildgoldchai · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jimmy Kimmel told her to do it
Sheepishly_Ragtag · 1 points · Posted at 02:11:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here but my Mom just screamed back "CANDY TAX"
Harogoodbye · -18 points · Posted at 20:51:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Give your mom some candy you ungrateful little shit!
TheBertBertBert · 2 points · Posted at 21:56:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you ask for candy, you'll get some. Own it if you get caught lying and stealing.
It's not about ungratefulness, it's about dishonesty.
links311 · 3488 points · Posted at 15:31:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew my ex wife was cheating but didn’t tell her that I knew..
Took her out to dinner and I casually asked questions about who she had been spending time with while I was at sea, she barely worked so she had to spend her time doing something.
She failed to mention the guy that had been staying at my house for nearly 2 months, the guy she had to call the cops on just to get to leave because I was coming home in 2 days... soooo I slid her a copy of the police report that was filed for the incident and watched as she crumbled over the fact she had been caught, and I didn’t have to say a word.
Divorce court was even more satisfying, in case anyone was wondering.
Aladayle · 924 points · Posted at 15:39:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please elaborate on court, lol
links311 · 2246 points · Posted at 18:28:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The short of it is, between her dad, text message transcripts, her garbage attorney, and her less than palatable attitude vs mine all combined to swing in my favor in the courtroom: I owed her nothing and paid her nothing in the end. I got to keep the vehicles, and she was given the debt she had acquired on frivolous purchases (without my say in any of it), I walked away free but of course, heart broken.
Her dad at one point told the courtroom of a conversation he overheard of her and the guy joking about finding a way to kill me to collect my life insurance. I feel like that was a pretty substantial point.
I honestly do chalk this success up to the fact that from the moment I found out of her infidelity to the one and only day of court, I kept my cool best as possible. Key words “best as possible”. I wasn’t 100% the entire time.
SkinMannequin · 836 points · Posted at 19:04:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her dad was on your side?
TNS72 · 1031 points · Posted at 19:40:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, if i was a cheater in a divorce court my parents would support the ex too
SkinMannequin · 218 points · Posted at 19:50:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's the right thing to do, to support the victim. But most people don't care about doing the right thing and would support their child regardless.
CaliBounded · 42 points · Posted at 03:54:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My uncle, an abusive, lazy, piece of work of a man ruined his second wife's credit (she came from a wealthy family) by charging about $50k of debt to her credit cards. They had two very small children together, and he did this before running off to marry the woman that would become his third wife. He visited my aunt in the hospital, who was there because he also set her house on fire with my two cousins in it; The only reason they made it out is because my oldest cousin (this was before I was born, he's 5 years older than me) woke his mom up (he was maybe 3 or 4 at the time) to tell her he smelled smoke.
He never forgave my mother and grandmother for showing up to court and testifying to him being a terrible human being and I heard him murmering about it a few times under his breath as a teen if my mom and grandma's didn't give him something he wanted. He kept on saying stuff like, "What about family?" and, "I'm your son!" My grandmother just shook her head and told her she raised him better than that and that him being her son didn't cancel out the fact that he broke the law and almost ruined an innocent woman's life and killed his own children. My aunt (she's still my aunt, whether they divorced or not -- she was very kind to me as a child and it pisses him off that I still consider her family, and he reminded my mom frequently throughout my childhood to have me stop saying that) was too afraid of him to press charges -- he'd filled her head with all kinds of lies that he "has friends in high places" and knew alot of people on the police force and used to be a cop himself.
Literally the only job I've heard of my uncle having in his entire life is a stint as a bellhop and a "stay at home dad" (he always left my cousins with our Maw-maw so he could go down the street and sleep with our neighbor -- yes, he was married at the time). His current (third) wife is a lawyer and supports them completely... Pretty sure she's still with him only because of sunk cost fallacy at this point.
SkinMannequin · 15 points · Posted at 04:13:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There will obviously be exceptions to the rule. Guy sounds like a bit of a sociopath.
CaliBounded · 19 points · Posted at 04:17:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A bit is an understatement. He absolutely is a sociopath. Like I'm not sure I've ever seen him have real emotions other than being indignant (because some random person that has no reason to listen to him isn't listenimf to him), smug(because he genuinely thinks he's smarter than most people) and angry, which he then begins to act on. Haven't spoken with him in years and I don't plan to ever again if I can help it.
I'd say I'm shocked he was allowed around me as a child, but my mother was also a narcissist too, so :/
SkinMannequin · 11 points · Posted at 04:34:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Narcissistic and sociopathic traits have quite a bit in common. If someone's a sociopath, there's a near guarantee that they're also a narcissist. I'm not sure if it works vice-versa, but I don't see why it couldn't.
CaliBounded · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would think so. I don't think it's easy to be a narcissist without having almost a total lack of empathy for those you inconvenience.
Zeus_McCloud · 2 points · Posted at 07:49:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Psychopath/sociopath, narcissist, and the drama queen one (I think it's called histrionic personality disorder, or better known as a drama queen (where the phrase "hissy fit" comes from) overlap in many areas and share many traits. Kind of like... fruit, I guess. ie, apples, oranges, pairs and grapes are fruits, but each is unique.
And yes, I just compared psychos, sociopaths, narcissists and drama queens to fruit. Because they're fruitcakes. :)
ROX_Faker · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:44 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I haven't had this happen to me, but I don't care whether my family members are family are not if they commit a crime. If they do, I'll hand them over to the law without batting an eye. Justice will be done. I've told my family that if I commit a crime, I must be handed over to the authorities.
CaliBounded · 2 points · Posted at 22:46:42 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's just the right thing to do. Idgaf if you're my child, my cousin, father, anyone -- if it were a total stranger doing something illegal, there's no question about if they should go to prison, so it should be no different with someone I know committing a crime. Just because I love you/am related to you doesn't make you any less a criminal. It would break my heart as opposed to some random guy committing an act and getting jailed for it, but it would have to be done.
ROX_Faker · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:32 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but unfortunately, some families still protect people who should be tried. It totally hurts emotionally to hand them over, but it's the law we all agreed to live under. Morally, we're doing the right thing. Hopefully, they're not sent to prison, but to a rehabilitation center. I know prisons are inhumane in many countries, including the U.S.
positiveinfluences · 78 points · Posted at 20:48:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
to some people the "right thing" to do would be to support their kids no matter what, and I don't think that's inherently wrong. maybe not a defensible opinion, but it's a different value system
SkinMannequin · 82 points · Posted at 21:04:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a very disturbing sense of "right." If you defend your child when they're wrong, how will they learn to do right?
positiveinfluences · 47 points · Posted at 21:11:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you might be picturing under 18 children, but this situation involved a woman that is definitely in the adult territory. if a parent raises their kid right, unconditional support of their adult child isnt necessarily disturbing. teaching kids in their developmental years is a different story entirely
SkinMannequin · 21 points · Posted at 21:19:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm speaking, of course, in reference to the story above. If your child is in some sort of danger, it's understandable to jump to their defence no matter the cause. If they're not in danger, defending them when they're wrong can be developmentally damaging.
slide_in_my_pms · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
But is sounds like they're at least in the 30s. So there wouldn't be a lot to "develop".
SkinMannequin · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Again, I'm not necessarily speaking about the story above in some of my replies. I assumed people would be able to figure without an explicit statement, but here it is.
LetsSynth · 8 points · Posted at 21:00:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Mis-caring” is one of the most long-term damaging things we can do as humans, and far too many people never learn about it
Chocolatefix · 10 points · Posted at 01:03:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would absolutely be the one telling my kids they were very wrong and have to deal with the consequences but testifying in court is another story.
positiveinfluences · 3 points · Posted at 03:04:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
yeah i agree. You highlighted the nuance that I was trying to get at but I certainly could've been more clear haha
tangledlettuce · 5 points · Posted at 03:51:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
For all we know, maybe she lied to her parents too and things only got worse as the years went on.
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 07:20:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that's what infuriated me about an episode of George Lopez. When Benny said that it didn't matter if George killed someone, and she knew about it. She'd still claim to any reporter that he was innocent. Because that was her son. And that's what you do for family. This is the same Benny that said that you "Don't screw family". Silly me, I thought that it was wrong to screw ANYONE.
I know that Benny was meant to be a despicable character. But they usually show her in that light. In these cases, it was more of a "This is the way it is" type of situation. And it annoyed me. For a show that wasn't afraid to tackle the societal double standard of how people view the "Male student-female teacher relationship", I would have expected better.
Tocoapuffs · 23 points · Posted at 23:53:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also, if you got married, your father in law probably treats you like a son/daughter and feels like you're part of the family. If you're in a serious relationship with someone who's close with their family, this happens.
Kimjdav · 8 points · Posted at 02:29:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This^ also happy cake day!
SilverParty · 12 points · Posted at 04:32:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that whole "family first" mentality needs to be replaced with "Do what's right". That's how we see families standing by a rapist/murderjng/pedo/abusive relative.
TNS72 · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Agreed
Mandown1985 · 3 points · Posted at 13:14:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Too many people have blind loyalty though and defend their friends and family despite the offence.
captain-carrot · 2 points · Posted at 06:48:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My family all love my wife. I reckon they'd take her side even if she was the cheater...
lonnko · 7 points · Posted at 00:04:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents would absolutely support me. I probably wouldn't ask them to testify if I knew I was in the wrong, but yeah if my parents sided with my ex I'd be pissed. And unless my (hypothetical) kid did something heinous, I probably wouldn't side against them either.
links311 · 88 points · Posted at 21:49:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He ended up being that way, yea. He and I always had a good friendship of sorts. I had known her and her dad since I was a teenager.
mikeash · 21 points · Posted at 03:26:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love my daughters more than I can say, but I overheard one of them chatting with a guy about murdering her husband to collect his life insurance, I don't think I'd defend her in court.
Llohr · 10 points · Posted at 02:33:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex's parents were on my side, right up until they got the idea (from her? I don't know) that I'd take their grandkid and move away never to be seen again as soon as we were divorced. After that they fought for custody on her behalf--she didn't want it.
She got it anyway...
throwwayofc · 6 points · Posted at 00:59:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her dad probably knew him well too and I'd have done the same thing too actually ( even the least fair person can't deny supporting the poor man on a to-be planned murder)
Raincoats_George · 3 points · Posted at 01:18:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know I wonder about this sometimes. I don't have kids but obviously I can see how a parent would side with their kid no matter what. But is there a line that is drawn in the sand? What if your kid is a total piece of shit?
Honestly I think theres a lot that can be forgiven but I'll be damned if I'm going to standby a criminal and enable them.
SkinMannequin · 4 points · Posted at 01:36:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. There's a fine line between forgiving and enabling. Some parent's let their love blind them to the fact that their child may not always be a perfect angel.
jedipony1 · 6 points · Posted at 02:29:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember reading about a dad who hated his son, and that son raped his wife. It was heartbreaking, and shows that everyone has a limit
SaroArsten · 6 points · Posted at 10:34:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This?
Warning: fucked up stuff, don't read If you're not mentally prepared.
HalfMileRide · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He probably worked in Nationwide.
Mic_Check_One_Two · 1 points · Posted at 07:20:25 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I had cheated and was getting a divorce because of it, I'm pretty positive my mom would fully support my ex. She loves me, but I seriously doubt she'd sit idly by while I blatantly acted like a piece of shit.
Jenifarr · 58 points · Posted at 19:52:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m really glad her dad backed you up and was honest. He must have been really disappointed and disgusted with his daughter.
links311 · 47 points · Posted at 21:47:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was. He couldn’t stand it anymore. He vented to me quite a lot after he finally let the cat out of the bag. I guess he had enough. He wanted away from her. I can’t claim to know all the details since I wasn’t there. Just know what I saw.
donkey_OT · 24 points · Posted at 19:31:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing, dude. That sounds rough. Assume it was her Dad that tipped you off to the cheating in the first place?
links311 · 26 points · Posted at 21:46:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You would be correct. He had come to stay with us when things had kinda fallen apart for him (personal life) so we all had a pretty good bond. We also were happy he was there so she had family now for when I went out to sea and it wasn’t just my family that she had.
Awesome_McCool · 26 points · Posted at 20:50:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your ex father in law sounds like a cool person
puggatron · 10 points · Posted at 21:47:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like her dad. He seems like a good dude
Stardustchaser · 8 points · Posted at 00:45:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dad is a real MVP
links311 · 13 points · Posted at 00:51:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Without his assistance I would’ve been stuck giving her 1/3 of my paychecks at a minimum.
Military policy is very clear on spousal support until actual divorce. With his written statement I was waived of the requirement to give her anything.
She did make it quite a mess for me. It was not easy until divorce court day.
You are absolutely correct on his MVP status!
ClaudeWicked · 7 points · Posted at 22:51:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's kind of sad that the big "win" for you was not having the woman who cheated on you to not get to steal your shit or force you to pay for her.
TorgOnAScooter · 3 points · Posted at 22:59:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good guy dad
verbal_pestilence · 4 points · Posted at 00:56:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
that's pretty chilling actually
there are several series on justice network about how people are betrayed and killed by those they trusted
links311 · 3 points · Posted at 00:59:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. I know she had a pretty dark sense of humor but I had wondered if there was some seriousness to it or not. What show do you recommend?
verbal_pestilence · 3 points · Posted at 01:22:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
i don't know that "recommend" is the word
i find that pretty much everything on that channel makes me feel worse about humanity
i can't remember the name of one particular show but it seems to feature a lot of stuff about marriages gone wrong
koinu-chan_love · 3 points · Posted at 02:58:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, judges tend to like mature adults who don’t make death threats.
SauceFarm · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
good on you for keep composure “as best as possible.”
BallsDeepInReality_ · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Gotta give mad props to her father for realizing what a piece of shit he raised and testifying about it in court.
I'm glad you didn't end up with that demon, as heartbreaking as it was.
OneSixteenthOfAQuart · 2 points · Posted at 06:19:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Moral of the story:
Don’t fucking cheat. Just don’t.
Baxterftw · 24 points · Posted at 17:29:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always happens to dudes in the Navy
tumsoffun · 17 points · Posted at 19:17:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did you find out about the police report?
links311 · 30 points · Posted at 21:51:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her dad told me it existed when I returned. I went to the city PD and requested a copy. Took 20 minutes and $10 I think it was.
tumsoffun · 19 points · Posted at 22:22:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well sounds like it’s a good thing her Dad was on your side!
sweetpotato37 · 7 points · Posted at 22:05:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What were you doing out at sea? If you don’t mind me asking.
links311 · 13 points · Posted at 00:39:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Navy. Submarine duty. I am 33 now and this divorce was when I was 27, but I’m sure you can relate when I say some of life’s events are ones you don’t forget!
mtmo94 · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Vietnamese women, mostly.
links311 · 13 points · Posted at 00:46:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually lol’d at this because this is the stereotype that led her to start seeing someone, she had told me.
There’s truth in the stereotype, but most of us just want to see the world—not the inside of bars or inside of someone, If you get my meaning.
Biggest_Willy · 3 points · Posted at 23:19:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good ol Jodie
links311 · 3 points · Posted at 00:47:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know it.
ninjagrover · 2 points · Posted at 00:14:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You little tease.
Please tell the divorce court story!
ballisticscholar · 2 points · Posted at 01:24:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don’t mean to sound like what happened to you is a good thing, but it’s relaxing to see cheaters (both men/women) get what they deserve.
stuartmmg7 · 2 points · Posted at 07:53:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The amount of guys I know who go to sea with a wife/gf and come back single is amazing.I definitely got lucky.
thejumbowumbo · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:39 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you haven't seen it yet, here is a video of a man catching his fiance cheating. He also keeps quiet about it, and the reveal that he knows is so fucking satisfying. I'm happy things worked out for you, despite the shitty part about your SO's infidelity.
fistingdonkeys · 3981 points · Posted at 15:08:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sued a bloke for not paying his mortgage. He filed an application claiming he’d never been served with the court proceedings, and he’d just found them in his front yard. He also managed in two pages to set out eleven separate claimed defences to the claim. Oh and he also claimed he didn’t speaka da good English.
Something didn’t stack up. So I ran some Court file searches, and discovered he’d defaulted on another mortgage a few years earlier and filed the exact same affidavit back then. Even included the exact same photos of the court documents supposedly lying in his yard.
The case did not end well for him.
x3stealer112 · 108 points · Posted at 17:29:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he homeless now?
frogjg2003 · 187 points · Posted at 18:18:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's got a nice concrete home with iron windows. Such blatant perjury doesn't endear well to judges.
fistingdonkeys · 172 points · Posted at 21:08:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hoo boy would I love to be able to confirm that. But sadly, that is not what happened. We told him what we’d found; he suddenly got back his English skill set and offered to pay my client out; my client took the deal. Collections officers are driven by the returns on their loan book, not whether their debtors go to prison.
chasethatdragon · 10 points · Posted at 23:00:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How much time can you really get for purjury? I honestly don't know much about that but I'm movies it's just short term. I know movies what a great sources.
Gyrgir · 18 points · Posted at 23:27:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the jurisdiction, the type of case, and the offender's criminal record. Perjury in US Federal court has a maximum sentence of 5 years imprisonment, but IIRC typical sentences for someone with a clean record who is convicted of perjury at trial are more like 12-18 months for perjury in a civil case or 18-24 months for perjury in a criminal case.
And of course, each state has their own rules. California, for example, has some provisions scaling the penalty for perjury based on the potential and actual consequences of the lie. There's even a provision allowing the death penalty for perjury if the perjury lead directly to an innocent person being executed, but I don't think that provision has ever been used.
frogjg2003 · 7 points · Posted at 23:26:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Up to five years
The__Imp · 2 points · Posted at 02:56:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can confirm that I deal with crap like this all the freaking time (in bankruptcy court (although generally not THIS blatant) and I have never seen anyone get any time for anything.
Gsusruls · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also, his health insurance is free.
Neoshinryu · 20 points · Posted at 19:49:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So... stupid question but... did it work the first time? I mean.. surely it must have to try it again. I must know!
fistingdonkeys · 55 points · Posted at 21:00:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, it did.
The bank he tried it on with the first time around accepted $120k for a $350k debt.
That was not similar to the outcome he obtained in my case.
Neoshinryu · 9 points · Posted at 21:05:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. Thanks for the answer, your story was fascinating!
fistingdonkeys · 28 points · Posted at 21:12:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. It was one of my proudest moments in professional practice. Running the court searches was not at all conventional and when it turned up his prior affidavit...OMG so excite.
Neoshinryu · 11 points · Posted at 21:20:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
YES! I was going to ask this but I didn't want to be too prying. It seemed like you went the extra mile so the speak. So satisfying!
oRac001 · 6 points · Posted at 20:28:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you get your money though?
fistingdonkeys · 24 points · Posted at 21:02:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My client did, yes. Including every bit of principal, interest, and my $35k in fees.
chasethatdragon · 6 points · Posted at 23:02:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How was he able to come up with it? Did he have allot in the bank? If so why even get mortgages
fistingdonkeys · 16 points · Posted at 23:22:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plainly this chap got them with the intention of profiting materially through default and fraud. And he succeeded in that endeavour at least once.
chasethatdragon · 2 points · Posted at 23:41:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean how did he pay the money back from the court settlement
xzElmozx · 1 points · Posted at 13:44:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably a loan from a loan shark since a bank wouldn't give him one. At least this way if/when he doesn't pay back, they'll just break his kneecaps
garfieldsam · 4 points · Posted at 22:18:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who the fuck underwrote this guy if finding the prior default was so easy to find and just a few years earlier?
FreeRadical5 · 4 points · Posted at 22:54:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Canada
chasethatdragon · 4 points · Posted at 22:58:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How was he even able to get a second mortgage after that?
sasasa377 · 6 points · Posted at 23:40:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read the other comments, it would appear that he got away with it and so when he went to get another mortgage elsewhere I assume it wasn't on record or listed as a conviction. Wouldn't look like he had done anything wrong, no reason not to give him another mortgage.
cynicalnoodles · 6 points · Posted at 19:34:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Goddammit Jin Yang!!
fistingdonkeys · 8 points · Posted at 21:01:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL. His actual surname was Chow.
LucienLachance123 · 3 points · Posted at 23:22:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll always upvote silicon valley
Nevermind04 · 2 points · Posted at 23:25:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn I wish I could have seen that judge's face.
Universalight · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yo, have you ever seen that old British sitcom, 'Mind Your Language'? Your 'speaka da good English' comment reminded me of it
fistingdonkeys · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No. Should I?
Universalight · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ehh; it’s pretty funny for a certain sense of humour. It’s from the 80’s and it’s about this group of foreigners taking an English language class. Speaking for the languages in there that I know; the foreign languages they speak and the terminology they use is very accurate and fluently spoken by foreign-based actors. You can kind of see the classes progression as they learn more English throughout the seasons. It’s a pretty wholesome show, riddled with minor jokes that can be missed; and, as most 80’s shows are, it’s totally family friendly.
drarch · 1135 points · Posted at 16:19:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I played college basketball, and one of my teammates had a chronic condition with the truth.
My first summer, we were roommates, and I always suspected he was stealing my clothes. At one point, every player received a custom pair of Jordans in our school's colors. But within a week mine went missing.
A month later, I noticed my roommate/teammate was wearing a pair of Jordans. Later in the day we were in a gym and I waited until we were all relaxing, and he had the soles of his shoes facing forward as he sat.
I told all of my other teammates what I suspected, and approached him. "Hey, have you seen my Jordans?", "Naa, I already told you. Now leave me alone", "Then why is my number written on the soles of the shoes you're wearing?". The team equipment staff had predicted some shoes might go missing, so they had marked each pair.
I made him take the shoes off right there, since I couldn't trust I'd get them back at the end of the day. After that, his nickname on the team was Simba, for being the Lying King.
EDIT:
One more story, since people found the first amusing.
We had an athletic trainer whose job it was to make sure we were taking care of our bodies. If we got hurt, it was his responsibility to make sure we were getting treatment before and after every practice or game.
My teammate/roommate had sprained his ankle earlier that week in practice, and the rule was if you weren't with the training staff getting treatment, then you weren't really hurt. Skipping treatment, but saying you were hurt, was a huge no-no with our coach.
I was in there for my own injury, and the trainer comes up to say "Where's your roommate? He was supposed to be here 30 min ago, and practice starts soon." I didn't know, so the trainer calls him.
Over the phone, my roommate tells our trainer that he's just getting out of class on campus, and it'll take him at least another 20 minutes to get back - so no time for treatment.
The trainer hung up the phone and stared at me with an incredulous look, "This MF-er just told me he was on campus... I called his room phone".
DiarrheaShitLord · 109 points · Posted at 04:37:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If he was your team mate, and everyone on your team received a custom pair of Jordans, why did he need to steal yours if he had a pair??
drarch · 78 points · Posted at 05:57:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Custom Jordans could go for a lot of $. Or he was just selfish. Good question, though I doubt I would've gotten an honest answer.
Falconr3 · 9 points · Posted at 07:53:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, you seem like someone who would genuinely give someone a chance for being truthful. What a shitty person to be surrounded among! Hope you find supportive crowds in your environment soon!
mybustersword · 12 points · Posted at 08:14:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife lived with this girl who was told she could borrow any clothing at any time from their third roommate, who will continued to sneak in and steal them often. She was caught several times. Some people just like to steal
xenalewrriorprincess · 22 points · Posted at 06:07:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude, what a mic drop with that nick name!
ZoomJet · 8 points · Posted at 07:16:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
*mic
Sorry
Galevav · 13 points · Posted at 08:18:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Michael knows what he did.
xenalewrriorprincess · 3 points · Posted at 14:11:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Touche.
But also, what u/Galevav said ≖_≖
Tha_Rat_King · 6 points · Posted at 07:26:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rofl Perfect nickname!
sweetrhymepurereason · 5 points · Posted at 09:29:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one is extra dumb because he already had his own pair! That’s one hell of a compulsion to steal.
not-quite-a-nerd · 5 points · Posted at 19:26:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Love that
alittlefence · 5 points · Posted at 15:36:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upvote just for Lying King
UnicornPanties · 1 points · Posted at 09:07:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Simba - that's the best.
Also - if he was on the team you both got a pair of these custom Jordans - why would he steal yours?
Raiquo · 3 points · Posted at 10:16:30 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
People steal because want something they're not entitled to, and decide on selfishness.
Sometimes people steal because they lack basic necessities and are survival-minded;
but that is the exception, not the rule.
GurlinPanteez · 10090 points · Posted at 14:50:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once had a person work for me who would always call out and use her past health problems as a crutch to miss work all the time. One Monday she called in, gave me some generic illness excuse and said she couldn't get out of bed. That morning another department had a breakfast meeting at ihop (ihob) and saw her there eating breakfast with her friends looking like she was in perfect health. The picture evidence sent to me was oh so satisfying.
[deleted] · 2267 points · Posted at 16:34:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did she get fired?
GurlinPanteez · 3412 points · Posted at 17:04:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Somehow she did not, my superior was furious about it and approved her termination but I think the person who had the final say on it literally said: "Well just because you're sick doesn't mean you can't eat". She did end up getting transferred to a lower position though, she is still with the company.
iloathebeer · 254 points · Posted at 17:13:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I called into work with lupus when I was 18, I had been at the beach partying and was sunburned and hungover. Should have spent a little more time researching my illness. It was a very strange environment when I returned to work the next day obviously sunburned. No one said anything, and I pulled employee of the quarter a couple times at that franchise after said incident...
Drunkcity · 95 points · Posted at 19:32:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once called in and said I couldn't get my mojo rising. Boss understood, and I spent the day drinking and playing tunes. That recharged me enough to give that hell hole about another three months.
Anarchymeansihateyou · 62 points · Posted at 21:08:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mojo Dysfunction Syndrome is a terrible illness and should not be joked about. Thankfully there's medication to reduce symptoms but when you use it if your mojo won't stop rising after four hours you should call your doctor
itisarainbow · 43 points · Posted at 22:35:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have Anal Glaucoma. I just can’t see my ass coming in to work today.
FamousTVshow · 43 points · Posted at 21:27:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The leadership team I work with does this and I appreciate it to no end. My manager will see that I'm reaching the end of my rope and tell me to take a long weekend, and I'll cover him if he needs the same. It makes a world of difference
alficles · 3 points · Posted at 04:15:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. My workplace simply has "Personal Time". No questions, no expectations. It's there as sick time, but if you have an unexpected transportation issue, fine. If you need a mental health day, nobody is going to police it. The time is limited, but generally adequate. And if you have a further issue, it's pretty easy to get vacation time approved for that use instead.
matereac · 188 points · Posted at 19:42:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is what worries me about these type of stories. I have a cocktail of chronic conditions and there are days where I'm bedbound but the next day I could be fine. If anyone ever took photos of me out, or told on me for being out, and I got sacked for lying I'd be fucked. So I feel like I can't enjoy my good days through fear of being called a liar and losing my puny income. Edited because of the curse of predictive text.
branon42 · 9 points · Posted at 21:24:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Out* Out*
matereac · 7 points · Posted at 21:29:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I blame predictive for that. Thank you 😂
sillykatface · 3 points · Posted at 21:41:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Double busy.
MagniGames · 72 points · Posted at 17:17:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But.. it's never lupus...
iloathebeer · 68 points · Posted at 17:29:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
HA! my now wife, but girlfriend at the time took 6 months to travel the world... the first gift I received from her upon her return was a t-shirt with Dr. Houses face and "it's not lupus" under it.
twizted_whisperz · 9 points · Posted at 22:32:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In your case, due to the TV show house, calling in with lupus and then showing up with a sunburn the next day probably looked more like you knew no one would believe it and you just wanted a day off. I mean, its never lupus, except that one time it was, and everyone knows that. Probably would have got the same reaction if you claimed to have a 24 hour bout of cancer.
That's a lie that no one actually thought that you thought you were getting away with.
rainbowLena · 5 points · Posted at 14:42:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a coworkers farewell one night and I was feeling a bit off but nothing major so I still went. I didn’t drink at all because I was starting to feel worse during the night. I left pretty soon after the meal ended. Came down with a full blown fever that night and called in sick to work the next day. When I got back my manager reamed me out about how stupid I was to go out with coworkers and then call in sick. Like, 1 it’s possible to get sick overnight and 2 if you’re going to be all “you were out with coworkers I know I checked” maybe check how I seemed? what time I left? was I drunk? If you’re going to make a judgement call
Mackem101 · 41 points · Posted at 20:48:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This can be true, most companies where I live have a policy that states you cannot return to work within 48 hours of vomiting/the runs, so you could be puking your ring up at 6am, be fine by 9am and still have take 2 days off.
That's why most people I know lie and say they have a migraine or something instead.
mineowntelemachus · 7 points · Posted at 03:22:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm lactose intolerant, with IBS, and this policy would ruin my attendance at work. Nothing I have is contagious, but I doubt company policies like this account for chronic illnesses that have these as symptoms.
Annonrae · 137 points · Posted at 19:59:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Final-say-person is kind of right about that? I was home sick for two weeks with a bad back ( I have chronic back pain ) a couple of years back and during that time a co-worker who lives in the same city took pictures of me carrying grocery bags home to my flat. When I got back to work, I was called into the office and was asked to explain the pictures. I asked them how else I was supposed to get groceries, or was I supposed to not eat for two weeks? I live alone. Just because I don't look sick doesn't mean I'm not in pain.
elton_on_fire · 67 points · Posted at 20:24:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i also look healthy, yet I'm so far from it..
the misinterpretations around such illnesses is damn frustrating
subsonik2nine · 27 points · Posted at 22:22:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have Chrohn's disease, I never really LOOK sick unless I'm having a real bad flair nearing anemia. Wannt me to show you my torn up, bleeding large intestine to prove I'm suffering boss?
therealblaine · 41 points · Posted at 21:09:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They didn't say they were sick, they said they "couldn't get out of bed". Unless that bed was in an IHOP, the reason for calling out of work was a lie.
destructobro · 8 points · Posted at 23:29:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
IHOB ftfy.
Jewsafrewski · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That ad is the epitome of a dad trying to be cool
Stuffstuff1 · 22 points · Posted at 22:03:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dont blame here 100%.
If your company discourages people from taking sick days then people are gonna lie about being ill to take the day off.
Nilaats · 12 points · Posted at 21:21:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had similar thing happen with guy claiming he hurt his back at work (young guy maybe 20/21) my boss walked into the gym at the local fitness center and the dude was playing basket ball, HR said boss wasn't a dr so couldn't state one way or another if guy was hurt or not so they let it go. Kid ended up quitting a few weeks later saying he needed a new start and eat going to go move to Hawaii with his cousin and start new life away from his ex. Last I saw that hadn't happened.
aslum · 12 points · Posted at 22:06:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
FWIW if I'm sick I'm much more inclined to get one of my friends to drive me to some restaurant where someone else will make food for me than make it myself... Though even more inclined to just order delivery.
Moxz · 6 points · Posted at 05:07:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
not trying to tell you how to live your life, but you should try to avoid public places when sick, especially grocery stores.
That being said, I get it. Your house isn't a prison.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 22:43:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I could see this as a logical excuse for someone who doesnt have a bad rep for calling in. I called in sick (I actually was very sick) and decided to do my shopping while my daughter was at school, (shes autistic and an absolute pain to take to the store).
My boss was off that day and caught me walking out of the store. But luckily he knew about my daughter and understood the circumstances. Also my attendance is amazing.
Bufferkiller · 7 points · Posted at 20:55:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a supervisor of a company alongside one of my best friends for years, and there were two employees that were good dudes, but super shitty employees. It took two goddamn years before they let them go, and I’m pretty sure they only did it then because the company was bought out and had new owners with higher standards.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 05:22:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My manager who had it out for my tried to fire me for "faking sick" because a coworker saw me "out galivanting at Wal-Mart" when I was "supposedly sick". I live alone and had just come from the hospital... I was waiting for a prescription and picking items up from the pharmacy area that I would need that were non - prescription, as well as saltine crackers and ginger ale. I told her she could see my hospital note, but that being sick doesn't mean you can't leave your house for medical attention/ medicine and if she pursued it she could speak to my union rep. She dropped it.
_LulzCakee_ · 3 points · Posted at 03:14:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He does have a point there, there's been times I was sick but still did certain yhings anyway
ERRORMONSTER · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hopefully y'all do merit raises
koinu-chan_love · 1 points · Posted at 02:54:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Too sick to get out of bed but not too sick to go to a restaurant. Hmmm.
iAwesome3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It might be that she does have some issues from time to time, or sees and doctors and lies to him about it, so she could still be “suffering” from a disease and the boss just didn’t want to risk a lawsuit for firing her
Abadatha · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, you are under no obligation to give them any more information than you won't be in.
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 22:01:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are a sore loser tattle tale
ahavemeyer · 8 points · Posted at 22:50:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't justify firing someone for using a sick day for any reason. Now if she'd already run out of PTO and was still calling in sick, I still say fine. But if she gets caught lying about it then, then yeah.. that's a stern talking to, at least.
HasTwoCats · 125 points · Posted at 17:55:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a similar experience with a co-worker. Always called off with excuse after excuse. Called in one day saying her mother and grandmother were killed in a car wreck and she wouldn't be in condition to come in for a few days. Her mother and grandmother showed up to surprise her and take her out to lunch that day.
PointlessSpork · 31 points · Posted at 19:01:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my favorite post so far.
HasTwoCats · 28 points · Posted at 19:25:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks! Someone told her what happened, and she just never showed up again. The boss wanted to give her a chance to explain, but she assumed she was fired and we just never saw her again.
LilaAugen · 17 points · Posted at 20:09:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mother AND grandmother? Scammers usually try to space those out (source: am former manager).
HasTwoCats · 12 points · Posted at 20:23:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep! We all felt terrible for her, and a few people even offered to stay late and pick up extra slack so she could be out longer. We were all pretty pissed when they came in to surprise her. At her, obviously, not at them
koinu-chan_love · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
G-g-g-ghost!
childeroland79 · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, that would be quite the surprise.
steelsuirdra · 21 points · Posted at 17:23:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All these comments and no one mentions how awesome an idea a breakfast meeting is?
GurlinPanteez · 14 points · Posted at 17:25:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was to motivate our sales department, I think it's a great tactic. They go to a breakfast place every Monday for their weekly meeting.
steelsuirdra · 11 points · Posted at 17:27:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's amazing, can't really say if it works for motivation, but it shows that management cares and arnt a bunch of fuds.
nostandinganytime · 23 points · Posted at 17:50:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm more upset that she called out of work to go to Ihop/Ihob. Like...if you're going to play hooky then make it worthwhile. Not some shit breakfast place.
EisegesisSam · 24 points · Posted at 18:16:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at hotel when my boss was fired and I was suddenly in charge of a whole lot while waiting on a replacement boss. There was older guy who worked room service who took off unexpectedly at least twice while I was in charge because "his wife died." I felt so bad for him the first time, suspicious the next time. I mean... It's possible to have two marriages and in death in that span of time. But later new boss was telling me the guy's wife had just died and we went to HR. He had apparently used this excuse at least four other times in his 14 year employment.
I think he lied. I believe he lied. But I also like to think there's an outside chance that marrying that guy is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do!
SasquatchKimono · 50 points · Posted at 16:22:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who calls out to work so they don't miss out on Ihop? This is why unemployment will NEVER be 0%. Too many fuckwads.
justsomeorcdude · 37 points · Posted at 17:03:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ihob*
I fixed it for you
spectacledllama · 6 points · Posted at 18:33:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Brit here, what's the difference
DHMOProtectionAgency · 17 points · Posted at 18:38:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing, ihop just renamed themselves to international house of burgers (ihob)
Tinfoilpain · 8 points · Posted at 18:56:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What? Why? When?
ServiceBell55 · 21 points · Posted at 19:06:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually thought it was purely satire, but it's real. Here's
ihop'sihob's news article from their website: https://www.ihop.com/en/news/2018/ihop-changes-name-to-ihob-and-reveals-the-b-is-for-burgers Sounds like it's only temporary to highlight their new line of burgers. As for why a pancake house needs to serve burgers at all, that remains a mystery!DHMOProtectionAgency · 14 points · Posted at 19:59:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Publicity stunt
The_Nipple_Tickler · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Clearly it didn't work as well as they probably hoped. Lol
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought they always had burgers on the menu. They just "reinvented" them.
GurlinPanteez · 8 points · Posted at 17:04:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was always suspicious of people randomly calling in on a Monday, like could you have not given me a heads up? I think she was just hungover from Sunday day drinking.
GoodCatWarriorName · 35 points · Posted at 17:33:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I feel sick over the weekend I usually just hope I'm better by Monday. The one time I let my boss know on Saturday that I wasn't feeling good and would keep them posted about Monday it was super awkward and I didn't even end up needing to miss Monday.
Mile_Wide_Inch_Deep · 8 points · Posted at 17:22:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have sent the pic right to her and said "looks like you're feeling better. See you at work soon. "
werekitty93 · 6 points · Posted at 19:59:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A (now ex) coworker of mine had a bad habit of calling out during our busiest season. One day she calls out 10 min before the start of her shift saying "My mom's really sick, sorry." Later in the day, she posts a picture of her and her bf on facebook having a fun time at Olive Garden. The kicker is that she's facebook friends with our manager, who got super pissed off.
flurryburn · 7 points · Posted at 21:04:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a coworker and her husband who did have health issues. The problem was she lied about how bad they were about 75% of the time. She blew up when I stopped filling for every little non emergency. She lied to higher management on a weekend I tried and couldn't get off. He was "recovering" from a medical procedure when they went drinking.
A few years later, I took a weekend off with an understanding that I will not be called in to cover her ass. I wound up unexpectedly in the hospital confined to a bed since I was a fall risk. According to her, that wasn't an excuse to miss work.
NightChime · 7 points · Posted at 21:58:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had legit felt sick to my stomach one morning so I turned down my boss when she called to ask me to cover someone that day. I recovered in a few hours. That afternoon, my brother, who also worked there, suggested that I come partake in the BBQ lunch at work. I questioned it, considering I told the boss I was sick, he reassured me it would be okay, and I stupidly trusted him. Next week I was fired "for other reasons".
jafooleh · 5 points · Posted at 18:34:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
International House of Bobody
axnu · 5 points · Posted at 20:28:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a manager, it seriously pissed me off when people would not show up and not even bother calling in sick. I mean for Christ's sake, if you don't feel like coming to work today, just shoot me an email that says you're not feeling well.
JofusSunshyne · 10 points · Posted at 22:11:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A woman who worked for me called in sick, and relayed what she had which I knew she was suffering with and that she couldn’t even get out of bed. I was a cool boss, no problem, take the day off and let me know how you feel tomorrow. She was also too ill the next day she said by text. Whatever. She worked for me in that I managed the store, but not the company. There was nothing I could do so I just tried to be nice.
Then a colleague from the adjacent store told me she had seen her living it up at a local food and drink festival on the day she said she was sick, and then she decided to play on it and have another day off.
When she returned I feigned interest in her illness and asked her about it, and she lied to my face as well. I asked her how the food and drink festival was and she told me she went for an hour to get out of the house. From the story I heard, I knew it was a lie, but I always tried to be the bigger person and move passed it, told her if she ever did anything like that again, to just tell me. She continued to tell me she was out for an hour or so. Maybe two. I told her, and the team, that if they wanted to go somewhere, I was always doing my best by them. I didn’t have the power to give them paid days off, but I could cover for them where I could and was always telling them to leave early. always. I reckon all of them in my time there got about 2 or 3 paid hours off a week and that mounts up. This wasn’t even extended lunches or breaks either, this was “go on then, go home.” That’s about two days pay for free a month.
And then she put the pictures on Facebook. Genius. She put pictures from the food and drink festival she went to to get out of the house for an hour on Social Media, showing her there all day, worse for wear. It’s a shame as it was a bank holiday weekend and she was needed, and she left a lot of work for her colleagues who wanted to be out too. She didn’t really last much longer than that.
I’ve told friends this and they said I was a pushover, but the truth is I was really fine by it. I worked in sales and still had personal targets. If I was the only one there, I was making money. I didn’t care for the lying though.
baldengineer · 2 points · Posted at 17:44:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my team meetings, I usually had at least one stock photo to discuss an idea. When I had news to share for someone on the team, (e.g. promotion), I'd show a blurred version of the picture while setting up the situation.
While I probably wouldn't do this for real, it is fun to think that is how I would out the person.
adamrsb48 · 7 points · Posted at 20:06:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
HONESTLY THO
IHOB
AYFKM
IHOB
WHO DECIDED THAT THIS WAS BETTER
fjsgk · 3 points · Posted at 21:22:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once I had an employee ask me the Wednesday before labor day if we had the holiday off. It was a retail chain store so no. Then Monday morning when she's scheduled to work she calls out with some excise about being sick. She was always calling out for one reason or another. I told her to go ahead and take the rest of the week off to feel better.
MistaDawg · 3 points · Posted at 00:28:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meanwhile my lungs spontaneously collapse and the one day it was bad enough for me to call it and ask to go home they gave me flak about it. Like, if it gets any worse I could end up in the ER but fuck me I guess.
expendable_human · 3 points · Posted at 01:59:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I often eat out at fast food places when I have called in sick at work. Just cause I have a cold doesn't mean I can't walk. I also go out and buy groceries can coz I have to eat.
AndyRandyElvis · 3 points · Posted at 03:58:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
LPT: when calling in sick, do not leave your home, except to go to the doctor, pharmacy, etc... if you need to go out, don’t shower/groom and look as disheveled as possible. That way if you are spotted, it will be more believable that you are ill.
CallMeQueequeg · 7 points · Posted at 21:17:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've only ever worked jobs where a co-worker's absence was a huge strain on everyone who did show up, but in jobs where you can work from home or have long-term projects, I think everyone, especially Americans, should take every damn sick day they can get away with. Our system grinds us into overstressed shells while Europeans take month-long holidays. And our productivity is still only marginally better.
HopelessTractor · 6 points · Posted at 23:15:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your productivity is not better.
kaleighb1988 · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing to do with the topic but I've seen this several times and must be out of the loop. Why do people say Ihob?
GurlinPanteez · 3 points · Posted at 19:59:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what they decided to go by now, it stands for "International House of Burgers".
DrakkoZW · 6 points · Posted at 20:34:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If they haven't changed their signs, I refuse to call them by anything other than what the sign says
Moose3245 · 2 points · Posted at 21:37:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's up with ihob; I thought it was a breakfast place ( doesn't the b stand for burgers )
BallsDeepInReality_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once legit got the flu and was fired for "missing a week of work" (you know, because of my 104 temp and inability to even walk).
I have a great work ethic, and have never had a customer carry through with a negative complaint (because I get it).
How these fucking people get on, is beyond me.
StochasticOoze · 1 points · Posted at 12:55:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an employee once come into the office for her shift complaining that she was very sick to her stomach and that she didn't think she could do much work. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and told her to go home and get some rest.
A few hours later, I got a photo sent to my phone from another employee (who was off that day) of the supposed sick woman at a nearby casino, still in her work uniform.
XTypewriter · 0 points · Posted at 21:06:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you post this before? I swear I remember reading this before or else I got a bad case of deja vu
GurlinPanteez · 2 points · Posted at 22:09:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I may have, but definitely have never gotten this kind of response before.
BeerBitchesAndBacon · -30 points · Posted at 17:49:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God, you are a woman with a little power over another woman. That must have been your dream.
Vyphion · 8 points · Posted at 02:41:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
God, you’re an asshole who insulted someone online. Aren’t you smart? That must’ve been the highlight of your day!
[deleted] · 43936 points · Posted at 15:49:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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mamatobee328 · 20549 points · Posted at 18:09:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a weird thing to lie about. Especially in casual conversation with a stranger.
BluePlate55 · 14032 points · Posted at 18:33:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like this is a number 1 sign of a compulsive liar. Lying about fairly low-stakes, illogical stuff. We assume people lie for a reason, to get something. Compulsive liars lie for no reason.
knightress_oxhide · 3013 points · Posted at 18:45:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is low stakes but a high chance of getting caught, at least one person at the party absolutely knew who took the photo. As a former compulsive liar the first rule is to manage your webs.
[deleted] · 969 points · Posted at 18:54:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Bigluser · 1998 points · Posted at 18:55:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Psht, he might be lying...
YouCanTrustAnything · 100 points · Posted at 21:33:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can trust it. I promise.
BehindBlueEyes74 · 35 points · Posted at 22:44:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
User name checks out. Honestly.
Karwash_Kid · 13 points · Posted at 22:06:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/beetlejuicing
Unkn0wn_Ace · 68 points · Posted at 19:42:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But if he's lying, doesn't that confirm the compulsiveness? 🤔
Derek_Boring_Name · -32 points · Posted at 19:45:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/whoooosh
pixeldef · 45 points · Posted at 19:56:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/woooosh
Sydet · -21 points · Posted at 20:01:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/woooosh
TheRealClose · 6 points · Posted at 20:15:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/Woooosh
Sub6258 · -6 points · Posted at 20:41:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/woooosh
SeymourAzzes · 9 points · Posted at 22:00:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate living by the airport...
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:49:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me too. Why is everyone so loud! I'M TRYNA SLEEP DAG NABBIT!
SiruberJordan · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Put me in the screencap
deadmanpj · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How is the first reference to r/wooosh downvoted, the second upvoted, and the third downvoted??... Does this mean my comment will be upvoted due to the pattern?
michael Jackson eating popcorn but cryingLennyMcLennington · -1 points · Posted at 21:49:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/karmaroulette
KoolKarmaKollector · 0 points · Posted at 21:29:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/woooosh
MooseEater · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You could almost say he's lying if he's not lying. The stakes are super low and it would be hard to get caught here.
dopeswagmoney27 · 3 points · Posted at 22:03:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish I could give you gold for this
inthyface · 11 points · Posted at 20:02:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Phst
Assuming is just another way of lying.
SaberDart · 6 points · Posted at 22:27:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t think you know what a lie is....
Bigluser · 6 points · Posted at 20:08:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
*He, she or it may or may not be lying.
Better now?
dog_of_society · 15 points · Posted at 20:26:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's Schrodinger's lie
giraffecause · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
About the "former" thing.
Nippelz · 3 points · Posted at 21:02:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, you're right, I was lying.
Bigluser · 19 points · Posted at 21:31:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Waaiiiiiiit a minute... You are not OP. Fucking liar!
laurpr2 · 25 points · Posted at 23:01:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I also used to be a compulsive liar, but (ironically) I would lie to "cover up" truths that I thought people would think were lies. For instance, nobody would believe I set my alarm for pm instead of am, so I would lie and say I was late because my phone died. Or nobody would believe that I ran into a high school friend in the Target parking lot, so I would lie and say I took so long because I had to stop for gas.
Then I woke up one day and realized I was a liar, and it didn't really matter why, and it was incredibly stupid. Sometimes it still happens, but I've pretty much kicked the habit.
Treecko160 · 30 points · Posted at 20:59:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't know about OP but I used to also be a compulsive liar. I did it mostly because I was bored and the other reasons have since faded from my memory. But I remember there was a certain point where I realized two things. I was way too good at lying and it didn't benefit me at all to be good at it. And the second was that I was bored of the whole thrill of lying and seeing what people would believe.
expansiveEdumacation · 36 points · Posted at 21:33:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't you worry about the amount of people who think you're a total scumbag as they knew you were lying but didn't call you out on it because they couldn't be bothered? If someone seems too gullible then they might've just silently decided you're never to be trusted about anything.
___Ambarussa___ · 25 points · Posted at 21:49:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah - I used to work with a compulsive liar. I never confronted her because I didn’t think it would help. So maybe she thought I believed her crap. I found it insulting every time she came out with something and expected me to act like I believed it.
DeepFriedTaint · 8 points · Posted at 23:04:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I totally agree. I end up with a lot of friends who are 100% compulsive liars and my guess is because I never tell them I know they're lying. A lot of them have a low amount of friends but they're fun to hang with.
They must think I'm the most gullible person in the world but I just smile n nod through their bullshit stories and feel like they're pathetic. I think I have problems and need to stop doing that now that I think about it.
Treecko160 · 3 points · Posted at 00:22:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't really say 100% that EVERYONE believed all that I lied about, but I know a fair number of people believed me. I never really told extravagent lies per say though. So none of the, "I ended up in a fighter jet after being invited by so and so" more things that would be feasible. There's stuff that is clearly bogus, and when I was in the situation where I was lying constantly I never strayed too far into that territory.
Treecko160 · 2 points · Posted at 00:19:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thankfully, that point in my life is long gone. I'm considerably more honest not only to others but also to myself. The people that have stuck around me at this point have likely seen enough of a change in who I am now. I'm sure there's some people who might see me as dishonest or a liar. But I try my best to not lie. White lies here and there, but usually no more than the average person.
ShiversTheNinja · 3 points · Posted at 22:27:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Maeby from Arrested Development
jerog1 · 2 points · Posted at 06:41:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Marry me!
ShiversTheNinja · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bury me!
Sh0wMeUrKitties · 56 points · Posted at 19:09:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have never, in my many years, seen a compulsive liar stop lying...
BlasphemyIsJustForMe · 40 points · Posted at 19:24:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Liar
PractisingPoetry · 29 points · Posted at 21:21:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's because it's not a sudden transition. It takes years and years of constant attention to stop doing it, and it gets better very slowly. I used to lie compulsively. I still do, only not nearly as much. The thing about compulsive liers is that they tend to lie without thinking, and breaking that habit is hard because you don't think about it. You never have a chance to catch yourself in a lie beforehand.
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Lightwavers · 7 points · Posted at 00:18:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Something that may help is to take a breath before every sentence. I use this to get my thoughts in order, getting rid of 'um's and other unnecessary words.
MyPasswordWasWhat · 7 points · Posted at 01:48:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my friends used that to help break his habit, if he was around someone who knew about his habit, he'd stop after saying it and say "Sorry, I lied" before continuing on with the truth.
zyice · 19 points · Posted at 19:31:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He could be lying about the former part >.>
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zyice · 10 points · Posted at 19:44:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This comment isnt real, nor is this reply
arcaneresistance · 7 points · Posted at 21:51:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Get off the internet Jaden!
LurkingArmidilo · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's the fucking Truman Show
troglador64 · 11 points · Posted at 19:57:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you ever seen a compulsive liar attempt to stop lying or admit they had a problem?
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DeepFriedTaint · 5 points · Posted at 23:11:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My bf was like that. He would say he's at Subway then comes home with a fresh Burger King cup and I ask why and he starts lying even more about how subways line was too long so he left and had to go to Burger King but is now really upset cause he wanted subway..
But he had told me before he was almost done with his sub so I call him out on that and he flips out saying I'm being mean to him. I just really don't understand that way of thinking cause its totally pointless.
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DeepFriedTaint · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Does it feel bad to you when she calls you out? Has any part of her actions ever caused you to tell the truth or do you just keep lying and hope she doesn't notice?
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Overrandomgamer · 13 points · Posted at 20:18:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've attempted to stop lying (to some people) and I'm well aware it's a problem, I just don't think it's a problem that needs to be fixed.
I only saw and so far see negitive effects of not lying.
SofocletoGamer · 13 points · Posted at 20:50:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I could call myself a mostly honest person, maybe sometimes innecesarily honest. I live a really peacefull life, no explanations to give to anyone cause they cannot caught anything cause theres nothing to discover. Cant imagine my life constantly lying
Overrandomgamer · 5 points · Posted at 21:29:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel just as peaceful, if not better, when I lie. I make very bad desisions and I like to keep that secret so I lie to cover it up. I also almost always get what I want and sometimes lying helps. Less than once a year it may cause a slight problem. Actually, I can only remember twice since I was a little kid.
DeepFriedTaint · 4 points · Posted at 23:07:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow you must be pretty good at it. It has completely changed my boyfriend's life from being a liar. He lost all of his friends and a lot of his family from it. I'm pretty much his only friend and it almost killed our relationship many times.
I think he's trying to get better. We haven't had any problems in a while.
___Ambarussa___ · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most people do this to some degree.
Overrandomgamer · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do this daily many times and sometimes there is not really good reason other than that I enjoy telling the story.
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Overrandomgamer · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes all I have to gain from it is looking better, or just feeling better. Like if I get asked what I did this morning I would likely lie and talk about how I made breakfast and what not rather than talk about being on Reddit.
Seiinaru-Hikari · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TIL I'm a compulsive liar
expansiveEdumacation · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Less drama. No worries about being called out on something.
Overrandomgamer · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I use it to not start drama and I'm confident about my lies so I am not worried about being called out.
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Overrandomgamer · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In song see what's wrong with being dishonest
Seiinaru-Hikari · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Okay... I might actually be a compulsive liar. Huh.
kaypricot · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you just set people expectations realistically there's no need to lie.
Overrandomgamer · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can do that and I do but I also like the lying so I do that as well anyway.
flawless_fille · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly I'd say I was a compulsive liar when I was a really small child. I told my preschool teachers I was born in Texas (very much not true). I have no idea why I did that. I also just liked telling stories that obviously never happened. I grew out of it.
SweetyPeetey · 3 points · Posted at 21:44:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is, but if the king heard then they’d be in trouble.
Kep0a · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people just start lying. I catch myself doing it sometimes if it makes a conversation flow better(?) just on small things. Nothing negative. It's a bad habit. I think some people just start to take it to the next level.
MajorTrouble · 2 points · Posted at 22:07:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Of course there's a story there! It involves saving the Queen's life on the set of Game of Thrones while juggling flaming apricots.
intensely_human · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're in the new web.
MasterTacticianAlba · -7 points · Posted at 20:36:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you really a compulsive liar if everyone believes your lies?
pmabz · 56 points · Posted at 19:02:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you tell me why people lie like this?
qjakxi · 214 points · Posted at 19:07:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Half super restrictive parents, half not popular when growing up. Lying in both those situations can help you. Then you learn that lying is almost always helpful in your life. Cool stories and not getting in trouble can cement you into lying even when it isn’t even needed. It’s more like a habit than a medical thing.
Source: was a compulsive liar.
themaskedhippoofdoom · 64 points · Posted at 19:16:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn. Right in the feels. I used to be this way as well. I'm surprised my wife is still with me after all that. I've learn my lesson though
slick8086 · 69 points · Posted at 19:31:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend that lies about stupid stuff... I noticed a few times he'd lie to other people about something that I was present for...
Like, he and I were driving to a festival and we encountered a traffic jam around construction. Now he is an electrician and works on municipal infrastructure. There was one of those programmable electronic construction signs. He actually uses them sometimes in the course of his job so he knows about them... I joked that we should stop and reprogram the sign to say, "festival cancelled, turn back now, hippie" we both laugh and I never think about it again until....
Months later we were at the same party and we are in separate conversations, but I over hear him telling the story of getting to the traffic jam but this time he actually hopped out of the car and reprogrammed the sign.
I never brought it up, but he's lied like this a few times I've noticed. Nothing really important, just tall tales.
RE5TE · 34 points · Posted at 19:40:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's funny because some of the time the other person just thinks "yeah right" and goes on with the conversation. No reason to point out what is probably a tiny lie, but now you know that person is an idiot.
AwakeSeeker887 · 4 points · Posted at 22:53:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That might just be because saying he actually did it makes a much better story than “and then my friend said..”
TuckersMyDog · 14 points · Posted at 19:47:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You need to get rid of these kind of people in your life. If you're noticing these lies you're missing a ton of lies that you just didn't catch
I've learned the hard way many times to get rid of these kind of people because it's never good. They are very self-conscious and tend to be the type that will throw you under the bus.
Also there's no way to get them to stop doing this. They have to figure it out on their own
slick8086 · 39 points · Posted at 19:55:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually I've been friends with this guy for nearly 20 years... He's actually given me a place to stay when I needed one. He's happily married with kids and well liked by a lot of people besides myself. Every time I've noticed these lies, they are really embellishments of stories that are not really important, just tall tales that make him or the situation out to be a little more exciting than they actually were. It's weird... I trust him with a lot otherwise.
erogbass · 15 points · Posted at 20:01:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you for looking past small to medium personality flaws. Reddit seems to think if you have a friend that lies occasionally you should cut all contact immediately.
TuckersMyDog · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's up to each individual person.
But I would not say that constant lying is a small personality flaw.
These people tend to lie to you and to other people, and about you to other people as well. They tend to think that they are in a movie and the main character.
If you're okay with being a supporting actor then everything will be fine
slick8086 · 7 points · Posted at 20:20:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See you read my story and just assumed that my friend is "constantly lying"
If I implied that it wasn't my intent. I thought I described the situation where I noticed it pretty well, but I guess I didn't.
OnefortheMonkey · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like big fish.
invalid_litter_dpt · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't you know? On Reddit, everyone is a monster. People can t have flaws. If someone lied about this story, they are probably going to rape your grandma.
TenseTarget · 6 points · Posted at 20:22:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reddit has a really bad habit of telling people to drop important relationships in their life based on one flaw that a person has shared. No one is perfect and everyone has their flaws, and when talking about flaws that's all you're hearing, never the full story. He sounds like a good guy, and I know of similar people who like to embellish or one-up stories. It can be annoying but it's not toxic or anything.
slick8086 · 6 points · Posted at 20:27:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it may be because a lot of people see superficial similarities, and make associations with bad situations they've experienced. My friend is a genuinely good person and I trust that he would never lie maliciously.
WhoGuardsTheGuards · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
grannybubbles · 2 points · Posted at 21:54:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My hubby and his buddy are like that. They get together and tell stories to amuse one another, and everything is embellished by at least 30 percent, ie: "I won 3 grand at blackjack" when he really won less than 2 grand. Once, hubby and I overheard his buddy telling an amusing anecdote about mistakenly showing up at a gay bar for an AA meeting, and it was my hubbys anecdote, word for word.
Or was it...
TuckersMyDog · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good on you. Obviously this is a case-by-case basis but...
I've had friends like this before and while I agree that is tough to get them out of your life, it tends to be a symptom of something bigger
Constant lying to me is more than just a personality flaw. There's plenty of people that don't compulsively lie out there
themaskedhippoofdoom · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends have stories we tell, Everytime someone tells it something gets added. We just go with it to see how crazy it gets. What's hard is when people, oh yeah so and so told me this what about this part, and I have to add more to make up for what they told this one person haha
knotsteve · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm wondering if he's actually aware he's not telling the true story. Memory is a strange thing. Maybe the way this guy packs and unpacks some of these memories it just shifts from what would be cool if it happened to remembering that's what happened.
DeepFriedTaint · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How were you able to stop? My long term boyfriend is like this but I think he's getting better.. But honestly I just stopped fact checking him so I don't know. I'd like to have some ideas if it starts to ruin our relationship again.
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ActuallytheGreatest · -11 points · Posted at 20:41:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah, it might be why some people compulsively lie, but not always the case, stop trying to pass it off as that is how all compulsive liars are.
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nautical_theme · 12 points · Posted at 19:35:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you! It will be helpful in terms of long term relationships. When I discover that someone is a liar, even if I like them and their lies haven't explicitly harmed me, I'll work them out of my life. I value honesty too much to accept that behavior.
erogbass · 8 points · Posted at 20:03:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah except literally everyone lies. Ask any psychologist. You might want to reevaluate how you judge people.
DeepFriedTaint · 4 points · Posted at 23:18:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, "literally everyone" doesn't lie. I'm extremely honest and will only lie to keep someone from getting hurt if I absolutely have to.
Example: I overhear a group of strangers talking shit about one of my girlfriends and she asks "we're they talking about me??" And I say "no they we're talking about someone else." Sure, that's a lie but it's not ruining anyone's life and its keeping from ruining my friend's day. I don't consider myself to be a liar at all.
nautical_theme · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not even close to a hardliner about it, I accept that people lie and have valid reasons for doing it. I should have clarified that it's pathological liars I won't tolerate.
RE5TE · 14 points · Posted at 19:41:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're not as good as you think you are. Other people just aren't pointing it out.
fictionorstranger · 12 points · Posted at 19:53:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I second this. I know a compulsive liar at work. He lies about the most ridiculous, stupid things. You can't be sure he isn't telling the truth on occasion, but we all know he's full of shit, and no one believes him. But no one calls him out on it - why bother? It's not worth the breath to confront him.
The_Forgetser · 0 points · Posted at 20:18:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The trick to a good lie is to convince yourself that it is the truth. Then, you might as well be telling the truth. Forget the finer details in the backstory of a lie, just like no innocent person has an alibi ready, no good liar has the backstory ready to go as soon as the suspicion kicks in. But make no mistake, there must always be a believe able and researched backstory (small inaccuracies can completely ruin a good lie, a good lie must always have bits of veriable truth in it). It's kind of like when an author writes a character they flesh out their backstory first, to determine what their personality is like and how and why they react to things like they do. The whole thing might not be included in the finished product, but to write a believable character the author must know what makes them tick.
Treeloot009 · 3 points · Posted at 19:22:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's the truth
sunglasses619 · 3 points · Posted at 20:12:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly this.
I did manage to stop though, thankfully.
fivespeedmazda · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was taught, You can trust a theif, but you can't trust a liar.
ActuallytheGreatest · -3 points · Posted at 20:39:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your first sentence is not true, that may be why you were a compulsive liar, but don't try to pass it off as that is how all compulsive liars are made.
Source: Compulsive liar
psychidelephant · 20 points · Posted at 19:12:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pathological lying is a disorder. It can be by itself or caused by other mental health issues.
I have one personal story. Sometimes an abusive situation can cause someone to grow up a compulsive liar. I know someone who was a compulsive liar due to this when she was younger but after therapy she has gotten a lot better.
kosmor · 18 points · Posted at 19:06:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Insecurity.
trackedonwire · 3 points · Posted at 19:54:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Consummate liars and pathological liars both are addicted to lying, like others are addicted to stealing, for instance. Theres no real need or call for it, but they do it anyway.
pm_me_pet_pictures2 · 8 points · Posted at 20:39:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily true. Growing up in my house, telling the truth about anything resulted in a physical fight, so I just learned to lie my ass off to avoid it.
trackedonwire · 1 points · Posted at 01:50:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You still know the difference, though... don't let them tell you who you are.
Kruse · 3 points · Posted at 21:04:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It can be a sign of larger mental disorders.
expansiveEdumacation · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very easy for people to become like this if their upbringing regularly taught them that the truth would only ever result in punishment and the act of honesty itself had no redeeming effect. Basically teaching them honesty causes negative consequences.
Overrandomgamer · -6 points · Posted at 19:22:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do it for fun or to help me get what I want from people
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Overrandomgamer · -4 points · Posted at 19:41:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, I just don't care. I'm pretty good about making my lies not about other people and things other people can't disprove most the time so, many people actually think I'm pretty trustworth. I only see the negitive affect of lieing when I start telling people the truth. I'm going to see a friend I use to see every day for ~2 years tomorrow for the first time in months because she got mad when I stoped lieing about something and only now is willing to start talking again.
I also don't connect with people feeling wise so when other people are upset, have opinions about me, or whatever else, I probably won't notice but if I do, I probably couldn't care less anyway.
EasyMrB · 2 points · Posted at 20:40:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Be honest (no judgement) -- was that story about seeing the friend a lie?
Overrandomgamer · 2 points · Posted at 21:13:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope, we stopped talking march 28th.
I just realized that I had to go back and check to see if was actually a lie or not. Originally typing that comment I considered saying we haden't even talked in that time but that wouldnt have been true, and the whole point of that comment waa not lying.
We stopped talking the 28th but that conversation was about the lieing and how telling the truth after leing made it so she can't trust me and how that's a serious problem for her because of a bunch of personal crap and what not. I told her realisticly I wouldnt stop lying and it would just be a lie to say I would.
Now I let this frend know I lie a lot, but I try to not lie as much to her as I do other people. She has known that for a long time as it comes up every so often but about 2 weeks before our last conversation for about 2 months she told me that she knows I lie because I tell her I do but she can't tell when I'm lying to her so she asked to know something I lied to her about.
Before this I told her the mostly truth about something and I regretted letting her know so I told her that that thing I told her wasnt completely true. That was true but then I lied about what part I lyed about. She still doesn't know that was a lie. We were out at the time and she immediately demanded we stop what we were doing I drop her off. I couldn't talk her out of it and its odd for me not to get what I'm going for. We stop talking.
Jump to the 28th she breaks the science and that ends with her saying we should only hang contact each other when we are in groups with other people. I say I think its better we don't contact eachother at all and we end it at that. I thought and am still kind of thinking that would be the best for alternative reasons. At this point I cut contact with her and everyone who would probably talk to her including most my other friends.
About 2 weeks ago I apologied and said that I may not see it but I am in the wrong exc. ( I just went back to check that and accidently reacted to a messgae and she called me out for searching back in our conversation and is now demanding why)
Anyway we talked very lightly a few times since then and yesterday after not talking for a few days she said. "What are you doing Sunday night?" I said I dont know, she said "Group dinner at caribou. Cheesy fries or something" I said sure after debaiting if I should or not for about 10 min.
EasyMrB · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for the reply (not sure why someone downvote you). Very interesting meta conversation to have.
I wonder whether it is cathartic to talk about it, especially since you are still sort of maintaining a lie of some kind with her and have to actively think about it when you are with her (I presume?).
Overrandomgamer · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure what it means to be cathardic. After I said sorry I told her that I wouldn't continue to lie to her but that I would not correct any lies I've already told her and I would still lie to everyone else so things I say to other people around her may not be true.
When I'm lying its not like I really need to think about it I just do it like any other conversation.
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Overrandomgamer · -1 points · Posted at 21:20:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If only I could know, but then it would just change how I lie to them.
your_uncle_mike · 8 points · Posted at 19:34:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well you suck then.
Overrandomgamer · 5 points · Posted at 19:42:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn't say I was a good person, I was just answering someone else's question.
mkazen · 5 points · Posted at 19:49:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This I don't understand. You know you're not a good person but have no desire to be one? No desire to be better than you are?
nancy_ballosky · 3 points · Posted at 19:58:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people don't care about that.
EasyMrB · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some have the desire but not the will. Younger-you might be torn up about the personality flaw, older you might have mellowed in to accepting the flaw. Better to mellow in to correcting the flaw and accepting the consequences, but some people can't manage to do it that way.
Overrandomgamer · 3 points · Posted at 20:14:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right, I don't understand why people would want to be "better" people, at least not better in your sense, however I do want to be a better person. For me that means having more control, having the most, being smarter, being stronger, being #1. Things that many other people feel are better qualities, I feel get in the way of their success or what they want.
Think of life without gilt, you have probably been gilted or pressured into things you would rather not do. Like my sister is currently buying a part to fix her car window because our grandparents gilted her into it, it doesn't bother her that the window doesn't work, it bothers her that she is disapointing her grandparents. If I was in the same situation, I wouldn't care at all what my grandparents were thinking, I would did the window if I wanted to or I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel stress or anything negative, and to me, that's better, so thats what I want.
What makes you want to be a better person? How does being a better person benefit you?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:12:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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your_uncle_mike · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:11 on June 30, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that shit was almost chilling to read honestly.
Overrandomgamer · 0 points · Posted at 21:18:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
None taken, its been brought to my attention that this is actually probably the case. I defiantly have a personality disorder, or a few, but I have not been properly diagnosed, other then when I was brought to a counsuler in grade 3 where they said I was showing signs for something, so I can't tell you exactly what it is.
If I was to guess, I would say it's OCD and possibly borderline personality disorder.
The thing is, I fail to see the things that are able to diagnose me as problems, and I think everyone else has them but doesnt admit it.
TuckersMyDog · 8 points · Posted at 19:49:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trust me people know. They just don't care enough to confront you about it.
Very few people are actually successful at compulsive lying.
Overrandomgamer · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What makes you think they know? My lies are nothing crazy, and if I do make a lie thats a little out there I have fake proof for it, there is never anyone else that could disprove the lie, and the lie isnt the main thing and the main thing is even crazier then the lie.
TuckersMyDog · 4 points · Posted at 22:34:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well let me put it this way. I know many people who tell stupid little lies like that.
None of them think that anyone knows.
Maybe you're special. Probably not though
RAGC_91 · 0 points · Posted at 21:33:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn dude. I feel like you’re getting the short end of the stick imwith downvotes (not that that actually matters) because everyone wanted to hear from a compulsive liar, but no one wanted to hear the truth about it.
It’s pretty fucked up how it works. I probably would have ended up one if I was better about keeping multiple stories straight as a kid, but as it stands I couldn’t remember the lies I told growing up. As such I stick to the truth as often as possible.l, but I’d be lying if I said being capable of sounded completely confident when telling a bold faced lie hasn’t helped me in my career or schooling.
Overrandomgamer · 2 points · Posted at 21:42:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I find that if you have a quality people font like you get downvoted if you are being reasonable or not, but what ever.
I lie enough I have a harder time remembering when I tell the truth. The thing is, I'm always thinking about how I could lie. The other day as I was at work I was thinking about how I could lie to one of my friends who I don't normaly even talk to on a weekly basis about how I was being given something out of a pile of numbered things and it just so happened that the the way the first numberes in the pile lined up matched my banking number. There is some truth to that.
ActuallytheGreatest · -1 points · Posted at 20:38:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same man, so fun and super easy.
CaptainReginaldLong · 31 points · Posted at 20:36:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also a former compulsive liar. Shit was embarrassing and tough to get over. It's a reflex you have to battle consciously and constantly.
People who I would speak with about it would always ask, "Like, why lie about that?" I didn't know why I would lie as my natural instinct to almost any question. Or why I felt the need to be dishonest in the first place.
Once I spent some time on those questions I had a realization. I lied all the time because I was in trouble a lot as a kid. I wasn't a bad kid or anything, I either broke minor rules or didn't do what I was told. I also hated homework and decided I was just not going to do it, ever. This would lead to accountability conversations with my father. Being a working man however, he couldn't be constantly involved, although he tried to be.
I would have to demonstrate I had done my homework to him, daily. Obviously my goal was to not do homework. So I would conceal assignments from him and do maybe one or two things. This lead to more trouble. These conversations were also very confrontational, not enjoyable or helpful at all for me. They purely served to ensure I was not going to kicked out for under performance. So kid-me hated these talks with a passion, and I knew that if I didn't have the right answers for my father when he got home, I would be in serious trouble. Even if I had done the homework, I still had to have this talk daily because I couldn't be trusted.
I realized doing the work didn't make them stop, so the only option I had left was to try to avoid them. Lying didn't always work, but sometimes, it did. Sometimes it only delayed the meeting, which would then be worse once discovered I lied. But delaying it was still a win for me.
Telling the truth had no shot of helping me, lying at least had a chance. So, I started thinking in the mindset of having to deceive in order to escape my problems because so far, it was the only thing that produced results.
It bleeds though, it's not a skill or a power that you can just turn on when you need it. It infected ever area of my social life and only at the end of my teenage years and early 20's did I really start to realize I had a problem that I needed to deal with.
It took years of hard work and concentration to start catching myself wanting to give lies as my first answer and to shoo those thoughts away. Today, my default reaction to normal questions is normal answers. And I'm quite proud of it, even if that sounds lame.
If you're not a compulsive liar I hope this provided some insight into the mind of one, and that you'll approach their problem a little differently. Believe me, it's perfectly surmountable. They know they lie. Help them get over it. If you are a compulsive liar, I promise you, you lie too frequently for people not to know. They think less of you for it, and life is better if you work to overcome that reflex. Being honest starts with being honest with yourself. Try.
DeepFriedTaint · 7 points · Posted at 23:28:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much for this insight. I am not one but I am in love with one. I really hope he can try to get better.
CaptainReginaldLong · 8 points · Posted at 01:13:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I only understand that relationship from the side of the liar. What I can say about being on that end is: Being called out didn't help the problem. Having unscheduled discussions about honesty, not in response to a suspected lie but as more of an exercise for the health of the relationship were extremely beneficial in becoming honest.
I had a partner who was instrumental in helping me get over my problem. They approached me as someone who was on my team and understood that what I was doing was not from a place of mal-intent.
They helped me believe that whatever was the truth was what they wanted to hear, and was in fact preferred. It sounds strange writing that out. But having someone you care about tell you that you'll still have their love no matter what the truth is, and then asking for it, can be an incredible tool to make you feel safe.
I was able to establish an "honesty sanctuary" with that person. Once I felt I could start telling the truth to that person, I was able to take that confidence to others, and soon it becomes habit.
Also I'm a doctor now. I can say with intense certainty I would not be if I hadn't figured out how to be honest; most importantly with myself. I'm also marrying that person soon. :)
Best of luck.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 19:15:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
any advice on dealing with a friend of mine who's a compulsive liar?
IAmMcRubbin · 10 points · Posted at 19:26:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What sort of lying are they most frequently guilty of? Denial? Embellishing? Making things up?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
embellishing, making things up. He actually has acknowledged it many times.
Ihlita · 3 points · Posted at 22:51:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Call them out on it. Gently. Don’t ask why they do it, because a compulsion is hard to overcome, but do let them know there’s no need for them to lie with you.
They’ll probably be embarrased and deny it, even avoid you for a while, but if they appreciate your friendship, then they’ll want to stick around with you.
Overrandomgamer · 4 points · Posted at 20:26:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What part do you need help dealing with? Getting him to not lie probably won't happen.
metastasis_d · -1 points · Posted at 19:31:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stop being friends.
TuckersMyDog · -5 points · Posted at 19:56:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Get a different friend. Honestly. These type of people are sociopaths. That or they're very self-conscious. Either way results in a not good ending for you.
There's no way to stop someone from being a compulsive liar they have to do it themselves. You are just an extra in the tangled lie of a movie they are producing
333name · 6 points · Posted at 19:32:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not true. I know a compulsive liar who I caught about ten times because it's easy to verify what she lies about
MyGfLooksAtMyPosts · 3 points · Posted at 19:53:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey good job on your recovery I'm in the same boat
PM_me_UR_duckfacepix · 3 points · Posted at 20:02:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do compulsive liars lie for the excitement? For the getting-away-with-it?
Overrandomgamer · 5 points · Posted at 20:27:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Both and more. Especially convince.
nihilprism · 2 points · Posted at 02:59:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like how I'm not the only person admitting to this on the thread.
Lopsterbliss · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So true, I wouldn't consider myself a compulsive liar, but growing up in a strict household has definitely made me really aware of 'web management'
justclay · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your username is awesome
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A person at the party knew who took the photo, but it's not particularly likely to come up. Unless if the photographer happens to be at the party.
MilitiaKilz · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
suureeee
AMeanCow · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not exactly this clear-cut. For the narcissistic liar, he or she can discard people at a whim, making up stories for why they're better off without all those people who "persecuted" them.
What this kind of social predator wants more than anything is not connections with high-powered people nearly as much as a group of loyal, enthralled and enamored people who will buy any bullshit they spout.
This is far more valuable to have, because with several people backing up your stories, you can move mountains. Literally. Some very powerful people are, and have been, blithering idiots who just kept lying until people believed them and they couldn't be stopped.
I lived 21 years with a father who was a pathological liar and had narcissistic personality disorder. They are not easily predicted, and in many ways are lacking many traits that make us human.
RoomIn8 · 1 points · Posted at 12:29:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a former compulsive masturbator.
jrossetti · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
2 people minimum. 3 if you as some the photographer was present
ASK_ME_IF_I_AM · 0 points · Posted at 19:47:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AMA time.
hilarymeggin · 0 points · Posted at 20:21:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tell me what drove you to lie about stuff you didn't need to lie about. I'm just so curious.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 19:39:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ciauii · 3 points · Posted at 20:14:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AmongClovers · 57 points · Posted at 18:45:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone with a compulsive liar for a (soon to be former) sister in law, this is exactly right. Lies about things that don't matter whatsoever. All the time.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:09:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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AmongClovers · 15 points · Posted at 20:44:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother is divorcing her, fiiiiiinally.
Tahns · 3 points · Posted at 21:37:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone with a compulsive liar for a president...
FerallyYours · 48 points · Posted at 18:51:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, 100% my ex. He would just say anything for seemingly no reason, even if it were the most mundane of things. He actually told me he did this, stating he didn't know why. Then he told me his therapist says he has "sociopathic tendencies", but didn't think he was a sociopath. After years of gaslighting I had no idea what to believe :(
madjarov42 · 8 points · Posted at 21:03:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here. She told me her dog died a week ago. I said I walked past her house yesterday and her dog barked at me. Without skipping a beat, she said "yeah funny story, the day after he died we got another dog that looked just like him." I didn't believe her but whatever. Later realized she's been cheating on me pretty much our entire relationship.
DeepFriedTaint · 4 points · Posted at 23:33:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus. And I thought my bf was bad for texting me randomly to bitch about how expensive the vet had cost when, in reality, he didn't take her and was just given some medications from his boss's dog's last visit. I was just confused because I didn't even know his dog was sick and the lie was so pointless.
That is completely whacko.
FerallyYours · 3 points · Posted at 23:46:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's the scariest part-- how the lies just spew forth without even a second thought; effortless and natural.
He was a cheater too.
finkalicious · 16 points · Posted at 19:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I had a co-worker tell me that he used to be a pathological liar. I already had some trust issues with him, but after that I didn't trust him at all.
Overrandomgamer · 3 points · Posted at 20:31:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most people with personality disorders think they dont have them. They might even think everyone else has them.
BluePlate55 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:03 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes! I have a good friend who does this. Shit like, "I got this cutlery at a great sale at such-and-such a place" and then her husband will later say it was from a different store. Neither store is especially impressive or anything--like JC Penney vs Khols--so not trying to look better or anything. But she'd talk about the sale, describing other stuff she almost bought specific to that store. But then she didn't correct her husband when he said somewhere else, and when I clarified with her later, she said the same place as him. And it's like, WHO CARES, this is so inconsequential, but then why the story?? It's like being gaslit.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 19:10:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, this reminds me of my stepsister about a week ago. We went to a gaming convention and were about to play guitar hero (which she's never played before), one of the guys running the event comes over to offer tips and opens with "have you guys played guitar hero before" and before I could say anything she goes "are you kidding me? Guitar hero has been my life as long as I can remember!"
I'm just stood there with my jaw on the floor waiting to watch her bomb so incredibly hard. I refused to tell her how to hit a note and let her look like a mug for the whole thing.
yogurtMountain · 26 points · Posted at 19:06:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s exactly right. Until a few years ago I used to be a compulsive liar. My lies were just that: stupid little things. I’d add details to my stories to make them more interesting, straight up say I did things when I didn’t. It was never to hurt anyone, I honestly couldn’t even tell you why. But I could tell when people knew I was lying and that’s when I felt the need to double down I guess. Lying destroys relationships and trust. I learned the hard way that I don’t need to lie to cover up my mistakes, I’m better off just fessing up. It’s like a cycle. If you lie then you’ll always have to keep lying to support other lies, but if you always tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything you lied about, and life is easy.
My life is better now and my friends are more genuine and I can trust people and people can trust me. Also it turns out I don’t need to lie to tell great stories. You always have good stories to tell if you go do fun stuff with good friends!
DeepFriedTaint · 2 points · Posted at 23:35:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Glad you recovered! Life is so easy when you're honest, especially if you have a bad memory!!
highffelflower · 10 points · Posted at 19:34:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I won’t say I hate them; but I strongly dislike them. I knew a girl like this. She was nuts. I mean she had batshit crazy in her rear view mirror. Skinny white chick that went to cosmetology school with me. She told everyone she was raised in Kenya and didn’t know she was white and not black until she moved to America at the age of 13. Also spent half the year broadcasting she was a virgin and the other half telling ppl all her favorite sex positions and in particular really loved anal. Oh yeah she was also part Chinese and that when her baby brother was born she was the sibling that basically cared for him since her mom was terminally ill and her dad didn’t like him and as a result her hips widened and her breasts grew and began to lactate—all because she was the oldest girl and the most proactive in his care.
I absolutely could not disguise the look of disgust and eye rolls whenever she opened her mouth. Which was constantly . She was not a quiet girl. She constantly overshared and volunteered completely bullshit stories that no one gave a fuck about hearing . Especially in the middle of a class lecture.
I don’t get it. Do these ppl believe their own lies or do they just want attention?
DrakeRome · 4 points · Posted at 20:26:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably a mix of both. It is the high of being something they could never be, even if it is for a 30 second bullshit story.
Humans are natural escapists and Id assume she didn't find wholeness in her own life, so then decided to fabricate a lot for validation.
Kind of like the people who say they were on the team that killed Bin Laden when they were actually just mopping the base.
kelliz · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Believe their own lies
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 18:48:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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JamesRawles · 23 points · Posted at 18:54:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep. Mine was directly linked to my self esteem. Thankfully when I got sober I have gotten way better about not doing this.
secret_tiger101 · 8 points · Posted at 19:14:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Congrats on the sober
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 19:32:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whats sobers precious?
secret_tiger101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:46 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Congratulations on being sober
BetterN8 · 18 points · Posted at 18:52:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You could’ve introduced yourself to new people as a compulsive liar. I’d find that interesting and probably would talk for awhile wondering what’s true and what’s a lie.
FlipKickBack · 12 points · Posted at 19:10:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that's not exactly something you share at first talk
metastasis_d · 9 points · Posted at 19:33:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's often obvious at first talk.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:51:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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metastasis_d · 0 points · Posted at 13:55:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A fitting punishment for time as a compulsive liar I suppose.
honeyydo · 12 points · Posted at 19:23:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to be one. Used to frustrate me b/c my mouth would say the lie faster than my brain could comprehend why I would do it.
DeepFriedTaint · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did you recover?
honeyydo · 2 points · Posted at 17:17:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It just fucked up my life eventually & relationships w/ everyone I loved, including my family. It just all adds up into one big mess. I think it came to a point where I just had to stop cold turkey b/c the consequences were too great
nightmareconfetti · 5 points · Posted at 19:13:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“I’d lie for you...”
“Yeah but you lie for no reason. Ryan, you just like to lie!”
slick8086 · 4 points · Posted at 19:20:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, they lie for no other reason... they lie because they are liars.
Foreglow · 4 points · Posted at 19:28:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am not an expert, but I'd guess it has something to do with how it feels good to do something and get away with it. Could be some kind of adrenaline addiction, coupled with habit.
One thing I know for sure, humans always have a reason. Our behaviour is governed by very simple impulses at a foundational level. We do everything for pleasure, to avoid pain, or to have sex. So this behaviour should fit into one of those categories somehow.
Maxtrix07 · 5 points · Posted at 19:40:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They do lie for a reason. Those reasons are usually never good, but it's never "just because." She wants to look good in front of him, and she decided to brag about something fake relating to the newlyweds, as it would be more glamorous than anything real. Shitty reasoning, but still
anonymous-man · 6 points · Posted at 19:09:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe the reason is to get people to think they are more impressive than they really are. That wouldn't be "no reason." It would just be a really pathetic reason.
BluePlate55 · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:07 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
That reason would make sense, and maybe in OPs case the person pretending to have taken that photo was trying to sound impressive, but it just seems so weird. A fairly high risk (being in the home of the people who could prove you wrong so easily) with so little to gain (hey, nice photo!).
pearthon · 3 points · Posted at 19:16:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Inflating ones own ego is definitely a reason compulsive liars lie.
mecrosis · 3 points · Posted at 19:20:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She lied because anybody but the actual photographer would've fawned over her and her magic ability to take such a great photo with just her phone.
Iamdunk · 3 points · Posted at 19:36:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm, I am surrounded by these people. I have found one of their hives
DeepFriedTaint · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is sickeningly fun to watch their trainwrecks isn't it? But after a while it gets exhausting.
IvoTheMerciless104 · 3 points · Posted at 19:40:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably narcissistic. Wants admiration for a feat.
hollaback_girl · 3 points · Posted at 21:09:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is how we know that Paul Ryan is a compulsive liar. During an interview a few years ago, he casually lied about running a marathon in under three hours one time. It wasn’t even the topic of discussion. He went out of his way to lie about it. Of course, he didn’t know that those records are tracked and he was quickly proved to be lying.
Flyinfox01 · 9 points · Posted at 19:00:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kinda like....”biggest crowd to witness an inauguration. “
ClearCelesteSky · 5 points · Posted at 19:23:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Absolutely. I used to be a compulsive liar, and I would just make things up constantly. My logic is that I didn't hurt anyone and it made us have more fun together (because I was pretty boring otherwise and we'd have nothing to discuss) so I'd just make things up.
smellofcarbidecutoff · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, this would be a situation where I would totally chaulk the lie up to a psychological issue.
liquidslam · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
huh, so that's how you spell it...
smellofcarbidecutoff · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit, what did I misspell?
liquidslam · 2 points · Posted at 19:45:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think anything. I just never knew how to spell that version of chaulk (chalk? chok?) Either way you're doin a great job and I'm super proud of you bro
ordinarybagel · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey don't mean to burst your bubble but i think it is chalk. Dictionary definition
smellofcarbidecutoff · 2 points · Posted at 00:48:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. Whoops. Thanks for pointing that out.
Ed-Zero · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What are you talking about? Of course I was in the first manned mission to the moon...
ZiggyIggyK · 2 points · Posted at 19:53:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It seems like it's without logic or reason, but really people compulsively lie because it brings attention. This is why I call out people I've known to be compulsive liars every time I catch them doing it. Negative association to their lies is one of the only ways to slow their roll.
TeaTopaz · 2 points · Posted at 20:03:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a way they did lie to get something. They had been hoping for praise to boost their ego, "OOOOOOH, wow! You!! You're so great!" blah blah blah. Agreed it's a giant red flag of an ego driven type with low self-esteem.
PM_ME_UR_FUCKS2GIVE · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, they lie to make their lives more interesting to themselves than it is. More so for themselves than anyone else.
I_Smoke_Dust · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah people like that honestly baffle me. It's like their mind works in ways that I just don't understand, it's really incredible with the shit you find out that they lied about. And they're so fucking good at it, it's uncanny.
morreo · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I heard that compulsive liars hear themselves lying and they want to do it but for some reason their mouth just wont stop.
ntr_usrnme · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think people are complicated and have many reasons (not saying they are logical in fact they are often completely illogical) to lie about something. If you could get this person to be honest and give you a totally truthful play by play behind the thought process of their lie it might not seem as out of the blue or random as we all thought. It would still most likely be sad though.
BluePlate55 · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:48 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree--I think all people, compulsive liars and just regular mostly non-liars, sometimes lie for complicated reasons. But a sign of being a compulsive liar is lying for no reason (no person gain) about things that don't matter.
TrepanationBy45 · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex once lied about having a job at a sporting goods store. She literally made up her days and coworkers. When I went to visit her at the store, nobody knew who I was talking about.
She also completely made up a friend, made up an email address and made up times they hung out. So dumb. Completely inconsequential stuff, that just makes her look completely crazy.
BluePlate55 · 2 points · Posted at 04:02:13 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yikes!
biasedjaguar · 2 points · Posted at 22:53:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Spot-on. I have to compulsive liars in my family, one of them is my grandmother. It pisses me off how often she lies about trivial stuff with no reason at all.
Gingercus502 · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As I get older I catch myself unconsciously starting to embellish things, I've ended up in situations like that before.
I think it stems from trying to fit in as a teenager, just trying to one up other teenagers who were probably filthy liars too.
I'm all better now, now I lie on purpose to not get fired like everyone else (งツ)ว
AxeLond · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even if nobody catches him on 90% of the lies all it takes is one categorically wrong thing said and everything said up until that point will come into question. Most won't even try to get that person to admit some of the things he said were lies, they will just assume anything that he can't prove probably is a lie.
Rad_die_job · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who was a compulsive liar. Lied about the strangest stuff. One that sticks in my memory is that when she found out I love the Game of Thrones books told me she had just read the lastest one and I could borrow it if I wanted. I was like "oh no that's ok I already own A Dance with Dragons"
"No thats old I mean the lastest one stupid, Winds of Winter"
I got really excited, how could I have missed this books release? I would love to borrow it! Always evaded me when I asked for it so I spoke to my local bookshop to see if they had it and they just looked at me like I was crazy.
I asked her about it, she denied ever saying it. Which she would often do to me, she gaslighted me hard and made me think I was crazy.
I'm still waiting for that book release haha.
BluePlate55 · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:18 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's almost like the lower the stakes are, the easier the gaslighting is.
wavs101 · 2 points · Posted at 01:31:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks. My gf asked if i lie a lot and i said no, that i dont like lying, but that im really good at it. But i didnt know what words to use.
Angection · 2 points · Posted at 02:07:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My grandpa used to say "they lie when the truth would suffice."
Kaisogen · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think.. I'm a compulsive liar. I never lie about events or things. Just silly little shit that has no impact. I don't know why.
nihilprism · 2 points · Posted at 02:58:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Compulsive liar here. I used to lie about literally everything, but after years of therapy I've managed to curb it to the most illogical, low-stakes things. It's like the nicotine patch of obsessive fibs. Never something like that though, the first thing that would come to mind is that the real photographer could be obviously credited somewhere.
BluePlate55 · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:05 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
So like, the stakes wouldn't be low enough in this photo situation? Interesting!
nihilprism · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:23 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Definitely not. The kind of fictional anecdotes I come up with involve people who don't exist.
Brandilikey · 2 points · Posted at 03:51:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex husband is a pathological liar. He's a mess. I found out after years of lies unfolded. But I've witnessed these conversations and it's so uncomfortable. They're always trying to make themselves look food to everyone.
supercharr · 2 points · Posted at 04:07:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you for this clarification.
My best friend is a compulsive liar. It's so hard to explain to other people that she's not doing it maliciously or even to accomplish anything. It's a compulsion.
I've called my friend out on lies before and she, swear to God, either has no memory of the lie or has no idea why she did it.
Funkt4st1c · 2 points · Posted at 04:27:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a cashier and I lie just to make conversation. It's really amusing when people ask you about the intricacies of being nose-blind or having "naturally short hair" that doesn't need to be cut.
Note: This is one of two times I will lie on purpose. I'm usually very (brutally) honest with people
EverGreatestxX · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't consider myself a compulsive liar but I do tend to lie to strangers when I usually don't lie to anyone besides little white lies that they can't fact check or would have a incredibly hard time fact checking.
terenceishere · 6 points · Posted at 19:50:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lets not be hardcore boy scouts and completely demonize lying as much as your sunday school teacher does.
Lying is useful. I like to strangers all the time because I don’t want to deal with them, I lie to coworkers because its work and you cant share something that would get you fired, I lie to family so they don’t freak the fuck the out.
Compulsive lying is bad when you can’t control it and it is limiting your function and hurting your relationships.
anosu · 3 points · Posted at 19:39:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I might lie for no reason. Although I've made my utmost effort tell the truth and nothing but the truth. With some exceptions of course.
IamOzimandias · 16 points · Posted at 18:37:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trumplethinskin?
haksli · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
IDK man, my friend sometimes lies for no reason. I concluded that he lies because he wants to feel superior. Basically, he feels that he made you believe in something that is not true.
DrakeRome · 2 points · Posted at 20:28:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd assume it is less about having other people believe a lie that isn't true, and more about People believing the lie in the first place. He wants to feel superior so he makes up stories about how superior he is right? That screams insecurity to me if that is true.
haksli · 3 points · Posted at 20:38:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it's more like "I have this pc game called [some made up name], and in this game you do [some description]". And that's it, that's the lie.
Or,
Friend: "can you borrow me your joystick?"
Me: "sure. Why do you need it ?"
Friend: "I want to teach my gf to play Fifa. She never played any games and she wants to try."
Me: "okay, no problem".
Later, I found out that he borrowed it to play with his friend.
But there were some seriously hurtful lies. He called me and asked to borrow my guitar. I couldn't because I wasn't home. I casually asked him why he needs it. He told me that he wants to play it to his gf (who lived in another city). I asked him "did she come to visit?". He said, no, I want to play it to her over the phone. Later I found out that he and some mutual friends wanted to hang out and play guitar, but didn't invite me. We know each other since pre school.
DrakeRome · 4 points · Posted at 20:50:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry to hear about that man! He doesn't sound like much of a friend if he does all of that to ya!
I'm not sure if it's in your nature but you can always try to call it out next time. I mean, does he actually have a girlfriend or does he just make that up to be shitty and use your stuff under false pretenses?
haksli · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This situation was 6 years ago. He doesn't do that anymore (that I know of). He does have a girlfriend. I know her fairly well.
He does sound like a shitty friend. But, in our community, there are worse people. A lot of them are overly critical insecure individuals who only get along with individuals who are "copies" of themselves. This results in cliques nobody exits or enters. People like that, they rarely leave the community. While people who are different are outsiders and get shut down by cliques. You may know them, you may have a fun conversation with them, but you will never get invited to hang out with them.
My friend group is made entirely out of people who are outsiders. So, I kinda have no choice when it comes to friends.
DrakeRome · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh trust me I know what you mean man, I had a similar experience growing up in a small Midwest town. Glad to hear your friend has grown, I know I had my fair share of crap when I was younger.
haksli · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's sad. You know all these people. You are related to them. But you don't belong there. So you say "I may just leave and go live in a city, people there are more accepting". But when you do. You realize how difficult it is to be alone in the city. And you realize that you don't really belong there either. IDK about you man, but this is the tl;dr of my life. But hey... I accepted this.
DrakeRome · 2 points · Posted at 21:42:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man I'm still at the stage where I haven't moved to a city yet but I definitely already feel like im on the same path. I hate it because I really love the beautiful location (black hills are gorgeous), the close knit atmosphere, but it is incredibly toxic when you don't fit in with the mesh.
Large cities leave me feeling uneasy because of the insane driving and all the extra lanes and loops. I didn't even know what a round about was until someone explained it to me. Plus I've heard city living can be pretty expensive so without that support network... ughh.
haksli · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's true. Once you leave, you start missing certain things. Life in the city moves too quickly. People tend to care less about you and just stay "in shallow waters". Which I get, because there are too many people. It's impossible to spend your energy on everyone.
I first tried with a big city, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Everyone rushes somewhere, because it takes too much time to reach anywhere. People have no patience. They yell and fight in trafic. You can feel the nervousness in the air.
So I switched to a smaller city. A nicer and calmer atmosphere. Best decision of my life. The downside is, there aren't that many things to do.
webweb6 · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The reason is usually why not.
coredumperror · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a certain orange Mussolini wannabe I could name...
Chocolatefix · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a teen I was a friend's with someone I didn't know was a compulsive liar. She stirred up a mess between my mother and I because she claimed to be upset that my mother told her mother she had a boyfriend. I believed her and confronted my mom. Later on I started putting 2 and 2 together and figuring out that a lot of things weren't adding up about her other lies. I cut off contact with her ASAP.
FERGERDERGERSON · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she was just trying to impress OP?
Terakahn · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The reason is to see what they can get away with.
Liitke · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. This. That womans life must be a terrible existence filled with broken dreams and bitter lost friends
Wyliecody · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They lie because it sound better to them, no other reason. Some of them are really good at it too.
mongsgomerrr · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Compulsive liars sound psychotic and scary
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend like this, and never really understood it. This explains a lot.
pistoladeluxe · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not for no reason. Compulsive liars usually have low self esteem and lie to gain favor with the person they are conversing with. Making up skills or adventures they haven't had is their way to gain (pseudo) self worth.
DabLord5425 · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, I have a friend that has issues with that and he will lie even when he has literally nothing to gain from lying. Like ask where he went and he'll say he went to McDonald's, when really he went to Safeway.
hypertown · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well weddings aren’t really that low key. Depends on how you look at them and how many you’ve been to. I used to work catering and DJ’ing for weddings and I’ve learned that weddings are like 80% low key people just partying and the other 20% is a very serious ceremony which only lasts 15 minutes but will be forever remembered by the bride, groom, and whoever paid for it.
I say this because when I was DJ’ing I worked with this guy who was janky as fuck as an assistant. The bride wanted us to play “Canon in D” as she walked down the isle. A humble request. Well my boss pulls out this CD player that looked like it just came from a pawn shop, dusty and dirty as shit, gets the CD from the bride and then the ceremony starts. This was in the summer outdoors so the CD player was hot, the only excuse I can think of. The bride gets the cue to start walking down the aisle and we cue up the CD, but the CD player is such a piece of shit that eight seconds after the song starts the CD player just stops. So we just kept replaying the first eight seconds of Canon D while everyone is looking at us with death stares and the bride slowly walks down the aisle. We played it like five times until she got to the alter. One of the most embarrassing moments of my life.
We went on to play the reception and I couldn’t believe the bride or their parents didn’t come and tear us a new one.
KoolKarmaKollector · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know a guy like this but it's always so obvious to people who aren't slow.
He will download songs off YouTube and pretend he made them, along with using midi files and saying he composed them himself
Some of the more really boring shit he lies about is pretending to know the guy who makes the dancing line game. One he took a screenshot of a level in dome beta version he had, told everyone it was his drawing, then when the update came out, told everyone that his idea got "put in the game"
My point is, what compels people to make up this sort of crap?
mike_pants · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone said they knew my favorite Portland, OR, AM radio talk show host in a bar in Brooklyn. I asked how they knew about him since they had never been to Oregon, and they shrugged and said they couldn't remember. It was only the next day that we pieced everything together about how much he had lied throughout the evening.
sillykatface · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, pathological to the T
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a buddy who's known for this. Lies about the most inconsequential stuff. Never got it, and I don't think I ever will.
Traveledfarwestward · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For no reason?
Liars like these, get a continual high from the praise they receive as a result of telling their lies.
badmother · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, Bullshit Dave, from Atlantic City, summer of 1987, I hope you're reading this!
RabidHippos · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first gf was a compulsive liar which I unfortunately found out too late. She had this fairly popular pink flip phone, and on that phone was a preset background of a cat under swing. She told me that was her old cat. Boy my surprise when I saw that back ground on another person's phone ( same pink flip phone) hey where did you get that picture of the cat? Oh it's just one of the preset backgrounds you can choose...
agent007ppk · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve always believed that a compulsive liar is just someone with nothing to converse or chit chat about. Instead, they just fabricate most of their lives to have something they believe is interesting to talk about.
BostonGreekGirl · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my aunt. She lies about everything
Dudelyllama · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like my brother and roommate
LordSalinas · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No they dont
sunburn95 · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mates gf is like that! My friend has a habit of taking poetic licence with stories but they always stay along truthful lines. The gf will tell a story that you might have even been therefore and the whole time you'll just be thinking "no.. these things didn't happen"
Gold-Pony-Boy · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I once asked my friend if he had returned his textbooks yet ( we were in college), he said yes, but then the next day he said he was going to go return his textbooks. When I asked him why he told me he already returned them he just said "I don't really know."
BluePlate55 · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:04 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's crap like this that really messes with your mind! If there's no reason, why lie??
th_underGod · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Slightly unrelated, but one of my buddies is exactly like this, and a side effect is he never backs down even when he and all of us know he's wrong. He once pointed out a "Porsche Camaro" on the road and it took two google searches on two different occasions to get him to admit it wasn't a Porsche Camaro, just a Porsche roadster.
Hyperintelligentwolf · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Compulsive liars lie continuously because they have already lied so much in their past.
cowboydirtydan · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Compulsive liars make me sad because they just keep hurting themselves and others.
shellwe · 148 points · Posted at 18:21:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If she was trying to impress I could see that.
wonderboyjohnny · 112 points · Posted at 18:26:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree, but it's still such a strange thing to pick out of everything.
torinato · 37 points · Posted at 18:30:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s something simple, but meaningful enough. It doesn’t sound like it’d be a lie and it would’ve impressed anyone else.
[deleted] · 77 points · Posted at 18:40:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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8LocusADay · 11 points · Posted at 21:14:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did she crack eventually?
SuggestiveDetective · 17 points · Posted at 21:25:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She did, said she was "joshing me." I got her a drink, but damn, she earned my side eye.
alphanurd · 28 points · Posted at 18:28:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People will drop their guard if they think they'll be anonymous in the future.
grethamshuttle · 50 points · Posted at 18:38:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Imagine if there was a community of relatively anonymous people that could discuss a myriad of topics and situations. That would be so crazy. They'd probably lie like all the time, especially if there was some kind of point system.
NukeML · 23 points · Posted at 18:40:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If such thing were to exist, I bet some people would probably give out points without even trying to figure out if it's a lie, and take away points from things they don't like to hear even if it's true!
Sweetdreams6t9 · 13 points · Posted at 18:43:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it were a website I'd definately like to Readaboutit. Would be interesting.
dances_with_treez · 7 points · Posted at 18:59:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think there is! I may have read it once or twice.
Sweetdreams6t9 · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dont tell me what it is, knowing myself I'd waste my life away on it.
grethamshuttle · 5 points · Posted at 19:04:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I bet even a sarcastic meta analysis of such a platform would be appreciated enough to accrue these proposed "fun units", (FU's for short). Someone should get on this idea.
ParioPraxis · 4 points · Posted at 21:51:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I already did. I’m the guy who invented Seddit. It made me super rich and have like... eleven friends. They want to hang out all the time but I’m too busy teaching the Navy Seals a new karate I invented using a scroll I found at Bruce Lee’s grave on top of kilamunjaro while I was surfing on top of a lava flow.
NamelessNamek · 4 points · Posted at 18:29:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah people lie about the dumbest shit
jackaroothekangaroo · 5 points · Posted at 18:37:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like something George from Seinfeld would do
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:52:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: commenter is lying.
longlistofusednames · 4 points · Posted at 19:02:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I find I do the opposite and downplay everything. Ie “how do you know the bride (my sister)?” Me “oh you know, we grew up together”
PM_ME_COUPLE_PICS · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This has got to be someone who is insecure about her level of friendship with the couple and feels she needs to look like the number one friend.
streetbum · 3 points · Posted at 19:51:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes I'll joke around with friends. A song will come on or something and I'll say "you know I actually helped write this" and they'll look at me like lol shut the fuck up streetbum and I'll have a chuckle to myself. I'd never try to actually pass it off tho.
firemogle · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex had some friends in college who would lie about their names and where they were from at parties, then make fun of all the "idiots" for thinking they had different names.
FormedBoredom · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people are just that desperate for attention.
Zozorak · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got a mate who's a compulsive liar. Was talking to him about it in a drunken dmc and he said he has no idea why he does it. Just happens. He mentioned that the more bizarre or impressive the lie, the more likely hell feel the urge to say it. Nowadays he's pretty straight up. After knowing a guy for 15 years you tend to figure out what's good and what isn't which may have inspired him to open up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People lie about everything allll the time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“oh we go way back, I actually took that one photo of them by the fountain you may or may have not seen”
Nononogrammstoday · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And a total waste of a good opportunity for fun, too! You could instead make up some slightly bizarre, but believable story on your connection to the bride and groom which might create some weird aftermath!
E.g. if you know the groom was abroad for a year after high school or while in college back in the day, you could make up a story on how the two of you tried to found your travelling dog grooming business in that period of time.
"Yeah, I know it sounds weird, right? [laugh] You're not the first one to give that reaction. Didn't work out in the end, I think that's why [groom] doesn't like to talk about it nowadays, but anyway, that's when [groom] and I became close friends." ... "Lemme guess, he's still sugarcoating it as 'going abroad' for the year because he doesn't want to explain the dog grooming thing? Oh my, maybe you shouldn't mention this to him, it's his wedding after all."
Worst case: Some people think you're weird.
Neutral case: Your friends will learn about this friend/family member that they'd rather start drama than being courteous on their wedding day.
Good case: Some time in the future, a friend or relative of your friends will tell them they've known about the "going abroad" lie and the travelling dog grooming business for years and that day will take a bizarre turn!
Bufferkiller · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My best friend growing up was like this. For a time, I thought it was just our thing to make shit up, but as we got older I noticed him doing it to everyone. I became paranoid of being seen the same way, and adopted a radical honesty approach to life. He still a compulsive liar, and I genuinely believe that he believes the vast majority of his lies. He often places himself in other people’s stories and swears he was there.
hypertown · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve been to a shit ton of weddings, used to do catering and before that DJ’ing. I don’t get why people would ever lie about working a wedding. Pictures are being taken all the time. The service is heavily judged. People remember who was there and what they did for them. Lying about working a wedding is just someone asking to get in trouble.
DaveDot · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Especially when it was me that took the photo
ironmantis3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not really, people are putting too much though into it. He’s a photographer and they were chatting at a party. Doesn’t take much to see she just thought she could impress him. People lie all the time about dumb shit to impress the opposite sex.
pooticus · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
weirdincredibly creepy, FTFY.NoProblemsHere · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she thought OP was cute and was trying to impress him.
-JustShy- · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Memories are weird.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I lie to strangers all the time just for fun. Only people who I know I’ll never talk to again like when I’m getting a haircut. Hopefully it never comes back to bite me in the ass.
Fhtagnyatta · 0 points · Posted at 19:46:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why? It's basically the same as an unattributed repost, and that's somewhere around 30% of all the content on reddit...
RWDMARS · 0 points · Posted at 19:57:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She probably just didn’t want to seem like a stranger at the wedding
travellingscientist · 2788 points · Posted at 18:10:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Must be quite a confidence boost for your photography knowing people want to be as good as you.
Coming2amiddle · 491 points · Posted at 18:52:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well that's a lovely way to look at it :)
smellofcarbidecutoff · 36 points · Posted at 19:08:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Would also be the classiest thing to say to diffuse the awkward moment where the person realises they've been caught.
Coming2amiddle · 38 points · Posted at 19:12:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I now have the perfect response for an awkward social moment that will never ever happen to me. What's the opposite of staircase wit?
smellofcarbidecutoff · 21 points · Posted at 19:22:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pointless preemptive wit.
Belledame-sans-Serif · 2 points · Posted at 22:33:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Front door wit?
lordoftheraccoons · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Elevator wit?
muntoo · 3 points · Posted at 22:08:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ur a lovely way to look at
Coming2amiddle · 2 points · Posted at 01:44:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you?
ctadgo · 2 points · Posted at 22:17:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know what they say...taking credit for someone else’s work is the best form of flattery
rocketmonkeys · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is. I'm glad I suggested it.
flyingwolf · 16 points · Posted at 22:01:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We took one of our foster dogs down to the Cincinnati pride parade today, there was a photo shoot for the foster company.
We were walking with the photographer and shooting and she needed a hand holding the reflector so I grabbed it and helped her out.
A little bit later she is talking to one of the other ladies of the foster group and mentions I shoot some of the foster pictures of their bios and website.
She asked me who I was and I told her then started apologizing profusely like "if I had known who you were I would have asked you for ideas and not had you just holding a reflector".
She got all flustered, it was sweet.
It was also a massive confidence boost as I tend to really undervalue myself.
redditor4258 · 28 points · Posted at 18:37:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Only that one photo the rest is meh
Tepigg4444 · 45 points · Posted at 18:40:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
spends rest of life desperately trying to recreate that photo, goes insane and commits suicide after 15 years
Einsteins_coffee_mug · 10 points · Posted at 21:00:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Photo of the crime scene becomes iconic symbol for mental health and becomes recognized by millions.
The photographer- lying bitch #1
IsomDart · 3 points · Posted at 21:15:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what you call irony.
thestargateking · 6 points · Posted at 20:33:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s the way it is with photography, you can go out, take 100 photos and only take 15 worth uploading, and 5 of those are really good
closeded · 10 points · Posted at 20:08:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or a downer that she thought it could be done with a phone and no planning.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:01:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Stiffard · 7 points · Posted at 22:08:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When your hands don't work so you just slap your dick on the keyboard and hope it makes a sentence
cave18 · 2 points · Posted at 22:27:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So uhhhhhh, yah I guess I agree
MattiasAndersson · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know what they say: "Impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery."
JSN_2403 · 3 points · Posted at 20:09:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stealing is the finest form of flattery?
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be frank, my ego does not need to be any bigger.
goldentriumphforks · 1133 points · Posted at 17:59:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a fellow amateur photographer, this makes me very happy.
DepressedBagel · 25 points · Posted at 18:36:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve sort of dropped away, but I love portrait photography and once took the photos for my neighbor’s “welcome back” party after he was lost at sea. Was pretty cool seeing their delight at my work.
iOgef · 9 points · Posted at 19:06:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lost at sea? Whoa. What happened
DepressedBagel · 15 points · Posted at 20:06:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Search up Bill Durden. He’s our neighbor so he had a line snag and got lost at sea, treading water for around 20 hours. Was national news.
smellofcarbidecutoff · 5 points · Posted at 19:08:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to hear this story as well!
DepressedBagel · 8 points · Posted at 20:07:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bill Durden Lost At Sea is who you can search up. Lots of news stories were done on him
smellofcarbidecutoff · 5 points · Posted at 20:16:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks!
wabojabo · 0 points · Posted at 19:15:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait a second... you are not OP!
DepressedBagel · 3 points · Posted at 21:49:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes I am
Not OP
Baprr · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a felow compulsive liar, this makes me very anxious.
micangelo · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
just checked your snap... i took all those you motherfucker.
goldentriumphforks · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
oh sHOOT-
itsaravemayve · 31 points · Posted at 18:13:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't even understand the point of this lie. It's a compliment to you but what a strange person.
mylermaker · 116 points · Posted at 18:10:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did the other woman respond afterwards?
NoRodent · 279 points · Posted at 18:24:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Didn't you read? A deer in the headlights. Meaning she's dead now.
ComeOnSans · 18 points · Posted at 19:06:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cool
killourTeemo · 12 points · Posted at 19:12:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
did they put her in the cruise' freezer too?
your_uncle_mike · 16 points · Posted at 19:37:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OP killed her in the name of plagiarism, as is tradition.
Skydude252 · 4 points · Posted at 19:10:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Clearly you’re not familiar with deer. Sometimes they get killed by cars, other times they wreck the cars and run off.
Calaban007 · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or at least seriously injured.
Meterus · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You gas-light me? I'll jack-light you!
nicktheone · 27 points · Posted at 18:53:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Suicide, it’s the only honorable thing to do in these cases.
BanjoGotCooties · -134 points · Posted at 18:14:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well never know because it probably didn't happen.
Reddit karma was first a feature. Then a game. But now it's a business
A_Sickly_Orphan · 96 points · Posted at 18:16:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing is allowed to happen, we here on Reddit only have awkward social interactions.
Coming2amiddle · 5 points · Posted at 18:53:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy must be an orphan or sick in the head or something not to know that, amirite?
Chinpokemon_Master · 83 points · Posted at 18:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/nothingeverhappens
The_Far · -2 points · Posted at 18:20:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, why would someone lie about having taken a picture
AlwaysHopelesslyLost · 39 points · Posted at 18:23:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do people lie about anything they do?
Mackem101 · 23 points · Posted at 18:45:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People lie about anything, I was just explaining that to my butler earlier while he was cleaning my Ferrari.
The_Far · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
kek nice
ChrisRunsTheWorld · 18 points · Posted at 18:26:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would someone lie about someone lying about having taken a picture?
DAROCK2300 · -2 points · Posted at 18:27:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Karma
siempreslytherin · 15 points · Posted at 18:50:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, there’s your answer. Real life “karma”. The praise, the adoration.
ChrisRunsTheWorld · 5 points · Posted at 18:31:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah, I guess that was already established upthread.
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 18:46:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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The_Far · 7 points · Posted at 18:55:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lmao dude
nicktheone · 6 points · Posted at 18:52:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s no particular need, especially for someone exhibiting this kind of attitude; lying about unimportant things is one of the first symptoms of an attention seeker and, generally, of a compulsive liar.
The_Far · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, you're right. I forgot about compulsive liars and just figured it was a 100% normal person, you know
Vanity_Blade · 16 points · Posted at 18:23:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lol u'd think someone was lying about the sun rising each morning if it somehow got then karma.
mylermaker · 10 points · Posted at 18:21:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That would be kind of ironic, considering the topic
The_Far · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lmao yeah
Woyaboy · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He could simply post a reply and reap more karma...
KarlSegan88 · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao r/karmaenvy is real and alive.
BanjoGotCooties · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:12 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
The post I was referring to even got removed cuz it was likely horseshit.
stumptowngal · -8 points · Posted at 18:26:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, the fact that they didn't say anything to this woman in moment, and waited for the perfect happenstance moment for the truth to come out seems very unlikely.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 18:49:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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stumptowngal · -5 points · Posted at 18:54:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think a quick, "that was my photo, it's not cool to lie" would do some good and wouldn't start an argument. She'd probably be very embarrassed and it might stop her from trying that bullshit in the future.
SuggestiveDetective · 8 points · Posted at 18:55:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But that's not how OP reacted, and that's totally fine.
stumptowngal · -8 points · Posted at 18:59:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My point is that people are very unlikely to not point out when someone is lying about stealing their work to their face, and then the reveal from the friend worked out a little too perfectly. I just agree with the other commenter that it seems like a fake story, you're also entitled to your opinion about it.
Manonxo · 5 points · Posted at 19:07:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, he/she was probably quite surprised at this too. I know personally there was a time where something kinda similar happened, and in my head I was screaming LIAR but I was just too surprised to really think out an appropriate response and whatnot. Totally possible that within the few seconds it took to register what she was saying, the host came up and introduced the photographer.
DoAsYouWould · 5 points · Posted at 18:58:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was a dinner party, it's believable they would let it slide
IsomDart · 2 points · Posted at 21:19:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This person did something differently than the way I would have done something. Must be a lie.
newsheriffntown · 23 points · Posted at 19:28:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was awesome. I would love to know what the woman said if anything.
Something similar happened that involved me. Before I retired I worked as a scenic painter and have worked in all of the theme parks in central Florida. While working at Islands of Adventure when it was under construction there were many workers there from various companies. Electricians, carpenters, etc. plus other scenic painters like myself. Me and a coworker had just gotten off from break and were standing around near a mural that had been finished the day before. Two girls who worked across the park on a different crew were standing there not far from us and one girl was telling the other one that she painted the mural. My coworker laughed at her and told her she was full of shit. He pointed to me and said, "She painted that mural not you bitch. Go back to where you came from". The girls turned and walked off. LOL. Yes I really did paint the mural.
DeepFriedTaint · 3 points · Posted at 23:42:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But did he call her bitch though?
I hope so.
newsheriffntown · 4 points · Posted at 20:35:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes indeed. We all worked for an outside company and not for the theme park itself. All sorts of 'colorful' language was used by everybody.
Makerbot2000 · 20 points · Posted at 18:20:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love how you didn’t say anything. It’s classy and the second party reveal is so much more satisfying
stile04 · 15 points · Posted at 19:26:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife and I are on our honeymoon in Tahiti. While in Moorea, we made a point to wake up early and scout out a decent area to take some time lapse of the sunrise and snap some pictures and such. It was pretty much the other side of our resort. An elderly lady we met next door to us and became Facebook with stole the picture from our Facebook and posted it on hers with the caption “the view from our hut.” I don’t really get why people do this but it seems common.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 20:05:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Black_Moons · 14 points · Posted at 19:25:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Ah that is funny, Here in the metadata it says it was taken by a cannon D55, Much like this cannon D55 I have in my bag here. Small world, your cell phone must actually be one of those new cannon D55 camera phones! Weird because I thought for sure it looked like an iphone.."
pjb1999 · 14 points · Posted at 18:19:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes people lie about the most ridiculous things. Even if you weren't the photographer and said to the future bride "oh I love that pic that so and so took you guys" she would have also been caught in a lie. Why lie about something like this?
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doorbellguy · 17 points · Posted at 07:48:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And it was removed.
Duhhhhh
InternetWeakGuy · 6 points · Posted at 12:25:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He edited it to add his Instagram. I guess that's against the rules.
8dolfHitler · 11 points · Posted at 11:30:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Does anyone have a screenshot of the comment, it got removed
meowmeowlove · 36 points · Posted at 11:46:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I believe it was:
janusz_chytrus · 7 points · Posted at 12:20:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks
8dolfHitler · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks
Wawus · 40 points · Posted at 18:00:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I laughed too hard at this
HalfwaySh0ok · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:06 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was halfway through then it got removed ):<
Mecal00 · 18 points · Posted at 18:29:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've had a photography experience as well.
I was talking to a guy who said he photographed models for magazines like Maxim another things. I told him I was looking for a portrait lens and ask what he uses he then says he uses the kit lens and says you'd be surprised at what you can get.
Well that's true to some extent I know that he's not taking these high-end photo shoots with a basic lens and that's when I knew he was a liar.
Pr0Ac1D · 8 points · Posted at 18:22:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I was her, I’d leave the dinner party to avoid any further embarressment
Coming2amiddle · 9 points · Posted at 18:56:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And die a little every time I thought of it for the next rest of my life.
(Which is why I wouldn't have done it in the first place.)
blueskybeans · 8 points · Posted at 18:16:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a stupid thing to lie about. People are so ridiculous.
phylogenik · 6 points · Posted at 19:21:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a coincidence! I too know the couple, and I they hired me to take their engagement photos that day. I shoot exclusively with super-telephoto lenses, so I was stationed a mile or so away on a rooftop, but I managed to get a really nice shot of them at sunset in front of a fountain. Took a bit of work in post but you can see the result for yourself on the couple's facebook page! They really loved it.
Follow and share @supertelephotographer!
myalwaysthrowaway · 7 points · Posted at 21:45:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know a guy who did a very similar thing. Posted a photo on instagram of someone laying in the snow from above. He claimed it was a drone photo he took. I thought it looked really familiar, and realized after a few looks that it was a semi-famous photographer's photo and this guy stole. I tagged the photographer in the comments and the photo was taken down in less than a half hour.
JohnnySkidmarx · 5 points · Posted at 18:21:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is the best way to have someone get caught in a lie.
coaxialology · 6 points · Posted at 18:56:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your restraint is admirable. I absolutely hate when people take credit for other people's efforts, especially artistically. How you managed not to call out this pathological woman is beyond me. What a lovely lesson in taking the high road. Way to be a grown up, you definitely earned that moment.
Plank21k · 5 points · Posted at 18:18:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What’s the point in lying about that? I wonder what was going though her head to want to take your credit.
kaypricot · 6 points · Posted at 00:03:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in a student self portrait exhibit for my University and when I went to see where they placed my painting I found it to be placed in the most prominent spot possible on the wall leading to the exhibit, visible from stories of the University's Central building. I was astonished that I got such a good spot and taken aback as I said in front of this 8x8 foot representation of my face. As I stuff there some guy can up and asked me if he likes good painting. The exchange went as follows:
Me: oh you painted this!? Wow... Him: yes (sounding very impressed with himself) Me: oh why did you paint a picture of a girl for a self portrait show. Him (realizing the discrepancies) oh.. I'm, it's my girlfriend, you know... She means so much to me. Me: wow I'm really confused because this is me, if you look, and also I painted this. Him (muttering quietly) wrong girl...
As he proceeded to walk away.
Now the portrait want realistic, I will say, but it was very obviously me once you know and I definitely didn't look like him.
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, that must have felt delicious.
JustARandomFuck · 4 points · Posted at 18:16:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best one I've seen on here so far tbh, just from that last bit
RWDMARS · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She probably just didn’t want to seem like a stranger at the wedding
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:10:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What I love the most about this one is you didn't even call her out, she was called out by a third party so not only does she know that she's the asshole, she knows that you are not. That's awesome, good for you for taking the high road.
gosohabc123 · 4 points · Posted at 21:26:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a fellow photographer, this gave me the biggest justice boner I have ever felt.
GiftOfHemroids · 4 points · Posted at 21:38:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i love how you just went with it instead of calling her out for bullshit
DeepFriedTaint · 4 points · Posted at 23:00:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is sooooo satisfying.
j-hole217 · 8 points · Posted at 18:24:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If she was quick she would have said “oh I know I was just fucking with him a minute ago saying I took the picture”. People have to work on their lying.
GiggaWat · 3 points · Posted at 18:34:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol, this one is glorious! Have an updoot!
I really don’t understand why people like about the most stupid things sometimes!
kyyza · 3 points · Posted at 18:44:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should have asked if there were any others on her phone or to see the original
F0MA · 3 points · Posted at 19:07:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love how you weren’t the one to call her out. Delayed gratification really paid off on this one.
chrisfu · 3 points · Posted at 19:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You just gave me an instant justice boner.
YatoKamiTheBoy · 3 points · Posted at 20:10:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got what she deserved then. At least you know your work is inspiring people, even if it is to lie about it being their work ;)
Anything4MyPrincess · 3 points · Posted at 03:21:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is your name Derek? Because there’s an Edmonton radio statio called 102.3 Now Radio and they just read your post word for word saying someone named “Derek” sent it in lol I only listened for about 15 minutes but they read at least two more from this thread. I don’t have twitter but if I did, I would have put them on blast!
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha no! It's cool that someone else experienced the same thing. Funnily enough, I'm Canadian too!
kaypricot · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Irl karmawhoring
ToxicSpook · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my favorite one so far! I can just imagine the smug grin you must have been making
losersparadise · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is hilarious. I mean, why even lie about that, but hilarious nonetheless.
bigredgiant · 2 points · Posted at 19:01:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED?!
BillyQ · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AND THENNNNN?
jawz · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And then he gave her a wink.
slick8086 · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is awesome that you didn't even have to call her bullshit out yourself.
rapunzell18 · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm impressed at your restraint!....I wish I had that much control over my mouth, I'd have called her out in a second; but your admirable silence ended in the ultimate "beam me up, Scotty"moment .....brilliant!!!!
destacadogato · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your ability to keep quiet and not call the lair out is pretty amazing. Do glad you got credit and she was called out. Hard lesson to learn
PM_ME_COUPLE_PICS · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is much, much juicier being that she was given this information by someone who she couldn't try to refute.
jarwastudios · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's absolutely incredible. I probably would have done a little dance just to rub it in a bit.
BlackCat1317 · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lol wow
RSpudieD · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice!!!!
finkiusmaximus · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good on you for not calling her out yourself. That makes this 10× better.
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, I didn't really care. I was just there for the food.
lillenkk · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why even lie about that? Damn retard.
Dyslexicoconut · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did she react?
hotbrokemess · 2 points · Posted at 06:27:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her mouth was gaping like a fish's.
pumpkinrum · 2 points · Posted at 22:23:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fantastic. Did she say anything, or did she pretend she never lied?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hot damn o:
curricularguidelines · 2 points · Posted at 23:34:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dont leave us hanging, OP. What happened next? Did she apologize? Did she brush it off?
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She didn't really apologize, but did avoid me for the rest of the night.
gpu1512 · 2 points · Posted at 00:27:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love it how you didn't care - if she wants to be a bad person, she may. Many would seek justice in this situation
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, the only ones whose opinion mattered was the couples'. I was just there for the free food.
TAJ1909 · 2 points · Posted at 04:23:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This made me feel really embarrassed for the liar.
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I felt embarrassed for her.
amont-3s · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can we see the photo?
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That would be too much information about me on the Internet. Sorry. :(
InternetWeakGuy · 2 points · Posted at 12:26:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fyi they removed your post, probably because you edited it to include your Instagram.
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 13:05:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I figured that might happen.
smethtacular · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I loved that you kept silent about it and just let the truth naturally unfold. You got hella confidence keeping that ego to yourself and not letting some petty lie interrupt your satisfaction in your work. Kudos.
JzaDragon · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right place, right time indeed.
deemp · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The shit society lies about is more and more amusing on daily basis
zedoktar · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why wouldn't you call her out on the spot for plagiarizing you'd? I'd have torn a strip off her lying ass.
Gnlloix · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She seems like a female version of Brian Griffin
AC2BHAPPY · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just felt good for you!
SuperDuperMrCooper · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your patience and ability to keep your cool made this satisfying to read.
Nemento · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can just imagine the shit eating grin you must have had after on your face after that introduction
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, it was fuelled in part by the wine that just kept flowing.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
pops justice boner
Robbie-R · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A photographer that doesn't talk shit about cell phone pics?? That refreshing.
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, that's how I started. I still mainly photograph cityscapes, and I started with my iPod camera. Having a DSLR doesn't make anyone a better photographer; it's what they can do with it.
Robbie-R · 2 points · Posted at 13:15:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like the saying "the best camera is the one you have with you" I have my cellphone with me 100% of the time while my DSLR is at home hanging in the closet 😀
knockemdead8 · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds disgustingly satisfying.
IckyThwomp · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Relevant. https://youtu.be/WcWM_1hBu_c
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Accurate representation of what was going on in my head the entire time she was talking to me.
Crew_Selection · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For some reason I pictured the liar being Indian (Hindu). Don't know why.
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was!
Crew_Selection · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you delete the original post? I cannot find everyones comments
hotbrokemess · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:37 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
It got deleted because I linked it to my insta.
jujapee · 5990 points · Posted at 15:12:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-wife’s attorney.
A year had gone by with no settlement in what should have been a very simple divorce (no children, no remarkable assets or property.). Instead, it had been nothing but lies, harassment and threats from this attorney who had just recently got her law license back after having it suspended for a year.
There was a lot of stuff that had transpired, but the last straw was when I begrudgingly agreed to pay $1,500 in legal fees to her attorney because I just wanted the nightmare to end. After she got the cashiers check, she claimed to have “destroyed” the check because it wasn’t made out to her and instead it was made out to my ex as ordered by the court. A few emails followed as I cancelled the cashiers check. She tried to have my ex cash out the check while demanding another one in her name or else...
After a year of nonstop threats and lies, we had had it. We filed sanctions against her. It had been 3 months since the incident and they weren’t producing a settlement as ordered and when they finally did on the day of the sanctions hearings, it was more of a criminal document to implicate myself than a settlement. She had filed counter-sanctions against me for filing sanctions against her. That made use file a second order for sanctions against her because she basically tried to extort me by saying that she’ll lift her sanctions against me if we pay her $5,000.
For the entire year and a half at this point it had seemed like my ex and her crazy attorney had always gotten their way and that their consistent harassment and lies had been rewarded by the courts. I was shocked when at the sanctions hearing the judge started with a few simple questions to both sides and then immediately tore into my ex’s attorney for 15 minutes. I mean tore into, like yelling at her and telling her how much of an embarrassment this is to the court system. It was surreal to me.
What was even more surreal to me was when I got the judge’s ruling 90 days later. It was a document written by the judge who meticulously reviewed our case and basically wrote a 35 page thesis on it. It called out all of the lies from my ex’s attorney. It was unbelievable to see on paper by an impartial judge, calling out my ex and her attorney on all of their lies and their abhorrent behavior.
My ex had to pay back the legal fees, her attorney had to pay me $2,000, which means she had to report herself to the state bar. If she didn’t, the judge did it for her anyways by mailing the entire ruling to the bar. Last I heard, she made her law license “in-active” and moved to another state to be a waitress.
Edit: TL;DR: ex-wife’s attorney wastes a year and a half lying and delaying a settlement; gets called out in the end and has to pay me.
Edit 2: Here’s a small snippet from the court transcript where the judge called her out on an email where she claimed that she didn’t mean to type “destroyed,” but instead “returned.” My ex was not present at this hearing so I am not sure if she knew that her attorney threw her under the bus.
antmansclone · 1185 points · Posted at 18:15:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my case, the judge remained calm. An employer let me go, on the spot, because he heard I was talking with another potential employer (small-time; no non-compete or NDA or anything). I filed for unemployment since it would take about a month to line up the new job. I followed everything per protocol, but they still contested my claim - I don't remember now what the bogus reason was. Had to sit in a session with my old manager and a judge. I had a lengthy speech planned, but about two sentences in, the judge repeated what I said (in question form) and gave me a look that I interpreted as "stop talking now." I answered in the affirmative, and he ruled in my favor.
archifist · 147 points · Posted at 22:51:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I quit a job due to feeling unsafe in the workplace and they said since I left I couldn't get unemployment. I contested, an had a heating scheduled with my old boss literally a block from where he works and he didn't show. I had this whole big schpiel planned but I didn't even have to talk because he didn't come.
antmansclone · 52 points · Posted at 00:29:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think that qualifies as a dick move. Makes sense though I guess. I hear it's just not worth the hassle to contest it. Maybe he thought you wouldn't call his bluff and give up just as easily...
archifist · 23 points · Posted at 02:51:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Apparently it's really common for people not to contest but it's not worth the money to actually fight it
Mic_Check_One_Two · 9 points · Posted at 07:29:17 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. Lots of people will just roll over and go "well shit, they're contesting my unemployment. Guess I won't get it." It's extremely common with constructive dismissal cases - That's when an employer intentionally fucks with an employee to try and get them to quit. For instance, if they cut a worker's hours from 20 a week down to 4. It still counts as being laid off, (so you can file for unemployment,) but many people don't realize that. They just go "well I quit, so I can't file." And the employer will contest any attempts on the same grounds. All the employee actually has to do is show up and go "yeah, they slashed my hours because I was sleeping with the scheduling manager's crush," and you'll get your unemployment. But so many don't do that, simply because they don't realize they can.
archifist · 3 points · Posted at 14:36:52 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I was lucky I had friends that told me I could still file. I was complaining I couldn't because I quit (hostile working conditions) and they all urged me to apply anyway.
Badger_Ass_Face · 7 points · Posted at 01:45:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least in my State, the employer has to protest the unemployment claim.
jk01 · 8 points · Posted at 02:29:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what happened...
jeremythelee · 344 points · Posted at 19:23:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I got divorced we "shared" a lawyer because it was amicable and we just agreed to keep our own stuff and move on. I was getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan in less than a week so I'm anxious to get everything done before I leave. So I get emailed the finalized divorce documents and my ex mentions my half of costs was around $2000. What she didn't know is she had forwarded me the whole email chain with the lawyer where they discussed final billing. Turns out the total amount owed was actually about $800. So I replied and said I'd be paying $400 and explained her mistake. Her reply was simply "whatever. I don't care."
Punchinyourpface · 85 points · Posted at 21:43:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's awful. I'm glad she screwed up, and you didn't pay it.
jeremythelee · 84 points · Posted at 21:58:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I literally haven't said a word to her since that email. 7 years later people from my home town tell me absurd stories she spreads about me. She has some issues to work through and I wish her the best.
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 00:19:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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jeremythelee · 27 points · Posted at 01:00:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
in her defense we got married WAY too young. i mean we were kids and kids do stupid shit. but hearing 3-4 years later she's still trying to convince people I'm abusive makes me laugh. even to the point where i was engaged again she told a friend of my fiancee all her made up stories and to "warn her". I think she was just trying to overshadow or justify her cheating.
34HoldOn · 10 points · Posted at 06:27:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think she was just a really shitty person. This is the kind of thing that shitty people do. If you wish her the best, then good for you. But you caught her lying to try and milk money out of you, and she spreads rumours that you were abusive, among others. Yeah, gonna go out on a limb and say that she's a rotten person.
re_nonsequiturs · 17 points · Posted at 22:27:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So she was cool when you sent her $80?
jeremythelee · 33 points · Posted at 02:11:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah I paid half. I'm capable of being an adult.
re_nonsequiturs · 8 points · Posted at 06:22:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, best solution.
Pennek · 78 points · Posted at 16:49:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's so crazy. How does a person like that even get a law license?
[deleted] · 80 points · Posted at 17:40:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PurpleAntifreeze · 67 points · Posted at 18:35:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
By lying to themselves and everyone else about their skills and intelligence and barely getting through law school, probably at a less-than-reputable school.
Gh0st1y · 25 points · Posted at 20:23:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You still have to pass the bar though
radarthreat · 21 points · Posted at 21:18:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people test well.
ProjectBalance · 21 points · Posted at 21:45:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
True. My ex can barely figure out her life and doesn't seem to understand anything you tell her but was an honor student in high school. Life finds a way I guess
Weekendsareshit · 10 points · Posted at 23:19:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Until one day at a tiki party, you meet that one guy from back when, and he wants you to clear this project for him so he can start getting customers, and then you go to the toilet and get eaten by a T-Rex. It sucks.
xPofsx · 2 points · Posted at 00:07:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/nocontext
incognegro1976 · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cool Jurassic Park reference lol
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And so ends the sad story of Billy And the Clonasaurus.
PalladiuM7 · 7 points · Posted at 21:39:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cooley.
ToothlessBastard · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hi, Mr. Cohen!
benthebearded · 3 points · Posted at 14:23:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The bar is just a test of minimum competence, bad drivers get licenses every day, law is no different.
Groenboys · 338 points · Posted at 15:26:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a perfect movie pitch to me
FinnFerrall · 62 points · Posted at 17:29:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Better Call Saul Season 4
ErikWolfe · 12 points · Posted at 19:28:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd watch that
poolthatisdead · 3 points · Posted at 22:10:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The pitch perfect movie, to be exact.
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 168 points · Posted at 17:36:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The flip side of this is my aunt's custody case. Her ex is a piece of shit. My aunt is a nurse who'd had to work 2 jobs to pay the bills because her ex wouldn't work. She eventually left him because duh.
They have a son who at the time was in his early teens. My aunt wanted to move out of state to live with her older daughter and her family and to start her life all over again. To recover from the financial devastation of her marriage and her ex, and all that shit. Her ex didn't want her to move with their son. Note that her ex was supposed to be paying child support, but he was not. He hadn't paid a single penny. He'd gotten remarried 6 months after the divorce to a woman who hated my cousin and wouldn't let me cousin into his own fucking house. And my ex-uncle just let her get away with that.
Anyhoo, my ex-uncle gives the runaround on custody hearings to let my aunt and cousin move out of state. It was so bad, that when they finally got into family court in front of a judge, the ex's attorney approached the bench and told the judge and my aunt's attorney that his client (the ex) was intentionally sabotaging the custody hearings. The judge immediately ruled in favor of my aunt.
kittymctacoyo · 70 points · Posted at 18:43:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was so kind of his attorney! Wow!
ProjectBalance · 45 points · Posted at 21:46:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean he's not losing his licence over a dumbass
Takeoded · 8 points · Posted at 22:51:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
btw, what happens when you just flat out refuse to pay court-mandated child support? do you get fined? jailed? something else?
ikcaj · 9 points · Posted at 22:56:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the US you can be, and in most states will be, jailed for non payment.
illogictc · 10 points · Posted at 22:59:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the state. May do wage garnishment, or some jail time. There may be other penalties.
Lyrle · 7 points · Posted at 01:55:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most states deny State-managed activities like hunting licenses. Some States revoke driver's licenses. Wage garnishment is the big one, though. Some people move from low-paying job at a small company to low-paying job at another small company quickly enough to evade the garnishing, but that takes real commitment to being poor and unstable.
Jail is really rare - not only can a parent not make wages to be garnished while in jail, it costs the state money to house the person and eats a spot that could be holding a violent criminal.
mxwp · 62 points · Posted at 16:34:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
just reading this was gratifying to me
demthrowawaysboo · 36 points · Posted at 19:59:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So satisfying. Using a throwaway, but I had a case against someone who stole from me. Since I was going through a divorce at the same time, I was feeling my petty oats and went in to court to give a victim impact statement. The judge listened intently, turned to the person, and proceeded to call the person out on their bullshit story, and called out the prosecuting attorney as to why there weren't more charges. The person had to reimburse me, my soon-to-be ex, and even the bank. He also apologized, but I just said he was only sorry for getting caught. My victim advocate person said they have never seen a judge be like that before. I wish I had a transcript.
eetsumkaus · 36 points · Posted at 17:12:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depending on how old she is, imagine if she still had law school loans and still had to pay those back on a waitress's salary?
a_slay_nub · 26 points · Posted at 17:38:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't imagine they could've been practicing long. At least I hope not.
frogjg2003 · 18 points · Posted at 18:01:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know she pulled that shit on her first case out of law school.
jujapee · 22 points · Posted at 17:39:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I imagine she also owes money for her previous criminal trial that got her temporarily disbarred.
Evan-Arthur · 48 points · Posted at 18:46:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What’s amusing is the bitch attorney threw away her career for like 5,000$...
scsm · 13 points · Posted at 17:25:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did she actually ever pay you?
jujapee · 42 points · Posted at 17:40:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, I believe she sold her house and used the money to pay all of her remaining debts because her current “office” address is now an apartment in another state.
TheVillianousFondler · 14 points · Posted at 17:29:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow I'm happy to hear it worked out for you. That sounds like an absolute nightmare. Props to that judge, you don't exactly make friends by exposing the fraudsters or malicious people in your field
Skellingtoon · 12 points · Posted at 22:47:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a lawyer in South Australia. We have some incredibly onerous regulatory standards, because the Courts and the Law Society are very concerned with not ‘bringing the profession into disrepute’. If a lawyer swindles their client, we have a fidelity fund set up to make good the loss to the client. If a lawyer acts in a manner which brings the profession into disrepute, they can be struck from the roll of practitioners.
It’s not to say that lawyers all act honestly, but when they don’t, the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner gets all up in their business and sometimes takes away their business.
jujapee · 6 points · Posted at 06:13:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My attorney talked to me in great length in her office about the duty to report other attorneys for misconduct because behavior like what we were experiencing is what makes the profession look bad in the public conscience which is why the state bar and the courts take it seriously. For each of our sanction hearings, the judge cleared out the courtroom and locked it out from the public. She explained in the last hearing that she didn’t want the public to see what was happening in the courtroom because it was embarrassing and would “make anyone else lose faith in the justice system.” I was amazed by that. For the year and a half up until the moment she yelled at my ex’s attorney, I had in fact lost faith in the justice system. It wasn’t until I got the final ruling that it was fully restored, but I’m still cautious by how easy it is to abuse the system.
So in case your curious, even in California of all places, the state bar and the courts take misconduct and abuse seriously. Also, my girlfriend, who I met after my separation and endured much of this drama, even being threatened with a subpoena to testify against me for absolutely no reason, is a beautiful Queenslander so good luck in the State of Origin tonight ;)
EmEmAy · 12 points · Posted at 21:05:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dude, this belongs in /r/justiceserved too. That judge has restored my faith in humanity.
Bufferkiller · 15 points · Posted at 21:22:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I envy you. My ex dragged our divorce out for five years, firing her first attorney that agreed to work for free for her after he let her know that what she was trying to do was illegal and immoral. The second was the stereotype of the sleazy lawyer (I’ve worked with lawyers for most of the last decade, and of the hundreds I know, only a handful are dirtbags). Long story short, she was given everything and I was literally left homeless (lived out of my car for a year and a half) with the judge’s last words to me being, “she’s a mom, you can’t be surprised by this.”
PrinceVorrel · 6 points · Posted at 00:08:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If your telling the truth then this shit right here is why i dont trust people and dont want any kids.
Bufferkiller · 7 points · Posted at 00:19:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s worse than I’ve described. It’s also why I am single now, and terrified of having another kid. Her affair started before our son’s first birthday, and during the initial separation I realized our son may look at the timeline when he is older and blame himself. I shared this fear with her, and she said point blank that he is exactly why we ended, an that we are to never tell him that.
I thought it was her fucking my best friend that ended it, but apparently becoming a mother and people not seeing anything else did it.
So, yeah, I’m not going to tell anyone that they should have kids or get married. People can literally change overnight, and it’s terrifying.
PunchingChickens · 8 points · Posted at 20:08:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That screenshot holy shit. The court was not hearing it
Joetato · 9 points · Posted at 22:24:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh. And I thought my friend's divorce was bad. He found out his wife had been secretly seeing some guy for over a year while she was married to my friend. She was trying to divorce him to marry that guy. Fine, whatever, right? He gets a girlfriend during the state-mandated 90 day waiting period for a divorce and his (almost ex) wife finds out and loses her shit and refuses to sign the divorce papers. The explanation she gave him was that he "doesn't deserve to ever be happy again" and she's going to refuse to sign the divorce papers just so he can never get married again because he'll still be technically married to her.
She wasn't try to reconcile or anything. She was living on her own and all that and didn't want to be with my friend anymore, she just wanted him to be miserable. Keep in mind, this relationship he was in wasn't moving towards marriage or anything, they'd only been dating a few weeks. But, for whatever reason, she lost her shit over it. She was completely convinced if she refuses to sign anything relating to the divorce, they'll be married until one of them dies.
This friend of mine is someone I met online and he just stopped logging into any account I'm aware of for him,s o I never found out what happened with his crazy ex-wife. They could still technically be married now (over a decade later) for all I know if she was really serious about that never signing anything.
If you're wondering about the guy she was supposed to marry, he apparently broke it off after he found out how crazy she was acting during the mandatory waiting period. She apparently blame my friend for "forcing me to act crazy and ruining my relationship" so I think she was doing this as revenge.
Aatch · 7 points · Posted at 05:25:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I was curious about this and it looks like "not signing" isn't really a viable plan. It makes getting the divorce harder, but it looks like there's two options in this situation: uncontested divorce and default divorce. In either case a judge just rules in the uncooperative party's absence. As far as I can tell refusing to sign just delays the process in return for giving up your ability to present a case in court.
dinh-nerys · 16 points · Posted at 17:34:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How aware or unaware was your ex about her lawyers lack of professionalism/bullshit?
leyebrow · 30 points · Posted at 18:56:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably figured that as long as the slimey-ness was only directed at the ex then it was fine and may even help her get a better deal.
dinh-nerys · 12 points · Posted at 20:30:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm really wondering if OP's ex-wife might've been a victim as well. Getting a divorce is a significant event, and that was likely their first time going through the process. She really could've been unaware of the games her lawyer was playing with OP and his attorney.
OP, answer for us.
jujapee · 7 points · Posted at 05:40:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was actually my concern and I reached out to her behind our attorneys’ backs to try to mediate with her directly. The majority of our issues (left-behind items, insurance, etc.) was solved with my ex and I texting each other directly. Any time her attorney got involved it was over-the-top accusations with ridiculous threats (ex. When my ex needed the title to her car signed over to her, instead of delegating with me, her attorney showed up to my work with a FAKE subpoena addressed to my manager threatening my arrest for vehicular theft.) At some point when I realized they weren’t going to settle I sent my ex a link to her attorney’s profile on the state bar website which had her history of being suspended and I warned her, “Your attorney is taking you for a ride.”
TerrorGatorRex · 7 points · Posted at 19:39:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That attorney is crazy! It’s like she wants to be disbarred. Anyway you could include more snippets of the judges ruling?
S2R2 · 10 points · Posted at 17:50:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m suddenly hearing the doink doink sound from law and order!
SonOfSparda304 · 17 points · Posted at 21:53:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The sound is absolutely not a "doink" sound
S2R2 · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was the official description of it for a while
Gh0st1y · 11 points · Posted at 20:26:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Womp womp
leyebrow · 9 points · Posted at 18:56:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Doink?
UrMomLikesMine · 19 points · Posted at 19:40:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I usually hear it as “bum bum.” Am I hearing it wrong? Is this like how Charlie Brown understands his teachers, but all I hear is “wown wown wown?”
Almost935 · 7 points · Posted at 21:37:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're right and doink doink guy is wrong
slakko · 5 points · Posted at 21:33:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We always call it "chunk chunk".
leyebrow · 3 points · Posted at 05:52:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bum bum is or wown wown would probably be closer imo thank fucking DOINK! lol.
doshka · 9 points · Posted at 21:23:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh. Nice.
Oh, it gets better?
jizzedinmypants.mpg
leftylugnutz · 6 points · Posted at 19:50:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never read anything so satisfying in my life. Patience, TRULY is a virtue and I commend you for yours. Jeeze the world is brutal
flawless_fille · 5 points · Posted at 21:51:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My experience so far in life is that divorce attorneys are absolutely the worst.
FeatheredSun · 7 points · Posted at 18:38:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This should be the top post. Complete and total - SANCTIFIED - satisfaction. You and that judge are heroes.
jarwastudios · 4 points · Posted at 20:12:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Returned? Destroyed? Just a typo.
sweetpineapple · 6 points · Posted at 18:54:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my god. Please post the whole thing!
DatChumBoi · 6 points · Posted at 18:06:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Were you and your ex on at least decent terms or was she happy to see the attorney try to screw with you?
jujapee · 23 points · Posted at 18:16:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We were not on good terms. I wanted the divorce, she didn’t so I assume she enjoyed all of this.
DatChumBoi · 12 points · Posted at 18:18:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, well that at least has to add to the satisfaction of watching the attorney get chewed out
smmstv · 3 points · Posted at 22:28:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know I read so many stories on here about people's ex husbands or ex wives making their life a nightmare for no reason. It felt good to see someone who pulled that shit get what they deserve, for once.
Kamehameshaw · 3 points · Posted at 18:37:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the Justice boner I came here for.
Magnus_2450 · 2 points · Posted at 21:38:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you post more? I’m not sure if it’s legal or if it hurts your case or anything. Isn’t it possible to find it online or something? This is incredible to read!
ontopofyourmom · 2 points · Posted at 23:28:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a "voluntary" resignation under threat of disbarment. Good work!
Aero93 · 2 points · Posted at 00:06:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why I'm afraid of getting married in US. As a matter of fact, I am more and more thinking about moving back to Europe after 20 years of living here.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The average divorce isn't a nightmare like that. It's always the egregious cases that stand out to people. And in general, a lot of panic. A lot of people insist that divorce is like what Judith Harper did to Allen.
And it's not like Europe is necessarily better, depending on which nation. I know through a friend someone (American woman) who had a child with a French man, and moved to France with him. When they separated, she was pretty well handcuffed to his whim. I think her not being a French citizen hurt her, and she basically had to hope that he would agree to amicable terms for split custody.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:08:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good judge. Glad things shook out in your favor. An attorney who has already had their license revoked is a good indicator of a scumbag ofc but it also means that they are probably having a hard time getting business and will do anything to keep the lights on.
PAWG_Muncher · 4 points · Posted at 22:47:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait is that some technical mode for your law license or are you just saying "inactive"
jujapee · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I meant to say “inactive”
KickANoodle · 2 points · Posted at 18:28:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's amazing. I would love to read more.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit
Takeoded · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
omfg, "a fucking typo", yeah, that's totally what a typo looks like
ikcaj · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now I want to read the whole thing dammit!
Dapshott · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lawyer here. Holy shit that's awesome.
TomParker0408 · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I grinned reading this. Thank you.
Daguss · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
what sort of things was she lying on though?
Bad-Hyphenation · 1 points · Posted at 09:55:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please provide as much of the transcript that you feel comfortable sharing. This sounds very interesting!
Goyteamsix · 4919 points · Posted at 14:20:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in a bar having some beers when I feel a tap on my shoulder. It was a guy I went to school with. I didn't really hang out with him back then, but decided to catch up and share stories anyways. At one point he mentions sleeping with a girl I knew very well, a girl I knew for a fact was a virgin until after she graduated. I just kind of nodded and let him go. Then, I said something along the lines of "oh, I actually know her very well, we'll have to hit her up, she comes out and drinks with me all the time!". He turned white. The look of horror in his eyes was great.
Qbeanexpress · 1818 points · Posted at 16:52:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister is a really cute blonde. She's heard of plenty of wild nights she's had that have never happened. Some guys are just ass holes who play pretend a lot.
slanid · 209 points · Posted at 17:41:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same. I was really “mature” looking in high school, can’t even remember all the stories that were made. The rumors got so bad that a counselor called my mom and told her She might need to talk to me about sex.
mllestrong · 63 points · Posted at 23:47:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I left my high school because of all the rumors and subsequent catty bullying and what would've been slut shaming if it were true. It really hurt. I was so unpopular anyway. I think the guys talked about me because I was a 34DD by sophomore year. It pushed me into being a total prude. I ended up waiting til my late 20s when I was engaged.
happytrails1 · 56 points · Posted at 01:42:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my 13 year old to be properly measured and buy her some quality bras after she had outgrown all of hers in the past year. 34DD-DDD depending on the style. I’m a 38B so I have no idea what she’s going through. Bathing suit shopping for her to have a modest and appropriate suit to wear to camp was a struggle because she’s not big on showing a lot of skin. We finally found a one piece that was high enough in the front that didn’t show cleavage and she got a pair of shorts to wear over it. But man I hope she doesn’t have trouble. She is pretty good at deflecting attention and doesn’t purposefully attract it. I just worry because that’s my baby girl.
mllestrong · 31 points · Posted at 06:29:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's awful being 13 and having 40 year olds hit on you, even if you're good at deflecting. I'm sorry. She'll get so good at ignoring it that she'll eventually struggle to see it when she wants to, and that hard exterior goes a long way to repel good, appropriate guys, too. There are restraining bras if she's interested; mine took me from a 34DD to a 34C in high school, but it hurt.
jhuskindle · 27 points · Posted at 02:56:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same! I was attractive but purely virginal until I was 27. I didn't even really get frisky until 25 or so.. but I heard I had plastic surgery and get around! Now I'm old and divorced and I hope rumors are still around.
mllestrong · 9 points · Posted at 06:31:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man, I'm sorry. Yeah, I was apparently the DTF whore of Utah County. People suck.
jhuskindle · 3 points · Posted at 13:43:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm still only up to 4. I have one finger left on my right hand. I was hoping to "not be able to count on one hand" as people had accused me of. Happy to catch up lol
Insert_Non_Sequitur · 11 points · Posted at 16:54:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guys made fun of my sister for having a flat chest for a long time (called her biccie tits which was a play on our last name as well as saying she was as flat as a biscuit/cookie).
When she sprouted double D's one year, she was suddenly being called a slut (she absolutely wasn't).
Can't fuckin win.
FauxReal · 71 points · Posted at 21:01:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy at my high school made up a story like that about a girl that was with us when a bunch of us cut school together.
Then after a couple days of him bragging she went up to him with two other girls and acted a bit flirty... When his guard was down the two girls grabbed his arms and she told him to stop spreading lies and kicked him in the balls.
Edit: Grammar, I hate typing on my phone and that damn autocorrect.
Jst_curious · 27 points · Posted at 22:31:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He deserved that so much.
Geminii27 · 104 points · Posted at 17:48:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wasn't there something going around about how that's a dangerous thing to say because it gives the lied-about party the opportunity to say anything about the liar's 'performance', kinks, hangups, physical imperfections, etc?
Who_Cares99 · 35 points · Posted at 19:28:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, on tumblr.
Bufferkiller · 26 points · Posted at 22:19:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The year I was expelled from school, a kid with my same name started. A few years younger. It’s a small town, and he was apparently a scumbag. I was crazy and did crazy shit and had wild adventures, but I was not a piece of shit. It was six or seven years before I found out this guy existed. I just kept running into people that knew me and not him that had heard horrible shit and needed to tell me off.
For a while I carried around a folder with my military paperwork in it just to show that I was out of the country for most of his exploits. Still here stories about how I was in prison from time to time.
Still don’t know what he looks like.
Former_Baron · 79 points · Posted at 17:39:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh when I was a teenager I had friendships ruined because people started rumors that I slept with certain girls. The girls would hear the lies, think I started them, and then stop talking to me. It was extremely frustrating
Jst_curious · 26 points · Posted at 22:30:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A close friend of mine told me there were rumours that went on for two years that we were sleeping with each other during university. I hadn't heard about it but he told me this two years after we graduated since we were talking on a simar topic at the time.
He said the rumour was BS and it would be stupid to tell me if I wasn't in the loop anyway. I'm quite glad I didn't hear it - ignorance is bliss. And some people just love to gossip and make up gossip.
Former_Baron · 7 points · Posted at 02:05:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's worse is it isn't possible to really track gossip to its source. People really do forget where they heard information from, so if you begin playing the 'where did you hear this from' game you will usually run into several dead ends. And the originator might not even have been acting maliciously, but might have actually thought sex was going on, and, teenaged being teenagers, though it was okay to talk about with others
Teenagers are the worst
Aatch · 13 points · Posted at 05:32:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The problem is when "do you think him and her are having sex?" turns into "him and her are having sex". The person that "started" the rumor isn't even aware of it. This is one of many reasons idle gossip is bad.
manskins · 17 points · Posted at 21:05:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I lived in another country for a bit, and after I had come home I heard the rumours about how I slept with this older guy who I had only met a few times and hardly talked to. Felt super embarrassed that people thought that of me considering I was 18 and he probably in his late 40s. The friend who asked me about it refused to tell me who had told her. I thought it was shit that the rumours started up after I had left and couldn't defend myself.
Jst_curious · 3 points · Posted at 22:32:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That ducking sucks!
kittymctacoyo · 83 points · Posted at 18:38:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing happened to me in highschool constantly. My husband actually took my virginity, but to hear all the guys at school tell it, they’d all had their way with me. They had him convinced for months I was lying, even went so far as to tell him I was actually a lesbian to deter him (his ‘best friend’, who apparently was angry at him for being the new guy and asking me out because supposedly he and I were a thing before husband came along? Strange. I never even knew lol) Anyhow, husband and I had sex several months later and he finally believed me because there were ‘telltale signs of virginity’ 20 years later and I realize, had I had any parental guidance or actual life experience I’d have dumped him for not believing me. My daughter has been dealing with similar since as early as 4th grade. Fucking 4th grade! She’s now a knockout of a teenager and gets it tenfold now. She takes literally zero shit though.
LachlantehGreat · 23 points · Posted at 21:53:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait I’m confused, why would you have dumped him if he didn’t believe you? If my best friend said something to me about the girl I was seeing is at least consider it. Especially based on how long we’ve known each other.
kittymctacoyo · 29 points · Posted at 21:57:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really a lot more to it than that. Just the humiliation and viciousness of it all.
SchoolShooterMcGavin · -16 points · Posted at 22:56:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey I don't have all the details here but that sounds like a severe overreaction
timewontfly · 37 points · Posted at 23:40:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A woman tells you she's a virgin and is adamant about it. A dude tells you otherwise. You don't believe her, essentially saying she's lying about her sexual past. What does she have to gain from that? And what does that say about your trust in her? Why WOULDN'T she dump you?
SchoolShooterMcGavin · -6 points · Posted at 00:02:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
THEY. Not one guy, multiple people seemingly coming to you and telling you the same things. Apparently uncoordinated. Sounds like they were pretty adamant about it to, and to be honest it would be a weird thing for them to lie about as much as it would be unexpected for his wife to lie about it.
Huh?? Isn't it obvious? I've known several girls who have lied about their sexual part for whatever reason, friends of mine even. Some feel ashamed of stuff they did, some are afraid partners will care/be grossed out/feel inadequate, etc. That's not really a question.
The real question is what do those several guys all have to gain from it?
It certainly doesn't say anything outrageous or wrong about you. You're acting like some total stranger said something and the guy ran with it. Except it wasn't, it was multiple guys with seemingly nothing to gain all telling him over and over that they all slept with her. That's not exactly something you can just brush off easily.
Because it would be a fucking severe overreaction to something like that lol. Jesus, where do you all get off thinking you should tell people to end a relationship over something like that? Requiring your partner buy what you say unflinchingly and unquestionably, even in the face of MULTIPLE people he knows telling him otherwise, or else you dump them? Get the fuck out of here with that.
People aren't perfect. If you're not perfect, you sure as fuck shouldn't expect the person you're with to be perfect either, and dumping them for being human/not swallowing everything you tell them not is the height of pride and arrogance and hypocrisy. Good God, some people.
kittymctacoyo · 16 points · Posted at 00:10:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Let me clear it up for you a bit with as few intimate details as possible. He was the one sleeping around, so he leapt at the chance to have something to throw in my face in case he was caught. He finally admitted it years later, and also admitted that the reason all those guys were saying that was because I was on some ‘top 10’ list of ‘unattainable girls to bang’ that was scrawled in an ISS stall so everyone was scrambling to say they were the first. He also knew full well they were only saying those things to him to deter him, because they were pissed off id gone to school with them my whole life and never dated anyone, but started dating him not long after he moved to our town. A real immature shit show I was completely unaware of because I kept to myself and had no part in any particular social group. All I knew was that out of nowhere, every guy in the school seemed to suddenly start sexually harassing me, pinning me against walls, fondling me, shoving my hands down their pants, the works. He was manipulating me, and used my insecurity over proving my innocence to his advantage because he was a punk kid.
SchoolShooterMcGavin · -6 points · Posted at 00:12:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well shit, that all literally completely changes the story. You can't really expect people to know all that without those details, to be fair.
Also...you went from saying he "finally believed you" in your first comment to "he admitted he knew they were full of shit." That's a littl weird
kittymctacoyo · 14 points · Posted at 00:21:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shouldn’t have had to add all those details to get my original point across. No one should stay in a relationship full of constant volatile unfounded accusations. (I did actually edit to add more as you were responding.) The barrage of outlandish stories that no one could corroborate besides the story teller, should have been a clue, but in highschool a virgin can be labeled a slut for the rest of their days because one boy claims he got a BJ. It’s disgusting. The dude knew my nickname in my family was ‘Prude’, I had already told him I’d been considering waiting until marriage, he knew I’d never had a boyfriend or interest in dating prior to him, and knew I was so terrified of my family that i never left my house. So where were all these sex romps taking place? It fucked me up for a long time. I have since re-raised him and he is a completely different person, but my god how awful highschool is for a kid suffering from a rumor. As for the ‘finally believed me’ That’s what he said at the time. It was years later when we were reconciling and rebuilding he admitted the rest. I think at the time he used that as clout so he could be sure everyone knew he was actually the ‘winner’
SchoolShooterMcGavin · 0 points · Posted at 01:01:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you want strangers over the internet who know nothing about you and your situation, yeah you do kind of need details to get them to see the full picture. The ones you initially gave were not enough to get the point across.
Either way, I'm glad your husband is a better man now. And to that point, do you really wish you left that relationship back then, assumign you and your husband are presumably happily married with nice children? That was my original point. He was a little rat back then but he's reformed into an apparently good guy. Bailing on relationships over one fixable thing isn't good advice.
Fracture1 · 0 points · Posted at 22:57:50 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't believe you were downvoted when what you said is completely reasonable.
SchoolShooterMcGavin · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:30 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's the world for ya. I used to let that bother me until I realized truth wasn't determined by upvotes.
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 17:01:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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danceswithwool · 26 points · Posted at 17:33:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well ...what was it?
EAPSER · 13 points · Posted at 18:01:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably anal
they_call_me_dewey · 10 points · Posted at 18:56:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He stuck it in her and peed.
Troutfucker5000 · 17 points · Posted at 18:59:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
he pooped in her butt
sofixa11 · 8 points · Posted at 19:02:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice
Big_Ol_Boy · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Courtesy of u/troutfucker5000
Troutfucker5000 · 4 points · Posted at 21:08:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea
casparh · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Er, check the username :/
FREEBA · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He got poop on his hands
AuthorFilms · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Elaborate?
skeptic_narcoleptic · 13 points · Posted at 21:06:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have had this happen, as well. I apparently acquired a nickname in high school that really makes zero sense, since my parents were very strict and I was never allowed to go to parties. So when I found out years later, in my twenties about this nickname, I was genuinely shocked.
Jst_curious · 10 points · Posted at 22:34:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
During uni I was in a long term relationship, very comfortable with people but apparently treating the opposite sex as the same I would same sex was too much and rumours would fly.
People are stood and love to hear juicy gossip whilst there's the evil people who like to speculate and make up complete bs.
_klk_ · 11 points · Posted at 17:50:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey it's me ur brother in law
KickANoodle · 13 points · Posted at 18:23:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, rumours flew about me when I was a teenager, even though I was still a virgin (of all orifices lol.) People are ridiculous.
rapunzell18 · 5 points · Posted at 23:02:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I relate so much to this! I've lived in the same area since I was 9yrs old, over 30yrs....naturally I run into an old school-mate or friend from my late teens/early 20's. Many times male friends have asked "did X sexapade happen? Cos that's what he told me " and I've been horrified it was even a question!!!! Young boys tell terrible lies, when it comes to 'conquests'!!!
aimingforzero · 6 points · Posted at 03:59:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive had girls tell me we slept with the same guy as a point of bonding...
1- I never slept with that guy (in one case I gave him a ride home because his car wouldn't start). He's apparently just gross and creepy and we are both now realizing that.
2- just ugh. Even if I had, having the same dick inside you shouldn't be the basis of a friendship.
abbyabsinthe · 5 points · Posted at 11:46:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went out this Friday, and went out for a smoke break, and they're were these three girls out there. I'm just chilling, and this one girl tells me, "We don't really have any beef with you, from when you tried to hook up with Nick, so we had to be salty for a bit, we've all been there with him," and then is all smiling and shit. To which I'm like, "who tf is Nick?" And then had to explain that I'm gay. Like 10 minutes later, I realized who Nick was; he's this scrawny, drug addict who tried to grind on me while I was onstage singing karaoke (Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll), and I shoved him to the ground (not intentionally, he was so fucked up, he lost his balance, besides, nobody likes Nick), and that's the whole extent of our relationship.
SchoolShooterMcGavin · 2 points · Posted at 22:54:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or maybe....
Nah I'm just playin
EmergencyShit · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A long time ago a guy from my friend group and I made out a few times while we hanging out alone (he lived at the party pad). Last time was when he started to get his hands in my pants and I stopped him and left.
Then I hear how I tried to have sex with him and he turned me down lol. 🙄
wavs101 · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
/u/xxspinnxx Raul...
pm-your-panty-colour · 3 points · Posted at 13:52:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
tag your friends like its facebook
wavs101 · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
All is lost.
xxSpinnxx · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
LMAO
wavs101 · 2 points · Posted at 06:36:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He loves to play pretend
AustNerevar · -28 points · Posted at 20:42:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in the 90s young guys HAD to lie about this stuff. Otherwise people questioned your sexuality or they just called you a loser. Its definitely mote ethical to say you'd had sex but not give any names...but of course that was never as convincing as naming a real person.
34HoldOn · 9 points · Posted at 05:16:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the 90s, and no, no one "HAD" to lie about this shit. People did it just to be assholes, and/or sound big in front of their friends.
pikle_tyme · 23 points · Posted at 17:35:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've heard about my slutty life in high school... I (f) never knew about it though. Why people feel the need to make up lies about sleeping with people. Of course some of these lies were made by other girls.
LaLaGlands · 32 points · Posted at 21:39:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once told this guy I was into him and he turned me down. No big deal, he wasn’t interested. Three years later I find out that he told everyone we’d had sex.
Why, sir? Why lie? I was completely willing to actually have sex with you, you could’ve said the same thing but had it be true. I don’t get it.
34HoldOn · 8 points · Posted at 05:19:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It sounds like you dodged a hell of a bullet. That's close to Ted Bundy "Win back my ex-girlfriend just so I can dump her and come out on top" territory.
brianxhopkins · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:46 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
True statement, actually.
pikle_tyme · 3 points · Posted at 22:11:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know. Losers
BGYeti · 7 points · Posted at 18:59:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a former friend like that, always talked about hooking up with the different girls at our school while being a fat stoner. Now some of them maybe if they were desperate or maybe that was their thing who knows but one he lied about I know for certain because he had no chance. She was huge into fitness, easy 9/10 and knowing her well enough and knowing who she had dated I knew her type well enough to know it wasn't fat stoners obsessed with WWE and even in her most desperate of hour he would not make the cut by miles. Knowing his perpencity to throw a fit when called out we all just humored him with lackluster responses hoping he would pick up we didn't care and that we knew he was lying
army_private_octopus · 6 points · Posted at 19:53:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a guy tell a friend this who told me. I also knew the girl was a virgin and told her immediately by text and the guy who told me kicked me out because he was in a frat with the liar. Fuck frats.
[deleted] · 165 points · Posted at 16:12:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bro, I hate to tell you this but you can’t know for a fact who was telling the truth in this situation.
do_not_engage · 198 points · Posted at 17:18:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Something tells me the guy bragging about shagging at a bar is a little less likely to be telling the truth than the friend he knows very well.
frankoftank · 95 points · Posted at 17:47:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously. Guys lie about their sexscapades all the time.
Except me, I really did bang Jennifer Anniston resulting in her divorce with Brad Pitt back in the day.
ObviousLobster · 24 points · Posted at 18:35:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You too!?
frankoftank · 11 points · Posted at 18:40:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea well mine was a 3 way with Anniston and Courtney Cox on the set of friends!
Decooker11 · 11 points · Posted at 19:28:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
imho, Lisa Kudrow was the hottest until S3. I only say that because she was the only one who banged me
BattleFarter · 14 points · Posted at 19:41:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeahhhh....you’re lying. I’m banging Lisa as we speak and she said she doesn’t remember you.
Decooker11 · 13 points · Posted at 19:42:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uuuuhhh...pfff...umm...
U mom gay
frankoftank · 7 points · Posted at 21:04:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kudrow was pretty hot, but she never looked at me the same after she walked in on me banging Joey.
The_Ballyhoo · 10 points · Posted at 19:01:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are such a liar! Brad and Jen broke up because Brad left her for Angelina Jolie! Why lie about that?
Congrats on bedding Jen though, that’s awesome and I hope it helped heal her broken heart.
frankoftank · 7 points · Posted at 21:00:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're right. I just didn't want to admit I was the rebound, feeding off Brad's scraps.
The_Ballyhoo · 3 points · Posted at 22:25:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude, there’s no shame in picking up Brad’s sloppy seconds. Like, I’ve totally banged Angelina and Gwyneth Paltrow. I don’t like to brag about it because I’m totally humble like that, but I’m also not ashamed that Brad had them first.
Teddy-Westside · 8 points · Posted at 18:49:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was you?! You broke up the best power couple of all time?!
HOW DARE YOU
frankoftank · 7 points · Posted at 20:59:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I regret nothing
do_not_engage · 8 points · Posted at 19:11:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am now very upset because I am in fact Brad Pitt.
And I had sex with Jennifer Anniston and Angelina Jolie.
And Demi Moore? I think?
frankoftank · 4 points · Posted at 21:00:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm so sorry Mr. Pitt
Honztastic · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girls lie about their sexcapades just as much.
frankoftank · 2 points · Posted at 02:26:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never said they didn't.
Honztastic · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm just saying a girl claiming to be a virgin to a male friend sounds like the type of lies I heard in high school, just as much as the guy lying about having sex.
frankoftank · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe if they're interested or something. OPs friend is a lesbian though, so I don't see a reason she'd lie for all these years about being a virgin in highschool.
ilikeeatingbrains · -10 points · Posted at 19:17:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyone lies, don't perpetuate sexism.
frankoftank · 8 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No shit Sherlock. Did I say women don't lie?
ilikeeatingbrains · -1 points · Posted at 01:26:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No no no baby no no no no
Kearcatx · 56 points · Posted at 17:30:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guys lying about doing things w/girls happens too often and it's crap. The whole "you can't know for a fact who was telling the truth" is their motto...
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:15:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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frankoftank · 11 points · Posted at 18:30:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, he could have busted her cherry himself. Also, OP says she came out as gay later, which lends more credence to the whole virgin thing through school. At least, highly unlikely she slept with a man back in school.
Goyteamsix · 101 points · Posted at 17:21:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, seeing as how she later came our as gay, I can. She was one of my best friends.
VictusFrey · 34 points · Posted at 17:19:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Based on the guy's reaction, I would bet OP got it right.
exonautic · 58 points · Posted at 16:49:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
While true, there are some people who you know wouldn't lie to you about a damn thing. Could be that case here.
Forever_Awkward · -13 points · Posted at 18:43:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know what we call those people? Better liars.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The girl could be a Catholic virgin.
Thin-White-Duke · -10 points · Posted at 18:20:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catholic virgin, that's rich. That just means hj's, bj's, and anal.
PalladiuM7 · 5 points · Posted at 22:02:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, we're all aware of the poophole loophole.
sofixa11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Forgot boob-, kneecap-, armpit-jobs.
The_Flying_Spyder · -3 points · Posted at 17:02:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There could have been one way....
GoodCatWarriorName · 9 points · Posted at 17:18:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What way is that? Because I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
frankoftank · 21 points · Posted at 17:42:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He placed a dick sensor in her vagina that would alert him if she was ever penetrated and it never went off. I thought everyone did that.
EmporioIvankov · 18 points · Posted at 18:03:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ummmmm, we call that the hYMeN and it was placed there by GOD.
Shout out to r/BadWomensAnatomy
GoodCatWarriorName · 3 points · Posted at 18:23:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Love that sub <3
The_Flying_Spyder · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He could have wound up being her OBGYN. That is one way...
GoodCatWarriorName · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How would an OBGYN be sure of that?
shamanic_panic · -5 points · Posted at 17:41:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If he took her virginity?
alayne_ · 5 points · Posted at 17:58:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And how would he know?
shamanic_panic · -4 points · Posted at 18:11:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's some pretty tell tale signs. They don't happen for all virgins, but it definitely doesnt happen if they aren't virgins.
And that's just the physical aspect. People also forget that there's a whole lot of nervousness and general newness to a virgin. Its pretty obvious.
GoodCatWarriorName · 12 points · Posted at 18:22:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can totally bleed during sex if you aren't a virgin. If you're still nervous and not aroused enough you can tear a little, or the hymen can tear if it didn't before. It's something you could kind of guess at, but there's really no way to know for certain.
shamanic_panic · -5 points · Posted at 18:33:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not like that you don't, not unless something has gone horribly wrong. If your mrs bleeds like that during sex either her period started or she needs a doctor.
GoodCatWarriorName · 5 points · Posted at 18:34:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The hymen can tear during an instance of sex that is not the first instance, so it would be exactly the same.
shamanic_panic · -7 points · Posted at 18:40:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lets just keep this to the one thread
your_uncle_mike · 3 points · Posted at 20:07:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know from experience, dude, if you know what I mean.
Pactae_1129 · 3 points · Posted at 22:21:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, no you don’t.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me personally, but a guy I know. Him and her GOT IT ON! WHOOOWEEEE!!
your_uncle_mike · 2 points · Posted at 03:10:01 on June 30, 2018 · (Permalink)
No they didn’t
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:59 on June 30, 2018 · (Permalink)
No...no, they didn't. But you can imagine what it would be like if they did??
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:10:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Goyteamsix · 17 points · Posted at 17:20:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, he was lying.
[deleted] · -37 points · Posted at 17:30:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
U seem to not want to entertain the idea of your friend lying to you. Girls lie all the time about being virgins, (not saying she did, just pretty common, guys lie about a lot too just saying it’s pretty regular for a girl to tell people she’s never fucked anyone) and you say she’s gay. But to be honest idk if I believe that. It kinda seemed like you just threw that out there after the fact to defend that you were correct. Also, no offense , most guys wouldn’t want to start a rumor that they fucked a gay chick. Also, just because she is gay doesn’t mean she always was .. lot of ifs and buts , but the fact still remains, maybe he wasn’t lying
throwaway50065006 · 20 points · Posted at 18:17:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah he should trust a guy he barely knows, who is happy to boast about sex with to a person he isn't close with. Over a person he knows well?
Even IF it was true. It is so tacky to mention it to someone you barely talk to and pointless. That it seems more likely he lied compared to a friend who is gay and has probably discussed their sex life over private conversations.
If you feel the need to boost intimate details to acquaintances, you probably have little going for you and are full of shit.
Goyteamsix · 24 points · Posted at 17:33:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would you even care? Accept the story for what it is. Christ.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 17:51:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
These people trying to convince you otherwise so persistently has some really weird undertones haha.
Sorry guys, its just another douche lying about getting some, not your 'the virgin is a secret slut' fantasy.
Goyteamsix · 9 points · Posted at 18:09:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. Some of these people commenting are trying to defend a person they've never met, against another person they've never met.
dasssitmane · -9 points · Posted at 18:03:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Let the gullible redditors consume their stories
PalladiuM7 · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/nothingeverhappens
dangerislander · -4 points · Posted at 10:23:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah she may have told you she was a virgin... you sound friendzoned by this this girl "you know" really well.
Goyteamsix · 9 points · Posted at 13:02:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You sound like you've never had a healthy relationship with another human being. If it's something you don't understand, you just assume it's wrong. I knew she was a virgin because she was gay and didn't come out of the closet until after high school due to fear of her parents disowning her.
But go ahead, keep thinking I got friendzoned, because apparently there's no other alternative to you're limited view on relationships.
dangerislander · -7 points · Posted at 13:05:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. Thank you for your indepth analysis based on two sentences. No one asked for a reason. Stop trying to justify your friendzone-ness. It ain't that serious lol
anooblol · 18258 points · Posted at 15:12:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss who kept on getting angry at me because, "I wasn't doing what he told me to do."
Finally one day, I decided to start writing down exactly what he told me, dated it, and kept record of it.
Then one day came where inevitably, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Exactly what you told me to do."
"I NEVER TOLD YOU TO DO THAT!"
"Well, I have it written here..." pulls out note card "On 5/22/16 -- you told me specifically to do this task, exactly like this, and never do it any other way."
I finally won. I started standing up for myself a bit more in the office, and I was respected for it.
gemzietots · 4235 points · Posted at 16:48:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boss is the EXACT SAME. He is an abhorrent micro-manager and consistently changes the goal posts on jobs that I have set up for the day or week. He also has totally unachievable time scales to complete really tedious jobs.
I write every menial, stupid task he runs by me in a diary. So when he changes his mind (which he inevitably does) I have it in writing.
It’s also great to be able to file out my list of tasks in order of urgency and put his dog shit requests at the bottom of the page because they are always, always not important.
“Where are you on task A?”
Because you told me to do task A on Friday and marked it as non-urgent. I wasn’t in Saturday or Sunday, it’s now Monday. I HAVEN’T EVEN HAD THE CHANCE TO START.
Always stand up for yourself in a professional manner! Good on you!
RoCon52 · 1224 points · Posted at 19:16:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boss got mad at me for turning in a two weeks notice to the 3rd in command and tried telling me I couldnt do that and I was like
"But you weren't there and neither was second in command so I told 3rd"
She told me
"You should have just texted it to me"
I'm like really? You would have been ok with me TEXTING you that I'm quitting?
xdq · 538 points · Posted at 21:11:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sent my manager a text once saying I was going to be late, which he didn't have an issue with. The director got wind and told me "text messages aren't a valid form of business communication!" Which is strange because he would often text my personal phone (not my work number) with requests varying from can you go to X customer first or we need coffee for the office. I started to ignore or at least not respond to his texts but saved myself for what I knew was coming in the next week or so - an important delivery and set-up for a large order requiring an early start. As expected, late afternoon one day I got a text, along with the other engineers, to be in 2 hours early to receive delivery and start seeing up (the director lived 5 minutes from office but was always last to arrive.) Not one of us did and when we turned up a exactly 9am to a rather angry director unpacking boxes on his own I took great pleasure in reminding him that text messages aren't a valid form of business communication.
Fingfangfoom67 · 182 points · Posted at 21:20:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Malicious compliance
XarabidopsisX · 24 points · Posted at 01:19:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously, /u/xdq, you should post your story there for sweet, sweet karma.
sean85 · 3 points · Posted at 05:32:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was the aftermath?
xdq · 11 points · Posted at 07:24:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing, he knew he'd said the same recently so couldn't argue. Working in that place was like a cross between The Office and Fawlty Towers.
jonnohb · 82 points · Posted at 20:27:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's when you just say "what are you going to fire me?"
cjhobbes · 8 points · Posted at 22:35:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
-Quote from man fired
Kryt0s · 16 points · Posted at 22:48:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You do realize that OP quit?
intensely_human · 6 points · Posted at 03:57:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Too late. Fired.
vorschact · 66 points · Posted at 21:04:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had that happen at a chain grocery store. I gave my two weeks to my team leader. Owner comes and says it doesn't count because I didnt give it to him. My response was "I played nice. You either accept that two weeks I gave in writing, and have time to fill my position, or I'm walking out today and not coming back". Fuck that. You were nice and played by the rules.
pabbdude · 39 points · Posted at 21:36:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A [weasel word] amount of people believe that it's illegal to leave a job without giving at least a two weeks notice. I'm guessing some bosses rely on that assumption to try and squeeze just a bit more juice out of someone on their way out.
intensely_human · 3 points · Posted at 03:58:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
surprisingly high
VunderVeazel · 92 points · Posted at 20:14:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once in a shitty restaurant job I was waiting while the back manager is on the phone. Was just gonna let him know I was clocked out n heading home. Front manager walks by asks me what I'm doing, tell him, he says "okay, see you tomorrow."
Back manager finds me seconds before I walk out the door and starts to berate me for "going over his head." What a little bitch.
I never went back and I heard he lost that job shortly after.
Bricka_Bracka · 31 points · Posted at 21:44:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Regardless of who I tell, and how I tell, the fact remains...I won't be here in two weeks maximum. Now you know. "
That's really all that boss needed to hear at that moment.
RoCon52 · 10 points · Posted at 22:04:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She always finds something to complain about
Several people have told me im the best disher there and she complains about me getting more water on the floor than other dishers.
She also told me my soap was too foamy one time
ahavemeyer · 3 points · Posted at 22:58:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not like you have to give notification at all. Now yes, it's pretty shitty to do it that way, and would likely affect your reference with them, but the notification is essentially a courtesy.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 21:36:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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RoCon52 · 8 points · Posted at 22:00:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ya I really wanted to give her two weeks notice not only to guarantee myself another paycheck but it's the right thing to do.
It's a new vegan restaurant in town (our only one) that has been doing very well and has been very popular since they moved to their new downtown location so I would have felt bad leaving them with only one other night disher.
LeoMarius · 1 points · Posted at 10:35:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once you have given notice, she should have the grace to just wish you well.
gemzietots · 1 points · Posted at 10:58:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don’t know where you’re from but where I live your notice has to be “unequivocal” in law terms. As in, black and white and made in a sure manner. I can’t accept notice if you’re between two minds but also, I would not accept a text. It’s really inappropriate.
Business owners who think texts are okay will also bombard you likewise on your personal time with work related bullshit. I do not respond to texts or emails from my boss outside of work, ever. I’ve learned to switch my phone off and advise my staff to always speak to me in person for serious shit.
Your ex boss sounds like an absolute gremlin.
Soup-Wizard · 22 points · Posted at 19:28:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like y’all need different jobs
Waldo_Jeffers · 14 points · Posted at 22:04:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So thank goodness they're so easy to get, and bad managers are so rare in today's compassionate employee-oriented corporate culture!
gemzietots · 2 points · Posted at 10:51:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m looking! Finally wrapped my head around that this just isn’t normal. Or appropriate. or fair. Fuck that noise!
Soup-Wizard · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stick it to the man!
lowtoiletsitter · 9 points · Posted at 20:51:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit we must have the same boss of a different industry.
She told me task A was the most important, but to always help specialists for anything.
Get backed up in legal stuff helping and kept her updated on everything (she doesn't like to be updated, but she wants to know everything we do.) We had a meeting last week and I got a reprimand for not doing my job. I called her out on it and she said "it seems like you're blaming me for all of this."
I told her I have notes of all our conversations on paper and via email. Her response was "I didn't say that." I need money, so I decided to let it go. The remainder of that week was infuriating.
gemzietots · 5 points · Posted at 10:54:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
People like this will ALWAYS shift blame onto others if they are in fact found at fault. My boss actually is incredibly aggressive and exudes this jittery, uncomfortable aura that just makes people baulk. However, in an instance of true “confrontation” whether good or bad he backs down immediately and talks over me to make me stop taking whilst also shifting blame elsewhere. He has the single worst people skills I’ve ever encountered in another human being. He’s vile.
NotMyHersheyBar · 7 points · Posted at 20:26:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I use email and chat (most offices use Slack or another chat program) to document things like this. Like, I try to avoid in-person conversation as much as possible, and initiate all instructions-type conversations or questions over chat or email, and then I repeat back what they said in my own words to be sure we're on the same team. And I send them updates at non-annnoying time juncures, like, "This is what I got done today, so if there's another priority tomorrow, please let me know."
drudgemonkey · 6 points · Posted at 22:04:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Any face to face directions should be followed by an email to your boss stating what you understand are there directions and asking for a reply if you misunderstood. Then you have a paper trail.
algy888 · 7 points · Posted at 22:39:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a nightmare or a foreman kinda like that. He would not let anyone else look at the blueprints and he would rattle off heights measurements and what he wanted done at a mile a minute. If you forgot one of his directions he would get upset and yell. He was known for making apprentices cry.
I started carrying a notebook and anytime he started rolling I would say “Hold it” and reach for my book and pencil. He would stop and smile and then start rolling with his list. Another way I got the best of him was as soon as gone I would go check and quickly check the prints. That way every time he made a mistake I was able to call him on it right away.
He was a nightmare sure but after a bit he started to respect me more and I ended working with him for a couple years. More than that he started to trust me and share the prints .
WalkingComa · 3 points · Posted at 20:09:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What job?
gemzietots · 1 points · Posted at 10:46:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
For me, I’m a retail and ecommerce manager for the same company. The owner likes to think he’s very “hands on” but really the only responsibility he deals with is the stores instagram, paying wages and bills.
He loves to scribble ridiculous longwinded notes to himself. Most of his bullet points include my name with a million question marks ( meaning he wants to ask me where I am on something) and also tasks that he knows I’m currently doing so he can chase me up on them.
He genuinely has no idea how to run his business. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be hilarious. It makes him feel important to micromanage me. I get that. However his scribbles give me a great fucking laugh because they read as if written by a child.
christinerobyn · 2 points · Posted at 00:30:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss like that. It was my first real job out of college and I thought that's what my life was going to be like until I retired. Get out while you can (and still have a soul).
skullpriestess · 3495 points · Posted at 17:48:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tried this with a boss once. She would constantly berate me and tell me that if I can't just REMEMBER what she says to do, I must be stupid. Then when she says I'm doing something "wrong" I would show her my notes. She said she never said those things I wrote down, because she "didn't sign it."
After that, I would write down her instructions and ask her to sign my little notebook, which she only did once. After that, every time I asked, she was "too busy."
GirlWhoWrites2 · 399 points · Posted at 20:01:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always had my boss e-mail me her requests, processes changes, or just things she wanted me to keep track of. Nothing more satisfying than getting yelled at for a six month old project and being able to go "Actually...I have your email here..."
bacon_cake · 65 points · Posted at 21:05:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boss never does anything by email so there's never a written record, he also makes a ridiculous number of mistakes. I on the other hand always keep a record and on occasion make a perfectly acceptable number of mistakes.
There's nothing juicier than a project with a huge problem followed by him firstly flying off the handle about how simple it is to avoid said problem, followed by a general forgiveness and a "it's okay, we all make mistakes", followed by me proving that it was in fact actually his fault. Again.
rossmarie · 3 points · Posted at 19:30:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"As per your previous email..." Best passive aggressive reply ever!
pommefrits · 273 points · Posted at 18:27:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Start voice recording.
uns0licited_advice · 666 points · Posted at 18:49:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah, start looking for a new job
thedoyle19 · 176 points · Posted at 19:39:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly, I had a boss like that for 5 years, after quitting, I can’t figure out why I stayed so long. Must have caught some kind of Stockholm syndrome or something.
myflurrygirl · 95 points · Posted at 20:58:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For me, it was just kind of comfortable. I knew what was going to happen every day at work and knew I could handle the worst of it. Going to a new job, you don't know if it's going to be worse and you don't want to risk that.
fgfvgdcfffff1 · 75 points · Posted at 21:25:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is pretty much an exact description of how a person who has developed Stockholm syndrome might think about their situation.
Bismothe-the-Shade · 13 points · Posted at 22:15:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's how a lot of jobs treat their workers, especially at the lower end of the spectrum. Publix has actively done that to me and folks I worked with.
MooseEater · 24 points · Posted at 21:27:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Clock in, work hard, get torn a new asshole, clock out. It's a known commodity.
SweetyPeetey · 15 points · Posted at 21:46:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What doesn’t kill you makes your asshole stronger.
IamManuelLaBor · 6 points · Posted at 21:52:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just ask Asa Akira about that. Asshole made out of teflon for sure.
intensely_human · 5 points · Posted at 04:03:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why people stay in abusive relationships is a huge human mystery.
There are tomes written on it and careers dedicated to figuring that out.
There are wars that have taken place because of it.
It's really worth digging into that with yourself and figuring out exactly how not to fall into the trap again.
a_german_guy · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm drunk and curious; Which wars? The only war I can think of may be the battle of Troy, but I'm not really sure and too tired to look it up.
Do you have more examples?
intensely_human · 0 points · Posted at 04:59:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The German people failed to stop abusive relations from their own government, and this resulted in World War 2 for example. Instead of saying "hey fuck this you can't just take over and alter our government", they allowed Hitler to rise into power and then they let him get away with more and more shit.
Eventually it was the militaries of other countries - in war - that were necessary to stop that.
That's an example.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:54:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s usually the kind of job where they pay you just enough to keep crawling back for the BS.
TuckersMyDog · 21 points · Posted at 20:00:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
^ Yes. That is not an environment you want to be in
I_Am_Day_Man · 2 points · Posted at 20:07:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uh oh, tuckersmydog’s hoss must have gotten to him.
Halbertos · 33 points · Posted at 19:58:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Illegal in 11 states and a violation of many companies’ policies. Also unlikely to actually help you out unless you’re suing for wrongful termination after the fact.
pommefrits · 13 points · Posted at 20:39:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which sounds like a very real possibility.
And yeah it's illegal in a few states but the most are fine.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 21:56:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those are the companies you don't want to work for. With the exception of it being a major security breach.
Halbertos · 5 points · Posted at 23:12:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s a big exception. Medical- and finance-related companies are going to have a lot of restrictions for that reason. Most any contractor company will have to comply with security audits and have to limit that as well.
natophonic2 · 2 points · Posted at 22:09:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Looks like it's twelve states. Very good point regardless. And I'm unclear how that works if it's a conversation via phone, Skype, etc., involving two people in different states with opposing laws.
Halbertos · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The rule of thumb is that it follows the most restrictive state. Essentially, if I’m in California and you’re in Georgia, I’m going to sue you in California for the illegal recording, so you’re defending in the state in which that practice was not legal.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:12:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I record all my call through an app. That is sooooo useful, because people think what they in person or on the phone doesn't leave a paper trail so, unlike with mails, they always try to deny saying anything. That's when I pull out the recordings.
DevilishlyAdvocating · 4 points · Posted at 00:42:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao I've been doing this for years. I feel so much more comfortable knowing that I have a record of everything that only I know about.
cave18 · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What app?
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:48:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ACR Calls
RuneLFox · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Close.io can do this as well, which is what we use at my workplace - but it's not free unfortunately.
lowtoiletsitter · 3 points · Posted at 20:46:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what I started doing.
FireIsMyPorn · 63 points · Posted at 21:10:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first job at 16 was at a pet kennel. The owner sat up front while myself and one other person was in the back with the dogs. We would let them out into play yards and get them some exercise and let them go potty before putting them back in the kennel and getting another dog.
Well one time I'm out with a small dog in the play yard and I have a ball, throwing it and what not. At one point the dog obviously wanted to lay keep away so there I am on my knees trying to get this ball back from the dog. Who's having a blast, by the way.
Owner comes up and says "you dont work by sitting".
She also didnt believe down time was ever a possibility. If you were at work, you should constantly be working. No excuses.
Best day of my life was quitting that job.
StpdSxyFlndrs · 27 points · Posted at 21:42:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“If you got time to lean, you got time to clean.”
ASAPxSyndicate · 11 points · Posted at 22:34:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"If you got time for rhymes then kiss my behind"
ThorOfTheAsgard · 8 points · Posted at 22:06:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nevermind the millions and millions of people that do exactly that.
CowboyXuliver · 17 points · Posted at 22:39:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I run into this situation, I summarize this and send emails with “notes” and ask them to correct anything I misunderstood so we are all aligned.
It isn’t necessary for them to respond as the onus is now on them to correct -so if they don’t- it is can be presumed to be correct.
Always copy others when appropriate- but don’t over copy.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 20:18:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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MooseEater · 13 points · Posted at 21:37:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't want you to do as I say, I want you to do as I will want you to have done...
poe_raven · 15 points · Posted at 21:23:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Recently I read somewhere on here about a person being gaslit by their boss and that situation sounds very similar to what you're describing. Hopefully you're no longer working with this person.
skullpriestess · 4 points · Posted at 07:49:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh hell no. It was a hair salon, I was just the receptionist, and boss lady was the biggest narcissistic, mean-spirited bitch I've ever met. And I was only there for about a month. She decided she didn't want to continue paying for a receptionist. She planned on convincing a retired friend to do the job for free. No clue how that went. But for some reason she got this idea that she couldn't fire me or let me go. So her solution was to VERBALLY BERATE AND HARASS ME until I quit.
My only regret is not spraying her in the face with very hot water when I had the chance.
oberon · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd be curious if you couldn't sue the company for a hostile work environment.
flyingwolf · 20 points · Posted at 22:03:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Email her.
"As per our conversation of XX/XX please check over my notes and let me know if I have anything incorrect.
If she doesn't correct you she is admitting either she didn't check your notes, OR she agrees it is correct. Either way, your ass is covered.
MrAcurite · 23 points · Posted at 21:16:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"If you're going to treat me like a child, I'm going to treat you as a child treats an overworked, underpaid teacher. Now sign this fucking bullshit."
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:04:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Email them. "You told me to do X. If this is correct you don't have to bother to reply, I will take that as confirmation."
mstksg · 3 points · Posted at 21:07:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
this sounds like a healthy relationship to have with your boss
wildo83 · 5 points · Posted at 19:52:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rock that body camera, kid!
Edit: find out about your state’s laws on recording audio/video without permission.
Zoot-just_zoot · 7 points · Posted at 20:04:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Narc(issist) alert!
altbekannt · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She sounds like a delightful human being
oberon · 2 points · Posted at 21:38:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Has enough time to berate you for ten minutes, tell instructions for five, but doesn't have two seconds to sign them.
Nighthunter007 · 1 points · Posted at 09:03:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be able to legally record your conversations even without informing your boss. Though I imagine that won't make them happy. Either way, an audio recording is kinda hard to deny.
[deleted] · -49 points · Posted at 21:02:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Fingfangfoom67 · 12 points · Posted at 21:17:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have had male bosses say the exact same thing.
marzipanzebra · 6 points · Posted at 22:07:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh piss off
bozwizard14 · 14 points · Posted at 21:30:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What weird sexism
elanhilation · 16 points · Posted at 21:42:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a guy with the same complaint about a male boss somewhere else in this very thread.
Also, based purely on that post, I’m very confident in saying the vast majority of situations in your life that you’ve blamed on the existence of women had more to do with you just being the kind of person that you unfortunately are.
luke_07 · 29 points · Posted at 18:20:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would love to write everything my boss tell me to do, but how to establish its credibility. If I show the boss later what I have written, what if he claims that I wrote it wrong or it's not what he said?
Scotchrogers · 15 points · Posted at 19:11:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like another user said, make them sign it, or initial or something. Read it back to them and get them to agree that's what they're asking you to do. They'll make you out to be an asshole, but do not back down.
Thistlefizz · 13 points · Posted at 19:41:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some good suggestions in the replies already. Write it down, repeat back to them exactly what they said, get them to sign it, etc. In that same vein I would suggest emailing the list to them saying something like, “This is the list of things you have instructed me to do. I have listed them in the order of priority that you have to me. Please reply and confirm that I’m not missing anything.” Or something like that.
r-just-wrong · 8 points · Posted at 20:32:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Email it to them as a follow up on your improptu meeting to clarify exactly what you are supposed to do, if they don't respond take it as confirmation, if they do and change their requests you got clarification on what they want and a time line to prioritize requests. You can also set the email as a task in MS Outlook for follow ups. Also if they don't have time to respond then you don't have time to prioritize their tasks and you were "waiting for confirmation before allocating your limited resources so as not to waste company time"
-Source- BI Analyst supporting multiple departments with about 30 managers, directors and VPs constantly asking for random crap that they think is the highest priority in my world just because it's the highest priority in their world.
p1-o2 · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Then you tell him to prove it because he has none and is a little bitch who won't fire you anyway. Start looking for a new job so you can make his life even harder.
Soumya1998 · 3 points · Posted at 19:33:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe record it. He can't deny that though it does seems a bit too much.
microseconds · 3 points · Posted at 23:06:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Email this right away..
Dear $BOSS,
Thanks for our chat earlier. Just confirming your request to do X, Y, and Z.
Thanks again, $YOU
Now you’ve got a time-stamped record of you putting it all on the record.
Managers who are building a case in order to fire an employee for cause will often do this as well. We'll also take notes of our conversations with the employee and email the notes to ourselves for time-stamping reasons.
markfuckinstambaugh · 16 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyone has had one of these bosses. I hope you had yours when you were young. I worked for a guy who would strategically forget anything not written in an email, and also not have read any email which he didn't reply to. In the end I only did my important communication via email, in the format of "Hi AwfulBoss, Can you approve $20 for purchase of necessary lab equipment? Also I am planning to take 3 days vacation on these dates and I am assuming the product does not have this feature. Please let me know if this is a problem." Of course he replies with an Okay for the $20, no mention of vacay or features. If he tries to assign additional urgent tasks for the period that I'm out, or he insists that what I deliver is insufficient, I bring up the email. Eat shit.
May113017 · 12 points · Posted at 19:39:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fucking hell I worked for a chef that was like this, you are a genius for documenting. I just ended up screaming "THIS IS WHAT YOU TOLD ME TO DO, YOU OLD FUCKER" luckily in a kitchen that's usually a normal way of speaking to each other. Edit: he'd respond with something like "oh fuck you, you millennial idiot" I honestly liked the guy. He was a bastard and so am I, it worked.
emeraldleighw · 11 points · Posted at 18:39:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I started doing the same exact thing at my last job. I had to go so far as to record it to prove that that was what she wanted me to do.
I left not long after.
Noorquacker · 42 points · Posted at 16:03:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man once I get an office job I'm sure as heck keeping some raspberry pi based surveillance thing with me wherever I go
Cmonster910 · -20 points · Posted at 18:12:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
raspberry pi? Is that some sort of dessert? xDDdDDDSSDDDdagshdhfndndndndjsieuqqqqD
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 18:24:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Cmonster910 · -11 points · Posted at 19:08:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
why I get downvote??
hey_listen_link · 7 points · Posted at 19:29:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you meant to write "dessert."
Cmonster910 · -6 points · Posted at 19:41:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dang you right, thanks brosef
AnotherLameHaiku · -10 points · Posted at 19:20:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People didn't get your joke. Their loss, it was solid.
A_Voe · 17 points · Posted at 20:01:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We got it. It just wasn’t funny.
Cmonster910 · -10 points · Posted at 19:43:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Solid? I prefer LiQUid xDdd LOl |Insert suicidal thoughts caused by cringe joke|
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:43:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Cmonster910 · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok this is really cool.??!!!
CoffeeGopher · 7 points · Posted at 18:24:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
yes
detahramet · 6 points · Posted at 19:46:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just because your joke is ironically vapid and soulless, doesn't make it any less vapid and soulless.
Cmonster910 · -2 points · Posted at 19:51:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now that's epic!!
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 19:14:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did this to a coworker. She would demand I do something one way, then forget the next day and scream at me that I was doing it wrong. So, I wrote her an email and asked that she write down exactly what she wanted me to do.
That’s the last time she ever spoke to me, thank God.
Jake42Film · 10 points · Posted at 19:23:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/MaliciousCompliance would like this
dreamrock · 7 points · Posted at 20:00:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss like that and I would argue with him about it all the time. He eventually fired me for being a kind of shitty employee. I was young and there was a culture of corruption that I fell prey to.
When he let me go he told me I had been one of his best employees and one of his worst employees.
He rehired me a few years later (he was a softy that believed in second chances). By that time I had turned over a new leaf, and was taking a lot more pride in my work.
Whenever he would ask me why the hell I was doing something a certain way, instead of saying "You told me to do it this way last week", I would ask "How would you like me to do it?"
Two weeks later he gave me a raise, and a month after that he put me on salary made me a manager.
KilledByFruit · 5 points · Posted at 19:36:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just before she retired, my aunt was in a very similar situation. She got a new boss who used to pull this kind of stuff all the time; on many peoples’ advice, she started requesting her instructions via email. When the boss couldn’t or wouldn’t comply, my aunt retired, then came back as a consultant...making just as much (or more) money per hour. I hadn’t paid close enough attention to the end result, but I remember how stressed my aunt was when telling these stories about meetings that didn’t exist or projects that were moved. Because of her stories, I request everything in writing, citing my ‘poor memory’, just to avoid having this happen to me.
DeathByLemmings · 5 points · Posted at 19:30:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With bosses like this, after every conversation email them with a confirmation of the last discussion. Has worked absolute wonders for me
sideofsunny · 4 points · Posted at 20:05:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss like this who also had a law degree. She also threw her staff (including me) under the bus regularly. I started sending an email after all our meetings saying “per your instruction in our meeting I will....”.
She hated it.
iamthelordofallmagic · 3 points · Posted at 19:26:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds like a great example of r/maliciouscompliance content
IWugYouWugHeSheMeWug · 4 points · Posted at 19:40:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is one of the best parts of working for a distributed company. 90% of our communication is written to begin with.
"Why aren't you doing this?"
"Well, you told me not to."
"Huh? I don't think I said that...."
*scrolls up*
The_tiny_verse · 4 points · Posted at 19:49:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in the same position at my last job. I wrote a tone-neutral email with all the written communication (email, text, slack) discussing how I was receiving contrary directions and was finding myself unable to meet expectations. I got a very hostile email in return, and was let go. I still don’t know what I could have done- I was set up to fail.
UrethraFrankIin · 4 points · Posted at 20:30:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I instead recorded every crime my boss committed while working at a Jimmy John's, so worst case I could tell the owners and they could look at the security cameras. Every line of coke he snorted in the back, every coke deal he made in the back, every time he applied an order he took to someone who no longer worked there to avoid getting taxed while pocketing the tip, etc. Turns out a couple other employees secretly did the same when the time came for a mutiny lol. He was a total piece of shit and we even told him to give us raises his last day or we'd tell the cops. Good times.
Well, terrible times and then one good time. If I wasn't making 20-25$ an hour delivering on a bike I would've quit straight away.
I_Rain_On_Parades · 4 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex boss used to send me out for his lunch order. Whatever, I'm on the clock and I'd grab something for myself. He'd get pissed that I didn't bring him a soda some days when he didn't specifically ask for one (he sometimes didn't want one) and claiming he told me. I started voice recording whenever I got his order so the next time he called me out I just played back his own words in english to him.
He also once told me he wanted "two #2's from mcdonalds." I went there. Ordered it. Came back with two "two cheeseburger" meals. He gets pissed and threatened my job saying that a #2 is standard at all mcdonalds, he travels all the time for this company and knows it's so, and it's always a quarter pounder meal. How can he trust me to take care of our clients if I can't even get the CEO's lunch order right. What kind of service am I giving. Bla bla bla. A week later he sends me for 2 #2's again. I ask him "What is a #2?" "Quarter pounder." Cool. I go, take a photo of the menu, and bring it back with his fucking burgers. I show it to him before I hand him the sandwiches and he responds "Oh, I just bet you were waiting to show me that." YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT YOU GREASY FUCK, YOU THREATENED MY JOB OVER A FUCKING CHEESEBURGER.
rex_grossmans_ghost · 3 points · Posted at 20:35:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I need to do this with my boss. He drives me crazy. He asks me to do something and then before I’m halfway done, he yells at me to do something else. So on so forth. Then he gets pissed off about all the unfinished stuff. I’m so tired of being subject to whatever his whims are that hour
DatedRef_PastEvent · 3 points · Posted at 20:49:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a similar boss. A good way to do this whenever possible is by email. Something like "Just wanted to clarify the points regarding our conversation about X earlier." You can even add an addendum about if no response I will continue XYZ. No way they can say you made it up.
-cangumby- · 3 points · Posted at 19:58:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’re boss is gaslighting you. Once you’re aware of what it is and how to counteract it, it’s a lot harder to be taken advantage of.
Look it up, you’ll be much happier because of it.
r/gaslighting
anooblol · 4 points · Posted at 20:20:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey thanks for that. But very honestly, my boss was just a bit ADHD. He always got himself in trouble with clients because he would make hasty decisions and then forget he made them.
Cephelopodia · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This should be higher. It's apparently very common and is extremely abusive.
originalchaosinabox · 2 points · Posted at 19:52:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And this is why, in this day and age, when 99% of correspondence with the boss is through e-mail, I don't delete anything.
deepintothecreep · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a rather important paper to write in grad school (required for graduation) that wasn't going well for me. I had an encouraging meeting with my boss about the content and structure of my paper. He told me to have a paragraph/subsection on each type of analysis we were gonna do on something as a major portion of my paper. Thought it was kinda odd, but he's really good [and my advisor] so I took his word for it. He even wrote it down like that in a sheet of notes he'd always write as he was talking and give at the end of the meeting.
Turned in a draft and said I was still struggling with the intro (specifically making my work seem important), got an angry email for a meeting. Got the whole 'why the hell did you do lay this out like this... You have clearly no understanding of...' and so on for one of the longer meetings we'd had. There was no arguing it. I knew it had to be redone after many sleepless nights and I could have dealt with that, but dude continuously tearing me apart for something I had been told to do made me realize I was miserable and led to my decision to leave
BitcoinBanker · 2 points · Posted at 21:27:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is part of managing up.
4gotOldU-name · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Y'all need to start using OneNote. Has this wonderful feature that allows you to take notes when recording the audio. Later, it will "point to" the audio portion (minus 5 seconds backwards) in your typed notes while they are talking.
ikcaj · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LPT right here in the comments.
NGGJamie · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boss used to lie to her bosses and say I was the cause of all the problems she created. Fortunately they eventually got wise and she got fired. I’m still here and shit’s running great. Fuck her.
MegaPiglatin · 2 points · Posted at 22:26:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man I had a boss do something similar one time. I was going out of the country for a few weeks so about a month or two in advance I had a conversation via text and briefly in-person with my manager at the time to get the days off. She approved them in writing via text. The week before I fly out comes around and lo and behold she scheduled me on the day before I was due to fly out, which I specifically requested so that I could prepare and take care of last-minute errands (which I told her). She tried to tell me that we never discussed that and I never told her and went as far as screenshotting our conversation and sending it to me, conveniently cutting out the part where I asked for that specific day and explained why.
So I screenshotted the entire conversation, complete with the part where I asked for that day and she said that it was approved, and sent it back to her. She never apologized or admitted her mistake/lie, but instead told me that in order to get that day off now I needed to do some impossible task. I sort of tried to find someone to cover and just didn't come in instead, and I submitted my two weeks that day.
Agent_Bluex · 2 points · Posted at 22:26:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Literally the exact same as my first boss out of college! I worked for some shitty ad firm that did furniture commercials for rental stores across the country.
My boss, “Rick the Dick” as we called him, would always complain to the employees that they weren’t following his instructions on projects even though they were.
So I literally started writing down what he would tell me to do in meetings and would have him sign it. Next time he bitched about my projects I just showed him the list with his signature.
Of course being the grade-A douche cake he was meant that he immediately denied having ever said those things and that I misinterpreted what he told me. Thankfully I’m no longer working in that shitstain of an ad company!
Linkums · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds about like my last job, except I got harassed for it and then fired when I brought the harassment case to HR.
Poopsmasherbukakke · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old boss wouldnt have cared if I had a video recording of him telling me to do whatever I'm doing. He just liked to make people feel insignificant to cover for his own incompetence.
secaedelcielo · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to do the same thing two jobs back, but even then, my boss would say, "Well I don't care what I said in October, it's February and you should know to be doing X instead!" I ended up quitting after a year. Real shame, too, because I absolutely loved my work, just not the CEO of the company.
Shawnj2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/maliciouscompliance
cso39 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wish I had thought of that! I had a boss like that at my last job. I stayed completely stressed out all 3 years I worked there. He finally fired me so he could hire someone for a position that he made up in a job that didn’t need one. I should have quit way earlier!
xAlvyx · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I make my boss email me the task or write her a follow up email with the task description in it so it’s dated and in writing.
CrimsonWayward · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/maliciouscompliance
KensieQ72 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My direct manager is like this. My inbox from her is usually:
Email @ 10am: No media should be bought through emails at all. Everything should have a buy sheet attached before contacting reps.
Email @ 2pm: I emailed [rep] and bought two spots in the awards show next week for [client] and we can figure out traffic later.
Email the day before the awards show airs: Why are you asking me about traffic? I already told you it should be [ad] when we set it up.
Since they hired an assistant for the media department (aka for me), we’ve been calling her out more and backing each other up with emails. She is not happy, and I’m not sure how long until she snaps lol
Robbie-R · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If your in the position too, ask for everything in an email. Its hard to refute an email written by the person.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s very smart
Kafshak · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I ducking hate bosses like that. They deliberately pressure you and secretly enjoy it.
WillowWispFlame · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's like he was trying to gaslight you
smarmageddon · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh. I did this exact thing with the same kind of boss and it eventually led to a series of epic blowups that led to me quitting in to keep my sanity. Your results may vary.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss like that. He'd tell me to do stuff (last minute of course), then yell at me and forget he said things.
Then once i was asked to update a spreadsheet to grab some data and asked me to get xyz. I wrote it down, repeated it back to him for confirmation, got confirmation.
Well, he starts in during review and asks why I added a tab in the spreadsheet for something. He rants and raves and asks when he asked for it.
Pulled out my notepad and said we literally has a verbal conversation about it and I confirmed it with you...
He was a burnt out asshole though so doesn't surprise me....
SaintMelee · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL i used to work with a guy who started bringing a recorder to meetings with our boss, because he would do the same thing. Never got to see him pull it out on him but i heard he did.
DavidZ4 · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have made him sign the notes!
ScaryBilbo · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always cover your assets.
Phaedrug · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna have to start doing that with my boss (or leave this place because he's unreasonable). He's old and losing his memory and doesn't listen well and then gets pissed off about it.
FeniEnt · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Im supposed to have flexible work hours. That's the main reason I still work where I do. Sometimes I'm just unable to be around other people so I often change up my schedule.
Couple times my boss tried to add more hours by telling me that was my idea. After the third time I told him we are going to take notes that we're both gonna sign. Only did that once, but he never tried to add hours to my schedule again.
yoursafewordisharder · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a similar type boss. When someone in a meeting called him out on this, he replied with no irony “That may have been what I said but that’s not what I was thinking.”
Broship_Rajor · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a student worker there and was lady who would do this. Itd be like 10 minute apart too.
“do this like this” does it like that 10 minutes later “wtf are you doing who told you to do it like that” shows completely different way
later the managers who actually know how to do it show up and tell you that she doesn’t know what shes talking about and both ways are wrong.
(she was higher up than normal student workers so you’re supposed to listen to her but she was a normal worker so she didnt know the correct way for student workers because we had different sets of responsibilities)
AakashBasi · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What’s more surprising to me is they admitted they were wrong (you didn’t say but I assumed ). I’d have thought they’d just say you wrote it down wrong
Gonadzilla · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, but was he actually lying, or just a scatterbrained idiot?
lillenkk · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hats off to you bro!
kharmatika · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man I have to start doing this. My boss is garbage at training. Just garbage. We had a couple girls who he taught the new register system mess it up, and I was like “oh it looks like they were just tryin. To check their numbers” and he said “why the hell would the need to know what we’re making?” And I’m like “maybe because you have told us to keep an eye on our numbers for our goal?”
Pocketwitch · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to do this with my grad school supervisor. Every meeting we had was basically her tearing me a new one for doing something she had told me to do. I learned pretty quick to write down and date everything she told me to do, and repeat it back to her to clarify it before I left her office.
lights_and_colors · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That... is my birthday: 1 upvote for you
vetofthefield · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I applaud you and I am so proud of you for finally standing up for yourself. So many people just let stuff slide and let people walk all over them. It makes me happy to hear people who DON’T just put up with this.
Great story.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“I would never tell you to do that.”
Guys behind him are snickering because he told me to do exactly that.
Hated my former boss with a passion. What a stupid worthless lifer.
waiting4purplerain · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
These kind of bosses are scums of the earth.
Dajaba · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Write on a whiteboard with their initials and just ask if they want you to erase it. Keep a photographic record.
Char-Lez · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had my boss sign the document.
Didn’t help.
“Things change”
I didn’t last long.
OfficialDatGuyisCool · 1 points · Posted at 01:44:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
so was he testing you to see if you would stick up for yourself or was he just a dumbass?
IWantMyChaChaBack · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds a lot like my coworker.
First thing he does after being late EVERY day is a lengthy sitting on the shitter and when he's not, he's on his phone.
Worst thing is he works directly with customers and sometimes he's nowhere to be found when clientele arrives and my other colleagues and sometimes me have to find him asap, while staving the customers off.
Also, in his line of work it's really beneficial to speak English to some degree, yet he often has to ask me to translate, even tho that's not my job at all.
I told him many times to improve his English and how to start, like watching series he likes with subs and later leaving them out or English subs -> dubs on non English series or whatever, but he always gives me silly and nonsensical reasons why he doesn't want to and can't. He basically is to lazy, at least that's the impression I get.
He's a nice and chill guy in private, but I'm so fed up with his bullshit work attitude as a coworker.
Brandilikey · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oooo I've had to do this!
monkeytitsaresaggy · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a post for /r/MaliciousCompliance
steam29 · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The best feeling in the world is to be working at an entry level job where corporate takes their job super seriously and then have a manager or boss harass you then you threaten to go to corporate with proof of events time stamps and co worker signatures to prove you wrote it down at the time of the event and watch them fucking quiver, I did this and emailed my GM and basically said hey this manager is harassing me, here's a scan of my notes with dates and times and quotes from the manager, if this dosent change I will be going to corporate. I got an email within 5 minutes of that email telling me to call work and got apologized to a bunch and said it won't ever happen again and that I can always go to my GM for anything I need and from this day forward that manager dosent as much as look in direction any more
_LulzCakee_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:42:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate when bosses do that.
They'll forget what they told you and after months of doing it the way the specified, they'd be like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" and you'd say "The thing you told me to do since 2 months ago..." and they'll act like its totally unacceptable "NOOO, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO IT LIKE THAT" then they change how they want it done right there as if you should have read their mind 2 weeks ago when they changed it but didnt tell you
VeryMuchDutch101 · 1 points · Posted at 07:11:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sometimes get warned for those people... I always asked them to email the instructions to me
bloodsponge · 1 points · Posted at 08:08:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my previous job, I had to start taking notes in my Google calendar for every task I did. This included breaks, phone calls, trips to the fax machine, documents printed, forms filed, etc. Everything.
I was so worn down from being treated like I did nothing all day or that I was doing everything wrong, that I originally started doing it to prove to myself that I was being prodictive and effectively managing my time. Then I realized my boss could view my calendar, so I started making it as detailed as possible, even going so far as to include bullet-point notes and quotes from conversations with her about the various projects she unloaded onto me.
If my boss ever demanded to know what I had done all day or what I had done that day for a particular project, I'd read the details from my Google calendar, and then add "daily schedule review with Susan" during the minutes she was interrogating me.
This was absolutely neurotic bureaucracy, but it was satisfying to see her struggle to find things to nag at me about. I don't miss it.
Yor_Repres · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
aw fuck. My old boss was like that too. Not all the time or in a mean spirited manner, he just had terrible memory. So annoying to be told do X and then. I never said to do X, do Y. As if I'd randomly made up an incorrect procedure. I started writing it down too. Only way to have a claim on it.
Kimpractical · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss like this too. He ended up getting fired because he was too busy confusing people like that instead of getting any actual work done
Helixdaunting · 1 points · Posted at 07:23:09 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's some good /r/maliciouscompliance material.
Merax75 · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:14 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of the night fill job I had at high school (working for a department store after hours stocking shelves). Supervisor hated me. At the end of every shift we would have about 15 minutes to tidy a bunch of shelves and she always picked something like rugs for me to tidy...which was always a fucking mess...and then whinge that I had taken too long to do it. Eventually shifted me to trash pickup which was supposed to be a slight yet paid the same for doing 1/10th of the work.
Bismothe-the-Shade · 0 points · Posted at 22:13:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyone clapped.
mebindian · 22167 points · Posted at 15:45:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone put down 2 sevens, but I had all four of them
supreme_hammy · 9173 points · Posted at 17:49:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, the time honored game of bullshit.
Culinarytracker · 2547 points · Posted at 18:56:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actual quote from my boy scout leader, "You kids and your god damned language is starting to piss me off. Go play some bullshit or something!"
werekitty93 · 349 points · Posted at 19:52:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my favourite things to say in class if people were swearing was "Hey - we don't fucking swear here."
Pineapplechok · 132 points · Posted at 19:55:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're on thin fucking ice!
The_Glass_Cannon · 41 points · Posted at 19:58:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh no
Ninja_rooster · 51 points · Posted at 21:35:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This burly biker dude I used to work with went on vacation with his wife once. They’re in a shop getting outfitted to go boat/parachuting(wtf is that called?). Kid getting them setup let’s a causal “shit” slip in conversation. Bike dude responds with “HEY watch your fucking language around my wife!” Kid about shit himself before dude told him he was messing with him.
TehGogglesDoNothing · 21 points · Posted at 23:13:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Parasailing
Ninja_rooster · 9 points · Posted at 00:02:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This. Thank you. Tired brain lol.
LinkDude80 · 7 points · Posted at 04:47:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m just going to pretend this means skydiving on a jet ski.
Ninja_rooster · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes.
Dospunk · 44 points · Posted at 20:24:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey! I dunno where you're from but around here we don't say the fuck word
lowtoiletsitter · 5 points · Posted at 20:39:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You mean the F-word?
Dospunk · 22 points · Posted at 20:40:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
(that's the joke friend)
kckeller · 14 points · Posted at 21:10:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I... think they were making a joke themselves...
lowtoiletsitter · 8 points · Posted at 23:00:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That I was!
EAE01 · 5 points · Posted at 22:14:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you're giving them too much credit
Aileak · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lmao
thestargateking · 15 points · Posted at 20:44:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Growing up I had a very anti swearing stance, to the point of if someone swore I’d tell them not to, over time I cared less, but I’d still tel them to not swear because pretending to care is a little funny. Getting the school bus home I somehow managed to make friends/acquaintance with some grade 10-12 students on the bus while I was in grade 7. One of the highlights from the bus was saying don’t swear, and one of them yelled “fuck” In a silly tone. It was such a fun bus until they all graduated
yatsey · 9 points · Posted at 23:37:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We're werewolves, not swearwolves.
werekitty93 · 2 points · Posted at 00:17:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, I'm werekitty. buh dum chsh
plsrespectkaren · 8 points · Posted at 21:42:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey you little bitch. We don't fucking use that god damned language in this fucking house! Do you fucking understand, you little shit?!
Ronald_McDouchebag · 13 points · Posted at 20:24:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Watch your fucking language, you cunt!
adamrsb48 · 12 points · Posted at 20:02:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Language!
MarshmallowPenguin2 · 8 points · Posted at 21:06:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always say watch your fucking mouth.
Arothin · 2 points · Posted at 03:27:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got me in trouble a few times in woodshop saying that
ReelChezburger · 18 points · Posted at 21:21:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Our troop renamed it to Boy Scout instead, and we still just shout out BS, and if anyone asks we say it stands for Boy Scout
UnseenBubby117 · 4 points · Posted at 21:28:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We always called it Battle Ship in mine
sswally · 4 points · Posted at 22:18:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Baloney sausage
rinprotectionsquad · 5 points · Posted at 22:52:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
we called it baloney sandwich
DangitDale · 5 points · Posted at 21:35:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, that's some high quality character building.
Story-Checks-Out · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also was a Boy Scout. Story checks out.
DomioDude · 74 points · Posted at 19:29:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd team up with my friend next to me. I'll out down my whole deck and say "twelve threes" then he'd put down a card right after it so no one had time to call bullshit on me
rexrex696 · 34 points · Posted at 19:31:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That made me laugh way too hard.
Generic_Pete · 211 points · Posted at 19:00:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to bullshit so hard, I'd say "one 5" and literally put down half my deck but try to cover it below my hand.
658741239 · 134 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the winning strategy.
SM60652 · 96 points · Posted at 19:52:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The real winning strategy is to call bullshit on every hand dropped, you end up with so many cards no one can do anything and they get mad and quit.
PlusMinus0o · 61 points · Posted at 20:02:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s called “how to make all of your friends hate you”.
SM60652 · 22 points · Posted at 20:51:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea it definitely ruins the game.
Spicyness144p · 4 points · Posted at 07:53:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea my friend did that and now I avoid playing that game with him. He hogged up most of the deck and called us out on every card we placed down.
658741239 · 17 points · Posted at 20:01:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea that's true, usually people aren't bold enough to do that and then only start that once they are loosing anyway.
Scaphism92 · 12 points · Posted at 20:39:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Im not good at lying so I quickly realised this is the only way I could win.
SM60652 · 6 points · Posted at 20:51:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly how I developed this technique.
Johnny_Christ187 · 51 points · Posted at 19:07:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's like literally against the one rule of the game
OliverCrowley · 139 points · Posted at 19:09:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The spirit of the game is to cheat. By breaking the one rule they set, you are truly embracing the game.
monty845 · 45 points · Posted at 19:13:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have 4 sevens in hand, put down 8 cards, including 0 sevens, "4 sevens"... sucks for the next guy who needs to put down sevens! Clearly its not BS, as anyone with a seven would have called you on it!
turtle_swordsman · 20 points · Posted at 21:58:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend that put down 4 8's, no one calls him out so he must have them all. next turn 4 8's, everyone looking at each other suspiciously but again no one calls him out. Next turn 4 8's, one guy had enough and called him out to reveal 4 8's. Dude dropped 12 cards like it was nothing
loukitch · -29 points · Posted at 19:11:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, the one rule is that you cannot put down one card. It has to be pairs or above.
You can't say one five and put down six cards. You can say two fives and put down as many goddamn cards as You'd like.
OliverCrowley · 53 points · Posted at 19:14:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can say any old damn thing as long as people don't call you on it.
_an_actual_bag_ · 30 points · Posted at 19:23:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. I placed my whole deck on my turn when nobody was looking, and won the game. They got mad, but I followed all the rules.
NeDragons · 42 points · Posted at 19:19:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can put one card down if you want. Idk what backwoods rules you use lmao
HisRandomFriend · 28 points · Posted at 19:16:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The rules never explicitly forbid this to my knowledge, they also don't forbid hiding cards and pretending to be out, you've just got to be a really good liar.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:53:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not like there are official rules of the game. There's hundreds of slight variations. Partly because people make up new rules if they think it makes the game better, partly because people forget the rules when they're teaching it to someone for the first time.
legitjuice · 4 points · Posted at 20:42:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's in the spirit of lying and in the spirit of the idea that the players must be acutely aware of the plays each other are making; that being said, it's so easy to place two cards lined up together down and announce "1 ____" that if there were like money on the line or something I'd definitely try to enforce that rule
Tetrime · 4 points · Posted at 19:09:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not by every game I've ever played. If you can pull it off, al the better.
JoshTheCommie · 6 points · Posted at 22:12:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude I do that all the time, it's so fun. Whenever people accuse me of cheating I just tell them that the game is literally based on being dishonest.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:54:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like it'd be best to avoid arguments by discussing this before the game starts.
illusorywallahead · 6 points · Posted at 23:00:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah arguing your point is way more fun. Also if you explain that away at the beginning then everyone does it and suspects it. Best to just play it close to the chest for as many games as possible and never tell anyone what you’re doing.
JoshTheCommie · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly.
H_Melman · 16 points · Posted at 21:35:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my favorite games. I was always that kid that never played to win, but just tried to get full sets.
"1 Ace--"
"Fuck you, Dave. Pick em up."
Geyck · 6 points · Posted at 20:23:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My trick is to put down 4 cards and say "2 queens" which were on top.
crazyPython · 7 points · Posted at 20:29:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In India, we call it 'Challenge'. As in challenging the ludicrous claim.
VesperBond94 · 5 points · Posted at 20:24:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have played this game many times, but now it always make me think of How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days.
pinchependeja · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s honestly how my family and I heard of the game. It’s a family fav now.
VesperBond94 · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a fun game-and a fun movie :)
Dakkadence · 3 points · Posted at 20:54:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
FTFY
thestargateking · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man I remember and miss this game, I so wanna play it
NALittleFox · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought the game was called cheat?
Scaphism92 · 8 points · Posted at 20:41:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cheat is the family friendly version.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:55:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's got loads of different names.
ethrael237 · 2 points · Posted at 21:04:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, the bullshit game of honored time.
Morefoodplease · 1 points · Posted at 11:35:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, the time honored game of Brittney Spears
RMackay88 · 2521 points · Posted at 17:43:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's when you put down 4 sevens, and nobody believes you
imn0tg00d · 1243 points · Posted at 18:50:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But you sneakily put down 5 cards instead of 4.
nonresponsive · 224 points · Posted at 19:02:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like an idiot for never even considering doing this..
vorschact · 129 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sneakiest thing? Put down four sevens and a six under Meath them. Now it definitely looks like you didn't cheat.
Axnanth · 72 points · Posted at 22:41:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even sneakier, call cheat on someone then hide a card in your palm and drop the card on the pile as you go to call them out. If you do it right, you can flip over your card and make it look like they cheated to everyone else
FPMC4172 · 45 points · Posted at 23:02:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And I thought I had thought of everything... You're an actual genius
JadeTirade · 28 points · Posted at 23:35:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahhh, true. The whole game is lying, so any kinda cheating is fair play.
cantadmittoposting · 33 points · Posted at 21:22:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohshit.
DealerCamel · 7 points · Posted at 22:55:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hell, why stop at one extra card? If you have all four of one number, put down as many as you like! See who calls you on it.
Anxious_Refrigerator · 9 points · Posted at 23:04:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's how I always play. I think my record is eight cards.
Not that I don't get called out a lot.
Mogetfog · 41 points · Posted at 00:12:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My favorite requires a friend. Slam down all your cards and yell "50 aces!" followed by the friend slamming down his card and yelling "1 two!"
SpartanKiller13 · 1 points · Posted at 13:53:53 on July 9, 2018 · (Permalink)
I played 13 cards in one go, and didn't get called on it :D
PlatinumLuffy · 3 points · Posted at 22:22:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is what I had never thought of
pm_your_huge_chode · 52 points · Posted at 21:06:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The trick is to put the fifth/sixth card under the 4 cards(or however many you're claiming to put down) so if someone calls bullshit you can flip the other 4 legitimate cards and lie about not putting down what you said. You just have to make sure not to do it too often and make sure you hide the other cards well.
mjkevin247 · 20 points · Posted at 22:36:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or use a decoy snail
XNonameX · 3 points · Posted at 23:52:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Decoy snail, ftw.
schai · 13 points · Posted at 22:14:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It fails when the person before you lied about putting down 6s or remembers the suit they placed
JadeTirade · 6 points · Posted at 23:36:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but you only claimed 4 cards, they should only flip the last 4.
schai · 3 points · Posted at 00:03:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I suppose. Someone would have to suspect that you placed down more than 4 cards. And if we’re talking serious strategies here, you should always check that the number of cards matches. Easy way to call BS.
ChrisPaulsABitch · 6 points · Posted at 00:40:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
clearly you've never claimed "uno" with 4 cards stacked behind eachother.
sloppyjoepa · 15 points · Posted at 20:58:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's technically cheating
PrekmurskaGibanica · 64 points · Posted at 21:05:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OR.. taking bullshitting to the next level
jaredjeya · 25 points · Posted at 22:22:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The game is literally called Cheat where I’m from. There are no real rules except “don’t get caught”.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 21:02:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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IsomDart · 26 points · Posted at 21:23:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I haven't played that game forever, but we always played where you could do that. The name of the game is literally "bullshit". Of course you can bullshit in more ways than one
Zreaz · 6 points · Posted at 21:57:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What? Of course you can
Chiv_Cortland · 56 points · Posted at 20:51:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew the girl next to me was about to win once, so I just put down my whole hand. She was in such a rush she slammed her final card on the pile and shouted her call before anyone could say anything. The look on her face as I showed my empty hands was fantastic.
unaotradesechable · 8 points · Posted at 22:14:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smooth
JadeTirade · 6 points · Posted at 23:37:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's fuck**g glorious
Culinarytracker · 95 points · Posted at 18:53:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This person bullshits
IAmANobodyAMA · 5 points · Posted at 22:28:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah yes. I never got caught doing that. That’s the real art of bullshit: calculating what cards you need coming up and unfairly dumping all the superfluous cards yet not ever being penalized.
outtamywayigottapee · 3 points · Posted at 21:29:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
my favourite move. I remember when my sister introduced it and I realised there were more ways to cheat than just lying about what cards you had. The whole world opened up!
whopperlover17 · 21 points · Posted at 19:07:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Okay but that’s gotta be against the rules right? I’ve seen people do that :/
OliverCrowley · 133 points · Posted at 19:10:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The point is to cheat so I feel like breaking the one actual rule is just truly embracing the spirit of things.
whopperlover17 · 45 points · Posted at 19:11:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know but I feel like it’s double cheating. Like the game is to cheat, but then ur...idk
Frumpy_little_noodle · 70 points · Posted at 19:13:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but when you make your declaration, you're making two declarative statements: Quantity and face value. The game says other people have to call you out on your lie.
setibeings · 19 points · Posted at 19:47:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, the fun part is flipping the cards over, at which point someone has to take them. Most people only flip the number that the person said unless it really looks like more cards than they said, and even if you flip over more, the only one who can really call you out is the person who played right before you.
So, say 2 or 3 if you are really dumping all 4 of a number. You'll be the only one who knows where they all went when someone picks them up, which could help you for at least a couple of rounds.
chuckl_s · 38 points · Posted at 19:53:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also fun is when people know you have a set of cards (7s in this case) and you lay down your 4 sevens but they are actually four totally different cards.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 20:02:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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setibeings · 4 points · Posted at 20:10:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Since there are 13 different face values, and 13 is prime, the game will go around 13 times before a given card will come back. I guess you could be timing your win that far out, but that's hard.
cheesegoat · 3 points · Posted at 20:51:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. The right way to cheat at bullshit is when you have the right cards, put your trash cards underneath so that if people call you out you still win.
Plan ahead for what "real" cards you're going to need and with a small amount of luck you can win.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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soullessredhead · 3 points · Posted at 20:46:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bullshit is played sequentially though. If you play sevens (whether you did or not), the next person plays eights. The person before you played sixes. So unless there are 13 people playing, it's not going to be the same number when it comes around again.
PM_ME_COUPLE_PICS · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohh I got you. I haven't played in a long time.
IsomDart · 4 points · Posted at 21:27:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I haven't played this game in so long. Now I wish I had some friends to play cards with.
trapper2530 · 3 points · Posted at 22:52:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But why do that. You still have to get rid of those 7s. And it will take a while for you to get back to actually give it away. Or you have to Bullshit again. Why not just play the correct cards there.
thedellah · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
usually i did that with my lower numbers like if i had 2s or 3s etc. that weren’t gonna really do anything for me i’d just get rid of them
trapper2530 · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh? How are you getting 1s? And what does the denomination have to do with anything?
thedellah · 1 points · Posted at 01:49:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
mind blank ** 2 lol
EllaEnigma · 0 points · Posted at 10:52:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
??? you bullshit 4 sevens then when it's your turn again you play them for real
trapper2530 · 1 points · Posted at 13:02:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. But you won't be playing sevens again for a while. Probably 10+ turns. So you'll have to Bullshit with them. So why bullshit twice when you only need to once.
EllaEnigma · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm confused, why can't you play them the next turn?
trapper2530 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can but you'll be bullshiting When will you be able to play 7 again with out bullshitting? If you're on 7. And say you're playing with 4 people. You're next turn is J. Then 2. Then 6. Then 10. Then A. Then 5. Then 9 then K. Then 4. Them 8. Then Q. Then 3. Then finally 7 again. That's 13 turns. If youre playing with 3 people it will be 9 turns later.
So why if it's your turn and you have four 7s why would you not play them? Get rid of them while you can because you will have to Bullshit using those cards. Why use cards to bullshit when you can just play them.
EllaEnigma · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hmm, I seem to remember playing it differently, either that or I've forgotten the rules
rhymes_with_snoop · 11 points · Posted at 20:04:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why you put down the previous card(s) with yours. Do they remember what suits they put down?
Ex: "Three sevens!" (Put down three sevens and one six)
IsomDart · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would definitely remember what suit I put down. And you could also just flip the card before that 6 over too.
hilarymeggin · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I never thought of that!!
IAmANobodyAMA · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lawyered!
ColonelCorn · 11 points · Posted at 20:15:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd say it's cheating because once the cards are in the pile, how could you prove the lie? For example, if i say i put down 3 sevens, but i actually put down 3 sevens with a four underneath, even if bullshit is called, only the 3 sevens get checked.
whopperlover17 · 7 points · Posted at 20:16:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. There’s no way to prove the dude before you didn’t put down a 4. That’s why I’d always get angry when the ONE guy would do this...
IsomDart · 3 points · Posted at 21:30:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Then you just gotta go on the honor system that the person who played before them would own up to whether the card(s) underneath were played by them or not.
The_SIeepy_Giant · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Call bullshit and check all the cards. If they put down 5 not 4 and you know it, they get the pile.
whopperlover17 · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How can you know they put down 5?
myhairsreddit · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Person A takes their turn and says they put down one 5, not lying. Person B takes their turn and says they put down four 6's, but lays down 5 cards. Person C calls bull shit. They check to see four 6's and one 2 following. Person A says they truly put a 5 down and flips the other card to reveal his 5, proving person B was bullshitting.
gigglefarting · 6 points · Posted at 20:50:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The point is to lie within the rules. Not cheat.
OliverCrowley · 9 points · Posted at 20:51:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like someone isn't ready for the big leagues.
gigglefarting · -1 points · Posted at 20:53:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like someone can’t win legitimately.
OliverCrowley · 7 points · Posted at 21:04:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like someone takes his drinking games pretty seriously
IsomDart · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People play different ways. That was always part of the game whenever I played, and everyone knew it was, too.
IsomDart · 3 points · Posted at 21:25:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always played where you could do that. You have to remember how many cards everyone has and watch them actually take the cards they're gonna lay down.
The_SIeepy_Giant · 3 points · Posted at 20:24:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thought I was the only cheater that did that :)
Big-Wang-69 · 4 points · Posted at 21:03:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or you put down 4 random cards when everyone thinks you have 4 sevens
Skylion72 · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except that won't work because if you don't have 4 sevens, then someone else definitely has a seven and knows you don't have all 4...
ikcaj · 2 points · Posted at 22:32:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why I always won. No one ever figured it out but I suppose they were all fairly drunk most of the time.
ReallyHadToFixThat · 2 points · Posted at 08:30:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Make sure the 5th is UNDER the 4. Some of my friends aren't too bright.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy bullshits
oneburntwitch · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My favourite time playing was when I watched a guy with six cards go out and I didn't say shit because I was already out anyway.
Spartancoolcody · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I play where you can do that, but calling bs calls bs on the number of cards too.
water_light_show · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My go to move!
ninjakaji · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am the best at this game with friends because I do this. "Three 2's" I'll put down a 9, a 7, and 3 2's on top. No one suspects a thing
darklotus_26 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:02 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Power move!
suicidemeteor · 0 points · Posted at 05:06:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was playing BS during a field day type thing. Some special needs kid is going ballistic, he ran into a pizza table screaming "PIZZAOHOHOHOHOHO" and everybody was watching. I put my entire stack of cards into the center and said 2 kings. The next kid quickly took his turn, before I announced that I had won. It wasn't counted since I had used outside distractions, but it was fun nonetheless.
robot_lords · -1 points · Posted at 04:39:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
DELETE THIS IMMEDIATELY
hypnotii · 21 points · Posted at 18:47:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nani?!
OjamaBoy · 11 points · Posted at 19:44:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My favourite thing to do is put down 4 other cards in your hand. If you’re playing with battle-hardened bullshit players, they’ll know that you wouldn’t be lying about putting 4 down if the 2 before were legit, so you get away with it and have 4 more sevens to play next round.
carbonhexoxide · 28 points · Posted at 18:48:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People always know if someone’s lying with four sevens, cuz if one person had one they would call em out lol
BlueNotesBlues · 3 points · Posted at 22:22:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why when I have four sevens I'll put down two or three and get rid of some other cards that would be hard to lose.
Archangel_117 · 6 points · Posted at 20:03:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You put down 3 sevens, and tell yourself they aren't sevens while you're doing it, to cause your body and face to give off as close an approximation to your "bullshitting" micro-expression profile.
Anyone who sees you play 4 knows you have the 4, because anyone with a single seven in their hand could call you, so they instantly know that what actually happened was the other guy that put down 2 was lying. But if you put down 3, anyone paying attention will know that either the 2 guy was lying, or you were, and if you actually had 3 sevens, you could have called the 2 guy, but you didn't. This contributes to the plausibility that you made a simple fuckup, and tried to bullshit 3 cards down when 2 were already laid, because your play retroactively legitimizes the other guy's bullshit play in the minds of the other players.
By the time someone's mind has done a broad approximation of this reasoning, their instincts are already telling them not to pass up this opportunity to bullshit you, especially if it's the next person in line to go and they don't want to contend with the pile.
arc_25275 · 6 points · Posted at 20:04:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend said 5 aces and everybody believed him except me.
aachwell · 5 points · Posted at 19:33:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The key is to put down 4 random cards and then claim 4 sevens so then you can call people out every time it’s a seven.
Scaphism92 · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you have all 4 sevens put down random cards and say 4 sevens. Then when its your next turn say 4 sevens again, no one will call your bluff. And then next turn actually put down 4 sevens amd someone will call bullshit.
Bonesnapcall · 2 points · Posted at 22:27:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's some 4d chess right there.
youthfulsquid · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
sometimes I put down five.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your put 4 cards down and say 4 sevens, then next turn put the real 4 sevens down and say 4 sevens.
RDCAIA · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No no no. You put down your 4 sevens along with your 2 sixes hiding below them.
godzilla5599 · 1474 points · Posted at 17:02:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best feeling known to man
Jayulian · 89 points · Posted at 19:07:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would argue with that the best feeling known to man is when someone calls bullshit on you with a big smirk, but it backfires on them.
AldenDi · 72 points · Posted at 19:21:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend to not know what number we were on, like I got distracted. It'd be on sevens and I'd put down two sevens but say "two eights" and someone would of course correct me "We're on sevens" and I'd reach for the cards to take them back, everyone would be like "hey no take backs!" so I'd mumble "fine... two sevens then..." Someone would inevitably call Bullshit and boom the whole discard pile was theirs. It only worked once per game, and there had to be some new people playing, but it's never not worked.
M_-X · 17 points · Posted at 19:41:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I'm taking this
AldenDi · 7 points · Posted at 19:46:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please do, it is too much fun to see the look on their faces.
chicky-nugnug · 9 points · Posted at 19:38:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always put down extra cards. I would call two sevens, but put down a couple extra cards. The trick is to make sure your top cards are legit, that way when someone calls bullshit, you only have to flip the number of cards you said you put.
jokzard · 6 points · Posted at 21:31:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Our rule was that if you miss the call, you still lose even if you put down the right card(s).
AldenDi · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a bunch of bullshit.
kwerdop · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The ole honeypot.
th_underGod · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Second best, you mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
BonkeyKongCountry · 45 points · Posted at 18:19:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's when you call bullshit as soon as it's their turn.
Azn-Swazn · 15 points · Posted at 19:00:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No you wait for the pile to stack up and when the next person says they put a 7 down you rain hell on him/her
mastersword83 · 25 points · Posted at 18:27:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man what the fuck are you supposed to do at that point
FireHazard11 · 15 points · Posted at 18:56:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They played it right. If you're completely boned then you play two cards and act confidently. You just have to hope that no one has 3 or 4 of that card. If they do then you were likely fucked no matter what.
OfficiallyRelevant · 5 points · Posted at 20:16:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's risky no matter what because if everyone put down one of the cards in a group of four or more and you had two or more you're boned anyways.
KingAdamXVII · 5 points · Posted at 21:14:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Call BS on one of the moves before you.
GhostOfMuttonPast · 18 points · Posted at 18:08:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plot twist, you had 2 sevens up your sleeve already.
MildlySuspicious · 44 points · Posted at 18:09:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just out of curiosity, what do you call this game?
FallaciousGeography · 113 points · Posted at 18:28:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“bullshit”
TheNo1pencil · 55 points · Posted at 18:38:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
BS or Fudge if there were parents around
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 18:57:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Craig_the_Intern · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
bologne sandwich
Kroboski · 42 points · Posted at 18:47:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Cheat" if it's the game I'm thinking of
Seiyena · 12 points · Posted at 19:09:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep! Was on Neopets as Cheat.
HipsterWhoMissedOut · 7 points · Posted at 18:55:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Another vote for Cheat
meme_lord_1234 · 6 points · Posted at 19:03:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always knew it as cheat
TurtleBanter · 9 points · Posted at 18:51:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"bluff"
whyd_you_kill_doakes · 13 points · Posted at 19:28:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol we played this in middle school with a friend's "deck". The game went something like "3 queens", "bullshit", *cards are flipped showing it is not bullshit. Problem was my friend calling bullshit had 2 queens. How in the fuck....
Not easy to play when your buddy mixed 2 decks up and never bothered to count all the cards.
thedellah · 10 points · Posted at 18:28:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
high school classic
kellypg · 8 points · Posted at 20:53:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once played a game with a guy who said "five twos."
Mackem101 · 14 points · Posted at 18:59:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same happened to me, he put down 2 aces, I already had 5 of them.
coolnlittle · 8 points · Posted at 19:03:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A similar thing happened to me while playing poker. It was a family vacation, and we were staying at a cabin in the mountains. My dad came back from the pub and we decided to play poker with my brother. We played the version where we put a card on our head. I looked at the card... something you are not supposed to do- and knew I had the ace of spades. Apparently, my brother cheated by getting the ace of spades from another deck. So when we put it on our foreheads, my brother and I cracked up laughing. My father, didn’t even process that we both had the exact same card (probably because of the alcohol), and immediately folded.
My brother and I laughed harder
bluesox · 5 points · Posted at 18:06:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s how people lose thumbs.
Toxictwerp · 6 points · Posted at 18:44:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Played with a few of my friends once and one of them had all four of 2-8 shitty game for the rest of us
Robbienobnob · 9 points · Posted at 18:17:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
MAYBE YOU WERE CHEATING???
hypnotii · 3 points · Posted at 18:48:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
the plot thickens
LazrCowboy · 3 points · Posted at 18:47:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had that happen to me with different cards. I called him out and he actually did have two sevens. Turns out we were playing with more than one deck.
IDontKnowHowToPM · 3 points · Posted at 20:46:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now I want to make a special Frankenstein deck for this game. Take like three decks, shuffle them together like twenty times, and then get rid of 52 cards so that you have a double sized deck. But no one would know how much of each card there is.
iftair · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"BULLSHIT"
screecaw · 3 points · Posted at 18:54:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had this happen once.
Turns out the deck was more like a deck and a half :/
logicalmaniak · 3 points · Posted at 19:29:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I pack.
So you got 7, 7, and a 4, and you put the 4 on the bottom, shove the three cards down quickly , then declare two 7s.
If they check, they only check the top two and find you're right...
supertacoboy · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: He did have two sevens.
Aardvark1292 · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/yaz1XvDvxUI
L3dpen · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister and I quote bugs bunny at each other all the time, and this one is the go to for when we think someone's cheating. Everything about that scene is perfect, I swear.
LeakyLycanthrope · 2 points · Posted at 21:28:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Six queens, read 'em and weep!"
"Ah ah ah...seven queens!"
Chairmanmeowrightnow · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hope you weren’t playing for money, because that’s an obligatory ass kicking right there
MrZuckerman · 38 points · Posted at 18:27:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah it's a game. You're supposed to lie about your cards
Chairmanmeowrightnow · 13 points · Posted at 18:35:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, I gotcha, thought u were playing poker haha
Cyber-Gon · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Out of curiosity... what game?
MrZuckerman · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Many people just call it bs or bullshit, but I'm sure there are other names for it
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love that game!
Mark422 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my favorite one. If I could give you gold I would.
Mackem101 · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/dAV5pw_vrkU
TabCompletion · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a Batman episode where the villians were playing poker and they were all cheating
Firethesky · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This only works if you don't have a screwed up deck. I found this out one time when I had all 4 aces and someone put one down. Turns out they weren't bluffing. The game got real interesting after that.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have one better lol. Someone put down three kings and won the hand, when the next person went to shuffle, one of the kings was a different color than the rest.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was playing with friends once and we were all drunk. My friend played 5 of whatever number/face card we were on. No one caught it and he won the game. Legend.
bbrk24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember one time someone said “five aces” and put down six cards. 🤔
miya316 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aah, BS (bluff or BullShit). A game which ruins friendships and makes babies.
PixelLight · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My favourite way to play the game is when I have four 7s, say I'm putting them down but put down other cards. Catch the next player out in a lie and then keep repeating the cycle. It gets to the point where they know I didn't play them and have to put them down for real.
lost_ce92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol I commented that it’s never satisfying catching someone lying but I take that back!
Leonard_Church814 · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know that feeling, to have all the cards and know exactly when someone is BS-ing you. It feels so good.
ChiraqBluline · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Loser Drinks?
We played bluffing bullshit.
Caught in a lie Shot, call out someone and your wrong Shot. Still love that game 15 years later
harrynelson · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So YOU were the cheat!
phoenix-sparx · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah. The game that ruins friendships and forges alliances stronger than anything. Good times.
Scullvine · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"You are a liar and will spend eternity on this ship!"
criuggn · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
once someone put down 4 aces and i had one and i said "bullshit" and i almost got punched
ExecutiveChimp · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister put down "5 queens".
McLovin804 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bullshit!
JacksonWasADictator · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend say he beat someone's four aces with a royal flush. I asked him what type of Poker he was playing to be sure, he said five card draw.
racingstripes103 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
a man of culture
loopsydoopsy · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I have four of something, I always just slide the pile to the person about to put down that number, and say "don't even bother". Super satisfying every time.
buzzkillington123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would they even do that? Do it if you have at least one but bluffing when you have none is downright retarded
SolongStarbird · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tfw when you start saying peanut butter after every turn of yours to make people think ur a professional bullshitter.
madjarov42 · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had the same situation over 10 years ago. My friends and i still joke about it.
"ONE four!"
The dude was trying to convince us that he wasn't lying after he'd been called out.
natemilonakis · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
gank'd him.
CleptoeManiac · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
BULLSHIT!
mtuholski14 · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Love that game so much!
SecondHandSexToys · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So many times during a game where it's a group of friends drinking and bullshitting while we play I used to straight up say I was dropping FIVE of something and nobody notices.
Nayrootoe · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Woah, three aces!
Solitarus23753 · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's when you call "bullshit!"
incogster · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Happened to me. New deck of cards. Someone puts down a 9. I had all four 9's. I called "Bullshit" and turned over the card. It was a 9.
...
Turns out the new deck had five 9's.
NewbHunter19 · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once put down five Kings in a large game and no one called it.
FrisianDude · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had the ace of spades in a poker game where the ace of spades appeared in the flop. Uhhhh guys?
Leftee24 · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened every Thursday with my grandma, mom and aunts, playing Continental. Only one aunt stayed honest every Thursday, and consistently got mad at the cheating, yet the tradition remained until my grandma passed away. Good times.
When I joined in though, it was satisfying enough playing a secondary game in my head of who’s cheating. Good times.
Inflicties · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did that activate your trap card?
JawesomeJess · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stop kemps
maestertargaryen · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
NEVER put down four of anything. If you don't have all of them, someone's got at least one!
XNonameX · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My biggest lie in that game was laying down 6 cards at once. I got away with it.
DPSOnly · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How do you prove that you aren't the cheater.
Poncahotas · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time I played I was joking around and laid my whole hand down and said "12 kings"... but the person after me was so excited to play their 4 Aces they immediately laid down their cards, resulting in me winning haha
butterflyknives · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Offer to shuffle the cards for next round. Deal less cards to yourself.
cynkr · 1 points · Posted at 10:06:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The best is sneaking past a '5 kings' when everyone is drunk.
KingChalaza · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:12 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Caught in the act.
jAck-oF-sPaDes- · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whenever I play I have a team of like 6 guys we get ONE new guy. We get to the point where in one rotation the first guy will have an actual card next turn then as fast as possible we all put all our cards down and the last guy puts one card on top that is and actual card the new guy calls BS and takes the stack. The 5 guys that got out leave and the last guy is out next turn. Remember teamwork makes the dream work or in this case its a coordinated strike agent one dude. either way its a lot of fun.
IrenaeusGSaintonge · -1 points · Posted at 18:17:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Statistically, isn't the person with all four 7s more likely to be the one cheating? :)
TheDrunkenChud · 25 points · Posted at 18:46:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Realistically, in the game "bullshit", if someone plays four of anything they're less likely to lying. They've likely got 4 of them. By that point people's hands are full and the deck is gone. It's just a matter of emptying your hand.
top_koala · 9 points · Posted at 18:58:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You never try to play 4 when you don't have 4, because it's obvious to whoever has the last card that you're lying.
The real way to cheat is to do something like "2 4s" and then sneakily lay down 8 cards
monty845 · 10 points · Posted at 19:15:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Including 0 of the 2 4s you do have.
TheDrunkenChud · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My man.
TheDrunkenChud · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I fly by the seat of my pants and if I have the of something and it is my turn, I'll "play" three 6s. Which means I'm dumping a few cards so that in a few rounds when it comes back to playing 6s I can go out. Assuming I haven't been busted on some bullshit. Like dumping cards. Lol.
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 3 points · Posted at 19:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was assuming some version of poker.
TheDrunkenChud · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's fair, but in this instance the game is bullshit.
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Makes more sense in the context of the thread. Haha.
TheDrunkenChud · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, I thought poker at first too, but then it hit me.
siempreslytherin · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Na, because if anyone else has a 7, they will know you’re lying. Or if they remember putting on down and nobody has collected the pile.
ArisuKiti · 0 points · Posted at 19:11:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is kind of random, but last summer I was at a Domino's with some friends just eating pizza and playing Bullshit, we were the only people there at the time, and mid-game a father with a little boy walks in right as I'm about to call her ass out, and instead of calling bullshit I started with the 'B' sound and ended up making more of an explosion sound.(My "friends" also ordered pinapple and ham pizza, not relevant but I thought I'd share that crime)
trailangel4 · 212 points · Posted at 18:29:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty inexcusable honestly... I'm a single mother and I took my car into get serviced post Thomas Fire. I expected that my cabin air filters were full of crap and soot and I didn't want my kids breathing that so I popped them out and replaced them myself before taking the car in. I get TO THE DEALERSHIP when it re-opens and say "I need the oil changed and a once over." About three hours later, I get a call that says "Man. You need a new timing belt, a new starter, and...cabin air filters." I was like, "Oh really?!" I said, "I'll be right there because I want to see what they look like..." and the guys actually showed me some really black filters. I pulled out my receipt for the filters bought the day before and said, "so ...were you going to put dealer filters in or just leave in the filters from PepBoys that I bought and installed yesterday?" He was toast. I asked about the timing belt (because my car doesn't have one...it has a chain) and said, "So...can you show me the timing belt issues?" He took me to the car and popped the hood and then started looking for something that wasn't there. I told him he could just stop right there and get the manager. The manager was sort of annoyed and insisted there must've been a mistake and my guy must've called the wrong person..until I pointed out that he took me to the correct vehicle and that my name matched the paperwork the guy had been holding. He offered to do the oil change for free but by that point I just said, "No, I'll take it somewhere I trust."
IAmA_Risky_Click_AMA · 26 points · Posted at 13:22:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a shop try to tell me they needed to replace my cabin filter mere days after I'd replaced it. Told them, "Huh, that's strange, because I just put a new one in." They came back and told me they double-checked and it looks fine after all. Yeah, no shit.
ezrasharpe · 5 points · Posted at 14:36:17 on July 7, 2018 · (Permalink)
These kinds of shops have some of the scummiest people. One time I took my car in for something (had a coupon for whatever it was). Guy comes out with a little tray of black liquids and says I need to have my oil changed as well. I said "oh really? Because I changed it yesterday."
BraveLittleToastGirl · 11093 points · Posted at 15:09:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated this guy off and on for about a year. Things didn’t always add up but I was young and dumb and made excuses. During that year his mom passed away from pancreatic cancer, he relapsed and then went to rehab, and after he got out he moved a few states away for a fresh start near where his grandparents lived. We decided we were done at that point but he still emailed occasionally and a couple times he’d randomly show up on my doorstep saying he was in town and needed to see me. After one such surprise visit I emailed him and said that I couldn’t keep doing this and to please not come by anymore. A year or so passed and I got a bug up my butt one night to google him. And found a baby registry with his name on it. Looked up the baby mama on Facebook and found pictures of them together living together just a few hours away and during the time that he and I were dating. I was able to determine that when we first started seeing each other they weren’t together, but when he was supposedly in California and missed me so much and didn’t want to be with anyone else he was actually just a few hours away with her. The kicker - his mom was still alive too. It became clear to me that he was a pathological liar and I’d basically fallen in love with someone that didn’t really exist. Here’s the satisfying part - literally the next day he showed up on my doorstep. The first thing I said is “Where’s W (baby mama)? Does she know you’re here?” His face dropped, he started stammering making excuses that I didn’t know what was really going on. He even insisted that his mom was dead. I felt like I was in a girl power movie moment as I told him to get the fuck off my porch and never come see me again.
transemacabre · 3312 points · Posted at 17:02:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A co-worker briefly dated a guy but broke up with him when he was demeaning to her over her career. The last thing he said to her was, "I guess you and I aren't made of the same stardust."
A couple months later, she checks his Instagram and lo and behold -- 'our little miracle has been born, with photos of him, a woman, and a newborn infant. She did the math and realized that the whole time they were dating, he had a knocked up girlfriend he never mentioned.
I guess they weren't made of the same stardust after all!
Klutche · 1072 points · Posted at 17:56:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just feel so bad for the babies born into these situations.
sweetrhymepurereason · 504 points · Posted at 19:08:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew someone who insisted his baby mama name the baby girl a specific name because he loved it so much. It was the name of the woman he was cheating on her with during her pregnancy. People are gross sometimes and I hope that baby stands a chance in life despite her garbage dad.
technicolored_dreams · 59 points · Posted at 20:25:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. What a shitty thing to do to her mom as well. It would suck to think of that every time you said your daughter's name. Hopefully time and good memories would make the association fade, but that's still a heinous thing to do to someone.
rapunzell18 · 20 points · Posted at 22:08:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's beyond the pale!!.....every time she says her child's name she'll think of his betrayal for quite some time.......cruel, psycopathic, almost!......
Enigpragmatic · 15 points · Posted at 23:46:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My kid's dad tried that one with me - but it was a girl he had a massive obsessive crush on. He thought I didn't know. I gave him a look and just said "I already have a cousin with that name". We broke up not long after our daughter was born cause he went and fucked my best friend (at the time). Trash...
rapunzell18 · 5 points · Posted at 00:03:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good you had the sense to cut it off! Big up you girl! Too many try to hold on to no-marks! Only prolongs the inevitable. "No-marks are formed, no produced!". Ain't no changing him!
damn-cat · 27 points · Posted at 21:08:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My bio dad did this to my mom for me. We didn’t know until he left her when my sister was a baby and it was way too late. It wasn’t even him who told us it was her.
rapunzell18 · 10 points · Posted at 23:55:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope you ALL truly know this wasn't about you! He did this solely because his life is about HIM and himself only!!!
rapunzell18 · 5 points · Posted at 00:27:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew how you may feel, hence my reply. Ur comment disappeared b4 I could read it all, dunno why? Just know 'victims' always feel guilty for their perpetrators crimes at some point. I repeat, IT WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! NOTHING!!! That's a statistically proven fact! Always remember this!
amaranthinenightmare · 10 points · Posted at 22:12:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My garbage dad tried to do that, apparently. Luckily, my mom was a little quicker than him and called him on his bullshit.
roxie1127 · 10 points · Posted at 23:55:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow you knew my parents. :/ Roxanne here not named after the song about a prostitute but named after my dad's "best friend" who it ended up he was having a affair with. Welcome to my life. And thanks for sharing that information with me mom. :/
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 01:20:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
*Yeah. My dad abandoned my family, hooked up with his secretary, and named their daughter after myself and my younger brother. It's really gross to know that he gave her our names, and I still dont know what his motivation was for that.
sweetrhymepurereason · 5 points · Posted at 01:56:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oof. That’s extremely rough, I’m so sorry. A name is such a big part of how you see yourself. I hope you and your mom and brother are doing well.
transemacabre · 5 points · Posted at 02:13:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yuck. Like he was beta-testing fatherhood with you and your brother, and his new daughter is his "do-over" or something.
1fg · 3 points · Posted at 22:25:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why not just do a name change for the kid? It's not like it knows its name yet.
damn-cat · 5 points · Posted at 00:22:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s expensive and a process to change a name, and if the father signed the birth certificate it gets even more complicated.
LaskaBear · 3 points · Posted at 00:01:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my god that's horrifying.
AngledLuffa · 3 points · Posted at 00:08:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reading these stories comforts me that occasionally going out to play M:tG isn't the worst thing a father can do
zbud · 3 points · Posted at 07:17:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Monster!
jacyerickson · 3 points · Posted at 14:52:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't want to give too many identifying details, but a friend had a baby with a guy she was in love with. He convinced her to name the baby something really stupid. The initials spelled out something he thought was funny and it was just a weird name to begin with. (I.E. Tatiana Imotep Tyler) that's not it but you get the idea hopefully. Turns out he was cheating her her during the pregnancy and left her right a month after the baby was born. She ended up legally changing the baby's name to something better.
7tyiLVdic3u2 · 5 points · Posted at 21:01:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
until i read your post i never considered that you have to at least like the person one cheats with, i always assumed it was more a casual encounter
rapunzell18 · 5 points · Posted at 23:10:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a great point, I hadn't even considered!! Shows a lack of respect for women in general imo. What a shit-bag!!
7tyiLVdic3u2 · 0 points · Posted at 00:20:02 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
why just women?
smellofcarbidecutoff · 42 points · Posted at 19:16:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So many kids get a shit hand before they are even born. My nieces best friend's mom secretly used heroin during most of her pregnancy. She's a good kid, but it's so heartbreaking to see her struggling with basic things, and there's nothing we can do to change it. It makes me cry if I think about it too much.
KilledByFruit · 22 points · Posted at 19:44:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It makes me sick to think I was almost this woman; I was pregnant, but lost the pregnancy (due to circumstances out of our control). Hardly weeks later, I caught him cheating with his coworker. I can’t even imagine what might have happened if things had gone well with my pregnancy (we were planning on moving states, etc., it literally makes me sick to think about).
Klutche · 11 points · Posted at 19:57:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry all of that happened to you. I have a friend (friend of a friend, really) who had a boyfriend who is just human trash. He has a great many faults, many of them having to do with the way he treated her, but he cheated on her and then broke up with her when he found out. Shortly after she found out she was pregnant. The little girl is a month old and he has no idea she exists.
CaptainKate757 · 4 points · Posted at 22:23:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s probably for the best given the sounds of him.
mostnormal · 12 points · Posted at 19:21:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This particular kid should be okay. He's got stardust in him.
86tentaclesurprise · 6 points · Posted at 19:23:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It will be fine. It's made of stardust after all
TuckersMyDog · 6 points · Posted at 20:10:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the quality but heroin is typically 60-100% start dust
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 19:36:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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SaddestClown · 5 points · Posted at 19:42:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. It's carbon and we all fucking have it.
ginga_gingaa · 62 points · Posted at 18:51:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I laughed so hard at "I guess you and I aren't made of the same stardust." What a twat thing to say.
SourNotesRockHardAbs · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Twats say the stupidest shit. The guy who stalked me, the last thing he said when he saw the police coming after I called them "I guess I have no choice but to run home and flee".
I was freaked out at the time, but looking back that stupid line is hilarious especially because he was caught immediately and did not "flee".
TuckersMyDog · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah especially since it's most likely wrong as well
victoryspades · 7 points · Posted at 19:35:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel bad for the child. Also I couldn't help but laugh at "I guess you and I aren't made of the same stardust." Was he also trying to join acting?
LieutenantCuppycake · 3 points · Posted at 05:07:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That will forever be a catch phrase y'all can use in commemoration of that one gigantic bullet she dodged.
WailordOnSkitty · 2 points · Posted at 00:15:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You never know what’s going on when a baby announcement is brought into the picture, it’s very possible him and his baby mama split and since your co-worker (as you said) briefly dated him, maybe he didn’t feel like telling her about his expected child.
There’s a lot of really obvious lies in this thread, but I think it’s pretty ignorant to just assume this one is a blatant lie.
LostWoodsInTheField · 3 points · Posted at 20:20:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish more women would walk away when this stuff happens. I know someone who is constantly like this to people and they keep taking it from him till they finally go "i had no idea he was like this..." even though he had been talking down to them for years.
Mintteacup_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to be that guy but how brief did they date for?
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL
ctadgo · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s sad. And you know he probably met someone else right after you.
[deleted] · 1826 points · Posted at 16:43:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man my first boyfriend was like that. Told me he was going to stay with a friend in England for a small vacation- told me the guys name and entire backstory of their friendship. I said cool have fun! Long long story short I found out he was cheating on me with a woman who lived there (well technically he cheated on her with me? They were together for 2 years before we started dating, had no idea)
After we broke up I went undercover with a fake profile and talked to him, flirting and what not. We talked about past relationships and he made up a story about his ex cheating on him and how he could never do that and on yeah he was single and did I wanna hang out. I revealed to him it was me, called him a fucking liar, sent the conversations to the other woman he cheated on me with and then blocked him out of my life completely :)
over_m · 361 points · Posted at 18:14:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God that's so satisfying
UncleLukeTheDrifter · 71 points · Posted at 18:18:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry this happened to you, mad kudos on how you handled the a-hole. Good on you for having the patience to keep the ruse going and for busting with it, especially sending to the other woman!
[deleted] · 47 points · Posted at 18:54:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks! I honestly felt she too deserved to know since we were both lied to (she didn’t know about me and I didn’t know about her) no bad feelings towards her at all.
technicolored_dreams · 25 points · Posted at 20:19:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did she take it? I'm hoping she carried on the girl power momentum and kicked his ass to the curb.
elarkay · 8 points · Posted at 22:27:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would really appreciate it if I were the other woman. I definitely think you did the right thing!
newsheriffntown · 52 points · Posted at 19:52:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught my ex cheating on me. I had gotten suspicious after he told me he would love to have a threesome. Me, him and another woman. I don't swing that way and I was put off by his suggestion and told him so. I decided to put a key logger on our shared computer to see if he was doing anything he shouldn't have been doing. It wasn't long before I got my answer. He had been in a lot of adult chat rooms (we had AOL at the time) including chat rooms for swingers. He had been looking at a lot of porn which I really didn't have an issue with but he also had been chatting and emailing another woman.
I found out exactly when and where they were meeting and of course what they were doing, I even had her phone number and name. It didn't matter who she was. I didn't know her. She was someone my ex met in a chat room.
My ex had been put on night shift for a couple of months and I knew what night he was hooking up with the other woman. I waited for a while then I called him. He works in a theme park so the time I called it should have been pretty noisy there. I called and it was completely silent. I didn't let on that I knew anything and asked him how his night was going. He sort of quietly said "good". I said, "it's really quiet there tonight. Where in the park are you working?" He hesitated and said he was on his way home. I asked if he was sick and he said no. Oh. Hmmmm. While I was waiting for him to come home I printed out all of the emails and chats he and the other woman had together so that I could show him that I knew he was cheating. Oh and I forgot to mention that while he was on his way home I sent a text to the woman and told her who I was and asked her if she had been with him. She said yes and she said he never told her he was married. Figures. I wasn't mad at her.
My ex comes home and is behaving strangely and I wanted to know why he left 'work'. He didn't respond. I handed him the print outs and told him I knew where he had been. He lied about it for three fucking hours to my face. I was absolutely livid. How dare he lie to me when I had proof and the other woman admitted being with him!
We didn't speak to each other for a week. He had to work on the following Saturday and I didn't so I was doing household stuff. I normally never did his laundry but on that day I didn't have enough of my own stuff to wash and I saw a pile of his jeans by the washer and decided to wash them. I always check pockets. I reached in and pulled out two of those 'key' cards used at hotels. On the backside was a Dominoes pizza place with a number I didn't recognize so I called it. I asked if there was a hotel near by and the guy said yes. Bingo. It was in another city about an hour from where we lived. It was where the other woman lived.
Sorry this is so long. My ex came home from work, I had made dinner and we sat down to eat. I then slid the two key cards to him and said, "would you like to explain these?" He said no. I told him I wanted him to move out as soon as possible. He eventually did.
elarkay · 25 points · Posted at 22:31:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think one of the important take aways from this and the other stories I’ve read in the thread is that the blame was put where the blame was due. Not blaming the other woman, who had no idea either, but blaming the lying, cheating partner. And sticking up for yourself; I don’t know you but I think it’s awesome and I’m really proud of you!
newsheriffntown · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you very much. Yeah there was no reason for me to get angry at the other woman. She didn't know me, I didn't know her and she was just looking to hook up.
sigmatic_minor · 14 points · Posted at 22:14:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds exactly like my ex. Caught with overwhelming proof including the other girl admitting it, and he still denied it and tried getting mad at me for accusing him.
The mental gymnastics is amazing.
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
'Mental gymnastics'. I like that! That's exactly what it is though really. My ex didn't get mad at me for accusing him because he knew he was caught. The interesting thing about this is that when I kicked him out of the house he didn't go to that other woman. He found someone else. I've seen her on Facebook. I'm not one to judge but when I showed her photo to my adult son my son swore it was a man with long hair. LOL!!!!
the_revenator · 1 points · Posted at 13:39:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So sad you were treated that way, it was horrible. You sound like an amazing person.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're very sweet to say that but I'm not amazing. I usually trust my gut on certain things and even though I don't like to be suspicious of people, my instincts are usually right. I wasn't sad about finding out that my ex cheated on me. I didn't shed any tears over it at all. I was more furious about the lying than anything. My ex gravely insulted me by lying to my face when I had the proof of his infidelity in my hand. I don't appreciate being lied to.
SeaBones · 11 points · Posted at 19:41:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This exact same thing happened to me, girl from England and all. Over Christmas he had to go visit his grandmother and I figured we would keep in contact but his phone was turned off. I emailed him asking what was going on and he said there’s ZERO service and no home phone in this remote West Virginia hovel he’s in. I was suspicious. I started digging around on pages of his tumblr friends and find a girl from England with new pictures of them together from the day of and day before. It wasn’t a super serious relationship and luckily he has never contacted me but this was only a handful of the insane shit he lied about. He also had a kid supposedly with one of the women he had screwed over, had tons of past girlfriends who hated his guts and one girl with a restraining order on him.
Rabigail · 7 points · Posted at 19:19:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/PettyRevenge but still great!
booksblanketsandtea · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did the other woman react?
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 00:09:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No idea- I didn’t stick around to find out. I wanted no part in the drama it was just wasting my time at that point
booksblanketsandtea · 2 points · Posted at 00:21:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fair call. I hope she believed you, for her sake.
the_revenator · 1 points · Posted at 13:14:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Awesome response! Good for you 😄
Aggressica · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Post this to r/pettyrevenge
Benfrankstackin · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oof
[deleted] · -36 points · Posted at 18:30:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats a bit insane and a little creepy.
technicolored_dreams · 9 points · Posted at 20:20:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More or less creepy than being a serial cheater?
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 20:58:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cheating is cheating it unexcusable but the posing as someone to bust your ex for cheating on you while you were together is weird. He'll bust himself he doesnt need his ex doing it. No condoning cheating in any way but also no condoning stalker esque behavior under the guise of getting back at your ex.
the_revenator · 2 points · Posted at 13:42:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Homer Simpson, is that you?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:55:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I havent watched the simpsons in like 15 years
LoesoeSkyDiamond · -39 points · Posted at 18:29:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol too scared to see the aftermath?
kciuq1 · 63 points · Posted at 18:32:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cool gals don't look at explosions.
the_revenator · 1 points · Posted at 13:43:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
They cause 'em! Go, Superchicks! Walking calmly away as the fireball roils into the sky behind her ...
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 18:53:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More just sick to my stomach about how far gone I let myself be misled / manipulated. This was the eye opening moment where I finally realized I don’t care and don’t need that in my life. Plus I have a pretty good imagination so I’d like to think lots of bad stuff happened afterwards :)
Coming2amiddle · 6 points · Posted at 18:58:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
YAAAAAY!!!
LoesoeSkyDiamond · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean at that point I'd just watch it unfold
KissedByFire2194 · 51 points · Posted at 18:00:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This shit happened to me with a guy I dated for 2+ years. He was in the army, so the majority of our relationship was extremely long distance. We met when we were only 18 & he had just enlisted. About 2 years into the relationship, I could feel things start fizzling out. He was acting really distant, but it was hard for me to pinpoint what was wrong, particularly because he was then stationed on a base thousands of miles away from me. He would disappear for weekends at a time, saying that it was for something to do with his army training.
Eventually, I got extremely suspicious of the situation and did some hardcore Instagram creeping. Turns out, he had met this 16 year old girl online months ago. She lived only a couple of hours from his army base, and all those times he "disappeared" for army training he was with her. The night that he asked her to officially be his girlfriend, he was texting me behind her back, telling me that I was his soul mate and he couldn't wait to ask me to marry him.
I sent screenshots of these messages to the "other woman", but she was a lovestruck 16 year old who didn't want to believe me. She forgave him, and they got engaged over the winter break of her senior year of high school. It broke my heart.
You always hear about the unfaithful military wife/girlfriend, but if there's one thing dating someone in the army has taught me, is that military guys can be just as grimy, if not worse. Years after this, I ended up coincidentally meeting and getting engaged to a navy veteran. He told me similar stories about his less-than-virtuous navy buddies. According to him, these types of sagas aren't exactly uncommon when it comes to military guys.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 18:55:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people have to experience it unfortunately. I warned the woman my ex knocked up (she got pregnant while he and I were still together) that he was a worthless sack of shit but to her I was just the "crazy ex that was cheated on" I told her if she ever needed a character witness against him for custody to contact me. I keep her unblocked and him blocked jic. Last I saw her she looked worse than I did when I was with him and according to our old work no one respects her because she stays with a man that cheats on her. He is so blatant about it that even they know. It's nuts.
TangoHotel04 · 7 points · Posted at 18:23:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You say the two of you were 18 when you met and the relationship lasted 2+ years, meaning you were both about 20yo at the end of the relationship. So, did he meet the 16yo around the time you two met, at 18 y/o, and was messing around with her the entire/majority of the relationship? Or did he meet a 16yo towards the end of the relationship, when he was 19-21-ish y/o?
KissedByFire2194 · 34 points · Posted at 18:25:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He met the 16 year old when he was about 20. I'm pretty sure it was statutory rape, but that's an entirely different story I don't want to get into. It really bothers me, because she married him when she was BARELY legal (like she had quite literally just turned 18). Then, a few months after the wedding, she moved to Europe with him because that's where he got stationed next. So, she's a young teenage girl with barely a high school diploma, separated from her friends and family, on an entirely different continent, with a predatory guy who was cheating on her for the first couple of months of their relationship... it's really dark and makes me worry... but it's not my problem anymore.
TangoHotel04 · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. Worse than I imagined. I kinda feel bad for her
CarelesslyFabulous · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:09 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, the military isn't some virtuous force for good that the government tries to sell us so we will willingly sign up and/or send our children off to die. It's a job. And it has the same makeup of human strength and frailty as any other job in the country. Source: military family, engaged to military at one point, friends with current and former servicemen and women, all of whom have seen it inside and out and are honest about what the military is an isn't.
Sorry you had to find out that way. :/
godzilla5599 · 23 points · Posted at 17:00:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m hoping you were in a movie power pose as you exposed the guy
BetterBeRavenclaw · 13 points · Posted at 17:14:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck yeah! Fuck that guy.
You dodged a bullet. Glad you're not the one with his kid.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:39:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is both the best and worst part about falling in love with a liar/manipulator. Worst because wow, what a waste and betrayal. Best because it means there’s nothing left to cling to. It’s easy to let go of something when you know it was a fabrication, especially if you’ve ever felt the real thing.
Good on you for calling his ass out, btw. I bet that was so satisfying!
FeatheredSun · 9 points · Posted at 17:56:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cut to scumbag's helpless look as door is slammed in his face.
...and SCENE!
BraveLittleToastGirl · 10 points · Posted at 18:11:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I continued yelling after him as he walked down the steps and out to his car lol...but then I slammed the door!
Sophiac85 · 9 points · Posted at 18:20:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hope u sent the baby mama a fb message letting her know whats up. Not for drama purposes, but i would want to know the truth, and she probably doesnt.
Shipoxie · 8 points · Posted at 19:07:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t get why people don’t care to warn the other person. They say they don’t want to “get involved” but like... you not wanting to get involved could lead to a poor person wasting their life with a pathetic lying fuck like this dude. No one deserves to be in the dark. So sad.
plutosrain · 4 points · Posted at 20:11:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's because even when you try to warn the other girl the lying douch has already told her about you as a "crazy ex who wants to break us up". So when you call or text she flips her shit on you instead of the liar. Has happened to me twice. Now I cover my own ass and don't worry about warning people about the train wreck they're involved with.
Ratbutcher · 9 points · Posted at 18:23:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude, I would have played like I didn't know, then showed up at the baby shower.
CurvyPervyDirtyNerd · 9 points · Posted at 19:42:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex did this! He said he had a son named after him, and whenever he would break plans with me, it would be because something with his son came up. When I got pregnant, suddenly he's serious about being with me and his son dies. In a car crash. 3000 miles away.
When I gave birth to my son, he wanted to name him after himself. I said no way, we're not naming my son after your dead son. His brother heard that and fell over laughing. He never had a kid.
My son does not have his father's name.
buttersquash23 · 8 points · Posted at 20:47:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do they do this?! I was on the other side. I dated my college boyfriend for three years, and lived together. I found out he cheated on me with one of my friends while I was studying abroad and broke up with him. He lost it and left our apartment, and when he came back he told me he had enlisted in the Navy because there was nothing here for him without me anymore.
He moved out onto the couch until he was supposed to go to basic, but I got very sick and ended up in the hospital. He slept in a chair at the hospital every night and took care of me, and we got back together. He said he would be going to officers school in Florida the next year, and borrowed my car to go to meet his recruiter weekly. He moved to Florida in September and we did long distance until he told me he was going to be stationed on a submarine to do nuclear and I told him i didn’t want to wait three years for him to come back, and broke it off again.
Turns out, that was a test, he was never in the Navy, he had moved in with his parents at the naval base in Florida, and every meeting with the recruiter was actually at his original side girl’s apartment.
What gets me the most is she lived the next street over, he didn’t even need my car. Apparently he would hide it to keep up the ruse.
_lvlsd · 5 points · Posted at 18:40:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first and only girlfriend was like this. Constantly lying to me over and over again. I only dated this girl for 2 months, and I know I should have most likely been suspicious from the get-go, but at first she lied to me about being in early stages of some sort of cancer (I forget the exact details because I’m just trying to forget the entire relationship honestly). And then, a few weeks after dropping the cancer bomb on me, in hopes of trying to get me to stick around I’m assuming, she claimed that she got pregnant. However, when she sent the photo of the test, my friend did a reverse image search and found the exact same photo on google. I dumped her almost immediately after and have never wanted to go back to dating since then.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:46:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Relapsed to drugs? Some of my best friends were addicted to drugs and they would tell the craziest lies to people for no reason. Never understood it but I never called them out on them because I felt bad for them and you would just get used to it. Would take a picture in front of a random expensive sorts car and use it as a profile pic and claim it was a new car they bought until they couldn’t keep the lie going. Weird things like that. ALL THE TIME.
BraveLittleToastGirl · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, cocaine. He supposedly started using again to cope with his mom’s death. But considering his mom was still alive I’m not sure what the truth around that was. Probably the rehab part to explain why he wouldn’t be around for awhile.
ginga_gingaa · 3 points · Posted at 18:48:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dammmnn, that's crazy af girl. Good for you for telling him to fuck right off! One of my friends also fell in love with a pathological liar as well. Moved to north carolina from cali to be with him, told her all sorts of crazy shit that his family constantly supported! Anyway, while they were engaged, an ex of his reached out to her and spilled the beans about everything. Shit went up in flames. She moved back to cali and had to spend some time figuring it all out. Shits horrible man. And dangerous! Anyway, glad you are out of there!
imlow · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You go, girl!
ChristyCMC · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bullet dodged....lucky you.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice job, you deserve some toast
therealCatnuts · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Apt username
donadora · 2 points · Posted at 19:04:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Omg. I’m sorry, what an asshole
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's great. I mean, it's not great that he lied to you but it's great that you told him to fuck off.
SpreadingRumors · 2 points · Posted at 20:02:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upvoted for your empowerment. Then looked at your name and wish I could give you more upvotes. There aren't enough Toaster references around here!
PS - Avoid junkyards with conveyor belts.
SM60652 · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who was engaged to a girl for a year who was going through chemo. So he took care of her kid and supported her financially, only to find out that she had never had cancer.
Stardustchaser · 2 points · Posted at 00:05:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds about like my ex. Off and on dated for about three years in college. First person I had sex with. He claimed cancer at one point to explain his balding and why he couldn’t connect for a few weeks. And the two sisters were just his roommates, but that he wasn’t supposed to bring overnight guests around.
Welp, one of the sisters was his fiancée. She found out and emailed me. I emailed back everything about our relationship, including the awkward “Nope- no STDs”. He tired to offer a paltry apology via email. I chewed him out and ccd the fiancée our exchange. What an ass.
OldGuyWhoSitsInFront · 2 points · Posted at 00:39:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dig your username!
w00kiee · 2 points · Posted at 01:23:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel ya on that. Many, many moons ago I met a dude who was the sweetest (and damn good looking) and I would’ve totally taken him home to meet my mama. Said all the right shit, it was on and off for a few years.
Come to find out (after I had a hunch and I was bored at night) that he was living with a girl / yada yada. Next time he texted me ‘hey baby’ I immediately asked him ‘how’s XYZ doing?’ And he stopped texting me.
Unfortunately he had her profile blocked from me on Facebook so I couldn’t email her / etc. would’ve been some gold.
the_revenator · 2 points · Posted at 13:09:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. So sorry you had to go through that. Glad you were able to figure things out. He sounds like a sociopath -they enjoy playing games with people and manipulating them, makes them feel powerful. Talking that way about his mother is unconscionable, but that fits with being a sociopath because they lack one. But you took his power away and made him leave with his head down and his tail tucked between his legs. Good for you!
TheSilverNoble · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:00 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out.
onthefence928 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you tell the baby momma?
BraveLittleToastGirl · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn’t the night I found out about everything, but after he showed up I went back online the next day but her profile was gone. One of the things I yelled at him was about seeing pics taken of him with his “happy little family” on her page while he was supposedly in CA pining away for me. He had zero social media himself so my guess is he made her either delete it or make it hidden.
lowtoiletsitter · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I vaguely remember reading this story before...
BraveLittleToastGirl · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I may have posted parts of it here before. Or else you know me ;)
dennerdygay · -1 points · Posted at 18:24:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's total shit. Love your username though!
cryptogriff1 · -13 points · Posted at 17:59:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not calling you a liar because I'm sure situations like this happen way more than they should for people but the timing of your story is oddly perfect.
Your ex hadn't shown up or contacted you for a year and suddenly the day after you Google him and find out about all his lies he happens to show up at your door so you can tell him off?
BraveLittleToastGirl · 22 points · Posted at 18:10:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ll admit the timing was insane, but absolutely promise this really happened. That’s what made it feel the most like a movie moment, the fact that I could perfectly tell him off so soon after finding out.
cryptogriff1 · 7 points · Posted at 18:18:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's actually pretty great. I'm sure telling him off was one of the more satisfying feelings you've had haha
iMnotHiigh · -7 points · Posted at 18:59:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a coincidence, that after a year you look him up find all this stuff about him, and then miraculously he shows up on your door step the next day....
ImBackHoe · -7 points · Posted at 19:40:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Men in general are terrible and do shit like that all the damn time
pinkfloyds · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, men in general are scumbags. /s
[deleted] · -27 points · Posted at 17:48:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Z_Coop · 17 points · Posted at 17:58:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TL;DR Guy lies. Girl found out. Was satisfying.
DylonNotNylon · 3282 points · Posted at 13:02:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shitbird employee I used to manage called off and I knew he was bullshitting. Said he was sick as hell until I showed him and the GM his facebook had checked him into about 6 different bars during a bloc party... at the time he was supposed to be working.
whitecollar-criminal · 1664 points · Posted at 13:55:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rookie error, skiving 101 is to make sure nothing is on social media
golden_n00b_1 · 147 points · Posted at 16:21:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Skiving 100 is to never put people from work on social media.
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 28 points · Posted at 17:31:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the correct answer.
DylonNotNylon · 242 points · Posted at 13:55:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was never the brightest guy. I wasn't the least bit surprised.
scherster · 14 points · Posted at 17:13:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also don't accept friend requests from your manager if you spend most of your workday posting to social media. It's happened...
StackedLasagna · 26 points · Posted at 17:13:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read this as 'skydiving' and was really confused for a few moments.
twinkletoes987 · 8 points · Posted at 18:49:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me too man, was still confused till I saw this
PixelLight · 9 points · Posted at 22:19:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's so much social media around these days you'd think people would be aware not to use it too much when lying. I really don't understand how it's that difficult. Honestly I think it's kinda embarrassing. Tbf I'm not a big fan of posting publicly in the first place but I'm aware of what people can see and what I don't want them to see
amidon1130 · 8 points · Posted at 16:04:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love the word skiving
OmniCapp · 6 points · Posted at 16:11:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah lol. Everyone does it but don't broadcast it
Geminii27 · 4 points · Posted at 17:53:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And make sure you don't go anywhere someone could snap and tag you.
KH10304 · 6 points · Posted at 21:15:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is skiving what the kids these days call it?
Malingering.
It's a beautiful word that comes from old french and dignifies our dishonesty.
Findadmagus · 1 points · Posted at 04:04:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You mean life 101
therubberyducky · 88 points · Posted at 14:18:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was working. Working that booty on the dance floor.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 14:55:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was shaking his money-maker.
jahlove24 · 8 points · Posted at 17:35:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a supervisor at a grocery store and there was this hopeless kid that I tried to help for months. He just didn't get it. I am a very compassionate person and even though he was a screw up I was constantly giving him advice and trying to help him be a successful person. One day I let him go home because he was feeling sick. He came back into work hours later with a bunch of friends to pick up his paycheck. Unfortunately for him my manager was there at the time and fired him for it.
Cogeno · 3 points · Posted at 16:31:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in my fast food days, I used to work between two different restaurants (it was basically the same staff at both stores). We had one guy call in sick for an overnight shift at one store, and then showed up wasted at the other store later that night.
lillithfair4 · 4 points · Posted at 16:51:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why your social media needs to be set to private. I may not fake call in sick, but if I ever do to go to a concert on something no one at my job will be able to see it.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:22:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ThatGodCat · 2 points · Posted at 01:12:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Could I get this is a more Englishy English?
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 01:57:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ThatGodCat · 2 points · Posted at 02:14:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My bad, I didn't mean British Englishy English. Just more American Englishy English.
I appreciate the effort though.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:15:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ThatGodCat · 2 points · Posted at 02:20:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's fair. I can always appreciate a good bit of malicious compliance.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:32:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ThatGodCat · 2 points · Posted at 02:39:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interesting stuff, thanks for the explanation! I have absolutely 0 knowledge when it comes to gun/cop lingo or anything like that so that bit was pretty indecipherable to me.
brittnoose · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Semi on-topic: thank you for what you do! 💙💛
Edit: or used to do. Still stands.
tweri12 · 3 points · Posted at 16:58:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Goodness, this reminded me to turn off my location sharing on life 360 for my sales team circle. I really am going out of town, I'm just leaving later in the day than expected.....Reddit saves the day.
IridescentLesbian · 3 points · Posted at 16:58:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of the guys I work with once called in sick. A co-worker was sent out to get more reduction labels from another store about 20 minutes walk away and saw him ambling down the road off his face with a six pack of cans. We were all mad at him cause he left us short for closing so we told the manager lol
JapaneseStudentHaru · 2 points · Posted at 18:05:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol I read a story on here where a girl called in sick from her restaurant job and proceeded to take her friends out to said restaurant that night. Imagine going to work for dinner after you called out a few hours ago
VoliGunner · 2 points · Posted at 21:43:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had an employee a year ago drop her shift like an hour before she was supposed to come in due family drama (which seemed true). This had happened a lot recently but my mgr gave her one more pass because something was wrong with her dad.
By the next day, word had gotten out that one of our business owners saw her prominently in the news coverage of the Pride parade from that day. Many of my coworkers are all about that life, but they don't tell half-truths and fuck everybody else over on a Friday night shift for it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:20:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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grep_dev_null · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I prefer the eastern bloc parties.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Urrrrghhhh this has been happening with one of my coworkers. She calls in on so many long weekends she's scheduled. My manager and I were getting suspicious because one time she called in and another coworker of ours said she was talking about a party the day before. So said manager kept track of all her sick days (she has 14 this year. And we are only allowed 10 for the year). After another day she called in sick, she came in, seemed fine and started talking about hanging at a friend's house the night before. Stupid idiot. Right in front of us!!
StoneRockMan · 1 points · Posted at 06:47:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had similar, where an employee stayed on her shift just long enough to grab her payroll advance check "so she could make rent", then insisted she had to go home sick (I wasn't her direct superior so it wasn't my decision to let her). Lo and behold her public Facebook is covered with pictures of a party and her brand new Xbox, which cost the exact amount of that advance. She lasted just long enough after that for her replacement to be trained.
chylde · 1 points · Posted at 13:35:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
While I know sick time is for when you're sick, I feel businesses can't do anything about what employees do during their sick time unless they see the employee in person because Facebook is their own personal site separate from work
DylonNotNylon · 1 points · Posted at 13:37:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeahhh part time pizza delivery drivers don't really get "sick days" lol
chylde · 1 points · Posted at 13:38:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah I understand the dilemma lol
bogvasjebo · -9 points · Posted at 19:30:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
snitch ass motherfucker
A_lot_of_arachnids · 8 points · Posted at 21:45:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Found the shitty employees account.
DylonNotNylon · 3 points · Posted at 19:33:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe if he'd have a better attempt at nothe insulting my intelligence I'd have let it slide. But probably not; he was a shit worker.
IndianaJones_Jr_ · 6083 points · Posted at 13:56:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The best times are when you've got other people standing off to the side so you can give them a little glance to see if they've caught on to the bullshit
[deleted] · 2103 points · Posted at 14:50:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Roxeigh · 931 points · Posted at 16:10:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My husband and I. It’s my favorite when we can do it to our parents... cast a glance at each other like “You catching this bullshit?!”
ttt1555 · 25 points · Posted at 18:03:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your parents in a literal way? ...Roll tide!
Roxeigh · 20 points · Posted at 18:09:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mother is a pathological liar, his mother is an entitled WASP who once said she “couldn’t believe that (his grandpa) wouldnt give her money because “she deserved some of his money for a down payment, that’s (her) inheritance you know!!” She was standing between us and I damned near had to scrape his jaw off the floor as he looked at me. I think He was less shocked when I told him I was pregnant!
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 23:26:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They were joking that 'our parents' makes it sound like you and your husband have the same parents.
Roxeigh · 8 points · Posted at 23:30:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maaaan I’m slow today.
flying_monkey_stick · 7 points · Posted at 18:11:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WASP?
Roxeigh · 26 points · Posted at 18:14:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Basically a nice way of saying rich older woman.
flying_monkey_stick · 23 points · Posted at 21:05:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't know about it being a nice way of saying it. Stings a bit.
Roxeigh · 6 points · Posted at 23:31:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You get an upvote for that... it took me a couple hours to catch the joke there but that was a beauty!
Drcat1990 · 6 points · Posted at 22:53:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every single conversation with my mom. My wife and I trade glances of "you hearing this bullshit?" Or she will give me the "she's lying right?" Face.
Roxeigh · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know my pain well I see!
Sgt_az · 6 points · Posted at 18:10:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Roll tide
cecelia0517 · 2 points · Posted at 19:54:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bwahahah
NobilisUltima · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/youseeingthisshit
roeravid · 2 points · Posted at 22:33:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister and I, 20 minutes ago to something my mom said! So funny how these things are randomly ubiquitous
Estraxior · 12 points · Posted at 17:29:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's kinda like a slight eyebrow raise and the "ugh" eyes right?
Edit: like a perhaps slightly less exaggerated version of this
Roxeigh · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One and the same!
jordanjay29 · 9 points · Posted at 17:49:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Made famous by Jim from The Office.
antiquestrawberry · 5 points · Posted at 17:42:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My fiancé and I are the same :D
metastasis_d · 4 points · Posted at 20:56:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother and I have an entire schtick for it.
"Hey do you smell that?"
"Oh yeah I smell that too, what is that?"
"I think I've smelled this before."
"Yeah this is definitely bullshit."
"Yeah. Smells like bullshit to me, too."
madcat63 · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I swear, i do this with close friends and coworkers too but its on another level with my brothers all together. One microsecond glimpse and we're all aligned. I love it.
SabashChandraBose · 150 points · Posted at 15:33:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Saw a bunch of random kids in
themy condo's pool a few weekends ago. I walked up to them and asked if anyone lived in the complex. One kid said his uncle did. I said, 'Well your uncle should have told you that pool is not open yet. I would go to the hospital because your skin will start burning in about half an hour.'They bolted.
veganshmeegan · 22 points · Posted at 16:43:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm confused, was this your condo?
SabashChandraBose · 17 points · Posted at 16:44:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes.
veganshmeegan · 5 points · Posted at 19:04:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, I was thinking you just went and interrupted some kids' fun or no reason. That's so rude of them
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 16:57:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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SabashChandraBose · 30 points · Posted at 17:00:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't. Also even if it was they were random kids from the street who jumped the fence and entered the pool and lied about knowing someone.
[deleted] · 36 points · Posted at 17:41:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is one of those weird examples where my 'chill' self and my 'straight' self have a pretty intense argument.
Why the fuck do you care if those kids were in a pool.
The fuck were those kids doing in his/her goddamn pool.
jtet93 · 17 points · Posted at 18:17:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it boils down to the behavior of the kids. If they’re being loud/obnoxious, doing anything dangerous, or breaking any laws (underage drinking for instance), I would want them gone. If it’s just a couple kids splashing around? Meh, whatever.
AsianPeopleLoveGolf · 4 points · Posted at 21:03:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds to me like OP did the kids a favor.
In a pool the water is "shocked" every week or so by dumping a large amount of chlorine into it, after which it's unsafe to swim in for about 8 hours. To reopen after a winter it's "double shocked", literally double the chlorine.
Swimming while the water is shocking can cause chlorine poisoning, which isn't fun.
twinsofliberty · -7 points · Posted at 18:34:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/thathappened
axnu · 7 points · Posted at 20:40:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few years back, after digital cameras but before every phone had one, I walked out to the parking lot and saw that someone had scraped the bumper of their car across mine when they were pulling in. It was really obvious it was them, since there was a mark on their bumper and a big streak of red paint from their car on mine. I just happened to have my digital camera that day and did a little photo shoot, which I sent to our company's security department to find out who owned the other car. Turned out to be this Russian computer programmer from the floor above me, and by the time me, him, and the security guy were in the parking lot, he'd moved to a different spot. He swore up and down that he didn't do it, his car was nowhere near mine in the morning, etc., etc. I let him go on for a while before I showed him the pictures. Then the security guy and I shared a knowing glance.
randomsynapses · 6 points · Posted at 16:43:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whenever I have another adult in my classroom we do this. It’s awesome.
just-a-basic-human · 6 points · Posted at 17:15:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s when I wish I was in a sitcom and could look at the camera
GegenscheinZ · 2 points · Posted at 00:47:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Find a random security camera, make some security guy’s day
LonkerinaOfTime · 11 points · Posted at 16:52:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A.k.a. the Jim Halpert looking at the camera look
knirefnel · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More esoteric, but I was thinking of Mike and Jay's expressions in the RLM review of Hollywood Cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PILodU2wXw#t=14m10s
The sideglance at 15m07s makes it pretty clear Mike is just goading Rich on
brainiac3397 · 4 points · Posted at 20:20:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best when there's a lot of people and they've all got this "lol yeah rigth..." smirk but are all trying their best not to laugh because they've all noticed each other reacting to the BS at the same time, though the one speaking directly to the person has the hardest time because they're right in front of the bullshitter.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do this alllllll the time. I also do it before saying shit to fuck with people, or saying stuff that destroys obnoxious assholes. The "The Office" type camera glance look is best shared between great likeminded friends.
zuppaiaia · 3 points · Posted at 19:35:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a flatmate that used to make fake phone calls to boast a little in front of us, pretending she had lots of friends and a couple of suitors. It was painfully obvious she was faking them, but she was very stupid and thought she had us all convinced. So one evening, while she's on the phone with this "boy", a friend of mine takes my phone and calls her. Her phone was on silent mode, but it lit all up and vibrated. We pretended we didn't notice, she froze, she pretended to finish the call; then she left the room with an excuse, and while she was just behind the door I saw her checking the phone to see who called and then glancing at me with pure hate. I smiled back. She couldn't see it cause he was hidden by the door, but my friend, the one who actually called, was laughing his ass off. But she thought I was the only one to know her "secret". From that time on, she did everything I asked. Which was good, cause she was a real pain in the ass, and all I was ever asking her was to please tidy up after herself and please, please to look at her own hygiene (she very rarely showered. Not only was she really stupid, she also had a lot of behavioural problems, like showering once a month or something). Before that episode, it was impossible to ask her to follow the rules of living together.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit like this make me hate people.
Tell anyone at all about anything which sounds "slightly unbelievable", they look at each other and smirk.
The good part is that they get home, get curious, look it up and whaddya know! The weird guy was actually correct and knows his shit!
just-a-basic-human · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This sounds like a scene from YA movie
MississippiJoel · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This isn't quite a "user name checks out" situation, but I can totally see someone doing that when they have the handle "Indiana Jones".
BucherundKaffee · 2 points · Posted at 21:25:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is this guy in our friend group who makes up lies every time we see him, so we just made up a hashtag between the four of us that’s called #thingsthatneverhappened” and we’ll send it to our group chat when one of us catches him bullshitting.
HereticxAnthem · 2 points · Posted at 03:13:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
YESS
I_Can_Haz_Brainz · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a day late and a dollar short as always, but I just did this look while reading your comment and no one is here.
I NAILED it! XD
spoopy_elliot · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:36 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do this with my buddy in group therapy. This one girl said that she got angry and flipped a fuckin car over
IndianaJones_Jr_ · 2 points · Posted at 17:38:05 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hot wheels are heavy as shit
Broseph1617 · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
O_o
kaboose286 · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just look at the camera with an anoyed face
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a nursing home. We all side-eye each other when one of the old people says something... notable. Sometimes it's a good something, sometimes it's bad. But numerous times a day we do the side-eye thing. It's the small things in life.
snipingpig · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyday in History, except it was to the narrative of “Mrs. Riley is drunk again.” We found her many flasks on multiple occasions. She was a 7th and 8th grade teacher.
DasBarenJager · 1 points · Posted at 06:42:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's great when the person telling the lie see's it too and knows they are caught but are too far into it to back out. Glorious.
Bjorna_Gloom · 18395 points · Posted at 12:50:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guest lied to me that he paid for two nights and wouldn’t leave the room. Made me go through this giant ordeal of calling all the front desk employees and double check all their work. He threw a huge fit calling me a bitch, stupid cunt etc, he jets out of the parking lot and the police I called pull him over and take him in. Coworkers and I still play it on the camera and laugh about it.
therubberyducky · 7506 points · Posted at 14:15:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well props to him. He managed to get the second night for free in the end...in jail.
GypsysTrampsandSteve · 997 points · Posted at 14:38:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read this in the voice of Sheriff John Bunnell.
therubberyducky · 265 points · Posted at 14:41:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was going more for the Horatio Caine vibe lowers aviators
GypsysTrampsandSteve · 157 points · Posted at 14:47:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAA--
phantuba · 9 points · Posted at 16:50:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
skip intro
JoJackthewonderskunk · 4 points · Posted at 17:38:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
--WE DONT GET FOOLED AGAIN!!!
Daedalus871 · -1 points · Posted at 17:11:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Teenage WASTEland.
SuperGandalfBros · 4 points · Posted at 17:50:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wrong CSI. That's CSI:NY
Daedalus871 · 5 points · Posted at 18:41:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really want to know whooooo are you? Who, who?
SuperGandalfBros · 3 points · Posted at 19:23:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wrong again. And you know it
Daedalus871 · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you think I don't know about the little tricks you've played
SuperGandalfBros · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What?
Daedalus871 · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know you've deceived me now here's a surprise.
SuperGandalfBros · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm confused. What surprise?
CSIHoratioCaine · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You failed.
Clayman8 · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess he...
lowers glasses
was out of get-out-of-jail cards...
JMCSD · 17 points · Posted at 17:01:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Camden County, Georgia."
Jules_Noctambule · 6 points · Posted at 18:33:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to live in Georgia and we couldn't drive past the signs for Henry county without saying it in his voice.
MonstDrink · 22 points · Posted at 16:04:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This free-loading trickster thought he could get away with not paying for the stay at a hotel!
CrypticQuery · 8 points · Posted at 19:49:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One does not simply mention Sheriff John Bunnell and not want to revel in his incredibly over-the-top and one-liner heavy narration style.
Or the dated, flashy, and wondrous editing of World's Wildest Police Videos in general.
GypsysTrampsandSteve · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man, 1:15 in, and the park the cruiser right on the helicopter skids.
The drama of it all!
GegenscheinZ · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok, I couldn’t take 13 minutes of intros. LOL. So intense!
kaminobaka · 5 points · Posted at 16:36:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh, I read it in the voice of Chris Hansen.
mudgetheotter · 4 points · Posted at 16:49:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was thinking more of Mr Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life"
WindowsiOS · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read it thinking Sheriff Joe Arpaio arrested him for some reason lol
devdeh13 · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read it in the voice of Waylon Jennings from The Dukes of Hazzard
ghostagainstdadjokes · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AMAZING username!
GypsysTrampsandSteve · 3 points · Posted at 19:04:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why thank you.. flicks weave
-_-o_o · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The most American person ever.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Go back and read the op's story but ad in fake tire screeching and helicopter noises for the full effect.
GypsysTrampsandSteve · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For maximum realism, don't forget to visualise the black turtleneck and high waisted trousers..
a_shootin_star · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/sD39tzmKAiU
G8kpr · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read it in Chief Wiggums voice
fullmetaljackass · 3 points · Posted at 18:52:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bake him away toys!
deslegumes · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man the memories of "Sheriff John Bunnell" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD39tzmKAiU
geared4war · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read it in the voice of Ryan from BuzzFeed Unsolved.
No reason. I just do a cool impression
bravetourists · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Romany Malco in “40 Year Old Virgin”
weedful_things · 15 points · Posted at 17:28:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You would think, but going to jail is very expensive.
promonk · 8 points · Posted at 17:32:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was going to say, ain't nothin' free about jail.
ChristyCMC · 9 points · Posted at 18:07:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jail is NOT free.
stopthemadness2015 · 6 points · Posted at 17:31:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In Utah county you have to pay for your stay, not sure if everyone does it but he’ll end up paying one way or another. 😜
IAmA_Risky_Click_AMA · 3 points · Posted at 12:26:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have to pay for your incarceration?
stopthemadness2015 · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yessir. I have a friend whose oldest son just go out of jail and he was telling me that they actually have to pay something like 40 dollars a day to recover costs in jail.
IAmA_Risky_Click_AMA · 0 points · Posted at 23:34:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's fucking bullshit. What do they do if you don't pay?
stopthemadness2015 · 0 points · Posted at 23:41:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not fucking bullshit, its real! Its called Pay to Stay. It was ruled against by a local judge in some counties of Utah but others, like Utah County still practice this. According to the Utah County jail site: "Consequences of avoiding paying debts include: initial collection notification after first 30 days, follow-up collection notification after 60 days, final demand collection notification after 90 days and possible submission of account for legal action. Any account that is past due is subject to tax garnishment." http://www.co.utah.ut.us/dept/sheriff/Corrections/famfriendsorientation.asp#paytostay.
IAmA_Risky_Click_AMA · 0 points · Posted at 00:29:10 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whether or not it's real has absolutely nothing to do with it being bullshit.
See: Paying for Your Time: How Charging Inmates Fees Behind Bars May Violate the Excessive Fines Clause
benaugustine · 4 points · Posted at 17:56:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jail was likely nearly as expensive as the hotel. Short stays in jail usually run over $100/night
PiroKyCral · 6 points · Posted at 15:36:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Curb your enthusiasm theme plays
scales484 · 3 points · Posted at 19:43:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jail isn't free btw. Overnights cost ~$80
PM_ME_BLADDER_BULGES · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Paging /u/fuckswithducks
samuelroy21 · 1 points · Posted at 09:45:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Many jails aren't free, actually.
the_revenator · 1 points · Posted at 13:52:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where you have to pay to get OUT!
acwill · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you think jail is free, you’re sorely mistaken.
Throwmeaway953953 · 173 points · Posted at 15:58:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why like every single hotel requires a CC on file now. "Oh you want to stay but not pay? Too bad we will charge your card or you can leave by checkout today."
[deleted] · 71 points · Posted at 18:14:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Bjorna_Gloom · 46 points · Posted at 18:19:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Go through choice hotels, you can request a late checkout without getting charged. Also, some of us do housekeeping and the longer you stay the longer we have to stay which means by the time you’ve left that’s another room we might get to or not have the time, so then we have a dirty room we can’t rent to anyone.
EntertheOcean · 13 points · Posted at 19:03:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes choice hotels is my go to. They have always been lovely. I broke down once and was stuck in a town I've never been to, but Choice let me check in at noon for no extra charge since they had a room ready, and then while I was waiting for my car to be repaired the next day they let me stay until 2pm. I was so very impressed. No extra charges.
Bjorna_Gloom · 6 points · Posted at 20:30:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Choice is honestly one of the only franchises that is doing well, they have several different hotels at various prices and amenities so they’re trying to appeal to everyone. Normally if someone gives me their story and they seem genuine then we try to help them out as much as possible. I know it sucks when you’re stranded somewhere.
e30kgk · 5 points · Posted at 20:42:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only problem there is that you have to stay at a Choice Hotels property. I would much rather leave a Hilton at noon than stay in a Quality Inn until 3 PM.
the_revenator · 2 points · Posted at 13:57:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, aren't we hoity toity
Throwmeaway953953 · 5 points · Posted at 18:25:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Try requesting a late checkout. You may just get an extra hour for free
e30kgk · 2 points · Posted at 20:40:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just request a late check-out.
If you've got elite status with the hotel brand it helps, but even without, you can usually get an extra hour or two.
the_revenator · 1 points · Posted at 13:55:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, but if all guests checked out at noon, housekeeping wouldn't have time to clean all the rooms before afternoon check-in
Bjorna_Gloom · 6 points · Posted at 18:16:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not all hotels, we accept cash without a cc on file. I wish we didn’t have to, but it’s our franchise.
Throwmeaway953953 · 4 points · Posted at 18:26:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm surprised by that. The hotel I worked at was a franchise and you could pay in cash but we needed your card on file just for incidentals
Bjorna_Gloom · 5 points · Posted at 20:28:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trust me, we’re not happy about it either. Anyone who pays with cash is usually a local and they always trash the room. The only thing we can do now is ask for a cash deposit to keep it from happening as well as a license and plate number on file. We can make up the price, so if I say the room is 64 dollars and we need 100 cash deposit that you’ll get back in the morning then they’ll usually bail.
natlay · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that was a sick rhyme dude
Kopachris · 19 points · Posted at 18:08:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had a guest try to get a free room for his buds by asking to switch to another room in the middle of the night. Said they didn't like the view. I told them the only available room was one floor directly below (on the eighth floor). They said sure. I gave them the keys, and when they brought back the keys for the old room I went up there with my master key and flicked on the light. "I'm sorry gentlemen, unfortunately your friend has only paid for one room tonight. I'm afraid I have to ask you to vacate." They sheepishly pulled on their pants and left.
Bjorna_Gloom · 11 points · Posted at 20:25:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guests try this move all the time, we have a few different buildings on the property, but I always go with my master key and investigate. We have to anyway to make sure nothing was stolen or to turn lights off etc. I’m sure they were so butthurt about it, thinking they had tricked the system lol.
the_revenator · 1 points · Posted at 14:01:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Great job! I'm assuming you attempted to charge his card for the second room first, but it was declined?
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 37 points · Posted at 17:16:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Last week, I had a douchebag try to cut me off at a zipper merge. His lane had ended about 2 car lengths back, but he drove on the shoulder to try and get between me and the big rig in front of me. Yeah, I wasn't having it, so I didn't let him in. Eventually the road started to narrow, and since I'm angry at him but don't want to murder him, I let him in.
He thanked me by flipping me off, so I flipped him off in return. For the next 5 miles, we continued down the mountain and I kept a larger than normal buffer between us, just in case.
The very instant the second lane appeared, the guy waved "bye-bye" to me and gunned it. Took off like a rocket. And then immediately put on his flashers and had to pull over to the side of the highway.
I have no idea what happened, except all of a sudden the undercarriage of his car went dark, like something was under his car. Maybe when he gunned it his front fender came off? Not sure. But you bet your bippy I did a Nelson point-and-laugh "HAHA!" at him as he pulled over.
It made my fucking day. Hell, I'm still happy about it and it was more than a week ago at this point.
Bjorna_Gloom · 19 points · Posted at 18:08:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you bet your bippy I laughed so hard I snorted. One time I told a guest to stop running in the pool area, he then proceeded to mock me, I rolled my eyes and returned to my desk, I sat there watching on the cameras and sure enough he biffed it so hard. I spent so much time laughing before I went in there to ask if he was alright. I had to call an ambulance because he fell on his ass so hard.
The next morning at check out he limped to the front desk. He sprained his tailbone (which I’ve done and believe me it’s painful) he checked out and threw a donut in his car seat while his wife bitched at him the entire time. I laughed so hard that day I swear I got abs from it XD
Coming2amiddle · 5 points · Posted at 19:04:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk
the_revenator · 2 points · Posted at 14:06:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm just going to say, it's kind of mean not to just let someone in, ya know? I mean, what, it only sets you back like eight or ten feet, and maybe your transit time by a few seconds. Letting someone in, in a situation like a zipper merge is just being a courteous driver. After all, you'd want someone to let you in, right?
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The guy drove on the shoulder of the rode after his lane ended to get in front of me. He broke the law. Fuck him.
But I did let him in, eventually.
SketchyConcierge · 13 points · Posted at 16:55:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
from one front desk to another, I salute you
Bjorna_Gloom · 8 points · Posted at 18:15:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not all Hero’s wear capes some of us wear polos
Beard_of_Valor · 50 points · Posted at 15:50:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing to do with the caught lying topic, but on the subject of playing it over again and laughing about it...
I worked at a call center and we used an automatic dialer. I can't even begin to describe how wild this thing is. It doesn't seem like much, but it's really quite special. The thing is, though, they patched it all the time and one day something went incredibly wrong. Our call center was focused on automotive calls. One day in the middle of my call a cacophony begins. I'm now on the line with about 8 people (4 custos and 4 agents). Not all of the agents are from our business. Somehow the mothership scrambled calls even between businesses.
So I'm trying to tell my customer that probably there is a giant wrench in the works and we'll just get back to him later (which would be appropriate given the context), but some stranger is trying a similar thing about dye uh bee tus testing supplies, a third operator quail ed and went quiet like a deer in the headlights, and almost verbatim I heard another voice saying much the same as me. John from down the hall. I turn and make eye contact. "...JOHN?!?!?"
Our calls are all recorded, but the glitch didn't affect the recording because it's just grabbing my line and my customer's line even though the call was an 8 way cluster-fuck. Playing my incredulous "...JOHN?!?!?" basically became a hobby for a few weeks.
homingmissile · -7 points · Posted at 17:45:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's so funny about this? Why were you so shocked about your call center coworker being patched into this 8 way call of call center employees?
Beard_of_Valor · 8 points · Posted at 20:45:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The incredulous tone and shock in the absence of the context, since the recording was so much less chaos as the call itself.
bipolarbear21 · 6 points · Posted at 20:01:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol catching people in lies is just part of the FD job, head on over to r/talesfromthefrontdesk for more
Bjorna_Gloom · 3 points · Posted at 20:30:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man I didn’t know that existed! Thanks friend!
spookvee · 5 points · Posted at 16:55:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahah what an idiot, I love this one
anonymousexgf · 6 points · Posted at 21:50:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hello fellow hotel worker. I feel your pain. Guests lie all the time and it sucks trying to explain to the frustrated normal guests the “stupid” policies we have in place to protect ourselves against the crooks.
Bjorna_Gloom · 3 points · Posted at 22:31:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The worse thing: Me: have any pets with you? Them: No, unless you want to count my husband! Me:.....yeah, never heard that one before.
youllneverfindthis · 5 points · Posted at 20:06:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at the front desk of a hotel. My favorite are when guest say something like “well the reservations agent in the phone promised me I’d get this upgrade and these amenities and blah blah.” I usually let them talk for a while and then tell them “well I’d be happy to pull up the call log! All of our reservation calls are recorded, so I just have to confirm that that was actually promised.” And they usually back down with a “oh.. you know.... it’s not that big ‘a deal. You don’t have to go through that trouble....”
Bjorna_Gloom · 8 points · Posted at 20:39:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh god, people are the worse! This lady booked one of the cheapest rooms we have and because she’s a choice member(which just means you acquire points and you can use those points to get a free night or whatever, but it’s not actual currency) she figured she could upgrade to our jacuzzi suite. She threw a fit when I told her no, which she then proceeded to tell me how awful I am, curse me out on the phone and tell me all other hotels do that for her.
I politely asked her which hotels. Only one was part of our franchise so i gave them a call with her on the other line. I asked about her and as soon as I said her name the dude on the line sighed and went “oh man, her? We never do that for her unless she pays extra.”
I patched her through so he could say the same thing. She said “fuck you both and hung up.” She arrived 45 mins later and walked up to the front desk like nothing had happened. She was sweet and asked if she could upgrade to a jacuzzi suite, I told her she could if she wanted to pay extra. She did. What the hell just happened.
Bilbo_Swaggins- · 11 points · Posted at 15:14:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What crime did he commit to go to jail?
Doctah_Whoopass · 40 points · Posted at 15:48:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not paying for a hotel room. Which is theft of service iirc.
fugged_up_shib · 3 points · Posted at 17:56:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Would probably be fraud rather than theft since he was trying to obtain it with their knowledge but via lies.
aDickBurningRadiator · 23 points · Posted at 15:31:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Theft of services probably.
fugged_up_shib · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably pulled over for traffic reason (he said he high tailed it out of there). The cop was called to settle the dispute probably, not to arrest him. Possibly could arrest him on fraud.
AangAndTheFireLord · -4 points · Posted at 17:18:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was about to ask this as well. I thought it was for calling her a cunt when I first read it lol.
SouffleStevens · 8 points · Posted at 15:37:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Couldn't you just charge his credit card again for another night? Seems like that would be easier. Say he didn't leave by check-out time so that's another night.
ColonelJV · 12 points · Posted at 16:55:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably a cash guest. I don't know about other brands but Hilton doesn't require a CC now.
SouffleStevens · 6 points · Posted at 17:13:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really? I thought only sketchy/low-budget hotels let you pay cash for precisely this reason. Seems like Hilton would be too good for this.
KingreX32 · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah karma. Sweet sweet karma.
gonnagetacandybar · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"I'm sorry, Sir, you never paid for that."
"Fuck you! Fuck your system! So being such a bitch!"
"Well, you're definitely not getting it now. Have a great night"
Bjorna_Gloom · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love the different stages they go through, I’d love to make a documentary about hotel guests.
gonnagetacandybar · 3 points · Posted at 01:05:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Customers in general, you'd think they forgot they were grown adults.
Bjorna_Gloom · 2 points · Posted at 01:25:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was just talking about that. I’m at work right now actually. I told my coworker 95% of our costumer base is either impatient people or liars. Do they think we haven’t seen this game before? Do they really think they’re that clever? It’s honestly insulting when they try to come up with some bogus lie. I swear it’s like all of our customers are fresh off the turnip trucks.
sebinmichael · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to see this footage. Please!
HDwalrus123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I kinda wanna see that footage
Qwtyr_man12346 · -1 points · Posted at 02:22:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is it possible that someone at the front desk pocketed the money and lied? Because getting that angry over a lie in a public place seems a bit much.
Bjorna_Gloom · 2 points · Posted at 02:33:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heavens no, this is what happened, this particular guest checked in like 12 hours before check in, when that happens you get charged another night. It’s a time thing. We explained this to him prior to check in and he still agreed.
Another thing to mention the night person who checked him in scanned his ID without looking at it and it wasn’t even his ID, it didn’t even look remotely like him. He also paid cash and is a local, the main reason the police got involved was because he was acting violent and once they found out who was actually staying in the room, their interest peaked. He has a warrant for his arrest.
An unmarked cop car was pulling in as he decided to illegally peel out of the parking lot, the cops pulled him over for that and as luck had it; it was someone they were looking for. The police came in and told us with these huge grins. We all had a laugh.
Qwtyr_man12346 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh OK, this guy was super dodgy then.
ohnobad · 386 points · Posted at 16:03:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best friend and I decided to be roommates in college, and our closet was shared too. For girls that usually means we will inevitably borrow each other’s clothes, since it’s all out for display, so we agreed we to share as long as we asked the other person before wearing a piece. I quickly realized that she was taking a lot of my clothes without asking me and leaving them in her hamper, which wasn’t a big deal because I’d just take them back. I started going home some weekends and when I came back items of clothing would go missing, so from then on I’d take pictures of my drawers so I could tell if they’ve been moved around when I came back. One day she was packing to go on a road trip and at the last minute went into the closet and pulled out some of my clothes and quickly stuffed them in her suitcase hoping I wouldn’t see. During her trip I texted her asking if she knew where those clothes were and she said she had no idea.
I kept quiet through all of this until one day I had enough because she had taken one of my favorite shirts, wore it while I was gone one weekend, and shoved it back covered in stains. I also found more of my things moved around, like makeup, toiletries, and even my GoPro handle had been taken off the camera and put back poorly. I have terrible anxiety so it took a lot to confront her, but I pulled out the shirt and told her it had been moved from its position and stained. She denied it and said she’d never touch my things without asking me because “she’d never do that to her friends.” I proceeded to show her pictures of my closet moved around, how I have been tracking my things, how I had seen her specifically grab my clothes at the last minute before a her road trip. She was dumbfounded and flustered, and continued to say how it was an accident or she’s too shy to ask. I told her I had been watching this since November (it was April) and the look on her face was so satisfying. Eventually she said “sorry I won’t borrow your things anymore” which was fine, but made me realize how cautious I have to be from now on.
sunshineandcloudyday · 17 points · Posted at 07:26:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are probably now that girl's "worst roommate" story with a few details about her actions left out.
SM60652 · 36 points · Posted at 20:49:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girls have weird friendships. Especially when it comes to clothes.
When my roommate said, "hey are those my boxers?" I was like "i dunno, you want them?" , he said "no that's cool"
Or more recently I let my friend borrow a tie for a wedding cause his was comically small. The next day he said " I accidently packed your tie cause you forgot to ask for it back" , I said "ok"
Mackem101 · 15 points · Posted at 22:58:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son is constantly nicking my old band shirts, apparently worn looking tees of old metal bands are fashionable now.
RichardPiercing · 3 points · Posted at 13:03:44 on July 2, 2018 · (Permalink)
Incredibly so (I realize how late I am to responding here). Some thrift stores (like if you're in LA or Portland or some major city) will charge a pretty penny for a vintage tee. I've seen some go for $120.
Raiquo · 5 points · Posted at 10:44:53 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That might be your particular experience, but I knew a guy who was a flagrant clothing thief. Every time he stayed over, something would go missing, especially the goddamn socks. The worst part is his feet were about 1/3 longer, so they'd be fucked after he wore them. Called him out several times, all he'd offer is "oops?" and offer his version of a 'shy smile' which was really him just tryna get away with it. At one point he said he might as well keep them since they won't fit you anymore. Nope. Give em back. I don't care if they have to be thrown out now, you're not going to keep shit just because you took it.
Point is, it's not a "girls's thing", boys can bag you're shit too if you're not careful.
nhexum · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:33 on July 18, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but guys call eachother out - That's the difference. OP let her shit get ran for months before she finally said something.
Raiquo · 3 points · Posted at 02:44:39 on July 20, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stooooooop generalizing by gender! Holy fuck. Did you learn sociology by watching the disney channel? "all men do it like this" or "all women do it like that" sounds so fucking obnoxious, and it just isn't true.
Both men and women act petty, both men and women act straight-forward. Maybe you personally have seen a tilted dynamic or maybe you're just comfortable with your cognitive biases; regardless that does not mean the whole of society is as black and white as you are presenting it.
nhexum · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:32 on July 20, 2018 · (Permalink)
every comment in this chain, including your own, confirms my generalization. that doesnt make it a fact. Dont take so much offense to a benign comment deep in the context of a particular thread
goateyes · 5 points · Posted at 07:22:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did she stop taking your things after you called her out?
Also, well done. That sounds like a really stressful situation and you handled it like a pro.
ohnobad · 7 points · Posted at 06:14:20 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
thanks! Yes, she did and said she’d stop borrowing my things. Sometimes people have a lot more nerve when they think you’re naive/oblivious and I’ve learned the simplest thing to do is just let them know you’re not.
goateyes · 2 points · Posted at 23:46:07 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you! I'm glad she reined in her behavior. I have noticed the same thing -- when you let people know that you're on to them, even in the subtlest way, they seem to amble off in search of easier and more unwitting victims.
ohnobad · 3 points · Posted at 03:09:14 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s true, though I hope it makes them second guess their judgment. My roommate was horribly embarrassed and probably won’t want to risk this type of encounter ever again!
goateyes · 5 points · Posted at 02:35:36 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fingers crossed that she's learned her lesson! :)
garlic_naaaannn · 6987 points · Posted at 15:52:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex girlfriend told me she was going to a "girls only" pool party with some of her fellow waitresses from the restaurant she worked at.
I had felt something weird going on for a bit and had put a lot of effort into making that night a surprise "date night". I worked that morning, while she worked in the evening. While she was at work I cleaned the whole apartment (that we shared), cooked a fancy surf and turf dinner with filet mignon, lobster tails, butter pasta, expensive wine, etc. Also rented a few movies I knew she would like. So when after dinner she suddenly told me she was going to this pool party at around 10 pm (!!!) and I couldn't come I was pretty exasperated and knew something was not right.
Noticed she was putting her phone face down every time she received a text about this party. While she is putting on her sexiest bikini to wear under her clothes on her way over to this party I decide to look at the phone and it's some dude from her work (under the name Angela in her phone), telling her he can't wait to see her, can't stop thinking about the other night, etc. Scroll down a bit and they even said they loved each other. There's not really a worse feeling in the world when you are in love with someone and they do that to you.
She comes back into the room and queue one of the worst nights I've ever had as she blames all of this on me not proposing to her quickly enough (we were 22, relatively poor, and in college and I did want very much to marry her). She trashes the apartment, breaks the screen off of my laptop, cuts up a few of my favorite shirts, and breaks MY phone after going through it looking for some sort of justification for her actions and finding none by throwing it at the wall and stomping on it. But hey...it was satisfying knowing that I wasn't going crazy and I learned some valuable life lessons.
MyNameIsKodos · 1728 points · Posted at 17:46:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you dodged a bullet, mate
LordBiscuits · 1306 points · Posted at 19:54:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged a fucking airstrike... The girl sounds nuttier than squirrel shit
An_Average_Lurker · 41 points · Posted at 19:59:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
New favorite phrase
metastasis_d · 12 points · Posted at 21:04:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Nuttier than a squirrel turd" is how I originally heard it.
FoodBank · 13 points · Posted at 21:40:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Liar ^
metastasis_d · 6 points · Posted at 22:03:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fort Jackson, April 2007
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 21:14:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged a tactical nuke
nothing_to_feel_here · 6 points · Posted at 22:02:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
25 killstreak
AFrostNova · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged fucking isis
Kerv17 · 1 points · Posted at 12:15:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged space laser beam
Dudelyllama · 4 points · Posted at 22:33:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Nuttier than squirrel shit" is the best thing I have read all day. Thanks.
Thegreatautismo63626 · 2 points · Posted at 22:15:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dad?
LordBiscuits · 10 points · Posted at 22:28:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Son?
Don't worry, the queue for cigarettes is just really long, okay?
Thegreatautismo63626 · 2 points · Posted at 22:29:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Finally. It’s been so long.
Kaladechi · 1 points · Posted at 07:03:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This was a quality comment, keep it up.
Sofastarch · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:35 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged a tactical nuke. You can survive an airstrike but everyone dies from the nuke and she would have gotten an achievement for it which is arguably worse
sealpoacher · 4 points · Posted at 22:15:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged, yes, but the bullet definitely grazed him!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:36:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like he might have had to dodge a knife too.
OrbDeceptionist · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex cheated because I wouldn't marry her while still in college and because I was "emotionally cheating on her" with a friend for moving in with him because she didn't want to move in with me unless we married...
[deleted] · 2392 points · Posted at 17:17:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ll never realize why the ones who cheat are the ones who go crazy.
DoctorTsu · 1029 points · Posted at 17:58:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cognitive dissonance
LiesInRuin · 70 points · Posted at 20:39:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's... Unsettling to imagine.
SouthernMedication · 136 points · Posted at 20:58:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s a psychological coping mechanism. Nobody thinks they are the baddie.
Kriieod · 105 points · Posted at 21:38:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some of us constantly wonder if wer're the baddie. Social anxiety:(
Vinkhol · 23 points · Posted at 22:40:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You wonder if your bad unconsciously, not by direct choice. No one sane chooses to do something malicious because they are the bad guy, the antagonist
ci1979 · 7 points · Posted at 06:12:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pro tip - people who are the ACTUAL baddies don't ever ever ever wonder if they are the baddies. It sounds like someone mistreated you and made you believe you are the baddie.
I'm sorry my friend. Please be kind to yourself ❤
ChimericalRequem · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily true- there are a lot of people who will do something they know is bad if they think they won't get caught. It's not uncommon either :/
Matazaonreddit · 41 points · Posted at 21:18:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly that. Knowing full well they do something wrong and comforting themselves because everyone else is as bad if not worse.
sillykatface · 5 points · Posted at 21:39:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, or exactly this.
DOPEDupNCheckedOut · 4 points · Posted at 21:47:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aw shiiiiiit. This explains so much 😓 I'm a dummy.
Bufferkiller · 68 points · Posted at 22:07:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex wife constantly thought I was going to cheat, and once went through my phone while I was in the shower. I got out, she was crying and yelling and berating me for texting with my ex. Whom I was and still am good friends with, and have no romantic feelings for. I helped her plan her goddamn wedding for fuck’s sake. Anyway, she pulled up the message that had her so hurt, and it was literally the two of us talking about how much we loved our partners and discussing pet names and I was explaining how I don’t recycle certain ones that don’t feel generic enough. Feels dirty to call someone else by a pet name that felt unique to an old lover.
That’s what upset her. That set her off. I no longer allow anyone to go through my phone. Even with nothing to hide, people that want to find shit will find a way to convince themselves they’ve found something.
Fast forward a few years and my marriage ends because she was fucking my best friend. They ran off, and are expecting a child together now.
Lesson learned: Never stay with someone that doesn’t trust you. Having to constantly prove trustworthiness isn’t trust, and I no longer tolerate that.
theivoryserf · 18 points · Posted at 23:21:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly if it gets to phone-checking time the relationship's probably screwed. Nothing can delegitimise a lack of trust at that point.
Bufferkiller · 3 points · Posted at 00:00:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s exactly my feelings about it. If you can’t trust your partner, then they either aren’t trustworthy or you have trust issues that need to be worked out before getting into a relationship. I’d be willing to bet it is the former far more often than people want to admit. Too afraid of being alone to work out their issues before taking them out on others.
mementomori4 · 31 points · Posted at 20:37:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shitty people do shitty things in a consistent manner.
formeraide · 20 points · Posted at 20:35:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's either that or admit they're basically scummy.
metastasis_d · 15 points · Posted at 21:03:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because they're bad people.
Severinx · 10 points · Posted at 22:29:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No idea. My mom's ex-husband was cheating on my mom once with some tramp who knew he was married and had kids. He beat the shit out of my mom when she found out. They stayed together after this for whatever the fucking reason. They're divorced now though.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 21:29:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have to be pretty mentally unstable, immature, or just plain idiotic to ever cheat in the first place. Especially in a stable, otherwise healthy relationship, it just shows you're not firing on all cylinders because you're only sabotaging your own life, it's pretty much inevitable you'd get caught anyway. Mentally normal people don't cheat in my experience lol
Ravenanom · -11 points · Posted at 21:38:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're wrong. I'm sorry but you're wrong
elanhilation · 17 points · Posted at 21:46:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. It’s everyone else who is wrong , not you. Keep telling yourself that all the self destructive and malevolent things you do aren’t indicative of serious issues you have to work through, what’s the worst that could happen, after all?
CaptureEverything · 13 points · Posted at 22:20:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean if you're cheating you clearly don't value the relationship very much so the worst that can happen isn't that big of a deal...
Ravenanom · 16 points · Posted at 21:51:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok I get I stepped on a wasp nest. But how is cheating and mental illness connected?
Cheating is wrong.....But it's not unnatural.....Sorry, is that a terrible thing to say?
theivoryserf · 9 points · Posted at 23:22:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not 'unnatural', you're right, but I do judge people pretty heavily who do it. It's such a cruel and avoidable thing to do.
xXUnidanXx · -1 points · Posted at 00:16:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
These people are knee jerk idiots. You're right of course.
pm_me_passion · -2 points · Posted at 05:54:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone else linked to the wiki page about cognitive dissonance. That’s exactly what the people downvoting you are experiencing. You’ve stated an uncomfortable truth, and that’s their backlash.
Ravenanom · 0 points · Posted at 06:48:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interesting
Autistic_Intent · -12 points · Posted at 21:43:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Keep telling yourself that, cheater.
Ravenanom · 11 points · Posted at 21:45:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've never cheated..... ? Actually scratch that. I'm genuinely curious how you would claim something knowing nothing about me?
subsonik2nine · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uhh plenty of folks cheat whom are mentally stable. Monogamy isn't for everyone, nor even the natural state of being for ceetain folks. Some folks are in shitty marriages that they stay in for financial reasons ot because of children. Some folks are stuck in a dead bedroom and it isn't fair to deny your partner intimacy.
Ravenanom · 2 points · Posted at 21:56:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hi. Thanks for making the point I was trying to make!
Cheers
incogster · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Another guy chiming in. Never cheated before. Cheaters aren't crazy. It's not that black and white, and people have different needs that society shuns.
[deleted] · -11 points · Posted at 21:44:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually, I'm right, sorry but I'm right. So, you're wrong, sorry but, you're wrong x3
Ravenanom · 9 points · Posted at 21:49:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm right because if someone cheats, that doesn't mean they are mentally ill.
Cheating is obviously wrong. Obviously.
All I'm saying however, is that it is part of life. Genes, reproduction, etc etc etc.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:07:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not saying cheating = mentally ill. I'm saying, the reason a majority of cheaters are crazy is because the cheating is a result of some mental instability, especially if there's no "good reason" for it. No healthy person self sabotages in such a destructive manner. If they're cheating and not crazy, then they're incredibly immature or selfish. I still wouldn't go as far to call them normal though.
noisypeach · 3 points · Posted at 07:23:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Selfishness. They hold cheaters to be scum (cause who wants to be cheated on?) but they also want to hold onto their mental picture of themselves as a decent person. Outing them as a cheater challenges that and they will do anything to avoid accepting it.
"Anything" involves increasingly escalating excuses, screaming, violence, deflection, etc. All that matters to them is fighting their way out of the corner that brands them as a "cheater", i.e. "scum".
sillykatface · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They're angry at themselves but are projecting maybe.
Llohr · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, ex-wife punched me in the face when I confronted her. It's surreal.
Laz0r_dick · 1 points · Posted at 10:09:47 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Almost all cheaters are narcissists, they think they're above punishment. So when their world comes crashing down, they blow up.
RabidHippos · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cause she was crazy before
AsheliaBnarginDlmsca · 1070 points · Posted at 16:36:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you call the police?
ADrunkenChemist · 635 points · Posted at 19:10:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
protip (not actually a pro) if you are a guy, dont do that (leave if you need to escape violence). Certainly file a claim after getting a lawyer because the situation is he-said she-said and the courts favor women in domestic situations
fjsgk · 218 points · Posted at 21:26:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My step brother was in a long drawn out lawsuit with a woman a little while ago bc she kept accusing him of beating her up when really she would just bang her face against shit to set him up. He was only believed bc he had video evidence of her doing this and video evidence of her hitting him.
HighCalibrHouseplant · 182 points · Posted at 21:33:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man I really hope she got put away for a long time. She isn't just fucking with his life but also discrediting every real victim out there. Pathetic person.
getrektbysnekperhaps · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:45 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
false accusers barely get convicted. especially when they are women.
[deleted] · 64 points · Posted at 23:06:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude some bitch did this to my boyfriend a couple years ago! He was arguing with her boyfriend about something fucked up they did, and because she knew they were completely fucked and in the wrong...she goes to her car and starts smashing her face in the dashboard.
Then comes back and says she’s going to call the cops because my boyfriend beat her.
There was like 5 witnesses so we all got to tell her she’s retarded, but holy fuck. I bet she’s successfully done that to people before.
Stardustchaser · 25 points · Posted at 23:55:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a married woman and I really really do feel sorry for guys actually wanting a good woman and finding manipulative bitches like this, where the #me too and social media are also being taken advantage to utterly destroy a good person. Anecdotal of course but three guys I’ve known have gone through the crazy and false accusations, with one losing his job and almost his family after spurning advances (b/c married with children) and others needing me to sign affidavits countering the claims of the crazy
Peter_of_RS · 201 points · Posted at 20:07:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So so so sad how true that is.
electroleum · 57 points · Posted at 21:33:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like sooner or later we're going to wind up in a big brother type world with surveillance everywhere. But not necessarily because the government is watching us, but because people need cover their ass everywhere they need to go.
I have a shit head neighbour that moved in last year. At first I thought he was an inconsiderate dick head, but now I know he's a drug-using, loose canon that is a threat to the whole neighbourhood. I'll be putting up video cameras all over the place after the last shit he pulled (doing a burnout with his truck across my property, leaving marks all across my driveway and peppering my front entranceway with rocks that are beside my driveway)
A_lot_of_arachnids · 44 points · Posted at 21:30:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m in a shitty situation right now because of exactly that. I should have left when I had the chance. Chose to stay and fight. Now she’s free and my life is ruined.
mic569 · 13 points · Posted at 21:50:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry man.
spoonraker · 23 points · Posted at 22:28:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know this doesn't in any way dispute the truth of your statement, and that's not my intent, but I do have a personal anecdote to the contrary.
A former friend of my wife whose boyfriend at the time lived very near our house unexpectedly showed up in our back yard one night while we were hanging out on the patio. She ran over barefoot and looked flustered. We asked what was up and she told a tale of how she and her boyfriend got in a fight and it got violent, of course making herself out to be the victim. We convinced her to go to the police. Turns out, the boyfriend already called the police and told a very different story. She wound up spending that night in jail, because she had no idea she was effectively turning herself in for battery. So sometimes the police can side with a man in these situations.
BioBrimm · 5 points · Posted at 22:51:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a similar story. The girl was arrested...twice!
letsfuckinrage · 2 points · Posted at 00:16:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is fucking infuriating.
g-g-g-g-ghost · -15 points · Posted at 20:36:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually the police have to take the person the complaint is made against, not the man. The rest is kind true though
[deleted] · 78 points · Posted at 21:00:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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IsomDart · -23 points · Posted at 21:43:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No department is going to have a policy that says not to take in a woman on domestic assault charges.
flyingwolf · 42 points · Posted at 22:11:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is called the Duluth model, and yeah, that is literally what it says.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 22:16:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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BioBrimm · -6 points · Posted at 22:56:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know women who have been charged and convicted of DV. What is making you feel that this doesn’t happen?
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 22:59:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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BioBrimm · -13 points · Posted at 23:00:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s not what you said though...
smmstv · 10 points · Posted at 22:20:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've known people who've worked for police departments, and while their may have been an "official" policy, the unofficial policy was to always take the man. I think at some point after years on the force, these officers have to realize women can be physically abusive too, but maybe it opens them up to less possibility of allegations of mistreatment. Who knows.
xzElmozx · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL that's a pretty optimistic outlook you've got there sir.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 23:08:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s not true. My ex called the police and accused me of beating him when I threw him off of me. I was able to easily prove it was him so he got taken away. They put me in handcuffs for a minute because they were going to take me to jail but I convinced them to listen.
pete904ni · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
But but but but male privilege, right?
MyDirtySecretary · 1 points · Posted at 09:34:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Disagree. Not sure what country you are from and I'm sure you're basing your comment on some sort of knowledge or personal experience but in OP's example it would be pretty clear that the female was responsible for whatever disturbance has occured, given that it's all his property that's been damaged. She would definitely be arrested in order to be questioned. Whether or not she would be charged would be a question of any other evidence available.
Unless you're in America, you'll probably end up being shot.
Anyway, domestic abuse runs both ways. It's not ok for a guy to be domestically abused. We need to get away from gender stereotypes.
Trogador95 · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wouldn’t the real pro tip be to start filming, or have cameras already up?
Valechose · -13 points · Posted at 22:19:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For the exact same reason girls don't call the police after a rape ¯_(ツ)_/¯
pete904ni · 8 points · Posted at 06:13:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
They arrest and charge the girl?
Valechose · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:37 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, but things will most likely backlash on the victim (humiliation, discredit, refusal to believe, etc). Plus, out of 1000 rapes, only 6 rapists actually get convicted
pete904ni · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:16 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, we should listen and believe without a strong burden of proof.
It's not like anyone lies, or that there's been any recent high profile cases of liars in the news recently.
Valechose · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:09 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I understand why you would think that but false accusations are a tiny tiny portion of all the rape accusations. While I agree that we shouldn't condemn someone without a strong burden of proof, rape remains the only crime where the victim is systematically doubted, even with medical proof.
pete904ni · 1 points · Posted at 07:07:38 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends if you go along with the "better 100 guilty people go free than one innocent be condemned" or not.
Valechose · 2 points · Posted at 13:26:47 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fair enough but again the point I was making is that both men victim of domestic abuse and rape victim are often stigmatized and blamed after the denounce their aggressor.
pete904ni · 2 points · Posted at 13:40:56 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe in certain circles. But victim blaming is a thing with many crimes, not just rape.
WillJenkx · 352 points · Posted at 17:13:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a good way for him to spend the next month in jail
ILeftMyBurnerOn · 343 points · Posted at 17:58:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Surely this irate woman who has just acted violently and irrationally will tell the police the truth and definitely not say that I hit her!"
JamesRawles · 108 points · Posted at 19:25:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If the police get called for DV, someone has to go to jail. And usually it's the guy.
dyam · 62 points · Posted at 20:06:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, someone does not have to go to jail. Most times, they just order the “abuser” (usually the male, even if he’s not the abuser) to leave the premises.
sweet_saying_ · 78 points · Posted at 20:42:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad called he police on his ex wife(while they were married) because she was hitting him and he ended up with a DV charge and going to jail for a few days. She’s honestly such a shitty person, my half siblings still have to deal with emotional abuse from her even though they’re in their mid-20s. Most of the time the police side with the woman for some god forsaken reason even when there’s proof they were in the wrong and it’s honestly really shitty.
dramboxf · 51 points · Posted at 20:17:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the state. Some states, if it comes into 911 as a DV call, someone is required by law to go to jail.
GOLD_GOURAMI · 27 points · Posted at 20:33:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm: police have no choice in the matter. I was sent to jail for a night as a 14 year old.
Spanktank35 · 13 points · Posted at 22:21:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Democracy is in a shit state. I'll never understand people that say America is the best country or its constitution is perfect etc. Fucking grow up
PerceivedRT · 10 points · Posted at 23:10:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It would work out if everyone was reasonable and moderately intelligent...unfortunately not the case.
Spanktank35 · 4 points · Posted at 23:17:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same with many systems though tbh
AFrostNova · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It you can, details? I don’t understand how this can happen
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 20:33:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you provide evidence for this? This doesn't sound right.
NA_Breaku · 29 points · Posted at 20:36:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are a few states like this, Nevada is one.
https://www.legalmann.com/blog/when-the-police-are-called-for-domestic-violence-someone-is-going-to-jail/
Rackalackin · 14 points · Posted at 20:48:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone else posted the example of the law, and while it definitely sounds fishy, there is a decent reason for it: a lot of times people change their minds quickly about having their abusive spouse/significant other arrested, and they may decide to tell the police it was a misunderstanding or some other reason for calling to protect that person. So you got someone who is already being violent and hurting another person, and the victim just called the police: there’s a good chance the other person is even angrier now, so there’s a good chance the victim is in even more danger if the police leave them alone. It’s not a perfect system, and unfortunately the men are usually targeted, but it’s made to protect the victim from retaliation.
dramboxf · 2 points · Posted at 23:06:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sure.
onefreckl · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Here they take both people involved
IsomDart · -1 points · Posted at 21:44:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is definitely not true.
AndrewnotJackson · 32 points · Posted at 19:31:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not if he had the ability and foresight to record it, perhaps surreptitiously if it's legal in their state. Video evidence is great
PlantScavenger · 46 points · Posted at 19:46:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But she destroyed both his laptop and his phone.
motions2u2wipemyass · 5 points · Posted at 21:09:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After he gave her his phone to look through though.
ltsjacob · 5 points · Posted at 21:32:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
so?
Spanktank35 · 3 points · Posted at 22:19:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He wasn't expecting her to go apeshit
motions2u2wipemyass · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So don't give your phone to her and just start recording her instead?
ltsjacob · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
well yeah lol
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 22:17:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ClaudeWicked · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's... Not a thing.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:54:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe not in your state.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:47:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ClaudeWicked · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well shit. Okay, it's not a thing where Ive lived. But damn, that's... Kinda evil.
AndrewnotJackson · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why I put "if it's legal in their state" at the end of my post lol
DevinsName · 25 points · Posted at 19:13:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With what phone? /s
Spinolio · 11 points · Posted at 20:18:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Did you order an air strike on your own coordinates?"
ExplainsSocialEnigma · 13 points · Posted at 19:11:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would he call the police after he killed her?
Nevermind04 · 6 points · Posted at 23:18:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my state, if you call the police about a domestic incident between a male and a female, the male always gets arrested regardless of the severity of the incident and regardless of which party is the aggressor. The correct thing to do is record the incident and hire a lawyer.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 4 points · Posted at 00:10:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, she had a vagina
bikiniwini · 32 points · Posted at 18:07:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was the one caught cheating so in return she destroys your shit? Fuckin' hell! Sorry that happened. :(
MpegEVIL · 58 points · Posted at 16:40:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry to hear that happened to you, dude. Hope everything is going better for you now.
bluesox · 47 points · Posted at 18:04:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Congratulations! You found out she was a crazy liar before you put a ring on it. I would have enjoyed the hell out of that dinner for two — me and my dignity.
Desmous · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
But she trashed his laptop, phone and house...
SkinMannequin · 13 points · Posted at 18:16:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She acted like that hoping you would hit her or physically restrain her so she could justify her retarded behavior. "He was getting physical with me, that's why I had to leave him."
fuckimtiredfuck · 38 points · Posted at 18:04:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s absolutely disgusting. As a woman I will never understand how a girl could grow up to be so stupidly entitled and toxic. Disgusting.
killeroftherose · 7 points · Posted at 18:46:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Agreed!
honeyydo · 12 points · Posted at 19:40:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Based on what she did to your shit when you confronted her (& the fact that she was lying, cheating scum anyway), you totally dodged a bullet, man. Imagine being married to.. that.
Deaf_Control · 22 points · Posted at 18:11:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aw man your surprise date night sounded so nice!! You obviously put a lot of effort into making this, and this is just shitty you had to deal with cheating. I'm so sorry about that!
Howlingz · 34 points · Posted at 17:59:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the actual fuck. My heart breaks for you dude, you deserve so much better than that. I'd love someone to make a date night for me, or treat me with the level of attention and courtesy that you displayed.
I hope you find someone who can reciprocate your sanity and love.
antmansclone · 20 points · Posted at 18:21:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sucky situation, but glad you got off easy. My brother's ex destroyed ALL our childhood home videos (VHS camcorder).
LunaFox13 · 7 points · Posted at 18:07:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged. A. Bullet. Sorry that happened to you but my goodness. How is cheating the answer to “ you aren’t marrying me quick enough”
Stormophile · 14 points · Posted at 21:43:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girlfriend said she was going to hang out with one of our mutual friends. Around this time, I was beginning to worry about her friendship with this sketchy dude that had entered our circle of friends.
That same night, I took a walk through town while she was gone. I ended up seeing her car parked on a street in front of a house. I got a closer look to make sure it was her car because our mutual friend doesn't live in this area.
I approach the car and I definitely hear my girlfriend and previously mentioned sketchy dude laughing together through an open window of the house.
Now this part isn't something I'm proud of- and it's super illegal- but I had the car's spare set of keys (in my bag I sometimes carry with me) at this point. I unlocked the car, started it up and drove back to our apartment without her being any the wiser (I'm assuming, anyways- she never talked about this situation after it happened). I pulled in front of our house and straight started packing all my shit and moving it into a relative's house while she's at that fucko's place. A couple friends ended up helping me move extra shit, and I was fully ready to move into the relative's that morning.
MistaDawg · 5 points · Posted at 00:15:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Play of the Game
MistaDawg · -4 points · Posted at 01:43:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Downvoted for a comedic overwatch reference. Classic r/AskReddit.
Fuck this sub.
MistaDawg · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:31 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
bdog1321 · 3 points · Posted at 19:23:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow I got mad reading that. I hope she encounters as much misfortune in life short of physical injury. Maybe she'll come out a better person on the other side
KarmicDevelopment · 3 points · Posted at 21:38:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went through something almost identical except I broke her laptop after she smashed mine and our phones survived. I know this isn't true about all people but in my experience (must stress this is anecdotal) most servers I've worked with and known, regardless of gender, are cheaters. Along with my own that ended in eerily similar circumstances to yours (she was going to a pool party, too!), I've seen so many relationships end because of the rampant philandering in the restaurant business.
Genji-slam · 12 points · Posted at 19:18:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Surely she didnt get off scott-free right? Take her to court and pay for your shit? Beat the shit out of her? At the very least kill her??
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 21:15:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That comment just got spicier and spicier
Bumbling-failure · 2 points · Posted at 21:27:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't care if I'm in a relationship with someone, if they start thrasing around with my shit at the very least I'm going to manhandle them.
ClaudeWicked · 6 points · Posted at 22:39:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but you'll probably be the one going to jail, then.
MyNameIsSushi · 6 points · Posted at 00:04:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Welcome to being male.
5p0oKy8o0giE · 7 points · Posted at 17:49:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why didn't you stop her from breaking your stuff??
WaltLongmire0009 · 29 points · Posted at 18:14:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She'd call the cops
___Ambarussa___ · 5 points · Posted at 22:14:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was probably overwhelmed and didn’t know how to handle the situation. They don’t have a “crazy bitch 101”.
AFrostNova · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would take that!
Someone get on that!
Big_Breakfast · 4 points · Posted at 22:10:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that’s bad man.
I had a similiar situation a week ago of seeing the text messages and realizing the truth. You’re seeing the thoughts/feelings, not the way she’s presenting them to you, not the way you’re imagining them, just the raw truth as it was never intended for you.
That sense of dread washes over you and turns to a pit deep in your stomach. There’s nothing like it.
crappingtaco · 6 points · Posted at 18:36:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you eat the food? Sounded like a great meal.
ShesTheVillain · 3 points · Posted at 18:19:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry that happened, my man. That was abusive as fuck and she should've been arrested.
Careless_Corey · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't stick your dick in crazy.
CalvinsOlderBrother · 2 points · Posted at 20:02:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Props to you for dodging a bullet and all, but this doesn't seem very satisfying
barvid · 2 points · Posted at 21:18:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just to let you know it’s cue, not queue.
lapandemonium · 2 points · Posted at 21:23:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry bro....I've dated a cunt just like that before.
Prince_pepe · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Imagine being married to someone that crazy.
iceyiceyb · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never break up with them at your—— oh y’all shared the place. That sucks :(
notmesmerize · 2 points · Posted at 21:47:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stay strong King
snoopunit · 2 points · Posted at 21:49:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bro, youre a saint for keeping your cool about this. I would have lost my shit.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its unbelievable how common this seems to be. Sorry to hear that you went through this.
Phaedrug · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stories like this piss me off because that girl deserved to get her ass beat that night, but you couldn't touch her or you'd go to jail and she'd walk free.
SbrbnHstlr · 2 points · Posted at 22:14:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only feeling worse is finding 300 some odd emails with in depth sexual talks.
penisproject · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged the bullet on THAT one, you did.
Edit: I am soooo not the first one to say that. LOL
patdanger · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly though who doesn’t love garlic naan
iamnotangela · 3 points · Posted at 17:44:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dang man. I'm sorry that happened :(
BONESandTOMBSTONES · 3 points · Posted at 22:05:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a fucking BITCH! I'm sorry man. 😞
Cian93 · 2 points · Posted at 21:25:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You win dude, you’ll find someone 22 is far too young to get engaged
shamanic_panic · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank fuck you didn't end up marrying he
Iamnotarobotchicken · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You dodged a bullet. That girl was crazy.
PM_ME_DARK_MATTER · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, that's horrible. How long ago
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a fucking asshat. So sorry that happened to you, but it sounds like you have been able to process it.
DarkFett · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hello, Mr. Anderson.
Inspector__Gidget · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's one of the most satisfying and devastating moments
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm angry hearing about what you went through. You dodged a bullet, brother!
xX3L1T3Sn1P3zxX · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit. That really sucks man, I'm sorry to hear that, but at least you were able to take something away from it. I'm guessing she didn't pay for the shit she broke, though.
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How the fuck dude
anderdude · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you call the cops on her?
_Bl0o_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly I'd call the police about that
cheffy3369 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow that's just awful. Sorry things went so south for you that night. I do have to ask though, why did you allow her to do so much destruction? Obviously you were in a bad place and would have preferred her not to trash the place, destroy your laptop and your phone and cut up your clothes. However all of that does not take place over 5 seconds. Why did you not stop her before she kept escalating the damage?
TheTorAnon12 · 3 points · Posted at 10:03:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How he's a male, and men are always the abusers.
He can't physically stop her or the cops get called, if he calls the cops he gets arrested.
Yay Duluth model.
_NotPorn_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve felt that pain man. I’m sorry you had to go through that.
wolfy823 · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm so sorry this happened to you. I had a similar situation happen to me, but i am a lot happier now. I really hope you are too!
severianSaint · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you dodged a bullet on that one.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
she cheats and gets mad at you? lol....
___Ambarussa___ · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s horrible. What a nasty bitch :(
smmstv · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like yet another example of why one should always trust their gut.
killwatch · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All that stuff she broke is worth like five grand. That lesson in choosing the right girl and trusting your instincts will last you a lifetime and save you years of misery.
ClaudeWicked · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well hey, you didn't marry a literal piece of human excrement. So you got that going for you.
andyg138 · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tbh, it sounds like you dodged a bullet on this one. So much better to find out the kind of person you are with BEFORE you get married. Just imagine 4 years and two kids into a marriage and she does something like this to you. Doesn’t make it any easier right now but probably saved much heartache down the road. Most cheaters will always cheat.
spintiff · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodged that bullet.
Rainishername · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So she was a cheater and an abuser. Ugh. Wow. I’m so sorry she put you through that. I hope you’ve had better relationships after that.
spagbolflyingmonster · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cunt
Porn-Videos-Only · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus fucking Christ, you dodged a bullet, take her to court for damages, that’s so fucked up
rome_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What happened afterwards?
an-average-white-guy · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would of clocked her before she started fucking my shit up
Iseethetrain · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's called abuse. Often times when men abuse, they beat you up. When women abuse, often times, they destroy your stuff or chuck a wine bottle at your head.
JJ_Jewel · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd sue her for property damages
artfulwench · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You seriously dodged a nuclear warhead with that one. :/
I can't help but wonder what her endgame was though. String the other guy along for fun until she got the proposal she wanted from you? If she wasn't happy, she could have left. No need to cheat. :/
th_underGod · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you sue or try to get paid back for the shit she broke? Laptop, phone, even shirts can all be pretty expensive, although if you were living on a budget I wouldn't expect it to be a huge amount of money. I dunno much about law, but it seems something filed through a small claims courts might've been worthwhile.
herbys · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A broken phone, a laptop and a few shirts are a small price to pay for saving the rest of your life. And imagine the life of the other guy now, married with a crazy, lying, unstable b*tch. You dodged a bullet.
iGigaBits · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you didn't know, her breaking your phone is actually a felony. Same as if someone blocks a doorway if you're trying to leave.
Edit: That's taking into account your phone is worth more than 250$, as most smartphones are these days. Less than 250$ is a misdemeanor.
GeniGeniGeni · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh......my..........gosh........... =O
High-Phi-Guy · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When that happens, it's devastating. Sorry to hear that happened to you.
Lily_Bennett · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a good friend named Angela, and it upsets me to know that there's a human shaped degenerate out there who answered to the same name.
HereticxAnthem · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Crazy bitch wow
The_GreatGadsby · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can’t imagine the feeling! If my SO ever did this to me I would most likely shut down. Stop eating, working, cleaning myself. How did you get through this?
Xyberfaust · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bitches be crazy.
justingolden21 · 1 points · Posted at 08:20:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man fuck girls that just go bat shit and trash everything. Learn to act like a decent human being instead of like a fucking animal. Idk why but this shit really pisses me off, I don't have any personal experience with anything like it.
SlenderTrash · 1 points · Posted at 09:58:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll stomp a bitch out before I let her break my things.
MedicalPrize · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is fucked and not ok - would mess up the life of almost any guy - but I think you should read this - I know I'm a random internet stranger but I think it will help you make sense of a few things (particularly around female psyche) and also a way forward. Hope this helps.
96DD4LI · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would you let your ex destroy your shit like that? You should have kicked her out of the apartment right then and there.
KarlSegan88 · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Women like that will call the cops and claim you raped them or some bullshit and the worst part is they will be believed. No need making things worse as long as she's gone. These fuckin losers down here like "Bro I would've never let my girl do that" Bro you've been single because your a douche that's why. Gtfo
96DD4LI · 3 points · Posted at 01:10:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the situation posted that woman wasn't "his girl" anymore, she was nothing.
How does protecting my property from being destroyed by human garbage make me a douche? I'm actually kind of interested how you're going to try to spin this.
What OP should have done is kick her out with her car keys and phone. After that tell her to fuck off and have her parents come over to pick her shit up.
Yxkilobon · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
if you were smart you would have let her leave. would've bought you some time to clear her stuff out and change the locks
Pantomchap · 0 points · Posted at 20:54:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's cue, not queue. A queue is a line you wait in.
Z0MGbies · -1 points · Posted at 21:56:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh wow. Your reaction to discovering the lie was beta as fuck.
Normal (entry-level) reaction would be to put all of her shit on the street and somehow lock the door so that she can't get in.
Or if you can't lock the door, go to a friend's place with all of your stuff while you find a new place, and never contact her again.
The only reason I wouldn't burn all of her clothes in a dumpster fire is because that's still illegal and that bitch ain't worth suffering any further.for
FuryQuaker · 0 points · Posted at 21:13:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why the hell did you let her do that?
weedandweed · 0 points · Posted at 01:15:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a line.
The word you were looking for is "cue".
Also you're a fucking dummy for not prosecuting
catthedd · 373 points · Posted at 16:53:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a really low serial number $2 bill (something like 00000100), crisp, new. I showed my cousin while he was visiting one day. It went missing afterwards. A few weeks later, was at my cousins house and noticed it hidden while he was tooling around his his closet looking for something. Lost my shit, he denied it, insisted it was his and that my uncle had given it to him. Uncle came in wondering what the ruckus was about, and I was able to tell him the serial number without looking at it.
I got it back, but the bastard had scrunched it up in places.
Fuck you, Brandon. 40 years later I'm still not forgiving that shit!
Georginator2000 · 15 points · Posted at 00:08:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit 40 years later
If you're gonna keep that grude alive for that ling better just murder him and sell his remains for 2$
That or he's already dead cause 40 years
RiddickOfRivia · 2 points · Posted at 22:41:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's unforgivable in my opinion, I had a thing for $2 bills. Like the unicorn of currency 💱.
youngkyun7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:37 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
U can probably go to a major chain bank and get a crapton of them.... My best friends dad does this every new years and hands them out to my church peeps like its candy
RobberDvck · 1 points · Posted at 07:27:10 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you still have that bill?
vinegarballs · 16244 points · Posted at 13:29:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was 16 and was seeing a girl who I had some doubts about. She would make up the most insignificant lies about stupid shit but it wasn't malicious so I let it slide, until things escalated. Her dad had a friend (John) who had cancer. We went to visit him 200 miles away and he looked really bad, she acted like she didn't give a shit. About 2 weeks later we were at a party and she started crying about how John had died and she was absolutely devastated so I comforted her. About a week after that I went to dinner at her parents and her dad said "I just got off of the phone with John and they're saying he's reacting well with the chemo" Her face dropped, and she couldn't look me in the eye, but I knew I had her, so I finished my dinner and went home. I phoned her later and told her not to call me ever again or I'll tell her dad about her lie. She didn't call again. I still don't know what happened to poor John
Edit for a bonus lie I remember her telling me about a month before the John incident
She told me she was in the school play in the lead role of Romeo & Juliet, and she needed to kiss the guy in the finale and was i ok with it? We didn't go to the same school so I didn't question it and said it was ok. She made a noticeable job of telling me how considerate she was being in asking my permission. I just thought it was another lie. After i broke up with her, her friend told me my ex had kissed a guy in her English class. They were studying Romeo and Juliet at the time apparently. I'm glad I got out of there when I did.
Blue_Pie_Ninja · 6161 points · Posted at 14:42:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do people even lie about stuff like this anyway?
music-books-cats · 6036 points · Posted at 14:53:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Attention
Dar_Winning · 1987 points · Posted at 16:26:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
and sometimes a (delusional) sense of control over crappy situations
HeavyMetalReggae · 16 points · Posted at 17:04:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m in a situation with a girl that has lied about everything. It’s not a good situation and due to the circumstances I can’t just be done with her unfortunately. A lot of her lies seem to be geared towards having control over everything and she’s more than likely a pathological lair.
poemmys · 25 points · Posted at 17:59:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can confirm, if she lies about a lot of little insignificant shit she's a pathological liar. She may not even be up to anything, it's just a (shitty) defense mechanism. Source: Was/still slightly am a pathological liar
wolfgeist · 15 points · Posted at 18:08:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hmmm... not sure if I can trust you.
HeavyMetalReggae · 4 points · Posted at 18:47:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tiny insignificant things and large life changing things. Her lies encompass every size of every issue that you could think of.
ConfinedVoid · 34 points · Posted at 16:42:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes they're misinformed.
There's also confabulation from stuff like korsakoff syndrome.
Princess-beyonce · 18 points · Posted at 17:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My FIL has cancer. He’s been fighting for years and has had a tough go. My SO tries to help as much as possible. He was going over every Sunday. He already works 6 days a week so he doesn’t have a ton of time to begin with. He would mow his Dad’s lawn, helped him turn his garage into a shop, watch the race with him. Then he skipped a day because the kids were sick and his dad pitched a fit. The next week he had an appointment with his doctor and told us that this was it, they were stopping chemo. My SO felt horrible. A few weeks go by and we realize he’s still taking his pills and getting radiation. This has happened 5 times in the last year. My SO skips a Sunday, they fight and then we hear it’s the end and he’s dying. He’s gone so far as to tell us he’s only got few weeks left. When in reality his tumor markers are the best they have ever been. My SO is over it all now. We go over but for maybe an hour once a week with the kids. I just don’t get how you can put your Son through that over and over again. But your right, it’s gotta be attention.
rachelface927 · 11 points · Posted at 17:35:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
yup. had a coworker, found out i lived right down the street from him so we started hanging out and becoming good friends. one day he comes over and starts sobbing about how he just found out he has liver cancer - like, real tears, shaking, etc. as i comforted him i started to cry a little, too - he was saying “i’m so scared! i don’t wanna die!” and all that. but at work over the next couple weeks he’s acting completely normal around everyone else so i eventually ask how the cancer thing’s going. he admits to me he made the whole thing up, apologizes and can’t give me a reason why he would make that up. i straight up told him i didn’t wanna be his friend anymore, lol.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 17:32:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my friends actually lied about having cancer and went bald the next day. So many of us believed it and for the next week there was a shit ton of shit, like cards and stuff and then he was caught with the lie.
dude didn't have friends for the next 3-4 months before slowly transitioning back
dubov · 6 points · Posted at 16:36:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm listening
moth07 · 3 points · Posted at 17:54:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At ease
Lulu_42 · 7 points · Posted at 17:17:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like the answer is not attention. I've met a couple of people like this and it's just weird. I really wish I knew why; is it an addiction? A symptom of some deep disorder? It seems to often serve no purpose.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 21:04:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Former compulsive liar, it was very hard to stop and i still catch myself lying from time to time about stupid stuff like how i cut my hand, but it was a learned survival mechanism from growing up in an abusive household. So thats one possible answer
Scarletfapper · 1 points · Posted at 07:30:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sorta makes sense. Like you don't feel your truth is good enough so you always have to make something up, even when the truth would have been a better explanation or given you a better excuse.
throwawayacct600 · 5 points · Posted at 19:45:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There has to be some aspect to it of the liar feeling like they're getting away with something. I think it's similar to shoplifting in some regards.
Lulu_42 · 3 points · Posted at 19:48:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That has the taste of truth to it. Maybe it makes them feel alive.
Lunar_Gato · 4 points · Posted at 16:47:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Negative attention is still attention
US101 · 2 points · Posted at 18:11:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One kid said they made video games because I said I was learning unitt and C#. I asked them questions and they just said "I dont remember".
I asked what language they program in and after explaining what that ment they said english.
lichkingsmum · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, I think its more than that. My ex DIL would just make shit up, even when it wasnt necessary. Everyone who knows her knows shes a liar so the outcome is, like Peter and the Wolf...nobody believes a thing she says now.
It was like she couldnt accept herself or her life as it/she is. I almost think she believed some of it...also whenever she was called on it she would get viscous, really really nasty piece of work.
Stonn · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Life's boring
CarelesslyFabulous · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:18 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
and control.
[deleted] · 1673 points · Posted at 15:01:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Attention. My sister is like this. Every party she is at, she always cries about something so that someone will pay attention to her .
Cmonster910 · 236 points · Posted at 16:28:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel ya. My sister used to be like that. Thankfully she stopped crying a lot recently. She's still a bitch though lol.
TrumpSimulator · 20 points · Posted at 17:16:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha
Cmonster910 · 8 points · Posted at 17:55:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't lie
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:12:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The people that make the biggest show of crying are usually the biggest bitches.
SuperFLEB · 9 points · Posted at 18:03:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That should be on one of those wall decals or something.
TheAlphaCarb0n · 8 points · Posted at 20:24:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
- Gandhi
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:00:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is it with sisters and crying for literally any reason other than being sad
jackster_ · 41 points · Posted at 18:11:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not that I cry for attention but I'm one of those girls that cries when I'm stressed out. Not sob, but my eyes just make all these tears and I overflow. I hate it, and my brother always makes fun of me.
One day was an extremely shitty day, boyfriend problems, school problems, I was exhausted. It was finally the end of the day, and all I wanted was to drink a glass of milk. I get my glass and start heading into the living room when the glass falls from my hand and spills all over the floor. I broke down and just started crying. Then my brother came in, saw me on my knees, crying over my spilled milk.
He has never let me live it down in 13 years.
eastisfucked · 13 points · Posted at 20:08:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahahhaha I'm sorry but that's hilarious. I'm a stressing crier. Like if a really small, insignificant thing is bothering me and then another thing happens I stress the fuck out and occasionally cry. Ive gotten better at controlling it. I remember one time I was working drive through, cashing out orders, handing out food and drinks. I think I was already having a rough day and when I hand the lady back her change she goes "this isn't right." And I was confused like then what did I do wrong? But she just gave me this look with her hand all stuck out with the money and it really upset me because I was already preoccupied and now I had to figure out how I messed up the change in front of an already displeased customer. I'm not good at math on the spot. I started crying and had to go to the crew room to collect myself. It sucks because it's just how I naturally respond to certain situations, and I really can't help it. Some people get mean when they're stressed, lethargic, or they blank out but I cry and that's seen as really unprofessional crying at work. But in fast food you see everything and experience all sorts of personalities so it's whatever. I've just had to learn that it doesn't make me weak, it's just how I cope sometimes. Ive probably only cried 3 times in all my jobs but it's a really embarassing situation
The_Forgetser · 5 points · Posted at 21:00:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who cries when she's angry. I haven't seen her sob or get hysterical, but she gets really flustered and teary eyed if she's angry. Which I've always thought was a weird way to deal with anger. She's pretty tough and handles pressure well, she has been the art director for three separate student films all the while doing her day job as an editor in a tv studio that churns out daily soap operas and she has to edit for almost 10 12 hours everyday. I would crumble under that crunch. I've never seen her cry when she's sad, which she rarely is. But for some random reason she cries when she's mad.
one_armed_herdazian · 5 points · Posted at 21:27:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to be like that, the only thing that really changed was getting in a situation where I'm not angry a lot. It's a physiological reaction, not really a conscious choice
eastisfucked · 5 points · Posted at 21:31:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah being able to control your anger and calm yourself down before you start crying is the only way to avoid it. I'm still a teen but I've matured past my angsty stage so I'm able to I just try to keep my cool.
eastisfucked · 2 points · Posted at 21:29:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I angry cry too. It's really uncontrollable and it makes me feel super immature if I'm angry and start crying.
jackster_ · 3 points · Posted at 22:38:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have been there! Usually it's when lots of things build up and one thing pushes me over the edge. As I get older it's easier. I read something about how tears contain cortisol, so it's like you are trying to rid yourself of that stress hormone and that's part of why we cry. Not sure how backed the study was, but it makes sense.
afakefox · 21 points · Posted at 19:11:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in highschool who was and is a real asshole. One time we were all partying and not paying enough attention to Chris for his liking. He huffs and puffs, throwing a cute little tantrum, upstairs to his room and then fifteen minutes later he reappears back downstairs and he had shaved off all his hair and eyebrows, looking upset. Doesn't say anything, just brooding. We all knew he was full of shit and just cracked up laughing. So he went and cried to his mom instead and she came screaming in like, "WHAT DID U ALL DO TO CHRIS?!!!" Hahah, fucking nothing, he did that shit to himself lol
IsomDart · 9 points · Posted at 21:53:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my God, the fact that he shaved his EYEBROWS? What the actual fuck.
DrBobBarker · 134 points · Posted at 16:27:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your sister sucks and everyone that knows her is tired of her shit.
breakingbroken · 15 points · Posted at 17:14:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure he knows that already hence why he’s commenting
DrBobBarker · 19 points · Posted at 17:15:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reaffirmation can be comforting.
ThatThrowaway29986 · 9 points · Posted at 17:16:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like the cut of your jib, man... Lmao
poop_dawg · 5 points · Posted at 17:48:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't even know her and I'm tired of her shit.
WaveB24 · 3 points · Posted at 16:51:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whoa
DrBobBarker · 16 points · Posted at 16:56:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Call em like a see em, Whale Biologist.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:33:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like my grandma
pictonbug · 5 points · Posted at 21:03:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a birthday party once as a kid and my friend fucking ruined the party. She showed up with a spiky hair clip to my birthday... In a super bounce/bouncer/jumper thing. My dad was like, "No, you have to take it out." She starts crying. Takes it out eventually so she can go in and leaves it on the deck. It falls off the deck, breaks. She cries again. Bitch ruined my birthday. As an adult I'm sure she did the same thing.
CaliThrowAway87 · 4 points · Posted at 17:40:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What do you think is going on in her life that she thinks this what she needs to do to get attention?
BlankMyName · 9 points · Posted at 16:52:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Super annoying but there is most certainly a deep underlying mental process that is driving this and she may not be able to gain control of it. It is tough but if you managed to encourage her and get her to go to therapy she might be able to untangle the experience that is causing her to behave this way. It more than likely had something to do with how your parents raised her and how they responded to her when she was a child relying on her amygdala to guide her because the prefrontal cortex was not yet formed.
LunaFox13 · 6 points · Posted at 17:33:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey that’s really interesting! Can you elaborate? I was just wondering what childhood experiences could lead to attention seeking behaviours in adulthood.
recycledstardust · 27 points · Posted at 20:11:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not the OP, but I have some issues with attention-seeking at times. Through therapy, I'm told it's a result of emotional neglect and invalidation. Emotional neglect occurs when the caregiver doesn't respond to a child's emotions in a way that makes the child feel validated in their feelings. Maybe this is because the parent works too much to deal with 1st grade drama, or the parent is uncomfortable seeing their child upset, or (worst case) they actively resent their child and want the child to stop bothering them altogether.
My mom, from what I've concluded, just couldn't handle the emotions I expressed because when I was sad, she assumed it was because she was being a bad mother. Her protection against self-criticism was ignoring any bad thing that happened to me. For example, when I was 11 or so, I felt that I was depressed (I was). When I told my mom, she laughed it off and asked what an 11 year old had to be depressed about. I kept telling her and she wouldn't take me to therapy, and whenever I was upset about something, she told me I was being too sensitive. So I started attention-seeking by telling my friends I was cutting myself. I never actually hurt myself, just claimed that I did. One of my friends told her mom, that mom told my mom, and I finally got to see a therapist. This made me assume that the only way I'd get help or care was if I was in crisis (hurting myself, threatening to commit suicide, etc). It also manifested in things like, I WANTED to contract a serious illness or break a bone just so I'd get the attention I wanted.
This same thing can also happen in adult relationships. I've been in relationships where the other person doesn't soften or take me seriously until I cry. This means that it's ultimately easier to go straight to crying/threatening/lying for attention, than taking the risk that people will ignore you or laugh at your pain.
Of course this usually backfires into a "boy who cried wolf" situation, where freaking out about everything causes people to ignore you and consider you manipulative (which is true - it IS manipulation). That's why it's important that people who were emotionally neglected - even if they weren't emotionally "abused" or if nothing negative was technically said - see a therapist. Therapists are trained to be emotionally validating and accepting, which in and of itself can do a lot of good for someone who thinks they need to express a huge amount of pain just to be heard.
Hope this helps!
fish_peanut · 8 points · Posted at 00:12:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, just wanted to say I've had experience with the same sort of thing as you so it was a relief to see someone else put it down in words. I also had a lot of casual neglect and invalidation from my parents. At some point with my peers I definitely picked up that the only way to get help for the feelings I couldn't cope with (anxiety, sadness) was to make it sound really dramatic or painful, I'd cry a lot or say I wanted to hurt myself. Most people just distanced themselves but it was damaging to people who did stay and felt they had to help me... Therefore accidentally enabling me and trapping me in that loop.
I still sometimes feel a lot of guilt over it since it was manipulative and hurt people. But as you say it was the result of emotional neglect - it was behaviour I'd learned to cope with feelings I'd never been taught how to manage.
I'm more sympathetic to individuals who show attention seeking behaviour than most because of my past, but I understand why people have very little patience for people who act how I did. Unfortunately all you can do sometimes is establish good boundaries and hope they seek therapy eventually :(
This rang very true for me, too.
Thanks for your post!
LunaFox13 · 2 points · Posted at 00:02:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey! Thanks so much for you reply. It definitely cleared it up, I was thinking originally physical abuse would play a large role in later manipulation and attention seeking, but your explanation made way more sense to me. I’m really sorry to hear you went through that, it’s crazy how one’s childhood can really affect us as adults. I hope life is amazing for you now!
whiskersandtweezers · 2 points · Posted at 02:12:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son is 12 and is extremely quiet and stays to himself. I'm the same way due to autism. But this is a good reminder for me to assure him tomorrow that if he's ever sad or feeling depressed, that there is nothing i would find too difficult to do, in order for him to feel better.
recycledstardust · 2 points · Posted at 02:36:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Definitely! I would've loved it if my parent said this and then followed through. Other good ideas are giving options (like, "Would you like a hug?" "Do you want to talk about it?" "Can I make you something to eat?" "Do you want to sit on the couch and watch a show with me?"). I don't know if these suggestions work for you and your son, but I know that's what I would've liked. It shows that my parent put thought into what might help me emotionally.
whiskersandtweezers · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. I will definitely do all of these.
Leaislala · 3 points · Posted at 19:20:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How annoying
Rustash · 3 points · Posted at 20:28:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man I will never understand this. The last thing I want at a party is for everyone’s attention to be solely on me.
NAmember81 · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess that’s better than starting fights and yelling at people to get attention.
smithersss3 · 2 points · Posted at 00:16:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow she sounds exhausting to be around I hope everyone ignores her when she cries
ArmandoPayne · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your Sister's Name? Charlie Puth.
CSIHoratioCaine · 3 points · Posted at 17:35:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I liked one of his songs. What did he do that was bad?
ArmandoPayne · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh nothing. ponchikee mentioned Attention which is a name of a Charlie Puth song which is basically him getting one over on a girl who acts like ponchikee's sister. But considering in the song Charlie Puth doesn't mention a girl's name, I had to improv.
CSIHoratioCaine · 3 points · Posted at 17:54:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh. Its related to his song. Not his actions. Okay cool. That's good
GlassRockets · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate these people because no matter how obviously fake someone's distress is, I have to comfort them.
I'm the kind of person that will cry if I see a stranger crying, as embarrassing as that is.
OhMaGoshNess · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In reality everyone is wondering who keeps inviting the downer
Mizarrk · -4 points · Posted at 17:05:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like somebody I would take advantage of for the night
SaturdayBaconThief · 1437 points · Posted at 15:59:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my great grandmother was 92 she fell into a coma. We were waiting for her to die. Last rights given. I didn't want to talk about how I felt, and didn't really know how to explain it, so I simply told my friends she had died.
Then she woke up. I felt terrible. I had told people she knew that she was dead. (I visited every Sunday and often brought my friends).
But then she actually died a few days later. I didn't know what to say.
So there you go, I lied about my great grandma dying and I still feel bad about it.
psinguine · 180 points · Posted at 16:28:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You didn't lie. You just preemptively told the truth.
FinnFerrall · 67 points · Posted at 17:07:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So you're telling me that I am, in fact, dead?
jordanjay29 · 50 points · Posted at 17:43:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You will be within a countable period of time.
SuperFLEB · 12 points · Posted at 18:06:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We don't know that for sure. Maybe death is all a hoax and everyone who's not a robot is immortal. Or maybe the parent commenter can't count.
jordanjay29 · 9 points · Posted at 18:13:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's okay, we can count for them.
ClaudeWicked · 12 points · Posted at 18:43:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is where you say "Nani?" Innit?
jrf_1973 · 11 points · Posted at 18:01:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We're all dead, some of us just haven't stopped moving yet.
blackcatpaws · 4 points · Posted at 22:31:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/im14andthisisdeep
Gingerbread-giant · 8 points · Posted at 17:39:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean...
FinnFerrall · 4 points · Posted at 18:04:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Go on. If it's bad news, I can deal with it.
Gingerbread-giant · 6 points · Posted at 19:56:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, it depends on how linear your perception of time is.
randominique · 54 points · Posted at 16:28:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This may not help you feel better. I think you were just trying to cope with it. Its hard to deal with deaths. Some people go into denial, some into balls of snot for weeks. I actually had a chance to visit my grandmother on her final days... seeing me really made her happy everyone knows I was her favorite.. but the the Sunday before she passed on Tuesday, I was supposed to visit and decided to watch degrassi even though I knew I could record it and I was getting high off of my moms anti depressants because "I was having difficulty with all of it"... then Monday came. And Tuesday came and my mom told me at lunch time that my grandma passed... I spent all of my Christmas vacation with her, and I loved it even though it was very hard... but I still blame myself for not visiting her that Sunday.... its been 7 years now since she passed and I think about her almost everyday
itheraeld · 17 points · Posted at 18:06:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have almost the exact same story with my grandfather. He had cancer for 3 years. In and out if the hospital, was finally doing better. So when he went to the hospital again and I had a school dance to go to. I told my mum I'll see him when he gets home. I received a call halfway through the dance. He had already passed and my mum came to pick me up. I still regret not going right away. He raised me in the absence of my father and I couldn't even be there for him in his final moments even though he'd been there for me during my first.
randominique · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:23 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That feeling is probably one of the worst I have ever felt so I know exactly what you feel... but you can bet your sweet ass he loved you so much.
I can go into detail about my somewhat Shitty childhood but all I NEED to say is that my grandma was always the one to put clothes and shoes on me and get my school supplies....
Its so dumb being a teenager and thinking everything lasts forever lol.
After my grandma passed I became obsessed with making sure I personally said bye to anyone I was hanging out with when it was time to go telling them I love them and to be safe. I still do to this day...
Don't know if I'll ever fully recover but I do cherish the good days I had with her and everything she taught me, and you should too 💕
itheraeld · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:17 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea my family was never into saying I love you but I basically force them to ever since.
randominique · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:53 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol good! Force that love! I'm the same
tigerjack84 · 15 points · Posted at 18:49:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same.. well, not entirely. But my granny was dying, I literally wanted to move in with her. But I respected that she was very ill and didn’t need half the family constantly with her. I was in her house the day she died and the day before (the day before too, but I spent it with her) she was asleep, and I didn’t wanna disturb her. Had I known, I’d have climbed in beside her.
It’s been 9 yrs and I swear, I miss her more as time goes on :(
randominique · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:35 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
You were respecting what you thought she wanted. There's no reason to blame yourself for trying to be considerate of her. That was nice of you. We all feel gross and irritable while sick, imagine what you may feel like if you're dying? Everyone is different but I could imagine some people not wanting to be bothered and/ or seen like that. I feel like that too, I wish she could've seen me graduate or met her great granddaughter but at least I know she is always with me..
tigerjack84 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:33 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s very true, I never thought of how she was dealing with her own upcoming death (I imagine she was terrified) and the bombarding of family. Like, she actually had to ring friends (we rang others but here were some she wanted to personally ring) like how do you ring your friend and tell them ‘I’m dying’ ?
My cousin was getting married three months after, it was such a loss, and she’s had 6 more great grandchildren.
My last day with her when I was going home she made such a fuss over me (granted I was 25 at the time lol) telling me how much she loved me etc (she’s not like that with emotions - we’re very stiff upper lip lol) and it was as if she knew she’d never see me again. I was telling her to wise up, and that I’ll see her soon :(
randominique · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:30 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously, I'm sure it was very difficult to have to do that. Especially if you say your family is not very expressive of emotions, she was probably all "omg what the heck guys, stop with the pity. Jimmy, wipe that fucking snot off your face" lol, you know? Everyone has their own way of dealing with these huge inevitable and uncontrollable events of life.. it may have been very difficult to get waves of affection and knowing that your time is almost up... She took the opportunity to tell you how much she really cared about you, I would do the same. I think sometimes we forget that things do not last forever that's something we should always keep in mind
tigerjack84 · 1 points · Posted at 08:33:28 on June 30, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very, very true. It all sucks
rapunzell18 · 2 points · Posted at 23:24:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought about my Nanna every day for 10yrs when she passed. Similar tale, i wasn't there when she died either! 16yrs on, I know she wouldn't have wanted me to see her that way! I too was 'her favourite ' and spent more time with her than any of her grandchildren......she loved me for that, as did yours! I only ever think of the good times we spent together these days! Time heals all wounds my friend, 'happy memories' will come to you too!!!
randominique · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:59 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. It makes me very sad I wasn't there, I always wish I was. But I have to take comfort in that she loved me just as much even if I had I gone that day..
rapunzell18 · 2 points · Posted at 21:25:33 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a nice way of looking at it!
avestermcgee · 18 points · Posted at 17:08:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That seems kind of like the opposite though. Simplifying the situation so you don't have to be in the center of attention
rapunzell18 · 15 points · Posted at 19:54:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a worse story which may make you feel a bit better.... My great-aunt May was dying from cancer in a hospice myself and my sister were visiting daily in shifts so she was never alone, even though she was in a coma. We had promised out parents we wouldn't leave her side as they were abroad at the time and felt awful they couldn't be there. The inevitable time came and we were informed it wouldn't be long (death rattle) so we phoned her best friend of 80yrs Liz, so she could be at her side .....it was awful Liz was at her side, begging her not to leave her, my sister was next to her, sobbing overcome with emotion. I was at her other side, gently stroking her hair as I had done for the last 24hrs (it seemed to bring her comfort) remaining calm and strong, so we didn't all fall apart. I thought she had took her last breath so gently placed my fingertips on her eyelids to close them......it wasn't like the movies as there seemed to be so resistance. So I respectively used a little more force.......suddenly her mouth and eyes shot open and she furiously looked me straight in the eye for a second, then faced Liz and my sister and mouthed something, unfortunately they couldn't make out what she was trying to say, and then she was gone! I gently closed her eyelids, just like in the movies.... It haunts me at times that most likely she was saying "I'm not dead yet". I can almost laugh about it now as it was almost slap-stick! Auntie May was an incredible lady who liked a good laugh, so she'd appreciate the humour of that moment, I'm sure!! Thankfully neither Liz or my sister noticed and are none the wiser!
Stompthemwaffles · 6 points · Posted at 18:08:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You coped. Nothing more than that. You're only human after all and losing a loved one is a tough bitch. Keep your chin up, player
BushWeedCornTrash · 4 points · Posted at 20:38:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You were preemptively grieving. You will still get the douche chills whenever you think about this, but in reality, you were protecting you. And that's nothing to be ashamed about.
BobbyFL · 6 points · Posted at 17:38:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a totally different situation, and you know it. Sorry about your grandma btw.
smellexisb · 3 points · Posted at 18:13:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We went through the same thing as my great great aunt last year. Luckily my family is all warped and have a twisted sense of humor bc we had a morbid laugh at the whole thing later.
SerpentDrago · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
the fact you feel bad about it , and the fact it was obviously a way for you to cope with a death . makes you fine .
your fine man , chill out its ok
Lorkdemper · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You jinxed it, man.
wastedsanitythefirst · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people die long before they're buried. Don't worry so much...
jddreamer · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:40 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
This exact situation happened to me last winter. So awkward
TimmyTheFuckingKid · -3 points · Posted at 17:39:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well you didn't lie did You? You said your grandma is dead and shes dead. Therefore, you didn't lie.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 19:11:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn grandma took what for the team. What a g
vinegarballs · 261 points · Posted at 15:01:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I honestly don't know. She just wasn't right. Her family owned a very nice Italian restaurant and she was from a nice part of town. She had 3 older brothers and was the only girl, very much the princess. I think she just needed constant attention. Fuck all that. In my experience the best relationships are based on honesty, first and foremost.
bonerjamz12345 · 12 points · Posted at 15:59:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
is this in new jersey
dostoevsky4evah · 204 points · Posted at 14:50:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To feel a teeny tiny bit of importance.
jcb088 · 4 points · Posted at 17:49:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Theres this woman I work with, her cube shares a wall with mine. She is just.... soaked in this shit. Every day she will tell stories about how she knows famous people (and they're always different, with different people, in different ways, different connections), she constantly has to tell stories about how she sassed others when they were wrong (in little ways, like dealing with someone at an airport, or the DMV, or her condo association) where she always puts them in their place.
She also is a total conspiracy nut, to the point where she's dedicated to the idea of conspiracies more than any single conspiracy. She constantly doesn't understand the world around her (literally every time someone needs any piece of information about her for anything she goes full paranoid) and just..... constantly has issues with everything everywhere all the time.
Her and I get along great (I'm good with computer related stuff so I help her occasionally and she's good with microbiology so I ask her for help with customers) but holy crap I cannot stand her. She is so far gone that I don't think anything will ever make her be a well adjusted person.
There comes a point where lying is so integral to a person that you just realize you can't unfuck them up. Its always co-workers because if they were anyone else you'd just not be around them.
lotuspotus · 71 points · Posted at 14:57:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Attention. Narcissism.
Former_Baron · 5 points · Posted at 17:19:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Could also be that they are compulsive liars and couldn't stop even if they wanted to. Many people mentioned in this thread look like they could easily fall into that category
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:14:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was um.. 15, my great grandfather died. I had met him 2 years before, first and last time, and he was sort of brain dead and unresponsive. So I wasn't super attached.
I was a garbage student and on that day, I messed up some homework or essay and didn't turn it in. I froze and blurted out "uh my great grandfather died so..." and the teacher let me off the hook and was so sympathetic and I sorta sat there looking melancholic (the guilt helped).
So I didn't lie about him dying but I did lie about caring
cainbackisdry · 4 points · Posted at 17:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
BPD
PassivePandas · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:42 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Possibly, but it's not really a consistent BPD trait. Though everyone's different, compulsive lying is more in line with HPD or NPD since it's a self esteem issue. Those with borderline personalities may lie impulsively to cover up something to avoid feeling hurt or attacked but compulsive liars tend to have different motives. Histrionics and narcissists on the other hand, lie for the attention (all publicity is good publicity) as it gives them a momentary boost of self esteem. People can easily be compulsive liars without definite personality disorder too.
dividezero · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've dated people like this one was diagnosed bpd and the other should have been.
there are others but this i think is the main one. some people might do it for attention but what's underlying that?
others can't control it. won't know why and wish they could stop.
PassivePandas · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:34 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lot of people are misdiagnosed with BPD. Someone with bpd is more likely to blow up if you catch them in a lie, because they have no emotional regulation. Attention seeking isn't a major motive of those with bpd, they just truly believe the world is against them, and take great strides to prevent it which comes across as attention seeking to those who don't understand them.
Op said she didn't react, which is not really characteristic of BPD. Crying at a party for attention Is more narcissistic or histrionic than it is borderline.
FizzyDragon · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Attention or sympathy in the moment I’m thinking? Friend of my sister’s lied to her high school (and friends? Not clear) that she’s gotten pregnant and had an abortion. Very weird.
Fun_Sized_Momo · 3 points · Posted at 16:51:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As others have already answered, attention. I struggled with this a lot. I always felt I was boring and needed to come up with exciting things otherwise people wouldn't be interested in talking to me. In my case, it wasn't about NEEDING attention but rather feeling like I had to make these things up in order to converse with others. I'm sure most people don't even realize they are doing it. Once I became aware of what I was doing it was just a matter if trying to curb the habit.
JohniiMagii · 2 points · Posted at 16:30:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly? I bet she was sad and upset but didn't have a good reason. She felt like she had to justify the crying/need for attention and used that. She might have been depressed or had anxiety, though lacked the maturity to just say "I don't feel well and don't know why."
Former_Baron · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depression and teenage hormones can cause bizarre compulsive lying. Many grow out of it
AxlRolls · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Control.
26_Charlie · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people have a compulsion and can't help it. I had a friend with it growing up. Never anything friendship-breaking but I could never trust him. I didn't know the importance of trust until I grew up.
Neodrivesageo · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her other boyfriend broke up with her and she wanted to be told everything will be ok.
The_Golden_Warthog · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Narcissism
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Lorkdemper · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
$25 deductible? Where do you live?
nullstring · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably not for the reason you'd think. She probably had no idea why she lied and never intended to.
antmansclone · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mental illness is a reason.
TheJaskinator · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think this may be some sort of mental disorder
not_the_queen · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Personality disorder
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
no ones gonna say srupid+mental illness+promiscuity? I think we've all known that one girl.
Bonch_and_Clyde · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had one of those compulsive liar friends/acquaintances when I was in high school. You know lying about silly inconsequential things. I think in his case he just wanted people to like him. He was overly concerned with what people thought about him, and that was his way of dealing with it.
Xunae · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people just compulsively lie. I knew a girl in high school who told us one day that she had gone to LA the previous night and come back.
LA is about a 6 hour drive without traffic. She claimed she had left after dinner. You know, maybe she managed to get back in time for our 7 am class. I suppose it's possible, but like why?
BlankManTM · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've read that, when it comes to kids or teenagers and they are in a difficult situation or perhaps low self esteem, they lie as a coping mechanism to make themselves look good. I know a girl that bullshits more than I've ever imagined, I don't even know if I should believe her that her parents divorced for that very reason. It's sad and it's most likely because she was born with some kind of muscular dystrophy, but I can't stand her anymore, and most people at school who know her seem to have realized her lying as well. Good thing high school is over and I don't have to deal with her again, hopefully.
doogie88 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was probably crying because her real bf broke up with her.
StrangeAlternative · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Highschool. Lol
ChickenNuggetMike · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
DanaJaye29 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s exciting for them. We aren’t real people - just characters in their show.
Josiah425 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people are terrible socially and have nothing to add to conversations. To prop themselves up and have things to talk about without deafening white noise they'll lie impulsively to try and seem like they have things going on in life.
Organiczygote · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a girlfriend similar to this (she lied about having cancer and various other things I also just let slide), but after studying mental health diseases I suspect these type of people have borderline personality disorder.
TomTheNurse · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
MizukiAyu · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I believe the technical term is "attention whore"
Wildpotato · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because showing true grief demonstrates that you have the ability to make meaningful connections with people. Faking grief for attention on the other hand is pretty much proof that you can't.
Sixty-to-Zero · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See I have three friends who do this.
It's pretty strange.
One makes shit up on the spot for little to no reason. Another does it to look smart. And another does it to impress me.
I feel like it's a pride thing. They always want to have an answer. The one that tries to impress me I feel has a crush on me and wants to like the things I like. She does this with other people too but mostly me.
The other one I know also liked me and wanted to impress me.
And the other was intimidated by me I think. Because we would argue about stupid things.
Insecurity, and a fondness for the other person makes the most sense but I don't know. I'd love for a psychologist to weigh in on this as I'm just guessing.
That's something all three would rarely say. They would usually say I don't know when they didn't want to answer.
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my father died, my brother's girlfriend told me my dad was like a dad to her. She'd known him less than a year, met him only once for 36 hours, but he was like a dad to her. Uh huh.
When I openly doubted it, my brother chimed in and said, "No, really, she cried before I did when we found out." And of course my immediate thought was, yes, because then it's about her crying and you comforting her in her time of loss, and not the other way around.
I didn't say that, though. What I said, was "And when your dad eventually passes away, you'll realize how stupid this statement was."
Fortunately my brother is no longer with her, but she still wrecked my relationship with him.
Lorkdemper · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, dawg. Inappropes.
A_Guy_Named_John · 2303 points · Posted at 16:06:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am fine
vinegarballs · 301 points · Posted at 16:08:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank God, Now I feel better
JonathenMichaels · 10 points · Posted at 17:52:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Doooooon't make me beat you. God doesn't get the credit, I DO.
Scarletfapper · 1 points · Posted at 07:31:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/wowthanksimcured/
Lavendearie · 54 points · Posted at 16:45:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/beetlejuicing
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 16:58:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Lavendearie · 19 points · Posted at 17:00:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
it is unfortunately too late, my friend
LordOfLiam · 27 points · Posted at 17:02:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“It’s never too late to do what’s right.” -Gandalf J. Dumbledore, Phineas and Ferb S3E7
rad_bird · 18 points · Posted at 17:56:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, fake Phineas and Ferb fan alert. It was obviously Donald van Vader, S4E20
Momumnonuzdays · 7 points · Posted at 18:22:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
🐞💦💦
AreYouFuckingSerious · 12 points · Posted at 16:34:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whew, this is the closure I needed.
gemini86 · 3 points · Posted at 17:17:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got better!
Ninjaassassinguy · 4 points · Posted at 18:27:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What are the chances that someone beetlejuicing on askreddit also players osrs?
imjemmaD · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
HE LIVES!
Dudelyllama · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reddit really is a great place, isn't it?
JonathanTL96 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
MayoFetish · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:11 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good on you John.
suchdogeverymeme · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aptly /r/beetlejuicing
Fun_Stick · -11 points · Posted at 19:37:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nobody is fine. That's the underlying truth you don't see. You're not special. Nobody is and if you allow yourself to age enough without offing yourself, you'll see that not being fine is actually just fine and that you can go on and you can keep smiling. It just takes some time is all. Now suck it up buttercup put on your big girl pants and go make something.
Fun_Stick · -7 points · Posted at 19:40:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Record time down vote! Thank you!
GrandMoffAtreides · 1037 points · Posted at 16:15:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister dated a guy like this.
His dad is sick. His dad’s in the hospital. He’s back home. He’s at the hospital. He died. The hospital lost his body. Wait, he isn’t dead! (Dad surprise!)
She still dated and almost married him after all this. He stole from her numerous times and convinced her to buy a $6000 wedding ring. I’m glad it eventually ended, but goddamn, my sister was gullible.
Ktopotato · 52 points · Posted at 17:50:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm secretly still hoping for my own "Dad surprise". It's been 3 years.
friendo112 · 14 points · Posted at 18:05:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
:( i’m sorry man
The-True-Kehlder · 7 points · Posted at 19:00:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's getting metaphysical smokes.
-bogdan_ · 72 points · Posted at 17:41:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
is that a rob cantor reference?
GrandMoffAtreides · 67 points · Posted at 18:01:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
quiet, quiet
AtariDump · 9 points · Posted at 22:48:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Limping toward the cottage,
itstimetofifa · 8 points · Posted at 23:18:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Quiet quiet
Legospyro131 · 6 points · Posted at 00:57:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now you’re on the doorstep
Valridagan · 3 points · Posted at 23:08:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, the greatest music video ever made.
....Alongside Frontier Psychiatrist and The Stampede.
jamie_plays_his_bass · 42 points · Posted at 18:12:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I see your actual cannibal reference and I appreciate it.
syh7 · 31 points · Posted at 18:19:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I get that reference.
A_Mental_Cashew · 24 points · Posted at 18:38:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upvote for Shia.
Foreglow · 9 points · Posted at 18:38:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is it gullibility, or is it desperation, low self esteem, and fear of being lonely? In romances it's usually the latter.
GrandMoffAtreides · 10 points · Posted at 18:46:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was (and is) prey to all of the above. A dangerous combination. It has led her to have two kids with her husband (not the lying man) in order to keep him interested in their relationship.
katamaritumbleweed · 8 points · Posted at 19:03:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh gods. I feel for those kids. Ugh.
Foreglow · 4 points · Posted at 19:06:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry to hear that. Hopefully she figures out her worth some day. I'm sure it's hard to see her go through that and not be able to do anything.
newsheriffntown · 7 points · Posted at 20:09:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your sister bought the ring??? Wut.
RealJohnGillman · 5 points · Posted at 23:51:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He convinced her to buy a wedding ring?
GrandMoffAtreides · 4 points · Posted at 00:50:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, he acted like he had some money coming in, and he told her he’d pay her back.
UniversallyUniqueID · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's a gun to your head, and death in his eyes!
himishim · 83 points · Posted at 15:06:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know someone who, among like over 10 people that all know him and each other, lies similar to this person. We all agree on it too and he would do it about the most meaningless things. It is so easy to see through because whenever you ask about more detail, he moves on to something else.
ArmandoPayne · 4 points · Posted at 17:12:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah no yeah, I was just in Zaire the other day with Marilyn Monroe, yeah no yeah, it was like, there was like seals there we went to Cape Town, Swaziland afterwards and let's just say yeah, me and Bill DiMaggio we watched the Pigeons fly east to the capital of Swaziland, Green Buffaloes. Yeah no yeah, why would I lie?
thingymajiggy · 15 points · Posted at 16:05:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a similar thing happen to me. An ex came back into my life as a friend, claiming to have changed and whatnot and "at least let's be friends" so I accepted. A few weeks of friendship later he texts me about a friend of his who apparently died the day before.
I consoled him but something in my gut said it was a lie. So I went onto every single one of his friends' social media accounts: no mention anywhere of RIP or anything, which teenagers typically do. Finally find the "dead" girl's account: she tweeted THAT day. I confronted him and told him to never speak to or call me again.
Drew-Pickles · 12 points · Posted at 16:09:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got a message from my then girlfriends phone claiming that it was her friend, and that my Gf was in a bit of a state because earlier that day, as they were stuck in traffic or something, she saw a guy shoot himself with a shotgun by the side of the road.
I was like "that's fucked up, etc." and asked the "friend" how she was doing, and she said she was fine and didn't see anything because she was "looking at a deer" and that I shouldn't mention any of it to her parents.
Cut to the next day, I was having dinner with her family, and she was upstairs ill or something, and her dad started telling us how they were stuck in traffic (or whatever) and they saw a guy walk into the woods with a shotgun. And that was the story.
I never mentioned anything to anyone about it because I was pretty young and more concerned about the fact that I had someone who was willing to have sex with me, but she or someone had barefaced lied to me. I still to this day don't know if it was even her or this nameless friend who even messaged me. But she was and is an odd one, so I wouldn't put it past her.
Infidelc123 · 10 points · Posted at 16:49:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked with a guy that would lie about everything for no reason. I once mentioned I liked Dota2 so he claimed to be a huge fan so I added him on steam. Literally 0 hours played, never even installed, if you asked him questions about it he couldn't really answer and would change the subject. What a pointless thing to lie about, he also claimed that he worked on a farm and the farmer had a grenade launcher to protect his farm.
himishim · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It must be some kind of compulsive disorder or something. It’s like, what the hell are they thinking. It ruins talking to them because you never know the truth from false so you stop caring about it all.
Simowl · 8 points · Posted at 16:43:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Knew a guy at college who said he had cancer. Eventually turned out he had a very small, benign tumour that he wanted more sympathy for I guess. Also found out his sister has had cancer, so... dick.
andnojoe · 11 points · Posted at 16:25:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend in high school that would fake cry in public all the time for attention. I got bored with it and would just stare at her or walk away. Her boyfriend said he didn’t like me because I was heartless, just staring at her crying like that. So. Annoying.
OfficeTexas · 4 points · Posted at 16:57:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad had an employee who would tell you it was raining as the two of you looked out the window at the scorching sun. He was telling me about a guy we both knew who was "planning to quit his job and work for your dad". He "needed the money" because he was about to get married.
My girlfriend and I had been to the guy's wedding, 6 months earlier. His new wife's family was loaded. And he loved his job.
jahlove24 · 4 points · Posted at 17:24:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated a guy like that in my early 20s. He lied constantly about unimportant things and more often than not I would call him on it. I told him he can lie to all of his friends but not to me and it worked for about a year, only with a sporadic lie peppered in that I would always catch. But of course pathological liars can't change and he ended up lying to me about something huge. I was devastated and asked him if he thought he could ever stop lying and he (funny enough) said "Honestly, no." So we broke up. I still enjoyed our relationship a lot because he was funny and sweet but it just couldn't be anything long term.
ThewanderingnurseNS · 4 points · Posted at 17:47:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me! I lived in a different part of the country while I went to uni so I didn't know many people but ended up dating a guy for about 4-5 months, we were exclusive, spent a lot of time together (at least every other day) and he had a friend "Shawn" who was diagnosed with a rapidly progressing cancer. Boyfriend goes AWOL for 7 days, didn't hear a thing from him so figured he was ghosting me for some reason and went on with my life... day 7 comes around and he messages saying his buddy passed away from cancer and he couldn't be around people so he went camping in the mountains to grieve and then went to his funeral... we ended up drifting apart shortly after anyway and he moved out of town for work. Fast forward a few months and he comes back to town and we meet up for a drink. He's sitting across the table from me and we're just catching up and then he mentions "Shawn is doing a lot better now, his treatment is working"... so I said "Shawn who died when you fucked off for a week miraculously came alive and is beating cancer now?! Awesome for him!!" He turned bright red and stuttered something as I got up and left... ignored his multiple rambling explanations via text for a few weeks and never heard from him again... "Shawn" is still alive and well and cancer-free though I've been told by a mutual friend!!
TL;DR: boyfriend goes AWOL for a week, says it's cause his friend died of cancer, months later forgets the lie and tells me that same friend is in remission and is doing great. Up yours, bud!
rudshire · 3 points · Posted at 16:44:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But what was the point of even doing that?
eofox · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a little kid (4-12) I would make up stories about everything for no apparent reason. I didn't go so far as to use or take over someone else's memory or experience. Anyways, in high school I finally got to the point of being fed up with it and started trying to say things like "wouldn't it be best if" or "in a dream I had last night" and tbh since then it's gotten to a point where it's a complete non-issue. Any fake stories I tell I preface with the fact that they are fake and it would just be neat, interesting, or strange if they occurred. No pity for lies though, they fuck everything up for everyone.
himishim · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah like imagine if... or something.
cannabliss_ · 3 points · Posted at 17:27:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dated a girl in high school for a few weeks and didn’t really know her that well.. she told me her dad had cancer and I was giving her my sympathy and asking about his condition for about a week before she said it was a joke. I still remember how baffled I was when she just nonchalantly told me he didn’t have cancer like it was funny.
I was just like “yeeaaahh I don’t think this relationship is gonna work”. Seriously don’t know the thought process behind that one.
kittymctacoyo · 3 points · Posted at 18:14:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Much less significant but similar. My parents like to play up other people’s woes to get sympathy for themselves. It could be someone they met once, but if they hear of some hardship they are going through, suddenly they are heart broken for their dearest friend. They called me up once to tell me my absolute favorite family member (hard to come by in my shit family) was dying of cancer and wouldn’t make it much longer. Could be any day now. My husband took off work, we loaded up my brand new baby in a vehicle with no AC in dead heat of a southern summer, and drove HOURS to visit this aunt. An Aunt is never forgive myself for missing last days with. We get there and my Aunt is so well she’s prepared a southern feast. We get home to find my husband lost his position to another guy for taking time off. My parents knew what we had to go through to get there. I got zero apologies for that and zero sympathy for the lost income. My aunt is still alive 17 years later.
HorseIsHypnotist · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is this guy who joined our group of friends a while back. He had told some us that his mother was dead.
Several months later he casually mentions going to see his mom that day. We all just kind of looked at each other.
We asked some other friends and he had told several of them that his mom was dead too.
He lied about so many things over the years. Later he was taking rent money from his roommates for months and apparently not paying the rent. He kind of fell off the radar for awhile after the fall out when they got evicted. He wasn't sketchy in the typical way. He was just so so stupid.
He was just the worst.
katarr · 2 points · Posted at 13:36:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
FYI he fell off the radar because he went to jail.
TheHurdleDude · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The Romeo and Juliet bit was pretty funny.
10minutes_late · 2 points · Posted at 20:19:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an ex like that. She lied about her mother dying, having cancer, having her inheritance embezzled, and even being pregnant. Swore up and down and was furious when I kept calling her Bullshit. She took me to meet her "family friend" who would vouch for her.
The family friend turned out to be her therapist, who promptly told me I had just been along for her psychotic episode.
cheekahrah · 3 points · Posted at 16:10:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Btw your username is dope lol
minastirith1 · 4 points · Posted at 17:36:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That fucking name omg I can smell it.
PM_ME_DEM_NIPPIES · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
YAHOO
Schmaudrey · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work with someone who lies about shit like this all the time. From the littlest shit that no one would bother to verify to blatant lies about other people we work with. She does it just to have something to gossip and talk about. I don’t understand this mentality and it makes working with her REALLY difficult.
Masr_om_el_donya · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Props to your 16 year old self for having the wisdom and self respect to dump her, if she lies about shit like this who knows what other things she would have lied about.
bazoid · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in high school who I strongly suspect was a pathological liar. He was smart enough not to lie about things anyone could verify, but he just always had these really unbelievable stories, about meeting famous people and whatnot. Other people who knew him suspected it also.
A couple of years after high school, we were still in touch occasionally, and one day he texts me telling me his dad died. I hated the fact that my first reaction was to wonder whether it was true. I looked in the local news for an obituary, looked on Facebook for family members sending condolences, but never found any mention of it. Still, there was no was I was going to ask him whether it was true, and I really wanted to believe he wouldn’t lie about something like that. So I still don’t know to this day.
S2R2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know she made up a huge lie about why you two broke up right?
JustARandomFuck · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated a girl like this.
She was pregnant every two months and then had an abortion. Also claimed she was raped by her ex. Who she was fucking behind my back for 4 months.
cyranothe2nd · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend was dating a girl exactly like this, but only she pretended she was the one with cancer.
Iamnotarobotchicken · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When people lie about little things for no reason that should be a huge red flag. It means lying is a habit or compulsion to them.
Kooloolimpah · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Omg I know someone who lied about having cancer....fooled even her family. She would go to pretend appointments, come back with fake bandages...was wheeled around in a wheelchair at times because she was "weak." Our church had prayer meetings for her....people made her meals....gave her money for expenses.
Fast forward almost a year later she was caught embezzling at the company she worked at and during the trial she admitted to the court she wasn't honest about her cancer; fully confessed that she made it up and was never sick
I felt terrible for her daughter. She was probably 19 at the time and when her mom went to jail she moved far away.
Funny thing is that the woman admitted to lying about cancer for a year but would not admit to embezzlement. She was found guilty though anyway.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex lied to me about his grandma dying once when he was actually just out drunk , and then i saw an envelope from her on his living room table. I'm like wtf was your plan????
spokemone · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did she really think she could just make up doing a play?
It would be so easy to want to come see the show yourself, or at the very least ask for pictures or something. Christ.
carlotta4th · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have told her dad. You weren't going to ever date her again either way, and if no one holds to the truth she'll just keep living in a world of lies.
vinegarballs · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was my bargaining tool for never having to deal with her bullshit ever again. I stand by my choice
Awemazinguy · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"What am I gonna tell my parents?"
"Figure it out, I don't give a shit. You'll probably just lie to them anyway."
drugs_are_yummy · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She sounds like a narcisist
kaleighb1988 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People that want attention for knowing someone that died or is very sick may have Munchausen by proxy.
Redanxela · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know this might make me seem like a heartless bastard but if I was at that diner and learned my gf had lied about a relative dying from cancer I would have brought the whole "I was told this during this event by your daughter that he died" idk if that's just a way I'd instantly want to rub it in or something, but I for sure would have broke off the relationship at the end of the dinner if not right after talking to the parents about it. Edit: fixed some words
AlphaNumericGhost · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old Boss told me that the kid before me got fired for a lie like that. Basically kid called saying his dad died and won't be in for a few days. A couple weeks later the dad calls the place for some reason and I could only imagine how that conversation went.
Valoid · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, so she lied about John dying for no reason whatsoever?
lollapopalooza · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in high school who did something similar. One day she claimed her friend had died by suicide the night before and then 3 weeks later she was talking to another friend about her plans that night with the supposed dead friend. Although knowing her the friend was probably made up, not just the fictional suicide.
She also told me on 4 separate occasions she had just lost her virginity to whatever new boyfriend she had.
Oh, and for over a year she claimed she was dating this guy that none of us really knew and it turned out that she was lying about that too.
I'll stop now. She used to lie a lot lol.
Zeeker12 · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know how they say not to diagnose people over the Internet?
Fuck that. She was borderline personality disorder.
Stardustchaser · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Romeo and Juliet? If that was in California she was a Freshman. Young love is often stupid love- moral of both stories.
mikey1181 · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait was she dating John on the side? Sorry I'm lost :(
intensely_human · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
John moved to Portugal and sells hash on the beach. His cancer's basically in remission now. He's getting some sleeve tattoos done a little bit at a time, he's getting pretty good at backgammon, and is learning to garden by volunteering with the parks department.
I_Can_Haz_Brainz · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:52 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just feel sorry for your balls, man!
MrMonkeMan · -3 points · Posted at 16:09:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should have responded "That! is amazing news, but I just got off the phone and my girlfriend unfortunately won't make it through the night."
snukebox_hero · 0 points · Posted at 15:43:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What year was this?
PhilosopherFLX · -2 points · Posted at 16:53:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very small chance John had previous abused her and it showed as the constant small lies as her way of coping. Her control over the world. Maybe why the total lack of affectation when visiting him and the follow up catharthis if him 'dieing'. Also this is a Reddit armchair diagnosis so most likely she was also the Boston Bomber.
I2ecover · -2 points · Posted at 17:54:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You phoned her?
jamesdean20 · 1134 points · Posted at 16:44:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TLDR; Tech support tells kid he is going to be arrested.
I was working in tech support at an ISP on the afternoon/evening shift. It is a smaller ISP so tech support all sits in one office about a stones throw from each other. In the evenings there are only about 12 people working until about 7pm when it drops to about 7 people.
We got a call one night from a kid(sounded about 12) who was using a deep voice trying to get info on an IP address from us. This isn't uncommon for kids who are gaming to call tech support to try and get information so they can DDOS someone they are mad at. The first person he got followed protocol and asked if he had a warrant then hung up(We can't give out that type of info to anyone without a warrant). Same thing happened to 3 other people over the course of about 15 minutes before he changed up his act.
I got him at that point and he said that he was agent something-or-other from the FBI and he needed info on the IP address(have you ever heard a 12 year old try to sound like an adult?). I played along and asked him if he had the account info he was looking for. He panicked at that point and said I should have it and John in customer service should have sent it to me. I informed him there isn't a John in customer service(They worked in the same office as us so I knew them all). He was quiet for a few seconds before he tentatively tried another name and I told him I know that person. He got super excited and it was kind of funny listening to him think he was getting through. I asked him for the account info because that person had not sent it to me and the kid hung up.
The next few attempts were the kid pretending to be one of my coworkers and telling people to give him the info. Granted this was at about 830pm and that specific coworker had gone home at 7. At that point we were getting annoyed and just hung up on him whenever we heard his voice.
As 9pm rolled around, one of my coworkers was very upset that she hadn't gotten him yet, she had this whole plan on what she was going to say to him and was super excited a few minutes after 9 when we all heard her yell accross the office "I GOT THE IP GUY". We all went on break or put calls on hold to come listen to what her plan was.
The kid was pretending to be our coworker again, which was very funny for us because the person he was talking to sits right next to the person he was imitating. She acted like she was going to give him everything, he gave her the IP address he wanted info on and she got him to sing like a bird on what he was looking for. After about a minute she said "Thank you sir, we just finished tracing your call and I am required to inform you that a member of the FBI will be swinging by shortly to pick you up to answer some questions". We could hear the kid flip out for a few seconds over her headset and then he hung up.
We all lost it, that was the funniest thing we had all seen in a while and we didn't hear from him again.
619sxb · 103 points · Posted at 17:03:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Love the story... I wonder what and where that kid’s persistence has gotten him in life now
BijeDragonne · 42 points · Posted at 20:26:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was dating a pink cat for awhile but after she found out about his son they split up.
swansonian · 29 points · Posted at 23:09:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I heard he lost his job at the Business Factory
Georginator2000 · 11 points · Posted at 23:15:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But he had such important clients as a business consultant. He approved of so much business
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 07:08:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can't anyone see that's just three kids in a trench coat!?
KenDefender · 14 points · Posted at 00:35:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's probably SWATing people by now.
L0neW4nderer · 3 points · Posted at 20:04:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
probably somewhere good tbh
nighttimeninja314 · 12 points · Posted at 05:07:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have given the kid his own IP address.
Lowtiercomputer · 3 points · Posted at 22:26:28 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Doxing?
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 23:22:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Whiskey_Sierra_Tango · 17 points · Posted at 11:20:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a very simplistic view of the situation. There's a dozen and more situtations where it could've played out exactly like the OP described it. For example
lazydragon69 · 36 points · Posted at 04:38:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shrug. Maybe the author meant "dox" and isn't hip on hacking terms? Still a fun story and given the details my guess is the OP just misspoke.
Drithyin · 8 points · Posted at 06:42:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably just misunderstood the kid's intention.
Troj03 · 2 points · Posted at 00:59:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So, Op is faking?
ciucco · 3 points · Posted at 23:56:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even though he didn't get what he wanted, it makes me so happy that young kids are still starting out doing social engineering. If this didn't scare him too bad, I hope he gets better at it.
jamesdean20 · 13 points · Posted at 00:48:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Baby's first hack
WeirdWolfGuy · 507 points · Posted at 15:32:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one is comical. And other than being a shitty job, my old job cleaning retail centers was almost always good for a laugh when it came the crap ass workers the company would hire.
Guy who didnt have a license, a car, and was certainly too lazy to walk the 4 miles to work (i rode my bike 9 miles every damn night, and yes, it was UP HILL to this store where i was working, though i got to coast for the most part on my way home)
He was driven to work, everyday, by his grandmother, who was probably late 60s, or early 70s.
Second day of work he says he needs a week of because his grandmother (the one who drove him to work) was sick and in the hospital. ok.
Then his grandmother shows up AT THE WORKPLACE, to buy herself some new slippers that the location had on sale.
With him in tow. He saw me, and the look of realization on his face was glorious. Company was sucky, and would fire people for lying about why they missed work...but for some reason would take weeks to fire someone who was a repeat 'no call no show'...
player2_dz · 6 points · Posted at 22:57:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Anywhere I've ever worked would tell you to walk the 4 miles and get your ass to work. If you're not fat as fuck it isn't that far to walk. I've had bus journeys to work at places that would take longer than a 4 mile walk.
WeirdWolfGuy · 9 points · Posted at 23:17:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that was my thing, i was riding a mountain bike, UP HILL, and since i worked there for voer 2 years, thats means i rode my bicycle IN THE WINTER, THROUGH FUCKING SNOW STORMS.
i had perfect attendance. 110% in fact. I never missed a scheduled day of work, and often rode in on my days off because yet another new hire decided to just not show up.
In my eyes, aint no fucking excuse
jacyerickson · 2 points · Posted at 02:29:40 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of my first real job at a fast food place. I had a co-worker who was nice but a total flake. One time she was late coming back from a break and the shift lead told her off for it. She claimed it was because she was talking on the phone to her mom who just told her her grandma died and did a stupid fake cry. The lead was like "well, I had no way of knowing that. Next time pop your head in and let me know you need a few more minutes." After the co-worker went into the back to put her things away the lead mumbled about how she's always late coming back from breaks, so what's her excuse for the other times? She was always asking me to cover her shifts for her. I was going to school full time, so I didn't really want more hours but I took them to be nice. Later, she bought a car she couldn't afford and BEGGED me to give her some of my shifts so she could make payments. So, being nice one more time I gave her some of my shifts. She calls me the day before one of them and begs me to take it back. I was tired of her shit at this point, so I told her I couldn't because I already made plans. My plans were to not deal with her shit anymore.
WeirdWolfGuy · 3 points · Posted at 02:41:31 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
on one occasion at this job, i had four coworkers no call no show, and instead of just saying 'fuck it ill do the best i can' i just stayed late.
A 9 hour shift became a 14 hour shift. the next day, the same thing happened. then the next.
3 days in a row, i, a single person, did the job of a 5 man crew. I was so fucking tired by the end of that weekend that when my boss told me he needed me to come in on my day off, i actually had to refuse. He got pissy but i informed him that since the company does not apply unapporved overtime until the pay period AFTER period it was worked, and i just worked 3 14 hour shifts and thus had almost 10 hours of overtime, i was too tired.
jacyerickson · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:49 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds awful.Hopefully you found something better.
LVBernal93 · 11580 points · Posted at 14:18:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I must have been nine or ten. My friends and I were all going through the same doll phase, so we would bring our favorites to each other's house and play.
As my friend was leaving I noticed a few of my dolls missing. She was holding them hostage in her doll limo, I just knew it. As she was walking outside I casually said, "oh I think you might have grabbed my doll on accident." Flustered she checked her limo and pulled out my dolls.
Got you.
She also stole some of my dolls clothing. I searched her room when she went to bathroom and stole it back.
Stopped playing dolls with her!
InfluencedMarker · 3075 points · Posted at 16:21:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me..
I was in middle school, around 8th grade and me and my best friend Lindsey became friends with her new neighbor, Sam, since she was the same age as us and didn’t know anyone yet.
Anyways, we started hanging out and having all the sleep overs at Lindsey’s house but me and Lindsey started noticing that some of our clothes would always be missing after these sleepovers. Mainly jackets, tops, some jewelry, but weirdly, a lot of underwear. Well we decided we didn’t really want to bring it up cause it was embarrassing and weird to call her out without proof and we also kind of wanted to believe maybe something else was happening. Like maybe it was Lindsey’s older sister messing with us or something (even though she had denied it when we asked her).
So we go through like 10 of these sleepovers and hang outs, until as we were packing up to leave one day, Lindsey notices a brand new zip up hoodie that was like $40 is missing (this is early 2000s, it’s a Hot Topic hoodie, and we were like 13yo so $40 was something she had to save a long time for). This pissed her off cause it wasn’t cheap hand-me-downs anymore so Lindsey kind of flipped. She starts rifling through her closet and asks me and Sam if we’ve seen her hoodie. We both say no but she wasn’t ready to let it go. So Lindsey says “look I know it was here last night since I hung it back up, do you guys think it could be in your bags? Do you mind if I check? I just really love this hoodie.” Now she knew my stuff had been missing too so she knew I was on board with this tactic so I immediately said yes and mentioned that I couldn’t find a bra I’d brought this morning either so I wanted to see if we could find the missing stuff.
Well, as this dialogue is happening Sam is obviously freaking out. Her whole face has changed and she’s started saying “let’s look in your closet again, or maybe we could check the laundry room downstairs” but I’ve already opened my bag and Lindsey’s already explained that it couldn’t be downstairs since both things were with us the night before. I think this is when Sam realized she was gonna have to open her bag cause she knew she was caught and couldn’t come up with a reasonable lie.
So Sam unzips her bag finally and right there on top is Lindsey’s hoodie. Folded up. And underneath it is my bra and two pairs of Lindsey’s underwear she hadn’t noticed were missing yet. The air in the room was awkward to say the least. Sam goes “I don’t know how those got in here, that’s so weird.” Me and Lindsey didn’t really want to call her out, we just wanted our stuff back, so I say “huh, weird...well, I guess I’ll just take my bra.” She passed our stuff back and leaves to go home. Right after she left me and Lindsey agreed no more sleepovers with her and if we hung out with her it’d have to be at her house or somewhere public, like going to the movies, etc.
PremiumMoose · 832 points · Posted at 17:48:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In middle school, a close friend of mine stole $40 out of my dad’s wallet & then stole my Nintendo DS with several of my games. I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it now, but I was heartbroken at the time. I couldn’t believe she’d steal from my family and me until I actually saw the evidence when I slept over at her house the following week. She had my DS charging, partially hidden by clothes, and my games. As for the two $20s, she was always broke so the fact that she miraculously had $40 in her purse was enough for me.
Looking back, she probably stole most of my nice things that went missing because they’d “disappear” all the time right after interacting with her
Old_and_Moist · 181 points · Posted at 18:31:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please tell me you got the DS and games back
coolkid1717 · 64 points · Posted at 18:58:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you get your things back?
PremiumMoose · 142 points · Posted at 19:04:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I stole my DS back but alas, I could only find 2 of the games she took
coolkid1717 · 50 points · Posted at 19:39:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you. How old were you?
PremiumMoose · 98 points · Posted at 19:49:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably 12-13 at the time, I’m 18 now and I’m still enraged lol
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 21:21:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Enexia · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
and get sent to jail, good idea
Prothean_Beacon · 24 points · Posted at 21:03:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please tell me they were trash games and not something like Pokemon where rebuying the game isn't the same since you lost your save.
IsomDart · 9 points · Posted at 22:13:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did the DS still save your games to the cartridge or was the save file on the system?
Prothean_Beacon · 16 points · Posted at 22:15:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ds saves to the cartridge not the system so op would not be able to recover any saves which for games like Pokemon can be devastating
Spitfiiire · 26 points · Posted at 22:42:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A close friend of mine in middle school stole my new camera I had gotten for my birthday, some clothes and also some jewelry. I totally understand the heartbroken feelings. Middle school sucked.
PremiumMoose · 7 points · Posted at 00:27:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude that sucks!! I’m sorry!
Spitfiiire · 7 points · Posted at 02:59:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's okay, I'm sorry about your things too!
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 01:58:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PremiumMoose · 11 points · Posted at 02:29:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wouldn’t say that story had a happy ending exactly but at least you got it back eventually
Stinky_Pumbaa · 45 points · Posted at 21:07:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son had a, what he thought was a really good friend... And I thought so too. He was having it really rough for a 10 year old. Didn't have anything nice, always coming over in holey clothes and it wasn't even Sunday. He slept over a lot since it was better than staying in his mom's bed. Dad was a druggy and in jail. We would hand down clothes, feed him, take him places with us. We find out from the kid who is crying they are moving since his dad is getting out of jail... Not true, they were just being evicted because the mom wouldn't get a job and kept doing drugs herself. He stayed over one more time and we made it a fun night. Next day after he leaves, all my son's ds games and DS are gone.
My son was upset, why would his friend steal from him? I said while it wasn't right, he has nothing and knows no better. I'm not happy about it just like you're not, but it's just a thing. Remember the happy times with your friend, not this stupid thing he did.
I replaced the DS as by this time they were selling cheap used at GameStop and replaced the games which was more expensive because Mario and Pokemon.
DCF was called multiple times, but because DCF never does their job... Meh, nm.. that's a rant for another day.
SeenSoFar · 24 points · Posted at 03:22:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend do this to me once when I was a kid. It was a Virtual Boy (dating myself here). I told him "If you had just asked I would have given it to you." He looked like I slapped him in the face when I said that and then started crying.
D_Winds · 19 points · Posted at 21:11:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should've shanked 'em.
pepethegrinch · 3 points · Posted at 06:11:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually cried reading this
purpleboxkite · 3 points · Posted at 09:21:49 on July 8, 2018 · (Permalink)
a tip for your future kids hand held games.
take the battery cover off and go to the jeweler and for $5-10 get their name or even full initials engraved to it, thats how i caught out the friend who stole my DS and i saw it at their house. asked in front of their parents where they go it, the case all games etc, parents got a bit interested, cos why wouldnt i the best friend know they had a DS when i almost always had mine with me...
told them i thought it was mine, they got mad cos our kid doesnt steal rah rah gunna ring your parents, told them fine, but dads also gunna say take the battery cover off. so they did, and i got my shit back, a full apology from my as of then former friend and a lift home and my parents apologised to, cos they thought i lost it and had grounded me the week earlier over it.
gettodaze · -16 points · Posted at 20:53:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your last sentence makes no sense
PremiumMoose · 16 points · Posted at 22:44:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’re right, that was kind of confusing. What I meant was I should have realized she was stealing from me sooner because my stuff would go “missing” shortly after she saw it or used it. It all lead back to her
sirtophat · 309 points · Posted at 17:26:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was her family really poor or something?
ChippyCuppy · 467 points · Posted at 17:48:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rich people steal stuff, too. Especially when they’re kids.
InfluencedMarker · 437 points · Posted at 17:49:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, her family was upper middle class. She wasn’t going without which made it even more odd that she felt the need to steal stuff from us. And the fact that a lot of the stuff she took, she had similar items in her own wardrobe. I guess it must have been compulsive and just out of her control. I’m sympathetic to whatever reasoning, it just sucked that I lost so much stuff pretty quickly. After that though, she never really ~had~ the opportunity to steal again but I’d like to think she never did it to anyone else but I don’t really know.
ChippyCuppy · 131 points · Posted at 18:06:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s like a risk-taking high. I grew up really poor and would never have stolen from my friends, but I had really high empathy for a kid. I think it’s something that some kids will do whether their family has money or not. Part of it is developmental stages and testing boundaries. Your friend probably felt bad after getting caught and maybe she grew a little. Kids are still growing.
You guys did the right thing by confronting the behavior. There’s no need to escalate the situation by shaming her unnecessarily or whatever, I’m sure she was plenty shamed by having her secret revealed. It’s all part of growing up, for some kids. I didn’t steal but I did other stupid shit!!
InfluencedMarker · 80 points · Posted at 18:15:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, after that we never had any issues with her and still hung out. She also seems to have turned out fine. She’s getting married and built a house and has her dream job so her klepto tendencies when we were kids obviously is not representative of who she is at the core. She’s a good person who made some dumb decisions as a teenager. I don’t hold any malice, it’s still just one of the weirder things I had a friend do! I’m really glad you gave insight from the kleptos point of view in a way because we all make mistakes
ChippyCuppy · 40 points · Posted at 18:19:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my friends from high school told me she was in the witness protection program. I didn’t believe her but pretended I did because she was new at our school and I didn’t want to embarrass her. We just kind of never talked about it again. I wasn’t the type to make up crazy stories, at least not at that age, but you never know what someone else is going through. We’ve been friends 25 years and I’m just never going to mention it to her. We were just kids. :)
The-True-Kehlder · 24 points · Posted at 19:33:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You gotta mention it. Do it all sidelong like "how's WitSec treating you?" While looking at her out the corner of your eye.
ChippyCuppy · 13 points · Posted at 21:23:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder if she even remembers it. Another girl came to our school and told us that she had gone to so many raves in New York City. All her cool raver friends threw a huge rave for her when she moved away. This was really impressive because we were only 13! We found out from her best friend that raver queen girl had lived with her grandma in New York for a week the previous summer and hadn’t had any friends at all. Kids just say stupid stuff to make friends. I wouldn’t want anyone to remind me of something that stupid I said back then, lol.
Lonklecks · 4 points · Posted at 21:08:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day ChippyCuppy!
ChippyCuppy · 7 points · Posted at 21:14:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First time I’ve been active on reddit on The Day. Enjoying these messages :)
Lonklecks · 2 points · Posted at 21:21:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have some sort of blindspot where I consistently miss my cake day here and on Imgur so I like to message people just in case they haven't noticed :)
deathuberforcutie · 19 points · Posted at 18:58:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it says a lot about you and your friend that you remained in touch with her. That was very mature and kind.
BlooperBoo · 35 points · Posted at 18:10:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive struggled with being a klepto, especially when I was younger. Its not even thrill, its "I want it, so why shouldnt I have it?" I never stole from stores or anything, and I mean... ya gotta be more slick than that, sam.
ChristyCMC · 33 points · Posted at 18:21:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A child stealing like this....it's rarely about the "things" they are stealing (as opposed to the kid who steals a single item- that's usually about the item). Kids act out when something is bad/wrong in their lives. It's almost impossible for a kid to not act out if going thru some kind of issue in their lives. It's a subconscious alarm bell.
chhhyeahtone · 9 points · Posted at 19:40:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wasn't she the new to the neighborhood? Could be her response to moving
coolkid1717 · 25 points · Posted at 18:56:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You got to think "how would I feel if they took something I owned?".
In my general life I always try to think about how the other person feels. This helps a lot in controlling anger and jealousy. If someone upsets me I always try to think about how they feel and I give them the benefit of the doubt.
That means when someone cuts me off I just think "maybe they're really late getting somewhere" or "maybe their boss is a giant ass and they just got yelled at for an hour over something out of their control".
People are very complicated. Life is really complicated. You never really know what other people are going through. People usually act a certain way for a reason.
You also need to ask yourself "does this matter". Is it worth my time and energy to pursue? Will this ever happen again?
My final life philosophy is "do to others as you'd wish they'd do to you". If you don't want someone to treat you a certain way then don't treat them the same way. This also works the other way. Instead of saying "I shouldn't do this because I wouldn't want to be treated that way" you also need to think "I should do this because I would wish someone would do that to me". That means if you would want help when struggling to do something, you better help someone else when they're struggling. If you want to be recognized at work for a good job you did, then you better tell your Co workers and boss good job when they do well.
Following these rules really helps your life. It makes you calmer, you spend some time thinking about what you should do which stops you from making impulse decisions, it helps you stop wasting energy on things that don't matter, and it strengthens the relationships you have with people.
One of the best ways to gain favor with people around you is by offering them help with things. Even small things.
It takes time to start doing these things. Eventually after doing these long enough it becomes second nature to you. My life is much better off now that I take time to think about what I'm doing and what others are doing.
Stoney_Balogne · 4 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very thoughtful. Thank you for these words
coolkid1717 · 4 points · Posted at 19:40:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm just glad if I could help in any way.
I have my own demons I work on and know the stuggle.
skypiper06 · 4 points · Posted at 19:39:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What an great way to look at things! Advice everyone should follow.
coolkid1717 · 6 points · Posted at 20:05:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you! I've really noticed that things start "to go your way" when you are empathetic, and help out others. You end up happier and people want to be your friend. Word gets around when you're a nice person.
Another big thing (that I'm honestly still pretty bad at) is not procrastinating. A lot of the time when people say "why does bad stuff always happen to me" is because they didn't do something that should have been done a long time ago.
My GF is notoriously bad at pushing things off. Then when the time comes to do it, it takes longer than expected, issues pop up, or time runs out.
Then things start to build up. Eventually you have a bunch of things you should have done all at once.
If you just do things in a timely fashion then things don't build up. You have plenty of time when issues pop up. And you feel less stress.
I'm still working on procrastination myself. I run a manufacturing business currently and I have a ton of stuff that needs to be done. Some of the things are stuff that I've never heard of, or just don't know how to do at all. It's easy to push things off when you say "well I don't know how to do that". But you need to fight through it. There aren't many excuses in this day and age. We have the internet. You can look up anything. You can look people that can help you. You just need to sit down and try.
Failure isn't the opposite of success....
It's part of success.
EDIT: the best way to learn is to fail. There's nothing wrong with failing. In fact you learn and remember thing better when you struggle and fail first. The hard part of any project is to sit down and start. Excpecially when youre not sure what you're doing.
I would suggest thinking of a project that you've always wanted to do. Something you want to make or accomplish. Look it up on the internet and do it yourself. You can start with something easy. Look up tutorials and plans online. Spend and hour or two a day on it. There's nothing better than the feeling of acomplishing something.
Learn to paint, learn to program, buy a kit to build an electronic, make a kite with your kids, do any project with your kids. Start a garden, learn to replace your oil in your car or replace it's breaks, lean to carve wood, buy a cheap 3D printer and make items or art with it.
All you need to do is go to Google and type in "how to do Blank*".
Check out the first link that looks reasonable, then check the second link, and the third.
If you come to a problem then go back to Google and type "How to fix Blank"
Life is really rewarding when your striving to lean and do new things.
If you're into electronics or want to learn, a really great thing to do is to buy "the Elegoo super starter kit" it's on Amazon for $35 I think.
It's a kit with a bunch of electronic components and a small programmable computer the size of a grahm cracker. It comes with a lesson book that teaches you have to do projects. It's actually really simple. It teaches you how to do basic coding.
Coding is simple. It's basically do step 1, then do step 2, then do step 3. Ect...
The Elegoo is an offbrand of an Arduino. Go to YouTube and look up "Arduino projects" with this Elegoo super starter kit you can literally make anything. It super cool.
I made a device that uses an inferred motion sensor and a servo motor to turn on and off a light switch when someone enters a room. And it turns it off when no one has been in the room for a long time.
BlooperBoo · 0 points · Posted at 19:36:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think one of the problems I used to have is that I would have been okay if someone stole something of mine, save for a very few special things. I always kinda saw possessions as disposable or temporary. But I do better with inpulse now lol
coolkid1717 · 3 points · Posted at 19:55:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's one man's trash is another man's treasure. Just because you don't hold value for a specific type of item dosent mean another person dosen't as well.
I work with my own demons. It really easy for your brain to trick you into thinking this or that is ok. There's always excuses. With thinking diseases like what you and I have, your brain is a master at twisting the facts to make half truths, and make things sound right when really they're wrong. It's a hard thing to catch
ChippyCuppy · 13 points · Posted at 18:38:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“I want it, so why shouldn’t I have it?”
Because that’s how the person who owns it already feels about it, so you have to take away their happiness to achieve your own. It sounds like you are struggling with empathy. Most adults will avoid behaviors that make other people feel bad. Empathy comes naturally to some, others have to learn and try harder to be empathetic. I’d argue that it’s worthwhile to learn.
That you wouldn’t steal from a store shows that you know it’s wrong. What’s different about stealing from a friend that makes it more permissible to you? I think there is a thrill in “having” that which we have not earned, but I struggle to see it from your perspective because I can’t get past the hurting people part.
BlooperBoo · 3 points · Posted at 19:34:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know, I dont do it so much anymore, if ever. Ive gotten better at controlling impulse with age.
ChippyCuppy · 6 points · Posted at 20:04:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I find that when the dumber parts of my brain request permission to do wrong things, I can sometimes override it with the front part of my brain.
Look at it this way: Lizard Brain loves comfort and gratification. Lizard brain wants sugar, drugs, sex, possessions, anything that releases dopamine. That’s what Lizard Brain eats. When we feed it, it gets stronger and less responsive to the other, more responsible areas of our brains... ...like Front Brain. Front Brain knows right from wrong, it considers consequences, it plans for the future. It alerts us when we are doing something we know isn’t the best thing. If Lizard Brain gets too strong, we stop listening to Front Brain because the connections physically weaken. This explains most self-destructive behaviors, like addiction, and it’s why it’s so hard to retrain our brains. We have to rebuild those physical pathways in our minds.
When you “control impulse”, your cerebral cortex is taking control away from Lizard Brain. You can notice this struggle happening inside you once you recognize it for what it is. Lizard Brain is the one telling us we deserve it, it’s been awhile, maybe just this once, I’ll stop tomorrow, etc. Front Brain is rational. The more you listen to Front Brain, the stronger that connection gets, and it gets easier to make the better decision.
Knowing this has really helped me in my life in so many ways. I hope others see this and can benefit from it as well.
riggeredtay · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here.
newsheriffntown · 9 points · Posted at 20:23:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she was a kleptomaniac.
A long time ago when I was in between getting my own place I rented a room from a girl who I met that worked at my favorite Italian restaurant. She seemed pretty nice even though she and I didn't hang out together.
My boyfriend at the time and I had just bought new bicycles and were riding them down the street from where I lived. I saw the girl's car and said to my bf, "hey there's whatever her name was". I also said, "holy fuck she's wearing my goddamned sweater!!!!" I was so angry. She never asked me if she could borrow my clothes and I didn't even know her that well. When I saw her the next day I confronted her about it as she was standing in her bedroom doorway. I looked past her and on her bed was another one of my articles of clothing. I told her I was moving out. There's no way in hell I was going to live with someone who helped themselves to my stuff. She also used to eat the food I put in the refrigerator without asking me. She got all upset because I was moving but fuck that shit.
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newsheriffntown · 3 points · Posted at 20:33:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe. I live in Florida. This girl never tried to tell me what to do because she was nice. She just didn't respect my things and I guess she thought that everything was community property. She thought wrong.
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newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:42 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably. This happened back in the 80's.
KGBFriedChicken02 · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Im guessing she was a kleptomaniac and couldnt help it.
riggeredtay · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She's probably a kleptomaniac.
Stuntman222 · 9 points · Posted at 18:54:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just went to a really nice lake house to swim for an hour with some friends. The owners kid(early 20's) got into my car and stole $150 out of my wallet.
You really just have to be careful around people, regardless of the neighborhood.
CarelesslyFabulous · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:08 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Petty theft like that is more about power than anything.
DrQuint · 3 points · Posted at 20:30:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Children stealing shit is a really common tale and has nothing to do with their parents being rich or poor.
LVBernal93 · 31 points · Posted at 17:16:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's crazy. Hopefully she didn't do that anymore since she got caught.
Imakefishdrown · 21 points · Posted at 18:50:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who stole a bunch of my clothes when I was like 8. She'd claim my mom gave them to her, except they'd be my nice new clothes and we weren't well off enough for my mom to just give my clothes away. When I asked my mom she told me to just leave it alone, cause my friend had less than I did, and if she was stealing my clothes then she probably really needed them. Except we were broke too, so I'd lose my new clothes and they didn't get replaced. I stopped having her over at my place and only hung out at her place after that.
Edit: Her name was also Sam, hah. We stayed friends though, but don't really hang out anymore as adults.
LemonySnicketMD · 14 points · Posted at 20:38:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had something similar happen too! When I was in third grade, I started at a new school, and there was a girl that, right off the bat was super nice to me. She “helped” me unpack my backpack every morning. I was 9 and just happy someone was being nice to the new kid.
About a week of this goes by, and suddenly I’m leaving one day, and notice the little emergency phone my parents had given me was missing (one of those phones that could only call your parents or 911). I freak out, tell the teacher and am mainly afraid my parents will be mad at me for losing it.
The next day, I come in and over the loud speaker, the assistant principle says “(name of teacher) did (name of student) bring OPs phone back today?” Needless to say it was super embarrassing for everyone. I never let that girl “help” me again.
Lonklecks · 15 points · Posted at 20:40:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me without the justice boner!
Had a best friend when I was like 11, we did everything together. Every weekend was a sleepover etc.
Anyways one day I was at her house and something or other of mine rolled under her bed and I went to retrieve it and right at the back was my motherfucking make up pallette. You know the kind of cheap shitty make up wheel you get as a preteen. Blue eyeshadow and all. Just sat there under her bed.
I was shook. Hurt.
I hadn't even noticed it was missing from my room, so the theft must have been pretty recent. I had no idea what to do so I just took it back and no word was ever mentioned on the subject.
I was pissed because my family had NO MONEY when I was growing up. Single mother and dad paid like £30 per week for me and my brother. And she was easily upper middle class and didnt want for things. Her whole bedroom was decorated in posters that came from magazines costing like £5 each.
Later on, at another sleepover, we decided to pierce each others ears. Took precautions (sterilising etc) and gave each other a few top ear piercings. Yah looking back it wasn't smart but we were kids so whatever. When the mother found out she blew her effing top. Blamed me, despite the fact that it was her daughter suggesting it and that I'd had mine done first! I didnt force my bestie into anything and in fact was just going along with it but yah I'm the spawn of Satan corrupting her baby.
So in summary I wish I'd called these bitches out on their behaviour but didn't. Kid me definitely didn't have a spine.
Ps if your maiden name is a fish and your first name begins with S I have literally never forgiven you for the things you and your mother did and I hope you bloody suffer for how you both treated me. When I see you mother in the grocery store I go as far out of my way as possible to avoid that bitch.
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Lonklecks · 10 points · Posted at 21:47:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yah there is LOTS of other stuff but this is just a Reddit comment not therapy so I didnt get into it!
storyofmylife92 · 17 points · Posted at 17:28:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is really strange. Was her family really poor? Or do you think the theft was compulsive?
Aggressica · 3 points · Posted at 23:18:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
WHY WOULD SHE STEAL YOUR UNDERWEAR
InfluencedMarker · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:53 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really wish I knew...guess she wasn’t allowed to buy the kind we had??? Maybe??
ShastaMonster · 3 points · Posted at 21:25:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ill admit I did something similar when I was a kid. My friend had some cool Lego pieces that I wanted for my astronaut kit so I stole them. He asked me later at my house if the pieces belonged to him and I denied it so he didn't make a scene about it but I could tell he knew.
But now he's in prison for meth and armed robbery and I have cool Legos still. So it all worked out.
McBitchinn · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I stole a button from a collection a kid had brought in for show and tell at school. No one called me out on it and I don’t know why I did it, haven’t really stolen anything else except a fork and a napkin from a restaurant in my early teens.
jahlove24 · 34 points · Posted at 17:32:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in first grade who wanted to borrow my Barbie kid sister doll because her Ken and Barbie needed a baby for a game she was playing. I hesitantly let her borrow it and was like "please bring it back to me tomorrow." She wasn't in school the next day because her family moved! I am 32 and this was 26 years ago and I still remember Barbara!!!! I STILL REMEMBER!!!!!!
Leon_Trotsky_1879 · 12 points · Posted at 17:40:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's some high class fuckery right there
LVBernal93 · 12 points · Posted at 17:37:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's rough. She's a smart one though, gotta hand it to her.
partial_to_dreamers · 5 points · Posted at 01:02:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
36 over here and still enraged about my missing Skipper doll from 4th grade. I know you took it, Stephanie!
ThatChemist16 · 77 points · Posted at 16:15:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some cunty friend of my little brother once stole MY pokemon game. Never in my life was I so furious
Shinygoose · 20 points · Posted at 17:52:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once let a neighbor "friend" play my Gameboy while we were all hanging around a mutual friend's house. I walked home and completely forgot he still had it. I went back to the mutual friend's and he had already gone home with it. I cried all the way home and told my parents.
My mom and adult brother went to the kid's house to get it back, but the little shit had convinced his parents (that don't speak English) that it belonged to him. He finally gave it up after my mom threatened to call the cops, but I didn't get my Pokemon game that was with it back. I found out later that kid had stolen my other brother's Gameboy months before and still had it.
LVBernal93 · 17 points · Posted at 17:12:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone stole our Nintendo 64 pokemon arena game.
WHAT A MONSTER.
TVLL · 8 points · Posted at 17:34:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Friend” of my son’s stole his Charizard card.
Haremjutsu · 15 points · Posted at 17:52:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My older sisters friend stole my DS when I was younger.
I had Pokémon Emerald on there, was a DS Lite, back when they still had GBA slots. Couldn’t get past That one volcano town (Forgot the name) I was 8. Sisters friend was 16. He said “Let me get it for a couple days, I’ll pass it for you and give it back” obviously this sounds like a good deal to an 8 year old. Never saw that guy again.
I’m 16 now, trying to get a job. Applied to about 5 so far, no responses. I hope I get one, I want to be able to finally complete Pokémon Emerald. I can’t afford a DS Lite right now, I think they’re about $40, but my family is pretty poor. But I’ll surely be getting one if I get a job, I miss Nintendo products, that DS was the last Nintendo product I’ve ever owned.
dontbeacuntm8 · 6 points · Posted at 17:55:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an almost complete collection of pokemon cards and some cunt stole half of them right out of my binder. Never found out who it was or when it happened. Only realised years down the line when I went to look at them for nostalgia's sake and all the rares were gone.
jordi2224 · 6 points · Posted at 17:42:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, what a dick move. I lost one of pokemon games some years ago. I was devastated. Worst thing is that I was about 18 at the time.
ThatChemist16 · 3 points · Posted at 18:13:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well I was around 13 at the time, it was a Nintendo ds cartridge, and the only pokemon game I had. Words can't describe how I felt, and how much I wanted to kill that son of a bitch
KWBC24 · 24 points · Posted at 16:58:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of middle school, back when Bionicle first was a thing, this one kid who I thought was my friend STOLE my first gen Tahu, (The red one), I confronted him on it and he said that it was our other friend that took it and then booked it out of my house. Its been 18 years, and It still burns me up. Fuck you Shane, you illiterate bastard!
Edit: I can't spell when i'm angry apparently
LVBernal93 · 18 points · Posted at 17:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rough. I had a friend that borrowed my book and when I asked for it back she blithely replied "oh no, that's my book that I let you borrow." I merely recovered my property one night when her family hosted a party.
RedPanther1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tries to insult someone by calling them illiterate. Misspells illiterate. Heh.
anna_boson · 21 points · Posted at 17:53:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had some people over to my apartment several years ago, a few days before Halloween. It was a few close coworkers/friends I knew very well, and a guy who was new to the group. We all work at the same large company but in different buildings on the campus.
Anyway, I had pulled my box of costumes out of my closet earlier that day so I could choose one for the upcoming festivities.
After they all leave I go back to picking out a costume and notice my banana suit is missing. My mind immediately goes to the new guy, but I had no proof. I was annoyed but figure I’d just let it slide rather than make a big deal out of a $10 banana suit.
Halloween comes and goes, and of course Facebook is plastered with pictures of people’s costumes. Guess what this guy dressed up as? A banana. I sent him a message saying “are you finished borrowing my banana suit? I’ll come by your office this week and grab it.” I swung by every day until he finally brought it with him and gave it back.
TheNecroFrog · 21 points · Posted at 17:41:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminded me of a similar story of mine.
When I was around 8 my mum used to make me hang out with my mums friends daughter who was a few years older than I was. At one point I took a PS2 game to her house and ended up leaving it there. I didn’t tell my mum about it because it didn’t seem important. The next time I saw this girl I asked her to bring it with her the next time she came to mine. She never did, I don’t think she wanted to keep it/steal it I think she was just lazy or forgot.
Anyway the next time I was at their house I brought the game back with me. About 5 minuted after we get home my mums friend calls my mum and starts kicking off saying I’ve stolen this game, calling me a thief and such. Luckily my mum being the sensible person she is still has the receipt for this game and politely but firmly schools her friend on how to approach these situations in future.
LVBernal93 · 7 points · Posted at 18:07:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Owned! Go mom!
GooseNGander · 41 points · Posted at 17:21:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was this kid once. My friend had a really cool oversized pencil and being young and stupid I took it and hid it in my hoodie. Just before I left, she said “I know you have my pencil. It’s alright, you just have to give it back.” That’s gotta be the kindest way anyone’s ever called me out; I gave it back immediately and never took anything again. She and I don’t get along anymore for unrelated reasons, but that always stuck with me.
LVBernal93 · 8 points · Posted at 17:35:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea, I remember being so angry about it. When it came down to confronting her about it; I handled it level headed and as friendly as I could. We remained friends for a bit but also drifted for unrelated reasons.
ChippyCuppy · 15 points · Posted at 17:40:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I only had one Barbie and she only had one dress. I went to play dolls with the new girl in my apartment complex. That little bitch tried to take my Barbie’s only dress! I physically took it back from her and ran home as she was screaming to her mother that I was stealing her Barbie’s dress. My mom was so mad.
LVBernal93 · 9 points · Posted at 18:06:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's crazy. Gonna write names on things when I have kids. Toys are only getting more expensive!
Foreglow · 16 points · Posted at 18:31:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went to summer camp once. A kid saw my drawings and loved one in particular. He kept asking if he could keep it, but I really liked it and wanted to do more based on it.
Came back later and my drawing was missing. I looked through his stuff and found it. I stole it back and hid it. Guy comes back, casually looks where he had stashed it and his eyes get really wide. He pauses, then hurriedly looks through his stuff again and again and again, each time more frantic than the last.
"Need some help finding something?" I ask.
"No I got it, thanks."
He looks a couple more times, then sits down and sounds like he's about to have a panic attack.
I just slyly play my gameboy and relish his predicament from the corner of my eye.
Years later, we are friends on Facebook and I post a photo of my drawing. I like to think he's seen it.
LVBernal93 · 6 points · Posted at 19:47:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, that's great.
luf100 · 12 points · Posted at 17:45:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened to me too! My grandparents used to buy me these little plastic cats and dogs that I would use as pets for my Barbies. They started going missing and one day I found one of them at my friend’s house on the floor in her room with the tail cut off (wtf). She gave me some BS excuse about borrowing it to make some surprise for me. Didn’t believe her for a second (the tail was cut off... was the surprise that she ruined it?) and that was the first time I realized I wouldn’t be friends with her for much longer. I was in like grade 2.
LVBernal93 · 3 points · Posted at 18:09:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Life lesson so early in life!
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:43:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I had a friend I liked to play with Pokemon cards with (although we didn't play the game right, we were young). Had her over for a sleepover one time and I found some of my cards missing after, rudely enough a few of my favourites.
I went to her house while she wasn't home - just her mom - and said I forgot something last time I was there. Checked her cards - yep, found mine. Took them home, thanked her mom for letting me in, and never had her over at my house again. We still played on the playground but she was just a selfish type of person at that age.
My dad had given me a ride there when I told him what happened, he was honestly probably more upset I didn't tell her mom what happened too, but I just wanted my cards back, I didn't need to get her in trouble. Honestly kids are pretty simple and forgiving, just don't steal from each other?? :/
LVBernal93 · 4 points · Posted at 18:09:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea. I never went to a friends house a stole their stuff. Unless it was mine and I had to steal it back, haha.
Sack-of-bean · 9 points · Posted at 17:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My little brother had this friend who borrowed a huge stack of comic books. We got the comic books for him for Christmas and he read through them really fast because he was super excited. Well fast forward to a few months later my brother asks for the comics back and the friend claims he never borrowed them but it turns out the kid was bragging at school the next day about selling all of them.
Dandw12786 · 10 points · Posted at 18:14:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend like that when I was about 10. He and I were basically attached at the hip for a few years. But every time I went to his house to play micro machines I would notice a few missing. I'd ask him, he'd "look for them", find them and say "sorry, I must have accidentally grabbed them when we picked up". I'd go to sleepovers at his house, set my wallet next to me when I went to sleep, and when I woke up it'd be gone. We'd look for it in the morning and he'd find it in another room. "My cat must have grabbed it and thought it was a toy". Yeah? Did your cat grab the fucking $20 that was in there, too?
I got a leather wallet with a silver eagle on it once, and same shit. Set it next to me at night, woke up in the morning and it was gone. "Are you sure you brought it?". Yes, fucker, it was right here. Never found it. A week later the dick was using a leather wallet with a silver eagle on it. Haven't talked to him in like 20 years. He just moved one day. He moved back a couple years later but I never saw him again.
crankenstein94 · 6 points · Posted at 18:25:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God this makes me remember when I was a kid and this one friend who lived across the street would come over to play with me and she always walked away with at least one or two of my toys. It was kinda obvious it was her because the toys would always go missing on the day she visited and it was always toys we'd played with. I also found one of my toys in her room once, recognized it from a specific scratch it had. I didn't get to catch her in a lie or confront her or anything bc I was a kid and didn't really think of how to do that but I'm super curious of what she'd say if I confronted her about it now lmfao
LVBernal93 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha. I was furious someone stole my stuff. I had to say something. I told my mom about it and she was going to make a big deal out of it. I told her I would deal with it and I did.
coolkid1717 · 7 points · Posted at 19:32:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me. I lived in a neighborhood with people considered lower class when I was younger. Not dirt poor but struggling. About half the houses there were one story houses.
I had some friends that started taking my toys. I don't remember how it started. Maybe I forgot to take them all home with me, maybe they hid them. My mom was the one who started to notice I wasn't playing with all of my toys. I didn't have a shit ton of toys so it was obvious to her when some we're missing.
I told her that I couldn't find them either. I also told her the only place I took them to was this friends house. I was too naive to think that they would steal them. I just though they were missing. I was pretty young. Preschool to kindergarten ages.
So my mom goes over to their house and talks to the kids parents. Dosen't accuse them of stealing, just says she thinks some of my toys are over at their place. So they let her in and she finds some of them in the kids toy bucket. Of course the kid tells the parents again and again that they're really his toys. And they believe him. My mom was furious but didn't make a scene about it. What else could she do? So she left.
Thinking back on it, how could the parents not know what toys they bought him. Wouldn't they think "hey I don't remember buying him any of those toys and this parent is saying she bought them."
From then on my mom would write my intitals on the bottom of my toys in permenent marker.
After some time passed and things blew over I started hanging out with that friend again. And I started taking my toys over there again. Of course as you could guess my mom and I started noticing that thing we're missing. Some toys were missing that I didn't even take over there. He must have taken them while he was at my place. I guess he got more brave at stealing because he got off clean free the last time.
So my mom goes back over to the kids house and talks to his parents again. This time they're quite a bit more mad because this is the second time my mom has come over there accusing their kid of stealing. They try to tell her to go away because their kid isn't a theif and told them he wouldn't steal.
She makes a big scene about that and demands to go inside and look for the toys. They really didn't want to let her in but she was pretty mad and basically forced herself in. She went to the bucket and started pulling out quite a few of my toys. Of course the kid said that those were his and his parents backed him up on it. Even said they remember buying them for him. That's when my mom turned all of the toys over and showed them warn permenent marker markings of my intitals on the toys.
She yelled about how she knew the kid was a theif and she put the marking on the toys because she knew it was going to happen again. She grabbed the original toys he had stollen too and went home.
I was mortified that she made such a huge scene. I was young and still wanted to be his friend still. I was too young to realize how much of a big deal this was. I didn't understand the concept of money, or how much things costed. My parents worked hard to be able to afford the toys they bought for me. Toys cost quite a bit of money and my parents were damn sure they weren't going to let a brat steal their hard work, time, and money away from them. They did the best they could to ensure I had a happy childhood. Made sure I got the toys I wanted. I wish I realised that when I was younger. But I figured it out eventually.
Other things similar happened in that neighborhood that ultimately led us to move away. All of the neighbors around us we're toxic people with low morels.
The same kid who was stealing my toys threw my new bike down on the ground. My parents got mey first two wheeled bycicle. My "friend" was jealous. Him and all of his friend would jump off their bikes when they wanted to stop riding and allow the bike to roll for a bit before crashing to the ground, because they were cool. When I would get off my bike and put the kickstand down, they got mad and threw the bike to the ground.
My parents saw my bike laying on the sidewalk and yelled at me for it. They taught me to always use the kickstand. I told them what happened and they yelled at the kid's father. He ended up getting beaten for it.
Another time my parents got me the rarest and the coolest transformer toym it was a while tiger or something. You could transform it between being an animal and a robot. I took it over to another kids house on the first day I got it. I was showing him how to transform it and before I could finish he grabbed it. He wanted to do it by himself and didnt want to be told what to do. He broke it within seconds.
My parents found out about it because I ran home crying. They went to the kids house and his parents couldn't care less. They basically said "oh well too bad". My parents wanted them to fix it or buy us a new one and they laughed in their face.
Tons of other stuff happened too. Like older kids burning a hole through my shoe with a magnifying glass while holding me down.
I'm so glad parents moved. I probably wouldn't be the person I am today if I spent my entire childhood hanging out with people like them.
iamsheena · 9 points · Posted at 18:17:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend's mom used to babysit me before and after school. One day, we were playing Barbies and she had this one Barbie that I really wanted so I sneakily popped it in my backpack. But then when my mom came to pick me up, her mom saw it and gave me a look. I remember saying, "how'd that get in there?"
I still remember it so vividly lol. The guilt was real.
LVBernal93 · 3 points · Posted at 19:43:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha. The fact that you felt guilt is good. Hopefully you didn't steal anything else!
iamsheena · 3 points · Posted at 19:49:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom once left $20 out for my older sister for something and I took and hid it, and I've never come clean. I tried to rationalise it because my sister stole so much of my money over the years but that's another point of guilt.
Anything with theft is a point of guilt for me.
This is turning into a confessional. I just remembered I stole a muffin or cookie or banana bread from my uni's cafe once when I first started because there was no one there to take my money and I got confused, thinking that maybe it was somehow free. I gave them a lot of my business later but never paid for that baked good.
may_day66 · 7 points · Posted at 18:53:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing happened to me when I was a kid. Had this girl come over after school and we were playing with our dolls as you do at that age.
That evening when we dropped her off one of my favourite dolls fell out of her coat.
I was in the car and saw none of this but my mother was. This girl stood there looking down at my doll and said "Oh, how did that get there?" My mum went and took it back and said something about it being ok, accidents happen, probs because she was still just a kid herself.
I was pissed when I found out. Bitch tried to steal my favourite bratz doll!
Never played dolls again with her.
LVBernal93 · 2 points · Posted at 19:49:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mine were bratz dolls too. No one steal the bratz!
EuphioMachine · 9 points · Posted at 20:01:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn this reminded me of a dumb kid lie I remember. I must have been like six of something and had some cool looking Magic the Gathering card. I didn't play or anything, I just found the card somewhere and thought it was badass. Everyone was into pokemon at the time.
I showed it to this kid I sat with on the bus on the way to school and really talked up this card, like "look it's some sea monster thing I bet it's really powerful" and he seemed pretty impressed.
Then on the way back home from school he pulls out the same exact card and goes "oh I forgot to tell you, i have that same card!" And I looked and mine was gone. I got so pissed and he kept trying to say it was his but "he'll let me have it if I really want since I lost mine" .
LVBernal93 · 3 points · Posted at 20:04:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ballsy and annoying.
Imakefishdrown · 5 points · Posted at 18:44:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha. When my older sister was in middle school she had a sleepover. A bunch of her stuff went missing, and she tried asking the girls, all of them feigned ignorance but one looked super guilty. When the girl was out of the room, my sister found all her missing things hidden in the guilty girl's pillowcase. So later on, when everyone was back in the room, my sister "fell back" against the pillow. She said, "Ow! Your pillow is so lumpy and uncomfortable!" Then she picked it up so the open end faced down, and aaaaall her missing stuff tumbled out. The guilty girl made up some excuse (I don't remember what she said exactly, this was just over a decade ago) and then had her mom come get her.
supershinythings · 5 points · Posted at 18:56:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a child my US Army father was stationed in W. Germany. We lived in a small German village near the base. I had a little German friend, "Andrea", who would come over sometimes, and I'd go over to her house. In her room where we were playing I found a roll of 100 US stamps. She had zero use for American postage. She claimed my father 'gave' them to her. I found a few other items in the house that were from our house as well.
I asked my Dad why he gave stamps to Andrea, and he blew his stack - he'd been looking for those stamps for over a week. Long story short, I had to get all the stuff back, and Andrea was never allowed inside our house again. Andrea's sticky fingers got her banned permanently not just from our house, but from everyone else's.
Spart_ · 12 points · Posted at 16:59:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See the thing is, as a child it was fun and gratifying to steal for me. I don’t know if there is anything wrong with me but it was. It still kind of is but I have a lot more self control now since I do a hobby that is dependent on every part of the chain. If someone steals my shit I would lose it. But I don’t know if it’s something wrong with me or if I am actually just a piece of shit. Am I a recovering kleptomaniac?
LVBernal93 · 9 points · Posted at 17:07:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its thrill seeking for you. Everyone has something. I didn't hold it against her. I just kept a close eye on her around my stuff. She was still my friend.
Todash_Traveller · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've got the same problem/question. Any time I get depressed I get the urge to steal. Never anything more than a candy bar and never from anywhere but a soulless corporation. It's still wrong though, and I feel terrible about it. I rarely go through with it but anytime I'm really low the temptation is there and it freaks me out.
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 15:17:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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LVBernal93 · 10 points · Posted at 16:19:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not crafty enough to make up a name.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:02:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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LVBernal93 · 3 points · Posted at 18:20:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dads family is from Cuba. He moved to Spain to get out of Cuba, and then relocated to the United States when he was nine. I got him a 23andme kit for Father's Day. I need a Y variant to add more detail to my results!
Cutatafish · 5 points · Posted at 16:32:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jamie?
kongu3345 · 4 points · Posted at 16:48:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cutata!?
ShhlappaDaBass · 3 points · Posted at 16:42:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jamie?
SqueeSpleen · 4 points · Posted at 17:23:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once I had my liquid paper stoñen from me. I recognized it by the bite marks I had left to it. I asked to borrow it and he never asked for it back, so I recovered it.
tarzanboyo · 3 points · Posted at 18:31:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hated it when you were younger and family/friends might take something, had a tennis racket go missing after my year younger than me nephew came over. Went over there house the next week and there it is, my brother denied it to. A year or so later I was about 12 and he took my computer to fix, I was fairly new to computers but could do some basic installation yet my mum and dad told him to fix it. It went out with a 700mhz celeron (yes this is a while back haha) and came back with a 500mhz one...conveniently what his spare computer was at the time, what a wanker.
HamfacePorktard · 4 points · Posted at 19:39:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was 9 or 10, I was hanging out with this girl Charlotte who lived up the street from me. I got called downstairs by mom or something,and when I went back up Charlotte was like “oh I forgot I had to be home.”
She’d stolen my entire savings of change from my top drawer, including my prized silver dollar.
I never talked to her again. If you’re out there, Charlotte, I hope you really needed that money.
LVBernal93 · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's ballsy. Hopefully she really did need it. If not, evil!
HamfacePorktard · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My fault, really. I showed it off because I was proud of it. Just baited her, I guess.
0catlareneg · 3 points · Posted at 19:47:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only time I ever brought my yugioh cards out of my room and to some kid's house I knew somebody stole my blue eyes white dragon. I'm still salty about it all these years later.
kea5223 · 5 points · Posted at 19:58:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
DUDE. A girl I HAD to play with as a child (her mom babysat me, this girl and I were in the same year) stole my fucking Betti Spaghettis!!!! (They are bendy dolls, long limbs.) Nobody ever fucking believed me. She hid them under her bed. This girl and I also had the same Barbie rollerblades, which I kept pristine but she ruined. She swapped out her shitty ones for my perfect ones when nobody was looking and my parents didn't believe me or care.
I get it, man. Don't steal dolls or toys. It ain't right.
LVBernal93 · 3 points · Posted at 19:59:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rough. Betti Spaghettis were cool! And rollerblades? Oh no. I was a petty turd sometimes, I get even. Having two siblings taught me that.
lurker0815 · 4 points · Posted at 20:27:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My childhood best friend would steal stuff like my Barbie's shoes or some other small toy when I left the room to go to the bathroom etc.
I knew it was happening but at 10 I didn't know how to handle the situation so I did not confront her.
How I knew? She would afterwards always ask if we, by any chance, had cameras in the house.
LVBernal93 · 3 points · Posted at 20:35:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha. Jesus! "No, but Santa is always watching," would be a good reply if she believed in Santa.
092200 · 5 points · Posted at 22:43:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me! My friend would always want to “trade” Bratz dolls with me whenever I had one she wanted. I’d always refuse and she wouldn’t push it so I figured we were good, even though my stuff started going missing after a while.
She started calling my house and asking to talk to my little sister instead of me...which was weird, so my mom stayed on the line and listened to their conversation. Turns out she was convincing my sister to steal my stuff for her! She would tell my sister what she wanted and my sister would put it in her bag and bring it to school with her.
I don’t blame my sister because she was really young at the time and we were much older, but lmfao she was so shady and I never really trusted her again.
LVBernal93 · 3 points · Posted at 17:50:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dang. That is shady. Getting someone else to do her dirty work. Someone close to you. Smart and evil!
Jabob64 · 4 points · Posted at 17:49:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a neighborhood "friend" who did the same thing except replace Dolls with Bionicles. Goddamn DW
lettuceboy19 · 4 points · Posted at 18:00:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
'I must have been nine or ten' and you're noticing stuff like that and had the confidence to call someone out on their thieving. More guts than me, a 21 year old man.
LVBernal93 · 5 points · Posted at 18:16:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha. I have two older brothers, I'm the only girl. I dont take well to girls taking my stuff that I never had to share before.
dyam · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
By* accident
TheRainMonster · 5 points · Posted at 22:02:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a sleepover with a friend in middle school. I noticed that whenever she thought I want looking she'd swipe something of mine and put it beneath my bed under the blanket, I suppose to stick in her bag later. I wasn't sure what to do but after awhile I just went to the bed, lifted the blanket, exposed the treasure trove and silently started putting everything back where it belonged. She sat there with her eyes down the whole time, neither of us said anything. When she left the next day I couldn't find anything missing.
texasradio · 2 points · Posted at 22:58:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On the opposite spectrum and not satisfying at all, I once kept up a lie about getting a Nintendo 64.
My birthday was coming up and I wanted one so bad and my mom hinted that she'd try to make it happen. But as a single mom and being poor it wasn't for sure. Well my friends were all getting Nintendos and I'm so excited that I say I'm getting one too on my birthday.
Day comes and my mom drives me into the city to get it but she didn't have the cash and her credit cards all get. declined. She even tried them again at another store with the same result. It was a shitty day, because I didn't get what I wanted, had to think about how poor we were in public, and I felt mostly bad for my mom going through that trying to make me happy. So I drop it.
Fast forward to the school week and my friends excitedly talk about gaming and want to come over and play at my house. I was too embarrassed to say I didn't end up having the Nintendo because we couldn't afford it so I avoid making plans with my friends and keep that up for a few weeks. They keep talking about goldeneye and waverace and stuff and I bluff about playing those as well. Finally my best friend at the time confronted me & called me out as lying about having the Nintendo but I still keep up the lie and we get in a small fight shoving each other and I ended up avoiding them for the short remainder of the school year. It sucked and I was just so embarrassed about being poor.
School lets out for summer, my mom married and she convinced my new step-dad to get me the Nintendo. Over the summer my old friend and I made plans to sleep over at my house and he came over and we played all night. I sort of pulled off the lie I suppose but I never said "I told you so" to my buddy because I was ashamed and he could have figured it out anyhow and didn't say anything. So I saved face kinda and it ended up not terribly. Not poor anymore and my mom was awesome.
LVBernal93 · 2 points · Posted at 17:47:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Glad you got your Nintendo. Your mom does sound awesome!
Dickgivins · 3 points · Posted at 16:37:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Becky?
Arcus_Deer · 5 points · Posted at 17:49:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, all of my neighbors had legos; but some had better sets than others. When we’d go over to each other’s houses, we’d occasionally swipe a cool character or brick. Over several years, I think I ended up with more stolen legos than ones that actually belonged to me, which felt bad.
I got the last laugh though, in the form of the Boba Fett minifig
glad0s98 · 3 points · Posted at 18:58:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
same, just my swipe was a spiderman figure. I feel really bad looking back at it but.. kids'll be kids right.
Svartbomull · 6 points · Posted at 17:57:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One girl who was at the same daycare as me broke my Ken doll. Seriously ripped his leg right off. I'm still pissed. Fuck you Frida.
--throwaway · 2 points · Posted at 16:53:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Matthew?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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mementomori4 · 5 points · Posted at 20:25:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A toy limo for dolls.
Idk if they were playing with Barbies because there are lots of kinds of dolls with crazy accessories, but Barbies in particular have tons of stuff like houses, pools, cars, restaurants...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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LVBernal93 · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a crime.
RWDMARS · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend who did this with my Pokémon or yuhioh cards. Found them in the bottom of his bag. Of course nobody believed me and would say that it was probably an accident.
pumpkinrum · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohhh, similar thing happened to me. Unfortunately for me she had like 3 older siblings, while I had none, and scared me didn't want to tell our parents about it. :(
PostOfficeBuddy · 2 points · Posted at 08:00:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar story here, but with pokemon cards. Another kid on my street came over and we played a couple matches before I had to use the bathroom for a sec. When I got back he suddenly wants to leave, and something felt off so I check my deck right after he left and sure enough, couple rare cards were missing. I called his parents and they made him turn out his pockets when he got home, and yep there they were.
He tried to say they were his but his parents didn't take, cuz I named off the exact cards he had in his pockets, so he then says "oh whoops these aren't mine" and that he "accidentally" slipped them into his pockets "out of habit".
I stopped hanging out with him after that.
Also had a kid at school get into my backpack inside my locker (no locks allowed on lockers because drugs) and steal my whole deck right before he transferred. I'll never forgive you Clifford, my grandma bought me those.
LVBernal93 · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn Clifford.
kushqueen17 · 2 points · Posted at 16:15:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That friend was probably me. Sorry man!
regularkat · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh god as 5 year old I used take other girls barbie clothes. I'm sorry. They were so pretty 😣☹
LVBernal93 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You were five. At nine you'd think someone would have a little respect for another friends things. Some morality! Haha
HuhWillThisOneWork · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is just reprehensible.
Abscar · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bitch
iGeography · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't understand. Where in this story did she lie?
LVBernal93 · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh sorry. At first she denied seeing where my dolls were. It took me confronting her in the driveway and making her check her stuff to show that she was lying.
kunaguerooo123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll never forget my favourite beyblade being stolen.
Anything4MyPrincess · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is your name Laura? Because there’s an Edmonton radio statio called 102.3 Now Radio and they just read your post word for word saying someone named “Laura” sent it in lol I only listened for about 15 minutes but they read at least two more from this thread. I don’t have twitter but if I did, I would have put them on blast!
LVBernal93 · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh dang. My name is Lauren though. Close!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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LVBernal93 · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha. Most innocent drama back in the day. Doll thieves!
MizukiAyu · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was like, 6 or 7, I had a "friend" who convinced me to give her things she liked. I am the youngest of 4 and was a major doormat so I just kinda let her take things. It only stopped when she wanted something that wasn't mine. I think one of my sister's caught her taking something and my parents put an end to that "friendship."
LVBernal93 · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Glad your sister said something! You're only allowed to be her doormat! (Joke)
MizukiAyu · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is 100% the truth
[deleted] · 16177 points · Posted at 12:54:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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sitsandwatches · 5330 points · Posted at 15:31:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my car to the dealership for an oil change. I knew a brake light was burned out I was going to change it myself and save the $40 they charge. When I went to pick up my car they said they did an inspection and I needed new brakes and air filters and a new transmission, you know the works. I said "everything else is fine?" Seeing that they said the lights were all in working condition. They said yes so I went out and stepped on the brakes and said "is the brake light working? Because if it is not working it means you didn't really do an inspection right? You wouldn't lie to me to try and get more money would you Greg?" Turns out my oil change was free that day.
xaanthar · 1497 points · Posted at 16:46:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Consumable parts, standard BS upselling...
Wait, what? Why not just say you need a whole new engine while you're at it?
Sarsmi · 298 points · Posted at 17:45:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know, I was like uhhh, not a lot of places try to suddenly upsell you by $2000
AlwaysHopelesslyLost · 335 points · Posted at 18:30:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My most favorite time working at a part store was the time a customer came to get some car wash stuff and while I was ringing him out I said "need a new engine today?"
And he said yes. And he bought an engine. He said he had needed it for awhile and didn't realize we could order entire engines.
I made that joke like once a day for three years. He was very confused lol
p1-o2 · 58 points · Posted at 19:16:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You may be hopelessly lost but I think you're just hopelessly awesome.
BlasphemyIsJustForMe · 20 points · Posted at 19:34:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like you. You're a good person.
Black_Moons · 27 points · Posted at 19:46:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
rofl. Yea but them crate engines are EXPENSIVE. Still, New engine smell....
Best upsell ever.
livin4donuts · 11 points · Posted at 22:30:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait a minute was this like a general auto parts store or one with a garage? Because I didn't think an Auto Zone would order one. I'd be delighted to be mistaken though.
NoVasectomyPermitted · 16 points · Posted at 23:29:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just checked autozone's website. You can in fact order a complete engine
cjsolx · 5 points · Posted at 00:56:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh.
AlwaysHopelesslyLost · 9 points · Posted at 11:34:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, it was AutoZone.
I also worked for O'Reilly's later and just FYI their policy was "We will get you anything you ask for."
I invoiced and delivered sand from Walmart once and a cheeseburger meal from McDonald's lol
AbandonedPlanet · 23 points · Posted at 18:09:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that part makes no sense no one would ever try and upsell a transmission
ireadencyclopedias · 68 points · Posted at 18:21:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You might as well trade in your vehicle now! It would be unethical to allow you to drive off the lot in your old car.
Come check out this brand new Malibu for $26000. We can lease it for you for only $340 a month. You need a safe vehicle for your family right? Do you even care about them?
human_username · 41 points · Posted at 18:42:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No bull some ass hat said that shit to my mom once when she was looking at an older car that was on their lot. Like why would they be selling an unsafe car anyway?
__i0__ · 21 points · Posted at 18:44:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not since I got life insurance on them. What exactly does she need to do to trigger this explosion you're concerned about? Even just 2 out of 5 and I can retire.
Black_Moons · 7 points · Posted at 19:47:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/unethicalpromechanictips
trimpage · 9 points · Posted at 22:34:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
hahaha I wish the transmission on my car could be replaced for $2000
try owning an old bmw. The prices they charge for that shit is ridiculous and half the time they can’t even fix it right. Even the dealership itself usually fucks up
illogictc · 2 points · Posted at 03:55:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If there's anything I know about German engineering from dealing with German-made machines daily, you can bet that there is a certain precision to its manufacture, and that's it's hopelessly complex.
Disk_Mixerud · 6 points · Posted at 04:10:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Apparently that was a problem with their tanks in WWII as well. They performed way better than anybody else's, but replacement parts were too specific, which is a logistical nightmare in a large scale war.
illogictc · 2 points · Posted at 06:19:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh no shortage of parts for what I work with. Just interestingly complex design decisions.
For example there is a process that requires a corner to be squared up for some tooling to operate on it. Later designs this one company figured out just put the squaring boot at the front of the tooling carriage, one cylinder to raise it and the servos pull back until they meet some threshold of resistance where it is considered squared, then it can be clamped and the boots drop down out of the way. Their earlier design involved having this complex bullcrap built off to the side, 3 cylinders for one boot. One to pull in for squaring, one for raising up and down, and one to move this whole assembly out of the way for the tooling to come in. Two hall effect sensors right under the boot which was spring-loaded, to make a determination on when it was squared by measuring boot travel. Sensors for home position on all 3 cylinders.
Or another one, which does its squaring with the clamps which hold from the side instead of the top. The piston inside the cylinder rotates 90 degrees then pulls back and holds. There are two tooling heads, one stationary and one moving, to size up for the job. When machining starts, the moving head locks its position motor and the clamps flip up and pull everything in. The moving head table is pulled closer to the unit during this (there is a gap left before hitting start, it takes up the gap) by the clamps, until it trips a sensor, then it backs just the tooling up a bit to square it up after squaring up the tables. Ridiculously complex compared to this old American-made machine we have.
Disk_Mixerud · 1 points · Posted at 08:22:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, oh man. That just sounds like a million different moving parts and sensors just waiting to fail.
trimpage · 3 points · Posted at 06:20:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah idek. Basics features on other cars are hidden under like 5 panels that are only accessible after dismantling the entire engine or some shit. Tbh they probably do it to make you want to take it to the dealership so they can charge you more. Or because they just like being overly complex as a way of saying they’re smarter
macthecomedian · 21 points · Posted at 18:59:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“You’ll need a new air filter, that’ll be about $30 to replace and it’ll take about 15 minutes to replace it. Oh yeah also your transmission is busted! It’ll cost about $3,000 dollars and it should only take about 5 days to replace it. You know how these things go.”
Castun · 10 points · Posted at 20:38:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oil change places want to charge almost $100 on the air filter and cabin filter, meanwhile I can get both for $15 from Amazon and it's a 5 minute job.
macthecomedian · 10 points · Posted at 20:40:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Let the record show I don’t know jack about mechanic stuff in real life, I just make jokes.
SammieLily2 · 4 points · Posted at 20:40:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait seriously?
Hell, if it's a 5-minute job I might as well buy them myself and ask my dad to teach me how to do it.
DelliePickle · 13 points · Posted at 21:43:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can even get permanent ones. But yeah, never take the air filter. The price you pay the mechanic to pop one in is not worth it.
I had a permanent filter in one of my old cars and the fucking lube tech at Jiffy Lube came out to show me "my" air filter and that for $40, they could replace it. Yeah no, dude. Mine is red and just needs to be washed out and oiled.
MozartTheCat · 4 points · Posted at 05:25:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My SO changed my air filter for me and when I got my oil changed like a month later they tried that crap on me too. Showing me an old nasty air filter saying it was mine and I needed to get it replaced. No thnx bb
Castun · 8 points · Posted at 21:01:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, most cars the engine air filter it's as simple as popping the hood, popping off the cover marked "Air filter", and pulling out the old one and putting in the new one.
Cabin filter can be a little trickier, but it's usually hidden in the back of the glove box. I had to YouTube how to remove the bracket without breaking mine.
L3tum · 8 points · Posted at 18:51:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are brake filters even a thing? O.o I'm a motorcycle guy so no idea
xaanthar · 6 points · Posted at 19:05:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I figured that was a typo, needed new brakes, as in pads -- but no, brake filters aren't a thing.
DoG_B1aze · 7 points · Posted at 00:11:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got a good one for mechanics, so growing up I've been helping my dad work on cars since I was 5 I'm pretty prfficient except for electronic crap. Well we had this 94 F350 needed a new wiring harness and a new sway bar take it to the dealership up the road we know the owner, it's there for a bout a week we only took it cause my dad was gonna be outta town for work for a while, my dad calls asks me to check on the truck cause he hasn't heard anything I talk to the service manager first he says oh yeah we did this, this, this, etc ok cool call my dad to let him know but in my way out I see the truck so curious me u go take a look harness is cut up the old sway bar is still on and all the work they said they did was bullshit still on the phone with my dad I inform him he hangs up I walk back in the service center he is yelling so loud that all the customers can hear him I'm laughing my ass off looking crazy all in all the work was done for free plus some extras.
MeEvilBob · 5 points · Posted at 20:15:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"The paint is all the wrong color, we're gonna have to repaint the entire car, otherwise it won't be safe to drive it.
Barstarzztrucker · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Personally, I've never owned a vehicle with brake filters.
Phreakhead · 5 points · Posted at 23:43:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really? They are essential for keeping the headlight fluid clean and flowing smoothly.
Barstarzztrucker · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hmmm, maybe that's why my blinkers dont work
room-to-breathe · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did this guy just lie in a thread about catching liars?
Squeezitgirdle · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean you should definitely change the air filters but shouldn't pay more than 10$ to have it done. Air filters are cheap and the easiest thing to replace. Don't forget the air filter behind your glove box too.
_Neoshade_ · 4 points · Posted at 19:12:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WTF is a brake filter? The little screen to keep debris out? No. A brake filter isn’t a thing.
Transmission replacement is like $2500 and takes 6-8 hours. And you wouldn’t get customer approval first? So much bullshit there.
grim_solitude · 6 points · Posted at 20:34:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think OP meant to say new brakes and an air filter.
AFrostNova · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah sir, we did an inspection & you need a new outer body, and new seats
Edit: but your windows are fine
I_am_10_squirrels · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My car ended up needing a new engine, but it was still under warranty and didn't cost me anything.
stalkingfiretruck · 1012 points · Posted at 15:57:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fucking Greg
theBacillus · 12 points · Posted at 16:12:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh Greg, again?
The_real_John_Smith · 8 points · Posted at 16:19:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Old Greg
IrrevocablyChanged · 9 points · Posted at 16:20:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve shown you my downstairs mixup
ghal1986 · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
D'ya love me?
rhetus_ · 6 points · Posted at 16:43:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ever tried drinking motor oil from a shoe?
MegasXLRV · 3 points · Posted at 16:49:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wanna see my under hood mix-up?
likeasif · 3 points · Posted at 16:51:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you love me?
pantherspwn · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Love games?
tjwharry · 13 points · Posted at 16:36:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Greg's the kind of guy who always tries to fuck his buddy's sister.
gregdoom · 18 points · Posted at 16:56:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bullshit. My friends have ugly sisters.
1982throwaway1 · 4 points · Posted at 17:16:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But do they have ugly vaginas?
poop_chute_riot · 4 points · Posted at 17:15:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What difference does that make?
azurefishnets · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, Greg just straight up fucks rocks.
GREGORIOtheLION · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Psh. I don't even know you.
1982throwaway1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And milk her dad.
KebabLife · 2 points · Posted at 18:40:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Greg, fucking Greg at it again.
deadbird17 · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Greg was trying to milk you.
vcugreg · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
my bad
icallshenannigans · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bleeder hoses have nipples Greg, can you milk them?
NemTheBlackGoat · 1 points · Posted at 12:40:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have an ex named Greg and that's exactly how his name is said if he's brought up. It's petty but it does make me feel a little better.
[deleted] · 278 points · Posted at 15:46:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Savage.
coffee-9 · 4 points · Posted at 16:52:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More details please
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:08:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ay caramba, kid!
Usually people ask me for more details on the spicy comments I post.
I will say that if someone tried that with me I’d hope I’d react similarly though I’d probably fumble with my words and mess it up.
Dexaan · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rekt
shirtlessin1stclass · 30 points · Posted at 16:36:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do mechanics get commission, or are they getting pressure from their managers to flat out lie to people? I've known some cool mechanics but I feel like that profession seems to draw in shady people the most
Whitefire2017 · 26 points · Posted at 17:06:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some are paid hourly and some are paid flat rate. Flat rate is you get paid for the amount of hours it takes to do the job according to book time.
Changing more parts and upselling more items adds time to book time so their check is bigger.
PM_OUTDATED_MEMES · 12 points · Posted at 17:23:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to mention that if they do a good job of upselling needless repairs their bosses are impressed and it can be a metric by which promotions and raises are handed out.
SoNotTheCoolest · 3 points · Posted at 17:14:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked in a few mechanic shops through college, had one guy tell me his brother in law works in the shop at a Canadian Tire. They are paid a flat rate, charge goes to the customer and the job. If a job gets quoted to take 8 hours, but it’s done in 3, the techs still get paid for 8 hours of work.
land8844 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's how flat rate works though...
SoNotTheCoolest · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The shop I was in last summer had you log hours per job, so the company would charge accordingly. This was in a large machine shop though, it might work differently.
land8844 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah. Auto mechanic =/= machine shop mechanic
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 16:47:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This makes me so damn happy that my dad is a mechanic. He does all my work for me if I buy the parts and get him a case of beer occasionally, so I don't need to worry about BS like this. I can also call him, tell him the symptoms, and he can tell me if someone is ripping me off.
Stalin1Kulaks0 · 14 points · Posted at 16:01:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fucking Greg
Hell0turdle · 9 points · Posted at 17:05:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is my favorite pass time
tah4349 · 12 points · Posted at 18:41:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my car in to Jiffy Lube for the required Texas inspection and they failed it because they said my (factory installed, completely standard, not very dark) window tint was too dark. Confused, I said "but when I brought it to this exact store one year ago, it passed without issue." The guy said "yeah...that's the thing. When you park in the sun, your tint will get darker over time." I just stood there thinking "did this guy just tell me my car got a suntan?" Took it to a mom and pop down the street and it passed without issue. Told the owner, and he laughed and laughed and laughed. Said there was nothing close to illegal about my tint and no, cars don't fucking suntan.
jodiparks · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL, thanks for that laugh, I needed it! Luckily I am not out in public where I would look crazy laughing out loud while reading something on my phone! But really, “your tint gets darker over time”, what the hell?? I wish you would have responded out loud though lol!!
gatecrasher48 · 9 points · Posted at 17:26:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well that escalated quickly lol
scothc · 7 points · Posted at 18:32:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my car to the Ford dealership for an oil change and mentioned there was an odd sound coming from the wheel area. When I came back they told me I needed a new control arm, and I'd have to buy the whole kit, be about $800. I took my car instead to a family friend 2 hours away because it'd be a bit cheaper from him. He called me after 20 minutes ago wanted to know why I thought the control arm was bad and I told him that's what the Ford dealership told me. Turns out the arm was fine, but I had a bent rim that was making the noise.
Fuck you Bergstrom Ford.
Mlmessifan · 6 points · Posted at 19:48:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your mistake was going to a dealership for an oil change!
scothc · 3 points · Posted at 20:06:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know. I had a Ford 500 at the time and I was sick of garages telling me they had never worked on one before so I went with the dealer that time. Learned my lesson
SandStrider · 6 points · Posted at 16:40:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck greg
gregdoom · 9 points · Posted at 16:56:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Only if you buy me dinner first.
dances_with_treez · 3 points · Posted at 18:13:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/beetlejuicing
NissanSkylineGT-R · 3 points · Posted at 17:28:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Noooooo!
clever_weather · 5 points · Posted at 16:27:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You win
EternalJedi · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not a car guy, but I thought the radiator was a part of the cooling system? I guess your car has a different coolant system?
DistinctTelevision · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He said his car's "trunk" is in the front of the car, where the engine would normally go in most cars. Sounds like an old Volkswagen, which has an air-cooled engine in the rear.
UnR3quited · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you explain why if the brake light wasn't working they didn't do an inspection? New driver, and not a car guy, but I'd like to save myself a few bucks in the future.
senrabsinned · 2 points · Posted at 20:14:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m sorry, I’m going to have to call BS. I have worked at multiple dealerships as a mechanic and I have never heard of anyone just upselling a new transmission. I could see a “transmission service” but never a whole transmission. Nobody is going to just buy a transmission if they didn’t come there complaining about it.
RogueRainbow · 2 points · Posted at 02:15:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tbh having worked at a dealership doing oil changes I 100% would have noticed a leak or transmission issues before I noticed brake lights, simply because those are always easier to check when doing an oil change.
Though when I did the only time I would write stuff up is when I felt it was nearing catastrophic failure, because I knew if it was minor the service writers would play it off as the absolute worst.
eidas007 · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just playing devil's advocate (disclaimer: I'm a lead tech for a dealership).
Is it possible they could have missed the brake light and you really did need some of the other stuff? My quick lane guys miss stuff on occasion because they both think the other person checked it.
Also, it would be very strange to attempt to upsell a transmission with no issues or concerns. You're sure it wasn't some type of transmission service? There are shady people everywhere, but for all the techs I've known I haven't seen one try to do something like that.
RugglesIV · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They said you needed new brake filters?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:10:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?
Lovat69 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
perkofbeingasmartass · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I put off getting an oil change for the longest time because my dad had always taken care of that stuff and I was terrified of going in and getting scammed.
Luckily, the men were super nice and didn't do anything but what I asked for. My car is kinda old and not in the best shape either, so I wouldn't have known whether to believe them or not if they told me something needed to be replaced.
RainingWaffles · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read the whole Greg part like De Niro in Meet the Parents
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn. Just have them sell you a brand new car!
Freddit- · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uhhh, most people do not just agree to buy a multi-thousand dollar transmission replacement. That's ludicrous.
makkynz · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/thathappened
jdennis187 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was oeiginal comment its deleted
IsomDart · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most people will not spend $2k plus on a transmission just because someone says they need it.
IHaarlem · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
(if they actually changed the oil)
im2bizzy2 · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy I knew took his car to the dealership for the second time for work they didn't do the first time, but said they did. He hired people to watch his car every minute the service dept was open for the entire week they kept it. It never once moved, but he got the call telling him it was good to go. And the bill. This was the same dealership where I looked at a car on my lunch hour one day and asked the salesman what time they closed, wanting to return with my husband to drive one. He said 5 pm. Yeah. They really closed at 9. Guess who called the owner AND bought elsewhere?
blackcompy · 2337 points · Posted at 15:47:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooh, car mechanic stories. I bought a camper van that had two batteries, one for starting the engine, and a smaller auxiliary under the driver seat for the camping fridge and stuff. The auxiliary was dead when I bought the van, so I took it to the garage to have it replaced (probably could have done it myself, but was lazy and they told me it would be cheap).
Anyway, when I come back to pick up the car, the guy is acting weird, so I pop the hood and see a brand new battery under there. I tell him I wanted the auxiliary replaced, not the main battery. He starts telling me some fairy tale about how in this model, the auxiliary is actually the one under the hood, and the main battery is installed under the driver's seat "for some reason".
So I move the seat forward as far as it will go, and together we gaze at the twenty year old piece of junk battery that was in the space below it. It was tiny, and there were actual cobwebs all over it. So, in my calmest voice I say "How incredible that I managed to drive onto your yard just powered by this. It must be a really good model".
He told me they had a couch where I could wait while he fixed this mess, for free.
The_hypest_Shit · 1149 points · Posted at 17:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a mechanic this shit pisses me the fuck off. Why the hell would you cheat a potential life long customer? Not only is it shady as hell and looks bad for everyone in your field and makes your company specifically look like shit but you lost so much more money once you realize that before the cheat this person may be coming back to you time and time again to fix their car. Now they're going to the competition. That's not even getting into the moral aspect of jt. Some people can barely afford oil changes and you're gonna try to make them pay out the ass for things that are just fine on their cars? Fucking disgusting.
cnaiurbreaksppl · 742 points · Posted at 17:55:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For real. A couple years ago, my car's engine was having a tough time turning over on start up. I took it in, the shop said (whatever thing) needed to be replaced, and it'd cost about $800, but I could take it to the dealership down the road and they'd fix it for free since it would be covered under warranty.
Just because of that honesty I still go to them for everything.
The_hypest_Shit · 64 points · Posted at 19:55:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. In my experience people reward honesty with loyalty. And now that shop has a life long customer who will make them plenty of money over the years and you know you are getting treated fairly. Win/win.
newsheriffntown · 32 points · Posted at 20:37:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have AAA and love the guy that has come out to my house twice. He's a young guy but seems to know his shit. He did a test on the alternator and starter and showed me that those things were fine. It was the battery and the terminal. I could clearly see the terminal wasn't good. I bought a battery from him since he carried some in the truck and, he drove over to the nearest auto part store and bought the terminal and put it on. Triple A is the way to go.
SharkFlyinHigh · 11 points · Posted at 21:13:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, so like the road side service?
lookitsnichole · 16 points · Posted at 22:27:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AAA does road side service, but they'll come for non-emergent things too. I had a dead battery I couldn't jump and obviously couldn't get it to a shop so they came out and replaced it for the price of the battery.
HeyLookItsAThing · 8 points · Posted at 01:38:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Warning on those batteries: if it dies in warranty they are absolutely horrible about replacing it. You need to be ready to raise hell if it's dead and not just in need of a jump, because they will put you through it. From what I saw online their battery service sucking is a really common complaint and my experience was actually on the low end of how frustrating they can get.
I loved them and got a battery from them because of it. About a year later my battery died, called them, they jumped the car then had me run it for a bit to get the battery charged again, I was completely happy. Next day it dies again, this guy says the same thing and when I argue says that their tester thing says the battery is healthy but I can take it up to Sears to get tested in a machine thing and if it's bad they'll replace it. So I go up to Sears, pay for a test, battery is bad. Next day it dies again so I call up AAA, person on the phone says that they'll replace it no problem, but when the guy gets out there he first says that he can't replace it without proof that I bought it from them. When I manage to find the original receipt he refuses to replace it and instead just cleans the nodes and keeps showing me that his equipment says the battery is fine and when I show him the paperwork from Sears he says they aren't within the AAA system so he can't take that (despite the last guy specifically sending me to Sears).
So at this point I call my dad (who was the policy holder for the AAA account), and he magically manages to get them to agree to replace it. Knowing him there was probably yelling and threats to cancel the account involved. An hour later they send out a tow truck from a completely unrelated company with the wrong battery... But luckily tow truck guy was great and just called in the right battery from another tow truck while we chatted for a bit then replaced it. His battery tester thing (he tested it while we were waiting, after reassuring me that I was definitely getting a new battery and he just needed it for paperwork) showed the same results that Sears got, so no idea what was up with all three AAA guys.
The second battery has lasted long enough that I think it's out of warranty now, but when it dies I'm just having them jump it and going somewhere legit for the new battery.
lookitsnichole · 3 points · Posted at 02:55:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I honestly had good service. It was at least 4 years ago and I've never had problems since. Maybe I just got lucky.
HeyLookItsAThing · 2 points · Posted at 03:33:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm only talking about replacing a bad battery that can be jumped under warranty. In every other situation they're amazing (which is why we still have AAA despite that experience). When I originally got the battery they were great! They tried to jump my old battery, couldn't, and replaced it with one of theirs for a great price (which sounds like what happened with you).
The frustration came once their battery went just bad enough that it was dying multiple days in a row but not completely dead yet. Which is apparently common with them.
Edit: And to specify, a warranty that's under AAA. They're happy to replace battery you have to pay for but once their warranty says they have to replace it for free things get squirrely.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. You pay a once a year fee (mine is $100) and when your car breaks down they will tow you. If you have a flat they will come and change the tire, try to start your car, etc. You can't use it all the time though. I think you can use it four or five times a year.
rabbitwitch420 · 15 points · Posted at 22:15:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
only slightly related but i feel strongly about honesty in this aspect. i work at a local petstore and we sell this 'betta water' bullshit by the liter for $4. whenever I am talking to people about bettas I always make it painfully clear that you can go to walmart and get a gallon of distilled water for less than that. people respect not being cheated
blastoise_Hoop_Gawd · 7 points · Posted at 23:48:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The shop I used to work at would automatically check any car for recalls since one time a decade ago they charged someone for a fix and then found out later it was a recall and felt so bad they refunded the guy.
SuprSaiyanTurry · 56 points · Posted at 18:09:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not a mechanic by trade but know a lot about vehicles so I tell all my friends that don't know much to give me a call if they think something is wrong with their car. If it's something I can fix, I'll do it for a few beers and a good conversation.
Had a friend who's car was making a strange noise but it'd only make this noise in a turn or hitting a bump. He took it to a mechanic and he told him his rear diff had leaked out all its fluid and the teeth were toast and he'd need to get a new differential. This seemed strange as his car still moved just fine!
Looked under the car to see if I could find signs of leaking and there was nothing and there was no stain on the ground. I pulled the plug and it was still full.
While I was under there I noticed he didn't have his spare tire under his car and that thing that holds the tire up was able to swing around and was hitting the sides of that spare tire well and that was the noise we heard!
Imagine getting a new fucking differential just to find out you just need to hang your spare tire back up! I was beyond pissed!
The_hypest_Shit · 25 points · Posted at 18:32:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's uhh.....incredibly fucking shady. Hope you told everyone you know not to trust those guys. People like that ruin all of our reps.
SuprSaiyanTurry · 8 points · Posted at 04:38:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I did. I also plastered it all over Facebook.
TheAlphaCarb0n · 6 points · Posted at 19:02:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do diffs actually have fluid?
chrisbrl88 · 14 points · Posted at 19:24:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. High viscosity gear oil. Limited slip differentials also require a friction modifier. And it should be changed periodically. Service interval is usually between 70k and 150k, but I like to do it every 50k so I can inspect the fluid and make sure I'm not seeing any metal shavings or anything. $25 in gear oil every 50k is a hell of a lot cheaper than a new differential.
Black_Moons · 9 points · Posted at 19:59:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, replaced all the fluids in my truck when I bought it. They where not happy when I asked them to change the diff but they did it anyway.
Learned they likely didn't wanna do it because 200km 10+ year old diff oil smells like ass.
chrisbrl88 · 7 points · Posted at 20:07:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hell, new gear oil smells like ass. It's high sulfur.
TheAlphaCarb0n · 3 points · Posted at 20:51:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, TIL
[deleted] · 43 points · Posted at 18:02:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really really don’t like going to the mechanic. I don’t know the first thing about cars. I’m sure there are plenty of honest mechanics, but how am I supposed to tell the difference?
The_hypest_Shit · 31 points · Posted at 18:25:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly with modern social media these days you can look up reviews for shops. Look up some local shops and find some with a lot of good reviews. Take it there and see if it works out. Get a complete inspection done and if you think they are cheating you take it to their competitor. Get the same inspection done. Talk to the mech if you can and have them show you what's going on. If they can show you what wrong with your vehicle and explain it all fairly simply you found yourself a decent mech. Once you've got them try to take it to that mech every time. It's mutually beneficial. He gets return sales from your car and you have someone you can trust. Plus in my opinion and my slogan if I ever start my own shop is, you have your personal doctor why wouldn't you want a personal mechanic? Someone who knows your car inside and out. Who you can take it to and know they're gonna treat you right. Your vehicle is usually the second most expensive thing you own outside your house or apartment. You need someone who can keep it running and safe for you and whoever you are driving with.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, great advice - thank you! I’m moving to a small town soon, so hopefully one of the two mechanics in town are honest so I don’t have to go out of the way.
poetaytoh · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the world of mechanic shops, word of mouth is still king.
blackcompy · 61 points · Posted at 17:37:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went there exactly twice in my life. After the battery story, I thought "well, I'm sure they learned their lesson" and took my van there because I suspected the starter motor was failing. They proceeded to leave it out in the rain overnight with the roof open, and then said they tested the starter and it was fine.
Well, you can imagine my face when I took the camper to go on vacation the week after, and on day two, the starter motor died. I never went to that place again.
portableoskker · 48 points · Posted at 18:03:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OK that second one is on you. You went back?
blackcompy · 3 points · Posted at 23:28:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, fool me twice. It was a large car service chain, I thought it must have been just that one guy. Turns out it wasn't.
portableoskker · 8 points · Posted at 23:56:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never really is in places like that. That guy isn't screwing you because he wants to, he's screwing you because he's set up to screw you by management (incentives, bonuses, berating, etc).
blackcompy · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The communication between the office and the mechanics in that place was just broken. After the battery story, I saw the mech get handed a printed card by the manager that said "I need to check back with the office about my tasks before starting work" and I was like, wait what, you have these things ready printed, just laying around?
Now that I think about it, there really were a lot of red flags that should have told me to take my vehicle somewhere else. I don't make the smartest choices at times.
hrbrox · 22 points · Posted at 18:08:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to mention all of said potential customer’s friends and relatives! You can bet your boots anyone who has identified that they’re being ripped off by a garage is going to immediately warn everyone they care about not to use them.
jordanjay29 · 19 points · Posted at 17:39:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plus, they're going to figure it out the first time they turn on the car. You're out of a job before they're out of the parking lot. Honestly, I wish that mechanics who lose their jobs to the increasing computerization of cars go in order of most to least stupid so these nimrods lose them first.
ireadencyclopedias · 16 points · Posted at 18:24:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where do you work? I left my former mechanic because EVERY SINGLE TIME something else came up that needed fixed.
I went to a new place, and they have fixed everything at a cheap price and nothing is ever "broken" a few days later. I will continue to go to them and I tell EVERYBODY I KNOW how awesome they are.
The_hypest_Shit · 3 points · Posted at 20:04:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at firestone. It used to have a bad rep but the company is really turning it around. Incentives for mechs to go to school and get their certs. Fixing cars they fucked up at no cost to the customer. Things like that. They really are trying to be the best of the best in this business. I'm not usually a company man. Actually I usually can't stand every company I've worked for but it seems like Bridgestone is really trying to do right by the customer.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:22:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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The_hypest_Shit · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea man that's fair. Like I said in a previous comment there are still plenty of shops that are shady. Where do you live if ya don't mind me asking?
adincha · 14 points · Posted at 18:56:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents went to the same shop with all of their cars for 25 years until it was bought by new people. They went from an honest place that did great work and didn't try to upsell, to constantly making shit up. I used to drive an hour and a half back home to go there specifically because of how great it was.
The final straw was when they incorrectly installed my new brakes, so one of them literally fell off my front left wheel on the highway. Lost the business of 4 people and 7 cars in a single day
chrisbrl88 · 10 points · Posted at 19:28:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That... that shouldn't even be possible. What exactly happened?
adincha · 6 points · Posted at 19:51:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not good with cars to be honest so I'm not 100% sure but the top of the caliper came off and tore up the inside of the rim really really bad. When it happened there was a loud bang and my car shook and bounced really badly haha
chrisbrl88 · 15 points · Posted at 19:56:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, I know what they did. Or rather, what they didn't do: put the slide pin bolts back in.
Absolutely inexcusable. There are only four bolts holding it all together, and they forgot half of them. Should've sued... they're liable.
Black_Moons · 7 points · Posted at 20:02:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep. Wheels, suspensions and brakes: you put them back together 100% or you don't even consider touching them in the first place because one missing (or under/overtorqued) bolt and you may very well end someones life.
chrisbrl88 · 5 points · Posted at 20:06:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Absolutely. You triple check that all fasteners are in place and correctly torqued, and that every castle nut has a cotter pin.
Don't want the front to fall off.
The_hypest_Shit · 7 points · Posted at 19:36:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Happens all the time unfortunately. That's why I always tell people to find a mechanic you like and follow them regardless of the shop.
astrodog88 · 20 points · Posted at 18:13:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Used car dealer here. Same for us. Why mislead customers and then screw them over when they find out you knowingly sold them a car with serious issues? You lose that customer, everyone they know, and hurt the industry. I hear it all the time. "so and so shady dealership sold me a lemon, waved the AS IS buyer's guide in my face, and now I'm terrified of car dealers and I'm going to buy my next used car from that new website that delivers you a used car sight unseen just so I don't have to deal with a salesman."
Just stupid.
daveyb86 · 16 points · Posted at 18:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a place near my office replace my brakes. About 10 months later I went for a new battery and they told me I needed new brakes. So I asked how long the new ones would last, after he asked me a few questions about annual mileage etc. he told me that they would easily last a few years. When I reminded him that I got them changed 10 months ago he started telling me that there must have been something wrong with the batch or something.
After getting a second opinion (where they said the brakes were fine), I told absolutely everyone I knew with a car that lived near that place my story. So not only did they lose my business, they probably lost it from a bunch of other people too. Not sure if it was worth it for them for the sake of a €150 job.
austex3600 · 7 points · Posted at 19:03:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You ask why
The answer is: a profitable amount of people won’t notice or argue
glahtiguy · 6 points · Posted at 19:41:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man I used to work at an auto parts store, and occasionally deliver to shops. So much shady shit. I've seen a Tire place order two shocks, when i show up with one box and he questions me:
"Yeah, they come two in a box for this truck"
"Awesome! I charged them for two already, more money for me!"
"... I need a signature and a shower"
I've seen a muffler/oil change place forget to put the new oil filter on, and take the car on the "test drive" around the block. "eh, put the filter on and fill it back up. It'll be fine, they don't need to know."
I've seen shops charging customers for pads and loaded calipers.
I've seen shops doing "premium" oil changes with our house brand shit oil.
I learned to work on my own car, because there was nobody left I respected.
The_hypest_Shit · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey man if you know your way around a car being a mech can bring in some pretty good money if you're interested. Plus you can be the change you want to see in this industry. That's what my dumb ass is trying to do.
glahtiguy · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh, no I went into IT and do pretty well for myself now. I've not been at the auto parts store for over 10 years now.
poetaytoh · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How do you become a mechanic? What training and certs do you need? Do you have to go to school? Is it an apprenticeship job?
The_hypest_Shit · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You don't need any training or certs. I got my start at tires plus and I had no tools or knowledge to my name when I started. Didn't even know how to do an oil change. They have shop tools for all the simple things you will be doing but eventually you are gonna want to sink some money into your own. There is colleges and whatnot you can go to to learn and there are straight up apprenticeships in a lot of dealer shops. Pretty easy to get into and you can get a feel on wether you are gonna like the job or not if you just hop into a firestone or tires plus gs (general service) position. Like I said in a previous comment there is a lot of money to be made in mech work. For instance the lead mech in my shop works probably 45-50 hours a week and he averages about 80-90 flat rate hours in that time. At 25 bucks an hour that adds up really quick. But if you have any interest in the job just go apply to a local shop. I think any chain shop has beginner tools that you can use to start with. Hope this helped m8.
The_hypest_Shit · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also to add on to my other comment Bridgestone will pay for a lot of your schooling if you work for them and send you to their own classes as well. Also payed for. Bonuses and raises for when you get your ase certs. Like I said I'm not a company guy usually but Bridgestone has always done right by me.
poetaytoh · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:47 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for the info! I started learning basic car stuff in H.S. when I witnessed a friend's mom pay $60 to a neighbor to do a brake job and realized I could save a lot of money learning to do stuff myself, and I discovered I actually really enjoy it! To get paid to work on cars sounds like a blast to me, but I've never had the balls to apply because I haven't had any formal training and feel really underqualified. Maybe I'm wrong.
The_hypest_Shit · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:31 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah dude like I said. I didn't even know how to do an oil change when I started. They'll teach ya everything ya need to know. But it is a fun job. Gotta have tough skin tho. Fairly physically demanding and most mechs have a very dirty/ruthless sense of humor.
TheNargrath · 6 points · Posted at 20:33:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a lifer for my mechanic. The whole shop is awesome folks, and Maggie, the really friendly shop pooch is a sweetheart. But what sold me on the place is that they always explain every bit to me, give me options, and typically give me a heads up on future fixes that aren’t needed now, but may be needing on another appointment.
I’m no car doc, but I have done minor repairs. The owner has called me up a few times on a diagnosis to let me know that the fix was something well within my ability, and doing it myself would save me a few hours of shop time, plus allow me to learn a new area of the vehicle. He’s still happy to do the job, but likes to give his customers the option.
Fantastic garage, great people, amazing ethics. It’s folks like you and he that help make car repair a less painful issue.
The_hypest_Shit · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck that place sounds awesome. And they have a shop dog?.....they hiring?
waterlilyrm · 5 points · Posted at 19:56:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mechanic is a friend of over 25 years. He's going to retire soon and while I'm happy for him, I'm not looking forward to finding a new mechanic when the time comes.
The_hypest_Shit · 6 points · Posted at 20:09:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha. Well I'm sure he knows a few people that'll treat you right. Ask him for refrences.
waterlilyrm · 3 points · Posted at 20:23:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm hoping one of his crew will buy him out. :)
BrownSugarBare · 5 points · Posted at 20:50:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly all of this. My SO is a huge car fanatic and he's got some pretty unique/pricey toys. He drives well out of his way for a small shop with 3-4 guys and I'm not kidding, their cranky ole' granddad, lol. He adores them and always tips well because they charge decently and tell him the truth with that he does and doesn't need. Even with all the expensive stuff, he's more than happy in this tiny garage and takes all his car buddies to them as well. Loyalty for life.
nopoisonlikeadream · 13 points · Posted at 17:52:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because no less than 50% of the people who choose to be mechanics, are also bridge-burning pieces of shit.
The_hypest_Shit · 10 points · Posted at 18:16:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is true tho. We're all chain smokers alcoholics or druggies. No exceptions.
land8844 · 0 points · Posted at 18:17:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's usually the service manager that does the bullshit.
ReginaldHiggensworth · 3 points · Posted at 18:23:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So uhh... where do you work?
The_hypest_Shit · 10 points · Posted at 18:30:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha I work at firestone. In some areas it's still kinda shady but the Bridgestone brand is doing a massive overhaul of image and quality. They pay for their mechs to go to classes for learning ase (automotive service excellence) and once they get their ase certs they give them a raise and a couple hundred bucks. The company really wants their mechs to be the best of the best and for everything to be done right. And if you can show that a mech did something wrong 10/10 (that I've seen) they'll pay for it outright. They're a multibillion dollar industry and fixing a car for a few hundred or even thousand out of their pocket is worth it in their mind to make the customer happy and preserve their image.
ireaditonreddit27 · 3 points · Posted at 23:09:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly!!!!! I have two stories, the first was my 17 year old niece. I’m trying to make sure she knows enough about her car to spot bullshit, so o take her to the auto shop I had been going to without issue and sent her in alone. I wanted her to be at a known place to be able to do it herself. The guy had serviced my car for 3 years. She needs an oil change, they change the oil fine. Then tell her her brakes are dangerous and she really needs to replace them for $200 right now. She comes out crying to me that she needs brakes and they don’t want her to get the car back because it’s so dangerous. I walk into the shop and say - show me the brakes on the car. They back pedal a minute and say they are just ready to be changed soon and she should think about it. (I’m female but have a really good don’t fuck with me face) I take the car to my dad after buying new pads so he can help teach her how to change them herself, it’s kind of a right of passage in the family. I should have checked them myself because they were almost brand new. The mechanic not only lost my business but everyone I’ll ever meet.
Good story... there is a local tire shop down the street from my parents house. My parents Have literally been customers for 40 years. I have been a customer as long as I’ve been driving and my nieces and nephews are going to be life long customers as well. Had someone steal my tires. (Literally the whole thing.) the tire shop found rims that would fit my car and came out and installed them all at my house 20 miles away. Only charged my 10 bucks a rim because they were used and the new tires. No install or delivery fee. Installed them and then let me come by the shop to pay on my way home from work. I also refer every person I’ll ever meet to this tire shop.
kaleighb1988 · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah my fiancee dad is a mechanic that owns his own shop. He'd never pull shit like this. My fiance told me a story a few years ago about an employer he had. For the life of me I can't remember what the part was on the car but a lady came into the shop with a minivan and needed the part replaced. My fiance notices that it was just loose and needed tightened up and that fixed the issue. He went and told his employer and the guy said "I don't care. Just replace and bill the lady for it because she'll be none the wiser". He reluctantly did as told, finished he work day and never returned. The guy that owns that shop now has 2 different shops in the same town. I hate people like that. I get that they need to make money but if you get found out about stuff like that then eventually youll end up with no customers.
The_hypest_Shit · 6 points · Posted at 20:08:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have charged a little bit of labor to tighten it up but that's it. Some people just fucking suck.
ProtoJazz · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a real shit time trying to get a problem fixed on my last car. It was a couple years old and suddenly it would stop accelerating. Which was really bad. I'd had it cut out making a right on red, I'd had it cut out on on ramps.
Eventually I just started being the most cautious driver because I couldn't count on it to keep moving. Which led to lots of honks and people wanting to get out and fight.
I kept trying to get it fixed, but kept being told it was my fault, that I put in a remote start when I bought it and that's what is causing the problem 2 years later.
Well I got the remote start company to look at it and they made sure it was all good. Still happened.
So I get them to remove the remote start. Still does it.
So now the dealer tells me that it's just how the car is. That it can't be expected to run like their brand of cars, since this was a rebadge.
Which is fucking horse shit. Why would a company spend the money to rebadge a car that has serious safety issues and would ruin their brand?
Eventually I got them to keep it for 3 days and they still swore up and down they found nothing and couldn't do anything. They said they'd take the car apart and reassembled it and found nothing.
I was pissed. I ended up going from the garage to another dealer and making a deal to trade it for a new car twice the price. Terrible idea probably, payments are more than my rent.
Worst part? They fixed it when they took it apart it seems. I don't know if they fixed it and lied, or just accidentally fixed it and didn't know. But for the entire time between when I ordered the new car, and when it was delivered it never happened again.
The_hypest_Shit · 5 points · Posted at 18:57:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did they every say what was wrong with it that they fixed?
ProtoJazz · 6 points · Posted at 19:10:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As far as they told me they never fixed anything. So I'm not sure if they fixed it by accident, or just wanted to keep up the bullshit "there's nothing wrong with it" act
jinglingkeys · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a single mother on a very tight budget, I love you.
The_hypest_Shit · 5 points · Posted at 19:35:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone raised by a single mother I definitely have a soft spot for people in your situations and will help them out as much as I can. I hope you find a decent mech willing to work with you.
Black_Moons · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tell everyone who can listen what places got me good service and what places ripped me off. Cough Symons tire = awesome.
Fountain tire = OK but get those quotes in writing.
Other local shop wanted 2x what fountain tire was charging for an intake gasket replacement and 'you should replace a bunch of other stuff, like your ignition cables while we are in there!' (Without ever opening the hood.. without realizing they did that shit last time I was there and I knew changing the cables did not require anything to be removed to be done)
redhedhempgal · 2 points · Posted at 21:38:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The world needs more mechanics like you. This is also common practice where I live too.
El_Stupido_Supremo · 2 points · Posted at 22:04:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dont worry. They just make guys like me value our good mechs that much more. My guy is close to my house and I can take back roads if the truck is limping their. (95 f350 dually. Shit breaks.) Hes fair and takes me around my truck on the lift and breaks down what I can do next on my time and what he will do next time I come in for something else. No crazy charges and a full rundown before he does work unless I just say to fix it.
Eventually the truck should be amazing again and potentially pull wheelies.
sagegreenpaint78 · 2 points · Posted at 22:39:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so true. People really value a good, honest mechanic and tend to be very loyal. When I was young and poor I found a great place that I could trust and they'd tell me what needed to be fixed but also what could wait. I stayed with that garage for 20 years until the owner retired.
gold8erry · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where do you work and are you taking new customers?? <3 <3
nirvroxx · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish all mechanics had your mindset. Ive been cheated in the past. Luckily, I've found a very honest and reliable mechanic now.
The_hypest_Shit · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you. Stick with him as long as you can even if he moves shops. Good mechs are becoming increasingly rare.
nirvroxx · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah for sure. I hope he never moves and when i do, ill probably kidnap him.
The_hypest_Shit · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha. Mechanics are pretty easy pets to be honest. Just feed and water them. Keep them in your garage and every once in a while buy them new toys (tools). Make sure if they're being good to get them a 6 pack as a reward.
nirvroxx · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do the basic stuff myself. Oil changes/spark plugs/brakes/alternator/diff fluid.. Recently changed the cv axle, so that was the biggest job I've done. Definitely keep my mechanical pets in As best shape as i can.
CrockRockets · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We need more people like you :)
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tell you, I need to get an oil change but I'm afraid to because I know how these places are. I've been to them before. You need this, you need that and the other thing. No I don't. They want to sell you an air filter for twice the price that Walmart sells them for and tell you there are other things that are 'wrong'. Those people make commission on all that extra shit they try to sell you.
jjackson25 · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously, having grown up with a mechanic as a father, worked as one myself, as well as my brother working for him now we're all very aware of what a lot of people think of mechanics. So many people have zero trust of mechanics and are even flat out afraid to go to one for fear of getting ripped off. Treating customers right and building trust is a major part of being successful in that business.
The_hypest_Shit · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same boat as you. Pops is a mech and I'm learning all I can in hopes i can open my own shop and treat people the way they deserve to be treated. Hope it all works out for you.
jjackson25 · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same to you good sir
Anthropophagite · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked front end at a mechanics shop for 3 years and when I took my car in for a tune up before a big road trip they still ripped me off and replaced my reusable oil filter with the cheapest one they could find. I really don't trust any shop now.
titangrove · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a car owner, having an honest, reliable mechanic is priceless. Too many cowboys out there.
IMIndyJones · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, I wish I could have you work on my car. I think I've been to every shop in my area and can't find an honest mechanic.
I grew up with my dad fixing cars with my uncle who was a mechanic. I don't know much, and what I don't, I run by my dad. So I usually have a good idea of what needs attention one way or the other. I've gotten referrals, reviews, etc., and they all suck.
First highly recommended mechanic couldn't figure it out and just said "the light will just go out".
Second guy, fixed the problem, after having my car for a week, told me my car was a piece of shit and I should junk it. My rotors were magically warped when I drove it off.
Last guy fixed a problem, affordable price, fair, but he has moved on.
I can only assume that it's because my car is 17 years old, and they think I'm clueless. It's been a good car though.
EmergencyShit · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I live in San Francisco now but I still drive up to Sacramento for car repairs because I found a good auto shop there.
Hohohoju · 35 points · Posted at 16:27:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your car isn’t being powered by the battery when you drive unless you have an electric car. The only problem would be starting it.
Trinket90 · 92 points · Posted at 16:38:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, he still wouldn’t have been able to start the vehicle, and therefore drive it into the shop, with that battery. So the message is the same.
Hohohoju · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
True. Just trying to spread knowledge.
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KingofCraigland · 17 points · Posted at 16:50:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I suspect the computers on a vehicle that old were minimal at best.
Tree_of_Meats · 8 points · Posted at 18:17:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If this was recent, it may have had one. Onboard computers have been standard for about 20 years now.
xaanthar · 35 points · Posted at 16:50:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When the car is running, the alternator is proving electrical charge for the car (and charging the battery). The battery is only used for starting and operating the electronics when the car is off.
cnaiurbreaksppl · 7 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Teach me more about car stuff
The_Flying_Spyder · 17 points · Posted at 16:51:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Alternators. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator_(automotive)
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boinger · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What were you imagining the alternator did for the car?
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boinger · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it ran off the battery to charge the battery, that would make it a perpetual motion machine.
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boinger · 3 points · Posted at 23:33:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All the wiring is hooked up to the battery, yes. The alternator is belt-driven by the motor and hooked to the battery as well (on a heavier-gauge dedicated wire).
Think of it like this: before you start the car, you can listen to the radio and shit, right? Pure battery power and you’re slowly draining the battery. When you start the car, that sucks out a massive slurp of battery juice to power the starter motor. Once the car is running, though, the alternator makes more voltage than the battery (14V+ vs the battery’s ~12V), so the alternator’s power takes over, both running all the electronics and recharging the battery.
If your alternator dies (or, if you wanted to experiment with this, you disconnect the wiring from it), you can actually drive around just fine for quite a while. Of course if you run the headlights or a huge radio amplifier or whatever, you won’t get as far. A few years ago (when I was younger / poorer) I had to leave my alternator broken for a few months until I could afford it — i would just keep the battery on a charger whenever it was parked at home. I still commuted every day with it. (Note: this is potentially not great for the battery. Lead acid batteries do not like being drained down too far.)
rik_and_the_boomer · 3 points · Posted at 17:31:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even then, its hardly the 12v battery providing you motive power, it's only for all the accessory systems.
Source : own an EV
Hohohoju · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interesting. I thought everything ran off one big battery (or smaller batteries chained together), but what you’re saying is that there’s a separate 12v system to power just the accessories?
rik_and_the_boomer · 2 points · Posted at 14:06:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my Zoe at least, yes. Some of the conventional accessories are driven from the motive battery (rear window defroster, heater/AC) but all other non motive systems are all 12V! Radio, lights, alarm etc etc.
I think it's easier to sort out simple systems like heaters to scale up or use different voltages as those provided by a motive battery, but since everything else, (bar commercials) use 12v systems, why reinvent the wheel?
Fabtacular1 · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like now this is your satisfying story about catching someone in a lie.
Hohohoju · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s not a lie as OP still was correct in that the mechanic was BSing but I think Op had some misconceptions about what the battery is used for.
throwawayacct600 · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Spark plugs?
Hohohoju · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What about ‘em?
throwawayacct600 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought the battery was necessary to provide the power for the spark plugs. That is also provided by the alternator?
Hohohoju · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:45 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
AFAIK, the ignition coil only needs power from the battery at start up as no power is being generated by the alternator yet. Once the engine is running you could remove the battery and it would keep firing.
This is why you can jump start a car with a dead battery; all it needs is the initial jolt of electricity to get in motion, after which the alternator will provide enough juice to keep things running as well as recharge the battery.
Here is a quick video that demonstrates this principle: https://youtu.be/CoDkKNA5FfM
webweb6 · 2 points · Posted at 20:13:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got one too. After my last car blew a piston rod, I bought a Mercury sable that had a working a/c, which was a big selling point as my last car didn't. So the brake line in the rear had a hole in it, so I took it too Firestone to get it fixed, and they did, but they also said that both sets of shocks in the back were pretty much dead and it was resting on the struts mainly. They wanted to charge around $1200 to do both, but they said I had probably a month until it was a very necessary repair so I took it to the mechanic my dad uses and turns out only the back left shocks are broken, and he's only charging $300 for it.
sectorsight · 3 points · Posted at 21:10:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should be replacing shocks, any suspension part in general really, in pairs.
webweb6 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But $600 for both is way better than $1200, I can actually pay for that.
sectorsight · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No doubt about that.
Psych0panda2k13 · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a similar issue when I took my motorbike in for its service and MOT (I’m from the uk).
Now there is only one Yamaha accredited mechanic shop that’s an reasonable distance from me (about 20 minutes or so), so I regularly went there when the time arrived, first with my 125 a few times then one time when I rocked up on a 600. Now I just bought it and it was second hand, but the dealership/garage I bought it off of were based about an hours ride from where I lived so that and the the fact I had been frequenting a smaller more local garage I went to the local garage.
when I bought the bike they had done some work for me, new tires chain replaced oil changed usual stuff done to make it road worthy and operate great. Now the MOT on it was due a few months (now I’m not very knowledgable in all the paperwork stuff and when it was meant to go in and stuff so my dad dealt with that and if I recall correctly I could get it done now or just do it when the time came) this was tail end of the school year so we decided to do it ourselves later cause then I’ll be finished school and then when it comes round again I won’t have to try and fit it in with school I can just go do it in summer break.
So anyway the time comes up I go to the local garage and they do the MOT I’m sat in a nearby cafe and they give me a ring and say (me is me and dg is dodgy guy on the phone) Dg - hiya mate done the MOT but we can’t pass it Me - oh right why not (bit confused because it’s partially a new bike after having most of its parts replaced) Dg - basically your chains buggered and the cog (I forget the technical term) is about to be dead so we’ll need to replace that for you Me - okay give me ten minutes and I’ll pop over (knowing full well that it’s practically new and I have all the paperwork in my jacket pocket where I keep all my bikes documents) Dg - cool see you soon mate He hangs up and I finish my tea and pop over.
He’s telling me all this stuff how it’s going to be expensive etc to fix and that it’s gunna take the rest of the day so I’m thinking about how I have to call him out. So I just play dumb and show him my log book where I keep all the info and stuff that’s been done on the bike and say Me - Ermm I dunno I just had it replaced etc before I bought it last month. He promptly looks it all over goes oh right that’s one of them new ones I don’t know about them just looked a bit wrong sorry. I paid for the MOT went home and never went back there again and just took the hour drive to where I bought it from then onwards.
brainiac3397 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, you should be grateful. It was clearly a nuclear fusion battery!
Black_Moons · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ROFL... reminds me of when my truck battery started getting weak... started turning over slowly despite just being charged but would still start.
I go to get it tested just for kicks and giggles. "Your 800CCA battery is currently reading..... 40CA.. Err... How did you even start the car??" "I don't know, but if it only takes 40A to start can you replace it with my cordless drill battery? :P"
Jubjub0527 · 8007 points · Posted at 14:02:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooooh I brought my car in to get new rear tires. I got a call about an hour later saying “hey your car is all wheel drive. You have to replace all 4.” I know for a fact my car is not all wheel drive as I had to sacrifice that option to get a manual. I told him no, he was wrong and to just do the tire change as instructed. He insisted, no no it is all wheel drive. It‘s skyactive (I have a Mazda), it’s definitely all wheel and you really have to got two more tires. I yelled at him at this point to stop wasting my time with info about the engine and to do the damn rear tires as instructed and hung up. His manager apologized when I came back. Jackass.
kingnothing1 · 3767 points · Posted at 14:54:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man I'd love to just make their sell up even worse by telling them to stop the job, I'm coming to take it away to your competitor.
Jubjub0527 · 2131 points · Posted at 15:06:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really should have. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time for it. I really did figure this was just a level of intense stupidity mixed with “well this is a woman and she doesn’t know” attitude. It was Costco so I don’t think they really get to see any extra cash if they try to bleed me for bullshit stuff. Though I guess they get to bill their mechanic hours. Who knows.
kimbledore · 1165 points · Posted at 15:21:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve only had wonderful experiences at the Costco tire center. One time we took our car in to get the tires replaced because the guy at jiffy lube said it was time while they were doing an oil change. We took the car in and the manager straight up told us we had at least another 6 months on those tires, and sent us away. It probably just varies by location like any other chain, but we really respected that move and ended up taking out car back there when it was time.
Metamorphis · 611 points · Posted at 15:34:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's how you get long term return customers and create trust. It's win/win, don't get why people don't understand that.
NeDragons · 240 points · Posted at 16:27:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The automotive industry is rife with shitheads looking to make a short term profit at the cost of retaining long term customers.
Source: worked in auto industry for 2 years. Never again
kittymctacoyo · 35 points · Posted at 17:49:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Try telling that to r/mechanicadvice. I posted once questioning something a known shady shop tried to pull on me and got reamed for suggesting a mechanic would lie to me. Updated the post the next day with proof from other shops that I was in fact being lied to. Crickets. (I had also worded my original carefully so they wouldn’t assume I was coming there with an accusation or assumption)
NeDragons · 17 points · Posted at 18:14:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a sudden twist of irony, the auto industry are also some of the most hive-mind-esque people on the face of the earth. They can do no wrong.
Paulr114 · 16 points · Posted at 18:16:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh the stories I could tell, but try this for size - ‘Your clutch is going, and you will need a new flywheel, say £1100’ - took it to Clutch4u, manager spent 20 minutes listening and rooting around, then said ‘not a problem’ and didn’t charge me a penny. Sold it 3 years and 90,000 miles later, same clutch still working fine.
NeDragons · 12 points · Posted at 18:22:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. And I bet that first guy you went to will never have your buisness again
Black_Moons · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once you need a new flywheel there is not much point in changing the clutch pads till it starts slipping or squealing anyway.
I mean the entire point of changing clutch pads early is so you don't wear grooves into the flywheel when you get down to the rivets.
gyffyn · 10 points · Posted at 17:55:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Then you find that one place that is actually helpful and good, and it's like striking gold.
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gyffyn · 5 points · Posted at 22:34:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good customers much prefer this. Anyone who doesn't appreciate this deserves a JiffyLube/Kwikfit job.
NeDragons · 3 points · Posted at 18:15:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol exactly. My mechanic is like this
Black_Moons · 2 points · Posted at 19:52:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, I got one place that does all my inspections for free and other work they do cheap, including a few exhaust leaks fixed for free. they don't do everything and have sent me away when its over their head, but I would much rather have them do that then screw it up.
gyffyn · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here, the place i use mostly isn't great at electrics so complicated bits they'll send me to another guy!
TheNoggin · 55 points · Posted at 17:15:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sold tires and services for awhile, this is too true. Had so many customers that went from coming in because they had a coupon for a cheap oil change to im selling them everything they need for all their cars because i was straight with them.
My favorite was a dude with an Audi RS4, came in for an air pressure check. Free service. Its a sweet ride so im checkin it out and notice his tires are almost spent. Theyre UHP tires in some ridiculous size like 245/40/19 or something so maybe 2 companies make them and theyre not cheap, $300 a piece not cheap. I price them through us and check all the online retailers. I go tell him what i found, hand him the price sheet and hes blown away at the cost, thinks im scammin him. Tell him i checked multiple places and he can save a bit buyin online and have them shipped directly to us for installation if hes willing to deal with a little extra hassle. He left and i guess got another opinion which confirmed that i was telling the truth. So a week or so later came back appreciative of my honesty, bought the $1300 tire set for that car and started bringin all 3 of his super nice cars to me. $10k at least over the few years i was there off a pressure check and being honest.
mipon · 8 points · Posted at 21:55:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People do business with people, not with companies.
Metamorphis · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. And he'll probably recommend your place to other people as well without you even knowing he was the one that sent them. :) Just got to love people like you who are honest and upfront and see the value in it, good shit and I'm happy you had that good mood experience.
Solid_Freakin_Snake · 25 points · Posted at 16:49:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. Sacrifice a quarter now to make a dollar later.
I wish more places were like that.
CreepyPhotographer · 8 points · Posted at 17:41:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And if you go to Costco at the right time, free samples!
Win/win/win!
leyebrow · 5 points · Posted at 18:33:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. I work at a bank, and our policy is always "get the customer the cheapest option possible (that's appropriate) because if we don't our competitor will". Not what you'd expect of a bank right? Probably guessing more "get as much out of the customer as possible", but lifelong customers are worth far more than a quick upsell.
vmcnick · 3 points · Posted at 18:13:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wouldn’t call it “honest.” You can never give a figure as specific as 6 months for a tire. It very well could only last 5 more. There are too many variables. The tire was nearing the end of its lifespan, so it was entirely reasonable to suggest changing it. And the closing rate for getting people to change their tires then and there is high enough that it is significantly more of a return for the business than sending them away and hoping they come back months later when they “need” it. Hint: they likely won’t return.
Edit: Saw you said “at least 6 months” and altered response to handle that statement instead of what I first read, which was just “6 months.”
Metamorphis · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The 6 month in the future customer might not return but telling that story to friends/family/colleagues might make others want to check out the place as well. The potential return over time doing this way of business might be worth more than a single tire change once.
That said, I do agree it can be a bit iffy to cheap out on tires and give an estimate on something like that since it can be dangerous to drive around on worn out tires.
vmcnick · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It MIGHT be, but a business has to operate on a reliable/repeatable selling structure. Sending someone away and hoping they bring back business is a one-way trip to going out of business, or constantly operating in the red.
I work in sales for a large, multi-state roofing company, and the reason our smaller competitors can’t get anywhere is twofold:
Put simply, if you don’t ask for their business then/there or demonstrate any need for your service to the customer during the appointment, you will fail 99/100 times. The auto industry is no different. A roof that “has two years left” might make it two years. It might not. It’s perfectly legitimate and ethical to suggest getting it done before the time is up, AND it’s far better for business.
Metamorphis · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be honest, roofing sounds a bit more like a niche market and not as much in demand or frequent as cars. The company needing sellers alone suggest this being true.
Also, one thing is what's ethical to do and another is saying "the roof won't hold and you need to get it replaced now", as opposed to "the roof might hold for up to two years but I would have replaced it now to prevent a more costly result later on if it doesn't".
Car sales I would say is different in the sense that you have a lot more random people coming by on a whim, word of mouth and so on. I'm not saying it doesn't exist in the roofing business but it's a lot more specific and not really something the general consumer would know very much about.
Cars on the other hand is a much easier conversational topic since people usually know at least something about them or have a car themselves they take care of on a daily/weekly basis.
The return business for an auto shop will be a lot more frequent than roofing will. Someone replied me to that they had been up front with their customer who ended up coming back with 3 more cars in a short amount of time, I don't see the same happening with roofing as much even tho I don't doubt it can happen there as well.
This seems to be more of a huge sale vs. several small ones over time kind of thing. I might be wrong tho.
vmcnick · 2 points · Posted at 13:08:09 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah from a perspective of profitability, that doesn’t work for businesses like JL. Do you have a background in business development?
Your model doesn’t really work. I promise you that Jiffy Lube asks for additional business every appointment, that their salespeople (yes, they are salespeople) are trained to do so, and that x percent of people consistently give them additional business at said appointment. This is why they raked in 5 billion dollars last year. There is also no reason why they wouldn’t get repeat customers from doing this. As long as the service is executed properly, some people will indeed come back.
Which doesn’t even address that Jiffy Lube does not rely on repeat customers. They have a rewards program and quick service, which brings some people back, but they mostly rely on new customers who need last minute oil changes to bring in business. They get people in the door with convenience, and upsell them for additional business. That’s a repeatable, scalable model that has allowed them to grow into a multi-billion dollar company.
It IS true that local shops rely a lot more on repeat customers, as their customer base is people who live in proximity to the shop. But Jiffy Lube sells service and convenience with no appointment necessary - there is no shop loyalty.
Metamorphis · 1 points · Posted at 13:32:15 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Indeed. I guess we just looked upon things from different angles. Myself living in a small town at the moment has probably skewed my view a little bit from the big picture kind of things when I entered this thread/topic but you're absolutely right about that. It all depends on the business model, location, availability/need etc.
I don't really have that much of a background in business development but I started an IT company with a friend 3 years ago (that I very recently sold my shares due to the stress/responsibility that comes with it, figured I'm more of a 9-5 kind guy).
We started out in a landscape office environment with a lot of other businesses. Everything from self employed writers to salesmen and product designers were there so I saw everything from how new private businesses to established larger scale brands how they did things on a daily basis for a little while.
It was interesting to see how they built networks, clients and maintained customers and employees. How already established businesses that came to us chose to handle us and their clients again which we sometimes had responsibilities for.
In the end it depends what gives you the most profit over time. Sometimes it's just selling a bunch since the demand is high, other times the demand is low and business relations are fragile so you need to be more careful than you'd like.
Supply & demand and all that jazz. I don't think either of the ways we talked about when it comes to conducting business is "wrong", it all depends on whether or not it's the right course for that particular company.
sweetaco · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked for a big blue electronics company. My sales manager was so busy reading the fucking score card and raping customers for services while giving them heavy discounts on products. Trying to up his national scorecard while never cracking open his profit and loss report to see he was losing more money than he made. Fucking moron.
tang81 · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just had this conversation with my wife. She doesn't understand why I get my cars inspected at a ghetto garage. It's because they understand I do my own work. When something is wrong, they take me into the bay and show me what needs done and why.
Xtynct08 · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably because most people don't catch them when they cheat you, so it's a win for them to cheat you. To me a mechanic is like a wizard, I don't know if he's lying to me or not.
Metamorphis · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
But once you figure out you've been had by a friend or co-worker or something telling you "holy shit, you shouldn't have had to do that all that with your car" you probably wouldn't have went back there. And you also won't recommend the place to friends/family which in turn makes the place not only lose you as a customer but other potential future customers as well. They'll lose money over time as a result.
weedful_things · 8 points · Posted at 17:30:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my Tacoma to a local mechanic because it has 180,000 miles and figured I would get my clutch changed out while I had the time and money. The guy told me to come back in 70,000 miles.
JohnnySkidmarx · 6 points · Posted at 18:26:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A repair shop was recommended to me by a friend. I took my car in to get new brakes. An hour later the mechanic called me and said “your brakes have plenty of brake pad remaining and should last you another year or so.” I was totally surprised at his truthfulness. I asked how much I owed him for checking the brakes and he said “no charge”. I recommended his shop to everyone I knew.
Ganaraska-Rivers · 29 points · Posted at 15:43:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, if tires last 10 years then six months is getting close. I would appreciate being warned in plenty of time, rather than running the tires bald and skidding off the road in a rain storm.
Zediac · 58 points · Posted at 16:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tires aren't good for 10 years. Don't trust them after 5-7 years. After that they lose traction, dry out, and start to crack.
But, yes, 6 months left is almost nothing. People, just check your tire's wear bars. It's stupidly easy to check your tires yourself. Being able to check your tire tread level and wear pattern is extremely easy and is extremely basic car owner stuff.
msuts · 12 points · Posted at 16:57:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a useful graphic. Thanks!
PlentifulMoonbeam · 10 points · Posted at 16:43:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Costco has been really good to me too. About a year after moving away for college, I went into a local place to get my tires rotated. The guy convinced me I needed 4 brand new tires because mine were too worn to be rotated. Luckily I couldn’t find the lug nut key thingy to take them off. A few days later I went to a Les Shwab (chain tire place) and the guy said that my tires were too worn to rotate but fine through winter at least and that he would feel bad replacing them. Next summer I went to Costco to see about my tires before a 600 mile trip and the guy said I’d be fine making the trip. I kept them for a few months after that then got them changed. The guy at the first place definitely wanted to take advantage of the fact that I didn’t know shit about cars and was a 19 year old girl in college far from my parents.
Reallycute-Dragon · 7 points · Posted at 15:57:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've had positive experiences with them too. There tire warranty and free patches have been amazing. I've had one tire patch two times with no issues.
lentilsoupforever · 3 points · Posted at 17:40:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar to when my husband took his car in because he thought X might be a big problem, and to change an iffy light. They told him nope, the potential big and expensive issue is actually just fine, and we can swap out that iffy light for $15. He got that done. And they have been his go-to mechanic since then. Honesty and service gets loyal customers.
batd3837 · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most places require the techs to upsell the customer on something. If they don’t do it often enough they get fired. Some places aren’t as hot on that idea.
cardinal29 · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everything about Costco is aces.
CSGOWasp · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do I keep hearing this about jiffy lube? How are they so shady?
Disk_Mixerud · 1 points · Posted at 04:16:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some corporate policies that pressure employees upsell more.
CSGOWasp · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah
skeetybadity · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When speaking of tired 6 months isn’t much time at all. What was going to happen in 6 months they’d all fail?
gimpwiz · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was extremely displeased with my one and only costco tire experience and will never go back. So it goes.
cheffy3369 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate to break it to you, but if you only have 6 months left on tires then the guy at Jiffy Lube wasn't really wrong in telling you you need new tires. 6 months is a very short amount of time considering season and climate changes and the fact that on average tires need to be replaced every 5 years. Most shops also just eye them out so if he did in fact just eye them out and was within a range of 6 months than that is fairly accurate as well. Not to mention as the tread wears down your tires they do not perform as well. So even if you do in fact have another 6 months, they will be less safe to use compared to when they were newer. All in all its fine that you waited, but over 6 months I really don't believe the jiffy lube guy was trying to take advantage of you. if they were only 2 years old then that would for sure be a dick move on his part.
brainiac3397 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I went to an independent tire shop and the guy looked at the tire I wanted to change and was like "that tire still has some life and it's in better shape than the ones I have right now". He basically didn't try to sell me a worse tire for a quick buck.
Now he's my go-to guy for tires for years.
lampposttt · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In fairness, an extra 6 months on tires doesn't necessarily mean that they shouldn't be replaced. Basically once your tire tread drops below 40%, there is a noticeable difference in handling and stopping distance, meaning that if you had to make an emergency stop/swerve, your tires might not have been up to to the task.
Most epople replace their tires when they are below 15% tread, I always replace mine once they hit 25%. The extra $70 of treadlife wasted is definitely worth the peace of mind knowing my metal death machine is equipped to save my life.
A_Suffering_Panda · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That could easily be a matter of perspective. If the jiffy lube guy always guesses conservatively and the Costco guy is liberal with it, they can both be right
ZarquonsFlatTire · 33 points · Posted at 16:06:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom loves to tell about the time a mechanic tried to sell her new spark plugs for her diesel.
alicatchrist · 21 points · Posted at 16:35:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a similar "women must be stupid" moment when I brought my car in for an oil change; two techs tried telling me my timing belt needed to be replaced for about 5 minutes when I told them my car has a timing chain, and if they had bothered to Google my cars make and model they'd have seen that. At least I got my oil changed for free that day.
Jubjub0527 · 10 points · Posted at 17:00:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooooooh you reminded me of when I used to bring my car in to the dealership for oil changes. The technician said “oh you’re up for a timing belt change. Want to schedule one now?” I was like no bc I had that changed about 30,000 miles ago and I know it’s not due for one. She argued with me saying that she couldn’t find it until I told her the year and month to look at it. “Oh yeah. Here it is. Well you’re close enough anyway. It’s good to change it before it goes.” That was the last time I brought it to them.
Ceddar · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooooooooh I got that too. The fucker was so unconfident while trying to peddle that bullshit at me. Said something about my car exploding. I told him I literally have no money except for the oil change and that got them to shut up. It was a lie but telling them there was nothing more to squeeze got the to just do the fucking job. I get better service at the fucking walmart
eastime · 8 points · Posted at 16:49:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a Costco tire center and can unfortunately confirm it was stupid. None of those employees make a commission, most are paid hourly, and most of their tire centers don't make money. Mine was #4 in our region of the US and we were still 50k in the red. They are there to come close to breaking even and "buy" your time spent in their store. Tech was most likely stupid but with good intent. Wanted to make sure he didn't ruin an awd system, and that was his main concern. A complaint is about a million times as negative as a sale is positive there.
Jubjub0527 · 6 points · Posted at 16:53:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks. It’s infuriating bc as a woman I feel immediately on guard whenever I go into any car place. Your comment is exactly why I choose Costco an BJs for tires, bc I’ve suspected what you said. I acknowledged later that it was good intent but seriously when it’s just as easily googled to verify, it wasn’t worth the argument he was putting forth.
eastime · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your right, but he doesn't get to use Google. He uses whatever the program database they happen to have. And once in a very long while it is wrong about a particular option or trim etc. On his end, he probably gets 10% of his customer base arguing and saying something that flat out isn't true. (You can fix that flat, it's just a tiny whole in the sidewall; it's your fault, you guys didn't call me when it was time to rotate my tires; no one told me I didn't have a mileage warranty if I didn't rotate my tires). His default knee jerk reaction is to reaffirm what he thinks is correct. The program said all skactives are 4wd, so they are in his head. In 99% of these situations he will probably be right. But every once in a while, when his "tire bible" is wrong he will probably look like an ass as he did to you. The fuck-up if anyone here in my mind, would be on costco. It should be part of his training to learn how to tell what wheels are driven. It isn't that hard to look under a car and tell if it's 4wd, especially if the tires are off. Unfortunately I don't know of any tire place that does this, so your best bet is probably still costco since they are more likely to have the most experienced employees due to the pay scale.
Turdferguson313 · 5 points · Posted at 16:34:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You don’t have to have time. You just have to let them think you do. I guarantee it would get handled quickly.
Tomble · 5 points · Posted at 23:04:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex, who was technically minded and had degrees in engineering, took her car to a mechanic after researching what was causing an obscure issue. She was telling the mechanic about the problem, and he would reply to me, standing next to her. I had to say "look, I don't know anything about this" and literally turn my back on him. The problem got solved but I could feel her frustration.
Jubjub0527 · 3 points · Posted at 23:50:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I know. I was shopping for a car and had decided that I wanted it to be a manual so the sales guy was showing me different cars. Now this was earlier in my years as a driver so I didn’t have a huge amount of experience with the differences in stick in foreign and American cars. The one I was test driving had a shitty ride, like you felt everything and no matter how smooth you tired to shift everyone in the car felt it. I say everyone because he insisted on coming on the test drive with my mother and me and made my mother sit in the back to boot (I’d been there the day before with a guy friend and we’d been tossed the keys from across the room). The guy tried to tell me “it’s a sport clutch!” when I asked does this car normally have such a rough ride. He then insisted that I pull over and let him try. I didn’t buy a car from him that day nor did I pull over. Being a woman and having ANYTHING to do with cars is generally a headache.
C_IsForCookie · 3 points · Posted at 17:24:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, Costco has always been awesome to me when swapping tires :/
lKaosll · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I worked at Costco a few years ago there were no extra benefits for upselling, but most of the tire people, particularly in the busy seasons, were literally just random people from other departments, so this person probably just incompetence.
__i0__ · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Changing tires??
Ifailmostofthetime · 3 points · Posted at 20:50:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not changing tires, just working the desk. They have a program where you plug in the year, make, and model and it gives you the tire size for the vehicle as well as the speed and load rating that will fit in the tire. The employee then goes to another program and it tells you which tires we have in stock and the quantity. The ones who actually install the tires have to take training courses that will give you michellin certification to install tires. The people actually installing tires have their pictures posted on the wall of the tire centers. They are the only ones allowed to touch your vehicle.
SuprSaiyanTurry · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my experience, people that can drive a stick usually know a thing or two about vehicles. What a dumbass.
Jubjub0527 · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a few things we need to know given most cars here are automatics.
SuprSaiyanTurry · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think most cars everywhere are autos these days. Few years ago a buddy tried ordering one of those Harley Davidson Ford trucks from the factory and he wanted a 1 ton standard and they told them they don't make them in standards anymore. He was pissed!
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh it hurts my hard. I love standards and hope they make a come back!
DarthSkittles · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tried Costco tires once for getting a plug put in a tire after running over a knife in their parking lot. We waited for hours and the techs were shitty the whole time. In addition to being pissed I was disappointed- I really like Costco and had expected their tire service to be up to snuff with the rest of their stuff.
Jubjub0527 · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I go with Costco and BjS bc supposedly you get free patches for the life of the tire.
PM_me_ur_launch_code · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a Supervisor in the tire center and have dealt with things like this. Unfortunately the tire techs/everyone are mostly trained by Costco at Costco. They all get paid the same rates as cashiers so it's not like they were trying to get more pay just for two more tires.
Most likely it was lack of knowledge and someone who thinks they're always right.
frank_the_tank__ · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Automotive mechanics usually get flat rate. So the more jobs they do and the quicker they do them, the more money the mechanic makes.
dickbutt_md · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it was Costco he legit thought it was all wheel drive, and state law probably does require you to replace all the tires.
bearvsshawn · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like the employee just didn’t know any better, and was looking out for the consumers interest in this case. I don’t believe Costco employees get kickbacks for upsells. They don’t charge enough for that.
Lowtiercomputer · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:14 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
They (Costco) get some money on tires as far As I understand, but not the mechanics themselves. I believe they're hourly basically.
Veritech-1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It also may have been less insidious than that and that the technician was trying to insist upon you doing what was best for your car. Turns out he was mistaken, but you have to figure he gets 9 ignorant people who don’t want to do necessary repairs for every one like you.
Jubjub0527 · 2 points · Posted at 17:03:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah and that’s what’s annoying when you actually know your shit. I was telling the guy to check for himself and his basis was that I had skyactive written on the back of the car.
WeirdWolfGuy · 1137 points · Posted at 15:16:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i actually did this lol.
There are three tire places in the college town near me. TireWarehouse, VIP, and this place called 'Chuck's'.
Well, i went to Chuck's and he quoted me 100 bucks a tire for a fucking minivan. Even though the tires were listed as being 32 each. "Well your lugnuts are frozen in place." Which was bullshit, because i had rotated the damn tires myself a few days before to get maximum use out of them before i got my check.
TireWarehouse quoted me 25 a tire, but then after i got inside they had my tires off (i was getting 4 tires) they tried to upsell me to these super expensive tires for 'all wheel drive minivans'. I have a fucking Toyota Sienna LE, in a 2 wheel drive, because i couldnt afford the down payment for the all wheel drive model. then they try to tell me my radiator is shot (just replaced it after i bought it, because the sales guy actually helped me out by selling me a car that 'needed some work'. He shaved like 4 grand off the total price, and the thing only needed about 1k in parts, and none of them were 'life threatening').
i told them to put the tires back on, the old ones (made sure to specify) Took photos of my car before i even got into it (which pissed off the owner of the place) to make sure they didnt try to claim i had stolen something.
Went over to the VIP place (they sold the VIP parts but the tire/muffler/etc garage was separate) They charged me 174 for 4 tires, and they replaced my third catalytic converter (the van has 3 total) and most of my exhaust.
guess which of these three will be getting my business from now on?
WhatDidYouSayToMe · 512 points · Posted at 15:21:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where do you live that you can get tires for $25 each? Were they used?
Doctah_Whoopass · 609 points · Posted at 15:36:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
25 buck tires seems ok for like a golf cart, or a couple wheelbarrows. Where I am, tires are about 80-120 per, and thats for normal ones. Performance tires can easily run you like 1000 for a set.
A7X4REVer · 84 points · Posted at 16:06:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
1000 for a set? I just quoted out rear tires for a Mustang that was traded in and they were around $1200 for just the rears. They were Pirellis, but even those are far from the most expensive you can buy.
Canada is expensive.
MustangManGT · 24 points · Posted at 17:18:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just replaced all 4 wheels on a 2015 mustang GT. Got michellin pilot super sports and full set was just over $1000. They were larger than stock as well. Canada way too expensive
Also, the pirellis are really bad wheels for the all seasons, I wouldn't get those
I was thrilled to finally get rid of the stock pirellis that can from the factory
Toltolewc · 5 points · Posted at 18:29:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
mattdoescsharp · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The Pirellis are bad for any season. Hockey pucks in the winter, hockey pucks in the summer. PSSs were the way to go. I run the Nitto NT555G2 for a summer tire and it does well enough, far better than the Pirellis could ever hope to be.
MustangManGT · 1 points · Posted at 13:43:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got almost no traction with them and they didn't last worth shit. Treading gone by 23k miles and I heard mine lasted much longer than a lot of them do. I could never do hard accelerations without them slipping all over. I'm loving the PSSs though! I can still get them to slip on a really hard acceleration but for the most part they stick a lot better and regain traction much faster. It's amazing to me that Ford includes the shitty Pirellis as a stock tire for a car that's rolling out with over 400 HP and ft-lbs of torque. They must be paying Ford a fortune (or offering their wheels for next to nothing) to get those added as the stock option.
I've not done summer tires before but they would be incredibly fun. The problem where I live is that winter is long and then it rains 75% of the days throughout the entire spring and well into summer so I'd get a lot less use out of a second set of tires. : (
vARROWHEAD · 6 points · Posted at 17:34:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Michelin pilot sports. Love them and they last a long time. About $90/tire in Canada for 245 55/R19 ‘s
EmperorOfNipples · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ouch that is bad. I thought I was doing badly at £220 a corner on my car here in the UK. That's on a BMW also with Pirelli's.
TheDutchCanadian · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was about to say... Vancouver? Lmao
Brainroots · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
$800 for 4 Pirellis in Houston. 75k mile warranty, performance tires.
OneSixthIrish · 43 points · Posted at 16:58:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I walked into a place right now and they said 25 a tire I would have to ask for their mop to clean the shit I just had on their floor.
Mmmn_fries · 7 points · Posted at 17:57:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree. Just bought three yesterday from Costco. Total cost was $544.
kilersocke · 9 points · Posted at 16:57:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah... especially when you want to stay on the lane when it rains. You wouldnt buy a two year old shoe, do you?
HillarysFloppyChode · 7 points · Posted at 16:09:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This, it's $1400 for tires on my A8L. I have found that other tires wear too quickly than the AO tires and don't do as good a job.
WhatDidYouSayToMe · 4 points · Posted at 15:54:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old truck cost me $200 per, but those were load range E, 285/75R16. I'm sure my tires for my ranger will cost me more given the tires I'll put on it
Adrolak · 11 points · Posted at 17:04:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean I drive a standard sized sedan and mine at like $150 each if I don’t want bald tires in 3 months.
squirrelin87 · 5 points · Posted at 18:04:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
3 months!? My last set was a bargain deal at Sam’s clubs for $90/tire. Lasted 48k miles on a 3000# sedan.
getjoshed · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mine where 1400 and I’m running 285/75/20 but they did last 90k miles
itsthebeastie · 2 points · Posted at 19:07:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's a really good day when my tires are 250 each
Sochitelya · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I paid approx. $900 CDN for my winter tires + rims, though maybe there was a bit of a markup due to the Hyundai Accent apparently having weirdly small tires.
Alexnreese · 2 points · Posted at 17:12:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that seams really low. Hell the tires on my truck cost $600 each.
nonasiandoctor · 5 points · Posted at 19:08:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd assume at that price you're running like 32" tires.
MustangManGT · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wheels for my mustang ran me about $250 each and they were on the low end all season. Up to around $500 per for high performance
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bought a set of tires for my car. $1200 :(
killarufus · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not 25 bucks cheap, but I drive a Honda civic. I think it was 55 a tire last year.
AlabasterButthole · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
New Zealand?
Doctah_Whoopass · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Canada
clovisx · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I had my WRX and had to replace tires, ouch... I was frugal and still was paying over $150 per. So glad I bought the warranties on both sets (all season and summer) because less than a month after buying them I drove over bent aluminum wires at a construction site and got the double punctured ones replaced for free.
loadedlen · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Almost $2000 CAD for a set on mine. Continental 245/40R19 94H (130mph speed rated) I replaced the rear tires a couple months ago and dropped $986 bucks.
WeirdWolfGuy · 121 points · Posted at 15:39:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They were not actually 25. Basically they quoted me a price to get me in the doors, then gave me the REAL price.
They COULD have been 25 each, if i had done the whole 'mail in rebate' thing. but i didnt have the money on hand for the price they wanted.
gvsulaker82 · 20 points · Posted at 16:33:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats still dirt cheap. I paid 380 for two recently.
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i only had 250 on me, the price per tire before the mail in rebate was 94.99 (still low cost really) and i couldnt afford that. Not with the money i was making before (and not now that im injured and out of work)
weedful_things · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So bait and switch. The other guys may have been unethical, but I think this is straight up illegal.
Snatch_Pastry · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it is technically possible to get the tires at that price, then it's probably not illegal. Offs still a bait and switch, but probably not the illegal version.
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
it is in a legal grey area. I tried to actually report them for it, but as long as they tell BEFORE they ring you up, it isnt illegal.
xaanthar · 10 points · Posted at 15:29:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe that's just installation cost?
WhatDidYouSayToMe · 6 points · Posted at 15:54:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It could be. That's what the shop I go to charges for mounting
llDurbinll · 5 points · Posted at 16:26:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what I was wondering! I just spent over $600 on a set of tires for my Camry.
oOshwiggity · 7 points · Posted at 16:59:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a toyota tercel and my tires were 30 bucks each cuz it's a dinky (but awesome!) car and has dinky (and inexpensive) tires. My stepdad has a truck - a bigass truck - and each fucking tire is like 250 bucks. I get it, though, because those tires are about 8 times bigger than my tercel's tires were. Have small car, pay small prices, laugh when tall/large people try to get in them. Win, win, win.
ndrdog · 4 points · Posted at 18:04:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe this happened in 1963.
lique_madique · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right? Shit. I’m paying $400 per tire for my car
ColbysHairBrush_ · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit. Go kart tires cost more than that
Choice_Candidate · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
750$ per set here.
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what I want to know. I drive a Ford Expedition and I paid about eight hundred for four.
memberCP · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've seen some tired for under50 new.
But you shouldn't be buying them. They aren't good tired and it is the one thing that keeps you on the road.
Snatch_Pastry · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bait and switch. They have some garbage tires that they can stand to put a loss-leader price on. They use that price to get you in the door, then try to upsell you on everything, including buying different, more expensive tires.
bannanamandarin · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He wasn't getting them for $25 each, that's the "get you in the door" price.
-thebarry- · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Firestone complete auto care shops have a sale once a year where you can get their brand tires basically at invoice price. You end up spending about the same you would ordering from tirerack but imo it's way more convenient since the tires are already at the shop.
HillarysFloppyChode · 18 points · Posted at 16:15:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had Discount Tire pull the trick of removing my tires then telling me they weren't legally allowed to put them back on even thought they were perfectly good. Ended up spending $700 on a set that wore away in 8000 miles because they weren't built to handle the suspension setup nor the weight of my A8L. They also kept insisting that I needed an alignment done at the place they partner with, it was $300 more than what the dealer charges. I showed them several papers that the dealer did the Audi inspection and found everything perfect as well as multiple alignments to be sure it's perfect. Discount Tire also, when I told them to put on the Audi recommended tire wouldn't let me, then proceeded to charge $200 more than the dealer price. Those tires are $1400 at the dealer ($350 per tire). Fuck Discount Tire.
LoneCookie · 7 points · Posted at 17:00:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
By that point i would've put the tires on myself. And sue them if i could figure out how (bait and switch, extortion?). Don't forget to leave a review on the most popular database of GPS located services (google maps) detailing their upsell tactics.
If you cave they will keep making money off it, keep doing it. Never ever cave. This enables them. Makes the world a shittier place.
HillarysFloppyChode · 4 points · Posted at 17:14:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The local dealer put out a notice to not go there. And I don't trust that car if it's not on a lift
Zediac · 15 points · Posted at 16:32:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where do you live? Or was this 30 years ago in the US?
Today the shittiest, Walmart special, dangerous when new, tires for 205/70R15 (the smallest that a Sienna LE ever used) are $50-60 each. Good tires for that size start at $90.
People, don't cheap out on your tires. Your entire 3,000-5,000 lb vehicle rides on a few square inches of contact patch through your tires. They're extremely important in keeping you safe and alive. This isn't like getting off brand ketchup. Your tires really, really matter. Buy decent tires.
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
it was a mail in rebate thing, but they didnt tell me that until they started taking the tires off.
Wrathwilde · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it’s like ketchup... you never go for the off brand.
PretzelsThirst · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You really should spend more than $25 on tires. My bicycle tires are more than that. They’re your only point of contact with the road and tires that cheap are garbage.
WeirdWolfGuy · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
the tires were new, i thought it was a sale, they failed to tell me they were 25 AFTER a mail in rebate. But i was like '25 a tire for new Goodyears?, fuck yeah'
thankfully their attempt at upselling only further convinced me to not use them at all.
lampposttt · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would never trust a $25 tire, especially when you depend on stopping distance and handling to potentially save your life. Not all tires are the same. I've never found good tires for less than $70/tire, and I usually spend $90-110/tire for a high quality tire.
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
the tires would have been 25 after a mail in rebate, which they failed to tell me when they quoted the price, then of course they tried to upsell me to a more expensive tire, but 'it also has a mail in rebate for 50% off!' which would have cost me about 150 per tire, even WITH the rebate.
egnards · 5 points · Posted at 15:45:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I specifically go to my mechanic for oil changes and small shit that I could probably do myself to save a few bucks because it develops a relationship where I feel like I can trust him enough to work on my car. Sometimes when going for a tire change he'll call me up and tell me he noticed XYZ needs to be fixed and I'll know that he's pretty good. .Other times I'll specifically walk in and say "hey when you do my oil can you check XYZ because I'm hearing this noise and I think I might need to replace [expensive part] and at the end of the day he'll tell me that everything was fine and that I shouldn't need to replace that part for a few more years and the noise was just [insert super minor problem]"
WeirdWolfGuy · 2 points · Posted at 22:33:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a mechanic like that, with my old '74 Pontiac, i was working to restore it (my first car as a teen, 16, my mom bought it from a guy who was cleaning out his uncle's estate. paid 1k for a car with an original engine that only had 10k miles on it, engine could have sold for around 1500 to the right buyer).
If i had a question (not being the car savvy teen the jocks were) i could call him up, hed come over, show me how ti fix it myself, then make me do it a few times to make sure i had it down.
Hes the one who taught me how to do the spacing on the spark plugs, and how to change out a Master Cylinder and break lines. He retired a few years back, or i would use him for EVERYTHING. Even with the 80 mile drive.
ArmedSnowman · 5 points · Posted at 15:50:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife got her tires changed at this place called Pepboys, because they had a years free rotation and balancing plus you got one out of the four tires free. Every time she went in for a rotation, the following day the same exact tire every time would go flat, a rim that they had tried to get us to replace before and we said no every time. After like 4 times I told her let’s just take it to Walmart, got it changed, payed the money, hasn’t gone flat in the two years since.
WeirdWolfGuy · 4 points · Posted at 22:30:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
pepboys is one of those franchise deals, and sometimes their franchise owners will shit like that. I never use pepboys because my mother went once, and they told her she needed new shocks, but the ones she had were less than 2 months old.
4 days later, one of the shocks blew out, and when the insurance investigator looked at it, there were fresh tool marks on it, and the failure was caused by a torn up seal of some kind (i was like 10, so details are hazy)
thejam15 · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit i drive an econo shitbox with practically bike tires and I get $100/tire tires but I do my research beforehand and already know what tire im gunna get before I go in
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i do this now, because i found out that some of the mid range price tires are actually lower quality than some of the low cost tires.
fucking weird right there.
whydidimakeausername · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why the hell would they make a mini van all wheel drive?
WeirdWolfGuy · 4 points · Posted at 22:21:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lot of minivans these days are all wheel drive, its safer and easier to handle with slick roads, such as with ice or snow.
IsomDart · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What year was this? Brand new tires for $25-$32? Sign me the fuck up.
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This year, but they were quoting me what the price would be, after i mailed in a rebate. I dont do those mail in rebates, because 9 times out of 10, by the time the rebate gets to where i needs to, it has already expired.
Korhaka · 6 points · Posted at 16:36:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is a guy that keeps coming into where I work, I really wish he would go to one of our competitors :(
He came in yesterday and just kept asking me if I could setup his wifi and 'new' tablet. Sure we can do both of those things, might cost a bit though, especially going to his house to setup a wireless access point. Then he goes on about how this guy down the road said he would do it for free. I really wanted to just say 'Then why are you here in the first place if someone already offered to do it for free, now off you fuck.' but apparently that is bad customer service, even if he has come into the shop I work at many times over the past half a decade and never bought a thing.
menace-to-sobriety · 10 points · Posted at 16:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have done this at a Firestone tire shop before, was awesome when he thought I couldn't leave because he had my tire off. I dropped the spare from underneath the truck and put it on right there in the bay with my impact and drove the fuck off into the sunset. I originally just wanted a tire patch and then he said I had two holes and the tire tread was less than some bullshit then he said I needed two tps sensors the price ballooned from 20 to over 50 dollars. I ended up going to Luis tires speaking some Spanish and had my tire fixed for 12 dollars plus the tps sensors work fine fuck those motherfuckers.
Jubjub0527 · 4 points · Posted at 17:15:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I will never go to Firestone bc this type of bullshit is rampant with them. Every time my family brought in tires they would claim at least one needed a patch or needed to be replaced or some other bullshit. They did some shady work on my sisters car and it wouldn’t even run after they did whatever they did. I will pass up Firestone every single time.
menace-to-sobriety · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't know why you got a down vote you are right on the money with Firestone being one of the worst offenders a simple Google search and my own personal experience will confirm this. Edit: my spelling.
Northman67 · 4 points · Posted at 15:51:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This right here was the right answer. Don't patronize those criminals.
RoyalLake · 9 points · Posted at 16:43:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a flat tire a few months back that I needed patched.
I set an 8 AM appointment, dropped it off at 7 and walked to my bus stop. Didn't hear anything all day, so I thought it was all fine.
Got a call when I was on my bus back to my station that the tire was beyond patching. The inside walls were shredded.
They said that they'd have to keep it overnight so they can get the correct tire brought in.
I went in when I got to my stop, told them to put the spare back on, and I'd take it down the road.
Told the guy "I had an 8 AM appointment, and the guy who called just started it at 5 PM" If he did it at 8, they'd have time to get the tire that day.
"What do you want us to do about it?"
Give me my keys so i can take it to your competitor.
dutchCorner · 4 points · Posted at 17:22:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to do this last week.. Out of necessity. Called for a quote for brake pads and rotors all the way around. Told me it was gonna be around 350. They call me at two o'clock right before they are closing. And said it was gonna be more around 1,100. (I knew I prob needed one caliper, but they refused to do just the one side.) I said I'm.coimng to get their car and they told me they were closing and I'd have to get it Monday ( it was a Saturday). I said i was on the way now L, and I was getting my car back today. Went to Walmart bought a new jack. Went to act zone and bought parts.. Saved 600 and got a new jack by doing the job myself... Learning light duty mechanic work can save you and your family thousands over the years. Well worth it.
End-OfAn-Era · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My buddy did this with his Harley. Had one Harley dealership show up and trailer it away in front of customers and made a big stink. Worth it.
JohnnySkidmarx · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have taken it to a competitor. The only thing worse than a lying girlfriend is a lying mechanic.
zigzagofdoom · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once a brake shop told me they couldn't do a realignment unless I got a new axel(?). They quoted me for 400$ and I told them I couldn't afford that currently so I'll just go somewhere else. "Ok ok well we can do the alignment as best as we can" as I was trying to take my keys and leave. 0 problems with alignment since then. Fuckers.
Mikav · -7 points · Posted at 16:06:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do a sick burnout on your way out t-
Oh, a Mazda? Nevermind.
mrbaconator2 · 23 points · Posted at 15:50:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i'm ignorant of cars this terrifies me that I will be taken advantage of
Dravarden · 7 points · Posted at 16:54:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
just read a bit of the manual and act like you know your stuff, like when was the last oil change, usually they will be scared off from trying to scam you thinking you actually know your stuff
of course, don't tell them how your engine takes fuel to the data supplier that's connected to the matrix, because that would probably make it worse
Jubjub0527 · 5 points · Posted at 17:09:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It scares me too so I listen when people tell me about their cars. Im pretty sure I could change my own oil but don’t and I’ve definitely changed a few head and taillights on my own. I think it’s always best to educate yourself on these matters.
MurgleMcGurgle · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Find a trustworthy mechanic from someone who's mechanically inclined or from the internet. Trust them but never trust anyone who's changing your oil or tires when they try to upsell you something. Just say no thanks, you'll have your regular mechanic look at it.
latecarrot · 10 points · Posted at 15:59:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The guy might have been clueless rather than actually lying
Jubjub0527 · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I knew it was cluelessness at play when he was reading the back of the car and thinking it was referring to all wheel drive. Most Mazdas actually will say if it’s all wheel drive. I just know mine isn’t because it was stick shift bc I was both told this by Mazda and saw that it wasn’t available if you “built” your own model on Mazda.
chewchewtwain · 5 points · Posted at 16:54:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Skyactiv is just the engine technology isn’t it...?
DudeNiceMARMOT · 5 points · Posted at 17:16:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man.
I would have said okay, do all 4 tires, but I'm only paying for the ones that get power to them.
tang81 · 5 points · Posted at 17:34:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had that happen to me at Pepboys. I was there waiting for the tires to be put on. Desk guy told me it was AWD, its FWD. We argued for few minutes. I told him if he could point out the rear axle I'll buy the most expensive tires they had for it. If not, he had to give me 10% off. We go outside he looks. Gave me 10% off.
Enoch_Root19 · 4 points · Posted at 04:09:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man. That reminds me of a story. I had a slow leak in my passenger rear tire. I’d have to add air once a week. Then every couple days. I was both busy and lazy and never got around to taking it in to see if it could be patched. But I’d been dealing w this for weeks and weeks. (Dumb I know).
Had a road trip coming up. So I took to local neighborhood place first thing in am to take a look and while you’re at it, please rotate tires and change oil. Terrific. Get call little while later. Guy tells me mechanics says there is no problem w passenger rear tire. I say there absolutely is. I have to air it up every other day. Check again.
An hour goes by. Different guy calls. Tire is fine. Can’t find leak. I tell him there absolutely is leak. Please check again. I’m getting pissed but I’m stuck at work and nothing I can do about it.
Yet another guy calls back. It’s the mechanic. Condescending as can be. ‘I personally checked that tire and guarantee there is no leak.’ That’s when it hit me. I ask him ‘did you do the tire rotation too?’ Full on record-screech stop. Tires had already been rotated. He’d been checking and double checking the wrong damn tire.
Jubjub0527 · 2 points · Posted at 11:47:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus Christ. And he had the nerve to get snide with you too. Must have been so satisfying for you.
thatwolfieguy · 10 points · Posted at 17:17:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The bullshit sales tactic that you have to replace all 4 tires on an AWD vehicle every time you change even one tire just pisses me off. Unless you are driving perfectly straight down a perfectly straight and flat road, your tires are almost never rotating at the exact same speed. That's why cars have differentials. If a couple 32nds of an inch difference in tread height made any difference, then surely putting a donut on and driving to a tire shop would destroy the drivetrain.
tldr: Tire salesmen are trying to sell tires. Don't believe their bullshit.
Edit: Do your due diligence and check your owner's manual, of course. Thanks to /u/troubledbrew, who definitely doesn't commit unspeakable acts of sexual violence against adorable kittens, for pointing this out while calling me names in the process.
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thatwolfieguy · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this why all wheel drive cars all self destruct any time they turn left or right, because those wheels are rotating at very different speeds every time the car turns.
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thatwolfieguy · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you show me any manufacturer's recommendation that all tires need to be replaced as a set because it will cause drivetrain damage? Why would Toyota include a donut spare in my AWD car if a fraction of an inch difference of tire diameter would be dangerous? How is it that a very slight difference in tire circumference could cause damage to a modern car when in fact the wheels are turning at different rates every time the car is turning or the road isn't completely flat? The only place I've ever come across the recommendation to replace all 4 tires at once is from tire salespeople or from people who have been lied to by tire salespeople.
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thatwolfieguy · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I already checked my owners manual. The name calling is a nice touch.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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thatwolfieguy · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Incidentally, page 576 doesn't say your should replace all 4 tires at the same time. Just that you should drive slow when using a donut.
Edit: You'll note I'm not resorting to name calling. I'm just having a discussion here.
Edit 2: I also never generalized all tire salespeople as liars and cheats. Only the ones who lie and cheat. I also don't have a habit of telling at people at the sales counter. I have a really great tire shop that I go to. If I'm lied to by a salesperson, I don't make a big show of it, I just shop elsewhere. But, you know, whatever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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thatwolfieguy · 2 points · Posted at 01:08:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fixed it. Thanks.
thatwolfieguy · 0 points · Posted at 21:51:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
We've figured this out a long time ago.
cbelt3 · 3 points · Posted at 17:25:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At that point I say “cancel the service “ and drive away in your car. Because this kind of crap is based on an “upselling” requirement imposed by management. His manager “apologizing “ is bulllshit. It’s the managers fault.
Shinibisho · 3 points · Posted at 17:44:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know there has to be good, honest mechanics out there, but they seem really few and far between. I do my own work, but a friend of mine bought a new car and had it for few months when he took it to a shop for an oil change. They called him back saying he needed all new fluids, a battery, air filter, alternator, and four new tires because the existing ones “all had dry rot.” He has only ever had experiences like this with auto shops, and calls me to verify the work every time. It infuriates me that people like him who aren’t mechanically inclined get taken advantage of.
CuriousTighe · 3 points · Posted at 17:51:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had the opposite thing happen. I know nothing about car mechanics so when my car started make very loud rumbling sounds, I thought I needed a new muffler. Took it to a Jiffy-Lube, which I had been to before. Mechanic took the car, came back in about 10 minutes, and said, "No charge." "But what about replacing my muffler?" "No need sir, we just put the pipe back together. It had come a little loose...." I'll keep going back to that place until the day I die. He could have charged me for a new muffler but didn't! Honesty keeps the most customers.
ObsidianEther · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Being a woman, I constantly have mechanics telling I need this and that. Now I'm not a mechanic or car junkie so I have no idea how to do alot of repairs myself but my dad made sure I was equipped with basic skills such as oil changes, tire changes, fluids all that stuff.
For warranty reasons took my car to get an oil change as well as all the air filters and a few other things. 2-4 weeks later engine and gas cap light come on. I need a new purge valve so I take it in and it happens to be at a certain mileage where they automatically change a few things. Tried to tell me I needed another oil change, air filters, basically everything I had them do last time I was in. Told the tech they already did that stuff just the valve and a tire rotation please.
His only response instead of just checking their records and the car itself was but it's at X mileage.
Someone else finally took over and other than a cracked belt everything else was fine.
HighLadySuroth · 3 points · Posted at 19:28:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Its skyactive" congrats tech, you have pointed out my Mazda indeed has a Mazda engine. Lmao
_Neoshade_ · 3 points · Posted at 19:29:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL. the only Skyactive vehicles with AWD are the SUVs (CX-9 or CX-5 AWD), and the only AWD sedan they ever made was discontinued 11 years ago!
brbauer2 · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
CX-5 Sport?
SilverKnightOfMagic · 2 points · Posted at 18:11:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sad part is that guy was just ordered to do that shit for every car by the mangers
Hollywood7 · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dumbest question ever but is your user name related to neopets lol
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I get it a lot (and used to get random instant messenger chats mistaking me for other people). It’s actually a reference to the Simpsons :)
Hollywood7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kinda makes me happy other people see neopets like I do lol
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder where neopets came up with it. I had that name back when AIM came about, based off of a 1993 episode of the Simpsons.
Hollywood7 · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Might have been that.. Neopets started around 98/99 if I remember. Im an OG on that game I started in 2000 lol
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that’s around he time I got the “Becky why did you ignore me in math today!!!” Messages haha. I had to convince so many kids I wasn’t their age or whoever they thought I was.
BackwardsMommyJeans · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar to a recent experience I had at wal-mart tire & auto center...
TLDR: wal-mart said my tire couldn’t be fixed but turned out they tested the wrong tire (that had no issues) so they got caught lying red-handed
Accidentally ran over a nail at work. By the time I was off work the good local tire shop was closed so I apprehensively went to wal-mart as it was the closest and most convenient choice.
I told them there’s a hole in the front passenger side tire. They said they’d check it to see if they could repair it. They said the location of the hole prevented them from being able to fix it so I’d need to buy a new one. Kind of a bummer but no big deal. Got a cheap $60 tire. Here I’ll note that it was dark and parked outside when it was finished so wasn’t able to see the work.
The next morning I get up for work and see that not only is the front passenger tire flat again but now I can see it’s not even a new tire!
So I go back and tell a horrible worthless employee what happened. She apparently has them check the (unnecessary) new tire on the driver side which obviously has nothing wrong with it. She comes back and says they can’t find anything wrong with it. (At the time I had no idea they were checking the wrong tire) So I’m thinking, “WTF?! I know what a flat tire is!!” So I have her get the manager and he says the same stuff “they can’t find anything wrong with it”.
I’m getting extremely angry. At one point though throughout his bullshit I heard the words “driver side”.
I was like, “Wait, you’ve been checking the driver side??? Duuude, this whole thing has been about my passenger tire.”
He then realizes that they’ve been caught lying and says he’ll take care of it. So all he did was put a new tire on the passenger side as well (about $60 in value).
I played it cool knowing 1) I’ve gotta get done with this stupid situation so I can’t get back to work and 2) I’ll make a formal complaint later.
Here’s the kicker...Later I email a formal complaint with all of the details and guess who I get a call and message from?? The very supervisor that I was trying to complain about smh
I eventually just let the whole thing go because it was stressing me out and didn’t have time for it.
I know it means nothing to a rich corporation but I’ve made a point to not go there again and haven’t since. I’ve also made a point to tell as many people as possible which is why I took the time to type this lol
Jubjub0527 · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When stuff like this happens I take it to their twitter department. I had an issue with HR Block and like you will not return. They did my taxes and after a month I got a letter from the IRS saying I owed them paperwork. I call HRB and said what the hell? I get some girl who leaves me a few mumbling messages on my voicemail before I finally meet with her. She tells me I’m missing a health insurance form. I contact my health insurance and asked for said form. My insurance tells me I’m not entitled to this form but rather a different form. I send form to HRB with the info my insurance gave to me. I didn’t hear back from her for over a week so I sent an email asking what was going on. I got a snide remark telling me I called the wrong insurance provider and there was nothing I could do if I didn’t call the right one. I was shocked because I had called my insurance provider and she was telling me to call someone who wasn’t my provider. I did anyway and they confirmed that I didn’t have an account with them, then said that the form I needed was exactly what my own insurance had given. I wrote back to HRB bimbo and summarized this exchange. Again I received another snide message saying that she already told me who to call and since I wasn’t calling the company (that I already told her said they couldn’t help me) she couldn’t help me. Oh I was lit. I fired at HRB twitter and lodged a complaint. I wrote back to her and told her I wanted a new agent to help. When she said another agent would say the same thing I told her that she clearly wasn’t reading what I was saying and was at most rude and at best incompetent. It took the new agent all of 5 minutes to figure out what the problem was and I was out of there in 15 minutes.
I will NEVER use them again though.
EternalJedi · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Took my car in for an oil change, was told the tires had dry rot. Had no idea what that meant so I looked it up. It was an actual thing, but it wasn't dry rot on the tire, it was fracking gravel dust.
waterclosetlurker · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a Honda CRV AWD. Only my front tires need replacing. Do I need to replace all four tires?
I know nothing about cars. Please advise.
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know I think it’s standard practice to do them all at once but of the comments I’ve gotten on this only one dude said it was ridiculous that it would actually fuck up the drive train. This isn’t really an area I’m strong in, im basing this on the amount of replies I got here saying you DO need to do all four. So I would say do all four and keep one as a spare. Then also make sure that you’re rotating your tires every other oil change or so.
Kylek19 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would only do the front two unless the rear tires are close to needing to be replaced also
SweatyBinch · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mazdas are great. They're very endearing, upvote just for that.
Kiwispam84 · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Skyactive? That sounds like a feature in a flying car.
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It always reminded me of skynet and Terminators.
boomfruit · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my car in for a recall a few months ago and when they were done, the tech showed me a printout with all the things I "needed" to have done with my car. One was something to do with the transmission (I've forgotten exactly what at this point) and I say "Well I shouldn't need that as the transmission was rebuilt this year" and the tech goes "oh well nevermind about that one then" and crosses it off the list! Like bitch, why should I believe any of the rest of it now?
Wrathwilde · 2 points · Posted at 23:09:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He should have gone with the obvious, a let you beat your head against the brick wall of stupidity... instead of trying to create a need...
Tech: We looked over your car, it has four wheels, you need four tires.
You: Just replace the back two.
Tech: But you need to have tires on the front, we can’t let the car leave without front tires.
You: I just want two tires.
Tech: You can’t drive with just two tires, you need four.
You: I know I need four tires, I just want the two new ones on the back.
Tech: You can’t have just two new tires on back, your vehicle has four rims, therefore you need to have four tires.
You: Put the old tires on the front.
Tech: We don’t install old tires, we only carry new tires.
You: I know... put new tires on the back.
Tech: You’ll ruin the vehicle if you try to drive it without front tires.
(Infinitely dense variations of the above continue for an hour) until...
You: (banging head against wall) Fine. Whatever. Give me four new tires.
Tech: (Charges you for six tires).
You: Why am I being charged for six tires?
Tech: That’s what you wanted.
You: I only wanted two new tires.
Tech: For the back. When I told you that you needed tires for the front, you said you wanted four new tires. That makes six tires total. We don’t accept returns on tires... have a nice day.
bogidyboy · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh fuck retail/sales. The manager probably put him up to it, and then plays “hero” when the employee gets called out
jvmc1234 · 2 points · Posted at 16:43:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I worked at a passenger tire shop, customers could hold us liable for their transfer cases if we didn’t explain doing two tires on an all wheel drive would destroy it. It’s not a sales tactic. He thought your car was awd like the rest of them that aren’t sticks and was worried you’d have a few thousand dollars in damage to a transfer case that you would try to blame on the shop. I’ve been yelled at by pricks that don’t understand that a million times. I always called customers when I thought we would fuck up their car with two tires. Just a guy worried about doing his job right glad you got to feel so big though.
UF8FF · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I feel like this is more the tech being ignorant, not outright trying to swindle someone.
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that’s got to be annoying. It’s people like that who fuck it up for people like me. But when I say “no my car is a stick shift and that model has front wheel drive” it’s annoyingly when the answer is “it says it on the back! Skyactive!”
jvmc1234 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s why when someone says no the first time, it’s no. I only deal with people spending other people’s money now so it’s a lot easier.
Timelesslies · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but he could have actually looked under the car instead of assuming.
Kaisanc · 0 points · Posted at 17:09:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except it was a manual, which is painfully obvious when you get into the car and it has a clutch? And it always says somewhere on the car that it is 2 wheel and not all wheel. If he was doing his job correctly he would have seen it.
Source: Backyard mechanic for 6 years. Kwik Kar Lube & Tune mechanic for 2 years
jvmc1234 · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait. What? Are you saying a manual can not have all wheel drive?
Kaisanc · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Im simply implying that the person who bought the car said he gave up the i-ACTIV system when he got a manual. And besides Im inclined to believe that the skyactiv didn't have all-wheel drive until 2013.
proXy_HazaRD · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is there anyway for someone who doesn't know alot about cars to avoid being scammed like this?
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’d just read the manual and when something happens with your car, so some reading online about it. Then try to remember it with future cars.
proXy_HazaRD · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks.
Nattylight_Murica · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which Mazda? My wife has a CX-5 GT and I have a 6 sport.
GAU8Avenger · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember the CX-5 had a manual option and it only came in fwd, so I'm assuming it was that. The 3 and 6 don't have AWD options
BigGrizzDipper · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Powertrain or drivetrain should be used in lieu of engine in this context. Being 4 wheel drive has nothing to do with the engine. In general it pays to buy all 4 tires, usually you can get a 10-20% rebate at the time of sale and free road hazard warranty, free lifetime balancing and rotation. I do not sell tires for a living. I paid $550 installed for 4 premium 18” all season tires recently, consumers normally get ripped off on tires.
cdot2k · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a body shop guy tell me that he fixed Mazdas like mine all the time and that mayching the metallic red wasn't an issue. He called it a three stage paint to prove the point and I knew he either hadn't done any or has been doing them wrong.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a rare model of Volkswagen passat with the 3.6L v6 motor but most are the 2L turbo.
Took my car in because it was making a terrible noise. The shop tells me it's my turbo but a new one is on the way.
I told them thats interesting because my car does not have a turbo.
They never even checked what motor was in my car.
RegalDolan · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol, I take my car to the dealer (or a mechanic) as little as possible for a reason..
I pretty much do all of the low to mid-level labor intensive replacements and services myself.
-ordinary · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even if it was it doesn’t mean you have to change all four tires
whoopashigitt · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a SkyActive Mazda as well but I don't know what it means
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s just a type of engine. Years ago dodge did the same thing with one of their engines. You’d think it was the second coming of Jesus the way they talked about it.
ItzSpiffy · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's sad about the manager apologizing is that I can guarantee you that he's the guy applying the pressure to his guys to do that crap. I worked in cellular sales for 9 years and the managers secretly loved if they got complaints about employees overselling. Sales like this work the same regardless of whether it's tires or electronics. Always about getting you to add more in and making you think it's necessary. Managers, however, will always step in, shake the customers hand and do the "I'm here to make sure you're taken care of, I'm so sorry about your experience and we'll make sure it doesn't happen again" but really, they're just in a position to use that role to the advantage of the team and sales growth. If you're ever really upset about the sales techniques, then just know that the the Manager doesn't really give a shit as long as the employee isn't actually caught doing anything explicitly wrong/corrupt and otherwise they have no problem covering their employees asses when something comes up with a red-flag. Telling someone that to get the best deal they need to buy a XYZ, our outright telling the customer that something "comes with it" when it doesn't...they don't actually mind their employees doing that. They only mind it if the employee is stupid enough to do it in such a way as to draw attention to their shady practices. Additionally, District Managers don't really care either. They only care about making sure store managers are properly covering their asses and resolving the issues expediently. They expect a bit of what they call "Churn" (basically overall losses from these types of sales). Very few people in the chain that have the power to actually stop it actually care. They have integrity teams in place to help enforce fair business practices, and the people with power who work with sales directly merely tolerate those guys.
gamermonk · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
CX-5?
SynergizedSheep · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What car do you have
HiDDENk00l · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But like, did you tell him that part? That seems like some "okay, fair enough, I'M the ignorant one here" type of information.
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah! That’s why it was so frustrating! I was like guy o know for a fact it’s not AWD. I was told that when I bought it, go online right now and check. The manuals DO NOT have AWD. “Yeah but, skyactive!”
Infra-Oh · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shitty thing is that his manager is probably aware and encourages that sort of shady business.
bzjxxllcwp · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My car's a jeep with two wheel drive. (My uncle special ordered it and we bought it from him several years later.) People have tried to tell me it's 4 wheel drive because it's a jeep. Nope I think I'd know if the little jeep I've been driving for 6 years would have fourwheel drive or not thank you.
Bunnythumper8675309 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just look under the car for a driveshaft and a diff. It's that simple.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd like to play devil's advocate here and say that these people are pushed hard to make a sale. They are salesman first, mechanic second.
lostmycoolname · 6 points · Posted at 15:53:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well that sucks as someone who knows next to nothing about cars and tries to be easy on anyone providing me a service... i hate how few people/professions you can just trust.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it's hard to find a good mechanic in a Sea of scammers. When you do find a good mechanic, you stay with that one for life. It's like searching your soulmate.
lostmycoolname · 3 points · Posted at 16:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a good group right by my old house, moved states a couple years ago and been searching ever since lol
ocha_94 · 0 points · Posted at 16:35:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Isn't there another place you can take your car? If someone tried to scam me like that I certainly wouldn't go back to that place.
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The place I absolutely trusted didn’t do tires unfortunately. I needed them done because they were almost bald and I had a big move to prepare for. Since it was Costco and I figured the kid was just an hourly worker, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and did the change.
vic06 · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ask your trusted mechanic for a reference and once you get to the tire shop start by telling them who sent you.
redyouch · 0 points · Posted at 16:55:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, nothing like them AWD engines...
Imakedo · 0 points · Posted at 20:09:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You were kind or stupid to return.
Jaci_D · -2 points · Posted at 16:42:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
my husband and I both have MAZDA his is the skyavtive, not sure about mine. Freaking love our cars. He has a 2012 in the skyative blue. I have a 2018. God we love our cars.
7H3D3V1LH1M53LF · 3 points · Posted at 16:48:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol. You love your car and dont even know what model of car you have?
Jaci_D · -2 points · Posted at 16:57:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
yup. it rides great and didn't let me die in a bad crash. LOVE my car.
7H3D3V1LH1M53LF · 5 points · Posted at 17:01:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’ve never looked at the back of the car and wondered what those little words mean?
Jubjub0527 · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like mine and it handles well in the snow but it really feels cheaply made. Probably bc only 5 manuals were coming into the country at the time I bought mine and they were all the base models. I won’t do that again and will most likely go with a Subaru so that I have more manual options.
letsgoiowa · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Okay?
marteney1 · 697 points · Posted at 15:17:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a cold air intake on my Jeep, and every time I went to have my oil changed (instead of doing it myself like I normally do) they tried to sell me an air filter because mine was “super bad, like really affecting my mileage.” If there was anyone else in the lobby at the time, I’d loudly call them out for trying to take advantage of people after I asked if they’d actually looked at it and made them sheepishly admit they hadn’t.
shirtlessin1stclass · 197 points · Posted at 16:38:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Last time I got my oil changed the mechanic tried to tell me that my windshield wipers were bad. I had just replaced them myself like a month ago. I told the mechanic this and he was like "Well I mean....uh.......... I'm just asking because we have a deal going right now.."
1337haXXor · 18 points · Posted at 20:22:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, thinking shadily, but how do people go into these lies without a solid escape plan? I mean, at least go with "oh, you had the Honda, I was thinking the Hyundai," or something.
OffbeatDrizzle · 3 points · Posted at 21:36:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"That's strange. Didn't see that one on the way in!"
newsheriffntown · 3 points · Posted at 20:38:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit I need windshield wipers.
Macncheesie · 2 points · Posted at 22:27:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Try going in for an oil change with perfect wipers, declining the air filters they told me I needed, then having them come back saying my wipers need replacing. Told them I’d replace them myself... no way they were damaged. Motherfuckers must have sliced the blades hoping to get some extra cash from me.
Manse_ · 65 points · Posted at 17:24:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've had this happen, but with a K&N filter and not an intake. They said I needed a new filter because the stock one was bad. After a minute or two of them trying to upsell it, I told them to go actually look at the car and they noticed the giant "STOP. DO NOT REPLACE FILTER" sticker that comes with every K&N.
Oddly, the best service I've gotten in my small town is at the VW dealership. They have a 5-10% markup on parts, but any big problem I've had lands me a free rental car and a competitive quote on the labor.
The-True-Kehlder · 7 points · Posted at 19:55:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
K&N makes disposable filters as well.
Anthropophagite · 3 points · Posted at 23:55:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked front end in a shop for 3 years when I was younger and got a tune up before a bug road trip. Guess what they decided needed to be replaced? Now I just don't trust any shop because if they'll rip me off and put in a shitty filter instead of leaving my expensive one in, who knows what other people will do.
xixi2 · 31 points · Posted at 16:26:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why did you keep going back to that same place?
marteney1 · 52 points · Posted at 16:34:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, I never went to the same place twice. This was at almost every single one I went to, in different states even, although this was pretty infrequently since I normally change my own oil. They don’t make a lot on the oil changes, they make heir money on upsales like transmission/radiator flushes, wiper blades, air filters. Most people who take their car in to have the oil changed don’t know any better so they can really get taken advantage of if they don’t know better.
Disclaimer: Before someone tries to tear into me, I do realize that this is a broad statement and not true in 100% if cases. It comes solely from my experience with vehicle repair/maintenance places (dealerships included). I’ve done almost all the work on my own cars my whole life, I understand the need for preventative maintenance, and I understand that many people don’t have the “car knowledge” to do it themselves or refute their claims. But nearly every time I’ve had my vehicle worked on (even just an oil change) I have had to call out a technician for trying to sell me something they know I don’t need, or for flat-out lying to me.
Far-FarmGoose · 27 points · Posted at 17:38:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a Chrysler technician at a dealership, I honestly barely check people's air filters or anything like that unless they have hit a certain mileage interval (usually around 75/80 and 100,000 miles) and I definitely don't try to sell someone something they don't need. There are plenty of cars coming through that do need things (air filters, brakes, whatever) that there's no point in trying to upsell things the customer doesn't need.
upinyabax · 3 points · Posted at 22:09:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wish you worked at my local dealership. Took a Dodge Intrepid in to them to get serviced after just buying it from a friend. Oil change and whatnot but also to make sure everything was ok with it. They came back to me with a whole list of shit that had to be done or else catastrophic mechanical failure was imminent. About $1200 worth of shit. This was nearly 20 years ago. I didn't get any of it done because I couldn't afford it. It had about 50k miles on it. It had about 260k on it when I finally had to park it because the front end was shot. Never got any of that shit done and it was still running well. Recently bought a Chrysler and it's doing some stuff that has me concerned but that same dealership is still owned and ran by the same bunch that was running it then. Seems like everybody knows somebody that's had a bad experience with them. Can't even think about going back in there.
__i0__ · -1 points · Posted at 18:59:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Help me with the economics. 5 quarts of oil and filter is $27
https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/o/oil-change-specials
Average oil change is $20 -$55 https://www.angieslist.com/articles/how-much-does-oil-change-cost.htm
Unless you make negative dollars, at $15 an hour you come out ahead if the oil change only takes you an hour.
To say that most people do it because they don't know any better is ignorant. It cheaper and way faster to get it done for you and oh yeah you can't change your own oil in an apartment parking lot
I get it that you might like doing it, but it's not a reason to feel smug about it
Peregrinousduramater · 6 points · Posted at 19:23:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you are getting a little over excited about this, don’t think the guy was trying to be pushy about it but anyway- if you are buying the high quality, synthetic, good-for-15,000 miles oil it is easily $80 at the maintenance shop or $30 from Walmart, (not even counting if there is a sale.) I have an older higher mileage vehicle and buy the good oil for it, and to me it’s worth the 10-15 min to save $50. That’s just me tho and no judgement if that’s not your thing
phatsakis · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I buy the oil at Walmart then go to an oil change spot and just pay the labor.
firemogle · 5 points · Posted at 19:29:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would say most people don't know enough about their cars to refute things. Of those people, the ones who do it themselves are usually far more knowledgeable than those who take it in. That said I generally take mine in cause it's like 5 bucks over the cost of oil.
arunnnn · 3 points · Posted at 21:02:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve changed my oil in my apartment parking lot. I live in Florida so I wake up really early in the morning to do it when it’s not too hot. But it’s doable
38888888 · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Unless they have rules agaisnt it you can. You're right that's it's not worth doing if you're using standard. For synthetic it makes a big enough difference that it was worth doing when I lived in an apartment. I just got ramps and I'd lay down cardboard if any oil splattered out. If you're familiar with your car you can have it done in 20-30 minutes.
NightshadeX · 20 points · Posted at 17:10:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If someone pulled that on my Jeep I would say "has it improved my mileage? That would be awesome considering it's a 97 Wrangler with the 4.0 engine. I'm lucky if it hits 20 on the freeway."
marteney1 · 6 points · Posted at 17:11:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah dude. I had a JKU with the 3.8, lifted. I averaged 16 all around, I could usually get around 20 on a long highway trip.
cas201 · 12 points · Posted at 16:46:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cold air intakes actually do get worse gas mileage
marteney1 · 8 points · Posted at 16:48:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, due to the increased airflow needing to use more fuel to keep the A/F ratio correct. These guys were always just trying to sell me a new stock filter.
FlacidRooster · 10 points · Posted at 17:47:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cold air intakes have more power because they suck in denser more oxygen rich air, not because there is more airflow.
fostytou · 7 points · Posted at 17:20:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is not correct. There airflow doesn't magically increase to produce the same power level. The only way what you are saying is true is if you are generating more power by hitting the gas pedal harder.
There is potential it could change the sensed amount of air and therefore change the air to fuel ratio until the system can compensate for it (and it may not compensate at full throttle) but that is something completely different and could be better or worse in any given model.
FlacidRooster · -4 points · Posted at 17:46:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cold air intake gives more power because you are sucking in more oxygen than a regular intake.
Why is this downvoted it is a literal fact.
fostytou · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you operate your car at full throttle (power) all the time or do you often aim for the same power and acceleration in daily driving?
More power + same efficiency = more fuel
Same power + same efficiency = same fuel
44hp = 44hp with the same efficiency and AFR. Most people aren't driving around at full throttle and comparing the mpg of two different requests for power is pointless.
FlacidRooster · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Im not talking about daily driving. All I was saying was cold air intake works by bringing in denser air. You seem to be having an argument with yourself.
cas201 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh gotcha.
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BeeDragon · 3 points · Posted at 03:01:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We bought a used Jeep and it developed some issues shortly after we got it, but we bought the warranty for it. Took it to the Jeep dealer and they were actually really nice and showed me the exhaust manifold they had to replace and that whoever owned it before us had apparently done their own work on it and used regular hardware store bolts instead of heat resistant ones. The warranty refused to cover it and the dealer really made an effort to work it out with them, but they wanted to talk directly to me. Called them up and they explained under the plan I purchased this work wasn't covered, I read them the coverage under our plan from their brochure that definitely stated they were supposed to cover it and the call got escalated to a manager who said I was correct and he apologized for his employee. They ended up covering everything, but the fancy $50 bolts. I guess covering the parts was ok, but the bolts to attach the parts was just too much. Shortly after that we moved to a different state and had it inspected at another Jeep dealer. They gave me a quote for $3000 in repairs that it needed, and couldn't find the leak in my tire with their dunk tank and tried to tell me it was normal to have to air one tire up every 2 weeks. Took it to an independent mechanic and they couldn't find half the stuff the dealer said was wrong, but did find additional things and only charged me $700. A year later I temporarily moved back in with my parents and my dad finds the screw in my tire within 5 min of looking. 😐
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 15:46:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How would an air filter affect mileage?
Im not a car person but that sounds ridiculous.
marteney1 · 49 points · Posted at 15:50:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It restricts air flow if it’s clogged with debris. It can affect your mileage up to 2-3 mpg, which on my Jeep was a significant change. Your engine is basically an air pump, and the more freely it can pump air, the more efficiently it’ll work. Blocking the intake makes it not able to move air as well. It’s why you have to change the filter every so often (see your owner manual or just google it to see how often), and why you can get a bit more power with different air intakes and exhaust modifications. My aftermarket one I had, even when clogged, would not do this, and I loved to call them out on it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah I see. Thanks for the explanation.
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Crayshack · 4 points · Posted at 16:41:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That lack of power at high RPMs also means a lack of efficiency. Because the car is designed under the assumption that the engine will be able to provide a certain amount of power, it will respond to a lack of power by increasing the RPMs until it is providing enough power. Unless you are trying to drag race with it, you will probably not notice a drop in performance, but you might notice it making a bit more noise when you are trying to get up to highway speeds or taking off when a light turns green. That bit of extra RPM to get the car moving translates to burning a bit more gas.
Thethubbedone · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More power is used to pull the necessary amount of air through the filters therefore, more fuel us ultimately used.
ALighterShadeOfPale · 2 points · Posted at 19:13:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you for calling them out in front of others! I bet you’ve saved other people.
When I brought my first car in for an oil change (I bought it brand new) I knew nothing about them trying to up sell. And I was pretty young and naive. While waiting in the area, a man asked me if this was my first car, etc. And I gladly told him it was. He warned me about them trying to upsell and that it’s a lot more expensive there.
I thanked him and didn’t think they would truly try, it being a brand new car, but prepared what I would say if they did (I’ve got anxiety and trouble saying no or standing up for myself when on the spot). And sure enough, they brought in my air filter, that was pretty much totally white. And told me I needed a new one. I was ready and declined it. I always appreciated that heads up from that man 🙂
ArcRust · 2 points · Posted at 20:17:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Before I started changing my own oil, I would only go to a shop that showed me the filter before trying to up sell me. On that note, There's a small chain store in my hometown with an autozone across the street. They didn't carry air filters. If you needed one, they'd walk across the street and buy it.
marteney1 · 3 points · Posted at 20:24:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s awesome.
And to be fair, the filters they tried to sell me were the same price I’d pay if I bought it myself, so they’re not gouging people who actually do need them. They’re basically giving a free install, which again is fine if you don’t know enough to do it yourself and actually need it. But lying to me to get money from me? I should have said okay just to see how far they’d take it.
poetaytoh · 2 points · Posted at 16:12:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't understand how someone can look at a Jeeper and think, "Yeah, this guy doesn't know what's going on with his vehicle." Do mechanics not know most of the work done on our modded out Jeeps was done by ourselves?
marteney1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lot of people have a lot of money to throw at a Jeep. For a lot of people, if they turn the key, move that lever in the middle to the D, and it goes forward, that’s good enough.
poetaytoh · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but those folks buy Commanders and Patriots. A Wrangler's just uncomfortable enough that it's typically bought by people looking for more than just a daily driver. Even if you don't install all the mods yourself, you're still invested and educated enough about it to actually know which mods you want and why.
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marteney1 · 23 points · Posted at 15:58:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It does have a filter, but it’s much more free flowing, made of cloth instead of paper so you wash it instead of changing it, and most importantly not something they’re going to replace at an oil change spot like they would a stock one.
RussIsWatchinU · 57 points · Posted at 16:33:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Went to jiffy lube for an oil change, had an old car, been taking it there for years. While I was waiting for my oil change to finish, they gave me the rundown on my car. Turns out that my transmission fluid was overfilled by a quart, and I needed to deal with that then and there.
"Really? A quart over, are you sure?"
"Yeah, checked it myself, so what I recommend is-"
Interrupting "-Because I have taken my car here every three months for the last 3 years, and not once have I ever touched my transmission and not once have I had a tech mention that to me."
"Oh, uh-"
"I still have all the paperwork in my car if you'd like to check, if it's that bad to be over I'd hate to call corporate and tell them how I've been driving with this problem for years with every tech saying it was perfectly fine until just today"
"Let me just go check that one more time, just to be sure..."
Yeah, it was fine. Fucker.
deepsouthsloth · 18 points · Posted at 18:38:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do people frequently return to places that do sub par work or lie to them?
Im a dealership tech for a luxury brand. We had a customer recently come in on a tow truck, with their car just absolutely covered in trans fluid underneath. They said they were on the interstate and it just started smoking and having problems maintaining speed, so they pulled over. Customer had not been to the dealer since the car was sold, now at 61k miles.
We finally get it cleaned enough to determine that the fluid came out through the transmission breather tube, which would indicate its over filled. We ask about recent maintenance and they tell us they had just left "their mechanic" after having the transmission fluid replaced.
So I check the level, and it's almost 5 quarts over filled. So we tell the customer this, and to adjust the fluid level, clean it all up would be $x amount.
He says he will just take it to his mechanic because he will do it for half of that.
Yeah, he probably will. He might also end up burning your car to the ground due to his incompetence, but at least you saved $100.
BeXmo · 322 points · Posted at 14:16:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have let him " do it" and then ask what the heck you're getting charged for if there's no radiator !
Dat_Boi_Frog_Memer · 241 points · Posted at 15:52:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I imagine him standing there with the strip making eye contact when you say do it and he just says "okay done"
unattendedapache · 65 points · Posted at 15:58:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have let him do it then claim he stole your cars radiator
nocookie4u · 17 points · Posted at 18:34:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Yeah sure, mind if I watch? I've never seen it done before."
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That would have been awesome.
VinceIsWellCool · 89 points · Posted at 15:49:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a former Jiffy Lube manager with some inside info I can tell ya this...they don't require their techs to have ANY automotive background, all the training is computer based, and they have a person each day who is dedicated to upselling customers with various services and/or parts. There's a labor cost that person needs to hit each day to turn a profit or risk having corporate reps fire them due to low performance. Hence all the "buy this, you need it" behavior.
penatbater · 22 points · Posted at 17:50:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dont understand this. Its stressful on the employee, stressful on the manager, and stressful for the client, even for management having a high turnover of employees. Why make a business model where everybody gets stressed out?
VinceIsWellCool · 8 points · Posted at 18:16:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The employees came up with it on their own to avoid verbal warnings that could lead to termination. Given where the shop was (downtown in a large-ish city) if one customer was sure they were being duped it didn't really matter. They lost one person's business but there are literally thousands of others to take their place. My shop catered mostly to people in the computer tech or nursing field so we didn't usually encounter anybody who knew a lot about auto repair and maintenance.
lentilsoupforever · 15 points · Posted at 17:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really poor on the company's part to force workers to basically lie and pressure people to do BS just to keep their job. not a good way to treat people who are just trying to work a job.
Quadip · 10 points · Posted at 17:46:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can understand upselling but making up non-existing problems about your car is just lying.
VinceIsWellCool · 3 points · Posted at 17:54:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Another shop near mine went so far as to keep old air filters and burnt out light bulbs around to show customers the "condition" of their parts to complete the sale. Other times they used the old parts because the tech didn't know how to get the filter out in the first place.
Moneywalks13 · 188 points · Posted at 13:53:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What cars don't have a radiator? Something old and German if rear engine prob? Help me out here
WANT_MORE_NOODLES · 269 points · Posted at 14:08:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lot of porsches are air cooled.
Jainai · 66 points · Posted at 14:51:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They stopped after the 993 generation.
EyeLike2Watch · 5 points · Posted at 18:44:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but they made a lot of them before they stopped....
detectivejewhat · 97 points · Posted at 15:21:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They're really oil cooled but yeah same shit pretty much. It's why old air cooled porsches take like 11qts of oil.
satanic_pony · 20 points · Posted at 16:25:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My water cooled still takes nine quarts.
detectivejewhat · 10 points · Posted at 16:45:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone else said I guess flat motors just naturally take a lot of oil. I was wrong in assuming it's because they're oil cooled.
satanic_pony · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sure it's part of it. My car has two oil coolers at the front of the car so there's lines that have to go from front to back. My BMW motorcycle has a flat motor and only takes five quarts.
FlyingMacheteSponser · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a 6 cylinder Subaru legacy. It only takes about 5 litres.
zombiebub · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
it also has a lot to do with how many oil controlled systems the motor has. a lot of cars have high capacities now due to stuff like variable cam timing.
satanic_pony · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that is true. I forgot about the oil actuated vvt system.
tito1490 · 10 points · Posted at 16:33:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They take 11qts because they’re flat motors. New water cooled flat motors also take a lot of oil.
detectivejewhat · 3 points · Posted at 16:44:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interesting. I always assumed it was because they had fairly large oil coolers.
tito1490 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The oil cooler doesn’t hold much more than a quart. They have external oil tanks that hold about 5 quarts.
detectivejewhat · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's crazy.
wraith_legion · 3 points · Posted at 18:12:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a trade-off between increasing oil life and lowering system capacity. If you downsize the tank/reservoir, you're looking at warmer oil temps on average, so shorter oil life.
I work in hydraulics, and every 10C above 60C (in terms of average operating temp) cuts your oil life roughly in half.
KMFDM781 · 2 points · Posted at 21:08:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sure, plus dry sump oil systems are better for handling and high cornering loads
Moneywalks13 · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm an idiot I had a 996 turbo frst gen water-cooled it def held a shit ton of oil
sofixa11 · -2 points · Posted at 18:39:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the heck kind of measure is that? Apparently it's 946.352946 milliliters , but why the hell does it exist ?!
PM_ME_BIRDS_OF_PREY · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A quart is 2 pints. The measure of liquid which has been commonly used since at least the early Middle Ages.
sofixa11 · 0 points · Posted at 20:01:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And they also used snails against burns, doesn't make it a good idea in the 21st century when basically the whole world has a standardized measurement system.
PM_ME_BIRDS_OF_PREY · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They used the decimal number system to do maths back then too, should we throw that out too in favour of a standardised number system?
pickle_meister · 3 points · Posted at 01:43:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Decimal is standard, I think they were more saying that the USA is basically the only nation to use the imperial system, hence why it's not standard
gvsulaker82 · 4 points · Posted at 16:35:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So how do they cool when stuck in traffic?
takemeawayandthrowme · 11 points · Posted at 17:43:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With a fan that moves a lot of air through ducting over the cylinders
Air cooled engines have lots of fins on the cylinders to increase their surface area for dissipating heat
Not sure where the oil cooler is on an air cooled Porsche, but it may also be cooled by the same fan or another fan.
WANT_MORE_NOODLES · 7 points · Posted at 16:41:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’ll have to ask Porsche, I don’t know man
oldgov2 · 4 points · Posted at 17:43:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The oil coolers act like radiators
Supercars_Official · 0 points · Posted at 19:20:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most people don't commute in classic Porsches. Post '98 cars are watercooled anyway.
PersonalPlanet · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But he said hood.
gatecrasher48 · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A car engine can be air cooled? damn, TIL.
gimpwiz · 5 points · Posted at 18:57:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lots of older motorcycles are. They rely on airflow over a cylinder head that has huge fins like the heatsink on the cpu in your pc.
Cars can be only air cooled though often they had oil coolers. So the engine did not have any coolant, but the oil itself went out to a heat exchanger (radiator) to cool down.
I do not know of any modern cars using an engine without coolant but I am sure they exist. Something super cheap sold for $3k somewhere with a tiny engine. Porsches (911s) on the other hand could be pretty damn fast despite being air cooled, which is super impressive, but of course they switched to water cooling about 20 years ago.
There are also some drag race cars that have no coolant - either an original engine with cooling jackets filled in with cement, or a custom engine without any cooling jackets whatsoever. These tend to fire up, warm up a bit, do a quarter mile pass, pull back around, and turn off. If you tried to street drive it it would pop of course.
bender-b_rodriguez · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why fill with cement when it would weigh so much? Couldn't you use aluminum or something?
gimpwiz · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most people don't have the ability to fill water jackets in with aluminum - in fact, I don't know if it would ever make sense to do that, as it'd probably compromise the integrity of the engine block and heads.
Cement is cheap enough, easy enough, very strong, and works, so that's why people do it.
Supercars_Official · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Old Porsches and VWs
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:55:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Skunk73 · 12 points · Posted at 15:04:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Weed trimmers, lawnmowers, garden tillers, hedge trimmers, motorcycles, and nearly a thousand other things are facepalming right now.
WANT_MORE_NOODLES · 2 points · Posted at 14:57:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you literally could have just googled it, but here https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_cooling_be_done_in_cars_without_using_radiators
Janununuh · 21 points · Posted at 16:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’d put my money on an old VW. Everyone is guessing Porsche, but who takes a vintage Porsche to a Jiffy Lube?
vwstig · 13 points · Posted at 16:57:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At some point a vintage Porsche was just a used Porsche.
Jack_Vermicelli · 5 points · Posted at 19:00:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which is still a Porsche.
viriconium_days · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A 944 is also still a Porche.
Janununuh · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OP said rear-engined though
viriconium_days · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which has nothing to do with that.
HumansBStupid · 12 points · Posted at 15:45:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably an old Beetle
xcrackpotfoxx · 4 points · Posted at 16:51:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Chevy corvair, or a beetle/beetle based car. That's basically it.
Halbertos · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Porsche 315 and 911 prior to 1998. Probably other examples of mid or rear engines cars as well but I’m not certain about all of them not being water cooled
xcrackpotfoxx · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I already mentioned beetle based cars.
Never heard of a 315 though.
Halbertos · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s because I’m a moron. I meant a 356. It’s the car that James Dean died in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_356
jackster_ · 4 points · Posted at 17:40:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My beetle sure didn't. I wish I still had it, it was the most fun little go cart to drive. And so easy to work on. I remember when something weird was going on, my dad and I removed the entire gas tank in the parking lot, pulled out the Barbie doll head that someone put in there, and put it back on in about an hour and I was on my way! I was a teenager girl with no prior experience and it was easy as pie.
I wonder who TF put that Barbie in there.
Moneywalks13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Made me crack up,Barbie? Ya I totally had a brain fart not thinking of air cooled cars
jackster_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Must have been the little neighbor girl that put that in there is my only guess, it was a big surprise!
psinguine · 8 points · Posted at 16:23:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It would have to be a car where the trunk is in the front. But I only know if electric cars like that.
TheyCallMeStone · 6 points · Posted at 17:35:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mid engine cars are like that, sports cars usually. The engine is behind the seats.
Mackem101 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Old VW Beetles too.
Moneywalks13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No he's talking about a rear engined car, Porsche or vw prob
goregote · 3 points · Posted at 16:04:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Air cooled engines
ThePretzul · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every Porsche before 1997 was air cooled (which really meant your oil was your coolant), and many Volkswagons were also that way. With the rear engine constraint it was most like an older Volkswagon beetle or a Porsche 911.
It could have also been a Corvair though, or a few other old timey cars that are obscure enough to be incredibly unlikely.
obi1kenobi1 · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would bet a Corvair, or possibly some European economy car. Everyone knows that Beetles and Porsches are rear engine and air cooled, there's just no way any mechanic could possibly make the mistake of opening the front trunk looking for the engine. The Corvair is still pretty well known but it's nowhere near the level of the Beetle and Porsche, so it would at least be understandable for someone who isn't familiar with classic cars to think a sleek American sedan would have the engine in the front.
ubermonkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The two most likely options here are:
There are others, but the only one made after the Beetle is, I think, the 911.
I_am_a_Wookie_AMA · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Older Porsche and VW cars are air cooled. Classic Beetles and such.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Beetles and Porsches are the most common
RedRedKrovy · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly what I’m wondering.
OutlawBagel · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The original VW Bugs were rear engines and air cooled so there would be no radiator.
KMFDM781 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tesla possibly also
Moneywalks13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow guys I think this is my most upvoted comment! All because I had a brain fart and completely forgot air cooled cars don't need a radiator. I had a 996 Turbo that was the first water cooled 911 so I should know better. Thanks for all the answers and nobody even made fun of me, this is so un reddit. I think we can safely assume it was an air cooled beetle or Porsche though hopefully they weren't getting the Pcar serviced at Jiffy Lube. Someone also mentioned an electric car, also a possibility, though the guy at JL would have to have been a true idiot in that case
Stomish · 0 points · Posted at 16:52:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think he means his car was mid engined, and the radiator might have been in the back
LakeWashington · -4 points · Posted at 15:55:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some Porches, Teslas, Nissan Leaf.....
SchlapHappy · 14 points · Posted at 16:17:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would you take an electric car in for an oil change?
LakeWashington · -3 points · Posted at 17:09:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That wasn't the question. try to follow along.
SchlapHappy · 4 points · Posted at 18:36:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Context matters
Prince_Wonderton · 139 points · Posted at 13:05:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one makes me soooo happy.
Iokuas · 345 points · Posted at 15:25:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jiffy Lube kid tried to tell me I had "so much water in the line" when I went in for a quick change and that they'd have to do a complete flush and a cleaning and so on, showed me some white shit on the dipstick. So what do I do? I tell him I'll take it to my mechanic to do it because I don't trust a 16 year old kid to do any actual work on my car. My mechanic not only charged less than the Jiffy Lube would have, but he also didn't even mention there being a problem.
psinguine · 431 points · Posted at 16:22:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"So I've got some good news, and some good news."
"Well alright Bill, let's have the good news first!"
"Heh. Well I've looked over your car, and I'll only charge you half what that Jiffy Lube place was gonna charge. Hell, a third if you pay cash today."
"Well alright! Here you go! And what's the other good news?"
"There's nothing wrong with the car."
zombiebub · 6 points · Posted at 20:27:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Places like jiffy lube and the dealers are great for business. Everytime a customer comes in with a quote from one of them I know right off the bat they won't argue about the bill because even if everything they have on the list needs to be done it will still be cheaper. It's one of the few times you can hand someone a 2 grand bill and have them say thank you.
Mattdriver12 · 31 points · Posted at 16:24:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So why did you even go to Jiffy Lube if you had another guy that is cheaper.
Iokuas · 17 points · Posted at 17:18:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn't know it'd be cheaper and jiffy lube doesn't require me to lose access to my car for a few hours.
tommys_mommy · 16 points · Posted at 17:29:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar story. This was over 15 years ago now, but I took my car to some random chain place near my college for an oil change. The guy tried to tell me I needed over $1000 in work, car wasn't date to drive, etc. Told him not to do anything, and I drove it 90 miles to my dad's mechanic. Dad told his mechanic to do whatever we needed to just to make it safe. He was able to find a minor oil leak, which I think was like 20 bucks to fix. Literally nothing the other place said was wrong had a problem.
I went back to the place near college and threw an absolute fit to the manager, and told all the people in the waiting room that they were getting ripped off. I felt better, but looking back I probably should have filed some sort of formal complaint somewhere.
BrownSugarBare · 4 points · Posted at 23:42:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Formal complaint would have been good, however I think it's awesome you went back in to give it to them. As if students don't struggle enough with finances as it is, bunch of jerks.
jackster_ · 13 points · Posted at 17:59:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had moved to a new town where I didn't know anyone, but Big O tires was a block from my house, I could actually push my car there, which I had to do on occasion. But every time I took it there something else bad would happen.
At first I chalked it up to being a '99 Pontiac POS that I had bought at an auction, but then I took it in for a tire and it came back just pouring oil, so I decided next time to take it to this guy I had met at work. This guy was covered in skin grafts from being burned really bad. I was complaining about how Big-O screwed me over, blah blah blah. He says "Yeah, I used to work there as a teenager, some other kid decided to play around with gasoline, ended up "accidentally" pooring it on me and lighting me on fire. They didn't have a fire extinguisher where they were supposed to, and it took way too long to put me out. My workshirt was some kind of fabric that melted to my skin and they really thought I was going to die there for a while. To add injury to injury I had to take pain medicine called fentanyl. I was 19, burned over 3/4 of my body and severely addicted to pain pills for five years after that."
I was speechless. Even if they had never done wrong to my car, after hearing that story I really hated Big-O. And I felt really bad for complaining to him about how badly they did me wrong.
WebsterSoul · 12 points · Posted at 16:39:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think we’re all on the same page. FUCK JIFFY LUBE!
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:32:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People have no idea how easy it is to do your own oil change. You don't need to have a huge set of tools just a few wrenches. But instead they'd rather go to jiffy lube and complain when they get up sold by a high school student and pay out the ass when all it takes is 5-10 minutes to do an oil change.
moelawn · 8 points · Posted at 17:43:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not defending jiffy lube here, because there are way better shops thatll do oil changes for 20$ vs the 100$ that jiffy lube charged me, but sometimes its just easier to take it into a shop to do an oil change, where at least for me, I would have to go out buy the oil, come back, do the oil change, then find a place that will take my old oil. Sometimes, its just easier to take it in and get it done in one go, instead of driving to possibly 3 places. But jiffy lube sucks because they are nowhere near a competitive price point like other auto shops out here.
wambam17 · 7 points · Posted at 17:57:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here. Did the math and turns out I only saved like 10 bucks at the end. Why go through the trouble and sweating in the heat and save so little money. Besides, I get to support local business this way that pump back tax dollars into economy. Win-Win imo
TwoTowersTooTall · 6 points · Posted at 17:49:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We live in a wooded rural area so any used oil just gets tossed in the creek where it disappears. Makes oil changes a lot more convenient.
I'm joking of course
JohnJJohnson · 3 points · Posted at 20:12:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You got me, I had the pitchfork ready
Kermicon · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve found that a lot of dealerships do oil changes for only about $5-10 more than the cost of buying everything myself. Plus, since it’s a dealer, they’re less likely to fuck it up and if they do, can and will actually pay for it.
Fight_or_Flight_Club · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The dealership where I got my Cherokee has a reputation for being sketchy, but I evidently got the one car they sold for a fair price (asking price was like 300 above kbb value, I knocked it down to the specific number it gave) and it qualifies for their free oil change program.
I know some people actually drive quite far to get their cars, so this won't help everybody, but see if you'r dealership has promotions. I get free oil changes for the life of the car, and the only catch is I have to drive maybe 15 minutes, as opposed to 5
frogsrbetter · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I live in Florida, so I have a decision between laying on the asphalt to change my oil or paying $20-30
syphillitic · 7 points · Posted at 18:32:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guys like you never mention what a bitch it is to change the oil filter, or that you need a strap wrench for it that most people don't have, along with something to raise the car up safely, something to hold the old oil and somewhere to take it after. Fuck you, fuck your 5-10 minutes.
__i0__ · 4 points · Posted at 19:09:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is someone who has clearly tried to change oil before.
You think I'm going to lay under the $15 plastic blocks I drive up on while i wrench on the oil filter, avoiding a mouthful of oil?
Its 10 minutes to find the tools, 30 minutes to the store, 15 minutes to find the RIGHT tools, 30 minutes to get it lifted, 25 minutes to drain it and change the filter, 10 minutes to fill it, 5 minutes to clean the spillage, 30 minutes BACK to the store to dispose of the oil, all that to find out I drive a Nissan leaf that doesn't use oil.
Good day to you sir!
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 19:15:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Filter is supposed to be hand tight, bud. If you're tightening with a band wrench you're doing it wrong.
EnaBoC · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Way to avoid every other part of what he said. For the record, I have a fumoto valve, it literally DOES takes me 5-10 minutes with my ramps. And I STILL prefer taking it to the shop cause my time is worth more than the $10 I'd save.
__i0__ · 3 points · Posted at 19:02:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Help me with the economics. 5 quarts of oil and filter is $27
https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/o/oil-change-specials
Average oil change is $20 -$55 https://www.angieslist.com/articles/how-much-does-oil-change-cost.htm
Unless you make negative dollars, at $15 an hour you come out ahead if the oil change only takes you an hour.
To say that most people do it because they don't know any better is ignorant. It cheaper and way faster to get it done for you and oh yeah you can't change your own oil in an apartment parking lot
I get it that you might like doing it, but it's not a reason to feel smug about it
thejam15 · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you have whitish stuff in your oil it could be caused by taking really short trips in your car and not giving the engine time to warm up and evacuating all the moisture out. Its pretty common on hybrids that only use the engine some of the time. If the stuff is still there after a long trip then it usually means your pcv(?i think) System is malfunctioning or was it evap
Iokuas · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My average trip is around 10-15 minutes. So it could be that.
thejam15 · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes very likely then
zombiebub · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its especially bad if you are in colder climates.
jordoonearth · 68 points · Posted at 15:44:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They shook a black vile of sludge at my wife telling her that I needed my transmission fluid replaced. The entire transmission had just been replaced a month earlier under warranty... That entire industry is criminally dishonesty.
roccoseinfeld · 15 points · Posted at 16:28:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why everyone needs to learn how to do all of that basic maintenance stuff to their cars themselves.
archlich · 21 points · Posted at 16:55:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair replacing a transmission is hardly basic maintenance. Even checking your transmission fluid requires a lift.
skinny_malone · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on what make and model of car... If it has a sealed transmission then yes it is going to be a PITA to check the trans fluid. But many cars have a transmission fluid dipstick which makes it very easy to check.
roccoseinfeld · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I never said that was basic maintenance. And replacing transmission fluid isn’t that big of a deal considering the fact that you don’t need to change it often. Maybe difficult the first time but after that it shouldn’t be an issue for anybody. People these days are too hands off to learn to do anything themselves and they end up wasting so much money over it
archlich · 6 points · Posted at 17:22:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t trust people to change their brakes, let alone correctly. While it’s noble that people should know how these things are done, sometimes it’s better just leaving it to the professionals. I’m glad that yearly safety inspections are mandatory in my state for that exact reason.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 17:33:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What no it doesn't. Almost all modern A/T cars come with a transmission dipstick. Only M/T has a check plug below the engine somewhere.
wwtt1990 · 4 points · Posted at 18:38:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Almost all modern 2010 + A/T cars do not come with a transmission dipstick. Most of them require removing an overflow plug when the transmission fluid is in a specific temperature range.
deepsouthsloth · 3 points · Posted at 18:37:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's not the case at all. Most all AT cars have a dipstick up until about 2006 when auto makers decided that was a problem. Most auto trans vehicles today do not have a transmission dipstick, and have either a check plug, or a special service tool required for checking fluid levels. All Toyota, Lexus, Nissan, Infiniti, BMW, Mercedes, and other European vehicles in the US have followed this for 10h years now, and most American cars have followed suit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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deepsouthsloth · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah ive seen that with some dodge cars. They have a tube, and no dipstick, you need a special graduated dipstick, and you set the stopper to the correct unit according to the manual, and check it.
Its all to keep people from fucking with things that don't need their help. When we went to type WS fluid, they claim its a lifetime fluid and needs no replacement. So it doesn't have a stick, just a check plug, a set of instructions in the manual, and you need a pump to get fluid in the trans.
The engineers said that people would unnecessarily check and adjust fluid, add some incorrect or terrible quality fluid to the system, over fill it, under fill it, and generally do more harm than good. So they made it harder to do.
Also ASE master/Lexus Master/former Nissan master You work for an oem?
archlich · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m not talking about just fluid levels. You also need to check for water ingress, and metal shavings, you can’t check that with a dipstick. Edit yeah talking about manual transmission. Forgot automatics exist.
pick-axis · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just read so much shit about jiffy lube that I forgot what the post was in the first place.
archlich · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Welcome to Deep Reddit
KZGTURTLE · -2 points · Posted at 17:08:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your kidding right, just have two friends over to lift the car up while you work to remove the transmission yourself.
Super easy and only need 3 people and some beer
Edit: /s because saying you only need two people to lift a car is sarcastic enough
Threeknucklesdeeper · 62 points · Posted at 13:34:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Old vw?
dwee370 · 108 points · Posted at 14:06:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Vw beetle, vw karmann this, vw bus, vw thing, Porsche 914, Porsche 911, Porsche 356, Porsche 550 speedster, there’s actually quite a few different air cooled cars from VAG
Arnold_Mal · 94 points · Posted at 14:46:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Short for vagina
Grill3dCheeze · 54 points · Posted at 15:17:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have never met a vagina with a radiator either.
viomonk · 12 points · Posted at 17:19:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They are usually liquid cooled.
dennisthewhatever · 10 points · Posted at 17:09:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why they're so hot? ¯\(ツ)/¯
AyYoDeano · 7 points · Posted at 17:18:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s because the radiators in the rear
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:17:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Might as well because you get fucked when you buy one
ClearlyNotElvis · 4 points · Posted at 14:53:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No relation
SopwithStrutter · 4 points · Posted at 15:25:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm very much in charge
Threeknucklesdeeper · 27 points · Posted at 14:16:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Volkswagen Auto Group, for those who didn't know.
avantsi · 7 points · Posted at 15:53:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually it's Volkswagen AG if we are precise! ;)
B5_S4 · 13 points · Posted at 16:32:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft if we're being long winded.
gtaadventure · 5 points · Posted at 17:04:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is incorrect. It’s Volkswagen AG, colloquially known as Volkswagen Group. “AG” is roughly the German equivalent of “Inc.” et al.
Fun fact: Most people think VW owns Porsche. Also incorrect. VW produces the Porsche cars, but it is Porsche that owns a majority stake in VW.
Logpile98 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, it's not quite that simple. Porsche SE is a holding company that owns 50.7% of Volkswagen AG, but Volkswagen AG actually owns Porsche AG (the automotive company), which is a subsidiary of Porsche SE. Source
gtaadventure · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right. Non inconsistent with what I said. And, it’s the Porsche family that owns it. Hence Porsche owns majority interest in VW
Logpile98 · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a bit misleading though. When someone hears "Porsche owns Volkswagen", they probably think Porsche the car company owns Volkswagen, which isn't true. It would be like saying Mercedes owned Chrysler, when really Daimler was the one.
gtaadventure · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meh, if you say so. VW only took control of Porsche AG as part of the deal that saw Porsche SE take control of VW. Pretty common way to structure something,,,,take control of the parent and essentially roll you other holding into the company you now control as part of the deal.
universerule · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or it's a corvair. Weird things those are.
That or op has a nice old Porsche.
Derpfeet · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Porsche being part of VAG is relatively new, as porsche was an independent company up until 2012. Air cooled designs like the 356, 550, 911 and so on were pure Porsche. That being said, the VW beetle, Karmann Ghia, 914, and Thing all had Porsche influence and design, as did most early Volkswagens.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:36:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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gtaadventure · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t think that’s right. Porsche designed the first VW car as well as the factory to build it. They’ve been pretty intertwined since day one. Many Parts were even interchangeable in the 60s
dontakemeseriously69 · 37 points · Posted at 13:54:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Almost certainly a Porsche.
Threeknucklesdeeper · 49 points · Posted at 14:15:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or a Corvair. Porsche, VW, tomato, potato.
Manleather · 20 points · Posted at 14:33:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fry one, mash one, dip one in the other.
FEED_ME_STORIES · 3 points · Posted at 16:12:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dip a fried tomato in a mashed potato?
Eddie_shoes · 4 points · Posted at 16:43:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone took their old Porsche to a Jiffy Lube?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:06:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See, I wonder. Wouldn’t it be obvious to someone that the engine is in the back? I’m no car person or mechanic or anything and still wouldn’t open the front of a Porsche expecting an engine.
dontakemeseriously69 · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We are talking about a jiffy lube tech here and im saying its a porsche because it has no radiator and porsches are air cooled.
concarmail · 30 points · Posted at 15:49:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is one of the top replies from the last time this question was posted, from a different account
glam_it_up · 11 points · Posted at 16:14:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish repost accounts would at least give credit to the original comment.
This stuff is rampant now and I hate it.
noiwontpickaname · 9 points · Posted at 16:45:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's time for r/karmacourt
Endless__Throwaway · 25 points · Posted at 17:29:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh fuck JL. I caught them in a lie about them replacing my oil filter. The car was literally inside for less than 9 minutes. And then they shut the doors on me. Before even going in,I asked if they had time, if not, totally okay and I'll come back another day. They said no, no come in.
I go across town to another Jiffy Lube after they refuse to answer my questions and said they were closed.
I call the corporate office and no answer. So I just start blowing their facebook page and Twitter with my story. That got their attention quickly. They call me and hear me out. I tell them they can verify my story right now and this other JL location but I don't trust nobody at this point so I want to watch them do it. They agree.
What they don't fucking know is that I scratch in initials on my filters (when I change my own oil usually, but didn't have time this time) to ensure I'm not scammed like this.
So the manager is there now and talking to corporate on the phone. Sure as shit he pulls the filter off and not only is it the ones they don't* use but I tell them to look for my initials. They see it's an old filter and then I show them my initials. So they see I'm not lying.
I was livid. Pissed because they thought they could get over on me because I'm a female? Fuck them.
They refunded me of course and offered to redo the oil change but I said there's no way I'm letting them work on my car again. Had their PR team trying to get me to remove my reviews of them for weeks.
If I wasn't so god damn poor at the time, I would have sued their ass for fraud or at least have got a lawyer.
E: spelling
mmmmpisghetti · 24 points · Posted at 17:13:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my son was going to one of those places I sent him a pic of what his air filter is supposed to look like. The one they showed him wasn't the right size /shape.
Also he got 2 new tires, the guy wanted to put them on the dead axle, not the drive. I told my son that the better tires ALWAYS initially go on the drive axle, only rotate if the other pair are in similar shape. You do not want tires down to almost the legal limit of tread on the wheels that are under power. That guy wanted the nearly done tires up front so he could sell him another set of tires in a month. Putting the lower tread on the dead axle while they still have enough left to be safe will push off buying another pair a bit longer. Guy said I didn't know what I was talking about, kid told him I'm a trucker with my own truck who does 110,000 miles per year.
This doesn't apply if you can see the top of Abe Lincoln's head when you put a penny head edge in between the tread grooves!
I failed as a mother, I thought I had taught my son about the penny tread test before this...
PtolemyShadow · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please explain this penny test. It sounds very useful. Like you just put an upright penny in your treds? I assume facing up?
mmmmpisghetti · 3 points · Posted at 19:46:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On an American penny the space between the top of Lincolns head and the edge of the coin is roughly 2/32 inch which is the legal minimum. If you can see the top of his head when you put that part into the groove in your tread your tires need to be replaced asap.
You might not have a tread gauge but most people have pennies somewhere
PtolemyShadow · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That makes much more sense. Thank you!
mmmmpisghetti · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No problem! I actually just reminded my son to check his older pair!
Also look for damage or dry rot cracking on the sidewall, proper inflation, and stay away from the super cheap tires. Be safe out there!
skinny_malone · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upside down, so that the top of the penny (where Abe's head is pointing) is touching the tire. If you can see the top of his head, your treads are worn and you need to replace that tire.
PtolemyShadow · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, thank you!
ThePretzul · 21 points · Posted at 17:04:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I drive a mid-engined car that has both a front and a rear trunk. I went in to pick up some brake pads for my car and they offered to do a free inspection on the vehicle so I took them up on it just to see what they'd find.
He came back telling me I had low engine oil and would need to replace all my oil as a result. There are only two problems with this statement of his:
1) My car shows engine oil level on the gauges every time you put the key in the ignition before you start it up, I knew my oil level was fine
2) I watched them "inspect" the car and he hadn't actually opened either the front nor the rear trunks (the dipstick is in the rear trunk).
So I went and asked him to show me what the oil level was at on the dipstick and the guy walks up and opens my front trunk. He spent probably a minute looking for the dipstick before I showed him the oil level by turning the key to the on position.
second_to_fun · 18 points · Posted at 15:22:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Side note, I want nothing more in life than to have my job title be "Lube Technician"
DrMcHealer · 19 points · Posted at 16:48:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I learned anything from Reddit, it is to NEVER trust any Jiffy Lube location
sumner929 · 40 points · Posted at 16:37:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jiffy Lube is the worst. Went there for an oil change. I was the only one there, so it didn't take long. The tech comes in and says I need a new air filter but everything else is fine. I say, I do? Can you show me my filter? He leaves to go to the garage and perceive to come back with a very dirty and very worn out air filter. I told him that's not my filter because I just replaced it myself the day before. He apologizes profusely he says he must have gotten it onfused with another customer even though nobody else was there. Are then asked if you checked my windshield wipers which I know needed to be replaced because the rubber part was peeling off. He said yes they look fine. So I take him and his manager out to my car to show them how badly worn my wipers are. The manager then says oh you need a special tool from Jeep to remove these wipers and that they can't do it there. So, I pop off both wipers to show no tool is needed. At this point I asked if they're even actually changed my oil considering I've caught them two lies now. I said I'm not paying for anything but they refused to give me my car keys back so they said if I have a problem I can take it up with upper management but I need to pay now. I ended up paying and getting in contact with Jiffy Lube's upper management, but they never reimbursed me. Told them I never come back, but they didn't really seem to care. Jiffy Lube is a dying brand.
TexasWithADollarsign · 24 points · Posted at 17:45:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you paid with a card, after you left you should've immediately called your bank to request a chargeback.
sumner929 · 8 points · Posted at 19:06:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did not know that, but now I do. Thanks for the tip!
Halbertos · 7 points · Posted at 19:28:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They can’t refuse to return your car for unpaid repairs, generally speaking. Your car isn’t collateral for the oil they “put in it.”
You can always call the cops and calmly explain that Jiffy Lube has stolen your car as they are in possession of it and your keys.
Trusty_Sidekick · 12 points · Posted at 16:52:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd strongly recommend that people avoid Jiffy Lube altogether. Lies, recycled (used) oil, etc. I'm surprised they're still in business.
Stockpile_Tom · 11 points · Posted at 16:29:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first cars first oil change was at jiffy lube and they over filled my car with oil causing it to blow a rod. Fuck jiffy lube
silentxem · 10 points · Posted at 16:50:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dudes for my last oil change tried telling me that my air filter needed changing by taking some pine needles from between the hood and windshield of my car (park under a pine at home, don't care to clean my car), and just throw them on what looked to be an otherwise fairly clean filter.
Uh, no dude. I'm not that dumb, and I'm fucking poor, so I ain't doing anything but the oil change anyway.
Poem_for_your_sprog · 475 points · Posted at 15:49:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He stared at the place where he thought it would be -
The space that he hadn't expected to see.
I'd tricked him and trapped him.
I'd captured him, caught.
'Good heavens,' he whispered:
'... it's worse than I thought.'
ScenesFromTheOffice · 15 points · Posted at 16:40:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Andy: Black goes on the red. With the...If we...Positive...it being a motor drive, it's probably down.
Kid: He seems bad at this.
Andy: You want to do this, Junior? I didn't think so. Sorry. It's been kind of a long day at the...mechanic store. (Andy places connections wrong, smoke and explosion set off) Aaaah! ...Uh, You got a leaky spark tube.
Woman: What?!
Andy: So your car's totaled. Uh, you're just gonna want to get a refund on that. Or my guy could do it. He's great. But uh, I can't do that for you. I work exclusively on motorcycles.
mazdayasna · 4 points · Posted at 16:14:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was pretty rad
BleedingCello · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cool it
kooliferous · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always giving the good stuff
CleverReversal · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Has a Roald Dahl feel to it somehow.
prncrny · 0 points · Posted at 16:53:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But what happened to Timmy?
What happened to Timmy, sprog?!
zomorodian · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think he's dead.
crunchymunchys · 17 points · Posted at 15:45:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hah! You went to Jiffylube. That was your first mistake. I work im that line and they single handly gotten more customers to us than our coupons. There are reason why Jiffy is cheap, its because they don't know anything and won't teach any of their staff. Good example. They use an impact gun for your drain plug downstairs either stripping the plug or crossthreading it so it'll leak and won't claim responsibility
BrrToe · 3 points · Posted at 18:26:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That explains my steering fluid leak from 10 years ago...
crunchymunchys · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh they sold you a power steering fluid flush? I hear all the time about those yet we being the 'experts' don't do it. That and brake fluid have a ridiculous long life and only really needs to be topped up once a while.
BrrToe · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea, looking back it was absolutely ridiculous.
elbaliavanuemanresu · 19 points · Posted at 17:07:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a very similar experience at a Jiffy Lube; my first and last experience. The tech came in with this absolutly filthy cabin filter. He went on and on about how dangerous and unhealthy it is to breath the air coming through this disgusting filter. For a mere $40, he could replace it for me.
I kindly let him know that it there was no way that was my cabin filter. I had just replaced my filter a week prior and it was half the size of the filter he was showing me. His face turned red and he went back to the service bay with his tail between his legs.
randallstevens65 · 9 points · Posted at 15:48:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is anyone else reading these comments with the voices of the Tappet brothers from Car Talk in their heads? Because I sure am and it’s very entertaining!
ladysekhmetka · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ehehe, love that show!
Nairbnotsew · 8 points · Posted at 16:46:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone who worked as a lube tech for a while after high school, there is a good chance he is being pushed by management to upsell since the employees are judged based on how much extra BS they can sell over top of the oil change. I always hated suggesting this stuff to people but if I was ever caught not doing it then it would come up in my next raise meeting as a reason not to give it to you. “Get those sale numbers up and we’ll talk.” It honestly felt like working a commision sales job without actually getting a commision.
Romestus · 5 points · Posted at 17:53:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The problem with quick lube shops is that they're fundamentally not profitable if ran with any semblance of integrity. You can't charge $20 for an oil change all day, not upsell people services they don't need and hope to keep the lights on.
In my opinion they should be illegal since they're scams, they hurt the image of the trade as a whole and they give people this expectation of a super cheap oil change that independent shops can't match. Their other services are awful too since people see the same name for a service at a quick lube place and an independent thinking they're the same. But it turns out the quick lube transmission service is $150 to drain 3L out of your pan and the independent flushes 12L with a circulating machine (or do multiple 3L drains when that's not possible) for $300 yet the independent shop gets bitched out since they're charging so much according to the customer who's used to those scam prices.
interfail · 5 points · Posted at 16:48:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That doesn't sound satisfying. It sounds like you caught a conman in his shit and the result was he was like "oh, you got me, lol" and continued to con people like your family and friends.
Lanoir97 · 5 points · Posted at 17:24:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my friends used to work at Jiffy Lube. He quit because corporate got onto him about not selling enough things like radiator flushes and transmission flushes.
Wanderlustskies · 10 points · Posted at 15:53:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not jiffy lube but I went to get my oil changed at a quick place, and they start telling me how there's something wrong with my tire I better get it checked before I get in a crash and didn't I notice the tire pressure light was on its the one with an exclamation point?! They didn't even do tires so I guess they were just stupid? Because there's absolutely nothing wrong with my tire, they even mentioned which one it was, wtf.
Ikswezsybyzrp · 0 points · Posted at 17:03:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The little tire with exclamation point is traction control isn't it?
TheDrLovin · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No. Traction control is the car with skid marks behind it. They more I look at car warning lights the more I think they really should be updated. Like the check engine light, what the fuck is that thing? That is not an engine.
Cobek · 5 points · Posted at 16:30:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They insisted I needed a new serpentine belt but I just had my father, who works on cars every weekend, looking over it and he saw nothing. Still haven't changed it and it's been 3 years since that oil change. Wish it was easier to change oil on my 2002 Ranger but it's just in a weird spot so I have to deal with con artists.
sour_cereal · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it's been 3+ years, you will probably need a new belt soon though. Like anything rubber it'll dry out, crack, and start disintegrating.
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[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 15:30:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The wording is funny but if you read closely that is what OP is saying.
BenderRodriquez · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
City driving is much worse than highway driving.
chrisms150 · 8 points · Posted at 15:33:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Re-read the post, it's worded strangely, he said the guy at valvoline was trying to tell him that city driving was worse.
uberdreww · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar to this, my parents bought a Nissan Leaf, and the dealer gave them a coupon for a free oil change, even though it didn't use oil. My mom convinced them to give them something they could actually use.
outworlder · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got one of those coupons too. I still wonder where to stick that coupon.
Electric cars will be the death of these companies. No oil changes, no oil filter, no gas pumps, no gas filters, no radiator, dead simple transmission (it’s a single gear on the leaf), etc.
I guess they will have to make do with tyre, cabin air filters and windshield wipers. Or they could move into the battery recycling business i guess.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:44:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only reason to go to a Jiffy Lube is to clown the worthless employees there. Calling them out on their BS is hysterical.
sharkbag · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The real takeaway here is that they're willing to double down on you not knowing anything about your car. Pricks
mjxii · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Air cooled cars have radiators...but they cool oil. Just saying
ottrocity · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rule 1 of Jiffy Lube is never ever go to Jiffy Lube.
SouffleStevens · 4 points · Posted at 15:34:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was this a Tesla?
Do electric motors need radiators or do they not get hot enough?
thecolbra · 17 points · Posted at 16:11:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You don't need to change the oil in an electric car lol.
SouffleStevens · 5 points · Posted at 16:13:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn't know that. I thought whatever moving parts there are in a motor would need some lubrication.
What other car has a frunk and doesn't have a radiator? An old VW Beetle?
A_FNG · 2 points · Posted at 18:55:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Old Porches
archlich · 5 points · Posted at 16:57:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are still lubricated parts in a Tesla. Not engine oil, but you still have brake calipers, hydraulic fluid, wheel bearings, etc.
Zinkane15 · 0 points · Posted at 17:07:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but a mechanic isn't going to know all that about a Tesla. Teslas are complicated. Hell, you can't even change the tires yourself.
Janununuh · 4 points · Posted at 16:15:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most electric cars have a small radiator to cool the motor/batteries, and some have a second cooling loop dedicated to cooling the batteries and charging circuit.
OP probably brought in an old air-cooled, rear-engined VW or Porsche.
HawkofDarkness · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well? What happened afterwards?
shark_claws · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What kind of car was it?
ManOfNinetyNine · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn't know there were cars without radiators!
GetOffMyBus · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a technician, take it from me when I say 90% of car repair places/car dealership service departments are complete scams. Nothing is more valuable than a mechanic you can trust.
Aomory · 9339 points · Posted at 13:24:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not completelly relevant, but I doubt such a specific thread would come up anytime soon. I caught someone who was trying to convince me I was lying.
When I was little, my mom was driving me to school. We went the more rural of the two possible roads, and on our way we saw a wolf, so we stopped the car and watched it from a distance for a little while.
I told this to my aunt recently and she didn't believe me, because this isn't and never was a wolf area. My mom, even though she was with me, didn't get involved in the argument.
The argument was at a standstill at that point. I claimed it was a wolf, she claimed it was a jackal (which are not in this area either, but it's maybe a bit more likely). With all the wonders of modern technology, she opened her phone, googled something, and gave the phone to me: "Does that look like what you saw?"
It was a scrawny thing with a pointy nose and red-brown fur. Definitelly not. "Well of course you didn't see that, because that's a picture of a wolf."
Before she could take her phone back, I read out loud the title below the picture from a news article it belonged to: "Pack of Jackals found in Southern Serbia." She furiously took her phone from me and was too embarrassed to keep arguing, so I won by default.
I will claim that was a wolf I saw on my deathbed.
Xpress_interest · 4422 points · Posted at 14:05:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a stupid reason to erode your niece or nephew’s trust and respect in you. Although you’d probably had that ruined long before.
Aomory · 2541 points · Posted at 14:39:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, she used to be this pretty cool aunt, but recently she reached middle age, so she's just become a real pain in the ass. Looks down her nose at everyone, always thinks she's right, humilliates my sister who's not on intellectual par with her... I hopefully knocked her down a peg or two with that one, because she didn't talk to me for the rest of the day, even though it was my birthday picnic.
ToddVonToddson · 1566 points · Posted at 15:36:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait a second... am I misunderstanding something here, or is she literally bullying her own niece? Because if she is, that's a really shitty thing to be doing.
Kikilicious-Kitty · 659 points · Posted at 17:35:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My aunt bullied my little brother for YEARS. I was very young at the time as well, so all this is what I've been told over the years.
She's always had elaborate fantasies and stuff growing up, and one of them was being obsessed with the BeeGees. When my brother was five, she was talking about him like she knew him personally, almost like they were in a relationship. My brother later asked my dad why she hadn't invited Barry (lead singer of the BeeGees for those who don't know) to thanksgiving dinner. My dad explained that she didn't really know him, and that she was just a huge fan and such. So, the next time she talked about the band, my brother, being 5, said "Barry doesn't love you" trying to be helpfully blunt, as 5 year olds are. She was PISSED. She was rude and just kind of mean to him for years after that, doing things like picking favorites and "forgetting" birthday presents for him. She only started to be nicer when he was around 18 (he's 21 in November), and when my mom gave her a tongue-lashing when he was around 12 (It would have happened sooner, but there's always been a sense of pity for her lonely bitter life).
As my friend once described his mom, "I love her, but I certainly don't like her."
Heiruspecs · 223 points · Posted at 18:13:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey man! Just sharing cunty aunt stories! So my dad’s twin sister always hated my mom. Who knows why, my mom is a gem and really really sweet. Personally I’ve always thought my aunt had some weird thing for my dad cause she’s crazy af, and was jealous of my mom, again cause my aunt is crazy af. So anyways when my aunt had her third kid, she was born 3 days before me. My aunt has always compared the two of us and has hated me cause I’ve always done better in school and stuff than her daughter. I also get along really well with my mom. This one time we had a joint birthday between me and my cousin cause it was so close, and my family got her a bike or something like that. My aunt got me two shirts from a thrift store that didn’t fit and one smelled bad and was stained. They always claimed to have money troubles, but they didn’t. She even spent 10k on a nose job she didn’t need but claimed she couldn’t afford her son’s braces.
Anyways I received a lifetime of bullying from this woman until I was 16 and my dad died of cancer. This was my aunt’s excuse to never talk to my family again. 9 years later haven’t heard a word. Good riddance if you ask me. Haven’t heard from her kids either except her one son who I actually really like.
ohaicarol · 71 points · Posted at 18:39:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened to me! Except it was my dad's whole family. They were always crazy so we weren't super close but when my dad passed (I was 14) I wanted to make an effort to be in their lives. Cut to going out to dinner with all my aunt's and the one cousin I'm close with pulls me aside and tells me to not waste my time as her mum had told her "Jim was part of the family, not her" meaning I was basically dead to them now that the glue that was my dad was gone.
I'm 26 now and haven't spoken to them since that day, my life is definitely better for it. I don't even understand how someone as amazing and caring as my dad was grew up with those fucking psychos
Neohexane · 27 points · Posted at 19:30:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like they let you off the hook. Yikes. Must've hurt at the time but good thing you don't have to deal with those people one bit.
ohaicarol · 25 points · Posted at 19:43:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Agreed. I was fragile enough at the time, didn't need that toxicity. Thanks for the kind words :)
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 21:07:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm appalled to read all these bad aunt stories, but I can contribute too, so I might as well tag in. Granted some of these stories are a lot worse than mine (so in advance, I'm very sorry to hear about your shitty experiences).
My parents had me in high school, obviously relationships aren't always perfect at that age; they had issues, broke up, and my mom raised me. My father was kind of absent and kind of a shit when I was born, from what I've heard, but he's gotten a lot better in the last few years since settling down, marrying, and having other kids. I'm happy to know him now.
I think part of it was that the family thought my step-dad, who is to this day still an awesome dad, who's been around since I was born, was trying to "interfere and steal me away from them"? I always got that bullshit vibe from them. But it was certainly never true - my parents never interfered with my family on that side, and let me make my own decisions. I just happened to be a kid, and I never really thought about phoning people, cause I had friends and school and internet, etc.
My aunt told 12-year-old me to contact her again "when I was ready to apologize and talk to [dad] more." She cited off all this bullshit about how he worked "so hard" for me when I was a kid. It's been over a decade and I haven't spoken to her at all. No cards, no calls, no Facebook messages. I told my mom and she said it was ridiculous of my aunt to do, and that "she's the adult, she can make the effort, and she shouldn't act like a child." I'm still kinda salty. But I talk to my father usually every other week still.
It still makes me salty as an adult because I find other family members pulling similar shit; I moved away, bought a house, got engaged, all the life stuff - but I don't talk to a lot of my family regularly because a lot of them were assholes, even I could see that as a kid. But now that I moved away, they expect me to always phone and tell them what's going on. If you care... come visit. Call me. I don't have time or money to come see you. You're the adultier adult, make the effort.
ohaicarol · 12 points · Posted at 21:10:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You don't need em, you sounds like you're doing great :) Obviously family is important but when you're in a fucked up family it quickly makes you realize they're just people. Family is about the bond
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 23:49:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree wholeheartedly and thank you, appreciate the reassurance :) a lot of folks don't understand how there's a line you gotta draw, even with family, and just think you're being shit
Nause0us- · 15 points · Posted at 23:23:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was legally adopted by my step father at a young age. So I knew him to be my dad and called him such. Now, I’m not particularly close with him or his side of the family. But I hate almost all of them and haven’t spoken to them in years. I was berated by his mother for calling him by his first name (because that’s how my brother and I address our parents) because “he signed the adoption papers so you should call him dad” They made fun of everything I wore. His sister was the first person I told that I was being abused and she said it was my fault. She was a teacher and was required by law to report it. They were just such bitter hateful people. When I had to stay with an aunt who was actually nice they talked about how I was such a freeloader. But hey, my life is on track and I’m doing really well. And not a single one of them will be invited to the wedding I’m having soon. Which I’m sure they’ll be bitter about.
ohaicarol · 2 points · Posted at 17:42:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best payback there is, continue living a happy life💕
Punchinyourpface · 8 points · Posted at 22:23:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm so sorry ❤️ I felt a little awkward at first, after my dad died. But his siblings (and mom) were never awful like that to me. They're proud that I'm his daughter, and my babies are his grandkids. If those nasty people had any sense, they'd have treated you the same.
FatGuyTouchdown · 17 points · Posted at 23:21:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My aunt got super religious and told my mom (who married a Jew), that my week old baby brother was going to hell for being Jewish. My mom didn’t speak to my aunt for 10 years.
ahavemeyer · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you haven't House of Yes, you really should. There's a relationship in the movie that sounds a lot like what you describe between your father and aunt.
Emma_Kay · 2 points · Posted at 01:21:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
she just sounds like she has a serious case of narcissism
newsheriffntown · 10 points · Posted at 21:08:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your aunt sounds like my sister. She too has elaborate fantasies and made several blogs about them. Blogs filled with literally thousands of entries. Bullshit lies about our parents performing at the Grand Old Opry, lies about Patsy Cline coming to our house to visit, lies about seeing a space ship, lies about everything and anything. She used to live in California and she wrote this long blog entry about how she and her younger son were in a movie. Never happened. She wrote about seeing and talking to ghosts and she even claimed that she's been a psychic medium since she was two years old. Well that's news to me because I am older and I don't recall a damned thing about that ever happening! Back then my parents didn't know what a psychic medium was.
I believe that my sister hears voices and sees things that aren't there. When she was a kid my parents took her to a psychiatrist who said my sister was schizophrenic. I had no idea what that meant back then and I had actually forgotten about it until I started reading the insane blogs. My parents couldn't afford for my sister to be on medications so my sister went her entire life without it. She is in complete denial too. Last I saw online she is on Plenty of Fish and is using an alias because she ruined her reputation completely by doing some shady shit. She dyes her hair jet black (she is a ginger) and put in her profile that she is a member of the Algonquian Indian tribe from Canada. When I read that I laughed my head off. No one in our family is from Canada and no one is part of any Indian tribe. LOL.
PotvinSux · 9 points · Posted at 22:10:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
doesn't this strike you as incredibly sad??
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not in the least. My sister made my life a living hell when our mom got dementia. My sister harassed me so badly while I was trying to take care our mother by myself and instead of offering to help me, my sister made my life extremely stressful. She told our cousin that she was going to do everything she could to stress me out as if I didn't have enough already on my plate.
I had to move my mom in with me and out of her own home because it was too dangerous for her to continue living alone. My sister would post in her blogs that our mom was able to continue living alone because the last time she saw our mother she "seemed fine". Well my mother wasn't fine. Her condition deteriorated quickly and had I left her in her home she would have burned it to the ground most likely. This was just the tip of the iceberg with my sister. She threatened to kill me (in her blogs), threatened to have people walk in front of my house carrying signs, all kinds of weird shit. I reported her to the authorities but they said they couldn't do anything until my sister actually physically did something to me. That never happened because my sister is a fucking coward. We went to court and she cried like a baby to the judge. The judge told her to act like an adult and stop whining. My mother passed away and that was the end of my sister's harassment.
My sister could easily get treatment for her problem (s) because she has VA benefits but she is in denial.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:58:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WTF!!!
Kikilicious-Kitty · 6 points · Posted at 18:23:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right? We kind of laugh about it now, but it's still fucked up.
missmortimer_ · 5 points · Posted at 23:28:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorta the opposite happened to me. A lady I knew as I was growing up, an Aunty like figure, had a secret she kept the entire time I knew her. When she was younger, she actually was married to Barry Gibb! Back in the 60s before the Bee Gees were famous. I didn’t find that out until after she had passed away.
I_Ace_English · 4 points · Posted at 00:50:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mother's aunt really hates her, for whatever reason. Woman wore black to my mom's wedding, and convinced her (aunt's) sweet sister to do it too. They claimed they were in mourning for their husbands, which they'd both legitimately lost fairly recently. Later on, when my grandma's alzheimer's was making inroads, they took her away from my mom (who was the caregiver at that point in time) claiming my mom just wanted grandma's life insurance and was committing elder abuse by faking claims of alzheimer's. Karma got them in the form of Grandma the next morning.
Nymaz · 2 points · Posted at 00:22:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Perfect tagline for several of my relatives.
Kikilicious-Kitty · 2 points · Posted at 02:38:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right?
Aomory · 47 points · Posted at 17:49:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She often low key makes fun of her for being a bit on the dumb side. It's too low key for my sister to notice, but we usually try to interrupt her before she goes on a roll. I've also stopped being friends with her because no one bullies my sister but me.
shutup_Aragorn · 18 points · Posted at 17:42:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
people suck. I've cut contact with a lot of my "family" long ago, for this reason. I don't care if youre related, I don't have time in my life for your shitty attitude.
Killer-Barbie · 350 points · Posted at 15:41:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh, sounds like my aunt. She was in a bad accident 2 summers ago and my dad and I dropped everything and spent a lot of money to travel to where she was, because that's what family does. She was mad my dad didn't bring them clothing (her daughter did) and when he paid for a hotel for her after she had been discharged but her family members hadn't, she was mad it wasn't nice enough. 2 weeks ago I phoned to tell her I was pregnant and her response was, "yeah I heard from your grand father." Cool. So glad you like your family.
RichestMangInBabylon · 19 points · Posted at 17:30:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like jealousy that their family isn't as good as yours.
werkytwerky · 10 points · Posted at 18:15:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
for whatver reason, my dads siblings don't like my mom. Dunno why, but it's always been pretty obvious that we're an afterthought. Any major decisions that had to be made? THey'd tell him what they decided on. At family gatherings we were the ones that you made small talk with 'cause you had to, my two cousins are clearly favored over my sister and me, and looking back at conversations I tried to have when I was younger, it was plain as day that their interest was clearly feigned (which was disappointing. I thought she was so cool).
Oh well. Grandma passed alst year so theres not much reason to communicate with 'em now.
Killer-Barbie · 20 points · Posted at 18:20:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exact same thing here! My aunt is SO mean to my mom and I started calling my aunt on it. Now her argument is that we don't visit our grandparents enough because we live 40 minutes away and see them twice a month and they live 6 houses away so she sees them every other day or so. Like seriously, get over yourself. My cousin asked my dad for money for her wedding, which my dad happily gave, and them he didn't get an invite because she didn't want my mom there. He was devastated.
Krellous · 14 points · Posted at 19:17:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck your cousin and your aunt.
needadvice5446 · 2 points · Posted at 02:48:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow they sound like horrible humans.
dankmernes · 22 points · Posted at 16:18:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should ask her what happened to her, and why she’s changed from being a cool aunt into a meh aunt.
At least she’d have some idea that her fleeting youth and disappearing looks are affecting more than her appearance.
gigglelegs · 25 points · Posted at 16:52:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have an aunt who after about age 14 stops liking the nieces and nephews as much. We're not as much fun once we have opinions and stuff.
dankmernes · 19 points · Posted at 16:58:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When kids can have a conversation is when I stop despising them.
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 17:45:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One word: Menopause.
Aloiveah · 3 points · Posted at 21:56:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is it though? All middle aged ladies in my family are really sweet.
Tenoreo90 · 6 points · Posted at 16:49:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That happened to my cool aunt, later in life. My brother and I had a falling out with our parents, but when mom died my brother ran into the aunt at the funeral who loudly accused him of being there just to get money from our dad. Such a cunt.
mvl90 · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is your aunt my aunt???
Aomory · 5 points · Posted at 17:25:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every aunt settles into one of the few archetypes at some point. Some are the cool aunt that gives you extra snacks, some are the aunt that comes in, drinks everything, and is then asked to leave, and the third is this petty lady with little happiness in life apart from making everyone else less happy.
burymeinpink · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mission in life is not to become aunt #3. One per family is plenty.
Aomory · 4 points · Posted at 18:56:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If there should ever be two, they must take their weapon of choice and battle to the death.
burymeinpink · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll sharpen my sarcastic comments just in case.
psinguine · 6 points · Posted at 16:33:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yo dawg, thankfully this person isn't your mother, but you could always swing by the raised by narcissists sub for more stories of people like your aunt.
Aomory · 4 points · Posted at 17:42:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God no, the whole argument gave me my fill of narcissism for at least a few more months until the next family picnic.
She honesly used to be pretty cool, would send me and my cousin to the shop in the morning and give us extra money to buy candy.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:29:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE?! Ive got like 3 50 somethings in my life who fit this description
Aomory · 0 points · Posted at 18:41:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Menopause.
It happens to everyone.
MapMeUp · 2 points · Posted at 17:12:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She could be going through menopause which sends some women bonkers for a few years.
burymeinpink · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are we related?
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe? Ever wanted an obnoxious sister?
burymeinpink · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks, I already have one of those.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How in the hell are people this petty?
candeelandfun · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know so many adults who do this to children. They are the worst kind of people.
squidgemobile · 2 points · Posted at 18:19:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a woman on Reddit, thank you for including the possibility that the poster was female. Was refreshing!
BasicBoi276 · 5 points · Posted at 14:20:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If he could completely “erode” all this trust in one little debate than their relationship wasn’t that great to begin with
Xpress_interest · 17 points · Posted at 14:23:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sort of what was meant with that second sentence.
BrazenNormalcy · 12 points · Posted at 14:30:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone could erode my trust with one little lie.
WeirdWolfGuy · 6 points · Posted at 15:25:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
people erode my trust by looking at my food. Dont even have to eat it on me, just LOOK at it, and im like "fuck you this is mine"
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you a jackal?
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, just a poor person who once had a really Shitty roommate, and now lives with family that dont seem to know the difference between my stuff, and the stuff meant for the whole household (because the tupperware with my name on it isnt obvious enough you know?)
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was going meta off your username.
WeirdWolfGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ah well, i do tend to be loyal to the point where i get stupid with it. so yeah.
1inchWonder · 363 points · Posted at 14:18:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol what adult argues with a little kid?
Raichu7 · 680 points · Posted at 14:31:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most adults.
I got told off for yelling at my younger sibling to get away from the water because I saw an alligator in Florida and told I was making it all up. They were allowed to continue playing by the edge of the water.
sturmhauke · 338 points · Posted at 16:55:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WTF
RedLogicP · 30 points · Posted at 18:59:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lived in Florida for 3 years.
Saw alligators in swimming pool sized ponds.
Can confirm.
cuntweiner · 7 points · Posted at 21:14:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously, people think because urban areas aren't completely flooded swamps that gators never snake their way in. I grew up in New Orleans, and even residents would doubt me when I said I occasionally saw gators in City Park, where I used to run every day. There's so many canals funneling into that city from the swamp and alligators are very stealthy. It'd be impossible to get rid of them.
newsheriffntown · 6 points · Posted at 21:13:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those fuckers are everywhere. Floridian here.
RuhWalde · 96 points · Posted at 17:05:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the hell? In Florida, if there is a body of water even slightly large enough to conceal an alligator, you should pretty much always assume there's an alligator in there. There usually is.
ireadencyclopedias · 16 points · Posted at 19:43:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Visited Florida recently. Would not step within 20 feet of any body of water that wasn't the ocean. Pond dinosaurs are REAL!
Arsinoei · 10 points · Posted at 20:21:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Come to Australia where the crocodiles swim in the ocean too.
newsheriffntown · 6 points · Posted at 21:13:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everything in Australia will kill you!
altxatu · 5 points · Posted at 20:43:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s just common sense. It’s literally every bit of standing water. They’re super common. The edge of the water is right where they feed too. Smh.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 21:14:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is nesting season for gators and they are fiercely protective. Stay away from the water.
altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Truth. Leave it be. And keep your dogs on a leash.
newsheriffntown · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It doesn't matter if dogs are on a leash. Did you hear on the news about the woman here in Florida who was walking her three dogs near a lake and was attacked by a gator? The dogs were all on leashes. The gator came up on shore quickly, grabbed one of the dogs severely injuring it and grabbed the woman too. The other two dogs ran off. When trappers killed the gator and opened it up they found one of the woman's arms inside. They found the rest of her elsewhere.
Don't walk dogs close to any body of water especially this time of year.
altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah. Just stay away.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 21:44:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The stupid thing about this is, the woman didn't want to walk her dogs around the lake or pond in her neighborhood because of a gator. So she goes to another area and dies.
altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. That’s astounding.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 22:27:38 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
It certainly is. Stupid is as stupid does.
bonerjamz12345 · 51 points · Posted at 15:54:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
chalk that up as a win for the human race
eetsumkaus · 13 points · Posted at 16:57:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but they still have their parents' genes...
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stay out of the gene pool.
snowballmouse · 7 points · Posted at 17:29:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
🎵Rippy the gator went chomp, chomp, chomp!🎵
unkownfire · 7 points · Posted at 18:46:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends where, if it was near the everglades (or any of the swampalnd of the side of the interstate) they're bonkers. There are alligators on the bike paths there and shit dont get me started on the water. If it was Miami Beach, or some other such beach in Miami, Sarasota, etc... I can see their point
Raichu7 · 6 points · Posted at 19:10:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A pond at a golf course, and we were tourists so we had no local knowledge to know which areas are worse for alligators. But trying to protect a sibling who was too far away to hear them speak normally is still no reason to tell a kid off for shouting and lying.
unkownfire · 6 points · Posted at 19:13:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Golf courses are bad, rest assured knowing you were probably right.
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I live in Florida and I can tell you for certainty that any body of water have gators in it. A woman was recently killed by a gator when she was walking her dogs near a lake. The gator grabbed one of the dogs then pulled the woman in. When the trappers opened up the gator they found the woman's arm. They found the rest of her elsewhere.
Aomory · 146 points · Posted at 14:43:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was little when I saw the wolf, around 7, but this argument happened on my 21st birthday picnic this year, so not so little anymore. I see where my narrative might have confused you, though.
Chaost · 3 points · Posted at 18:47:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think I didn't clearly state that I saw the wolf (or whatever it was, honestly) when I was little, but this argument happened last month on my picnic.
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty clear
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Idk, their comment seemed like I forgot to switch from past to present. Thanks for quoting me, I haven't seen my own comment since I wrote it this morning...
cyberjar88 · 45 points · Posted at 14:34:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You must be new here.
MountainsAndTrees · 11 points · Posted at 16:12:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
90% of.
They assume anyone younger than them knows nothing at all. They'll argue the wrong side of anything until they're blue in the face because age=respect in their fucked up heads.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:28:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister got into it with my stepdad over whether lions were bigger than tigers as kids. He's also a narcissistic asshole so there's that.
dragonbuns · 3 points · Posted at 19:31:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
one of my dads ex-wives was insane. she was abusive to both of us, but consistently accused me of lying, about literally everything. to the point where i ACTUALLY lied to make things what she deemed believable. she was around from the time i was 5 til i was 13. like cmon, what does a 6 year old have to lie about that warrants screaming at them? apparently everything.
to this day im a really honest person because being called a liar fucks with me, and i dont want any reason to be called one.
scarefish · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did. My sister and I are 16 years apart. When I was in my 20's, I was getting sick of hearing my sister (like 8 at the time) wasn't doing her work in school and getting low marks. You see... I had the benefit of this not being my kid (and she was my stepmoms first and only child) so I didn't have baby blinders on. And I thought she was getting a little too good at manipulating.
We sat down to dinner and my sister weaves a tale of how her teacher didn't tell her this and didn't tell her that which was why she didn't have her homework done.
About the moment when my parents started questioning how often this happens was when I stepped in... and started arguing with an 8 year old. Asking more and more specific questions for details. And watched this 8 year old start to switch details and then shift into plaintively saying "I don't know!". You don't know? You just said you did know.
Anyway, parents shut it down and now the kid's in high school pulling the same shit and my dad sends me cryptic texts about needing to talk to me about her.
Because I'm a hardass and I love that little asshole. She definitely got my dad's genes. I'm just as stubborn as she is... which is how I know her tricks. Ha!
But still... I was an adult woman arguing with an 8 year old over box spaghetti.
1982throwaway1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do it jokingly for fun.
LucasSatie · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most of the people answering you don't have children so their answers are... Let's say biased. The truth is that all adults argue with little kids. Little kids are arrogant little pricks and they absolutely love to argue. So arguing is just a natural state of development.
metastasis_d · 0 points · Posted at 20:53:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Almost every single person who answered said that adults do argue with little kids.
Edit: In fact all of them do.
bziggy91 · 135 points · Posted at 14:42:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, I saw something I initially thought was a wolf a couple of weeks ago, but then I realized it was more likely a coyote.
Aomory · 47 points · Posted at 14:52:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I saw it a long time ago, so I might have warped my memories to make it look more like a wolf, but I'm pretty sure it had a grey coat with something resembling a mane around the throat - a thick winter coat wolves usually get. Jackals are more of a reddish brown and very skinny, while coyotes (which we don't have at all in Europe as far as I know) have more of a sandy yellow coat and are even smaller compared to jackals.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 16:58:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Coyotes and wolves can look very similar to each other and there's no specific color for a coyote. Coyotes are usually smaller and solitary.
Aomory · 5 points · Posted at 17:23:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I googled it properly after everyone left, and yeah, from that distance, I could've been any of the two, plus memory manipulation, because I was 7 and I thought wolves looked cool, so it'd be awesome if it was really a wolf. That said, I would love to say it was a wolf, but... yeah, memory manipulation. All I know for sure is it was a greyish colour against the snow and that it was alone.
bziggy91 · 27 points · Posted at 14:58:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not saying what you saw was a coyote, I'm just saying your story reminded me of my experience :)
WinterOfFire · 7 points · Posted at 16:50:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
(Not arguing with your story). Ok this is funny but I saw a coyote that your post has now convinced me was a wolf. It was huge (like almost as tall as a Great Dane) and definitely grey. I looked up images to see if there were different species or something to account for our descriptions varying. And I stumbled on news and science sights discussing the confirmation that grey wolves are returning to California after nearly a century.
I assumed coyote because those things are super common here (lost 3 cats in our two block area in the past 3 years)
So not only were you right about your own wolf story, you convinced me that I’d seen a wolf too.
Aomory · 6 points · Posted at 17:30:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm not sure at all, because memory manipulation is a thing, and I didn't know what jackals were when I was 7. All I know for sure is that it was a greyish colour and it was alone. It must have been bigger than the average dog, otherwise we probably wouldn't have noticed it.
For reference, jackals are about as big as a Border Collie, while wolves are about as big as Great Danes if not bigger.
I'm glad wolves are coming back into your area, though! American wolves usually avoid humans, but please stay safe when you appreciate them. :)
Idontkeepredditaccts · 8 points · Posted at 15:53:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The size difference between those two animals is massive, lol.
Tsar_Ruswal · 15 points · Posted at 15:58:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, most people underestimate how big a wolf is and most also overestimate how small a coyote is.
GreyWulfen · 7 points · Posted at 17:48:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Around me we have some big coyotes (there are no wolves here), but some are cross breeds from farm dogs. Those crossbreeds can get quite a bit bigger.
The coyotes get fat from the wild turkeys and lots of small game. Little dudes are smart too. Will wait on the side of the road and watch for traffic, look both ways before crossing...and often wait around blind corners or dips where road kill is common.
RedPanther1 · 6 points · Posted at 18:49:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wolves are fucking huge. You can easily tell one apart from a coyote. If it looks like a normal sized dog it's probably not a wolf.
bziggy91 · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well I'd never seen either in the wild before since I just moved here, it was only like a split second that I thought it was a wolf.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've seen dogs that look like wolves. Some wolves aren't very nice looking and some look kind of scruffy and skinny. Much like a coyote. Some wolves are huge and gorgeous.
The_dog_says · 4 points · Posted at 15:48:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Coyotes are tiny. You would know if it were a coyote.
soup_yahtzee · 21 points · Posted at 16:23:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of an interaction I saw once while waiting tables last summer. One of our cocktails had a basil leaf garnish, and a younger girl (maybe 15) asked "Aunt Karen, what is that leaf? Looks like basil..." Aunt Karen replied "no, it's definitely mint." So the girl looks at the cocktail menu and says, "oh, it says they use basil..." and then just goes on to continue another conversation with another family member. Well, since Aunt Karen is never wrong, she picks the garnish out of her drink, smells it, and proceeds to say that "No, this is definitely mint." Then she throws the leaf to the ground, on the patio... It's like she just couldn't be corrected by her 15 year old niece. And for the record, it was basil.
Fucking_Karen · 12 points · Posted at 16:25:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it was definitely mint.
soup_yahtzee · 12 points · Posted at 17:01:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whatever helps you sleep at night, Karen.
Bitch.
dougholliday · 11 points · Posted at 14:53:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What area was it? There are some areas you wouldn’t think have wolves but actually do.
There are also some mixed breed dogs that look tremendously like wolves especially from a distance.
Tarabelle · 12 points · Posted at 18:08:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Replying to you because I also had to prove I wasn't lying as a kid.
When I was 7 or 8 my mom called me into the living room and accused me of stealing $20 out of her purse. I had never stolen anything, purse money included, and honestly I wasnt allowed to go anywhere to spend it anyway. Both my parents laid into me really hard. She insisted she knew it was there, and now it wasn't, and that my older brother would never steal, so it must be me. I cried and insisted on my innocence. After about an hour I was dismissed.
A few hours later, my father called me into the living room. "Your mother has something she wants to tell you," he said. She was sitting down, sheepishly looking at the floor. "She looked like she was lying, though," she said. My father kept pressing her to tell me whatever it was, but she wouldn't. Finally he said, "Apparently your mom gave that $20 to your brother yesterday and forgot. Say you're sorry."
She never did say she was sorry, but repeated again I shouldn't look guilty of I'm not. 20 years later I can still feel the relief of that accusation crumbling away.
Aomory · 9 points · Posted at 18:31:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That actually sounds horrible...
The whole argument kept going because one of us was wrong and the other tried proving they weren't, despinte being accused of being wrong.
But that's just childish, not admitting you're wrong. Even worse, "You looked guilty." Or "You shouldn't have looked guilty." Any kind of resistance can be interpreted as looking like guilt!!!
I'm glad your father was the adult of the situation, because I doubt your mother would come up to you to admit that herself.
SwagForALifetime · 12 points · Posted at 19:17:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You might never read this I want to point out that I don't it was by accident that she pulled up a picture of a jackal.
She wanted you in a Lose-Lose situation.
If you said 'yes, that is what I saw' she can respond 'hah! That's a picture of a jackal!' and if you said 'no' then she wouldv continued insisting you didnt know what you saw, which is what it sounds like she was doing with you.
Either way, I think it was a calculated attempt at deceiving a child. Not cool, good on you for catching on.
Aomory · 6 points · Posted at 19:24:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha-ha! I read this cause I've been refreshing my inbox for the past (insert time since original comment) hours!
Yeah, that's actually what I thought of after I posted the comment. She's actually pretty smart, and I wouldn't put it past her to attempt a trick like that. Looking back, I might have been a bit too observant for her.
marteney1 · 11 points · Posted at 15:20:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
JACKAL! JACKAL! IT’S A JACKAL! JACKAL!!!
winesomm · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you, was looking for this.
PmMeYourSexyShoulder · 8 points · Posted at 16:30:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a similar story. Only with Tim Curry. This was almost 15 years ago now. No one believes me he visited our tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. But God damn I will take that belief to my grave.
Aomory · 7 points · Posted at 17:44:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those stories are the best to have and the worst to tell because no one goddamn believes you!
I believe you, dawg.
PmMeYourSexyShoulder · 6 points · Posted at 18:21:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks. That wolf you saw was awesome.
jammitycalamity · 6 points · Posted at 15:54:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"It was a wolf." -Aomory's gravestone
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 17:47:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're goddamn right, but tbh she's probably gonna go before me, so there's no point :/
teatabletea · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So put that on her gravestone. Or at least on the flowers if you get her any.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Naw. One of those 6 month electric candles. Write in sharpie: "It was a wolf. <3 Aomory"
...then buy another 6 month candle after half a year and repeat.
I'm not petty.
aviatorlj · 4 points · Posted at 16:25:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, there was a wolf on your deathbed? That's unsanitary and dangerous.
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 17:43:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was trying to eat me and then my granddaughter brought a hunter who killed it. I had a little bit of allergies with all the fur it left on my lovely comforter, but I was fine, thanks for asking.
TheRealDesufnoc · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dangerous? Well it wasn't her deathbed for nothing
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:26:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 18:38:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here, people think they're smart until you actually tell them a fact or two. There are no racoons or coyotes in Europe. There are very few jackals in the south. There might be some isolated packs of wolves hiding around, though.
Honestly, Europe has so much nature and as much as we claim to have charted it, god knows what else is hiding all around us.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly! I had never been outside the States before then so I loved being out there! Even found a giant, calm hedgehog that let us pick him up and hold him(with gloves), it was the cutest thing!
Aomory · 4 points · Posted at 19:03:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went on a walk once, which is rare for me to begin with. On my way home I passed a huge hedgehog. I immediatelly called my dad to bring gloves and a bucket. The poor dude was actually pretty old and probably got tired going up the hill. We put him in the bucket and put him down a bit deeper in the forest. He sniffed around for a bit until he got out of the bucket and wobbled along.
Hedgehogs are awesome and surprisingly nice for an animal whose defence mechanism is to hurt you.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:12:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aww, I'm sure the little old man appreciated the help!
Aomory · 5 points · Posted at 19:22:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He didn't seem to be bothered by me picking him up at all. He was surprisingly heavy, but didn't start curling in a ball or try to bite or scratch me. He was quiet too. We gave him an apple from our orchard, but he didn't take it. I left it where I dropped him off in case he changed his mind and came back for it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah the one we picked up was so chill! Maybe they're used to it or don't see us as threats?
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 20:41:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Either that, or more like "Yeup, this thing is big and smart enough to know my defence mechanism. Life is meaningless anyways."
Nah, I bet they know a gentle hand when they feel one.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but foxes are small and even the gray fox doesn't have the same kind of pelt as a wolf. I don't think I've ever seen or heard one on the continent, though.
Mike-Green · 3 points · Posted at 16:59:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing, my grandmother on my father's side was super petty and refused to concede that as a 7 year old I could repeatedly beat her at poker... I even got triple queens. Straight. Dumb. Luck.
leyebrow · 4 points · Posted at 18:43:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my dad was little (like maybe 10) he came back from the weekend to his class excited to talk about how he went "spelunking" (exploring caves) with his parents. The teacher told him "spelunking" was not a word. He argued and got in trouble. Came home crying to his parents that he was embarassed and punished in front of the whole class. Parents (my grandparents) had to call and ream the teacher out for putting my dad in a time out and calling him out for a "fake word"
Nibodhika · 1 points · Posted at 12:08:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your dad might like to play this cave exploration game https://store.steampowered.com/app/239350/Spelunky/
slick8086 · 4 points · Posted at 19:44:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where'd he come from?
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's... eerily how it actually went. We stopped and admired it and quietly asked him questions like "Hey, what are you doing here, buddy?" and he just stood there for a while.
iQuadzy · 3 points · Posted at 16:40:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How do you know there will be a wolf on your death bed?
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 17:41:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you even read Little Red Riding Hood? Wolves probably come up to the elderly all the time and wanna eat them, that's why we put so many of them in homes where they're more protected than in the middle of a forest.
ANGLVD3TH · 3 points · Posted at 16:49:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depending on where you live, wolves can appear pretty different, pulling up a random image of one online is a piss-poor test, even if she did get an actual wolf. Up where I live in the North East US, our wolves are a bit bigger than average, but in some regions they can be surprising small and lean.We also have some monster coyotes up here, guess they interbred with the wolves a while ago and more folks from the midwest would never think they are coyotes and assume they're wolves. Sorry, bit off topic I suppose.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, I love these discussions. :)
The picture was that of an emaciated dog/fox mix. The snout was pointed and the skull continued just like that, something a wolf's skull definitelly doesn't do. Their snout is pronounced like that of a dog's, and their skull is more square. No matter territorial differences, I doubt a wolf would have that kind of snout (we're talking about the picture here).
Rob10203 · 3 points · Posted at 18:52:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a pretty similar problem one time! I was on my way back from my (ex) girlfriend's house, who lived pretty far outside the city. there's only one road to the area. it was late at night, and I pulled over because I saw eyes in the bushes. I turned my car towards them, and low and behold there was 2 bears in the forest. this was maybe 10 minutes from the city, and when I told everyone about my incident I was laughed at and ridiculed. no one believed me, until other people started reporting bears in the area as well. felt great to see the look of defeat on other people's faces when they heard of other people seeing bears so close to the city!!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is the best feeling ever! I'm glad it got proven for you!
RWDMARS · 3 points · Posted at 20:28:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your mom not intervening is the real pain here
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was a family picnic, so it was a lot to do, sadly. She's the host, so she had to do a lot of running about and she missed the start of the argument anyways.
RWDMARS · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok
peeves91 · 4 points · Posted at 15:31:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a childish way to try to win an argument.
Aomory · 6 points · Posted at 17:52:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her googling a picture of a wolf and getting a picture of a jackal or me reading what the picture was?
Because let's be honest, the whole argument was a bit childish, but pride was on the line and no one was letting go.
Makes for an entertaining way to pass time at a picnic tho.
peeves91 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her using a picture of a jackal and using it as a pic of a fox.
That's just an immature thing to do. You actually reading her source is an awesome thing to do.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Using it as a picture of a wolf, you mean? And I think it was actually by accident. She probably googled something like "Wolves in Europe" and clicked on the first image that seemed right. The way that Google works, the article the picture was from probably used the phrase in one way or another.
peeves91 · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's what I mean. Sorry, I'm half in the bag rn
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Coyotes are only seen in North America, though, so unless one escaped a zoo or was a stowaway on a transocean ship just to trick me into thinking I saw a wolf, I doubt it was a coyote.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:10:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 23:01:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn you! ୧༼ಠ益ಠ༽୨
ciabattabing16 · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meanwhile it's likely a very common coyote, haha
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meanwhile coyotes are almost entirely exclusive to North America, not Europe, haha
ciabattabing16 · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe he's a well travelled coyote!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 18:27:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I- Well-- But---
Yeah, might be, actually!
Duskmirage · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, lying just to have one over on a little kid, her own family, no less? What a pathetic person.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Menopause makes people weird. Especially women.
Isaac0414 · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just from a quick search on Google, it was either a Gray Wolf (common to North America and parts of Eurasia), or it was the Eurasian Wolf (also known as a common wolf) that is native to northern Europe and the forest and steppe zones of the former Soviet Russia. So I believe you, and there isn't enough evidence to suggest that a migration wasn't capable.
And also shout out to OP who is responding like a boss!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I googled it properly that night too, and there used to be wolves around my area, but decades ago. Jackals could have migrated as well, but that's from the south of Europe, so wouldn't that be a bit harder than an animal coming south?
Also I'm getting a lot of comments, so I might as well respond, right? I have nothing better to do, and everyone deserves that little number next to their inbox. :)
Isaac0414 · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
From what I would imagine, migrating north would probably be worse if they weren't already accustomed to coldness, but I don't live in Europe so I couldn't say.
Thanks mate! You da man!
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I think it would be easier to develop a thinner coat than a thicker one. If nothing else, they would groom eachother into thinner coats, but frostbitten paws are frostbitten paws.
And how are you today? :P
Isaac0414 · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, my thoughts too! Hard to be less cold, but if you find shade and water it is easier to cool off.
Good! How about you?
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 11:17:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Gonna go to the shops, buy some grocieries, then get home and keep replying to all these comments.
Weather's lovely and moderately cool. And over there?
MetroidHyperBeam · 2 points · Posted at 19:12:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where do you live? Jackals are African and Eurasian animals.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 19:15:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup, that's what I came up with as well.
Central Europe. There may be jackals further south of Europe, but I highly doubt some of them might have migrated so far north.
negnev · 2 points · Posted at 05:19:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you for writing in small paragraphs, really fun to read
dadiaar · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Confess, you are here with friends, it wasn't, right?
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly no idea. Memory manipulation is a thing, so I'm not sure about the details at all. All I know it was a grey-ish thing with thick fur and it was relativelly big.
BagelsToGo · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was it your deathbed before you saw the wolf on it, or because of the wolf? Are you lil' Red's grandma?
cybertroll74 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's just childish, by all parties.
Aomory · 3 points · Posted at 18:36:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup, but pride was on the line, which is an adult thing to fight for!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't even fine print, lol. Nowadays, when you google a picture on your phone, the title of the picture is pretty big. That's what makes it funnier.
LucyLilium92 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“This is what ALL wolves look like, hun”
schubox63 · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminded me of this
https://youtu.be/i4camaG9f2E
Arcadia_X · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least you didn’t cry about it because then you would’ve been eaten for sure.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom was there. Momma bear would eat that wolf to protect her little cub.
I got your reference though. ;)
blue_invest · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a story from when I was a kid. My mom is a wonderful woman, and almost always trusted me unquestionably. However, there is one occasion where she refused to believe I was telling the truth. Now note: I told my fair share of lies growing up, so it’s funny that she believed many of those but not this one.
Anyway, my friend lived on a golf course, and one evening we were playing around near the putting green. A small red fox approached me, and stood still about 20 feet away just looking at me. I started talking to it as if it were a pet and it didn’t seem threatened at all. To test this I rolled my golf ball toward the fox and the fox actually picked up the ball in its mouth, walked toward me (about half the distance between us), and then dropped the ball and looked up. It then walked away, and we continued playing as if nothing strange had happened. To this day I regret not trying to pet it.
When I told my mom, she insisted I just saw a fox and was exaggerating about the rest. To this day I joke with her about all the stuff I got away with growing up (sneaking out, drinking my parents’ booze, etc.) while it was the fox story where she really put her foot down. She tried convincing me I must have imagined it but I’m positive I saw that damn fox!
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is the inverse of The Boy That Cried Wolf.
"Look at all these lies I'm telling you!" Seems legit.
"Hey, I saw a fox and we played fetch." Yeah right.
Glad it didn't eat you then :D
ItzSpiffy · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been in these arguments with people where they seem to firmly believe they are right about something that is highly improbable, and in the end all I can say is "Well, that sounds unlikely but I guess there's no way to know for certain (and in this case I'd say).... Maybe it was a dog, and maybe it was a wolf, and if it was a wolf that sounds like a really cool sighting!" I would also hope that the person would be able to consider the notion that they could be wrong about something they are remembering from when they were a child.
Additionally, if wolves aren't indigenous to that area then I would have to agree that it was also likely not a wolf but an animal that resembles it, although I couldn't agree with any part of how she handle this discussion. More than likely, it was a breed of dog that is very wolk-like, like a husky mix. It makes a lot of sense that a dog would have gotten out and been roaming around. You said you were little, so it's reasonable to assume that with child-like delight and fancy you made up your mind it was a wolf.
In any event, kudos for being quick enough to catch the writing on the page and calling her out. Such a petty move to try to be "right" by your aunt, especially since she knows full well she wasn't right and was lying and that means she was just doing it to one-up her niece/nephew.
Aomory · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your comment is very good. You picked up on a lot of things I had to explain in later comments:
Awesome!
your_uncle_mike · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why didn’t your mom say anything? Seems a little ridiculous to let someone talk to your kid like that when she saw it too.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She wasn't around for the start, and she had a lot of work to do for the picnic that was still going on. She also knows her sister can be quite a bit narcissistic, and that her daughter can stand up for herself.
wtfiskwanzaa · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TBH it probably wasn't a wolf
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We will never know ¯_(ツ)_/¯
dramboxf · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was dating my wife, she was living with her best friend, who was 20 years older than her. That made her 30 years older than I am. She was a notorious egomaniac. There was an article in the paper that day about a mountain lion that had been seen on the HS football field, and that the Sheriff's Office had used their helicopter to help track it down.
"They probably used a FLIR," I said, referring to a Forward-Looking Infrared Radar. Her friend asked what it meant, and I told her.
She laughed her ass off. "You don't know what you're talking about," she said. "I'm amazed they (the sheriff) can even get that thing in the air, they're so backwards out here." (We live in wine country, in Northern California.)
I turned the page of the newspaper to continue reading. Big article: "SHERIFF CREDITS NEW 'FLIR' RADAR IN HELPING TRACK MOUNTAIN LION."
Man that felt good. It wasn't a lie, of course, but it just felt good to clear my throat and show her the article.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my god that sounds amazing. Was your wife around? If yes, how did she react?
dramboxf · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was. She hid her reaction from her friend.
PM_Me_Your_Grain · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a really similar, but not as contentious experience! I was living near Seldovia, across Kachemak Bay from Homer, Alaska. Not out of the realm of possibility, but not exactly wolf territory. I jumped off a little ledge on a hike and scared the shit out of a scrawny wolf. I watched him go around the beach for a while before disappearing into the bush. When I got back home, my friend insisted it was a coyote, pulling up picture after picture. Yada yada yada, I left for a better job and not two months later he's posting pictures of the same wolf howling at the same place with a bunch of #howlatthemoon #wolf #myjobisbetterthanyours type of tags.
Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please tell me you reminded them of the time you saw the wolf and they didn't believe you... Please?
PM_Me_Your_Grain · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah. The guy's a moron but he's endearing as hell.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Aomory · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, when a kid one-ups the adult back but not in a malicious way! Mwah! So delicious.
steelear · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a similar thing happen that’s not directly relevant to this thread. When I was around 10 one of my older cousins struck and killed a homeless man with his car. Their were no legal repercussions, I think the police decided the guy was suicidal. Fast forward 30 years and we are at another cousin’s house (nobody from his direct family is there) and conversation comes around to killing people with cars somehow. I mention the story about our cousin and my dad just tears into me saying I’m making up ridiculous lies and what have I been smoking (I am sort of the black sheep of the family because I smoke pot, I was not high that day) and getting everyone to laugh at me. Later I called my brother who absolutely confirmed my memory of our cousin. I don’t know if my dad was never told or if everyone else in the family had chosen to conveniently forget that embarrassing history.
VONZ87 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Better yet...be sure to claim it was a wolf.... on her death bed
Bufferkiller · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your aunt sounds like my mom.
z0mbieskin · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A kind of similar thing happened to me. I live in a tropical place, but it’s a very urban area, one of the largest cities in the world. We don’t have much natural area left, but there used to be a rainforest here, and there are a few patches left. Behind my neighborhood, there used to be one of those small forest paths, but there’s been construction going on the past few years.
Anyway, we see lots of capybaras and, possums but not much else. One night while walking my dog, I saw a large animal with a long thick tail. I did a quick google search and found the animal’s name (Irara), I’m 100% sure that was the animal.
No one believed me, not even my mom. I told the security guards at my neighborhood and they said it was probably a possum (it wasn’t).
They still don’t believe me to this day and it’s so frustrating.
Hypknowpautamist · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Any bed is a death bed when it has a wolf on it
Manleather · 7874 points · Posted at 14:57:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had strep throat, so I called out sick to work. I was sick two days. My new manager called me and and said I had a pattern of abusing my sick time, and that I would not be paid for my sick time. She explicitly mentioned that I always called three days in a row, and that I had exceeded the acceptable amount occurrences for the year. This was in October, I had a sick kid in February for one day, she started in June, so where was she getting this pattern from? I had three days over two occurrences for the entire year, both with doctor's notes, well under the five occurrences (each with up to three days sick) that HR puts a soft limit at.
Unluckily for her, I knew our schedule tracking system and how to get at my punched/missed hours, and I knew our policy regarding sick time and how abuse was handled, so I printed the policy, my last four years of attendance (along with my coworkers). I sat down with her, and she reiterated the accusation of abuse. I pulled out my last year, with two calls on it. She said the pattern was from before she started, so I pulled out the previous four years and the policy (10 occurrences over four years, remember that HR calls violation over 5 occurrences within one year). She said that I had more sick calls than anyone else, so I pulled theirs out too, and I was actually on the lower half of occurrences. My sick bank was near capped out. How would that be possible if I was a flagrant abuser of the system?
The backpeddling started. She said that she never said I wouldn't get paid. I pulled out my phone and played the recording for her; she thought my number was a landline and said I wasn't allowed to furnish cellphone messages while at work. I told her I get paid or I quit over hostile work environment, which would mean a very easy unemployment case, which would actually have to be payed out by my employer in this case. Which would mean my manager would be cooked.
I got paid for my sick time, and she made the next three years absolutely miserable for me. So unhappy story overall, but I still remember that one time.
Edit: typical blah blah blowup comment. I stayed 3 years because I had a position that paid okay, had incredible benefits, and paid for me to go back to school to better myself for a new position. Two years of certification education meant I had to wait an additional year before leaving to avoid penalties. Sometimes we have to put up with a little crap in order to build something better. It puts hair on your chest.
And yes, HR should have been involved from the very moment I got that phone call. At the time, I actually thought it was HR prompting the call, so I thought I was up against both my manager and HR, and the sick pay seemed symbolic of my whole career. It was without a doubt the thing I would change if I could go back, but I know going forward that it was a valuable experience either way.
hr_shovenstuff · 3075 points · Posted at 15:44:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You stayed 3 years after? I would have stayed three weeks tops.
exonautic · 1700 points · Posted at 16:51:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have stayed three years but done my damndest to get her ass fired.
genericnewlurker · 1125 points · Posted at 17:00:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea I wouldn't have confronted the manager over this but gone straight to HR for the manager violating company policy. Doubt that will get the manager canned but it will establish a paper trail and will keep the manager off your back or at least doing things entirely by the book.
ThreeArmedHobo · 52 points · Posted at 18:19:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I basically did that to my district manager. He cut my hours over something petty, claimed that's the reason WHY he did it, started shit talking me, and then acted very smug about it. So I wrote a detailed email to the regional manager including screenshots of texts about the incident claiming he was guilty of retaliation and bullying. The regional manager talked to him and now the my DM leaves me the fuck alone.
MadHattersCat · 20 points · Posted at 17:45:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Naa fuck HR. No way they take the the correct side. The companys side then the manager.
genericnewlurker · 77 points · Posted at 17:51:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They side with whatever the law says and then whatever is cheaper for the company. In this case a slap on the wrist of the manager is cheaper than unemployment claims. Plus it's a black mark against the manager which could then be used to give the manager a smaller annual raise if at all.
algy888 · 2 points · Posted at 23:05:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my choice too she could have explained all this with n HR rep in the room. That way when she gets nasty you’ve got her documented already harassing you specifically.
brian_lopes · 2 points · Posted at 00:32:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
HR protects the company not you.
SleepyDeadhead · -27 points · Posted at 20:52:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but that is because you are a total asshat that doesn't follow chain of command. I wish people like you did not fucking exist. I know im being a bit blunt and hard edged, but if you have a problem with someone, you grow a fucking sack and confront that person first. In this case, he did what he needed to do. Since she made his work life miserable after confronting her, then for sure I would go to HR. Retaliation policies exist at most work places. Don't be a fuckass, follow chain of command.
genericnewlurker · 19 points · Posted at 21:17:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Retaliation polices mean squat when it's kept in the dark. I have done in the past what you have prescribed. I was being given my boss's workload on top of my own duties so that he could play computer games at work. I was doing both of our jobs entirely. When I took my grievances directly to him, he quickly had me written up with HR on false accusations, told by HR to either accept those charges in the PIP or be fired on the spot. Two weeks later I was given the option to resign or be fired for lacking to follow the PIP. Luckily I had found another job by that point.
By going to my boss first, it gave him the warning to get rid of me with his tracks covered. How do I know it would have gone the other way? Because I was nice and petty and sent all of my documentation, with my former co-workers signing onto what happened, to my former employer's HR. My former boss was fired and I was offered my my old job back, which I declined. The benefits of being the friendly IT guy who made friends all over.
HR has a purpose. It may be to first protect the company, but secondarily is to act as protection of their human resources and to act as that anti-retaliatory buffer between you and your superiors.
SleepyDeadhead · 3 points · Posted at 00:37:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hmmm.. I see your point. I will be doing things differently in the future.
TiredMemeReference · 5 points · Posted at 21:43:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except theres no record of op having this meeting with their boss so theres no way to prove retaliation, and if you think the boss is going to be honest about the interaction after lying about the sick time then I have some sweet property on the moon to sell you. Hr was the right call here.
cdc194 · 5 points · Posted at 19:43:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me, I'd do what I imagine most employees do when they have a "boss" instead of a leader or manager, which is to do just enough not to get fired, and nothing more. Being an asshole to your subordinates is a great way to sabotage your team's overall productivity.
exonautic · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That would be a step. But if I was told to do something by them that was blatantly wrong, I would do it to my damndest and refer back to her instructions.
cannondave · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe he liked the job. Just kill her.
JumpForWaffles · 166 points · Posted at 16:58:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With a robust policy like that, I'm willing to bet HR would not have been thrilled to know what your manager was threatening. Probably could have had her fired or at least written up
sloppyjoepa · 10 points · Posted at 21:05:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah for having an answer to every scenario she threw at him that day, he dropped the ball on the follow up to the entire fucked up situation. Could have covered his ass instead he let the bitch push him around for 3 more years.
AaronJ2 · 13 points · Posted at 17:54:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also worked for micromanaging/asshole manager.
I am offered "tuition reimbursement" from my company every year for my higher education, so every time I take money from them, I have to work at another year or else I pay the money back. I tried to get the manager fired and was quite close, but never was fully successful. Therefore, I was stuck working for shitty manager--although just recently, I got away from him!
I assume u/Manleather had a family, no competitors in the area, etc.
Sometimes it is harder to quit a job than people let on.
Manleather · 5 points · Posted at 22:16:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very intuitive. Had a family, mortgage, and more than enough good outside of work to compensate for the crap experience. Also took advantage of tuition reimbursement to get some graduate education for two years, which meant I had to stay an additional year to avoid repayment penalties.
AaronJ2 · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read minds muahahaha
But yeah, sounds like we have had similar experiences haha. Happy to hear you think it worked out for you in the end though, as I think mine has/will as well :)
Ari2017 · 13 points · Posted at 16:56:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
maybe the job market wasn't there?
2SP00KY4ME · 8 points · Posted at 17:25:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And if you didn't have a new job to go to and weren't sure you could find another? I assume your pride is more important than dinner?
MotherofSons · 8 points · Posted at 17:34:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because jobs are a dime a dozen everywhere.
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 20:14:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The benefits were good. 12 days sick time, almost 25 vacation days, 6 paid holidays.
It's over now, I left in May, the benefits weren't worth the daily damage.
poop_chute_riot · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
xkforce · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most people don't have the luxury of just quitting jobs whenever they feel like.
Iamjimmym · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All whilst on the rest of my paid sick leave..
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 19:30:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boss claim I had been more than 15 minutes late a ridiculous number of times. She was wanting to get me fired because she wanted to give her friend my job. I asked for a list of dates that I was late, and she had it already.
Turns out it was a list of the times I called in to say I might be late. Company policy was that, as long as you were less than 15 minutes late and you called at least 30 minutes prior to your shift, it was not an occurrence, so every time it looked like there might be a chance I might be a little late (traffic, running behind) I called in. On none of these instances was I 15 minutes late, and on every one I had time-stamped proof in the form of email replies that I was working less than 5 minutes after my shift began. I forwarded her list and my proof to the owner asking why my manager was writing me up for being excessively late when it was clear I was there? She got chewed out and left me alone for a couple of months. Thing was, my manager was frequently significantly late, which is how she didn't know I was actually there.
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That ending was kind of funny. For a brief moment, I thought we might have a similar manager, as we have a similar policy (no call before missing start= no call, no show; later than 15 minutes is your monthly warning, unless already late before, than it's an occurrence; calling but still making it= technically nothing, just a close call).
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 11 points · Posted at 17:27:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
FYI, it's actually really hard to prove a hostile work environment. My last job was a hostile work environment, completely with a nurse superior to me literally assaulting me (misdemeanor assault, I wasn't injured). I quit and tried to collect unemployment from WA, and they said that because I had quit, even though it was a hostile work environment, I didn't qualify for unemployment.
I am considering suing the company for this, because I'm friends with the director of nursing at that facility and she told me she wanted to fire the nurse but the company owners woudln't let he. In fact, they didn't even let her write the nurse up. She got away with it scot-free.
nuublarg · 15 points · Posted at 17:09:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, if you're at the point of threatening legal action, you shouldn't threaten it. You should just let the Manager pull their crap and then legally roast their ass.
Manleather · 5 points · Posted at 20:19:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't worth the legal trouble honestly, and it would have burned more bridges than it would have been worth in my industry. But she needed to know what the actual stakes were.
Psychedelic_Orange · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what I was thinking. Get your pay and then quit anyways.
insta99 · 13 points · Posted at 17:00:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AMA request for bosses/people who do this to others. Is it bc an insecurity? Perception of control?
Curleysound · 3 points · Posted at 17:16:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Could be they were a doormat at the last job, and trying to get ahead of it with BS
seelachsfilet · 17 points · Posted at 17:34:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have access to files that contain other employees sick days and you use them for your own case? And you just record sensitive conversations with your phone and use them against your manager? Where do u live? Because where i live (germany) all of this would just be highly illegal and would cost your job in the end. Just asking because im curious.
Manleather · 9 points · Posted at 20:18:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She left the message on my cell phone answering machine. I'm also in a one-party consent state, so I would have been fine either way, I checked.
And I don't know their actual payroll status, but we all had access to a schedule online, and any sick days have to be denoted.
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 18:04:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If she does payroll she might have access to it. But yeah recording conversations without consent is usually illegal in most states
Edit: Well, illegal in like ~1/5 of the US by state. Lol.
Psychedelic_Orange · 17 points · Posted at 18:08:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's complete bullshit. There's eleven states that have two party consent laws regarding recorded conversation. California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire Pennsylvania, and Washington. In every other state you only require consent from one party.
/u/seelachsfilet
theidleidol · 16 points · Posted at 18:53:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And in all of those states it would still be irrelevant since it was a voicemail message.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, makes sense. Im from NH so i suppose i grew up thinking that was the norm. Thanks for the correction.
Emptamar · 7 points · Posted at 21:04:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you leave a voicemail message you’re consenting to being recorded!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:05:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. Am i missing something?
Emptamar · 3 points · Posted at 22:07:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Therefore it’s irrelevant whether they’re in a one-party or a two-party consent state...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didnt read anything that said it was a voicemail. But if it was, then i suppose youd be right.
Manleather · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't know. I thought it was clear that I didn't record anything, she left the message. That's consent enough to be recorded.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:26:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It probably was clear and i misread it or something. Im pretty hungover lol
TwinkleTwinkleBaby · 4 points · Posted at 18:03:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No offense but it sounds like you did that one wrong. You don’t take it to your manager, you take it to their manager.
ShoulderChip · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
peddling = selling stuff
pedaling = using bicycle pedals.
So, you really should write "backpedaling," not "backpeddling."
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 01:01:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I regret I have but one upvote to give you.
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why did she have it out for you like this?
TributeToStupidity · 3 points · Posted at 17:39:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have had hr sit in on that meeting
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 20:22:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I could do anything differently, this would have been it. I feel like the following three years would have been better, or at least could have requested a transfer.
spazlaz · 3 points · Posted at 17:49:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The correct solution is to go over her head to a manager above her or HR. You get to keep your job, she gets fired. You get excellent r/prorevenge material.
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There could be a prorevege story in the works. Maybe I'll write it out someday.
fishbiscuit13 · 3 points · Posted at 17:55:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's the kind of thing you take up with her boss, not her. If she retaliates for it you have an ironclad motive and it's much easier to prevent.
doctryou · 3 points · Posted at 19:03:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Great story! But that's not a hostile work environment and quitting would not have been justified. I hope you were bluffing!
If your employer truly refuses to pay you for hours owed you would make a complaint to the state department of labor.
ItzSpiffy · 3 points · Posted at 19:52:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It sounds like your manager, for whatever reason, already had a personal issue with you. Managers have their favorites, and we've all worked with those people who are best-buds with the manager and get away with abusing attendance, and it's not even uncommon for those managers who try to balance their appearance of being soft by trying to be overly "by the book" with employees that for whatever reason they don't like.
In any event, if this were happening to me I'd have try to make a case for retaliation with HR by finding some way to document the mistreatment. This is also why you should have gone through HR as well. So let this be a lesson to anyone reading this. Work with your HR department, but do NOT abuse it because if they suspect that you might be trying to play both sides they will stone-wall you. If your HR person visits your office, then be sure to be friendly and create a nice, memorable impression. HR is really about protecting the company by protecting the employee, but they aren't necessarily an employees best friend. The best reason to go through HR is to protect you from being retaliated against and to serve as a record keeper, and also to clarify proper policies/protocols etc. Secondly, I've suggested to people to find casual ways of mentioning to your manager that you'd like to know the HR contact information just to verify some policies, in other words a subtle threat to your manager that you are aware of your rights but you haven't called yet. If you aren't confrontational or combative when you suggest this, they might get the hint and change their tune.
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 20:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I replied to someone else that if I could do anything differently, I'd have HR sit in on that meeting with that evidence. It would have made the following three years much, much better. I was young and thought I was a hotshot, lone wolf cowboy dude.
ItzSpiffy · 2 points · Posted at 20:57:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You live, you learn : ).
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not everyone lives, not everyone learns, I'm happy when I get to do both.
M_-X · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like to imagine you were holding a large scrolled piece of paper which you unravel in stages as she tries to backpedal, sinking further into her seat. You loom over her, a single light swings, the roll fills the entire room, your denouncements echo throughout the building.
_This_Is_Stupid · 3 points · Posted at 20:51:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, a wage theft attempt and retaliation for it. AMERICA!
4br4c4d4br4 · 3 points · Posted at 02:40:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
*Backpedaling
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, another poster pointed that out too. I leave it as a testament to my poor speeling, but will remember for future uses of the word.
FactOfMatter · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I managed her I would have fired her over that alone.
burningblacksun · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have cooked her
Helpfulcloning · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You only get 5 paid sick days a year?!
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
12 actually. As an American, I felt fortunate. I usually floated my cap, but did have a surgery that put me out briefly and might have bankrupted me otherwise.
ohaitharr · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do, but we're talking unplanned sick time. I'm even salaried and work for an enormous company that has insane benefits. I guess something has to give somewhere? Idk!
homingmissile · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you lost the war, buddy.
mamacrocker · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a twatwaffle. I'm so sorry you had to work under conditions like that. Good for you for confronting her on her bullshit, though!
nullstring · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sure it was worth it in the end.... Right?
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got some karma, they paid for me to get a new job, so sort of?
Gh0st1y · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should have reported her or made good on your hostile work environment threat, sounds like you made yourself lame just staying there after that
dickbutt_md · 2 points · Posted at 20:16:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You messed up. You shouldn't have made your case right then and there, you should have made her write you up with the reasons and then take it to the Dept of Labor.
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everything in those three years had to come from her in writing, or email. My work email backed up to my personal email after removing sensitive information- there's still enough in it to get the gist of the conversation.
It wasn't worth a huge fight. It was a stepping stone in my career anyway, and it taught me a lot about documentation and when to make a case.
dickbutt_md · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You missed my point. The goal wasn't to turn it into a huge fight, the point was to extract a very lucrative settlement quickly.
People complain about their a-hole bosses all the time, but then when you say here's how to snap the org back to reality, they always say the same thing, "Aw, I didn't want to make it until a big thing." Okay then, all for another heaping helping of a steaming pile of poop and don't complain, then.
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You assume any kind of settlement would be a risk-free guarantee, and at the time, it would have consumed energy that would be better spent on furthering my career and hobbies. I have no doubt I could get an amount, but the cost of that would be to essentially drop out of the field I'm in as no one would hire me afterwards, which wasn't worth it because I actually kind of like what I do.
It would be a Pyrrhic victory in short, if you'll accept the analogy. The work itself was still worthwhile, and I got a lot of good benefits. It just so happened that I had a miserable manager for those years.
dickbutt_md · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:27 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Doubt it. No one would care. Probably no one would even know about it, your employer wouldn't be able to share it, and spreading that information doesn't exactly make them look good in any case.
People let companies walk all over them, they don't understand their power and imagine all sorts of doomsday scenarios. Bad managers that lie to people deserve to get thrown in the meat grinder.
GoGoGadge7 · 2 points · Posted at 20:21:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Retaliation by any manager/employer is illegal.
If it’s within the statute of limitations, sue.
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Statute of limitations is tricky with this. Because I have taken tuition assistance, I have informally 'accepted' the environment, and I had. Corporate side, however, there is not one. This can still damage her personal career.
GoGoGadge7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interesting.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m glad you had the experience so I could enjoy the victory and not the long slow toxic hangover.
The_Cheeki_Breeki · 2 points · Posted at 21:58:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the fuck? Where the fuck did you work? Sick time abuse is considered 10 sick days in FOUR YEARS? Holy shit...
flawless_fille · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She either just didn't like you, or maybe she got bad information from someone who didn't like you (like someone else told her you were abusing sick leave). Probably the former based on the next three years.
Manleather · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is actually what I think happened. We didn't have any formal contact really until that moment, except for some introductions. I don't think she came about that opinion alone, my department did have a bad reputation for sick calls. I think she wanted to make an example, she just chose the wrong target. Which is too bad, a little collaboration might have actually meant a lot of good for everyone. Instead, everyone lost.
brian_lopes · 2 points · Posted at 00:31:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have let her fire you then use all that shit to sue.
weedandweed · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Backpedaling"
She's pedaling backwards, not selling merchandise with her back, lol
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was definitely selling something, I just wasn't buying. Thanks for the correction.
weedandweed · 2 points · Posted at 01:12:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As for your final comment, no. HR should not have been involved.
HR is not your friend. They exist to protect the company from lawsuits.
Hexalyse · 2 points · Posted at 12:04:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are a genius for recording the call and printing this all out.
But one thing really annoyed me :
I would have just answered that "yeah, maybe I got unlucky and got sick more often than others. And you will blame ME for that ?". That's honestly so fucked up. I would have wished her to throw up all day and night for three days in a row before she comes back and dare to tell me this again, as if it was an offense to get sick. Fuck this kind of people.
You get sick (it sucks), and they blame you for that. That's so wrong on every level.
And fuck her for making the next three years miserable for you. I would have been so pissed and seeked revenge if I was at your place. She wouldn't have liked it.
Hope you're in a better position and company right now.
10Dante4 · 2 points · Posted at 16:53:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh well, you made her eat her words nevertheless!
LoneCookie · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Considering how much effort you went through I was really hoping that would end much better
bigd203 · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Constructive dismissal not hostile work environment. Did you even Google this?
Manleather · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. Creating a hostile work environment is one path to constructive dismissal. In this case, intertwined.
c01dz3ra · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can imagine the feeling in her stomach ⬇️⬇️
AshingiiAshuaa · 4 points · Posted at 17:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can. It's "She's got proof. I'd better back off. I'll be careful in the future, and I'm going to make her life miserable as long as we work together."
Cujoc · 0 points · Posted at 16:48:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/prorevenge
makkynz · -3 points · Posted at 20:43:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/thathappened
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because nothing ever happens.
not_falling_down · 14650 points · Posted at 12:47:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Before desktop publishing, I was in my 20s, an ad designer for a local department store. The boss was out, and a co-worker (who had been there many years, and was jaded and grumpy all the time) was put in charge for the day. I brought an ad to her for approval, and she found some nit-picky thing that she wanted adjusted.
I knew that it was just bullshit on her part, so she could feel powerful. I took the ad back to my desk, worked on something else for a while, then brought it back absolutely unchanged. She looked at it and said "Oh, that looks much better!", and approved it.
I never let on that it was the exactly same version she'd rejected earlier.
SarahFiajarro · 5015 points · Posted at 13:39:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That happened with my previous boss.
I'd sent him a deck that we were going to present the next day, and he nit-picked the hell out of it. We were on a business trip, just got off a really long flight, and I didn't want to fight it even though I knew his revisions were bull. I revised the file and sent it over. Unbeknownst to me, in my sleep-deprived state I had sent the unrevised file again. He checked it and went "See, isn't this so much clearer?" while pointing out the parts that he thought I had changed. I realized when I saw it that it was the old file, but I let him keep talking for a few minutes until he checked another slide and saw it unchanged, and he realized that the file was unrevised.
I hated working for him, and that was pretty much the only revenge I ever got so it felt great.
DKM_Eby · 1923 points · Posted at 16:47:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This kinda happened at home with my step-mother when I was a teenager.
"Hey, can you please go clean the upstairs bathroom today?" "Sure, no problem."
15 minutes later...
"All done!"
2 minutes later...
"Hey, can you go spend about another 10 minutes up there, it doesn't quite look clean enough."
"Uh... okay."
I go upstairs, and literally spend 10 minutes making noise. I turn the taps on and off. I hit the bathtub and tap my feet on the floor, mostly just sitting on the toilet seat reading a magazine.
"All done!"
She goes up and looks
"Wow, that looks so much better, thank you!"
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 1088 points · Posted at 17:02:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When i was little i hated taking baths. One night my mom told me to go take a bath and get ready for bed. I just ran the water in the tub and acted like i took one.
I came downstairs to say goodnight and my mom was like "Thank you for cleaning the cat poop out of the tub". Our cat had shit in the back of the tub and i didnt see it. My mom set me up. I had to go clean it and take a bath after that.
Rndom_Gy_159 · 295 points · Posted at 17:58:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Moms know fucking everything. That is your first mistake.
geniusjunior · 68 points · Posted at 18:29:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m more intrigued that your cat shit in the tub. My cat won’t get near the tub, and has never went outside the litter box.
Wouldn’t even be a thing I would check to cover myself!
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 52 points · Posted at 18:32:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea she was very old, her name was Blinken. My mom thought she would do it out of spite sometimes when she didnt get wet food or something.
BlasphemyIsJustForMe · 45 points · Posted at 19:40:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"HEY HUMANS! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR GIVING ME DRY FOOD" shits in the tub "FUCK YOU."
wanders off to go lay on a lamp or something
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 19 points · Posted at 19:43:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly! She did it quite a few times. She died a couple years later in a corner in my room when i wasnt home. My mom buried her. She was a good cat:(
BlasphemyIsJustForMe · 10 points · Posted at 19:51:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
AWWWWWWWWWWW
im so sorry for the loss of your furbaby.
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 11 points · Posted at 19:54:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you! That was a long time ago, maybe 30 years. I have 2 cats currently. One is a stray that we took in and we didnt know she was pregnant ( i thought she seemed too young. She was really tiny) and she had 3 babies but 2 were very weak and died shortly after. We still have the 3rd one but we might not be able to keep her. Shes a little badass!
BlasphemyIsJustForMe · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope she has a wonderful life no matter where she is.
pumpkinrum · 4 points · Posted at 22:58:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Awww :(
mtmo94 · 9 points · Posted at 21:34:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you say Abe Lincoln every time you came home and greeted her?
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 6 points · Posted at 21:36:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol thats weird, thats what my dad called her!
littlemantry · 3 points · Posted at 23:56:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you seen Men in Tights by chance? If not you should check it out
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 2 points · Posted at 00:25:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A long time ago. My bf loves everything robin hood and he made me watch it. It was pretty funny. Was Leslie Nielsen in it? Thinking back it reminds me of something he would be in.
littlemantry · 1 points · Posted at 02:00:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It has the Blinken/Abe Lincoln joke in it :) hm no Leslie Nielson but similar to his brand of humor! It's a Mel Brooks movie and Cary Elwes stars as Robin Hood
LadyofTwigs · 10 points · Posted at 20:56:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My cats have never gone outside the litter box either (even when I’m behind on cleaning, so I really love them for that) but one of them absolutely loved the tub at the last place we lived. That bathroom had some nice acoustics, especially in the tub, and she would just sit in the tub and meow and make noise. I’ve also found her sleeping in there, presumably because it was the coolest place in the house cause our ac sucked.
littlemantry · 3 points · Posted at 23:55:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not the OP but I had a cat that used my bed as a litter box until he was like four months old (even grosser than it sounds) and then just started using the bathtub and tbh I wasn't even mad cause it was so much easier to clean the tub than my freaking bed. He figured it out eventually... most of the time.
not_falling_down · 2 points · Posted at 14:06:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Our cat is about 14 now. After a recent move, he used our bed for a litter box twice. While we were asleep in it. He's not allowed into the bedroom anymore. (and we replaced the mattress)
ScifiGirl1986 · 3 points · Posted at 05:10:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My cousin is about to turn 14 and doesn’t understand why he needs to shower every day (he stinks to high heaven). Recently, he spent the night with my mom and aunts. He was told to shower and after a short argument, he stormed into the bathroom and turned on the water. He was in there maybe 5 minutes before he came back out, hair slightly wet, and declared that he was clean. He hadn’t even walked fully into the room and my mom could still smell him. He tried to tell her that he used unscented shampoo, but of course, she didn’t believe him. He was not happy when he had to go back in and take an actual shower.
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao well he tried :) i was a lot younger than 14 though, because by the time i was 14 i was boy crazy and i showered like twice a day. But my bf's son is 17 and when i met him 10 years ago he was exactly like that. No showers, only games. Then as soon as he started liking a girl a couple years ago i noticed him getting haircuts and showers, so maybe your cousin just doesnt really care yet.
Its like when you have cats and your nose gets used to the smell, or when people smoke cigs they cant smell it on themselves. He might be so used to it that he really doesnt think he needs one. Or at 14 it could be a symptom of depression, but hopefully not.
ScifiGirl1986 · 1 points · Posted at 07:12:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately, my uncle isn’t one for hygiene, so his son figures he doesn’t need to be either. This poor kid has actually been told by classmates that he stinks and it does not phase him one bit. From what I understand, he finds it funny.
geared4war · 2 points · Posted at 21:40:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mom win!
fuxontha1stdate · 2 points · Posted at 06:51:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was little, I would take a bath but just play with my bath toys and not wash anything. One time, my mom peeked in after about a half hour and asked if I had washed. I looked her in the eyes and told her that I had. To which she replied "Why is the water crystal clear? If you had washed, it would be a little cloudy". My mouth just dropped and I had nothing to say back.
From that point on, I would grab the soap and slosh it around in the water to make it cloudy before I played.
Klepto666 · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a little confused how someone can reach over to turn on the tub and not notice a turd in it. Unless there was a shower curtain covering the whole thing and all you did was sneak an arm through for the water without even looking inside.
BetterMaulPaulAllen · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea shower curtain, plus the poop was all the way in the back, and i probably didnt even put the stopper in, i just let it run so she would hear it. I was a stupid kid.
Haremjutsu · 57 points · Posted at 17:59:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, lucky.
I once accidentally left a piece of paper on the floor after cleaning my room.(Was 10) not a full piece, just a small, easy to look over thing.
Stepmom saw it. I had to stand in a corner for 2 hours.
She’d also routinely have me carry glass rocks (Grandfather worked at glass factory, glass rocks were basically scraped out of the furnace, we got a few.) across the yard. They weren’t sharp, but to a 10 year old, they were heavy. I would carry them back and forth through the yard for hours.
She also washed me. I took a bath one day, she said I still smelled dirty, so she washed me. A grown woman, wiping 10 year old me down with a soapy rag. I was fucking humiliated and crying.
I’m sorry that it turned into a rant, just needed to vent about it I guess.
I’m 16 now though, she’s broken up with my father. I’d love to see her come back and try that shit on me again.
IrreverentSweetie · 33 points · Posted at 18:09:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm glad you felt comfortable venting. It can be very beneficial. Your stepmom was crossing some interesting boundaries.
dramboxf · 16 points · Posted at 19:40:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a weird way to spell "disgusting."
IrreverentSweetie · 6 points · Posted at 19:42:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I spelled it the long way. Your spelling is definitely more accurate though!
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 19:27:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Haremjutsu · 9 points · Posted at 20:26:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think the thing that pissed me off the most (Yeah the bath thing was straight up harassment I’d say, but I can’t bring myself to feel all that offended by it. I don’t have many feelings other than anger and laughter) was my PS3.
My dad worked his ass off to get me that thing for Christmas. But then she came. I never got to use it, she’d lay on the couch all day watching Netflix. Not even shows that we both liked, stuff she liked.
In the end, I never got to play my PS3 that much, my dad had to sell it to make rent. Would have gotten it a lot more before then if she hadn’t of taken it.
diasfordays · 39 points · Posted at 17:34:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
50/50 chance that she just didn't feel like asking you a third time to do it.
AnotherNamedUser · 8 points · Posted at 17:59:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Time is the most BS measurement of work I ever had to go by. I used to get less clean becuase I was dragging my feet. But I clean, wipe down, and sweep my kitchen now in about 20 minutes tops.
Edit: now that I think about it, my actual job pays me for how long I take to work still though...
2meril4meirl · 4 points · Posted at 18:43:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
why didn't you just clean the bathroom though? you used it too didn't you?
Punchinyourpface · 3 points · Posted at 22:12:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think they actually did the first time. But she didn't think it was good enough.
Schleckenmiester · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like some of this is unintentional and people are just getting the placebo effect when they thing it's so much better.
dead_deep_pool · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like she just needed 10 more minutes privacy for something she didn't want you to know about
aleqqqs · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like she needed you gone for a couple minutes.
hottwhyrd · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you ever stop to think maybe she needed 10 more minutes to "finish"?
Hexalyse · 1 points · Posted at 11:06:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder if it's a psychological bias, like she was expecting to see it cleaner so she did.... or maybe some leftover water from the cleaning evaporated and it looked better.
I'm pretty sure sometimes people doing this don't mean to be mean, they are really tricked into believing it's better/cleaner, even if nothing changed.
After all, our perception is weird and fucked up most of the time.
DrSlappyPants · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She needed 10 minutes to finish masturbating. She didn't care about the bathroom at all.
MississippiJoel · 27 points · Posted at 16:06:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did he make you go back and revise it again, or did he stop there?
Gerdione · 27 points · Posted at 16:50:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd imagine someone who is pulling power moves like this wouldn't be able to swallow their pride and admit their bullshit
SarahFiajarro · 11 points · Posted at 17:12:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sent him the file that I actually revised, and he stopped bugging me about it.
ThatFag · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was his reaction when he realised you sent the unchanged file originally?
SarahFiajarro · 8 points · Posted at 18:13:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Really? I felt like I understood it better here. Can I see the revised file?"
To be fair he handled it quite well, but he's got quite the ego and I know that must have hurt him a little.
chipdipper99 · 10 points · Posted at 17:31:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An advertising producer that I used to work with did something like this.
He was doing a commercial for a major airline, and they wanted to use an A-list celebrity for the voiceover. The celebrity charged thousands of dollars per hour, but he nailed the read on the first try, so my friend let him leave in order to save money.
The next day, people from the ad agency called and said they "wanted to hear all the takes," to make sure they got the best one. Well there was only one take, and my friend panicked.
So he called the sound engineer and asked him to create a tape with that take over and over, with the engineer saying "Take 1" "Take 2" etc, so the agency would think they were separate takes.
The agency picked takes 2 and 5, with 7 as a possible alternate.
Punchinyourpface · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's hilarious.
626c6f775f6d65 · 8 points · Posted at 17:18:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dittos. Once upon a time a long time ago I was a cop for a little while. The day shift lieutenant every so often felt the need to make sure everyone still knew he was in charge, so he’d pop a surprise inspection at roll call.
Thanks to the uniquely fanatical culture of the Marine Corps and my prior service with some particularly fanatical Marines I took particular pride in keeping my firearms absolutely immaculate and perfectly maintained, so it was especially insulting to be dinged on inspection for a bullshit demerit for having a dirty gun.
He reinspected the next day to make sure we addressed any “deficiencies” found in the inspection, and was effusive about how much better my gun looked than it had before, and didn’t I feel better about properly taking care of my equipment.
Yeah, I hadn’t done a damn thing to it. It hadn’t even been out of the holster since he inspected it.
Asshole.
[deleted] · 46 points · Posted at 16:17:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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RedRobinIsTheBest · 11 points · Posted at 16:49:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you’re perfect ;)
Raven_7306 · 6 points · Posted at 16:54:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So many appearances in this AskReddit post
Gerdione · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hidden gem
SarahFiajarro · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Omg the sprog replied to ME! I am flattered, sir!
TheLurkingMenace · 4 points · Posted at 16:25:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've done that with clients who would request a revision, then another revision back to the original. The next time they requested a revision, I'd just change the filename.
JonnyPockets · 3 points · Posted at 16:48:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve worked for him before.
samjsatt · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some co workers of mine were in the same situation! Old crotchety manager that just likes to tell people what to do. I work at place that sells cards and party items. They were making paper plates with a dark skinned cartoon on it. The brown color was always really hard to make. They knew they made it right and had to have manager approval because she rejected the last one saying it wasn’t right. So they printed 3 different samples but they were all the same color they made. Sure enough, she came up, looked closely.. this is right one. Use this one. They laughed about it and told me the story years later. She ended up being forced to quit when I started. Happy ending.
Hexalyse · 1 points · Posted at 11:03:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder if the fact the he already read it before, made it "clearer" the second time... so he thought you changed it, when in fact he just needed a second pass to understand some things.
Human brain is weird.
agreeingstorm9 · 1794 points · Posted at 13:37:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did this in college once. Turned in a paper. It failed. Was told to re-write a bunch of it. I didn't have time and honestly was kind of lazy so I didn't. Turned it in again completely unchanged. It passed.
giraffe- · 725 points · Posted at 14:51:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They may have just gave you the credit for trying. I did this once with my professor, but was truthful with them in advanced that I didn’t have time to change anything. She originally gave me a D on it but ended up giving me a B.
troutscockholster · 20 points · Posted at 19:42:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They did the opposite of trying, they did nothing.
nocookie4u · 33 points · Posted at 18:38:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if the teacher didn't have the original and had no clue what OP wrote about the first time and what was wrong.
I've had plenty of teachers admit that they grade harder at the beginning and then more lazy at the end. We had a professor that we would always look at each others answers when we got the test back. Most of the time people would get graded differently for the same answer. Sometimes he didn't even add the grades up correctly, and this was for Finance Majors.
pls-answer · 6 points · Posted at 20:16:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my teachers straight tells us he won't read any assignments he gives us and will grade only based in if you sent something. I know one guy who sent a blank file, but almost everyone do them properly...
lumabean · 4 points · Posted at 21:52:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Passing classes in college is just a matter of trying and doing the HW. If i had focused on that I wouldn't have been to stressed about test and everything.
DoctorAquaman · 25 points · Posted at 16:08:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a professor who did that, but I think the point was to trick you into doing a first draft.
StreetLouis · 14 points · Posted at 17:19:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my university a TA or GA marks the paper first and if they allow you to redo it, it will be marked by the actual professor the second time. The TAs were probably trying too hard and failed you but the prof thought it was fine, it’s happened at my school many times.
benevolentpotato · 13 points · Posted at 17:33:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time for a humanities class I got my rough draft of my paper back with a note saying that it would take a lot of work to get it up to snuff. Well, I was studying engineering and didn't have a lot of time, so I just fixed the most egregious stuff and resubmitted it. We resubmitted with the rough draft rubric attached, and she wrote next to her original comment "I must've been in a bad mood when I wrote this" and gave me a solid B.
I appreciated the honesty.
BearimusPrimal · 7 points · Posted at 18:48:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had the opposite happen. Wrote a 12 page paper, was told it was too biased. Rewrote the whole thing giving the opposite side, the side she clearly supported, more back up and resubmitted it.
Was told I hadn't changed anything and got a D. Fuck that professor.
Craigiyama · 9 points · Posted at 17:06:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exact same thing happened with a teacher of mine back in school. Went to her with my assignment, she gave me a load of bs about what I needed to include that was already in it. Went away and came back with no changes and she said it was now much better. She still only gave me a B and I’m pretty sure she had just decided that was going to be my grade regardless of what I’d turned in.
isthisonetaken13 · 13 points · Posted at 17:56:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew a guy in high school who had to read Angela's Ashes and write a book report. He didn't read it. His first paragraph had some information about the book that he picked up in class. The next several paragraphs were about the best pastrami sandwich on rye he'd ever eaten. He went in detail to describe the pastrami, the mustard, the bread. He described how it tasted, how he remembered everything about the experience, and how sad he was that he was never able to find or make a pastrami sandwich on rye quite like that first one. Then, for good measure, he wrote two or three more sentences about Angela's Ashes.
He got an A-, and the teacher wrote 'good examples' on top of his paper.
C0NNECTING · 6 points · Posted at 18:30:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did this too. I didnt fail though. I got a 70 on a first draft. Was too lazy to redo it because I was studying for finals and figured at least 70 was passing so I submitted the same exact paper and got an 89.
IHateTomatoes · 5 points · Posted at 17:34:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother once missed the deadline for turning in a paper. A week later he turned in the same exact paper his friend did. My brother got a better grade.
mansontaco · 4 points · Posted at 17:48:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did this 3 times in the same class, E, C+, A then I told her I didnt change anything and she insisted I did
crazykitty123 · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In college I received a B- on a creative writing project. The next semester, my best friend turned in my story (different teacher) and got an A.
FizZzyOP · 2 points · Posted at 23:57:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing with me. We had a philosophy class where, instead of a final exam, we had a final paper. It was a pretty lax class, so the final paper was only like a 2700 word requirement. This paper was assigned to us halfway through the semester and, with about 3 weeks left in the semester, he had use turn in a rough draft of what we had so far for a grade (and to make sure people were actually working on the paper) with at least 2100 of the words and an outline of what else we wanted to do. I had already finished the paper completely, so I turned in the whole thing.
The professor gave us all grades for the rough draft as well as a projection of what he felt the paper would be graded as if the rest of the paper was of the same quality as the rough draft part. He gave me a projection of a C. I already had a guaranteed C in the class no matter what and a C was enough for me to get a B in the class, so I just did nothing with my paper and turned it in the exact same as it was with the rough draft. When we got our final grades posted online, I had an A on the paper.
This guy didn't have any TAs or anything either, so it wasn't a situation of one person grading it the first time and another grading it the second time.
wantanotherusername · 2 points · Posted at 00:15:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my classes was marked on 3 assignments. The first was handed in, and we all got our marks. For the second assignment, we noticed that we each got the same mark as before. Some classmates realised that their papers were in pristine condition, and didn't even have creases near the staple... as though they hadn't been opened and read. One classmate revealed that she hadn't even submitted a paper, because a family member had died in an accident... yet she, too, received a mark.
We, as a whole class, wrote a letter of complaint to the head of school, about this incident, and a number of other issues. Publicly, there were no repercussions for the professor, but he'd been outed as a lazy liar.
Oh, and we received marks for our final papers. Most people did rather well...
[deleted] · 1381 points · Posted at 13:26:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't mean to be nit-picky, but
aaboyhasnoname · 1428 points · Posted at 14:25:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
short for nicholas picholas
[deleted] · 56 points · Posted at 16:21:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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DuctTapeNinja99 · 10 points · Posted at 20:41:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm Pickle NIIIIIIIIIIIICCCKKKK!
I_LOVE_GUY_FEET · 32 points · Posted at 15:32:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This made me laugh way more than it should have
criuggn · -3 points · Posted at 20:35:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're weird as fuck, feet are gross
edit: damn i was joking around
I_LOVE_GUY_FEET · 10 points · Posted at 22:00:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha true, fuck you though
thissayssomething · 4 points · Posted at 23:25:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is one of my favorite threads ever.
Corndawgz · 11 points · Posted at 16:46:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
VIDEO ARCADE TOP 10
ZombieJesus1987 · 5 points · Posted at 18:17:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I loved that show!
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 15:38:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
had a little dicholas
ObiWanUrHomie · 9 points · Posted at 15:52:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope you get gold for this. So simple, so effective.
darkartorias0 · 7 points · Posted at 16:24:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now thats a name I haven't heard in a while.
Danulas · 3 points · Posted at 16:26:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the weirdest case of word association ever, but this comment has made me want to watch the Harry Potter movies because of Nicholas Flamel.
LordOfLiam · 3 points · Posted at 17:11:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or listen to the audio versions of the books. Stephen Fry’s narration is spectacular.
Nemeris117 · 4 points · Posted at 16:45:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People called me that in highschool since its close to my actual name.
aaboyhasnoname · 4 points · Posted at 16:56:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nick? Oh my god how’ve you been?
(jk i don’t actually know you but can you imagine?)
Nemeris117 · 5 points · Posted at 17:15:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am doing great. Hopefully you're doing well stranger. That would be pretty interesting if we knew eachother.
dayvarr · 3 points · Posted at 17:16:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is that his real name?
_justtheonce_ · 7 points · Posted at 14:49:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This made me chuckle at work. Thanks.
aaboyhasnoname · 7 points · Posted at 14:59:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
always a pleasure
Mango1666 · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
this started my morning right lmao
phogna_bologna · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like you
aaboyhasnoname · 2 points · Posted at 19:54:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
*teleports behind you*
GlenGanges · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TIL!
UnattractiveUnicorn · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is what I call my son! Hahahaha
NissanSkylineGT-R · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why did I just imagine Nicholas Cage
fuckcloud · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the name of a local radio dj...
shittmotel · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just giggled uncontrollably for about five minutes. Thank you.
Lord_Of_The_Tants · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The cousin of Timothy Jimothy.
79Potatoes · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hello my name is Strinkaringus, you may have met my brother, Gregory Tingus
from the creator of such classics as “Potion Seller”
oneburntwitch · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well that's the first time I've heard someone else talk about pickle.
SlothOfDoom · 442 points · Posted at 13:35:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nick Picky is a notorious quality control guy.
TalisFletcher · 197 points · Posted at 15:04:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
brb pitching a sitcom
gvsulaker82 · 13 points · Posted at 16:38:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Brb pitching a tent at the thought of your sitcom
LordOfLiam · 9 points · Posted at 17:12:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Umm
TigerSaint · 5 points · Posted at 17:45:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Network exec: “That’s the dumbest premise I’ve heard since those two morons tried to sell me on a show about nothing!”
Closer-To-The-Sun · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"From the channel that brought you The Big Bang Theory...."
quantum-mechanic · 3 points · Posted at 16:37:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He gets driven by the Russian limo driver, Pikov Dropov
_NerdKelly_ · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's Nick Burns' only friend.
roboticWanderor · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, for the old NPR show, Cartalk.
not_falling_down · 9 points · Posted at 14:55:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are correct. Given my profession, you'd think I'd be more careful about proofreading.
AshingiiAshuaa · 7 points · Posted at 17:25:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fun fact: Nits are lice eggs. Picking nits used to be a thing.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, and they used a Nit Pick to do it. Looks a lot like a flea comb.
Pessimistic_Idiot · 3 points · Posted at 14:25:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao, I was thinking this while reading it.
mrs-trellis · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I finally found out what this is recently! Nits is British for head lice. Hence fastidious attention while picking them off...
frankzzz · 5 points · Posted at 17:26:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nits are the eggs of head lice, so are even smaller.
GigglesBlaze · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I.. no.
Spoon1997 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This should be a copy pasta
Bowelhaver · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's actually spelled gnit-picky.
johnny_rockwell · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you
cashnprizes · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just wondering, why do you feel the need to make that correction?
This isn't meant to put you on the offensive; I'm genuinely curious
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because I'm nit-picky. I just don't mean to be. Actually, I do.
cashnprizes · 3 points · Posted at 21:18:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But
Timuravez · 0 points · Posted at 16:06:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this better?
Yellow_Triangle · -1 points · Posted at 16:41:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to criticize you, but.
gvsulaker82 · -5 points · Posted at 16:37:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to nit pick but you are being more offensive than nick picky.
madeamashup · 43 points · Posted at 16:03:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Last year I was doing carpentry for a boss with less experience than me. Overall he was an alright boss but he has this weird obsession that his lines were the straightest in the industry, and even though I did 99% of the actual work, he would always show up in time for the finishing touches, stand well back, and ask me to make microscopic adjudstments for several minutes until he was happy. "Drop that a sixteenth... move that a skinny eighth.." and so on.
One day it got to be too much, he asked me to lift one side of a fence board by "just a little, not very much at all" so I just bent over, tapped it with my pinky finger, and stood up. "OK good he says".
Another time he stood across the street from a front porch and asked me to move a deck board by a 32nd. He writes my checks so I have to go through all these motions but that day there was another trade present and this guy yells out "Bwahahaha there's no way you can see a 32nd from over there you JACKASS" and goes inside. My boss turned beet red and didn't have any more adjustment that day. I was choking down my laughter so hard I nearly pooped.
BefWithAnF · 10 points · Posted at 20:44:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work backstage in a theater, & someday I’ll write a memoir, but we have something called a French Alteration- if an actor asks for something to be taken in 1/4”, you take the costume away, leave it in the Wardrobe room for a while, & then bring it back to them & tell them how much better it looks.
madeamashup · 5 points · Posted at 20:54:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hah, that's a great phrase that will work well for carpentry as well. I'm taking it.
BefWithAnF · 4 points · Posted at 20:58:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s yours!
SoDakZak · 156 points · Posted at 14:18:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So YOU were the guy who designed the Spotify play button.
PM_ME_YOUR_BOOK_IDEA · 5 points · Posted at 17:45:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone who doesn't use spotify what do you mean?
TheBearDetective · 16 points · Posted at 18:01:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As somebody who does use spotify, I have no idea
Spiderette · 17 points · Posted at 15:54:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a design project in college with an idiot teacher who I knew was full of shit. After you handed it in and got a mark, you'd get feedback on it and we had the option to use the feedback to make adjustments and re-submit it for a new mark.
I got a 75 but all the instructor said was "looks pretty good". What the fuck do I do with that? So I resubmitted it untouched. My mark was bumped to a 90.
TotallyNotDalton · 37 points · Posted at 13:12:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amazing.
Happysin · 12 points · Posted at 16:29:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is a whole realm of psychology related to this. Basically, people want to feel like they have been heard. For sales, lots of processes suggest suggest sending proposals and saying they are 60% done, even if you're finished. Then use the back and forth to invest the buyer in the proposal even if nothing material changes. There is also an old story from product design where an artists manager always changed one thing in anything he submitted. His next assignment was a chess set for a computer game, so he made the whole thing, then added an ugly duck on the Queen piece that didn't match at all. Sure enough, the manager insists he remove the duck, and it will be great.
bradmanrocks · 10 points · Posted at 16:01:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing with my boss. Apparently the copy I sent him had used commas wrong all over the place. "MAKE SURE YOU EDIT BEFORE YOU SEND NEXT TIME" said the email. 1 hour later I sent the same thing back to him, "better, but be more careful next time." Totally a d$%$
Propaganda_Box · 8 points · Posted at 15:53:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I made radio ads I would get this all the time. "Oh the music is a little quiet could you turn it up?" Just add "REVISED" to the file name and resend.
"That's much better! Thanks, approved "
bittergold · 8 points · Posted at 16:25:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a micromanaging boss who sat me down to lecture me about mistakes that were slipping through the cracks. My opinion was that we had a very low margin of error for the amount of stuff that was coming through the office, but she wasn't having it and blamed me for all of it. I started copying her on all my emails. I didn't do anything differently, just let her see what I was doing to make sure everything was working correctly. She then complimented me on the improvement in my performance.
Branflakes1522 · 9 points · Posted at 16:46:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Alfred Hitchcock did that exact same thing for the shower scene in “Psycho”. The censorship committee threw a fit over the shower scene, saying it was too graphic for the audiences. Although he never showed the knife entering the girl, they still said it was too gruesome.
Hitchcock left and came back the next day. He didn’t change a single thing. The censorship committee then approved the scene, saying it was less gruesome than before
golden_n00b_1 · 6 points · Posted at 15:53:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
... THESE ARE THE SAME TWO MOVIES!!!
Volraith · 3 points · Posted at 16:33:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't appreciate your ruse.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:06:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to do this when my mom wasn't happy with how I did my chores (mainly cleaning my room or bathroom).
3-DMan · 9 points · Posted at 15:29:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in AV.
"Turn it up just a little, you have it too low"
pretend to do something
"Perfect!"
harrowbird · 3 points · Posted at 16:24:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a daily thing at my job. So infuriating how pride has to creep in to every waking moment of these middle-management types’ shitty little lives.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:44:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sadly don't remember who this was, but I heard on a podcast about a guy who worked either as a music producer, or a sound designer for film. When the producer or director would say that something was missing, but not be able to put their finger on what it was, he would tell them to adjust this potmeter until it sounded right. This was a bit back in the day so he had a custom built mixing desk he had assembled himself, and when doing so he installed a knob for this purpose, not connected to anything. It's really easy to fall for the placebo effect when doing sound; most sound engineers you talk to will admit to having adjusted some effect until it sounded good only to notice that they had forgotten to turn it on.
Bhima · 4 points · Posted at 16:59:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work with a boss like that. After working for him for a couple of years I discovered that more than one of my coworkers would leave little flaws in the work (excel spreadsheets and the like) for him to complain about and correct and this tactic would often prevent him from sending back a perfectly good document for "rework".
poofybirddesign · 5 points · Posted at 17:14:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my boss does this ether he has forgotten his original vision for the piece or he’s really just looking for more options. Ether way I’m getting paid, and often we end up using the extra options for something else.
Similarly, if he starts talking about something he has an idea for and I’m between projects I preemptively start working on the thing he’s talking about because I will invariably be asked to work on it a month down the line.
Theprefs · 3 points · Posted at 19:54:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Known as the Hairy-arm Technique http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-the-hairy-arm-technique-to-manage-your-boss-2013-11?IR=T
insanechipmunk · 3 points · Posted at 16:37:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
*nitpicky
Just an FYI cause I seriously thought I may have been saying that wrong for about 20 years. Which is not an uncommon occurrence for me...
adhdnd · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nitpick!
not_falling_down · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, I saw the typo after someone pointed it out, but left it because several people had pointed it out.
adhdnd · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You don't often get to nitpick a nitpick!
CynicalCheer · 3 points · Posted at 17:22:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds like all of my EPRs/performance reports.
Got my EPR emailed back to me from the Chief of my squadron with a few areas highlighted that he thought needed to be changed.
One of the sections he wanted changed was my job description. The job description isn't written by me or my supervisor, it's written by my flight leadership. Anyways, I didn't change anything and just sent it back to him a couple days later and, lo and behold, it passed no problem.
To this day I don't understand why he even bothered. He was retiring soon anyways so it's not like he needed to justify what he did all day.
willewell · 3 points · Posted at 17:24:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similarly, my middle school art teacher chose favorite students. In her eyes I was made of gold, while one of my good friends was nothing but an awful delinquent who had no talent. She took her piece up to the teacher and was told it was hideous and had to change pretty much all of it. Frustrated, she came back to the table and gabbed (in all fairness, she wasn’t a very ‘good’ student). About fifteen minutes later, I grabbed her untouched drawing and brought it up to be met with praises about my overflowing talent and artistry; it was perfect, I’m getting 100% on the project. I flipped it over to show my friend’s name on the back and wordlessly went back to the table to finish up my project. Of course, she then had to give my friend 100% because she had just exclaimed to the class how wonderful it was. I don’t know how I managed to stay on her good side after that, but it was pretty satisfying.
mlpr34clopper · 3 points · Posted at 19:05:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lol. i tried something like this on a boss who came off as real disinterested when approving quality...figured he was just picking random changes to look like he actually was caring... only to get the reply "this is exactly the same. You didn't think i was actually looking? huh? well i was. That really did need to be fixed, and now it's to late. NICE. "
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 13:21:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you end up banging her or nah?
Yasslord6900 · 22 points · Posted at 13:30:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How else would that story end?
therubberyducky · 20 points · Posted at 13:33:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Obviously with a bang
Tinfoilpain · -9 points · Posted at 14:20:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He shot her... at a school.
SlothOfDoom · 12 points · Posted at 13:35:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And then everyone clapped.
LouQuacious · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hate to NITpick here but it’s nitpicking...
FrozenSquirrel · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When designing something for a difficult client, I was introduced to the concept of the ‘fire plug’, an easily changed element that the client will instinctively piss on, leaving the rest of the design unscathed.
cbelt3 · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a boss that would pick until he found something. We decided he did that so he would feel useful. So we would leave an obvious error in the second page of every report. Then print the whole thing again with the error fixed. He would go over it, find the error. And then.... We would have all day to fuck around “fixing the problem with the design”.
Trorkin · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a story the comedian Joey Diaz tells.
A club wanted to hire him but the boss insisted on him sending and audition tape. Diaz sensed it was a power move and posted him a blank tape.
He received a phone call from the club boss praising his hilarious tape and was hired.
Love_loss · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Something to consider from possibly the other side of the story: I worked with a team of idiots and fairly frequently they would come to me for a document review. I always gave a full review, noting every correction that was required. Inevitably, they would make half the corrections and leave the other half of them untouched and resubmit. Eventually I just have to sigh and say "Looks great! Thanks." when I'm really just thinking to myself, "I gave them the corrections, all they had to do was make the updates as indicated... but I guess this is the best they are capable of producing."
alejo_sc · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had this problem too with my last boss (marketing/fundraising)! When I was first hired she rejected everything I wrote, returned it covered in literal red ink like I was back in high school or something.
It got to the point where I thought I was going to be fired by the end of the first month. Finally I was so fed up that the next time she gave me an assignment, I dug through her archives on the shared network drive, called up what she had written for the same press release a year before (annual event), and just adjusted the details.
She ripped to shreds - the tone was wrong, the word choice was poor, it didn't capture the spirit of the company. That was when I knew it really has nothing to do with my writing skills.
Ironically...I stuck with it, and with time she learned to trust me. We ended up as friends, but man those first months were bad.
botojomomo · 3 points · Posted at 20:26:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you tell her what you did with her old work?
alejo_sc · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I never did, haha
vampyrita · 2 points · Posted at 19:07:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had that happen at my last job. I worked at a dry cleaners anx was pressing a blouse or something. My manager looked at it and told me to fix the hem or whatever. Honestly, i forgot about it. I fixed something else on the shirt and never touched the hem. She comes back and says "the hem looks perfect!" I laughed about it later, but was mostly dumbfounded at the time
RSpudieD · 2 points · Posted at 21:02:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did that with my graphic design teacher....I knew what he wanted me to do was bad so I didn't, waited a day, and showed him again...except I told him I didn't change anything and he was shocked. He never questioned my ideas after that....
geared4war · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to do that. My stupid new boss told me to change an advertisement for M$ that would breach a few rules in the advertising of their brand. It would have lost us the account and cost a fucking huge amount.
I went to the big boss because my boss wouldn't listen. Turns out that he and my new manager were best mates so he also wanted the changes.
I rand the head of the department we were doing the ad for at M$ and told him what was happening. I gave him both bosses telephone numbers and then I went to lunch.
My mobile went nuts about twenty minutes later but I ignored it.
Handed in my notice when I got back. It was a great job until those two started and they had friends all the way up. No way I would ever win so I left on my own terms.
jlynn00 · 2 points · Posted at 00:28:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kinda/sorta similar: for my honor's thesis I had to receive IRB approval for my ethnographic research. I submitted a proposal that was a copy and paste (with minor edits) by my advisor from a previous IRB proposal with a very similar level of sensitivity and cultural group. That proposal was granted approval quickly, yet mine was rejected with a laundry list of edits and questions.
I resubmitted it over and over after adding their edits, and it was rejected for 7 months. I finally just resubmitted the first one that I originally sent and, what do you know, it was approved. Along with their approval they also attached a "see, it wasn't that hard wink wink" message to their email.
I would have let them know after my presentation if I wasn't nervous they may retroactively pull their approval and cause my thesis to be invalid or something.
Noorquacker · 3 points · Posted at 15:40:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me, a perfectionist: (computes checksum of both files just to say they're exactly the same)
not_falling_down · 5 points · Posted at 15:46:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No computers involved - this was before desktop publishing.
ObiWanUrHomie · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao sounds like my boss.
anarchisturtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a theatre technician. I can't tell you how many times my director has said the sound sounds bad. Or to make it rounder, or curvier, or some other rediculous instruction. I'll usually change the gain my like 1db and say how's that. He thinks I'm the only one who"speaks" his language
Hugo154 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why you should make a single subtle but noticeable error, so that the person approving it has something to point out to make them feel smarter.
dennisthewhatever · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Alfred Hitchcock did the same thing with Psycho and the censorship board. Just pretended to trim to shower scene.
greekhop · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a daily occurrence for mixing engineers in studios around the world. "Can you make (insert random sound/instrument) like 1 decibel louder?". Sure, here you go (pretends to move fader). "Yeah Perfect!"
scsm · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would do that ALL the time when I used to do production for radio commercials in a medium sized market. Client would want it louder here, different music, etc. I quickly learned they just wanted to sound like they knew what they were talking about. So I would send them the exact same file and get it approved 100% of the time.
TheRealSmom · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to do a ton of soundboard work, and that's something I did all the time when the stage noise mix was good and someone wanted something adjusted. I'd act like a turned it up or down and they'd say "sweet thanks, it's perfect."
fuckcloud · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sell suits. My tailor does this all the time. They just like the power trip/ attention
O2C · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With some people, you need to leave an obvious (but easily fixable) mistake in that you somehow "overlooked". That way they can feel better about themselves, useful and/or superior by pointing out said misstake.
devospice · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've worked at places that have done that with clients. It's fun.
golde62 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nick-picky? Do people say nick? Is it nick? I’ve always wrote it and said it nit
jackwatsonOHyeah · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
nick-picky?
burymeinpink · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My advisor teacher used to do that. I'd send her the first draft, she'd correct it, I'd send her the second draft, she'd correct the same things she herself had written before. So I'd just tell her I corrected it and send her the same version.
Tinfoilpain · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't understand people like this... Like why?
rasta41 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a music teacher like this. Composed a song as one of the assignments...he told me to change a part of the song "because it will sound way better"...I didn't do it and played him the same song again about 20 minutes later, and this time he was all about it. Even asked me if I felt like it was better "this way"...
Hashbrowns_Senpai · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Last semester I didn’t want to actually do the civics assignment so I basically copy and pasted another report I had done for English (I made it about why drugs(and I mean hardcore shit) should be legal) and I got a fucking 7/8 (IB grading system it’s basically an -a or +b)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the fuck is satisfying about that? They never even knew they got got
not_falling_down · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's the quiet personal satisfaction of knowing I was right.
getoffthebandwagon · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have used this trick regularly when annoying clients ask for deliberately pointless minuscule changes to an artwork proof (moving something a few millimetres or pixels, making a colour 1% darker etc). It’s often just so they feel self-important or can justify their job. Just send back the same artwork and voila, they love it.
clumps_paper · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A photographer once told me about a technique he called a "hairy arm". It isn't quite the same, but similar. He sometimes leaves a model's arm hair in the picture so that the customer will ask him to airbrush the hair away. The customer feels that they have contributed expertise, and he only has to do something he was going to do anyway. This is reserved for people he thinks (or knows) will be picky for its own sake.
TheMeisterOfThings · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Isn’t there a Michelangelo story like that?
Judissimo · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think I found my first wild eggcorn!
Cherish_Dipp · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do that so much, it's kind of hilarious.
_Contrive_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do graphic design, I printed out something and showed it to the client and they said they wanted it less burnt orange color. Left and brought it back 5 minutes later and they were like "this is perfect"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A web design trick I learned during my short and brutal time in the field was to make the logo about half the size you actually want it. Because, no matter how big your initial logo is, the client will always want it bigger.
Bufferkiller · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an NCO order me to write a 5k word essay on informing my chain of command about appointments after I got a last second appointment change before PT. I called him a dozen or more times to tell him before having to just go to PT in BDUs. He scolded me for not letting him know, with his phone hanging around his neck showing 20 something missed calls (not all me, it was an old flip phone, I’m old.) He said if he doesn’t answer, that’s on me and ordered I wrote the essay.
I didn’t HAVE to do it. While something NCO’s do often as a punishment or whatever, it’s not something a soldier has to do. It also wasn’t the first thing he tried to order me to do, it was his second choice.
Anyway, I wrote less than 5k words about a fictional character named kahlua jack and how he got fired from his job as a golf ball. It was ridiculous and filled with run-on sentences and infuriating grammatical errors. I gave it to him, and posted copies all over the motorpool. He never reacted, so I asked him during formation what he thought of it. He said he felt I’d learned my lesson and if I messed up again, he’d make me right another. The platoon’s laughter was better than heroin.
cannondave · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lpt: hairy arm- strategy - to counter such persons, do your regular job, fuck up something obvious on purpose, have boss point it out to feel important, fix the issue, deliver, everybody happy.
demostravius · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had similar things but less malicious. Boss would always change his mind, then later on decide on something else which would inevitably be the first draft. Mostly just did one and claimed I changed it, or at least kept the 1st one and handed it to him as the 3rd.
someoldbroad · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is really common and almost SOP for design, in my experience. I’ve had design jobs in which I’ve worked with people who’ve told very similar stories. We built walks and snacks and coffee breaks into the workflow to replicate the experience of stepping away and taking a fresh look
Spartelfant · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did a similar thing with a paper in school. Got it back with the comment that it was good, but too long. So 2 days later I handed in the exact same thing, except this time it was printed doublesided. Even got bonus point for being so quick about it :)
bornfrustrated · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Been there. I run random specials (it's a bar/cafe) when I'm bored. I've written them all down and illustrated the plating in my notebooks. A good portion of our updated menu was "my boss' idea." I no longer share my intellectual property to be named something lame and not vaguely sexual.
MjauDuuude · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did this when I did a girls makeup for prom. She was convinced that the eyeshadow was darker on one eye and I told her that no, it isn’t but she persisted so I just used a clean makeup brush and she thought it looked so much better!
Maphover · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Want quick approval? Make it flawless apart from one glaring error. I believe it's called the arm hair effect. The approver picks up the error and all is approved. People gotta validate their position.
MenacingJowls · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you for the story! It's nit-pick ( nits are lice eggs)
yrulaughing · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
nit-picky*
Hexalyse · 1 points · Posted at 11:01:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you think it could also be related to the attitude you had/how you were feeling/your body language when you turned it in ?
Or was she really that much in need of control ?
not_falling_down · 2 points · Posted at 14:25:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, it was all about control, and her not feeling powerless.
On my part, it was about not needlessly redoing a hand-lettered headline just because she thought she saw a tiny flaw in it.
uni-versalis · 1 points · Posted at 11:51:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did that working for very fancy brands. When searching for color for a branding i printed some color twice on the chromalin test print and deeply enjoyed seeing the team trying to decide which one of the “warm rich purple” or “slightly blu-ish purple” they preferred.
unsignedcharizard · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:04 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of ducks, intentionally stupid features for decision makers to comment on so they can feel like they're helping without ruining the actual product:
itrhymeswithreally · -2 points · Posted at 15:22:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This isn’t catching a person lying
not_falling_down · 5 points · Posted at 15:26:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sure it is. She was lying when she said there was a problem with the ad that needed to be fixed.
TechniChara · 0 points · Posted at 17:54:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an awful coworker that was nit-picky. Unfortunately, she was also extremely detail oriented, so there would be no resubmission of the original. She would get hung up on the stupidest things, like the cell formatting of an internal-use spreadsheet. The cell is bordered by thin lines instead of thick and don't line up nicely with the unrelated cells frozen at the top? Literally unusable! And she will pause and "fix" it then bitch and moan about how we "don't know how to use excel."
munchiesssss · -1 points · Posted at 17:01:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"I never let on"
You never led her on to beleive, you mean? Potato avocado i guess
not_falling_down · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No - never let on :: meaning "reveal or divulge information to someone."
munchiesssss · -1 points · Posted at 17:19:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Potater tomater
SwiftyMcBold · 162 points · Posted at 17:31:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Here's a good one: I'm in the military (British army), my dad bought me a nice gshock watch to say good luck when I was in training, about half way through we go on exercise, coming back on the coach everyone is always tired and sleeps the whole way back, I take my watch off at the beginning of the ride, put it in the top of my daysack but I forgot to zip it up, obviously it falls out and I forget about it, the corporal does a sweep of the coach and asks if anyone lost a watch, I didn't think so, so said nothing, another lad goes, yep, looks at it and says it's his. We spend the weekend sorting kit out and I realise I can't find my watch, I feel shit that I've lost it, Sunday night I head to the showers and the showers are literally a big box with about 10 shower heads, plenty of lads in there, I see the guy who claimed to lose his watch and say 'shit that's my fucking watch!' he's adamantly saying it's his, got it recently, it's a common watch, his mate says he's only just started wearing it, the guy will not admit he stole it, i say 'if it's 100% yours you won't have any problems showing me the inside?' he gets really defensive, the others in the shower tell him to prove it, he gives in, on the inside of the watch is my initials and the last four of my army number my dad had engraved for me. I snatched it out of his hand, called him a fucking thief and threw his towel in the shower and walked off while everyone got pissed that they share a room with a guy who steals shit.
Colin_XD · 17 points · Posted at 06:38:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good
SoDakZak · 6015 points · Posted at 14:25:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TL;DR friend found out GF was cheating on him to start a 6+ hour car ride she couldn’t escape from.
Not me, but a friend of mine was just starting a long road trip to drop his girlfriend off after a trip (6+ hours) and they stopped at a gas station at the start where she ran in to get some snacks and use the restroom but left her phone there.
Up pops a text message from a guy saying something like “You back from your trip yet babe?”
She comes back and he had enough time to compose himself to calmly ask her question after question slowly circling closer to the point where she realizes the jig is up and then he gets to go off on her as she tearfully admits to everything over the next several hours.
I never want to be cheated on, but if I ever had been I wouldn’t be opposed to them being a captive audience for several hours.
hr_shovenstuff · 3222 points · Posted at 15:33:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It doesn’t make you feel any better, trust me.
NSA_Chatbot · 886 points · Posted at 16:16:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah.
I don't know for certain that my ex was cheating, but it's the mist likely scenario.
Jenga_Police · 569 points · Posted at 17:28:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was thinking about my lying ex when I realized so few of the comments in this thread were about catching a cheating ex because it's not satisfying. You want so badly to be wrong.
perpetualwalnut · 18 points · Posted at 19:21:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Absolutely. Sometimes you just want them gone.
chrisdbliss · 11 points · Posted at 20:00:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This. And even if you’re dumb enough to reconcile and continue dating and then it happens again. It really doesn’t get better.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:16:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was actually reading through this for the same thing, as I dated a serial cheater, and caught her several times. The final time I had the last laugh. But I will say, I thought 99% of them were horrible, saving the last 1% for that final time. But in retrospect, that final time, about a month ago, was just as bad as the others.
hellseashell · 11 points · Posted at 20:30:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You wanna be wrong cuz that shit fucks you up forever. If someone so much as is slightly later than they said, my trust in them is gone. I mean i respect people and I give them a chance for redemption cause I know its me, but like. I cant trust my judgement in people anymore, i think most people are bullshitting me. Fuck cheaters, especially the kind who threaten you with violence towards yourself of themselves if you leave them because of it. (I guess i have a type)
York_Phoenix · 9 points · Posted at 21:02:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate that aspect most of all. I want so badly to trust people, but every relationship I have the cynical side in me ruins by worrying about cheating. I don't want to think about it, but it's there, and it makes it so hard for me to put myself out there.
NSA_Chatbot · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, but you have to just trust that the new person isn't as big of a jerk.
CaptureEverything · 2 points · Posted at 03:17:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Funny thing, she always is
shenanigins · 6 points · Posted at 21:18:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been both guys before. No matter how you cut it, the whole situation is fucked. I think I'm pretty conscious of it now, but sometimes maybe too skeptical. Plus side, knowing the pain, I'll never put someone else through that. That's a pain worse than dying I found.
Brandilikey · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so true.
OneLineRoast · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
To some? Sure. To others? Nah. I see it as a "well. Shit. That's done. Goodbye and I don't think I wanna ever talk to you again" because if someone is rubbish enough to not breakup first then they can suck the fat end of a tube and stick it up their ass. Cheating is usually unforgivable to most people and while you can love them, and that shit hurts, it's better knowing that you're better off without them and going off to find someone else in the world who will love you right.
Jenga_Police · 1 points · Posted at 07:16:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That comes after. I was talking about before you're certain they're cheaters. The guy in the top comment said his friend and gf lived 6 hours away. I'm sure he had his suspicions and there were times she wouldn't answer him for unreasonably long periods of time or other suspicious things. While those things were happening, before he had the proof of the text message, he didn't want to believe the signs that she was cheating. He said to himself, "I'm sure she's just taking a nap at noon on a Tuesday, that's not weird behavior", and "yes, I believe that she dropped her phone in the couch cushions at 10 pm and didn't use it all night".
elitebuster · 12 points · Posted at 18:16:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know that feeling.
theolrazzzledazzzle · 11 points · Posted at 20:17:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught my ex right before the physical cheat. Like in the flirting, testing the waters stage. That shit makes you sick. Catching someone betraying you is one of the worst feelings. I'm feeling it now and it's disgusting. Especially! After you've told them how awful you think cheating is.
Nothing_Nice_2_Say · 9 points · Posted at 19:23:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username does not check out
bigigantic54 · 4 points · Posted at 21:59:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
crazicus · 7 points · Posted at 18:31:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I can relate to that
BojanglesDeloria · 6 points · Posted at 22:52:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the same boat. Dated a girl for a year and went to college while she was still a senior in High School. Everything was good and one day she all of a sudden became really distant and hard to talk to. Broke up with me over text and started dating someone in her grade within a few weeks. Maybe not explicitly cheated on, but it seems obvious that she had become involved with this other guy and had to break things off. No worse feeling in the world. This was about a year and a half ago and i still have cripplingly low self esteem, still cant stop taking drugs to numb that pain, and still wonder what I did wrong.. Cant imagine what it feels like to actually know
NSA_Chatbot · 2 points · Posted at 23:06:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You didn't do anything wrong. It wasn't the way you acted, it wasn't your dick size, it was just the other person being like that. You got a bad apple, my friend, it's not your teeth, it's not all apples.
Cut down on the drugs. At least stick to booze and pot.
I got gaslit a lot about it. Asked all the time if I was cheating, if I had someone else waiting, accusing me of flirting, dressing and working out to look sexier. (Which was for my ex's benefit)
BojanglesDeloria · 3 points · Posted at 23:34:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow that's a great way to put it. Thanks for the nice words kind stranger and all the same back to you. No one deserves to feel that way. The pain is certainly beginning to subside but I'm sure I still have a long way to go.
lilpenguin1028 · 2 points · Posted at 06:34:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was dating/friends with my ex for 5 years. A couple months before she broke up with me she thought i was cheating on her, cuz one of the guys she was talking to said it might be happening. (the guys i knew about were depressed/cutters like her but i never met most of them, and she said she was only talking to them to support them, which i don't have much reason to disbelieve.) the guy in question (iirc) she said she wasn't interested in, and while she and i were dating he would try to give her expensive gifts and she would have to find a way to turn him down. (according to her. I never witnessed it)
Within like 2 weeks (it may have been longer) of our breakup she was with someone new, (who turned out to be a massive asshole, or so i heard). The breakup was poorly explained by her, eventually (read: a couple years later) she told me she just didn't love me anymore and just didn't know the words to say it at the time. I handled the bread up almost as bad as she delivered it. Took almost 5 years to let go of the last of my feelings on the matter, but i still get angry from time to time when i see reminders of her. Is this normal, reddit? (or within accepted parameters? Lol)
Also bojangles, if it helps: while i was dealing with this breakup i focused on some of the same things and now i can't properly remember what was actually happening at that time. I do remember when i could finally relax and let go of the last hangup though: i finally realized (and said aloud) that what she did no longer mattered to me (not that i was Facebook stalking her or anything like that. It was just a constant back of the mind thing i couldn't figure out for the longest time.) I hoped she'd be happy but it didn't matter anymore if she was or wasn't. And i wasn't willing to keep sacrificing MY happiness for nonsensical extra anxiety/depression. i will likely never know the complete truth of what happened then but it doesn't matter now. I haven't found anyone new yet but I'm hopeful. I'm tired of being alone but I'm doing better than i have in a while. I've got several new friends, more niblings (thanks reddit!) than i can shake a stick at, and a couple shots of fireball on the weekends if i have a particularly tough day, assuming my roommate hasn't drank them on me lol.
If you want to talk feel free to message me. I can't promise immediate replies but i will as soon as i can.
sHoRtBuSseR · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
Kneel_Before_Non · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same, to be honest.
bassinine · 82 points · Posted at 16:48:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
yep, only way to deal with a cheating ex is to tell them it's over for good and leave with a smile on your face - and absolutely no social media posts or texts about it.
you can cry or punch shit when you're alone, but this is the only way to go out with any dignity.
revenge or petty punishments just make you look even more pathetic.
viiceria · 23 points · Posted at 17:31:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That makes you a way better person than me, my inner sadist gets a stomach full of butterflies just thinking about it
Autoloc · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
was just thinking "yes it totally does"
slanid · 21 points · Posted at 17:43:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It feels like it’s feeling better, and then you realize you’re just repeating the subject for hours because you’re trying to make it not real. Feels like shit when you come down from your adrenaline high of catching them, and then you wanna die.
butthole_commander · 2 points · Posted at 19:58:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep. Doesn't make you feel better at all. Pointing out in excruciating detail how shitty they were does nothing for you. It feels utterly hollow.
SonOfSparda304 · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hell I would've just ditched her at the nearest bus stop or airport with her stuff.
h2k2k · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree... I mean, you want to know and have to know but it doesn't feel good especially if you're married with kids like I was. Way better to be cheated on when single but still hurts so bad.
Korberos · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Would have felt great to stop at another gas station, let her out and make sure she takes her phone, then message her saying you know about the other guy and leave her ass stranded.
I mean, it probably wouldn't feel better at the time, but you know it would feel better when you got to tell the story to your friends who were supporting you through the breakup.
slucas34 · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really just makes you feel worse imo
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it doesn't. That's for sure.
yoyohayli · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It certainly didn't make me feel better. But I wasn't the one holding him captive for a few hours...it was the other girl. She had him on the phone telling me how fucked up he was for cheating on me AND her at the same time with each other. We both thought we were his girlfriend.
I wanted that call to end so badly but I didn't want to leave her to deal with him alone.
mlpr34clopper · -17 points · Posted at 19:09:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
sucks worse being the captive, when you know telling the truth "i didn't break it off with you sooner because i was afraid you'd react exactly like this" will make them freak even worse...
Deadmeet9 · 4 points · Posted at 22:06:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao you're a shitty person
mlpr34clopper · -4 points · Posted at 00:46:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do try.
90sclockradio · 65 points · Posted at 16:16:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why did he continue the trip?
Geminii27 · 113 points · Posted at 17:53:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To drive the point home.
masterofpowah · 4 points · Posted at 20:05:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I see what you did there
Tides_Typhoon · 12 points · Posted at 17:55:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's kinda evil to leave anyone hrs away from home after you committed to bringing them back.
Its_mee_kimchee · 88 points · Posted at 18:10:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s also evil to betray your SO’s trust by cheating on them, so I guess it works out in the end.
Tides_Typhoon · 77 points · Posted at 18:15:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We dont disagree that cheating is generally evil. What I'm saying is that my sense of morality isnt dependant on what others do.
Its_mee_kimchee · 52 points · Posted at 18:16:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit, man, you’re just a better person than I am, then. Plain and simple.
Edit: grammar :s
GoldLegends · 7 points · Posted at 19:44:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a great saying. Thank you for that.
fluffmiceter · -2 points · Posted at 19:54:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But if you don’t put forth consequences to what others do to you, people will take advantage of you with ease. In the context of this story, what OP did wasn’t necessary, but I would avoid setting out to be the “nice guy”.
Tides_Typhoon · 9 points · Posted at 21:11:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is a consequence. We are no longer dating.
That said, I'm gonna follow thru on my responsibilities. If I told someone that I'd bring them home safely, I will assume that they depend on me to get home, so I'm gonna follow up. I would hate to have someone trust me with their safety, and after I abandon them, something bad happens to them.
Yeah, she broke her partner's trust, but he doesn't have to be malicious as a response. To me, that's not justice; that's revenge.
Edit: spelling
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:13:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, I wouldn't ditch her on the side road, but I wouldn't definite just come back and let her at a hotel or bus station
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 20:08:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No enforcement of rules means there are no rules.
AnalCreampies4Jesus · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have the new BF buy her a bus ticket
Baruch_S · 4 points · Posted at 21:01:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think “evil” is a little strong; maybe “petty.” He would’ve left her at a gas station. She wouldn’t have been in danger or anything, just horribly inconvenienced.
Tides_Typhoon · 8 points · Posted at 21:06:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fear is an individual thing. I'm a 6'4", 220lb man, and I would feel really unsafe if I was abandoned at a random gas station far from home. I could easily be robbed. If I was a woman, I would fear a lot of other things, so I guess you're just less fearful than me.
metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 20:17:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They make airplanes and buses.
noisypeach · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Neither of which come to pick you up wherever you are in the middle of nowhere.
metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 13:56:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn't say to leave her in the middle of nowhere. I said to leave her wherever the start point is.
Throwmeaway953953 · 221 points · Posted at 16:10:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I probs just would have left her at that gas station and told her that her boy toy can come pick her up
Jenga_Police · 56 points · Posted at 17:31:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Text the guy who called her babe with the address of the gas station.
turn phone ringer on max.
leave the phone on the floor where the car was parked.
Drive home.
Cry for days.
zimzamzoom2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would you even do that? Just dump her on the side of a random-ass road and go about your life.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 20:55:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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tentacleparade · 10 points · Posted at 21:11:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
casual
zimzamzoom2 · 2 points · Posted at 21:21:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Then drop her off at some shitty fast food joint on the highway. Adults can make their own way home.
ShhlappaDaBass · 155 points · Posted at 16:45:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“But we’re 5 hours and 45 minutes from home now?”
Yup let’s see if he thinks you’re worth it or else the next dick you’re suckin is a truck drivers.
ProtoMonkey · 30 points · Posted at 17:34:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is exactly what I would’ve done/said. I’m amazed so few have the balls to stand-up for themselves after being betrayed.
Ridley413 · 56 points · Posted at 17:44:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
C'mon, this really depends on the specifics of the situation, which we aren't working with. If you know that she would be highly inconvenienced, but realistically could find a different ride, then yeah, that would be my response.
If you were straight up marooning her, then no, a dick move regardless.
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 18:47:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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noisypeach · -6 points · Posted at 07:42:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No it's not. Cheating doesn't risk a person's safety. This does.
LivelyZebra · 23 points · Posted at 19:11:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She already did.
metastasis_d · 6 points · Posted at 20:18:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean how marooned can a person be if they have a phone? It just may cost them way more to get unmarooned.
Hellectika · 13 points · Posted at 18:39:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The bitch should have thought about that before she betrayed his feelings and trust so she could get fucked. She deserves to be treated like an asshole because she is one.
RexKnotWithin · 9 points · Posted at 18:01:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I were him, I would read the text and hand her phone from a ever so slightly cracked window juuuust enough for the phone to slip through. After taking a screenshot of the text, to make sure she is aware, of course. Sometimes actions speak louder than words, there really is nothing to say at that point, IMO.
carlotta4th · 6 points · Posted at 18:37:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. Look up bus routes, give her money for a ticket, and leave her at the bus stop. (That way you get to dump her without feeling like you left her in a dangerous situation).
deathboyuk · 2 points · Posted at 20:40:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. Drive off, phone's left on the floor with the message at the top. Tara!
dont_remember_eatin · 6 points · Posted at 18:18:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate unnecessary conflict to the point that I would have probably continued with the trip without mentioning it, and just before dropping her off at her place, I'd simply state that I knew everything, and she could collect her stuff whenever she wanted, but that we were over, no questions, no discussion, no backpedaling.
Pathstrider · 200 points · Posted at 16:06:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd just tell her to get out
FeatheredSun · 24 points · Posted at 18:21:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
[pull up at the Greyhound station]
"Welp, here we are. You can take it from here. I'm hurt right now...but...since I'll never see you again...have a good life."
Lovat69 · 12 points · Posted at 18:07:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can walk there.
rex1030 · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea, I would have just tossed her stuff out at that gas station and left.
seriouslees · 28 points · Posted at 16:25:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was this 6+ hour car ride to drop her off along his way, or out of his way? Also, either way, wouldn't the much better revenge be kicking her out and driving off, leaving her 12+ hours from home after having to call her sidepiece to come pick her up?
xoxota99 · 47 points · Posted at 16:22:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
six fucking hours? man I would have dropped that bitch at the bus station. Bye Felicia!
AskmeifImasquirrel · 30 points · Posted at 17:12:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At the bus station? You’re too kind.
USxMARINE · 8 points · Posted at 18:18:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's not. It's a greyhound station!
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN
dinosaur_apocalypse · 70 points · Posted at 16:55:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everybody saying that they would have left her slut ass at a gas station 6 hours from home.
Being cheated on is absolutely crushing. I’ve been there. So while it’s so tempting to leave them in the middle of nowhere to fend for themselves, there’s usually that little something in you that still has some sort of emotion for them. At the very least you want closure. “Why did you do it? Am I not good enough? How long has it been going on?”
They may have ripped your heart out and held it aloft like an Aztec offering a sacrifice to the gods of pain and heartache and despair, but it’s such a sudden and devastating blow that shifts your worldview, keeping them in the car for six hours could almost be comforting, even as nauseating as it is. Hell. You may still be in denial. Again. Closure.
At the very least, you can take the high road. Come out on top in that relationship and win the breakup.
Or. Maybe. No. And just dump their ho ass in the middle of the desert. Whatever helps you grieve, I suppose.
SoDakZak · 34 points · Posted at 17:34:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah when he told us this he said by the end of it he went through every stage of sadness and came out resolute. He was such a joy to be around after that and shortly thereafter met his now wife.
metastasis_d · 7 points · Posted at 20:20:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So keep her in the car for an hour, say your piece, and then drop her off 5 hours from home.
xPofsx · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is what i would do
Littleballofdurr · -1 points · Posted at 20:38:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was thinking every scenario you mentioned. I was also thinking the most likely place for her to know people is at either end of the 6 hour road trip.
That's why I think the best move is to drive her halfway. Gets your closure and leaves her ho ass in the middle of nowhere.
If you're still feeling empathy you can tell her beforehand and let her start trying to find a ride. "I'm only driving you as far as barstow"...after you get your closure, of course.
Paynefanbro · 12 points · Posted at 18:04:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just a heads up, your post says
I don't know if this confused anyone else but I had to read it over a solid 10 times before I realized you meant "at the start of a 6+ hour car ride".
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:54:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I ended a relationship in the middle of a road trip. Can confirm, not fun.
Thundaklutch · 19 points · Posted at 16:14:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck. I would have dropped her off at a random gas station as far as possible from where she lives.
ihaveapentax · 5 points · Posted at 18:49:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why put the tl:dr at the beginning? It ruins your story.
Huff_Toots · 121 points · Posted at 15:08:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It started as a road trip with his girlfriend, it ended with him driving with some slut for 6 hours.
Czral · 3 points · Posted at 18:35:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Try being trapped in a lease with them for two more months.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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wambam17 · 3 points · Posted at 20:24:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you do, it's likely that your SO already knows or will ask you at least once.
That being said, some people never use those kinda words and then seeing them getting texts like "I miss you babe" can be pretty shocking. So in that way, it's probably different than your position. I wouldn't sweat it too much lol
McLovin804 · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's talking about on the recipients end. So his friends' SOs seeing him call them babe. So yes, he should stop.
The_Petalesharo · 0 points · Posted at 21:57:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She
McLovin804 · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing in OPs post or comment history suggests they are female. But at the same time they have not identified themselves as male, I just happen to default to he/him.
wambam17 · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I suppose it could be either, but I have not met too many males that referred to their guy friends as 'babes'. Its usually girls who refer to their friends as bebes more often
a-r-c · 3 points · Posted at 17:42:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
could also just dump them off at the next gas station
frogjg2003 · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to stop in the middle of an interesting to break up with a girlfriend. It was happy easy though a 3 hour drive and no infidelity, butt it was the worst drive I've ever had. There no way I would have been able to sit next to a cheater for 6 hours.
ShastaAteMyPhone · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel bad for your friend being stuck in the car with her for hours.
mastersword83 · 3 points · Posted at 18:16:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah at that point I'm not driving them, the phone is now on the other side of the road and GF is stranded at the gas station
Jonnasgirl · 3 points · Posted at 19:10:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy crap, this same exact thing happened to MY friend... Except it was his wife. They were on a road trip to pick up her kids from their dad's house, she ran into the gas station, and her boyfriend texted her. She had her phone on her, and she texted back about how she couldn't stand being around her husband, couldn't wait to see the boyfriend, etc etc. Except, she texted all that to my friend, her husband!! Oops, made for a very uncomfortable trip, and a fast divorce.
SaddestClown · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had something similar happen about three hours away from home on a 7 hour trip. I told her to call her parents, unload her stuff and we'd talk everything out while they came to get her. Initially her dad was verrrrrrrry grumpy with me but as soon as he heard my side of it and put the picture together from knowing her, he apologized for making me late. Got up there and everyone was shocked I was by myself, even though half of them knew she was stepping out on me.
10Dante4 · 4 points · Posted at 16:59:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry to hear that buddy, I hope everything turned out fine for you.
Did you break up after that?
SodaPopLagSki · 4 points · Posted at 17:42:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please put the TL;DR at the bottom. It was incredibly difficult not to read that thing first.
QueenofKnights · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have left her while she was in the washroom.
BeardsuptheWazoo · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't keep driving her cheating ass.
antinous24 · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wouldve left her there 🤷
lawshunts · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trust me she wasn’t sorry, just sorry she got caught. Put a million bucks on the fact that she texted the other dude soon as she got outta the car “yeah I’m home babe”
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:10:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Downvoted for putting that TL;DR before the story
stansey09 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds terrible for all parties involved. If I found out I had been cheated on the last thing I would want to do is spend 6 hours with them. A captive audience to be mad or sad at doesn't sound even a little appealing.
Chrisganjaweed · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I kind of oppose that because even though they were an asshole to you, there's always an implication that you could do something crazy with them in the car. Like driving it off a cliff or something. It also just feels like you want to humiliate them, or put them in an uncomfortable situation for a while, which seems 100% unnecessary. If i found out my SO was cheating on me, I would never want to see them in my life again. That person would be dead to me, I wouldn't want to spend another second near them.
TheVoiceIsInYourHead · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I found out my ex was cheating on me while at download with only him, he was the driver and decided we had to leave early after I found out so I missed out on the festival and had a super fun drive home...
MisfortunateFox · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really? If I was cheated on I'd want nothing more than to get away from that person.
anonaway42 · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’d just leave them. Find the first not terribly sketchy looking fast food place, say get off, let your other guy pick you up
MakaveliOG · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dead as fuck HAHAHA I'd probably just tell her to get out and find her own way back
The_Petalesharo · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd be afraid I'd run the car off the road
RabidHippos · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would of left her there.
brian_lopes · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have pulled a Kenny Powers and left her ass at that gas station.
_chrom_ · 1 points · Posted at 07:55:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lot of the replies seem to be like what these people think they will do. Being in love is rough
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:52:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd have rather left her at the gas station.
Rationalbacon · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
personally if i was him (the victim) i would have made some excuse to pull over get her out the car and just dump her there and then, she can find her own way home.
if you cheat on me you are dead to me and your welfare is none of my concern.
BeerBitchesAndBacon · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With my luck, I would be the one cheated on, and after confronting the vile female, I would also be the one left one the side of the road for getting mad about it.
GlassCityAndy · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This. I literally just finished a conversation with my ex where I was ACTUALLY WILLING to patch things up after she cheated. Thing is, I ended up breaking up with her for losing her shit that I was being mad at her.
BeerBitchesAndBacon · 2 points · Posted at 03:35:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude... SAME. Well, we were only broken up for like a week before she left me for my "best friend."
I couldn't believe it and still can't. Love sucks!
96DD4LI · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would be so pathetic as to actually keep driving her? Just leave her by the side of the road and keep driving.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:19:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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MattyP2117 · 5 points · Posted at 16:34:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They said it was the 6-hour road trip back home
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:52:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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MattyP2117 · 0 points · Posted at 17:08:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think even after a situation like that, I would still like to take them home just because I would never forgive myself if they got abducted from the side of the road or something like that, no matter what they did to me
JustfcknHarley · 0 points · Posted at 17:56:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who cares if it's creepy?
It's sleazy to cheat on someone. You fuck with them, they should get to fuck with you.
debridezilla · -87 points · Posted at 17:15:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was dating the type of guy who forces his girlfriend to choose between hours of captive punishment or being stranded on a roadside far from home. Cheating is bad, but she's still the victim there.
SoDakZak · 37 points · Posted at 17:32:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol he drove her cheating ass all the way to her dorm room 6+ hours away. You think she should be able to cheat on him after years together and he has to keep his mouth shut?
Actually I just read your username, so it might check out
debridezilla · -58 points · Posted at 17:34:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heaping misery on someone for hours is cruel and pointless. What would either of them gain from that interaction?
HCPwny · 25 points · Posted at 17:43:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not like he planned on seeing a text message from the person she was cheating on him with. I'm sure that was number one in his list of shit he wanted to deal with that day.
debridezilla · -34 points · Posted at 17:56:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
it's really more about the choices he made after that.
6upsidedown9 · 21 points · Posted at 17:46:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're a fucking weenie lol
debridezilla · -14 points · Posted at 17:48:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you will learn.
SociopathicPeanut · 9 points · Posted at 19:20:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Great patronizing response, sweetie
debridezilla · -5 points · Posted at 19:31:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
sorry you're taking it that way.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:15:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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debridezilla · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
to me, you're only the person you present yourself as.
ninjachortle · 18 points · Posted at 17:50:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Closure. The man used the time to get her to admit it herself so he had no doubts about what was going on. Having someone admit everything and try to explain their side however bullshit their reasoning is still gives closure to a relationship. Had you heard this the other way and she got stranded after receiving that exact text you would have still taken her side. He is the victim unless he is somehow forcing her to stay, which it doesn't sound like he was in any way. She could have asked him to stop at any point, I'm sure he would have obliged.
debridezilla · -1 points · Posted at 17:59:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes: that, too, would've been a dick move. Of course there were other options in this case than being a dick.
loganh212 · 13 points · Posted at 18:07:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What other options though? As far as I can tell it's drive them the 6+ hours home or leave them at the gas station.
debridezilla · -6 points · Posted at 18:37:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
drive back, always. find a bus and send her home, if that's an option. drive in silence. have a more productive and less damaging (for everyone) conversation. there's always other options.
loganh212 · 10 points · Posted at 19:00:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So you're suggesting that I pay for her bus ticket? And if they wanted less damaging then maybe they shouldnt have fucking cheated in the first place. Considering that's what started the entire issue. Personally I believe if you're going to cheat you should realize all the fucking consequences that go along with doing one of the shittiest things you can do to the person you claim to love.
debridezilla · -1 points · Posted at 19:31:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you're hurt and you want to justify hurting her back. i get that. betrayal is hell.
but, really, what were you hoping to change with six hours of beating that dead horse? did you think she'd love you more for that? did you believe it would repair whatever damage in your relationship led to her cheating? did you think you could change the past by yelling? what did you actually change?
btw, if you're also now saying you could've dropped her at a bust station and knew she had no money -- i.e., she was really dependent on you -- then your choices seem more malicious. is that what you're saying?
Stuntman222 · 3 points · Posted at 19:51:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few things, one he was probably indenial or at the very least irrational and just acted before thinking. I dont think he even had a thought about the 6 hour drive. It wouldn't be malicious.
And yeah it'd be torturous and shitty to sit and have that uncomftorable conversation for 6 hours. But at the same time, keeping your composure for 6 hours; heartbroken, is just miserable for him. How is that at all fair to him to just burden that misery extensively while she gets a blissful ride home.
At the end of it all she shouldn't of cheated, most people would of just left her behind to fend for herself. I'd say him talking to her about what was going on was the least shitty thing that was done in that car ride.
debridezilla · -1 points · Posted at 20:14:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
IME sitting next to someone in pain is painful, not blissful. yes, she shouldn't have cheated, but that ship had sailed. they weren't "talking": he was shouting and she was crying. yes, he should definitely leave her her fend for herself, after (since he says she had no money or means of transportation) he makes sure she's safe and sound.
Stuntman222 · 3 points · Posted at 20:25:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sure that's how he put it to his friends, and maybe it started out that way, but no way for 6 hours he just screamed and she cried.
It was probably bursts of anger with lingering silence, tears, and questioning.
Edit: The thing is that we just weren't there, there's a lot of context that's missing. It's pretty hard to make assumptions like that when you can only read the situation at the surface
debridezilla · 0 points · Posted at 20:40:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Valid point. Upvote.
ninjachortle · 11 points · Posted at 18:30:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You think that being found out cheating deserves an amicable response from the person you were in a supposed committed monogamous relationship with? Cheating causes emotional harm, whoever is cheated on will question everything about theirselves and their self-worth for a long while. Cheating is never justifiable. Not ending one relationship to start the next means you have already put yourself above BOTH other people, leaving one in the dark and making the other wait for you or limiting how they can interact with you to keep seeing each other.
debridezilla · -4 points · Posted at 18:35:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't disagree about cheating: it should end the relationship. Within those bounds, there's many other more useful responses than yelling at someone for hours. That just compounds trauma with trauma.
metastasis_d · 0 points · Posted at 20:20:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She gained a ride.
McLovin804 · 0 points · Posted at 20:53:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Closure, you nutsack.
darkwolfx24678 · 17 points · Posted at 17:43:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seems more that she made that decision herself. What should the guy have done, not say anything for the next 6 hours while he’s in dread? That’s ridiculous. He could have very easily told her to get the hell out as he’s under no obligation to continue taking her if he doesn’t want to.
debridezilla · -3 points · Posted at 17:54:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
cancel the trip and take her back. put her on a bus. drive in silence. but six hours of yelling at someone -- exhausting and pointless. won't change what's done, they're not going to come back as a couple from the cheating, and she's not going to love him more for six hours of captive abuse.
darkwolfx24678 · 8 points · Posted at 18:06:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I see where you’re coming from, chances are the 6 hours of yelling is more hyperbole and a lot of it was in silence. I can’t imagine how exhausting 6 hours of argument would be. That being said, I’d say that driving her still would be too kind, even in silence. Dropping her off at the bus station would also be too kind. The best choice was really to leave her there after confronting her, no argument needed, and just move on. He has to deal with the truth, the betrayal, the whirlwind of emotions, she has to do the same to a certain extent and find her own way home. Unfortunately, as is common in these situations, you’re left with two victims.
debridezilla · -1 points · Posted at 18:42:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
abandoning anyone (but usually especially a young woman) on a roadside is irresponsible. the people in this story are kids, so she probably didn't have money or a lot of worldly knowledge. both would make her vulnerable. the guy had all the power: he was literally in the driver's seat and had the more righteous position. he could choose to act with maturity and kindness, even excluding the possibility of forgiveness.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 18:55:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man, somebody left you at a gas station after you cheated on them, huh?
debridezilla · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
happily, no. i've been trapped and arguing, i've started arguments with people who were trapped, i've bullied people who were weaker than me because i was hurt and and wanted revenge -- or just because it felt good (for a minute), and i've argued with people when i knew the relationship was really over. in retrospect, those were all bad scenes and i could've made them better.
Stoney_Balogne · 6 points · Posted at 19:43:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe some self reflection is in order for you. This doesn’t sound “right”.
debridezilla · 3 points · Posted at 20:06:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
being able to admit my faults and past failings is a result, not input, of self reflection.
MattcVI · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Grown women can handle themselves; they don't need a man. She would have been fine having her dumb ass left behind
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 21:38:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
... She's the victim? Really? Enough reddit for today
debridezilla · 0 points · Posted at 00:09:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
thanks for leaving.
mastersword83 · 12 points · Posted at 18:19:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Poor poor cheating bitch
Cry me a river
LemonJongie23 · 12 points · Posted at 18:02:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All women are victims of the evil male in your eyes
debridezilla · -9 points · Posted at 18:04:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Males aren't evil. I don't think this guy was evil. Just seems like he's young and kind-of an asshole.
LemonJongie23 · 7 points · Posted at 18:28:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do you hate men?
debridezilla · 0 points · Posted at 18:34:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lolz
clit-eastwould · 31726 points · Posted at 14:21:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A co-worker was a military retiree who claimed to have been everywhere.
Someone might say, "I spent a week in Cambodia..."
He'd say, "Yeah, I was there once. Stopped over on my way to Thailand."
We figured he was bullshitting most if not all the time, so we started inventing places. "My cousin is traveling in Argentina, and he's at this mountain village called Burritosalsa...."
HIM: "Oh, yeah. We did a joint military exercise with Argentina back in the 80s and stopped off there."
US: "Did you visit the temple on Blueberry Hill?"
HIM: "Hell, yeah! Everyone in my outfit visited!"
Total bullshitter.
namey___mcnameface · 9528 points · Posted at 15:26:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I worked fast food we had a customer like that. Every time he came in it was a story about his travels or things he bought. Anything to show how rich he was. None of us really cared and just played along because it was the quickest way to get rid of him. One day he comes in talking about his family up in Seattle is snowed in and he has to fly his private plane up there to get them. (In retrospect that part doesn't make much sense either.) I pulled out my phone and checked the weather and told him it was around 60 degrees in Seattle. He mumbled something about the forecast being wrong and left.
bttrflyr · 3948 points · Posted at 15:46:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seattle, of all places? Like at least make your lie more legit and actually select a place that would have had a large snow storm! Lol
Edit: I realize Seattle occasionally gets snow, I mean in the context of the current weather conditions at the time of the lie. Like, choose a city that actually has snow in it to make the lie plausible.
AntarcticanJam · 2011 points · Posted at 16:38:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You must not remember the Great Blizzard of 2011. We had nearly TWO INCHES of snow.
TexasWithADollarsign · 244 points · Posted at 17:16:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For real, though: Two inches of snow paralyzes Pacific Northwest cities. Hell, a half an inch can shut down Portland, especially once it turns to ice. We just have a mild climate and don't usually get snow.
Edit: This only applies to cities west of the Cascade Mountains. East of there it snows more frequently.
Thy_Dying_Day · 30 points · Posted at 17:23:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meanwhile here we got six feet over the span of two days. Nothing got shut down.
TexasWithADollarsign · 24 points · Posted at 17:28:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is "here" somewhere in the northern Midwest, Great Lakes or New England?
Edit: Or Alaska or Canada? Derp.
Thy_Dying_Day · 30 points · Posted at 17:33:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I should have clarified. Wisconsin.
TexasWithADollarsign · 16 points · Posted at 17:38:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cool. I was gonna guess Minnesota. My friend married some guy from there and he talked about driving in feet of snow like it was no big deal.
5-4-3-2-1-bang · 13 points · Posted at 17:41:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Chicago checking in, and honestly it's not that big of a deal. Everybody slows down, you do a few brake checks before you get out on real roads to judge just how slippery it is, and you adjust. It's only when it's been snowing overnight like crazy and you know rush hour is going to suuuuuuuuck that you even really get cranky about it.
Thy_Dying_Day · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For the most part people are really safe about it as well.
Zer0DotFive · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sadly not everyone does those things. Lived in Saskatchewan all my life and you would think people here would figure out how to drive in the snow. Nope.
mtmo94 · -1 points · Posted at 21:30:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don’t say “Chicago checking in” please
5-4-3-2-1-bang · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No. Piss off.
omarfw · 5 points · Posted at 17:46:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wisconsin is a beautiful state, but the people there are insane for putting up with that weather
SasquatchMN · 7 points · Posted at 18:32:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a Minnesotan, I can concur that Wisconsinites are insane ;)
omarfw · 3 points · Posted at 19:03:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your state is an ocean of mosquitoes though
ForePony · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Keeeep movin' so th' skeets don't getcha.
milhouseisa_meme · 5 points · Posted at 00:00:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s always the midwest lol... midwesterners are the biggest gatekeepers of snow/ cold, more than the east coast or Canada or Alaska
ForePony · 3 points · Posted at 19:25:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That can sometimes happen in the Sierra Nevada. The ski resorts love that weather.
Blast338 · 3 points · Posted at 02:34:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few years ago where I live got hit by 2 feet of snow then another 2 feet 2 days latter. I was still running service calls while the snow was full on blizzard. With wind and drifting I had 8 feet of snow between my wife's car and my service van. Walked out to shovel snow after the second storm hit. Could not believe the snow was up over my wife's car. Then the boss calls and tells me I have a service call. Um. Going to be a while.
The_Salty_Engineer · 13 points · Posted at 18:45:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The difference with the snow on the west and east in Washington is that western Washington gets wet snow that freezes overnight, while over east they have dry powder that is easy to drive through.
Need_More_Whiskey · 17 points · Posted at 19:10:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And seattle has many hills, most of which have a body of water at the bottom. High stakes if you the wrong black ice patch!
Daneth · 9 points · Posted at 18:48:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair it's super hilly. I could get away with driving in snow in the Midwest, here it's a different story.
feioo · 6 points · Posted at 19:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I learned to drive in snow on the east side of the mountains, where it's generally flatter. So when it snowed here in Seattle this past Christmas Eve (a miracle in itself), I was charged with chauffeuring all the family members who couldn't or wouldn't drive in the snow. The hills really were a game changer.
Daneth · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My car got stuck in the February snow (I'm on the Eastside, not sure if Seattle got that one), I had to abandon it on a hill near my house and walk home. First experience driving a rwd car in the snow, 0/10 would not recommend.
Rootner · 4 points · Posted at 18:58:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends where you are. Big city's where thousands of people commute for work and pleasure? Everything is shut down. Rural foothills, farmlands and wooded towns? Business as usual.
Neohexane · 4 points · Posted at 19:12:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For sure. Lived in Vancouver, BC. An inch and a half of snow prevented me from getting to work one morning. Even the busses were getting stuck in bus stop lanes, people with bald summer tires sliding around everywhere. I had to walk back home in fear of my life over a snow flurry.
deliriumintheheavens · 3 points · Posted at 21:09:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My favourite part is when I nearly miss my finals because none of the buses are working...
NoireLumiere · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn does it really not snow that much despite you guys being even more up north than the northeast? I know half an inch can paralyze the Deep South, but I didn’t think it’d do that to Washington and Oregon as well.
tjbugs1 · 10 points · Posted at 19:14:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, the city is built on a hill and it just turns to ice almost as fast as the snow lands. Second part, is we don't get much snow so we don't have the equipment for removal, we mostly just let it sit until it warms up.
feioo · 4 points · Posted at 19:48:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Technically Seattle is built on six hills (used to be seven until they regraded Denny) - just to make the snow thing more difficult.
Need_More_Whiskey · 8 points · Posted at 19:11:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We don’t have much snow removal equipment. And it snows at 31, warms up a bit, and refreezes into black ice. Add dangerous roads to a hilly city with no snow-driving skills and some arrogant Jeep owners and it’s a recipe for disaster.
feioo · 4 points · Posted at 19:44:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We're technically more north than the northeast in general, but our climate is actually a lot more temperate, at least on the west side of the Cascades where Seattle and Portland are. The mountains trap the warmer air coming off the Pacific and keeps it on our side. Snow is often a 1- to 2- day a year experience, so we don't tend to have a lot of public services prepared when it happens. And like others have mentioned, hills. We have lots of hills.
CarelesslyFabulous · 3 points · Posted at 01:59:47 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have seen people stuck on a slight grade unable to get purchase to drive even a few inches; or slide into a gentle ditch on the side of the road...and be stuck until it thaws. It gets that wet/icy/slippery and no snow tires or chains can even help. It's just not the same kind of snow as most people in other parts of the country consider snow.
PM_ME_jpg_files · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Portland starts with a little snow, then turns into ice and that's when it gets bad. Your right though it shuts down at just the thought of snow
montysgreyhorse · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So it's the north Carolina of the west? Kindingbof course since half a inch is enough to clear all the cars off the road.
Tdot_Grond · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a Canadian this makes me giggle :)
Thizzz_face · 13 points · Posted at 17:20:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a white Christmas this last year. Got a few inches! Fucked the whole city up. It was great.
Haleyisabitch · 7 points · Posted at 19:10:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stop you’re giving me flashbacks! I was stuck in SODO for ages
sweet_saying_ · 6 points · Posted at 19:19:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m like an hour away from Seattle and in 2011 we got like 8 inches of snow at my house and school was canceled for what felt like 2 weeks, it was honestly amazing!!!
frank_the_tank__ · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did it shut down the city and cause a state of emergency like when texas got snow?
Dokpsy · 7 points · Posted at 17:56:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was no joke. Some areas got an entire quarter foot! It was still there in the morning! It didn't go away! We couldn't reasonably be prepared for that much snow!
NotAFloone · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Christ, we got more snow that year in Arkansas ffs.
G8kpr · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Us Canadians get a good laugh when we see Atlantic City or some other place shut down completely because there is a dusting of snow on the ground.
FlamingoRock · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The weather channel was parked at the end of my street at the corner shop. 🤣
ASK_ME_ANYTHINGG · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Real talk though, I did fracture my ankle in a snowball fight that year. Snow here is dangerous.
A_Suffering_Panda · 2 points · Posted at 21:37:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seattle is so hilly though that it was actually really dangerous
Mistyyydeeznutzz · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For us Atlantians it was the apocalypse.
gcpanda · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Snowpocalypse 2011 and Snowmageddon 2012 shall never be forgotten. We shall rebuild.
RippyMcBong · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was there visiting ny bother for this. PANDEMONIUM.
KassandraComplex · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was one inch of snow in Texas once. It was pretty much the apocalypse.
bishopgt · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Blizzards get so bad, they started to hold cons for them every year.
el_DOOM · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah yes snowmageddon
fessus_intellectiva · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Didn’t the mayor end up getting fired over the terrible handling of that?
LunarWingCloud · 1 points · Posted at 09:57:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meanwhile in Massachusetts during the blizzard of February 2015 which left us with 5-6 feet piled along the sides of the roads: "You comin' to work today?" "Yeah be there in like 15 minutes"
namey___mcnameface · 649 points · Posted at 15:50:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why I decided to check. It was just too easy to verify. Plus I wanted to see what he would do when he was caught.
DefiantLemur · 300 points · Posted at 16:31:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing these bullshitters will just walk away rather then face the truth. They are boring.... at least most of humanity already realizes they are boring and accepts that.
Dravarden · 18 points · Posted at 16:56:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
what could he say at that point? "oh sorry, I was bullshitting you in hope that I can make friends"?
[deleted] · 31 points · Posted at 17:19:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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TrynaSleep · 7 points · Posted at 18:51:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What’s the reward for completing this side quest?
5-4-3-2-1-bang · 8 points · Posted at 17:45:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Oh did you think i meant Seattle Washington? No! I meant Seattle, uh, Siberia! Yeah Seattle, Siberia! Plane is going to have to refuel mid air on its way across the Pacific and get a new crew in both Honolulu and Oahu!"
Aoloach · 3 points · Posted at 17:46:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wouldn’t it be quicker to go north over the Arctic?
xaanthar · 20 points · Posted at 16:43:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing that Seattle was "in the north" from wherever /u/namey___mcnameface is, and everybody knows that "the north" is cold and snowy at all times.
Euchre · 15 points · Posted at 17:02:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In geographic terms, Seattle is quite far north, above the 45th parallel (runs through Oregon south of Portland, btw), which is north of most of the temperate climates where most humans live. However, people don't realize just how temperate the Pacific Northwest is, despite its geography. Even in Oregon, people would say "Isn't it so cold up there?", and if I liked them I'd say no - because fuck having all those damn extra people I don't like moving up there.
xaanthar · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not disputing that it is pretty far north, but it also depends where the story takes place. If you live in California, Seattle is to the north, but if you live in New York you would consider Seattle "to the west" even though it's still much further north than NY (NYC is about the same latitude as very northern California).
For somebody on the east coast, if you ask somebody to think of a northern city, they aren't going to bring up Seattle.
namey___mcnameface · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, southern California at the time. We did get some snow but certainly not enough to get stuck in.
Tricky4279 · 11 points · Posted at 16:48:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be slightly fair, if the city isn't prepared for it, it doesn't take much snow to overwhelm city resources.
ShadoShane · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But to be fair, in the last decade, Seattle's only had like snow in two of those years. It wasn't even that much snow.
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We've had snow twice, but also had a really terrible ice storm that fucked us hard for an entire week. And Seattle's power infrastructure is so fragile, if a fly farts we lose power. Now imagine what a terrible ice storm did.
wise_comment · 3 points · Posted at 17:54:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's almost like a compulsive liars don't think their way through their verbal diarrhea. I remember I got who wants claimed that Obama was a secret Muslim, that he was born outside the United States, and was pro-choice. When confronted with these, he denied all of them, video even dence be damned
SasquatchMN · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Using speech-to-text?
Also, that man was Donald Trump.
wise_comment · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha
Yeah
Daughter was in my arms, one sentance in
Evidence for 500, alex
hachikid · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel there's something missing here...what was he confronted with?
edgeofenlightenment · 3 points · Posted at 19:46:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I was the liar there I'd say "Well it's just outside Seattle up in the Cascade Mountains".
Hashbrowns_Senpai · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It would make more sense to say that they were trapped in an artisanal raisin shop during a storm that would stop and start on rotation every couple minutes and sometimes turn into hail.
mathliability · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tbh it’s not hard for it to get to 60 here in the later winter months, and it doesn’t take a lot of snow to completely shut us down.
All_names_taken-fuck · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, 4 inches of snow shuts the city down, so no large snow storm is needed!
BlooperBoo · 2 points · Posted at 17:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Forreal, the last snowstorm here was like ten years ago. I think this year we got like. Slush.
xxboywizardxx · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There hasn’t been an instance in my lifetime where his story would have been true lol. I’ve lived in Seattle my entire life.
Deitaphobia · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ooohhh.... exotic Seattle...seriously, make it a worthwhile lie like a hunting lodge in remote Alaska or northern Canada.
GoldFishPony · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah god, lived in Seattle all my life and while the city may get shut down because we aren’t used to snow at all, it has never been snowed in as far as I know. Guy should’ve chosen his locations better.
hawkwings · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
About 20 years ago, Seattle got about a foot of snow. The next day, there was cold rain which made the snow heavy which caused carports to collapse.
Bn_scarpia · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like Alabama.
slick8086 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Denver in 2015 or maybe 16 I don't remember.
brainiac3397 · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Dude, my family was trapped in their home in Atlanta because of a huge blizzard!"
The question being of course whether there was a blizzard of blizzardic proportions or whether it was just two inches of cold white fluffy terror raining from the skies that prompted a state of emergency.
yuckypants · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was there last Feb and there was quite a bit of snow. Nothing shut down, but it was weird.
NocturnalMorning2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I lived there for about a year, and i swear, they lied to me. It snowed all god damn winter. It wasn't supposed to snow at all.
AuNanoMan · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don’t listen to these people. Seattle gets hardly any snow but travel to eastern Washington? That’s where the snow is. Your point stand. People should not associate Seattle with snow.
pancakeses · 0 points · Posted at 19:08:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. Nobody has ever gotten snowed in in Seattle. The place is known for its wet, mild weather.
elgavilan · 26 points · Posted at 16:43:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How insecure do you have to be to lie about being rich and show off to a bunch of fast food workers...
elegiac_bloom · 12 points · Posted at 16:46:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You'd be surprised...
mglyptostroboides · 6 points · Posted at 18:19:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In their mind, that's not even insecurity. That's what their definition of confidence is.
Poem_for_your_sprog · 1466 points · Posted at 16:42:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
'Have you been to Bangoranga?
Have you sailed to Barnal Bay?
Have you danced along the Ganga,
Where the Gungorunguns play?
'Have you rolled the Golden Sunder?
Have you run the Ferries free?
Have you seen the Munda under?
Have you swam the Seppers Sea?
'Have you strolled along the Steepers,
With a spirit in your step?
Have you walked the Wipperweepers?'
And he proudly answered:
'... yep.'
zomorodian · 31 points · Posted at 17:08:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reads just like Lewis Carrol. Superb!
Myneckmyguac · 20 points · Posted at 17:14:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought exactly the same thing, reminds me of the Jabberwocky
letmestandalone · 86 points · Posted at 17:03:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are the Doctor Seuss of our generation.
wise_comment · 27 points · Posted at 18:05:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Would you visit dumbledown?
Would you sail there, in the sound?
Would you fly to hot Hantoon?
See the pink-red-green baboons?
I have been there it is true
Navy shore leave, thought you knew?
Would you drive to Arrolyn?
Fly a kite up in their wind?
Kick some balls in gay old Swink
Scoring goals with your pet mink?
I've done these and many more
Your travel suggestions, such a bore
I have been there it is true
Navy shore leave, thought you knew?
Feldikat? Erisgnat?
I was there, bought a hat.
Please don't bug me with this verse
I've been over the whole earth
Senator_Larry_Craig · 10 points · Posted at 18:14:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh. Well, it's no lik the bred. But it'll more than do
Scylla6 · 22 points · Posted at 18:49:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I bullshitter
I lie all day
Do not believe
A word I say
When people ask
The travelled guy
I butt right in
And fucking lie
wise_comment · 13 points · Posted at 20:08:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I yam OP
I kno this gei
Who spins sum shit
A miel hi
He very dum
Me and My frens
Fake a sity
To mes wit him
uncertainusurper · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I especially liked this one.
AstralBodies · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Indeed. I love sprog. My favorite poet by large.
mister__cow · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
More of a Shel Silverstein vibe with this poem, I'd say.
DreadHead-Jedi · 45 points · Posted at 16:52:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, Bangoranga. The birthplace of Skrillex
Mudders_Milk_Man · 10 points · Posted at 17:51:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bangoranga is also Rufio's hometown.
universaleric · 3 points · Posted at 23:41:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you for that.
xxfblz · 4 points · Posted at 18:00:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
swum
Apart from that detail, I love it, really Jabberwocky as someone else pointed it out.
skywalker-weasley · 3 points · Posted at 17:51:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always upvote a Sprong. Keep doing what your doing!
bayouekko · 2 points · Posted at 18:55:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, a spong. Song of the Sprog.
Kektus · 3 points · Posted at 18:02:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where's the line about shunning the Bandersnatch?
02overthrown · 3 points · Posted at 18:18:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s some Lewis Carroll shit. Love it, Sprog.
Rosedragon711 · 10 points · Posted at 16:59:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love a fresh sprog
Staterae · 3 points · Posted at 17:14:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love the smell of sprog in the morning. It smells like...eloquence.
nlaporte · 5 points · Posted at 17:12:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought that was a Kipling poem until I saw the username. Well done.
FeatheredSun · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amazing. Seuss is applauding you from the afterlife.
joker_of_the_deck · 2 points · Posted at 17:47:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
boomdayada boomdayada...
Dracon_Pyrothayan · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh god, I love it when you nonsense.
fppf · 2 points · Posted at 18:35:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The double-joke is that all these places are in Queensland, right?
zlimK · 3 points · Posted at 17:59:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sprogless, all I can offer in exchange is my thanks. That poem was worth two, no, THREE sprogs! Easy! Well done, bard.
smart-username · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A sprog that hasn't been gilded yet? What is this madness?
bayouekko · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's got enough to spare.
ElMatasiete7 · 4 points · Posted at 17:03:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/prequelmemes
cosmicdaddy_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is where the fun begins
BlueROFL1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my favorite sprog
speeduponthedamnramp · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First Sprog comment I’ve seen with no gold
6tPTrxYAHwnH9KDv · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That all sounds like legit Australian toponyms.
PersisPlain · -2 points · Posted at 17:05:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
22 minutes, freshest sprog poem I've ever seen
Jasmith85 · -2 points · Posted at 17:07:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The best part of waking up, is fresh sprog in your cup.
lessthan12parsecs · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You just woke up? It's lunch time!
zomorodian · 11 points · Posted at 17:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Y'know, the world is bigger than just the Americas?
lessthan12parsecs · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is more than one America?
zomorodian · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
North and South America.
KamehameHanSolo · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even in the continental US, it could have been as early as 10AM if OP’s on the west coast. It’s Saturday, that’s not a terribly unreasonable time to wake up.
G-III · 0 points · Posted at 17:14:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wonderful!!
AUniquePerspective · 0 points · Posted at 17:35:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good bot.
[deleted] · 46 points · Posted at 16:46:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Foreglow · 14 points · Posted at 17:23:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like my old boss. He had been in the reserves for a short stint. He would pull up videos on YouTube of war movies and stuff and be like, "You see these guys? They're the ones who save the seals when the seals get in trouble. I was one of those guys."
I'd always just acknowledge him with a grunt, because I can't imagine the reserves get called overseas to save the seals very often. Pretty sure he thought I was stupid because I must not understand the gravity of his statement. I understood alright. I just didn't care.
more_mars_than_venus · 2 points · Posted at 23:18:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My husband was in the army and had a fairly distinguished military career. Most of our casual friends and neighbors don't know about his service and if they do, it is because I told them. When I asked him why he never mentions his military duty to people he said that in OCS he was taught war is the option of last resort. It means diplomacy failed and killing people because you couldn't settle differences like civilized human beings is never something to brag about.
If I could make one gentle correction: the military adheres to the train as you fight, fight as you train edict. The theory is that in combat, soldiers will react more quickly and decisively if they practice realistic combat scenarios. Because of this training philosophy, soldiers are regularly exposed to life threatening situations and training deaths actually outnumber combat deaths.
Cloacal_Kisses · 0 points · Posted at 20:04:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just because someone didn’t see combat doesn’t mean they’re not a hero (and vice versa).
MattcVI · 2 points · Posted at 21:04:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah somebody's gotta work admin and do desk work - papercuts are no joke. They should start giving purple hearts for such injuries
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. Yes it does. They basically have a civil service job at that point.
Cloacal_Kisses · 3 points · Posted at 21:50:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And civil servants can’t be heroes? My point is that combat is not a prerequisite for heroism. Conversely, simply being in combat doesn’t automatically make someone a hero.
MattcVI · 0 points · Posted at 21:05:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do you hate the military so much? You better kiss the flag and thank a vet for their service right this instant or I'm telling on you
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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p1-o2 · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, what about just re-reading it? There's a ton of context clues there which show the dislike being targeted at fake stories, not military members who served outside of combat. It's not some subtle jab.
jdtampafl · 7 points · Posted at 16:53:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did I say family in Seattle? Sorry, I'm flying my x-wing to Hoth to save the rebel alliance. For reals.
26_Charlie · 7 points · Posted at 16:41:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In fairness, it's not abnormal in Minnesota to have a huge snowstorm and be in the 60's a day or two later. I think Minnesota is as far north as Washington - but we aren't near an ocean so IDK.
Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ · 3 points · Posted at 17:29:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's definitely abnormal. Does it happen? Sure. But it's not normal.
TheRedCucksAreComing · 12 points · Posted at 16:20:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, I’ve been in Seattle wearing shorts and a T-shirt and sandals, and driven just a smidge east on I-90 and there was snow plowed up like 13 feet on the sides of the road, and people paragliding on snowboards.
ExileOnMyStreet · 5 points · Posted at 18:22:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in high school, we had this kid who always seemed to know all the music any of us had just discovered. It was quite annoying so we made up a fictitious band, called Speedlight and didn't stop talking about it whenever he was around. In two weeks he was arguing with everyone that Speedlight was a much better band than Pink Floyd.
Hactar42 · 4 points · Posted at 18:52:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked for a pizza place as a teen. One if the delivery drivers was an older retired guy. He use to tell us about all the place he had been. We just played along and laughed as he drove off in his broken down Accord. Then he stopped by on day on his day off. In his Maserati. Turns out he use to work on documentaries with freaking Jacques Cousteau back in the 60s. I guess our boss knew but never bother to tell us. He just delivered pizzas to keep from being bored.
namey___mcnameface · 2 points · Posted at 20:29:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dang, plot twist.
TrefoilHat · 5 points · Posted at 17:16:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hoped his reaction would be to burst out laughing and say, “of course it is! I’ve been bullshitting you guys for a year, wondering when you’d call me out on it!” With some enthusiastic high fives all around, he could’ve ended up being the best customer ever, and you’d look forward to hearing his insane stories every time he came in from then on.
Instead, just a sad tuba sound as he backs out the door in shame. Random compulsively lying customer dude, you’re a disappointment to us all.
FlitterMyTwitter · 5 points · Posted at 17:19:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, all it takes to be snowed-in in Seattle is about an inch and a half.
FopFillyFoneBone · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Must be nice being a young whipper-snapper. When I was a youngster and I wanted to call BS on something like this I had to pull out my rotary dial telephone and call the NWS or NOAA and get the real story.
Wasted_Weasel · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, you just saved this poor guy from his greedy family, who made up something about snow and just wanted to hijack his private plane! Those sucker always wanting to take my money!!!
Probably would be my made up response... See I'm good at this.
Maybe it was the son, yeah greedy fucker, after I took him all over the world now he just wants to steal all my hard earned money...
cats4lyf3 · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
From Seattle and can confirm that he flew here during a horrible snow storm to rescue his family
nathanb131 · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can't wrap my mind around why anyone would bother trying to impress random strangers in public beyond superficial appearance. This HAD to be a dude hoping to trick a young gold-digger into a date, right?
Turdulator · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Yeah I’ve gotta run to go get on my private jet, but first I’ve gotta stop to flex on some teenagers working at Arby’s” - said no one ever.
outwar6010 · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was this pizza place in Boston, called Beacon Street Pizza. I used to go to and there was this crazy old guy who kept telling anyone and everyone stories about his life....Except they were plots from various movies.
namey___mcnameface · 3 points · Posted at 18:06:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty soon he'll start talking about snapping his fingers and killing half the universe.
outwar6010 · 1 points · Posted at 12:57:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sad that no got what I was referencing
namey___mcnameface · 1 points · Posted at 13:52:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, totally missed it.
outwar6010 · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah I think you got it but these things usually chain out alot
thephantom1492 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have said nunavut!
Azalith · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did he come back?
namey___mcnameface · 2 points · Posted at 17:02:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All the time.
Foreglow · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just curious if he ever tried another story on you. Or did he just ignore you next time he came?
namey___mcnameface · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
IIRC (it's been about a decade) he kept on with his stories but more with the other workers.
JKMC4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are so many snowier places than Seattle. Also hi from Seattle
namey___mcnameface · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you get snowed in that guy can come get you.
LemonJongie23 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should've said buffalo ny, come for the mild summers stay because you're snowed in 7 feet of snow
poop_dawg · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of Justin from Parks and Rec.
ILikeMasterChief · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Owns a private plane and works in fast food...
namey___mcnameface · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ILikeMasterChief · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm dumb lol
conman526 · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Total bullshit. It doesn't snow in Seattle, it rains.
OneForMany · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretend rich guy trying to pretend in front of a bunch of fast food workers that he goes to on a weekly basis. Hmm..
Nucks11 · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Would this guy happen to be in the lower mainland?
forsedditonlyyyy · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If he said rain and the house flooded, you would have never second guessed him
africanbootybandit · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Customers always right!
jofuspocket · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you're going to lie, at least make it so a cursory glance on the internet doesn't foil it.
namey___mcnameface · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why I checked. I got tired of listening to him, but it wasn't like I could exactly prove he hadn't been in South America or whatever the story was.
worldofsmut · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Winter is coming".
[Drops smokebomb...]
PM_me_UR_duckfacepix · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meg, Ryan and T.Hanks in
Snowless in Seattle
screwballsmith · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because millionaires who own private jets eat at fast food joints.
namey___mcnameface · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Couple times a week according to him.
idiotsonfire · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He should have said Calgary.
showyerbewbs · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea man I remember when my entire family was snowed in Miami in the summer of 86. I was only 11 but I had to fly my blimp there to rescue them.
arquebus_x · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
While he probably was lying, it’s entirely possible for Seattle to be 60 degrees and breezy and for the areas around Mount Rainier to be sub-zero and snowed in. There are big roads near there that even now in late June are inaccessible by car.
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He should have said the arctic.
chupamichalupa · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It almost rarely snows in Seattle too. Maybe like once a year and sometimes it’s melted by the morning.
Dudelyllama · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seattlite here, we do get snow hete once in a while but if it snows so much that SeaTac or Paine field have to close it would be a very cold day in hell.
AngelfishnamedBanana · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe he meant snoqualmie pass? But even then... :/ yeesh
urban_kid · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
rich and frequent fast food?
nothing against fast food btw
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmfaoooo he hit you with the "FAKE NEWS!" and ran away after you exposed him
KingreX32 · 794 points · Posted at 15:46:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't understand why some people are like this. Why lie? Why?
dinh-nerys · 540 points · Posted at 15:55:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Attention seekers who need an ego boost, or they think they're funny.
but_didyoudie · 40 points · Posted at 18:15:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or maybe these people think they are not worth being loved and admired as is so they create a lie that resembles what they think is worthy of respect and admiration. Sick people who need a lot of help :(
hahahitsagiraffe · 5 points · Posted at 18:48:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aww. Now I wanna help them
but_didyoudie · 11 points · Posted at 19:12:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you can help more than you think, loving kindness and acceptance of people regardless of their coolness level allow them to feel safe about being themselves without embellishments.
yoKiDD · 19 points · Posted at 16:55:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't understand that ego boost thing. how would they boost their ego if they themselves know they're just bullshitting?
LucyLilium92 · 43 points · Posted at 16:58:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because they think other people think they’re cool, so they get a boost to their social stat.
yoKiDD · 10 points · Posted at 17:03:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So people get off by lying to others as well as themselves?
dinh-nerys · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think there are many levels to it. Group 1 only lies to others (strangers, cashiers) to get attention. Group 2 lies to friends and family, those in their inner circles. Group 3 lies to everyone. Group 4 lies to themselves as well.
It also depends on the lie. Is 100% fabricated or just embellishing on a truth?
Example: A Christmas bonus. Was there every really one? Or perhaps they did get a bonus, but then lied about the amount. Douchebag level correlates with the expanse of the lie.
Is there a psych or anthro major that can tag in and better elaborate for me?
Edit: punctuation mark
show_ya_moves · 12 points · Posted at 17:42:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hate to break the news man but people lie to make themselves sound better/cooler to others all the time.
How much they make, the vacations they’ve been on, how many women they’ve slept with (as well as what those women looked like).
Shit, people lie about everything, or at least embellish stories, all the time to make themselves sound more interesting. Surely you’ve realized that by now.
dinh-nerys · 19 points · Posted at 17:00:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In theory, their ego would be boosted when the other person seems interested or congratulates them on whatever the "achievement" is. They also think they got away with a lie so then they're happy or on an adrenaline high.
yoKiDD · 13 points · Posted at 17:08:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess I'm too stupid to follow their thought process. I feel like shit when I have to lie due to not being able to tell the truth for whatever reason and others are doing it as a hobby. Life and people are weird.
the_snuggle_bunny · 9 points · Posted at 17:18:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ftfy
vintage2018 · 3 points · Posted at 17:38:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a conscience thing. Some people have it, some don't.
FriendToPredators · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because the only reality of any value is appearances. Normal people care about reality reality
DrakkoZW · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's never really this, though. If someone was lying to my face, and I caught them out on it, I'd actually really like it if they were like "haha oh darn, you got me! But it really was fun trying to convince you!". But usually they just backpedal, double down, get defensive, etc. It's never about humor
MississippiJoel · 24 points · Posted at 16:05:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not a medical person at all, but I think it's the same as for someone who is on drugs. It's a special little "high" they get when they see a lit up face or the reaction they want. So, what is true has no effect on what they will say, they're only chasing their high.
jrburkh · 5 points · Posted at 16:35:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do this without the lying... Sometimes I feel like it might come off as one upping, but for me it's genuinely just a way of connecting with someone through a common experience...
MississippiJoel · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, but someone who is on drugs isn't thinking about perfecting their ribeye. That's what makes it illogical: you are willing to invest a little bit for a higher rate of return (actually learning things or getting out and having some awesome experiences). The pathological liar just wants the cheap fix for the short term.
jrburkh · 3 points · Posted at 18:59:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Absolutely - I definitely get that. I was just suggesting a possible source of the high for the pathological liar... The desire/need/compulsion to connect with people and the feeling you get when you establish a connection. I think most of us know and can relate to that feeling, and it makes sense that for the pathological liar, while it may be a manufactured connection, the reward is all the same.
KallistiTMP · 7 points · Posted at 17:24:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people really do have trouble differentiating from fact and fiction. I've known a few people that were actually really nice guys, and honest in their actions, but after interacting with them for years I'm fairly confident the answer is they actually don't realize they're lying.
One guy, George, was the nicest guy you'd ever meet. Did all that stuff, at one point we actually realized that it was all from movies and TV shows. We humored him because it wasn't hurting anybody and he told good stories. But it was definitely a mental disorder of some sort.
nrthdotwst · 23 points · Posted at 15:54:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I must admit I'm not a fan of lies generally,, but maybe these lie aren't from a dark place and in their reality.. lies like this give them harmless comfort l.
seriouslees · 14 points · Posted at 16:13:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
yeah... but WHY do they give them comfort? That's messed up yo.
WhichWayzUp · 21 points · Posted at 16:56:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe because their lives are boring, and they haven't accomplished much, so somewhere along the way they discovered how easy it is to just SAY something has happened to them rather than going through the real efforts of life. And they get addicted to that little thrill they feel when people believe the lie, and the people show excitement & awe.
subadanus · 7 points · Posted at 16:54:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
probably because nothing has happened in their life and they dont know how to socialize differently or get peoples attention
alltheprettybunnies · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My kid went through a period where he told weird arbitrary lies.
“Has anyone seen my bandana?”
No
No
Kid, “I saw the dog carry it downstairs yesterday.”
“O wait, here it is... in my bag.... Son? Everything going okay?”
Big innocent eyes. Walks away. He still does it sometimes and he’s generally a very truthful kid. It’s hilarious and not mean spirited at all. But yeah.
nrthdotwst · 1 points · Posted at 07:33:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing as white lying I guess. I dunno .. Maybe their journey in life has caused them feel a certain emptiness. Lying to fill a void. Some peoples voids can be so dark that lying to themselves.. and in turn others.. make it a little lighter.
CallMeNiel · 8 points · Posted at 16:12:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It could be generally low comprehension. Most of the time, they just don't really get what people, or they themselves are talking about, and might not even realize it. So if someone says something that sounds about like something they've done, they can confidently chime in that "Yup, I've done that!"
Eg: I have dived off a diving board, people are talking about sky diving. "Oh yeah, I've been sky diving dozens of times, it's a blast!" Someone asks me about the parachute. I'm not sure why the subject has suddenly changed, but that happens all the time. I could go on to describe a play parachute, or parachute pants, or an umbrella, blissfully unaware that I'm leading people to believe I've jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. Later someone talks about waterboarding, and I'm still thinking of the diving board. I say it's not so bad, I don't know what everyone's so scared of, what's the big deal? etc etc etc.
Discoverypanel · 13 points · Posted at 16:21:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do this. But I usually tell the truth immediately afterwards. When someone asks me a simple question my initial response is usually a compulsive lie. It's usually a lie that is pretty outrageous so I do it more as a joke than anyrhing, but I have gullible friends so I often have to follow it up with "I'm lying to you." after they ask "really?"
wuunderbar · 17 points · Posted at 16:50:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend like this. He's a good person but it's almost impossible to have a normal conversation with him. Really quite annoying.
Victuz · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's really difficult for him not to make that initial lie, at least he tries to cover it with the truth right after. Not all of us can do that.
z500 · 3 points · Posted at 17:48:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happens to me for yes/no questions. My brain just picks an answer and blurts it out, and only then do I actually think about the question.
Frogmyte · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are not an enjoyable person to talk with
Discoverypanel · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. But I think you missed the word 'compulsive'. I understand it's not fun. I learned it from my dad who did it all the time when I was growing up. It's something I'm working on stopping. Thanks for calling me out on a personal flaw though.
gvsulaker82 · 3 points · Posted at 16:42:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Insecurity. They need more than anything to have their mundane existence validated.
avalisk · 4 points · Posted at 17:37:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because they are unsatisfied with their actual accomplishments, so by lying about them they create a separate reality where they are the person they actually want to be.
z500 · 4 points · Posted at 17:47:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lot of people get the shit beat out of them by their parents for telling the truth so they learn to lie.
omarfw · 4 points · Posted at 17:51:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not about the lie. It's about getting away with a lie, and the rush that brings. It starts with major insecurities and grows into an addiction.
source: used to be a compulsive liar, as well as a klepto.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Low self esteem
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right? My immediate response to someone saying they've been somewhere I haven't is to ask them to tell me about it.
TR8R2199 · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my experience with these types of people they are bad students or bad workers. They’ve got weird shit going on in the background that must be related to mental illness. Constantly sick or absent. Training and experience doesn’t stick. Low effort in everything to do including knowing details about their vast and varied lies. They learned early on that small children are impressed by lies and never grew out of it. They never learned that doing is more impressive than telling. It’s truly pathetic and I feel sorry for them.
MrBlack103 · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In short, it's a coping mechanism for low self-esteem. Telling other people about the imaginary "better version" of yourself makes it seem more real. Problem is, it's a self-perpetuating cycle and the lies just get bigger and bigger, with the underlying problem not being addressed.
Source: Did this in the past. Social anxiety is a bitch.
jackster_ · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people are ashamed of who they are, some people are bored, some people are trying to cover up a deeper secret. Sometimes people have never grown out of childhood, where your imagination can take you anywhere or make you anything and they just live in that world because the real world is too harsh.
KennyFulgencio · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I imagine it's like breathing for them.
Mike-PTC-GA · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A crushing sense of worthlessness. It's over compensation.
protespojken · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pathological lying is a thing
whovian42 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Totally agree. Some guy posted on /r/earthporn that he had to camp out overnight to get his photo at Great Sand Dunes National Park. You can literally take the photo on the road driving up. I just can’t understand why someone would lie about that to a bunch of strangers on the internet.
KingreX32 · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Especially when it can easily be proven
The_Grubby_One · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lot of people tell tall tales as a way to get a bit of attention.
A lot of people go along with it because it's generally harmless, and sometimes the bullshit is entertaining bullshit.
rxsheepxr · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The dozens of people who laud them as interesting people is worth it to them more than the risk of being caught in a lie, especially since it's not a crime or anything.
Dave_Paker · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why Lisa whyyyyy
stlfenix47 · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Look up pathological liars.
Lived with one once.
It was a nightmare.
realhorrorsh0w · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who's just like this. After several years I've started to question why I'm still friends with him. I hate having to pretend.
Newgeta · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Recovering bullshitter here, for me, it was no one calling my attention seeking bullshit as a kid.
I never grew out of it because getting people interested in me made me feel good.
My high school friends started calling me on it and in college they warned every one to do the same.
They were sick of it and I don't blame them.
They are true friends and did me a favor, I'd still be doing it if they hadn't. I stopped in my late 20s.
To this day (late 30s now) I have to think hard to override the impulse to say xyz and realize that other people have seen and done way cooler shit than me.
I understand now that part of what makes other people so neat are their acual experiences.
I needed someone to show me that and my closest friends have.
Jumping6cows · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My father lies all the time. I don't know why.
brainiac3397 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who lied every time we asked him what his father did for a living. One day he was CEO of Apple(and when questioned about the obvious fact that we all knew Steve Jobs was CEO, he clarified be meant Vice-CEO of the eastern regional office etc etc). Then the next day, he owned half a city's commercial real estate. The day after, he actually owned a few apartment buildings.
To this day I have no idea what the hell his father does for a living, but whatever it is makes them good money.
He isn't a bad kid though. Relatively smart ignoring the dumb lies and when he isn't in 100% lying mode he's easy to get along with. He just had this instinctual urge to just lie for attention but we eventually just let him talk without confronting him about it(its not like our confrontations changed anything).
Victuz · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a compulsive liar, or I was anyway (I can slip back in at any time if I'm not careful). Only years of genuine efforts mean I don't lie all the time, and try to be honest basically all the time now. But it is so much easier to lie if your brain works that way.
And I don't mean easier as in "making better lies", it's just easier to speak lies than to speak the truth. That was part of the problem for me. Other part was obviously low self esteem, being included in something is always nice, even if you're riding a wave of total bullshit.
Personally (so no basis in science) I feel like some people have a brain chemistry that makes it easier to fabricate answers rather than dig around for genuine ones. And in conversations you don't want to take huge pauses whenever you speak, so you blurt out the first thing that comes to mind. For people like meant lies.
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They love to stroke the old ego.
TheLadyLucky · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Insecurity. They know they can't be this badass interesting person so they pretend to be. Even if it only works half the time they've managed to impress someone with absolutely no work. And even if you catch on to the bullshit, if you don't tell them they don't know and believe they got away with it. They feel superior. Sometimes I think they believe their own stories.
viiceria · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to understand more too. For me, being caught lying, being dramatic or fake in any way is the most embarrassing thing to happen of all things, and just the thought of that embarrassment would stop any lie from exiting my mouth. So whats the deal with these people, are they maybe lacking risk assessment completely, or is embarrassment not that threatening to them?
chuckallred · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I asked my ex once why he lied so much. Sometimes he lied about the most ridiculous things! He told me it was because he felt like he was a pretty boring, unsuccessful, person. Once I caught on though, there was no going back. My ability to trust him was gone. I told him he never had to lie to impress me. Hopefully that stuck. Doubtful though.
PantySlug · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because it's fun. Honest answer. I'm a waiter and I make up so much bullshit when I'm talking to people just because I'm bored.
relevantmemehere · 0 points · Posted at 18:27:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Real eyes realize real lies
Huff_Toots · 960 points · Posted at 15:05:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have asked him what is the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
Oldschool_Poindexter · 282 points · Posted at 15:19:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tryin ta tell me about an ambush? I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!
MattTheFlash · 11 points · Posted at 18:28:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do l need to suggest that you forget us ?
Because we will not forget.
KingPellinore · 6 points · Posted at 18:42:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't remember. That's lesson number two.
Oldschool_Poindexter · 3 points · Posted at 19:09:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Of course I'm scared. You think I'm nervous cause I'm happy?
AuNanoMan · 3 points · Posted at 21:18:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyone wants to go to the party but no one wants to stay and clean up.
Double0dude · 9 points · Posted at 18:41:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So what’s the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
GalahadEX · 9 points · Posted at 20:17:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How the fuck should I know?
[deleted] · 110 points · Posted at 15:41:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know. Robert De Niro pronounces Hereford incorrectly all through that scene. I often wonder why Sean Bean never corrected him.
FunkyResident · 32 points · Posted at 15:46:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I recently rewatched it and it kind of annoyed me that Bean, a British native, would have known it was pronounced 'hairyford' and not 'here-ford" like in the movie. Although Sean Bean is a Yorkshire boy so he might be too far north born to known any better.
Ceegee93 · 58 points · Posted at 16:13:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait what, who pronounces it "hairyford"? It's more like Herra, not Hairy. I've never heard anyone ever pronounce it like hairy.
British-Empire · 28 points · Posted at 16:30:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a native Herefordian, the majority pronounce it as “Herry-fud”.
Duckboy_Flaccidpus · 10 points · Posted at 17:08:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jeezsh, the amount of pronunciations and mispronunciations for this place is dizzying.
UltraChilly · 12 points · Posted at 17:32:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you mean "die-zaying" as we say around these parts
jeremy_sporkin · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah there’s just lots of English accents.
Rather_Unfortunate · 7 points · Posted at 17:31:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd say "Heh-reh-fud" with my middle class Northern-Southern mongrel accent.
modeler · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Definitely herry-fud not hairy-ford
hazmog · 2 points · Posted at 10:53:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually propper Herefordian's drop the H, so it's 'Erry-fud
hazmog · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or just "the ford".
bayouekko · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"The fud"
DanRoad · 11 points · Posted at 16:26:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also worth clarifying that the -ford is pronounced like foot if you were to replace the t with a d.
Decon87 · 0 points · Posted at 16:57:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think that may just he the distinction between a British and an American accent. An American would pronounce it "ferd" while British will generally make the R sound silent.
OnyxMelon · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In general in British English for three syllable words the emphasis is on the first syllable and the second two are pronounced very quickly, with vowels often becoming a short exhilation indistinguishable from the 'e' in 'the' or the 'oo' in 'foot'.
sharklops · 2 points · Posted at 18:05:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's pronounced War-chester-shy-er
FunkyResident · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The Welsh. That's who.
cardinal29 · 11 points · Posted at 17:12:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen!"
this-guy- · 14 points · Posted at 16:22:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hairyford?
Surely more like Heh-Reh-Ford
Rather_Unfortunate · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The "ford" in place names is almost never pronounced as it's spelt. It's "fud" or "food" (but with the "oo" as in "foot") or something in between those two pronunciations depending on what's comfortable in your mouth. Like Oxford University.
Although the demonym (Herefordian, Oxfordian) would pronounce it as it's spelt.
peterwzapffe · 4 points · Posted at 15:56:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What about "The Rain in Spain" from My Fair Lady, though?
Ezira · 2 points · Posted at 01:57:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It falls mainly on the plain...
tjwharry · 7 points · Posted at 16:49:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I lived in Boise, Idaho for three and a half miserable years. Worst place on Earth. Dumbest people alive. Anyway, they pronounce it "BOY-see" while everyone else in the world pronounces it "BOY-zee." I pronounced it "BOY-zee" when I lived there because "BOY-see" sounds stupid and I don't care for xenophobic nonsense like using a stupid made-up pronunciation of the town's name as a way to know who is and isn't a local. Considering how they treat out of towners, that whole town can go fuck itself.
ancientcreature2 · 17 points · Posted at 16:53:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn. Did every member of the town take a turn with your girl?
SomeIdioticDude · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even worse, they were all trying to marry her.
mint-bint · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always thought it rhymed with "noise".
SilvanSorceress · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He would've been THE KING IN THE NORTH
8hole · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’re joking, right? It’s always hard to tell.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:19 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
He can't have known. If I ever meet him I'll ask him. Assuming I can get past 'hello Mr Bean' without pissing myself.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a coworker who uses the word ironic wrong all the time. I don't correct so i don't look like an ass. I just die a little every time.
leicanthrope · 3 points · Posted at 17:44:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Perhaps that was part of his "test"?
kumquat_may · 2 points · Posted at 21:23:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He may be confused with Herford, a British Army base in Germany
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:19 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've thought about this for years. It's driven me nuts. That's the only reasonable explanation I've ever received. Aside from the person down there that Sean Bean may never have heard of Hereford as he's a northerner.
graffitiknight99 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He’d die if he did so.
gvsulaker82 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah de niro is reputed to be extremely diligent and fastidious to insure he is the character so its surprising robert missed that
j4trail · 34 points · Posted at 15:43:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Refresh my memory. Isnt that from Ronin?
HighwayZi · 8 points · Posted at 16:19:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, now I need to watch that movie again.
Drew-Pickles · 9 points · Posted at 15:45:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What colour is the boathouse at Hereford?
Dat_Boi_Frog_Memer · 18 points · Posted at 16:00:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a trick question cuz there is no here house at boatford
Huff_Toots · 12 points · Posted at 17:03:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How the fuck should I know
-Nurfhurder- · 7 points · Posted at 15:56:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There isn’t one.
sageandonion · 2 points · Posted at 22:39:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
British Army DPM camo pattern
PmMeYourSexyShoulder · 3 points · Posted at 16:22:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess Ronin is on the rewatch list again.
The_Bearded_Doctor · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Fook off"
IlIIllIIIllIllIllIll · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It would be easy for him to claim it must have been repainted since he saw it.
Huff_Toots · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that sounds plausible
ForePony · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this a reference to Ronin?
Huff_Toots · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't remember
GTA_Stuff · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I ambushed you with a cup of coffee.
celebralbore · -1 points · Posted at 17:22:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I could answer that easily. Not because I know, I would make up a compilcated explanation to describe the color and then get my phone out and say "but I am not sure, was it? Lemme check".
Mackem101 · 3 points · Posted at 18:54:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No smartphones when Ronin was filmed, I'd just say green and if Deniro called me out then say "They must have repainted it."
celebralbore · 1 points · Posted at 06:58:01 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even better! Didn't think about that.
Huff_Toots · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Then they would know you were lying about your background. These IRA types get itchy trigger fingers when they get bad news.
celebralbore · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:02 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aight, I might give up my entire life then! (Just kidding) I think an excellent liar would also give a bit of truth back just so it seemed credible, but anyways...........
[deleted] · 335 points · Posted at 15:47:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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AcidBathVampire · 10 points · Posted at 17:19:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He speaks only one language, and not that well, either.
librlman · 6 points · Posted at 19:26:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He once crossed the street...just to get to the other side.
Scarletfapper · 1 points · Posted at 07:24:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't always bullshit people,but when I do... aww who am I kidding.
RightWing_Ideologue · 283 points · Posted at 15:51:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he also a Navy Seal who graduated at the top of his class?
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 16:01:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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tac915 · 15 points · Posted at 17:28:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked with a guy that claimed he was a navy seal, about a year later I found out he had been in the Air Force, never was in the navy haha. Told me he banged a navy generals daughter and as punishment the general made him go thru seal training as punishment and he passed lol, yeah okay uh huh haha.
raptorman556 · 9 points · Posted at 17:40:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This story is so crazy stupid it just might be true...but likely not. Almost guaranteed a lie
DrewsephA · 4 points · Posted at 18:32:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If your story starts out with "I once banged a girl who..." it's guaranteed to be a lie, every time.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:51:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is one hundred percent impossible.
kooksies · 80 points · Posted at 16:54:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
CosmicDustInTheWind · 29 points · Posted at 17:06:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There it is
lessthan12parsecs · 11 points · Posted at 17:12:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
*Whoomp.
DrewsephA · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
*Womp womp
wombtemperature · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jason Blaha??
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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lojm · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Copypasta
yuckypants · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Gorilla! Ha, gets me every time.
TrainOfThought6 · 7 points · Posted at 16:59:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a manager once who claimed to be training with the Marines and the Navy SEALs simultaneously, but that stopped when he punched his CO in the face and went AWOL. Leaving that place was the epitome of 'quit the boss, not the job'.
I heard from someone still there that another guy became Company President who was aware of this guy's bullshit, and his first action was to fire said manager.
NotReallyKorean · 9 points · Posted at 16:48:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He may also have been a part of their gorilla team.
SantaIsRealEh · 12 points · Posted at 16:52:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing personnel, kid 😎
kusanagisan · 7 points · Posted at 17:06:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With three hundred confirmed kills
TwinkleTwinkleBaby · 3 points · Posted at 17:51:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m not a Navy Seal but sometimes I play one on the internet.
Infra-Oh · 2 points · Posted at 19:41:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly every time I see that copy pasta I read it word for word I love it. It's one of the most regurgitated things on Reddit that I can actually stand.
Theappunderground · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Murderlol · 30 points · Posted at 17:13:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an old co-worker like this. He constantly made up stories that were obviously bullshit but would never give up the lie even when caught.
He had a few famous ones like the time he was bow hunting deer and ran out of arrows, so he chased down the deer on foot and killed it with his pocket knife. If you're wondering, he was about 5'3 and not well built so no, he's not rambo. He also had a few fishing stories about him catching fish way bigger than any local record but they fell back in the water so he couldn't show anyone.
Well, one day everyone in the department decided to play a prank on him. I was still fairly new at the time (this was probably...about 7.5 - 8 years ago) didn't find out about it until they sprung the trap on him. The shift lead got his phone number and texted him, pretending to be a girl and asked him on a date. He fell for it and came in the next day boasting about it. Every day after that for the next week he kept bragging and bragging about how they were going out to dinner, she came back to his place, etc. Problem is, not only was it the shift lead who texted him, he only texted him once.
So after about a week of him making shit up, they finally told him it was them and that he could stop lying. He totally denied it, said it was someone else. They showed him the text messages and he still denied it. Even after that he kept the lie up and said they were still dating if anyone asked.
It's amazing the lengths some people go to for attention.
tvtb · 14 points · Posted at 18:09:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's just sad.
zimzamzoom2 · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep. If someone lives a crappy life that they have to lie to get through it, big deal, it's very obvious and sad.
But for others to toy with the guy - it says more about them than him.
Murderlol · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah the shift lead I mentioned is a huge piece of shit, I went to high school with him. Most of the other guys who were in on it weren't much better tbh.
Edit: Almost forgot to mention, that shift lead was later fired for harassment (unrelated to this story).
_Serene_ · 4 points · Posted at 18:11:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This applies to a lot of content post on reddit too.
28porkchop · 15 points · Posted at 17:18:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of my teacher who told the craziest stories from his time in the Navy and other random shit and I assumed he lied about a lot of them, but one time he told a story about a fat hooker in italy that would hang out sitting on a wall and everyone called her Humpty Dumpty. This kid mentioned that he thought his dad was stationed at the same place probably only a few years after my teacher left so he texted his dad asking if he remembered Humpty dumpty. His dad was like "you meant the fat hooker that hung out with the transvestites?" From then on I believed his stories 100%.
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 13 points · Posted at 16:35:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been looking for the secret map to Burritosalsa for years...
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:45:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 3 points · Posted at 16:45:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username relevant...
mileseypoo · 10 points · Posted at 16:25:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds more like a "two shitter" to me, if you said you'd shit on the moon, he'd say he'd done two.
tricks_23 · 8 points · Posted at 16:58:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or... "I've been to Tenerife"
"Well I've been to Elevenerife"
KizzyQueen · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We call that sort of person here Tommy Two Shits, as in if you have one shit .............
mileseypoo · 3 points · Posted at 20:19:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was once explaining to a guy who was a 'two shitter' about a new guy that had started on a new shift, I thought I'd point out that the new guy was a right 'two shitter' and he said (this is no exaggeration) "That's nothing, I knew this guy once..." the rest was drowned out by my shifts laughing as we pointed out that he just 'two shitted a two shitter'. I want that on my grave.
mileseypoo · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it is one of the funniest terms in proper English... that and a 'crafty butcher'... not very 'PC' but makes me giggle.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:39:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Lovat69 · 7 points · Posted at 17:38:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Geez, Burittosalsa is in Mexico. Everybody knows that.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 16:36:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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theloveliestsarah · 7 points · Posted at 16:53:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a girl with the surname Hill, I have had variations of that joke my whole life! I don't mind, could be worse.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:59:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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theloveliestsarah · 6 points · Posted at 18:09:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just wish some people would try a bit harder - make a new joke! One of my teachers at school always used to say "I know your brother, Over The" and chuckle away to himself. But then his wife was head of maths and had a moustache so I doubt he had much to laugh about in his personal life...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:35:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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theloveliestsarah · 2 points · Posted at 08:26:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope.
DanTheStripe · 6 points · Posted at 16:35:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he Jay from The Inbetweeners?
_DrShrimpPuertoRico_ · 7 points · Posted at 17:00:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: He actually visited places with those names.
mbelf · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was his name Richard Richard?
Veteran: Did you yomp from Goose Green to Stroud Hill?
Richie: Yeah, we all had to do that. Well there were no lavs. Just open countryside. Had to watch where you put your feet. Must have been a bitch for you, squatting on one leg!
Veteran: But did YOU go to Stroud Hill?
Richie: Of course! Me and my mates. There was me and, er Ginger, er Tommy, er Tiddles, er... er Spot, Joey, Snowy and er... Corky.
Veteran: There isn't a Stroud Hill in the Falklands.
Richie: Er... oooh, you're the ones that didn't find it? We had a laugh about you!
4br4c4d4br4 · 6 points · Posted at 17:38:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work with a guy like that. Except he's never accomplished anything.
At work he drops the dumbest shit when he thinks it makes him look good. Last week it was "I used to be a crack addict", to bolster his expertise in drug policy.
It's been "I used to be a [high falutin' manager]", yeah, so how come you're just a lowly finance drone now? Finance manager wasn't good enough? Halving your salary looks good on the resume?
He does this stuff all the time. Once in a while, to amuse myself, I will say stuff to get his ever-interrupting "yeah, uh-huh, definitely" responses to things that are completely wrong.
I'll say something like "and according to CPA rules 45 in the handbook, we are PER LAW obligated to ..." and this is where he has to chime in with his I-definitely-know-all-about-this-shit "uh-huh, right. I know." and then I drop the totally wrong part about "...use pivot tables to graph the dividends in the input-output field.".
He doesn't seem to get that I'm fucking with him. The worst part is that when I do that in front of the boss, I don't think the boss is hip to me baiting the know-nothing either.
Oh well, at least I am amused by it.
Coming2amiddle · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what counts in my book. I amuse myself all the time. I'm funny!
Insi6nia · 5 points · Posted at 17:40:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked with a guy like that once. If anyone had a story about something, he would have a better story. He actually tried to tell us that his friend owned an alligator that he would walk on a leash and would greet him at the door when he got home from work like a dog.
We started calling the guy Teddy Ruxpin.
rudbek-of-rudbek · 5 points · Posted at 17:57:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been to Burritosalsa. It's a beautiful village. Used to wrestle gorillas there.
Hack_The_Gate · 5 points · Posted at 17:39:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was at camp (not band) and this one kid Brian did something extremely similar. We would be talking in a group and he would always chime in with "you know my dad Insert topic here". He's was a text book case of "My dad owns nintendo and will get you banned from pictochat". Whenever he came around we would start nonsense one if my favorite examples was Me: Hey man you ever have a IBM 5100 as a kid?"
Some other dude: Yea I think I still got it in my attic still.
Brian: you know my dad actually got me one of those.
Me: Oh sick dude, you ever get Mario Kart for it?
Brian: Yea dude, totally cleared it and unlocked everything.
For anyone wondering the IBM 5100 is considered the first PC. It came out in 1975 and weighs nearly 24 kilos and I doubt it even had the ram to play Doom much less a game that didn't exist yet.
DavThoma · 6 points · Posted at 17:42:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I first started in my job I was in a large training group who had someone like this. This dude lied about everything. Claimed his family owned world bank, that he became a sergeant in the army at 19, that he had a heart condition that constantly left him unwell which he had had since he was a child (something which pissed a couple of people off who actually had issues with their heart), that he'd been a manager for many teams in different jobs, that he'd kicked an employee out on the street and broke their jaw in the process and that all his coworkers cheered him on. The ones that took the biscuit though was when he lied about his son being ill and in the hospital for months (he was caught out when a coworker saw him out with his family and the son was fine) and the fake doctors letters he used to get out of work constantly. My employer fell for the doctors letters constantly, finally found out they were forged and he was promptly fired and escorted off the premises by security.
Last I heard his wife left him and he's living with his mum who stood up for the shit he pulled.
Hilarious thing was my sisters boyfriend went to school with him, which I didn't know at the time, and apparently he was just as much of a compulsive liar then. He told people he couldn't feel pain and asked a guy to punch him as hard as he could. He ended up going to the hospital because of the pain lmao.
dj_destroyer · 4 points · Posted at 16:39:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you, there's a bullshitter at work and I've been wondering how to out him. This will work magic.
mainemade · 4 points · Posted at 16:46:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine referred to someone like this saying, 'if he hasn't been there he's flown over it.'
TheLegend1127001 · 4 points · Posted at 16:56:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You ever call him out on it?
classykid23 · 4 points · Posted at 17:07:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Here's something I do not understand:
Do these people really think they're fooling others? And, for what great purpose? To look cool? For a warm fuzzy? What's their motivation? Why lie about something so blatantly obvious that can be verified in minutes? Like, why?
Andifly · 4 points · Posted at 17:27:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an ex like this. He made up being a marine, being shot in combat, having a daughter that died, meeting this president, having lost friends in combat....so many lies. Some people are born story tellers. I figure the only way he could get people to listen was to pretend it was real and in reality he knew he had nothing real to talk about.
HashtagHR · 3 points · Posted at 17:33:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy said he was a navy seal. Had done it for years. Even His family was convinced. He was known as the seal. I started at the company. The public walk back on that lifetime of lies was exceptional to see.
Roland_T_Flakfeizer · 5 points · Posted at 17:49:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I kind of have the opposite problem. I've traveled to around 30 countries give or take and had crazy fucking experiences everywhere I went. Now i try to tell stories about it and everyone thinks I'm full of shit. Occasionally I'll be talking to someone who's been to the place I'm talking about and I'll know enough random details about the place that they believe me, but most of the people I know think I'm just a compulsive liar.
Coming2amiddle · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, tell us some stories :) I'm sure reddit will enjoy verifying them for you!
Roland_T_Flakfeizer · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I have, many times over the years. It's one of the things that keeps me around here. People generally take my stories at face value, with only the occasional person who tries to call me a liar. I'll admit to a bit of exaggeration of certain details and omission of others simply for the sake of a more reader-friendly story, but I never outright lie, even on here. But if you're genuinely curious, it's all somewhere in my history. It goes back a long ways and I've told a lot of stories throughout.
Randomcart · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a bs coworker always one upping stories. Someone mentions they have a really tall friend at like 6’7”. She says I have a really tall friend too. Wait how tall did you say she was? Says 6’7” again. Mine was 6’8” with a few more lines of bs. She was such a one upper she had to reask so her friend could be the tallest in the middle of her story.
Another girl claimed her friend was 7’2” and played for BC. I told her really? I’m surprised I’ve never heard of him since I follow duke who plays in the same conference. I’ll have to check it out.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:06:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah yes, Burritosalsa. They have an eclectic array of food.
OhioMegi · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My firmer (former! Stupid autocorrect!) BIL claimed to be an officer in the army, a paratrooper, and went to NYC after 9/11 because he was such a good paramedic. Well, my sister and I are both Air Force brats, so she should have known a dude who barely passed high school can’t be an officer but I guess she didn’t pay attention to that. My ex at the time was former Navy and asked him some questions like that, to gauge his bullshit. He told me later he really wanted to punch him in the face because he was lying so much, but didn’t want to ruin the 50th anniversary party for my grandparents.
Coming2amiddle · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope you have a softer BIL now.
OhioMegi · 3 points · Posted at 20:06:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol, the new one is a lot nicer!
tarzanboyo · 4 points · Posted at 18:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know an older ex army (UK) guy who claims the same, im not sure what he did but he is ex military but he claims he was a sniper. I know a fair bit about UK military history, never joined myself but was accepted and have a few family members who have served but I have always enjoyed the history so I like to talk about it sometimes.
This guy claims how he went on special forces operations in Iran in the 80s, describing in detail how he shot someone in the head etc haha, half the operations he claimed he took part in are countries which we havent had any known military presence in and if there was covert ops going on, someone in his position wouldnt be bringing them up in idle chitchat.
VulcanCafe · 3 points · Posted at 18:39:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have one of these. I worked at RadioShack and one of the cell carriers’ employees claimed to be former military intelligence who had been stationed in Germany. Super nice guy who said he spoke a bunch of languages. Yeah, right. Left us all wondering why he was selling cell phones at the mall and most of us just thought he was BSing.
Fast forward a year this Korean couple walk in and he starts speaking fluent Korean. Imagine their expression, when this white guy in Kansas starts speaking Korean at a random retail store. I guess he was trained in 5 languages to translate things for the military. Mind blown!
Now he does international relations for some organization.
babystripper · 4 points · Posted at 18:58:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fun fact. Blueberry hill is a famous restaurant in St Louis where Chuck Berry use to perform
ferrisbuell3r · 7 points · Posted at 17:01:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I live in Argentina and can confirm: Burritosalsa and the temple on Blueberry Hill are totally real!
megatronchote · 5 points · Posted at 16:41:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am actually from Argentina and I can tell you, the island of Burritosalsa is totally inaccesible.
Indi05 · 3 points · Posted at 16:38:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Chronic liars are the worst, they irritate me to no ends, I have no idea how people can live with them...
jackduloz · 4 points · Posted at 16:36:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, that temple on Blueberry Hill sounds pretty thrilling.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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jackduloz · 3 points · Posted at 16:48:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like to think the song is actually about a mithril mine
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:09:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Blueberry hill?
Clever Dora reference there :)
himate97 · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel sorry for people like that though
arandomact · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This was one of the most satisfying comments ever.
Gioware · 2 points · Posted at 16:48:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was her name Penelope?
dodbrew · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He must be very dumb
throwawayacct600 · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's great that he didn't realize he'd been caught. Nice work.
teem0chan · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did he react when you told him those places didn't exist?
ButterflyAttack · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you sure he was even in the military?
madafuka · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/quityourbullshit
DudeNiceMARMOT · 2 points · Posted at 17:12:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
xD
freetimenow · 2 points · Posted at 17:56:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upvote just cause your username hahahha
xohl · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is the point of telling obvious lies like that? It just makes you look stupid. This one girl I know claims to own 15% of Tesla (and she’s 16), have a 2018 Landrover (that she apparently totaled), and is from Australia (she’s not). I just don’t get it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Met way too many like that unfortunately
TheJonesJonesJones · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of this Mighty Mighty Bosstones song. https://genius.com/The-mighty-mighty-bosstones-all-things-considered-lyrics
ExtremeEpikness · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a kid who went to school with me in 5th grade, but instead of lying about places he's visited, he lied about the games he's played. Let's call him Billy.
Me: "Hey I just beat Twilight Princess, what a great game."
Billy: "Oh that game? That game is easy! I beat it in under 3 hours and I got all the secrets!"
Me and my friends caught on to his bullshit and tried this:
Me: "Hey, did you try the new game by Apple soft called Nam cap?"
Billy: "Hell yea of course I've played that. I'm super good at it too!"
Me: "Did you manage to get to level 6 and beat Sauroman the hedgehog wizard?"
Billy: "Oh yea that boss is easy, beat him without dying"
Me: "Nam cap is a racing game..."
Billy: "yea that's what I meant I beat him without losing"
Me "..."
mike213player213 · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I met a compulsive liar once and to be honest I kinda felt bad for the guy..
JohnnySkidmarx · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He probably was never in the military either.
JDeeezie · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work with this guy im pretty sure, he said he paid 60 bucks to watch a girl get hung when he was in the navy
dudecomputer · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Great username.
YesMeans_MutualRape · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats sad
TheManFromFarAway · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's a guy from back home who used to work in the oilfield that's like this. We would make up names of people and drilling companies and he'd say that he's worked with and for them.
Hey, you know Johnny Hookerzamblow? Oh ya, I taught him everything he knows! You ever hear of Beef Curtain Drilling? Oh Ya, I ran a crew for them! You ever see those super quadruple slant rigs? Buddy I worked on two!
prettehkitteh · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in high school that was a compulsive liar, always talking about rock stars and famous people that she and her family knew or went to lunch with. We started making up band names to see if she'd claim to know them or to have gone backstage with them etc., worked a few times before we called her out on it. She just claimed she had misheard the names we said and insisted she had done those things with real bands.
numismatic_nightmare · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you know the muffin man?
Cantbelosingmyjob · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never caught this in a lie but had a co-worker that left to be deployed because he was fighting north Korea and within the last week 3 of his friends had died... In North Korea. Then he was messaging another co-worker, from his North Korean outpost,. Trying to get her to send him money . Some people are just ridiculous but I have a feeling mine involved drugs somehow
MrBleak · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a classmate try to pull something like that, and after we revealed none of places existed he got all flustered and vehemently defended that they were real and we were the liars.
tinkrman · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminded me of this:
"Nepal is wonderful, just came back from there..."
"Oh yeah I know, it's great"
"Oh you've been to Nepal?"
"Been to Nepal? haha... of course, many times"
"Have you seen the pagodas?"
"Seen them? We had dinner with them!!"
Leugim_3002 · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Burrutosalsa lmao
haygo · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew a girl like this once. No matter how obscure of a place or thing you would reference, she would be like "oh yeah I've been there/done that/know about that."
One time a group of friends and I made up a band and were all like "Wow, did you hear the new song from [fake bank band here]? It's SO GOOD."
And of course she was like "yeah, I love it. I saw them in concert a few months back."
Just annoying.
Mackem101 · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An Elevenerifer, so called because if you've been to Tenerife he's been to Elevenerife.
Hashbrowns_Senpai · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes it’s hard to have to come to terms with the fact that some vets or active members are general assholes, best example being Onision
VeganMcVeganface · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was his name JD?
Kiwispam84 · 2 points · Posted at 18:55:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine is an Iraq vet, and served on the USS Ronald Reagan. We were out at a bar one night, and met a guy who said he was a Vietnam vet. My friend could tell by some of the things he was saying, though, that he was lying.
It took me a while to realize, but there’s no way that guy served on the Ronald Reagan in Vietnam- Reagan was governor of California at the time, and wouldn’t have had a ship named after him.
nono_baddog · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate ‘one-uppers’ like that. I had this friend who had a ‘cousin’ for everything.
‘Well, my cousin is a chef, and he says...’ ‘My cousin is actually a park ranger, and she says...’ ‘My cousin is a cop and this one time...’
AaaawShitBuddy · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had he also been hiking in the foothills of Mount Tibidabo?
jeremythelee · 2 points · Posted at 19:04:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's this weird phenomenon of veterans with a chip on their shoulder for having a typical and uneventful period of service. I've got a family friend who brags about all the "shit he saw" in "the desert". Come to find out he was in Bahrain at a navy R&R facility. rule of thumb is if they refer to a location as "the desert" they were actually in some oil rich country like Qatar or UAE.
aazo5 · 2 points · Posted at 19:04:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, this guy was truly a horrible human being.
tovarish22 · 2 points · Posted at 19:04:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a medical student, we had this guy, an older physician's assistant who had been a medic in the army, who sort of proctored our surgical skills laboratory. He was a "good ol' boy" southerner, aka a racist asshole, and would talk about his time in the military as if he were Rambo.
The entire 2 months I was in that lab, he would shout at people practicing suturing, "YOU CALL THAT A SUTURE?! I DID BETTER SUTURES WHEN I WAS IN COMBAT STITCHING UP GUNSHOTS!"
Towards the end of my stint in that lab, he finally yelled at me, so I just calmly set the suture material and needle driver down as look at him. I asked him, very calmly, which conflict he was because he was too young for Vietnam and too old for the first Gulf War." He just stammered something about "respecting veterans" and "how dare you accuse me of lying about my service".
This is also the same guy who kept claiming he was a "volunteer SWAT captain" for the county and that he was going to "bust up some of those thug kids" after a big rap concert in our city.
DoctorWings · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey u/clit-eastwould a lot of military memebers are like this and we arent sure why. Your doing a good thing by doing this. You earned some reddit green. Tell all your friends.
BobbyCock · 2 points · Posted at 19:07:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was hoping you would have a call out story of totally busting him...
IHappenToBeARobot · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you've been to Timbuktu, they've been to Timbukthree.
BallerFromTheHoller · 2 points · Posted at 19:15:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a one-upper.
perkofbeingasmartass · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was a girl in my theater department who was like that about movies. Lord knows she had seen every single film known to man and would try to talk to you about them, even if she hadn't properly seen them. We started making up scenes from films we were talking about and she'd go along with it, just like your co-worker. We even began to make up entire movies and she was never any wiser.
Leaislala · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahahaha Burritosalsa!!!!
HelenMiserlou · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"How 'bout Peniscola? Ever been there, Howard?"
hombre_lobo · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you work in the white house?
ForePony · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He just didn't know his improv class ended years ago.
ThatRunningOrochi · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha had a co-worker who was the same. After a conversation or 3 we figured he was always one-uping people. So we did the same thing as you, inventing stuff or making him say stuff that would contradict each other. ^
XXMAVR1KXX · 2 points · Posted at 19:36:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The one upper
Dynasty2201 · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate the one-uppers.
Used to know one guy that my flatmate called "Elevenerife."
"Oh you've been to Tenerife? I've been to Elevenerife."
Just shut the FUCK up and let them tell their story, nobody gives a shit that you went there, no doubt "first". Congrats. You went there before us. We're not impressed. You're just a dick for interrupting and trying to show off how you "won".
winterborne1 · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it would be most hilarious if there turned out to be a place in Argentina called Burritosalsa, and there happens to be a temple on Blueberry Hill where they remember your co-worker vividly.
chevria0 · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And the satisfying part?
SHERKguy12 · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was in fifth grade we were doing one of those activities to get to know our classmates better. We were instructed to tell the person sitting across from us our favorite activities, I went first. I said my favorite thing to do was mountain biking, the person across said they liked it too and said they were really good at it. I asked them if they ride on a local mountain and they said Yes, I then asked if they had ridden a bunch of other places, all of which they responded Yes, I could sense the BS and made up a place called eagle lake, our conversation went something like this:
Me: Have you ever done a ride at eagle lake
Them: oh yeah! Love the downhill there!
Me: huh I find the downhill boring, not technical enough.
Them: yeah you're right, but I still like it
Me: that's interesting, because eagle lake doesn't exist.
Their face turned red, they knew they had fallen right into my trap.
troyzein · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of that scene in There's Something About Mary
NOTaCat__ · 2178 points · Posted at 15:25:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was sitting with a couple friends and a guy i didn't know too well, all playing cards. We start swapping stories and the guy I didn't know starts telling the story of a time he went to a strip club. However, he had lifted the story word for word from a YouTube video, only changing the names (Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures). I started playing the video on my phone halfway through his story and connected it to the TV
jnamauqa · 633 points · Posted at 15:26:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bet that was awkward.
CarlWheeser15 · 35 points · Posted at 21:33:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those jerks stole my story!
NOTaCat__ · 14 points · Posted at 05:15:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It made the evening very awkward, the guy was saying he wanted everyone to think he was cool, but just made it worse
IrreverentSweetie · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or very, very funny! 😆
anniewhovian · 227 points · Posted at 16:59:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly anything that happens to Any of the RT guys is way better than what happens to me Only difference is I wouldn’t try to pass it off as my own story I’d just start talking about the video “I was dying of laughter when Geoff said (insert thing) happened”
_Mephostopheles_ · 105 points · Posted at 18:49:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. You can share other people’s stories without passing them off as your own. It isn’t illegal.
-littlefang- · -32 points · Posted at 19:31:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not illegal, but it's a dumb thing to do and it introduces the fact that you'll tell white lies with no issue.
_Mephostopheles_ · 24 points · Posted at 19:32:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What?
zyice · 7 points · Posted at 19:35:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Miswording/misunderstanding im guessing.
You know what he means though
_Mephostopheles_ · 28 points · Posted at 19:37:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really don’t. How is sharing a story you heard, while giving the proper credit to whoever first told it, in any way wrong?
zyice · 8 points · Posted at 19:37:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He means pretending its your own story is wrong.
Edit: Don’t know why you deleted your reply, but here’s my response. He probably misread your comment, thinking it said pretending its your own story is illegal
_Mephostopheles_ · 21 points · Posted at 19:57:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn’t delete my comment. I have no idea what happened.
Dovakiin_Beast · -6 points · Posted at 20:02:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Saying a story as if it happened to you--when it never happened to you--is wrong. There is nothing to misunderstand here.
-littlefang- · 6 points · Posted at 20:11:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think they just want to be mad, I was essentially agreeing with them and they freaked out at me. Idk.
zyice · 0 points · Posted at 20:20:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What happened is you misinterpreted what he said, and said something a litttle confusing to us. He didn’t need to freak out over it though
-littlefang- · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He did, if you check his other comments, he was asking why the fuck I made my comment. I didn't misinterpret what he said, I was agreeing with his statement and adding a further opinion. He totally misunderstood what I said and got angry about it.
zyice · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didnt say he didnt freak out, i said he didnt need to.
Anyway, basic explanation of this whole mess:
He said that it isnt illegal to share other people’s stories (not pass them off as their own).
You said that it may not be illegal, but it is wrong to lie.
Just a small misinterpretation, youre both right, and hes wrong for freaking out
-littlefang- · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're right, I misread the end of your comment, my bad.
zyice · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its fine
_Mephostopheles_ · -1 points · Posted at 20:13:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is exactly what I’ve been fucking saying this entire time. Can you people not read or something?
-littlefang- · 5 points · Posted at 20:19:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you this rude to everyone who agrees with you on the internet?
_Mephostopheles_ · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Only when they accuse me of taking the opposite stance simply because they can’t read.
-littlefang- · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No one has done that, man.
_Mephostopheles_ · -3 points · Posted at 20:25:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
– your first reply to my original comment
-littlefang- · 3 points · Posted at 20:26:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, I agreed with your statement and added an additional opinion. It's called a conversation, reddit comment sections are full of them.
Mangledpork · 0 points · Posted at 20:41:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He said "without", not "with", ya plonker.
He could have just explained it properly at the start though, the nonce.
You're both pillocks. Now let's all get back to redditing.
_Mephostopheles_ · 0 points · Posted at 02:10:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did explain it properly, as you've just proven.
Mangledpork · 0 points · Posted at 02:32:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, give over.
-littlefang- · -7 points · Posted at 19:43:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're correct, it's not illegal, it's just a stupid thing to do. I'm not sure what about my comment wasn't clear?
room-to-breathe · 4 points · Posted at 22:13:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
'It' in his comment is 'shar[ing] other people’s stories without passing them off as your own'
How is that 'a dumb thing to do [that] introduces the fact that you'll tell white lies with no issue'?
You're literally saying the opposite of what you mean. That's why your comment wasn't clear.
-littlefang- · -3 points · Posted at 22:47:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My comment was clear, I don't understand what's difficult to understand about it. I agreed with them in that it's not illegal to claim someone's story as your own, and went on to add that it's a dumb thing to do.
room-to-breathe · 11 points · Posted at 23:01:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He specifically said it's not illegal to share someone else's story without claiming it as your own, as I just reiterated to you.
You gotta up your reading comprehension.
-littlefang- · -4 points · Posted at 23:12:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're agreeing with me in the same way that I'm agreeing with him. I don't know what you're upset about. No, it's not illegal to claim a story. Yes, it is dumb to do. What is confusing about this?
Ithera · 6 points · Posted at 23:34:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mate. Reading comprehension. No one is upset; you're just misunderstanding the original comment you responded to.
room-to-breathe · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean I get upset by stuff on Reddit all the time, it's really weird to be called on it when it's not happening.
I'm beginning to suspect a very particular type of troll here.
Edit: checked history, I think they're just having a bad day and not communicating well.
-littlefang- · -2 points · Posted at 23:52:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not misunderstanding the comment at all, I'm agreeing with them. I'm fucking mystified at all the rude comments I've gotten about this today though, and I'm sick of people calling me an idiot because they can't read my fucking comment correctly. I'm done with this fucking thread.
LordUncleBob · 3 points · Posted at 01:36:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're mystified, but apparently not enough to actually go back and reread to see what went wrong. The comment you replied to said:
key word without. Meaning you say "I heard this story" and not "this happened to me."
You missed that, though, because you said:
But if you tell a story without passing it off as your own, you aren't lying, so it isn't a dumb thing to do.
So either you replied to the wrong comment, or you failed to read it properly, and then you repeatedly doubled down assuming you were right.
_Mephostopheles_ · 3 points · Posted at 02:09:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're the only one misunderstanding. It's probably best that you do leave.
-littlefang- · -4 points · Posted at 02:15:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Our conversation was over hours ago, move on.
_Mephostopheles_ · 4 points · Posted at 02:19:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, now you wanna play the mature one? Gimme a break.
EllaEnigma · 1 points · Posted at 11:02:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I die a little inside every time I see you misunderstand over and over again. This is such a small misunderstanding to get upset about and it's not like it matters in any way but it's frustrating as hell to watch from an outside perspective. That's the reason people are getting so upset and giving you shit because you keep not seeing your mistake. I just hope at some point you will get it.
SprungMS · 3 points · Posted at 23:41:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He’s actually right, I think you’re still misunderstanding the original content. He meant telling someone else’s story like “so and so was telling me that this thing happened to them” instead of “this thing happened to me”
_Mephostopheles_ · -8 points · Posted at 19:43:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What isn’t clear is why the fuck you’re telling this to me. It doesn’t apply to my comment. Read my original comment again.
-littlefang- · -1 points · Posted at 19:56:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whoa dude, chill out. I was replying to something that you said, there's no reason to freak out at me.
_Mephostopheles_ · -11 points · Posted at 19:56:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whatever dude.
-littlefang- · 12 points · Posted at 19:57:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uuuhh, okay, have a nice day I guess
Momumnonuzdays · 4 points · Posted at 20:11:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
EVERYONE JUST STOP YELLING!!
you're tearing us all apart...
-littlefang- · 0 points · Posted at 20:12:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're tearing me apart
lisaMomumnonuzdays!superthotty · 60 points · Posted at 19:04:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“I’ma smother you in my tittays”
InsaneFPSGamer1 · 41 points · Posted at 19:33:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had the same thing happen to me. I’m sitting with some friends at lunch and this guy in our grade just sits at our table. We didn’t know him too well but thought, eh why not. So we’re talking to him and getting to know him and he starts telling this story about his dad. I’m one of the few listening as some other guys at the table are talking amongst themselves. He starts talking about his dad being at this football game where they ran into the field. Something in my brain fires off and I listen more. I let him get all the way to the end of the story before saying “yeah man I love roosterteeth.” He looked surprised for a sec before just laughing and saying something like “oh didn’t know if you knew them.”
InkedDrawing99 · 31 points · Posted at 19:50:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Friend of mine did this shit too! He was telling me how one time he "couldn't spell the word chums and ended up spelling jums" and as he's finishing "his" story, I bluntly state, "You got that from Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures." Watching him deny it was fun, which didn't make sense to me at all because he was a pretty big fan of RT and I was "shocked" he never heard of the series until that moment
bothanspied · 8 points · Posted at 19:30:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her contact was on my dick!
BrickGun · 3 points · Posted at 22:37:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Were her eyes blue or brown??!?!?!
PM_me_spooky_shit · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, what did he say?
DonHo0 · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which video
Maximumwolf99 · 6 points · Posted at 22:26:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If it was at a strip club, I'm gonna assume it was the one with Miles and the black stripper? Maybe
NOTaCat__ · 2 points · Posted at 05:11:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep! That was it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYjCThhQqw
operson · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha, genius. How did he react?
NOTaCat__ · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He turned beet red and ended up explaining he wanted us to think he was cool to impress us. It was one of the weirdest situations I've ever been in
drugs_are_yummy · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was everyones reaction?
ruscheinskyc · 2 points · Posted at 22:29:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was that the one about the Darque Chocolate?
quentinlf · 6 points · Posted at 17:59:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedrt
BearimusPrimal · 7 points · Posted at 19:25:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lowercase r my guy.
unchainedzulu33 · 7 points · Posted at 19:32:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedrt
quentinlf · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fixed it, thanks.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bahaha nice
Yxkilobon · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lmao great response
regalrecaller · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I seent it!
Rachelxx97 · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was it the "Darque Chocolate" awkward laughing story?
improbablewhale · 1 points · Posted at 02:47:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was it this one?
Please tell me he did Miles' voice and everything
SideWalkVom · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a fellow student do this except it was the story about someone not knowing what kind of nuts he was eating and i was just like "thats a roosterteeth bit" and she said "yeah i know gavin hes my cousin" ok sure kid
weedandweed · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only thing worse than being a roosterteeth fan is thinking they're such hot shit that you want to pretend to be them
Holy fuck
IvoTheMerciless104 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fucking savage
jay2josh · 22819 points · Posted at 14:10:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I lived with my Dad I had a cash bank that I kept hidden. I was positive about the sum of money I had saved up (I was saving up for the
Xbox OneXbox 360 which was coming out) and when I counted it, it was short. Like $20 short. I also had a webcam on my computer and since my family was not computer literate I set it up on a timelapse, one picture every 10 seconds, whenever I left the house. Sure enough, suspected family member went into my room, went right for the stash and stole from me. I confronted them at dinner in front of everyone, they denied it, others believed them, and then I put the photo I printed out on the table.Best macaroni and cheese I ever ate.
Edit: I'm a fucking idiot and meant Xbox 360, not Xbox One. This happened in 2005.
The_Inedible_Hluk · 5273 points · Posted at 14:38:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, what happened after that?
jay2josh · 9993 points · Posted at 14:44:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dad took it seriously and he was pissed, his wife at the time didn't because she said "it's only $40", the person who stole from me was trying to make excuses. I just wanted my $40 back. I was working at Kroger as a bagger/cashier at the time and minimum wage was 5.15 an hour, so 40 bucks was more than a days worth of hours. The thing about Kroger back then was you could cash your paycheck at Customer Service and that's what I did prior to this. The day after these events though I went to the Wachovia we had inside the Kroger and opened up my first bank account. To this day I do not keep cash, I'd rather have to visit an ATM than lose it.
Edit: I should clarify that they had stolen $20 from me before and with the webcam setup they stole another $20.
bg-j38 · 10420 points · Posted at 15:33:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"It's only $40"
"OK. Can I have $40?"
"No that's way too much money to just give you."
That's how I imagine the conversation went.
jay2josh · 4825 points · Posted at 16:27:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That and "Well what do you need it for anyways?"
Ech0fiRE · 3273 points · Posted at 16:47:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My vision flashed red in anger when I read this comment.
CTRL_SHIFT_Q · 149 points · Posted at 16:53:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You and me the same
Lt_Toodles · 48 points · Posted at 17:52:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, also I am the same as you and them, fellow humans.
Bonhomhongon · 25 points · Posted at 18:13:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am both same, you, and them at once, my homo sapiens friends.
CTRL_SHIFT_Q · 17 points · Posted at 18:17:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks, samepeople
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:53:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best thing about Reddit? How quickly threads can go off on a tangent to make any reader feel like they are having a stroke.
Jasole37 · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes fellow Humans, we are definitely not Glaxcorgs from Zagnoid Beta!
Bonhomhongon · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't that be preposterous!
steel_sky · 3 points · Posted at 01:02:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am every person that ever existed.
devildocjames · 7 points · Posted at 20:14:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, TIL...
FreB0 · 2 points · Posted at 12:14:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can attest that this works on Firefox as well..
Good thing I can restore session!
agangofoldwomen · 26 points · Posted at 17:42:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahh the red ring of death, I got that on my 360 too.
WhoSmokesThaBlunts · 39 points · Posted at 17:26:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The people closest to you can and will fuck you over the hardest
Orngog · 14 points · Posted at 17:53:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well yeah, those not close to you can't fuck you over.
The solution is to not get close to assholes.
WhoSmokesThaBlunts · 5 points · Posted at 18:50:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I meant more along the lines of family. Its not always malicious but family will take advantage of you faster and more often than strangers
Bufferkiller · 15 points · Posted at 21:46:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mine too. My mother always took from my sister and me and said this same goddamn thing when we asked for our money back. Or she’d say, “who pays for your food and shelter, huh?!” My grandparents, and the pay for yours too! Plus I’m only 10!
I’m so glad I don’t have to ever relive that childhood bullshit.
Kitonez · 6 points · Posted at 17:59:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got excited from it being this accurate
nighthawke75 · 5 points · Posted at 20:01:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's grounds for a knuckle sandwich. They want to smart off about MY money, they'd better pack a first aid kit.
markymaboy · 5 points · Posted at 17:54:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Red like the ring of death.
RandomMandarin · 2 points · Posted at 01:44:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"I need the forty dollars to buy redvision medication!"
supervisord · 2 points · Posted at 05:47:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously. My stab instinct activated.
spookvee · 1153 points · Posted at 16:52:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God that's infuriating. That's not the point, doesn't matter what you needed it for, it's your fuckin money not theirs. Christ. I'm glad they got caught red handed, good on you for confronting them head on
Kitonez · 13 points · Posted at 18:00:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Leaving a comment here, incase i forget this in the future
LordKwik · 11 points · Posted at 20:45:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reddit has a save feature.
Kitonez · 8 points · Posted at 20:55:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And ive yet to use it
LordKwik · 8 points · Posted at 20:56:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Try it out! Much easier than trying to go back and find a comment you made.
tendrils87 · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't worry. Just consider it a tax.
Grizzled--Kinda · 133 points · Posted at 16:57:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Real question here, which family member, whats your relationship ship with them like nowadays, and how did you get revenge?
PM_ME_HELLO_ITS_ME · 99 points · Posted at 17:40:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It sounds like a sibling-in-law from their dad's ex-wife, so probably not super cozy.
Lonklecks · 74 points · Posted at 17:51:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I definitely read it as being a step brother/sister
angry_snek · 24 points · Posted at 17:58:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus Christ, the mental flips people go through to justify the shit they pull.
MalusSonipes · 17 points · Posted at 18:21:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That quote could be pulled straight from /r/raisedbynarcissists
PunnyBanana · 18 points · Posted at 20:27:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to always complain to my dad about my sister stealing my clothes when we were kids. Not only did I hate it on principle, but she wouldn't take care of them so they'd end up stretched out/stained/balled up on the floor of her closet and I wouldn't see them again for months (not exaggerating). My dad's response usually ranged from no response to taking her side ("It's not like you were wearing it" "Just wear something else"). Then after I moved out he called me up super pissed because my sister had stolen some earrings and a shirt from his then girlfriend (now wife). Hmmmm, maybe that's because you've spent her entire life reinforcing that that's perfectly okay.
Psycosilly · 10 points · Posted at 21:42:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't you love how it's not a problem till it becomes their problem?
SilverParty · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not like his girlfriend was wearing the earrings. She could have just worn some other ones. 😉
Whiskey-Leg · 52 points · Posted at 17:13:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This. My parents pulled that on me when my brother made a bet with me, lost it fair and square, he owed me $100 and never paid up. Then they said "well he can do your chores for you instead." Nope, I needed cash more than free time at that point, and I didn't have a job as a kid. He never did the chores either.
hanhange · 14 points · Posted at 19:26:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's different than outright stealing and refusing to pay up, though. How old was your brother? $100 isn't something you can just pull out of your ass.
Whiskey-Leg · 5 points · Posted at 20:41:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's similar in that there was a clear double standard in our home. If we deprived the other person of something we were expected to make restitution for it, or at least I was.
hanhange · -1 points · Posted at 21:24:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did your brother ever force you to cough up $100 for a bet?
You also are still neglecting to mention age. You weren't expecting some 14 year old to come up with $100, were you?
Whiskey-Leg · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plus he was given an alternative form of payment and didn't even do that.
hanhange · -2 points · Posted at 23:35:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you not know how to edit posts? You rejecting the offer your parents made of him doing your chores is not his fault.
Whiskey-Leg · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You sound a LOT more hung up on this than I am. Look, it brought up a memory, I was annoyed remembering it for like 3 minutes, typed a response, and went on with my day. Have a good one!
hanhange · -1 points · Posted at 02:06:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was just pointing out it's not the same thing, man. Be irritated at it, but it's nothing like stealing, and there's no double standard. You were both dumb kids, that's all.
Whiskey-Leg · 0 points · Posted at 21:27:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We both were mowing lawns and stuff for cash and had girlfriends, I don't recall exact age.
hanhange · -1 points · Posted at 23:36:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So probably like 16. Where you would probably not have $100 on you.
Whiskey-Leg · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had paid bets to each other before, bought and sold stuff regularly, money changed hands often
hanhange · 2 points · Posted at 21:25:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
$100, though?
Whiskey-Leg · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Close to it for some stuff.
hanhange · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So that's a 'no.'
cheffy3369 · -1 points · Posted at 19:52:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously you were trying to hold your brother to a $100 bet as kids... That fucked up man. I have 3 siblings and would make bets with them as well as friends growing up. I think most people did as kids actually. I have never heard of anyone actually every paying up because these are not legit bets. Especially a $100 bet as kids, that is steep! And that is completely different than stealing fyi.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:03:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe they made bets before this one and always paid each other. You’re assuming too much. My friends and I always paid each other on lost bets when I was kid. It made any competition so much better.
Whiskey-Leg · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They would've made me pay it back. They had consistently let him get away with no consequences for things they would punish me for extensively.
MomoPewpew · 7 points · Posted at 18:39:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And then "well that's just video games, is that really that important to you?"
Shitting_Human_Being · 6 points · Posted at 17:05:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To buy a xbox, duh
wildstarr · 7 points · Posted at 18:47:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Fuck you! That's why..."
LevelSevenLaserLotus · 3 points · Posted at 18:53:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's my ass-kickin' money!
THE_BEST_MEME · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's honestly the stupidest and weakest response I've ever seen. "Why do you need this money for anyways?". Does the person that stole from you not understand the concept of saving money ?
Fingfangfoom67 · 3 points · Posted at 20:08:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to know the amount that has to be stolen to have it considered wrong.
newsheriffntown · 3 points · Posted at 20:41:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I need it to shove down your goddamned throat. Twenty down your throat and twenty down the thief's throat mf.
Wyliecody · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That question doesn’t get asked any more after the stabbing.
egotisticalnoob · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"For an Xbox 360."
"You need to quit wasting your time on those games."
DukeboxHiro · 1 points · Posted at 12:48:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The generation with this mentality needs to hurry up and die off.
OriginalFartonaut · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have asked the thief "Well what do you need my money for anyways."
BaeSeanHamilton · 2 points · Posted at 23:54:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The answer we all need, did you get it back?
sooondae · 2 points · Posted at 03:51:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a fucking cunt. I hope karma comes back
Red0t514 · 2 points · Posted at 06:36:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Because it’s mine”
theawkwardintrovert · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That'd be the question I'd ask of the thief. "Well what did you need $40 so bad for that you felt stealing was a-ok?"
NeDragons · 3 points · Posted at 19:32:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Im saving for college you cheap cunt. Now you can give me back my $40 or I can choke you out in your sleep and take it out of your wallet.
Wanna keep your fingers? Dont steal from me
VapeNashe_II · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not cigarettes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"For a baseball bat"
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 17:40:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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SuperFLEB · 33 points · Posted at 18:17:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That line of reasoning only works until someone thinks about it a moment.
"It's only $10. It's insignificant!"
"Sounds like you can do without it, then."
bg-j38 · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I should have tried this when my landlord raised my rent by 30% a couple years ago. Doubt it would have worked though.
thaumatologist · 13 points · Posted at 17:28:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's when you dial the police to report a theft
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:41:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m fuming right now my aunt lived with us and was a thief for her kids. At one point when I was younger I saved up $400 working part time i had withdrawn it to go get something (at the time person to person digital transactions didn’t exist)
And she didn’t take just $20 or $40 but she took the entire stack of $50’s could never prove it and she never dressed up, not the first time it happened. Like I used to keep $20 in my car Incase my wallet got robbed and I had to get gas and she cleaned me out.
To this day I won’t carry cash because of her
I_am_10_squirrels · 3 points · Posted at 19:48:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll give you four bananas instead
renifer_erop · 3 points · Posted at 03:28:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"You've never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you?"
MordorMordorMordor · 2665 points · Posted at 15:16:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least your dad had your back, I would hate to be in a situation where your dad and your stepmom took the thief's side.
jay2josh · 2193 points · Posted at 16:26:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's a very "if it sounds like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck" type of guy.
It also helped that I was an easy to deal with teenager. I went to school, went to work Saturday-Monday afterwards, had marching band practice on Wed/Thurs, and relaxed at home on Tuesday nights which meant video games and pizza. He didn't really have to be a parent because I took care of myself mostly.
______Passion · 659 points · Posted at 17:10:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So your dad is a duck?
jay2josh · 1051 points · Posted at 17:16:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He does love the water and has started to travel south for winters.
CompassionateHypeMan · 24 points · Posted at 19:57:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're a wonderful person.
BenjaminElskerjyder · 7 points · Posted at 22:20:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
ShooterDiarrhea · 23 points · Posted at 19:28:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where's /u/fuckswithducks when you need him?
ClearlyADuck · 6 points · Posted at 13:40:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please no.
larrysrose · 3 points · Posted at 20:41:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This actually made me lol.
jonmayer · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did he ever start a family in a mobster’s swimming pool?
SmackedWookiee · 25 points · Posted at 17:23:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Insert John Mulaney bit about ducks. Quack quack.
diasfordays · 15 points · Posted at 17:30:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One feels like a duckling in all this wet!
Lady_badcrumble · 5 points · Posted at 19:02:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OOOOO!!!! Duckliiings!
thebrownkid · 9 points · Posted at 17:26:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Careful there. Are you suggesting his dad is a witch?
Lord-Benjimus · 7 points · Posted at 17:37:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Witch!!!!!
P2000Camaro · 2 points · Posted at 00:36:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Build a bridge out of him!
markymaboy · 3 points · Posted at 17:55:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But... how do you knooow he is a duck?
Culinarytracker · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He ate for free at Subway.
P2000Camaro · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are SIX ducks out there.. And they ALL WANT SUNCHIPS!
LegendOfDekuTree · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like it
ingen-eer · 2 points · Posted at 19:08:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he the size of a horse?
Op we must know.
Hwga_lurker_tw · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This dad ducks.
anto687 · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He turned me into a newt!
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 13 points · Posted at 17:20:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, that's one busy schedule.
dnielso5 · 10 points · Posted at 17:34:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a father of a 2 and 7 year old. I hope they are similar... 😋
TheBigHairy · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Op's cute. Thinks teenage years are the hard part of parenting.
Masr_om_el_donya · 7 points · Posted at 17:24:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tell your dad that some stranger on Reddit(me) admires him for standing up for you.
ArmandoPayne · 9 points · Posted at 17:16:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would anyone steal money from a Marching Band dude? Like they're musical Cheerleaders y'know? Like I wouldn't mess with one.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:53:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah why kick someone who's already down
ArmandoPayne · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mate that would imply that they were down, according to a Fact Fiend video they're one of the most athletic dudes around because they have to carry a big ass instrument and walk and play without being exhausted. I'd like to see you play a Bassoon in unison with everyone else whilst doing a choreographed routine mate. (I've never done band in my life because I'm English and I'm from England.)
_Contrive_ · 3 points · Posted at 22:15:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What instrument did you play
jay2josh · 4 points · Posted at 02:52:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tuba!
_Contrive_ · 3 points · Posted at 04:37:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice. I'm in percussion
DragoniteTamer · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You've got my respect! I'm never going back to carrying that big-ass instrument around ever again. Lol
Judissimo · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds to me like you're describing a goose.
DaBlueCaboose · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Hugh Neutron
paxgarmana · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:29 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
did you get your $40?
SamOfChaos · 11 points · Posted at 16:33:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After that just go to the police.
PunnyBanana · 4 points · Posted at 20:28:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to always complain to my dad about my sister stealing my clothes when we were kids. Not only did I hate it on principle, but she wouldn't take care of them so they'd end up stretched out/stained/balled up on the floor of her closet and I wouldn't see them again for months (not exaggerating). My dad's response usually ranged from no response to taking her side ("It's not like you were wearing it" "Just wear something else"). Then after I moved out he called me up super pissed because my sister had stolen some earrings and a shirt from his then girlfriend (now wife). Hmmmm, maybe that's because you've spent her entire life reinforcing that that's perfectly okay.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PunchingChickens · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This caused a spike in my blood pressure
JakeVanna · 2 points · Posted at 21:13:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I doubt that the stepmom would think it's no big deal if she caught someone going through her belongings and taking something worth 40 dollars.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been in that situation. It fucking sucks.
covok48 · 1113 points · Posted at 15:17:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well...did you ever get your $40 back and who was the offender and were they punished? Oh and why was your dad’s wife a cunt?
So many questions.
jay2josh · 1989 points · Posted at 16:10:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, Dad gave me cash after dinner. Step-sibling like everyone else guessed. Stepmom had grown up having everything paid for and done for her so to her $40 wasn't that much. I want to say I averaged around 25 hours a week back then, and took home maybe $100 cash each week? So to me 40 bucks was half a weeks pay.
DorisCrockford · 322 points · Posted at 17:40:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It really makes me mad when people defend their kids when they're doing wrong. If I, god forbid, was in such a situation, I'd be all over my kid for stealing. It doesn't matter if it's a only a dime. It's stealing. She wasn't doing her kid a favor by letting them get away with it. She sounds like a piece of work.
Bufferkiller · 21 points · Posted at 21:51:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I’m not a fan of how they were justifying stepmom’s shitty attitude toward the matter. She was being awful, and it sounds like dad stepped in to keep the peace and nothing was done to the thief.
Jajanken- · 78 points · Posted at 17:19:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What’s your relationship with them like? Or what was it like?
jay2josh · 229 points · Posted at 17:45:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There isn't one. Dad and wife #2 ended up divorcing a few years after this.
I never got along with my stepsibling at the time. Not that we fought or argued but our paths never really crossed and there was never an opportunity for them to. I liked things they didn't. Everything I liked they didn't care about.
The relationship with my stepmom at the time had it's ups and downs. I was about to graduate high school and I think she struggled with trying to be a motherly figure but I didn't need that. My real Mom lived like 10 minutes away and I visited often. I worked at the Kroger 5 minutes from her house because I lived with her when I started working there.
The only reason I moved to my Dads was because I was living with my Mom and sister and I felt happier when I visited my Dad. I was able "to be a guy" and we did "guy things." Living with two females when your 13-14 can be tiresome if you don't have that outlet.
JzanderN · 34 points · Posted at 20:04:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude, I moved in with my dad when I was 18 and I still agree. It's not limited to 13-14 years old.
ksleepwalker · 40 points · Posted at 19:51:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Living with 2 women can be tiresome at any age.
kursdragon · 7 points · Posted at 21:54:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea it's partly the reason I started just living at my dad's instead of at both parent's houses. It makes it much easier since I don't have to keep switching houses, plus, if I'm being honest, living with 2 girls's is a pretty awful experience. I love them both very much, but the bickering and yelling between them is wayy too much to handle, plus it gets really messy. Things are just much easier living with my dad and then I can still visit a couple times a week to see them :D
still_futile · 15 points · Posted at 20:00:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Living with women is tiresome
IKillDirtyPeasants · 43 points · Posted at 21:21:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Living is tiresome.
kumquat_may · 5 points · Posted at 21:25:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm tired
still_futile · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/2meirl4meirl
End-OfAn-Era · 22 points · Posted at 17:38:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your dad gave you cash, any idea if he Tony Soprano'd it from the step-shit?
your_uncle_mike · 5 points · Posted at 19:15:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, I love that episode. “Get the fuck back in your fuckin hole!! NOW!”
Classic.
Edit: whoops I thought you were talking about the truck OP got with his dad’s help. There’s an episode where Tony does that with a guy that owes him money.
Sarsmi · 15 points · Posted at 17:42:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She sounds like a bad parent. Why teach your kids to respect other people's things or have integrity? Ugh.
coaxialology · 4 points · Posted at 23:35:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You went to school, had extra curriculars, worked 25 hours, and had a jerkoff step family to deal with? Man, I really hope life has given you what you've earned.
jay2josh · 4 points · Posted at 02:51:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hence the need for an Xbox!
newsheriffntown · 3 points · Posted at 20:42:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She's a cunt.
meeelting · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You got 4 bucks per hour?
Bethespoon · 115 points · Posted at 17:11:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He already said minimum wage was $5.15. So about $125 a week minus taxes $100 sounds about right.
meeelting · 38 points · Posted at 17:15:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahh youre right, I didn't see that. An updoot for you!
ajmysterio · 6 points · Posted at 17:48:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And here in India I'm still working $3/hr :/
K4mp3n · 11 points · Posted at 18:02:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cost of living.
ajmysterio · 7 points · Posted at 18:03:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah lol I'm a student working online for a few months to buy a new phone
Mostofyouareidiots · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just curious- How much is a new phone?
ajmysterio · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
They can be as cheap as $120 and I currently have one of these which I'm getting sick of (slow processing, frequent freezes etc). I'm currently saving up for an iPhone 6S which costs around $550 new.
jokeularvein · 28 points · Posted at 17:14:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He earlier said $5.15/hr. So after taxes and deductions roughly $4/hr take home isn't crazy. He would make so little he would get all his taxes paid back at the end of the year I would imagine
jay2josh · 40 points · Posted at 17:18:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never actually got the cash back but I had been wanting a "new car" so my Dad filed for me and I upgraded from an 82 S10 to a 93 F150. I was fucking stoked lol
jokeularvein · 14 points · Posted at 17:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I meant you would get taxes paid back when filling at the end of the year and that's how $5/he goes to $4 and back to $5
Edit: when I was growing up my dad got one of those F 150s. Did it have the sideways seats in the back?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:26:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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jokeularvein · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Canada too. But when you file your taxes there is a minimum and if your under it you will get all taxes paid back, sometimes extra
xzElmozx · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You get it all back in the returns anyways
incrediblejames · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
oow , i see. well in that case, actually it's ok then
xzElmozx · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea it's not too bad when you get that huge check after tax returns
incrediblejames · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
geez.. it's not about "how much".. it's about "the kid is a bloody thief!!"
she should not defend her little thief kid. she should punish him/her
Nymaz · -1 points · Posted at 23:54:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Go to stepmom daily and ask her for $40. When she refuses, ask her why since it "isn't that much".
golden_n00b_1 · 586 points · Posted at 15:57:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My guess is step sibling since op said my dad's wife at the time said it was only 40 bucks, sounds like one of her kids if I had to guess.
dankmernes · 489 points · Posted at 16:19:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Only 40 bucks” wouldn’t have flown if it was reversed, I bet
golden_n00b_1 · 13 points · Posted at 18:34:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know I would punish any theft of cash in my house, no matter the lineage of the theif.
SnatchAddict · 7 points · Posted at 19:06:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's so easy to spend other people's money.
INTJustAFleshWound · -7 points · Posted at 21:19:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
~ Bernie
SnatchAddict · 2 points · Posted at 00:25:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bernie was speaking about reallocating taxes to improve infrastructure and social benefits. Regardless of how you look at it, taxes are socialism.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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SnatchAddict · 1 points · Posted at 02:34:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Welcome to the New World.
PM_ASS_PICS · 0 points · Posted at 16:25:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't give a fuck if that person is "technically family". At that point I'd beat the fuck outta them
Call the police? I was just "roughhousing" after they "just took" my money
donjacky · 8 points · Posted at 17:45:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I am going to jail over a sum of money, you need to add a few digits to the number in OP's example.
I_Am_Vladimir_Putin · 47 points · Posted at 16:47:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/iamverybadass
nathanb131 · 15 points · Posted at 17:11:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Based on these two usernames, I just imagined r/iamverybadass as pics of ugly asses describing itself with a Russian accent.
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was married to my second husband he had custody of his kids. The youngest one when I married his dad was eight years old. I swear that kid pissed me off so much and was just a pain in the ass. He lied about everything even really small things which was totally unnecessary and he was a thief. Before I moved in with them their dad let them have full access to the entire house; nothing was off limits. When I moved in and brought all of my things I noticed my stuff had been rummaged through. It really pissed me off and I told the kids that my things were not for them and to please not touch them.
Fast forward to us moving to another state. My ex step kids were very irresponsible, lazy as fuck, hardly ever took showers, never brushed their teeth, nothing. I gave up on trying to help them because they resented me. My son who was an older teenager at the time moved in with us and shared a room with the oldest step son who was a young teen. My son always travels light but he did have his personal stuff. One day my son asks me if I had seen a mirror he used when he cut his own hair and I said no but if I see it I'll give it to him. Other things began to come up missing.
One day I'm putting clean laundry in everyone's room and I fucking dreaded going into the youngest kid's room. It was a landfill. Under his bed was stuffed with clean clothes from the week before, all sorts of shit everywhere. I pulled out all of the clothes and put them on his bed. I then started finding missing items including my son's mirror. It was broken. I gave the mirror to my son and told him where I found it and he was really angry. He later on had a 'talk' with the kid. It didn't matter though. Nothing anyone said made any difference at all. The kid was just a brat and he and his brother behaved as if they had been raised by baboons. Useless.
golden_n00b_1 · 3 points · Posted at 15:07:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a really hard situation, I have had experience on giving up on step kids who just didn't want any life advice. Honestly though, I was kind the same at the same teenaged years to my real parents. My issues were always with school, and the biggest problem is that their mom didn't really feel like grounding for bad grades was a justified punishment. Eventually I started cutting off the Wi-Fi for the kids when they gotbbad grades, it didn't really work and only caused some arguments, in the end both kids graduated high school. One of them only got into college after an appeal, the other did better but almost didn't graduate and made it out based on a few points on a final exam.
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For me there was a happy ending, the oldest chose to move out when we cut his internet access to World of Warcraft and told him if he wanted to live with us he had to give us his bank card. He was supposed to be saving up for a car and was living rent free as a boost to his savings (after he flunked out of college because of WoW). After he started paying his own bills he realized that us parents had his best interests and has become a much easier person to talk with.
newsheriffntown · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes it is a hard situation and thankfully I didn't put up with it long. Me and my ex parted ways after four years and we had separated several times in those four years because of his kids and because he chose to defend his kids no matter what.
The older step son was very good in school and even took advanced classes. He liked going to school and was in the band. The younger one was just a twit. I don't know if had a learning disability or not or was just lazy as hell. Every day when he came home from school I asked him if had homework and he lied and told me no. Every.fucking.day. I knew he was lying but I felt that he was only hurting himself and not me so whatever. When his dad came home from work he asked his son the same thing and stupidly believed him. He believed him until the day I got a phone call from his teacher. She told me that the kid hadn't turned in any homework for months and asked me if there was a problem at home. I explained that I was the step mother and any time I tried to step in to be the other adult in the household I was screamed at by my husband. I gave the teacher my husband's work phone number and told her to call him. She did and the shit hit the fan. Instead of my husband having a father to son talk, he screamed at his son calling him names then decided to tell both of his kids what a whore their mother was. I was speechless. I didn't say a word but I knew I had to get out of that dysfunctional household and I did.
The older son joined the Navy when he was old enough and apparently did very well and he might still be in the Navy. He got married and has a bunch of kids-all boys. The younger problem child also joined the Navy which completely amazed me. I didn't think he could even spell his own name correctly much less serve in the military. He got out and became a paramedic. He and his ex gf have a child and from what I read on Facebook, he ended up with custody. I then read later on that my ex and his third wife are raising that child. I'm so glad it isn't me doing it.
golden_n00b_1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:49:02 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you made a good call, it sucks to be in that situation but if parents can't get on the same page when disciplining the kids there is always gonna be a problem. He'll, my parents have been together for 40 years and the biggest fights were caused by disciplining me or my sister.
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Both of us have of course apologized, and happily my oldest son has done the same. The next oldest and I have a better relationship and the older brother can give advice that I never could just cause I am the dad.
muskratboy · 197 points · Posted at 16:10:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“So since it’s only $40, then just give me the $40. Now will be fine. Should be no problem, since it’s only $40.”
macthecomedian · 17 points · Posted at 19:08:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Actually go ahead and give me $80. The $40 that YOU STOLE, then another $40, since it’s only $40, right?”
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 19:03:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"In fact, since you think $40 doesn't need to be repaid, I'll go ahead and borrow $40 from you after that, too"
bitwaba · 16 points · Posted at 16:44:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
>Kroger
>Wachovia
You grew up in the Southeast. I'm guessing Georgia.
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I grew up in Houston and had Kroger and Wachovia.
seamustheseagull · 19 points · Posted at 17:41:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think I see the problem with the child who stole it.
When I was around 10 or 12, a friend and his parents were making a trip to the toy shop. I had £24 in coins in my savings box/piggybank.
So rather than go to the shop with a bag full of coins, my Mum gave me £25 in notes and told me to bring back the 1.
Of course, the toy I spotted was £24.99. I bought it.
My mum lost her shit over it. We weren't poor, she didn't need the £1. But it wasn't mine to spend. Funny the stuff you never forget.
rachelface927 · 9 points · Posted at 17:39:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that’s how i stopped keeping a lot of cash on hand - i had $80 hidden in my room and one night my jobless roommate came home with fast food for all of his friends (including me - thanks!) and a couple new packs of cigarettes. i bolted to my room and ALL my cash was gone.
ValueNull · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you confront him about it?
rachelface927 · 3 points · Posted at 04:34:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
yeah, i asked him where he got the money for the food & cigs and he said his mom gave him money. his mom paid his rent and bills but usually wouldn’t give him spending money. i told him it was interesting that i was suddenly missing $80 and he made a big show of telling all his friends they’d better not fuck with his roomie, lol. he was a compulsive liar and jobless most of the time i lived with him, so i got out as soon as i could.
One_Shot_Finch · 23 points · Posted at 15:14:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was Kroger really paying 5.15 only 5 years ago? Idk about that.
jay2josh · 38 points · Posted at 16:04:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, I'm just a fucking idiot and meant Xbox 360. I even looked at it on my shelf while typing earlier.
One_Shot_Finch · 8 points · Posted at 16:05:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha, no worries man. I was just very confused.
Coffeezilla · 35 points · Posted at 15:30:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It depends on the state but yes, til 2015 they were only paying 7.50 in mine.
Duncster18 · 12 points · Posted at 15:39:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s still 7.25 here.
anarkist · 8 points · Posted at 16:28:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He said 2005 in an edit. That would be more like 12-13 years ago.
EndSureAnts · 5 points · Posted at 16:44:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its crazy I was making 5.15 an hour at Kroger in 2005. I was doing the exact same job. I also had a stash of money in my weight bench. No-one would look there!
affect_labile · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at Kroger from like 2001-2002 while I was in high school and made $5.15 when I first started. After I graduated I got a job at a local veterinarian's office as a kennel tech and he paid $7.50 an hour - I thought I had hit the jackpot when I got that job!
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same but with a bank account.
shypster · 7 points · Posted at 15:23:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Step-sibling?
pumpkinrum · 3 points · Posted at 23:01:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You just gave me flashbacks. My mom did similar things, both with small amounts but later with a huge amount (my dad had 'secretly' opened a bank account for me.. Which she emptied). I'm still mad about that to this day, and it's like 10 years later.
Treecreaturefrommars · 3 points · Posted at 23:03:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I was a parent it would not matter how much money someone stole, just the simply fact that they fucking stole it in the first place.
dot-zip · 3 points · Posted at 00:05:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
this makes me so angry dude. reminds me of the time my grandparents gave me 50 bucks as a combined bday/xmas present, and as a fourth grader with no wallet, I asked my dad to keep it in his until I could use it. A month later I ask my dad for my money so I can buy something. He tells me I already spent it. We go back and forth for a while but he's adamant I already spent all 50$ (literally on what, I'm a child). I tell my grandparents and they shrug.
At this time dad had a good enough job he could've easily just given me another 50$ anyway. Ugh. He's such a greedy person. And I never got justice either :(
Huttj · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone who used to proudly not carry cash, I recommend just keeping a couple of 20s in your wallet as an emergency backup in case, as a "totally random" example, you're trying to leave a parking garage and your card doesn't work.
Mutter mutter bank doing me a favor by cancelling the card while they sent the new one due to Visa saying there was a fraud risk, but hoo boy their timing sucked.
metrion · 2 points · Posted at 06:12:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Minimum wage at $5.15 in 2005 working in a Kroger? Did you live in Texas?
GiantRobotLazerFish · 3 points · Posted at 17:48:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You want your 40$ back? I want my goddamn kidney back!
Lovat69 · 4 points · Posted at 17:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope your dad was like "I don't care if it's forty cents! I'm not raising any thieves in this house"!
SilverParty · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's such a dad going to say. Lol
Mat_the_Duck_Lord · 3 points · Posted at 19:21:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And people wonder why millennials never keep cash on them...
My mom took my money all the fucking time.
Christmas? “Oh give it to me, I’ll put it in your bank account.”
Years later, turns out I never HAD a bank account.
It got to the point where none of my family members gave me money as gifts anymore.
ss4mario · 4 points · Posted at 15:12:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where are you that minimum wage is that low just a few years ago
_MrMeseeks · -1 points · Posted at 15:59:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Minimum wage hasn't been 5.15 since 2001 I think OP is exaggerating a bit
puhnitor · 16 points · Posted at 16:11:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Minimum wage was 5.15 in 2007,then was bumped in a three step sequence over 2 years until it reached its current rate of 7.25 in 2009.
_MrMeseeks · 2 points · Posted at 16:12:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That makes sense I was in the military from 05-09 so I probably just didn't pay attention
jay2josh · 14 points · Posted at 16:30:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No I'm just an idiot and wrote the wrong Xbox name.
_MrMeseeks · 3 points · Posted at 16:31:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol that also makes sense
Avocadosareawesome · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You said "wife at the time" does that mean he didn't end up staying with her?
excaliboor · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reading the whole story I imagine you must be kinda happy to be able to write this
TehBamtan · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the fuck am I reading?
jay2josh · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wachovia was a bank! It was bought by Wells Fargo some years later. Kroger is the grocery store. Welcome to life below the Mason Dixon line.
Rationalbacon · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
if i was your dad i would have made the person pay you back double.
RickerBobber · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:44 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
And thennn?? You get your money back? He kick her to the curb?
Kyotoshi · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:38 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are so awful at telling stories. What the fuck is “dad took it seriously”???? What happened to the family member. Why wasn’t all of this in the first post? Christ
PM_ME_DARK_MATTER · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You never mentioned who stole it? Who??
spatosmg · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
if I may ask. Which family member was it? im really interested in who it was
SerRobertKarstark · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where do you live that minimum wage is that low? I thought $7.25 was bad.
ballsdeepinasquealer · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just to clear something up, it was your step-mom that stole the $40, right?
Thundaklutch · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was it your step mom or one of her kids?
rockandrollmonster · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, did your step mom try to downplay the theft because the perp was your step-sibling, her son, or something?
Welcome_Reddit · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did she give it back?
_Unexpected_566 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Completely irrelevant, and what a shitty excuse of "it's only 40 dollars" but I worked as a bagger and cart getter at Kroger too!
SonOfSparda304 · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like something a "full time mommy" says.
shartnado3 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahhh good ol Kroger. I worked at fry’s in 2002 over the summer. I remember the long ass line at customer service for payday. Good times.
BagOfBreath · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats mighty shitty
zous · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Given Wachovia is now Wells Fargo, I hope you've found another bank!
MurlocWalker · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who stole it?! The wife?
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I too worked at a Kroger as a bagger for my first job when minimum wage was $5.15.
kaleighb1988 · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a step sibling stole it considering dad was pissed and step mom wasn't.
drunkbabydinosaur · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Off topic, but I haven’t heard “Wachovia” in YEARS. Totally forgot it existed.
newsheriffntown · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was this family member your step mother's child?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:54:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What country do you live in?
conyeighwest · -2 points · Posted at 16:59:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why are you being super vague about who stole from you
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:02:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where is minimum wage 5.15? The Xbox one came out since the mandated minimum is higher than that.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not at a grocery store though
NoChieuHoisToday · -1 points · Posted at 17:08:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t get the point of this comment.
If you’re a tipped waiter you’re making at least minimum wage, whether subsidized by the employer or not.
comradeda · 172 points · Posted at 15:04:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why do none of these stories have closure?
WildZeebra · 33 points · Posted at 15:31:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Op delivered closure
EvenEveryNameWasTake · 6 points · Posted at 16:23:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even more closed now.
spookvee · 13 points · Posted at 16:54:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He ate his mac and cheese what more could you want
Blues2112 · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The perp (step-sibling?) punished!?!?!?!?!!!
a-r-c · 5 points · Posted at 17:19:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
because closure is a myth
sniper91 · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Get more karma spreading stuff around different comments
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:58:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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TheRedMaiden · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And that crush's name? Albert Einstein.
I love this joke.
intensely_human · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He ate the macaroni and cheese.
thingymajiggy · 448 points · Posted at 15:59:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know that thing people do where they skip to the last line on the page when reading a book? Well I did that while reading your story and accidentally read "Best macaroni and cheese I ever ate" and went back to reading from the middle and just thought "I need to know how THIS gets to THAT!"
ReaperEDX · 21 points · Posted at 17:08:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, skimming. It works great sometimes. Not always, however.
nighthawke75 · 5 points · Posted at 20:05:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stories like these, you gotta soak it all in.
AirborneRunaway · 35 points · Posted at 15:26:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened to me as well, I used a hunting cam as that’s what I had. End result was mom didn’t really care and told us to stop being stupid.
FrancescoTottii · 27 points · Posted at 17:10:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened with my ex and her brother. My ex got paid in cash for her job and kept it in a piggy bank in her bedroom, one day her brother came home claiming he'd found $20 on the floor and bought himself a toy, the next week he found $40, this is where I got suspicious because who finds two notes on the ground at the same time? I counted all the money in the piggy bank and suddenly the next week he found another $50, I recounted the money and $50 was missing. I told her dad he'd been stealing money and he was really angry at me for accusing him of that until he asked my exes brother if he had been stealing the money and he confessed to it.
metastasis_d · 9 points · Posted at 20:32:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So his dad was fine with you then and apologized for his brashness?
FrancescoTottii · 2 points · Posted at 04:07:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah he apologised and paid us the money back, didn't make the brother pay it back though which is disappointing
donjacky · 17 points · Posted at 17:42:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love living places you need surveillance in your own bedroom. So relaxing.
ugly_kids · 4 points · Posted at 18:07:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You would love prison
donjacky · 3 points · Posted at 12:05:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I also like the sound of getting my wig split over half a pack of oreos, so that would be ideal.
kskuzmich · 10 points · Posted at 19:03:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel you. My dad is kind of a pos that has been in and out of jail for drugs. he stopped by my house a few years back just to say “hi.” i turned my back once to take a piss, but didn’t think anything of it. in my bedroom i had a cash/coin jar where i kept my tips from my second job. later that day i looked and found only $40 in it. there was about $400 in there the day before. complete bullshit, and he never admitted it. pretty sure i’m not mistaken that a bunch of twenty’s and a few hundred dollar bills can’t be mistaken for some fives and singles. even had my grandma call and try to say he didn’t take it...like a 10 year old.
jrburkh · 19 points · Posted at 16:57:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did something similar with my sister, but on a much smaller scale, and with no climactic scene. I used to keep change in a little can that was hidden in my room. I started noticing it kept coming up missing. I had a few moments there where I couldn't help but think maybe I forgot I spent it, but ultimately I suspected my sister was stealing from me after school while I was at football practice... So I tried two things. I was maybe 12, which would have made her around 8. I wanted to see how dumb she would be so I put a little note in the can that said, "(her name), are you taking my money?" And I had the little yes and no check boxes at the bottom. Obviously, if she was dumb enough to respond at all, I had her. I'm proud(?) to say she didn't fall for it. So, one day football practice was cancelled and she didn't know. I got home minutes before her and hid under my bed. Sure enough she comes home, goes in my room, takes the can into her room, empties it, then comes back in and puts it back. I'm not so proud to say this is the first example of how much a passive idiot I can be because I don't think I ever even confronted her about it... I just learned to be even more safe with my money. That's my shitty same but not really story. Thank you for your time. Have a wonderful day.
alksjdhglaksjdh2 · 2 points · Posted at 10:33:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for the story man
AllTubeTone · 6 points · Posted at 17:09:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did this exact same thing to my brother, I've never been more satisfied at a family dinner than that night.
AdreannaX · 7 points · Posted at 20:02:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
About two days after my graduation I had probably $300-$400 (it was a long time ago I don't really remember) in an envelope in my desk. I was going to the beach for a week with a friend and it was supposed to be spending money. I went to get some of it to give to my stepdad (certainly not for alcohol) and I came back crying. He asked what was wrong and I just said it was gone. The envelope was still there but ALL of the cash was gone. My bum of an uncle was staying with us and both of us knew that he had taken it. He even came back the next day with a trunk load of junk food and all kinds of stuff. When we confronted my mom she just brushed it off saying I loose stuff all the time. Like??? I don't just drop $300 out of an envelope and then put the envelope BACK in my desk. Still pisses me off just typing it
Lysandria · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:36 on July 10, 2018 · (Permalink)
What happened? Did you get it back?
AdreannaX · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:50 on July 10, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol no but he moved back to their home town (600+ miles from me now) and haven't seen him seen since.
guttergrapes · 10 points · Posted at 17:39:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This type of behavior angers me to my core. I started a joint bank account when I was in high school (my mom and I’s names were both on the account). I started working summers to save money for college. My mother at the time did not have a job and loved to spend hours shopping. She stole $400 to feed her habitat. Needless to say, she was taken off my account and I moved out.
HighRyder18 · 4 points · Posted at 17:44:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upvoted for the Mac and cheese part.
Czral · 5 points · Posted at 18:17:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s an episode of That 70s Show with this plot. Someone steals out of Eric’s Candyland stash and he spends the whole episode suspecting everyone
pantsoffancy · 2 points · Posted at 02:10:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Oh no, not your Candyland money!"
Renstik · 4 points · Posted at 19:05:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar to a story from when I was a kid; I had some money that I had saved up and kept in my room, and it suddenly disappeared. I instantly accused one of my brothers who was known to be a troublemaker. My parents did not believe me and lectured me that it isn’t good to reinforce that side of my brother. To be fair to them, I’d probably act the same way if my child had impulsively blamed a sibling. We searched our property for a while and found half of the money lying around in the front yard, so we knew a family member was probably behind the deed. With this evidence, I was able to convince my parents to check my brother’s room. Little shit had the rest of the money in his closet.
metastasis_d · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did they apologize?
Renstik · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not at first; he was upset his master plan had failed lol. But yes he did soon enough and now it’s just something we joke about. He got in trouble but perhaps not as much as he deserved because we were all so used to him doing things like this.
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean did your parents apologize?
Renstik · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:15 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, misread. Yes they did, though like I said it was tricky dealing with my brother (they were times where we blamed him for things that turned out not to be his fault) so I didn’t hold too much of a grudge against them. I was just sharing a funny example of where I instinctually knew it was him and it turned out to be true.
Hurray_for_Candy · 4 points · Posted at 19:28:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I lived at home I kept a box on my dresser that I always put my change in. And because I'm in Canada, this included one and two dollar coins. There was probably around $100 in change in there most of the time. I started noticing that the amount of change was decreasing even though I hadn't used any in a while. Sure enough, a day or two later, I catch my father coming in my room while he thought I was asleep and taking a bunch of change. When I confronted him, he just laughed and said I should consider it rent payment.
Drarok · 4 points · Posted at 20:37:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the time an ex cheated on me. Back in the day in the UK there were free online SMS services for texting. She’d been using one to text people that she cheated with (yes, people).
I confronted her by asking about the rumours I’d heard, she denied everything. I said “oh, ok… but what about these?” and served her a printout of the messages.
She slapped me. ☹️
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:46:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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NeDragons · 2 points · Posted at 19:36:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh hell no. Hed be buying me a new engine block for that shit.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have shot him, too.
NeDragons · 2 points · Posted at 20:54:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, the non-emergency police line
Hashbrowns_Senpai · 3 points · Posted at 19:19:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same thing happens to my friend. He works landscaping with his father during the summer and weekends, and he’d save his money in a hole he found in his closet behind the trim. Eventually his dad finds it and instead of taking some of it he takes all of it. His stepmother hates him so he couldn’t really tell anyone except his friends. Other messed up shit happens too.
Infra-Oh · 3 points · Posted at 20:30:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
*Best macaroni and cheese I ever ate
Haha fucking love it. Hope you got your money back and your relative shaped up.
itswhatsername · 6 points · Posted at 18:15:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your post is freaking me out because my ex, Josh, worked as a bagger at Kroger in 2005 making $5.15 an hour. And his dad's name is Jay.
jay2josh · 3 points · Posted at 02:58:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
ASHLEY IS THAT YOU?!
itswhatsername · 2 points · Posted at 03:42:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
...please tell me I included my name in my post history and you spent a ton of time combing through until you found it lolol
jay2josh · 1 points · Posted at 13:26:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha nope just took a shot.
itswhatsername · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't believe you lol. What are the chances?!
jay2josh · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:22 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Totally being serious! I figured either Ashley, Stephanie, Or Meghan.
SinOfGreedGR · 4 points · Posted at 18:23:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in middle school I was quite introverted, I still am a bit but back then it was overkill. I would literally go out once a month.
All money I managed to "make" be that from chores in the house/neighbourhood, gifts from relatives or rarely helping at my dad's shop was stashed. I was saving for a new pc.
Random amounts would always go missing and whenever I brought it up mom was like "Oh you probably spent it when you went out".
Because obviously a shy and socially awkward 14 year old can spend 40€ in fast food and bus fare. That can totally happen.
I did catch her twice stealing from me. Or borrowing as she said, though she never returned it.
Needless to say I never got a new pc.
metastasis_d · 5 points · Posted at 20:35:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you brought it up with her?
SinOfGreedGR · 4 points · Posted at 20:47:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Countless times. She denied all accusations. She stopped doing it some time ago: when I got over my really introverted phase, started going out more and thus kept better track of my money.
I did get back at her. Whenever I needed money I want to her and intentionally annoyed her into giving me some. Scumbag move? Yes. Did I earn back what I lost? Probably not all but I got satisfaction out of it too so it was a win.
By the way I graduated high school half a month ago. So this whole ordeal was quite a while back. I got other, more important reasons to be mad at her for me to keep scratching old wounds.
metastasis_d · 3 points · Posted at 20:54:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When she gets into a retirement home visit her often and steal.
SinOfGreedGR · 3 points · Posted at 21:36:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha. Nah that'd be just petty. Let alone the fact that retirement homes are not really a thing in Greece.
I will be cutting contact with both parents when I am able to. For various reasons
metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 22:03:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why I'd do it.
EASplashman · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually had no idea it was possible to set the cam to do that. You mustve had a lot of space to be able to do that and still have memory. That or u couldve just deleted it after checking lol
RWDMARS · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which family member was it?
Malonik · 2 points · Posted at 23:46:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's software that only takes pictures when it detects movement rather than every 10 seconds... Just incase you ever need to record shit again lol.
CursedPoetry · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you keep the webcam on constantly? Because that’s 8,640 pictures per day.
jay2josh · 7 points · Posted at 17:15:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So if I left the house to go get Wendy's or McDonald's and they were at the house, camera was on. The longest it would've been on back then would be when I left for school around 7am and then got home from work (I went to work straight from school) around 9:15.
TehBamtan · -4 points · Posted at 21:42:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Does not compute. No one, that makes $5 an hour and is $20 away from the xbox that they having been saving up for, will go out and waste money on that shit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's really not too much space if you just delete them after a week or so
Boundsean · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is amazing
applepicker365 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But did she give you ur money back is the real question.
Juxtaposn · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which family member was it wtf
UABTEU · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My BF’s mom stole all his savings from where he kept it once too. He had to tell his dad before stuff happened. I believe his dad paid him back eventually or she did years later - can’t remember exactly. But it was a lot of money like $300.
Phreakhead · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't lie, we know you were saving up for a bong.
faployst · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who was the suspected family member? Dad, stepmom or sibling?
Anything4MyPrincess · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
there’s an Edmonton radio statio called 102.3 Now Radio and they just read your post word for word saying someone just sent it in lol I only listened for about 15 minutes but they read at least two more from this thread. I don’t have twitter but if I did, I would have put them on blast!
HeadClanker · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd pawn $40 worth of their stuff, but that's just me.
CarelesslyFabulous · 1 points · Posted at 02:11:54 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why so cagey about what family member it was? Sibling? Step-sibling? Grandparent? Come on OP, serve it up!
Acastil22 · -1 points · Posted at 18:55:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a lie to me...
Maurycy5 · -9 points · Posted at 17:27:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Woah. How do you set up the webcam to do photos every 10 seconds and screen captures or whatever??? I want that!
I swear I will be able to pull it off, I am very computer-literate only I had no idea of that option.
puckisaprettylady · 449 points · Posted at 15:31:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An employee in my restaurant clocked out 2,5 hours later than expected one night. When I asked him via messenger if there was a good reason this has happened, he replied " hey man , it was very busy last night , I believe I made 80% of the day's turnover" ( 6 hours shift ) that would be about 850$. I immediately look up on my computer to verify if that's true and I find out that he has come a bit late at work and actually made only 200$ . THEN the guy who works at the 7eleven next door told me that my guy was there having coffee for like 2 hours last night . I had to send him a long message , with many screenshots about that.
BlackShyGuy68 · 2805 points · Posted at 15:03:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A girl led me on only to tell me she couldn't date me because of my race. Well, she tried to lead me on again. But I made it a point to show as little interest as possible. Shit like walking past her without acknowledging I'd seen her and stonewalling ANY flirting attempts.
She then gets the idea to make a friend of mine like her to make me jealous. But she picked one of my absolute best friends. So IMMEDIATELY, he told me what was happening. She was always sending him and I the same snaps and nudes and saying she missed us and shit like that. I think she assumed that we wouldn't talk to each other about this?
Well one night he and I were hanging out playing Halo, and we get a snap from her. It's her in the shower with a lot of steam. So I send her a picture of him looking disappointed, and he sent her a picture of me looking disappointed. She didn't talk to us for a few months after that 😂
onlykindagreen · 167 points · Posted at 18:08:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school, had one guy briefly interested in me, then my sister. He asked me out and I turned him down (though I'd never had a boy interested in me before, so we were flirty for a time after) then maybe a year or two later he "dated" my sister for a VERY short time (and by dated I mean awkward high schooler dating wherein they went on one or two dates and then she avoided him for two months while he held that they had not officially broken up, therefore they were still dating). There was no hard feelings between any of us, we were all pretty open about it. But it was also such an awkward time, just bleh, high school, why were we so socially incapable???
Anyways, a while later, like after we'd graduated, he sends me a few messages on Facebook to the tune of, oh I miss you, you ruined other girls for me, blah blah. Laughed, went to tell my sister, and find out, he sent it to both of us. And the messages were incredibly similar if not identical. Did he not think that we would talk to one another? Like not only were we friends but sisters! It was such a weird play. I later found out he'd messaged other girls from our friend group too who he'd had similar awkward short flings with, saying the same stuff. I briefly considered creating a Facebook group called "I Ruined Other Women for Guy's Name" but I didn't want to torment the guy, funny as his decision making was. In the end, he moved across the country and we all just laughed and have a fun story for relevant reddit threads.
Brendanmicyd · 278 points · Posted at 16:21:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate being turned down because of my race. It might be because I'm blue
spikesolo · 122 points · Posted at 16:25:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cheer up if you were green you'd die
Chaotickane · 47 points · Posted at 18:13:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yo listen up...
GrandAppleMoocher · 33 points · Posted at 18:34:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Here's a story
Asdfire · 27 points · Posted at 19:18:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
About a
DarkFett · 25 points · Posted at 19:43:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Little guy
---elle--- · 21 points · Posted at 20:07:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That lives
Critical500 · 21 points · Posted at 21:29:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a blue world
coeusj · 15 points · Posted at 21:22:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a blue house
guerrsexio · 13 points · Posted at 21:23:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a blue little window
MazMazda3 · 8 points · Posted at 21:34:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And he'd often feel blue about his life but one day...
Doip · 1 points · Posted at 07:37:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
Doip · 1 points · Posted at 07:37:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
BlackShyGuy68 · 94 points · Posted at 16:22:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They should appreciate that! If you were green, you'd DIE
Brendanmicyd · 40 points · Posted at 16:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I fucking hate all those green people. It's the blue people that do all the real work
AquariusNeebit · 11 points · Posted at 19:27:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
fucking greenos
So uncreative
ImHoopi · 20 points · Posted at 18:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tobias?
SomeMetroid · 16 points · Posted at 19:35:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Da ba dee da ba die
xmindallas · 11 points · Posted at 18:01:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that must make you feel pretty smurfy.
bangout123 · 25 points · Posted at 19:36:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate being turned down because of my race. The 400m just isn't as sexy to women
PalladiuM7 · 4 points · Posted at 22:26:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The ladies love marathons, bro.
KarmicDevelopment · 7 points · Posted at 21:26:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
♪ Da ba dee da ba daa ♪
backfire10z · 73 points · Posted at 16:28:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Such simple savagery. Good on your friend for doing that, I hope you guys stay friends for a long time after that one
BlackShyGuy68 · 43 points · Posted at 16:28:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Going on 8 years of friendship now!
frogjg2003 · 24 points · Posted at 18:14:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With bonus nudes while it lasted.
Vussar · 35 points · Posted at 17:27:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Halo before Hoes
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 106 points · Posted at 17:49:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am boggled that 1) people think it's OK for this to come out of their mouths in the year 2018 and 2) that she would ever think she could have a shot with you again after saying some fuckery like this. Just wat.
Edit: Lol, whoever downvoted me for saying this is gross... is also gross.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 20:16:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meh, sure, it's fine to turn someone down based off of looks, but leading them on despite that is fucking stupid.
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 38 points · Posted at 22:49:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What I said elsewhere: if you aren't attracted to people because of their race(s), bare minimum decency requires you keep that information to yourself. And obviously, like you said, not lead them on after you decide that's a thing.
Fever308 · 11 points · Posted at 19:20:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
eh, you dont know their situation. I've been told by my parents that I can date and marry anyone I want. But just to be aware that we come from a country that it's ideals haven't caught up, and if I chose certain people not only I would but also they would have to deal with the torment of family and friends. Now, they've said they're totally okay and willing taking that torment, but it's just something to keep in mind.
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 22 points · Posted at 19:32:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm going to take a wild guess that judging by her subsequent actions this person wasn't in that situation, so I feel pretty secure in assessing her as a gutterscrape who should have kept her mouth shut if that was something she was factoring into her calculations.
You on the other hand seem like someone who would handle the situation with the understanding that racism is hurtful to the people targeted by it. I don't think someone with that awareness would drop a "sorry but you're black" and then return a bit later trying to play games.
(This isn't meant to sound harsh to you. I just really fucking hate racists.)
Fever308 · 10 points · Posted at 19:34:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
oh yeh you're totally right.
throw2theawayplace · 7 points · Posted at 21:00:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Does sexual preference imply racism necessarily? I'm not generally attracted to most black woman (although I admit a few are pretty hot and I might consider dating but we probably don't share the same interests). Maybe her wording does imply it though. My point is, is that people's attractions can be a fickle thing and you may just not be sexually attracted to certain characteristics but I don't think that qualifies as racist. What do you think?
breakingoff · 33 points · Posted at 21:36:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The problem is that it may not be consciously racist, but that society promotes an ideal of female beauty that is... honestly, very white. So it’s a bit ehhh to say that you don’t find black women in general attractive. Obviously, they don’t all look the same, but when you phrase it like that...
Though, it’s a bit racist to assume that because a woman is black, she won’t have any shared interests with you.
Note: I’m not saying you’re a terrible person. I’m just pointing out that you’re probably more influenced by societal racism than you think.
throw2theawayplace · 4 points · Posted at 22:14:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe you are right to an extent. I wasn't knocking black women in particular though, I just haven't seen many women that love spreadsheets, databases and finances (probably exist I just haven't encountered any). So it's more of a sexist statement really haha. For me, I'm happily married at the moment so this whole topic hopefully no longer impacts me. I just wanted to know what people think.
UnicornPanties · 2 points · Posted at 02:24:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not attracted to black men, Asian men, red heads, Indian men, short men, or men with really bad teeth.
Does this make me racist?
noisypeach · 5 points · Posted at 08:02:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's amazing that you think these are all equivalent. Or maybe you're aware that you're full of shit.
UnicornPanties · 8 points · Posted at 10:36:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I find them attractive but I am not attracted to them.
I was raised in a predominantly white environment, my family is white and most people I knew were white until I was over 21.
People are conditioned by their environment to what is considered "normal." For me, that is being attracted to non-redheaded white guys over 5'10".
If you think that makes me racist, that might actually be more your problem than my problem.
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 15 points · Posted at 22:44:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think if you aren't attracted to a certain race of people, bare minimum decency requires you keep that information to yourself.
throw2theawayplace · 15 points · Posted at 22:47:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah she could have used a more generic: "You're not my type". I can agree with that.
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 18 points · Posted at 23:00:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly.
I would encourage anyone who isn't attracted to a certain group of people (especially race) to do some reflection about why, cos there are a lot of messages that get encoded into everyday life which affect your perspective in surprising ways, once you look for them. (I did grad work in language studies.) I don't think a lack of attraction makes a person actively racist, although it's my opinion that they might have digested some things they are unaware of.
But I'm not saying people should force feeling an attraction; only do not tell someone they aren't attracted to them because of their race. Nobody needs to hear that. It was the fact that she did that, then came back later and tried to play games with him that set off my radar.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 21:35:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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throw2theawayplace · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh definitely, sometimes spending time with people of shared interests leads to physical attraction where none previously existed. Love is an interesting thing sometimes, haha.
StyloRen · 6 points · Posted at 21:34:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think its racist, but since that is the case it would likely be best for you to not lead black women on that are interested, or to imply interest on your part where there is none. Likewise, you should avoid dating one and feeling like you are doing them a favor (this is more common than it should be), as it would be wasting their time.
ZacQuicksilver · 4 points · Posted at 23:56:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It depends on a lot of things. Most notably, how you treat it.
The way you're writing, you're doing it right: you may be unconsciously racist, but in a "I'm sorry, I didn't realize 'gyped' refers to gypsies" kind of way. It's the result of cultural forces that you aren't necessarily aware of, and you're open to being wrong about, but it's still there. If you get into heaven based only on racism, you might be spending time in purgatory, but you're probably safe from Hell.
On the other hand, the way BlackShyGuy68 described the girl he was dealing with: that's not excusable racism. It's not KKK or Nazi level racism necessarily (without more information: it might be symptomatic of it), but it's definitely at the point where it's conscious.
iGalaxy_ · 6 points · Posted at 18:58:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
+1
MezzanineAlt · -3 points · Posted at 21:22:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The US Government still makes laws based on race, so some people really have no choice. If you live on a Reservation your kids will have no rights to their parents land if they are below X% native blood. I think it's 1/8th, or 12.5%, but haven't kept up with it.
CommodoreBelmont · 38 points · Posted at 22:32:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are a number of things wrong with your statement here.
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I kind of covered that in my response to someone else who brought up a similar example. Basically, someone who goes "nah, you're ____" and then screws around with your feelings later likely does not fall into that category.
aresfour · 9 points · Posted at 01:12:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
HA! About 25 years ago, I was being led on by a girl, we made out once but she didn't return calls, things like that. One night I'm hanging out with some friends and she just shows up at my best friends house looking for me. He says "he's probably hanging out at <bar>, I was about to go out there, do you want to tag along? And she agrees.
They don't find me, and after checking a couple other places, he decides to take her home. She blew him on the way home! He of course called me at home and told me the whole story. She called me the next day and tried to act like nothing happened. After I confronted her, she said "I didn't think he would tell you..."
I don't recall ever speaking with her again.
CrossBreedP · 7 points · Posted at 17:53:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bros for life though.
THE_BEST_MEME · 4 points · Posted at 20:26:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn dude you a got a good revenge story and nudes out of the situation.
Aladayle · 6 points · Posted at 15:56:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lolol good work man
BlackShyGuy68 · 11 points · Posted at 16:12:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I try. You've gotta know when to be petty lol
Aladayle · 6 points · Posted at 19:03:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/pettyrevenge would like this. Go post it there :p
Commons_Sense · 3 points · Posted at 18:02:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good ol' Halo...
Oh and yea she was kinda stupid. Well executed revenge.
TNS72 · 3 points · Posted at 19:35:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why we need splitscreen back
Fingfangfoom67 · 3 points · Posted at 21:46:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Halo bros before skanky hoes.
blinzz · 4 points · Posted at 16:09:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lmao
ArmandoPayne · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
man I never knew Toadette was such a tease.
BlackShyGuy68 · 6 points · Posted at 17:38:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We not fucking around in the mushroom kingdom anymore
noisypeach · 2 points · Posted at 08:00:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's amazing how oblivious she is that she'd assume you'd still want her after she said she can't date you because of your race.
This is some new level of idiocy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats so awful but lmao the snaps u sent her 🤣
Timetaco · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
DAMN I wish my friends were like yours
Schattentochter · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just don't know how I should picture these photographs. Like, did you just look serious or did you pull some sort of "disappointed face"?
softprince · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:01 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
god there is nothing better than dunking on racists
BlackShyGuy68 · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:08 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
RIGHT. Blast them back to 1960 with their views!
Ameryana · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nnnng that felt good to read. You both handled that awesomely :D :D
Perceptions89 · 2713 points · Posted at 14:51:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked with a guy who was extremely lazy. Every day in one 8-hour shift there were at least two hour long smoke breaks and a combined hour of being on the shitter. Additionally, he was constantly on his phone when he was at work.
So one day we were both sanding a long steel rail. Him on one side and I on the other side. While he was in the bathroom I made a small mark above his portion of the rail to be able to tell where he started. At lunchtime (roughly 4 hours later) I had done about 20-30 ft. of rail. He done done about 5. I questioned him about it to which his reply was “nuh uh bro...I’ve done at least 20 ft.”
He was fired a short time later for being unproductive. It was bittersweet. He was a decent guy. Just sucked at our job.
kittycatdude · 120 points · Posted at 16:13:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah sometimes I feel bad if halfway decent people get fired but at the same time, it's their own fault for always calling in, or being lazy. I think I do close to the same job you do but maybe not long steel rails. I work with large metal plates and deburr the edges/countersink/tap the holes if they need to be tapped.
Perceptions89 · 34 points · Posted at 16:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. Sounds like you’re a machinist. Same as me. Haha.
LordBiscuits · 29 points · Posted at 19:37:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read that as masochist and was confused
Rodentman87 · 15 points · Posted at 20:26:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What's the difference? /s
onceuponatimeinza · 21 points · Posted at 20:34:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I too am a masturbationist
lightningspider97 · 7 points · Posted at 23:39:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I too am a marxist
Perceptions89 · 9 points · Posted at 00:51:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Between a masochist and a machinist?
A masochist is “someone who derived sexual gratification from their own pain or humiliation.”
A machinist is pretty similar. Except they also work metal into usable pieces of structure or work foundations in order to install machinery on them. Haha.
YourMistersSister · 2 points · Posted at 03:24:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same here.
_watchout_for_12 · 7 points · Posted at 21:10:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bruh I work in food in bev and this is literally every employee I know.
fez1o1 · 6 points · Posted at 23:20:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have any advice for getting into this field work, and or are y’all hiring? In a short 2 years I will be graduating with a bachelors in Mec Eng. I’ll have some building experience and machining experience lol.
Perceptions89 · 3 points · Posted at 00:46:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t know where you live but my suggestion would be to go research some nearby naval shipyards. Or private shipyards. Whichever piques your interest. Private yards are going to do more commercial vessels unless they have navy contracts. Navy yards are typically owned by the government and are subject to things like federal defense cutbacks and all that.
The degree should definitely help. As long as you can pass a drug test you should be a shoe-in.
fez1o1 · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
New york area, and that is something that interests me. Dumb question, if I go to grad school with an interest in materials science, will that be valued in this field?
Perceptions89 · 2 points · Posted at 02:34:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Quite possibly. At levels much higher than mine. (A lowly machinist). But I don’t exactly know for sure.
Perceptions89 · 2 points · Posted at 02:44:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And actually I know of a nuclear power plant up there that is hiring from what we hear. I know they keep asking for teams of our employees here and there. It’s called Kesselring. I think.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:22:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PSi_Terran · 12 points · Posted at 20:43:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I struggle a lot with lack of motivation at work, and home, and everywhere. I have ADHD but was diagnosed as an adult. It's hard to tell if it's caused by that, or if I'm depressed (which I think I might be sometimes) or if I'm just a hopeless lazy fuck who's just making excuses.
Perceptions89 · 4 points · Posted at 00:53:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would say that just by your level of questioning what exactly it is, that at least you’re not a “hopeless lazy fuck.”
Perceptions89 · 35 points · Posted at 17:27:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately I think you’re right. I wish that guy all the best. But as I work in a pretty dangerous place, I think he could have really got someone hurt if he still worked there.
Buy_The-Ticket · 9 points · Posted at 18:23:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
where do you work? it sounds interesting.
Perceptions89 · 15 points · Posted at 18:28:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a machinist at a shipyard.
Buy_The-Ticket · 6 points · Posted at 18:56:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ah very cool that field always really interested me and I have a bit of experience on a mill and a lathe. Do you like the work? and does it pay ok? I'm in the market for a career change lol
Perceptions89 · 10 points · Posted at 19:01:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. It pays pretty good and I love the work. Sounds like you would be what my yard calls an “inside machinist.” Meaning you work lathes and mills and CNCs, etc. in a machine shop.
I’m what they call an “outside machinist.” Which is more on-site machining. Drilling tapping countersinking holes in foundations to install equipment and such.
Buy_The-Ticket · 7 points · Posted at 19:10:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
cool thanks for the I go and honestly the outside machinist sounds more interesting. I like to move around not be stuck in one place all day. That's part of what makes me nuts about my current job lol
Vincent210 · 8 points · Posted at 21:58:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Genuine question; what makes your mind immediately go to depression? He just mentioned the dude takes long smoke breaks/bathroom breaks. Goes on his phone. Not much else about him, really.
That’s not a lot to go on.
Perceptions89 · 3 points · Posted at 00:55:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I see your point. But having known the guy for the few short months he worked with us, just his demeanor, attitude, and especially his mood swings are signifiers I’ve seen before from my own experiences with people. But I can understand that being on his phone too much and taking long shits doesn’t necessarily qualify as “depression.” More than anything, I think that guy felt out of place.
letsgoiowa · 6 points · Posted at 00:00:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or ADHD. Or BOTH. Or he could be totally normal, we don't know.
I can only speak for myself, but I have a similar pattern of behavior where I go HAM for an hour, space off for 15 mins or so, then repeat. I just can't GO 8-10 hours straight.
I still get a ton done. I go really fast when I get going. It's just I feel very guilty for having to take mental breaks, and worse for having to take meds while at work. I'm trying, dammit :(
Perceptions89 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would say that I have days like that. But my slower periods are longer. But 9 days out of 10 I’m able to go pretty strong for all 8 hours. But that comes with experience too. Once you get familiar with something you’re doing (at least for me) I can just Zone in on it and haul ass. I’ve even damn near missed a lunch break or two from having tunnel vision too bad.
YourMistersSister · 4 points · Posted at 03:21:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been dealing with a guy like this for a couple of months. (about when he started) I've been soley responsible for picking up ALL his slack. Needless to say really, but it's been extremely exhausting.
Today, I finally broke and told my lead that something has to be done. Oddly, I feel guilty for snitching, even though it's hurting my productivity (and morale) I really cannot understand having such a poor work ethic. Hopefully something changes very soon.
Edit to add: This guy has a pleasant personality.
Perceptions89 · 2 points · Posted at 03:35:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. I know how bad that sucks man. I don’t think you should feel guilty. Actually, after having come through that situation, I feel guilty for not speaking up more sooner.
But really I think it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kinda thing.
DoominaBottle · 430 points · Posted at 17:08:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TLDR: Made aggressive beggar board a train through the fear of social awkwardness of her lies been exposed.
This happened in 2006 during my time at Lincoln university (UK) and I know will garner a few mixed reactions at its posting.
Lincoln city centre had at the time (and still has) problems aggressive beggars and shoplifters. From what I've observed during my employment and overheard from local police and security it stems from the fact that many recovering drug users collect their methadone prescriptions from the city centre and whilst the majority are trying to break the habit there are a considerable amount of known troublemakers who commit crimes to get their next proper fix or to fuel other issues such as alcoholism.
One such beggar was a well dressed young woman in her mid 20's who most weekends would hang around the entrance of the train station begging for money so she could buy a ticket to Nottingham or Sheffield claiming she needed to attend a family emergency. She'd often target the elderly and of course there was no family emergency unless that emergency somehow involved a packet of cigarettes and getting wasted with a bottle of White Lightning with her friends behind the local Boots.
This particular Sunday I had been visiting family in Sheffield and just returned on one of the last trains for Lincoln that day, for once the train trip had been pleasant though strangely absent of any ticket inspectors on my initial journey. Stepping out of the train station I almost bump straight into a elderly couple been harrassed by our local beggar who has gotten onto her "I only need five pounds now to get to Sheffield.." part of her spiel.
My tickets still in hand I'm not sure what possessed me to actually do it but what this is what followed as I stepped in.
With a look and tone of utmost concern I lightly tapped the lady on the shoulder stating "I've overheard your problem so I got you ticket direct to Sheffield, The trains just come in so you'll need to hurry." Initially somewhat stunned and confused as in placed my unmarked outward bound ticket to Sheffield in her palm it took a moment for any reply to come from her, her gaze switching between me, the ticket and the elderly couple. Finally she began a reply already trying to back pedal without revealing she was lying, thanking me for the ticket but it was too much etc etc.
Waving her concern aside I replied it was no problem at all and that I was happy to help as I started motioning her to move inside the train station which she did following as I led her back to the platform. Getting increasing flustered trying to back pedal to the lobby she started saying she didn't know which platform the train was on but been the helpful concerned citizen I already knew "Its A5, that train over there the 8.17pm."
Unable to follow through the barriers I wished her the best and that I hope the family emergency wasn't too serious and then proceeded to wait in the barrier area chatting with the ticket inspector as she reluctantly wandered over the footbridge to the platform, occasionally looking back checking if I was still there.
Finally reaching the train she seemed a bit more lively I'm sure at this point she was thinking that she would enter the end carriage then duck along to the next before getting off out of sight then try and return the ticket for some cash.
Not a bad plan if not for one detail.
She had taken so long dawdling to the train itself that the door shut moments after she stepped on leaving her looking rather panicked as the train left the platform.
And that is how I made aggressive beggar board a train through the fear of social awkwardness of her lies been exposed.
Just to clarify again I used no force and didn't touch her other the initial tap for attention, I acted perfectly politely with no aggression or intimidation physical or verbal. Seriously she could of just admitted she was lying or even just walked away at anytime.
Edit: Correcting grammar error.
FinchMandala · 52 points · Posted at 19:34:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one is my favourite. Hahaha.
DoominaBottle · 55 points · Posted at 20:15:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks, to be honest I'm still amazed that it all fell into place the way it did, especially considering how often she changed the location of where she needed to be (Though it was usually Sheffield, Nottingham or Newark).
The real twist of the knife is that at the time it was extremely hard to get a train back to Lincoln after 8pm on a Sunday so she most likely had to spend the night at one of the stops on route unless someone came to pick her up or she got a taxi.
Fallenovergirl · 24 points · Posted at 19:33:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Amazing
Fearismyweapon · 6 points · Posted at 00:55:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Great
not-quite-a-nerd · 5 points · Posted at 19:41:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've lived near Lincoln for most of my life, and this story is believable
DrMrsElMonarch · 7 points · Posted at 04:02:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So British, I love it!
Pinkfluffysheep · 5 points · Posted at 11:42:25 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Being from the San Francisco, there are a fair amount of aggressive pan handlers. Many times I've had them reject food from me after giving the spiel about being hungry and not being able to afford their meal. I've learned to never give cash because I don't want to fund a bad habit. I'll buy someone lunch if they asked nicely though.
aldwinligaya · 2 points · Posted at 00:54:06 on July 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually logged in to upvote you. This is classic!
BobderBaer · -5 points · Posted at 08:09:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
*could have, not "could of"
DoominaBottle · 4 points · Posted at 15:17:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Write a huge block of text and it is only inevitable some grammar mistakes happen.
Viperbunny · 984 points · Posted at 15:49:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I recently went no contact with my mom. She is mentally I'll and has been very abusive. She claims she went to a psychiatrist who administered a lie detector test to prove she isn't lying about faking an FBI investigation (long story, but she is lying), that she is too loving and giving, that my generation doesn't care about their parents, and that I have issues. But, she may not go back because she really doesn't need therapy. I laughed really hard at that. It was proof I made the right call. Now, she is threatening to call CPS and claim I am having a mental breakdown so they will give the kids to her. She doesn't know that her state is a one party consent state and my sister has been recording her saying all this. I am in the process of documenting it all just in case she tries anything.
vikingboogers · 34 points · Posted at 23:03:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh hey saw you on r/justnomil
BeerfromHeaven · 13 points · Posted at 01:53:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Came here to say this lol
mthemedicalengineer · 4 points · Posted at 09:44:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same
InsistantLover · 4 points · Posted at 04:15:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
checl out r/raisedbynarcissists as well
Viperbunny · 4 points · Posted at 01:03:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hello again :)
19-91 · 79 points · Posted at 20:12:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well for starters, a psychiatrist isn't a therapist, soo....
Viperbunny · 54 points · Posted at 21:05:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. That is true. I have no idea what she is doing. And frankly, I can't be involved in her drama anymore. She tried contacting my husband claiming she is worried about my mental health. Nope, we are great. Better without her!
Ildigrub · 24 points · Posted at 23:21:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
tl;dr: manipulative parents really suck
My dad wasn't I'll or abusive, but very manipulative. Around 3 or 4 years (I was 14 and my brother would have been 9 or 10) we visited him for 6 weeks. We'd never stayed that long, and he lives around 500 miles south of home, so it was really just us and him. He managed to convince us that our mom was abusing us. he got lawyers and everything and told us he was going to get custody. He said all these awful things about her, even lied about the things that happened leading up to their divorce. When we went back we couldn't even speak to her after all we'd been told and just broke down crying. After a long court battle with a DCF investigation and long chats with a guardian atelitem (I have no idea how to spell that still) it was decided he would get to retain visitation rights and our mom would keep custody. He never spoke.to us again and never asked for any more visitations. It took a long time for my brother to get over the hatred he'd developed for her..
Viperbunny · 17 points · Posted at 01:02:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am so so sorry you all went through that. For the record, that is abuse. He sounds like a narcissist. I hope things are better for you now.
Ildigrub · 9 points · Posted at 03:04:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Much better, thank you!
an-average-white-guy · 18 points · Posted at 23:54:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated a girl that did shit like this. She would text me that she was on other dates to try and make me jealous when it would turn out she was just at home. One time she's like "help this creepy guy picked me up and now is driving in circles and not letting me out". So many holes in the story, i just ignored her. Pretty much just ignored her until I dumped her. We all get tempted but never stick your dick in crazy
Viperbunny · 16 points · Posted at 01:00:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or let crazy stick it's dick in you
TheBlackFlame161 · 15 points · Posted at 00:54:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fun fact, you can fake a lie detector test and it is dismissable evidence in most courts.
They measure blood pressure, pulse, respiration and skin conductivity while they perform the test.
Someone who truly believes the lie or who lies frequently most likely won't have a change in things like pulse and respiration, so it's fairly easy to cheat the test.
Viperbunny · 12 points · Posted at 01:06:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. I told my sister that, too. Penn and Teller did a great episode of Bullshit about it. This isn't even the craziest thing she has done. My oldest daughter died six days after birth from trisomy 18. We had the funeral by my house. My mom threw a surprise second funeral by her house and invited all my family. Thank God my husband and I were already in therapy (we went a few weeks after she died because we knew we would need help processing it). Sadly, she is just toxic.
the_revenator · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:43 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did anyone go to the second? Do y'all live far apart or something? Either way, that is unheard of
Viperbunny · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:47 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes. Some people went to both. They all knew and my mother and grandma must have convinced them it was for my husband and I (as people did care and wanted to support us). We live two hours away. It was crazy. I learned to say no to her after that. I set good boundaries. She didn't like these boundaries, but I stayed firm. She just finally went off the deep end completely.
Rainishername · 12 points · Posted at 23:03:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude, visit r/raisedbynarcissists holy shit
And also r/justnomil
Viperbunny · 7 points · Posted at 01:03:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I posted to /r/justnomil yesterday. They were amazing and I got some great advice :)
Rainishername · 2 points · Posted at 08:25:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Awesome! Yeah there’s some great people and advice/support on both those subs.
lurk_no_more_ · 6 points · Posted at 23:28:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow... good luck! You should check out r/JUSTNOMIL if you haven't already.
It has loads of stories that start out like yours so you can find heaps of support and advice there.
Viperbunny · 4 points · Posted at 01:01:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I posted there yesterday and they were great. They gave me some great tips to keep my family safe.
PlatypuSofDooM42 · 5 points · Posted at 05:45:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can relate. My final straw was when she tried to ask me to testify on her behalf so she could get custody of my little brothers again ( I was 19 at the time and ready moved out they are 11 and 13 years younger than me. )
I flipped the fuck out told her off and hung up. I am 34 now and only speak in mild pleasantries. The only reason I do that is for my grandparent
Viperbunny · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am so sorry you went through that.
mnoble473 · 3 points · Posted at 23:48:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very close to being a r/justnoMIL situation, only thing wrong is that it's your mother, not your spouse's mother
Edit: I thought it was only MIL's allowed on the sub, apparently not. Also OP already posted it to there, go check it out.
the_procrastinata · 3 points · Posted at 02:15:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mum stories are also welcome at JustnoMIL, FYI.
Viperbunny · 3 points · Posted at 01:00:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I posted over there yesterday. They gave me great advice.
mnoble473 · 3 points · Posted at 01:15:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh wow, you did. I am so sorry for everything your mother has done, hope you and your family stays safe.
Viperbunny · 6 points · Posted at 01:21:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks. As mad as I feel, not talking to her has been a relief. I realize how much of an emotional vampire she really is. I got to have a great meal with my husband. His boss paid for it as an apology for asking him to work on his day off (which was my birthday). My mother in law is babysitting the kids overnight. And we are about to have a movie marathon. So, I can't complain :)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:26:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's uncanny how similar my mother is to yours—lying to and about therapists, deciding that anybody who calls out her bullshit has "issues," saying how incredibly loving and generous she is, and if you piss her off (which is easy to do) you'll find her trying to retaliate by either seeding misinformation to the rest of the family or destroying your possessions.
Congratulations getting away from yours, I'm still trying to get away from mine.
Viperbunny · 3 points · Posted at 20:24:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can do it! I know how hard it is. I know the guilt. It has only been a short time, but I feel happier and less stressed. You never realize how much it weighs you down until you are away from it. If you ever want to talk to someone who has been there, message me any time.
touched_by_uncle · 2 points · Posted at 04:34:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read your post on JNMIL, crazy stuff. I hope she gets the help she needs.
Viperbunny · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope so, but she is unlikely to get help. She is convinced it is everyone else.
Dune17k · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:34 on July 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/raisedbynarcissists check us out homie
Viperbunny · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:57 on July 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have been there and it is helpful :)
KruppeTheWise · 1460 points · Posted at 15:28:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late teens one of the girls in our friend group was always lying about how wasted she got, sex in bathroom stalls shocking stuff to get attention.
One day a few of us were out without her, I get a call from her saying how she's completely wasted, some guy dragged her on a bus and she doesn't know where she's going can't recognise anywhere and he's creeping all over her. I was slightly worried as this seemed legit.
Friend comes in and I'm about to tell him maybe we should do something when he says
"oh just saw ***** getting on a bus back into town"
He said she looked completely sober, the only other person was some old granny etc.
Pissed me off enough she eventually got cut out of the friend group
ObviousLobster · 51 points · Posted at 20:09:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eventually??
KruppeTheWise · 95 points · Posted at 20:47:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There were a couple of perks:
She went through a lot of boyfriends and the first line introducing me was you better like kruppe he's my bodyguard, normally got a whole bunch of drinks bought for me for this
She made friends with many slutty girls I could date at my leisure
Gigantic tracts of land
bearHandedly · 21 points · Posted at 21:13:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Master Kruppe? A bodyguard? A fence for a thief maybe but Kruppe wasn't built for hard labor.
KruppeTheWise · 11 points · Posted at 21:22:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What you say is true, but Kruppe relied on a hard kick from his mule to keep the creeps at bay
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
One day, lad, they will all be yours.
KruppeTheWise · 2 points · Posted at 06:53:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
But I don't like curtains
MooseEater · 29 points · Posted at 21:23:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was a girl in highschool that was like that. One day in class she started hysterically crying because someone had a balloon in the classroom, and said that she had a fear of latex because she was raped. Everyone was really concerned for her. Then later she was apparently allergic to latex. Then she said her father abused her, and everyone felt really bad for her, but she would describe the weirdest abuses. The weirdest I can remember is she said her dad kneed her in the back because she had a pretty small bruise in between her shoulder blades, and people sort of got to asking her to describe how it happened and she basically just said she walked into her room one night, and he just did a flying knee into her back. No conversation before or after, didn't touch her any more, just jumped up, kneed her in the back, and walked away. There were so many things like that and we all eventually found out that she was full of shit, but she made her dad sound like the weirdest fucking guy I'd ever heard of in my life.
KruppeTheWise · 20 points · Posted at 21:25:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair if I had to love with someone full of a shit I might do the same.
I'd call it a kneejerk reaction
musicisascience · 5 points · Posted at 03:07:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was that girl’s name Meg Griffin?
Bl0ndieb00kw0rm · 916 points · Posted at 15:21:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at a gas station. I was really strict about IDing for alcohol and tobacco.
A girl was adamant that I had IDed her the other day.
“I have never seen you or your ID before.”
“I was in here yesterday!”
“Yesterday meaning Monday?”
“Yes!”
“Around this time?”
“Yes!” Now she starts getting excited because it seems like I believe her.
“Nice try. I don’t work Mondays. Get out.”
The people waiting in line told me that was the funniest thing they’d seen in a while.
Edit: autocorrect
[deleted] · 117 points · Posted at 18:54:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catching fake IDs was my favorite part of my job when I worked at a liquor store for a year and a half during school. Easiest way to check is to try to peel off the film on the card. If it comes off, it’s fake. Real ones don’t peel — I tried really hard to peel the film off my driver’s license to test it. Broke a nail, but the film stayed intact. Many times would I stare dead into an underage kid’s eyes while I peel the film off right in front of them. The faces they make are hilarious. One girl threatened to call the cops on us for taking her ID, so I handed her a phone and said go ahead, please call, so when they come they can take both you and your shitty fake ID! Never saw her again after that lol. Another girl was totally flabbergasted that I caught her and just stood at the counter staring at me, red-faced. I said why are you still here? There’s the door. Get the fuck out!
Bl0ndieb00kw0rm · 150 points · Posted at 19:18:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time a kid accidentally handed me his real ID instead of the fake.
When I told him, “Your ID says you’re only 20,” he said “Oh I gave you the wrong one.” 😂😂😂 GTFO.
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 19:25:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man! That’s fucking hilarious. One thing I never understood is why don’t these kids just befriend people who can legally go buy their drinks for them? Saves you the cost of the fake AND the embarrassment of getting caught! That was always my strategy while I was still underage.
My store was only a few blocks away from a college campus. Almost all of the fakes were from kids attending that school. Considering the vast majority of students at that school are engineering majors, you’d think they’d be smarter than that!
paradroid27 · 9 points · Posted at 06:14:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s a big fine where I live if you supply alcohol to minors, doesn’t matter if you’re over 18 (legal age here) it’s treated the same as if you sold it to them
KushDingies · 7 points · Posted at 00:09:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because 21 year old friends can't get you into bars.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 00:14:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fake IDs usually can’t, either.
KushDingies · 10 points · Posted at 00:39:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends on the bar. Some places are strict, others don't care.
Hammedatha · 11 points · Posted at 03:09:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The cover on my real ID peeled off on its own from just taking it out of my wallet... Not 100% that test.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:25:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yours was probably old or had lots of wear and tear already. If you’re the type of person who carries their wallet in their back pocket and sits on it a lot, that could explain it. But I’m telling you, 100% of fake ID’s will peel unless you have a friend down at the DMV making you a ‘legit’ fake. You can look it up, it’s not something my store fabricated.
Hammedatha · 5 points · Posted at 19:04:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was actually a pretty new one and started peeling almost immediately. I also carry my wallet in my front pocket. I'm not saying your story is fake, just that the legit IDs are not all so difficult.
Miss-Fahrenheit · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad likes to tell the story of how he learned that the drinking age is higher in the US than in Canada. My uncle had him convinced that it's 19 everywhere and then got him to try to buy beer when they drove down to Buffalo for a hockey game. Apparently it was a whole mess way beyond what my uncle was expecting when he set up the "prank".
samstar25 · 34 points · Posted at 19:48:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once IDd a guy as I recognised him from being in the same year at school as my underage brother. When I asked him for ID he got really angry and said “fuck off you silly bitch I’m older than you” WOW! I told him his name and age and he just walked off in a huff.
Haight_Is_Love · 8 points · Posted at 17:30:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
*adamant
Bl0ndieb00kw0rm · 6 points · Posted at 18:12:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Autocorrect is a nightmare and I can’t proofread. Lol! Thanks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Politically_Financed · 22 points · Posted at 18:01:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because it's illegal to sell to a minor and someone having a good time is less important than someone keeping their job.
PM_ME_OLEFIN_COMPLEX · 12 points · Posted at 18:13:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean if this is the US your drinking age is stupid anyway
Politically_Financed · 24 points · Posted at 18:14:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm from England, and even if I think it's too high it's still the law and no one should risk their job for it
PM_ME_OLEFIN_COMPLEX · 6 points · Posted at 18:18:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
True, carries a ridiculous fine here for both parties doesn’t it?
samstar25 · 7 points · Posted at 19:51:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I might be wrong but I’m sure I remember when I worked at a supermarket they told us that as well as a fine for us, we could also end up in prison. Not sure if they were just trying to scare us though?!
PM_ME_OLEFIN_COMPLEX · 10 points · Posted at 19:53:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went into a bargain booze once having been asked to buy a bottle of Glenn’s by some chavs 😂 it’s my local so they clicked on instantly that it wasn’t my usual pre-drinks order so they collared me and told me that I could be fined as well as them.
Served me my stuff and I had to go outside and tell the chavs to jog it
samstar25 · 5 points · Posted at 20:04:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha for some reason the fact that it was a bargain booze makes this all so much better. I remember leaving work when my shift was over. Had my coat done up so no one knew I worked there as you’d ALWAYS get stopped by customers on your way out. When I got outside a group of teenagers were hanging around and one asked me if I’d go inside and buy them some beer. I just unzipped my coat and said “I don’t think so”
PM_ME_OLEFIN_COMPLEX · 6 points · Posted at 01:55:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Confession:
One time I was at a bar getting drinks and I inadvertently gave the ID I was using to the person it belonged to (it had been passed down through the ages and he had no idea who I was or how I got it, I assume he gave it to his mate and told him to destroy it once he turned 18).
Never been so shook in my life 😂
Mf still served me tho
RikenVorkovin · 7 points · Posted at 21:58:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did orientation for walmart and apparently they will fire you if you sell alcohol to someone and someone at a party you weren't aware that is underage and drinks and drives you could be held liable somehow at the store.....not sure how since how the hell would you know?
TheEfex · 1457 points · Posted at 16:57:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom swore up and down that we weren’t getting a PlayStation for Christmas, because we couldn’t afford it at that time.
Then Christmas morning came.
I opened it up and I was ecstatic, I still remember it to this day even though I was 5.
I love my mom for all the sacrifices she made for us and I’m glad we’re better off financially.
nottoeat · 79 points · Posted at 19:12:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read that first line and thought this was gonna be a very different story
brownboynoflex · 45 points · Posted at 21:37:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mom did this back when the PS3 came out. All my friends were getting them and I felt so jealous. Told me I wouldn't be able to get because we couldn't afford it. Boom, PS3 and MW3 on Christmas that year it was great
Asariel2011 · 38 points · Posted at 22:07:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Unexpected and just what I needed to read after all the other fuckery.
gardevoirOTP · 53 points · Posted at 18:45:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Awww. My mom did something similar once, but she totally messed up the surprise. I opened what I thought was a DVD, turned out to be a ps2 game. Cue me, my brother, and my sister, all freaking out digging through the rest of the presents trying to find a ps2 shaped box.
MizukiAyu · 3 points · Posted at 12:00:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dunno, maybe she wanted to see the scramble
Edit: my sister made a similar mistake, except she'd left the sword and shield Wii accessories out when I visited her. I didn't own the Wii version of Twilight Princess so I'd guessed that and the game were my Christmas presents. I feigned ignorance when she scrambled to hide it and asked if I'd seen because I didn't want her to think she's ruined the surprise. Side note, the accessories are hard to find online, so I linked an article covering it with an unpainted picture. The product link doesn't work anymore and I'm on mobile, so half assed link it is.
Mackem101 · 23 points · Posted at 22:35:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mam did the same with the Mega-CD, I was properly over the moon.
I also did something similar to my bairn, he wanted the latest WWE game (2k16) so I bought him it, I also bought a copy of WWE 11, a quick switcharoo of the discs and he excitedly rips open the wrapping paper to discover 'WWE 11'.
He tried to act non disappointed, but you could see it on his face, I then said "Ha'way then, we'll have a match" he then opens the WWE11 box to find 2k16 inside.
He was also properly over the moon.
Plesleron · 4 points · Posted at 03:05:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where are you from?
hablomuchoingles · 3 points · Posted at 03:36:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Scotland or northern England
Mackem101 · 3 points · Posted at 08:26:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
North east England, it's a pretty common word for a child up here.
anisopterasaurus · 18 points · Posted at 23:24:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wholesome. Same thing happened to me and my sister with the PS2. My mom, the brilliant actor she is, cried her eyes out when "Santa" gave us a PS2 that Christmas when she swore up and down we couldn't afford one.
I was 12. She convinced me to believe in santa again that year.
kplatinum777 · 19 points · Posted at 21:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents did that, too, except they would pretend that I had asked too late and that Santa couldn’t find [insert console here that I had asked for]. Then I’d start opening accessories and games to the console in question, and the jig would be up.
jedipony1 · 3 points · Posted at 05:21:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why you save those gifts for last
BattleCat13 · 7 points · Posted at 23:11:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is undoubtedly the most wholesome story here
hitztasyj · 7 points · Posted at 00:11:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents did the same with the N64. We opened all of our presents, then my dad said, “oops, looks like we forgot one, I’ll be right back.” Best Christmas ever.
MizukiAyu · 3 points · Posted at 12:09:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wanted the new Donkey Kong Country game on the Wii. I'd bought my own Wii but was out of work when DKC came out. Went to my dad's and my Christmas present is a game of checkers with a DK colored stuffed monkey wearing a little ribbon tie that my sister (who lived with him) made. He apologized for not being able to afford the game that year and hoped this would be good enough.
It was s really crappy, beat up box of checkers, but I just smiled and said "that's okay."
Then my sister whips out the actual DKC game and told me she not only learned how to properly tie a tie, it was a bitch to do on a 4-inch tie.
yearofawesome · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love this one.
Truunbean · 1 points · Posted at 09:52:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Parents did something similar to me and my brother, cause we have family up on the north side of Chicago every Christmas Eve we go up around 8pm to spend the night until about 2am before coming home, as a tradition we get to open up one gift each from our parents early since the stuff they get us is generally much better then what they give our cousins with a few exception like one year we got our cousin who had just graduated that year a wii, but for whatever reason one year our parents rather then giving us the choice to choose like usual have us pre picked present to open, they were watches. This upset us greatly and me and my brother were bawling at the terrible present until we finally made it to the party. Once midnight struck and we began exchanging gifts at the party our parents give us another gift they had brought for us, and Xbox360. And the fucking first words out of my dads mouth were, “Don’t you feel stupid for crying earlier now?” No I wasn’t cause I wanted a PlayStation but that’s beside the point. It was later explained that the watches were so we would be mindful of the time we spent playing and take turns fairly, none of which happened.
NormieHunter · 8254 points · Posted at 13:51:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Okay this is super petty, but when I was 7 my friend Eloise thought she was the queen of the animal kingdom. She knew everything about every animal ever, acting likes she's been watching animal planet since the day her mum popped her out. I always kind of thought she must be lying about her nature knowledge, I mean she knew WAY too much. So one day we're in the playground and she's poking at the ground trying to find beetles or something, whilst prattling off a long list of species.
Then I just say "oh hey! What do you know about the insert made up beetle name I pulled out my arse?".
And then she goes on and on about how much she loves that species and all these "facts" about their diet and habitat. I just kind of let her get on with it for a while before breaking it to her that she had just been pretending to know about a made up beetle for the last five minutes. She just started stuttering and looking down at her feet and then eventually just changed the subject.
It felt so good to finally expose her, her nature knowledge was a fat sham the whole time. Take that Eloise.
[deleted] · 3643 points · Posted at 14:39:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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tiredmommy13 · 1460 points · Posted at 15:19:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The day is still young
Coldpiss · 32 points · Posted at 16:20:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How young?
I feel like I'm going to fuck this day up but I don't want to go to prison
Cmonster910 · 20 points · Posted at 16:34:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bro the just wait until the day is over the age of consent wtf
daftvalkyrie · 12 points · Posted at 17:36:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So 6pm then?
LordGalen · 19 points · Posted at 17:50:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
4pm in a lot of places.
RastaKraken · 10 points · Posted at 16:12:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No truer phrase was ever uttered on Reddit
bennylima · 4 points · Posted at 17:16:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The day is ending here mate
SirKnightCourtJester · 2 points · Posted at 17:56:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And reddit is very petty
NotAlwaysSarcastic · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is already late evening in my time zone
johnnycrosshatch · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"The night's a puppy."
Silverhyina · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's 20:00
RWDMARS · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For those on the other end of the world it’s almost over
TheMobHasSpoken · 11 points · Posted at 16:13:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's petty, but to me it just evokes so much about what it's like to be a kid. There are times when you just know you're right about something, but you have no power to prove it, and adults and other kids have no interest in helping you out.
Dar_Winning · 4 points · Posted at 16:22:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's so petty, it's almost bugging me.
carolathome · 3 points · Posted at 17:38:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TBF, sounds like she may know a lot, but wants people to think she knows everything.
livgee1709 · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me too. I revelled in the pettiness displayed here. Fuck you Eloise!
reezy619 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So petty, and yet so satisfying.
2SP00KY4ME · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You posted that at 9am
Raven_7306 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Welcome to /r/PettyRevenge. Stay a while and listen
lionsfan2016 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/pettyrevenge
Bishop0420 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So far
ChuushaHime · 972 points · Posted at 15:26:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did this exact same thing in high school with a guy who knew everything about Every Band Ever. A friend of mine and I made up a band name and were talking about the band in front of the guy. He was like "oh yeah! I've seen them, they were trying to get into Warped Tour but I don't think they made it in this year, yadda yadda yadda..." it was really funny to tell him that we just made the band up to fool him.
Side note, this same guy also showed us a song he had "written" once and was super proud of. A quick Google Search told us that it was actually just "Lonely Day" by System of a Down. That was fun to corner him with too.
Lovat69 · 35 points · Posted at 18:05:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pffff, what an amateur. When that happens you just say, "haha, that's so funny. You actually named a real band you didn't know about".
MisogynistLesbian · 26 points · Posted at 19:26:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's the funniest when compulsive liars claim other artistic (easily looked-up) works as their own.
In high school, this guy I banged once (lets call him Aidan, because that was his name) tried to impress me by sending me erotica stories he supposedly wrote. I'm a nerdy chick so it was a good strategy. The writing seemed to be way above Aidan's literacy level though, so I googled the first sentence from a few of "his" stories. Boom, Literotica. I confronted him, and he claimed he collaborated with this Literotica author. Over dumb erotica stories. So I emailed the real author, who was like "no, I never collaborated with anyone, this guy is lying." So satifying to screenshot and send him. He really was not expecting me to straight-up email the dude who actually wrote it. There was no more banging Aidan after that, needless to say.
Eiklet · 41 points · Posted at 17:11:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went to school with a Jehova's Witness girl who showed me a song she "wrote". It was the lyrics to Concrete Angel. I didn't call her out on it because she was the only person in school who was nice to me. Then, when some girls were bullying me, saying my shirt made me look like Barney the Dinosaur, she joined in with them.
Bye, Felicia.
Gunkspargle · 11 points · Posted at 21:10:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar story: My husband had his iPod Touch hooked up the car and he had it on shuffle. A piano rendition of Eternal Snow by Changin' My Life started playing and I said "oh, I like this one" (big fan of Full Moon wo Sagashite). Husband replied that his friend composed it for their table-top game for background ambience and that he'd be happy to know he had a fan. I asked if his friend was a fan of Full Moon and confused, my husband replied that the friend had composed it from scratch. It took me going to Youtube and playing the original song for him to realize his friend had stolen someone else's material and passed it off as his own.
Mako_Eyes · 13 points · Posted at 17:20:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in a used game store that deals in EVERY console, so I've had to get really good at bullshitting about games that I know nothing about. I feel like I do it the right way though; I always start with something I know, even if it's something dumb like "well there's a dude with a gun and a jetpack on the front and it's on the 360, so that there is most likely a sci fi shooter. MYSTERY SOLVED, YOU'RE WELCOME ASSHOLE, HOPE YOU ENJOY DARK VOID" ...or something like that.
Joseph_Bock · 4 points · Posted at 19:07:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
DAMN I FORGOT ABOUT DARK VOID, I remember it used to crash sometimes so I just stopped, I was near the ending of the game too.
Mako_Eyes · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it's... not great.
Volraith · 15 points · Posted at 16:37:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, if they were going to rip off SOAD at least pick a good track -.-
Shinikama · 38 points · Posted at 16:55:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or don't rip of a huge band like SOAD. Seriously, everyone and their mother has heard at least one song of theirs.
34HoldOn · 5 points · Posted at 04:57:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nathan Gale (the Damageplan concert shooter) likely had paranoid schizophrenia. He legitimately thought that among others, that Pantera were stealing his ideas, and mocking his life. He'd show his friends this new song that "he" wrote, and it would be lyrics to a Pantera song. And he wasn't trolling, he legitimately acted like he wrote the song.
Contrary to what Behind the Music said, he likely did that shooting because of the latter. Not because he was distraught over Pantera's breakup.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:36:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aw I like that song
ThatThrowaway29986 · 10 points · Posted at 17:43:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me too :(
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 17:47:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There are dozens of us!
Aerotactics · 5 points · Posted at 17:25:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like maybe Cigaro
myflurrygirl · 3 points · Posted at 21:47:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
MY COCK IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOURS!
Aerotactics · 6 points · Posted at 21:58:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
MY COCK CAN WALK RIGHT THROUGH THE DOOR!
-Jason-B- · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What are you trying to say, boyo? Are you saying Lonely Day is no good?
Volraith · 0 points · Posted at 19:02:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm saying that they have put out much better tracks. Just one guys opinion.
myflurrygirl · 5 points · Posted at 21:42:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lonely Day is one of my favourites by them, but of course everyone is welcome to their own opinion.
Which do you like the best?
iammaxhailme · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was this guy's initials T.J.?
Schattentochter · 2 points · Posted at 15:31:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had sth similar happen to me - only that I misheard the guys who were trying to "expose" me. What I heard was "Broken Matters" which (back then) was a tiny fucking local band a friend of mine played in. What they, appearently, had said was "Broken Matress" which was something they had made up.
When I finally realized what was going on, they didn't believe it. But tbh, I don't blame them, I was silly to assume that some rando dudes from a bar would know this band that had played maybe two concerts at that point. :/
Sharrakor · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You might enjoy Lie Witness News – Coachella 2013.
room-to-breathe · 3 points · Posted at 21:42:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought that skit was exposed as fake
Aitra · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats such a weird angsty song to copy too.
mtmo94 · -2 points · Posted at 23:11:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It sounds like you and your friends sort of bullied that kid tbh
ChuushaHime · 4 points · Posted at 23:42:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lmfao what
he was a compulsive liar, we were never mean to him and never fucked with him otherwise, we just got tired of his bullshit one day and made up a fake band to mess with him. Calling that bullying is pretty trivializing of actual bullying imho
WeirdWolfGuy · 1329 points · Posted at 15:23:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
plot twist you named an actual species of beetle and didnt even realize it....
i...i did that once...
I honestly had no idea that Rose Tarantulas were really a thing when i was 9....and i had a friend who was obsessed with spiders. It too seemed fake...so i decided to test him...
long story short, when i was 9, i ruined a friendship because i thought my friend was a liar, but i was just an idiot who didnt know that Rose Tarantulas are real...
Love_loss · 145 points · Posted at 17:47:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Gah! You just reminded me of a childhood argument I had along the same lines. A friend told me his dad was such a good fighter, and he knew Karate. I had to one-up him, because I was 5 or 6, so I told him my Dad knew Jew-doe, completely making up a new martial art.
My mother said nothing in front of the kid, but later told me that my Dad had never learned Judo and I shouldn't lie about it.
emsenn0 · 53 points · Posted at 17:56:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I gotta ask, are y'all Jewish?
Love_loss · 8 points · Posted at 21:53:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thought it might come out like that. No, I just was spelling it kinda phonetically just now. I'm not sure how I would have spelled it as a kid.
emsenn0 · 19 points · Posted at 23:14:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Yea well my dad knows... uh..."
looks at another table, sees a Hasidic Jew
"Jew..."
looks out window, sees a small deer
"...doe. Jew-doe. Yea! My dad knows jewdoe!"
Love_loss · 12 points · Posted at 02:28:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably would have called it AmishDeer if that was what I saw
TheHurdleDude · 50 points · Posted at 18:53:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an argument with a friend who was telling the group he saw gas prices at around $2 on a vacation (This was 10 years ago or so, and I was around 10-12 years old). I was sure he was lying, so I went inside and asked my dad to back me up. He just looked at me and said "it is totally possible he saw gas prices that low. And that's something pretty stupid to be arguing about, don't you think?"
By the time I got back to the group, the conversation had moved on, so I just didn't say anything and we all moved on.
Schuano · 4 points · Posted at 04:54:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your mom should have told you that your dad turned from the path of Judo many years ago. That if his old master knew where he was, none of you would be safe. The secret must stay hidden.
uns0licited_advice · 14 points · Posted at 18:42:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should have stuck to your wolf knowledge
WeirdWolfGuy · 12 points · Posted at 22:20:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to make teachers and other kids INSANE with my constasntly spewing Wolf, Fox, Dog, and Hyena facts...it was a four legged predator that was even remotely related to the Canis line, i was filled with knowledge on it...
UnhackableWaffle · 10 points · Posted at 17:49:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dandelion tarantulas, on the other hand...
ThatCrazyManDude · 9 points · Posted at 18:48:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of South park when they're at the recorder concert and the boys make up the word mung only to find out it's already a thing lol.
Tupptupp_XD · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LIAR!
H010CR0N · 270 points · Posted at 15:07:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My Dad would do stuff like this, but as a joke. He's an international airline pilot, and when going around in the different cities, he would spout facts, that seemed just enough to be true, but when people called him out on it, he would joke around.
JaneOverdose · 17 points · Posted at 16:16:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad would do this but, he was never joking... Owns a bar in Germany, was abducted by Aliens, body guarded Stevie Nicks. It was embarrassing.
Domriso · 5 points · Posted at 18:13:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, my dad does this all the time. He will blather on and on about a subject, telling you all sorts of facts, and then suddenly starts mentioning how nitrogen is integral or important to something with it, and all of a sudden you know he's been making shit up. It's gotten to the point where he can't tell us thongs about nitrogen that are true without us calling bullshit on him.
charlieapplesauce · 4 points · Posted at 16:14:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know we call this helicopter a skippy.
Why?
Just listen to it...askipskipskipskipslip
Nemeris117 · 4 points · Posted at 16:50:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Welcome the Montana, home of the worlds largest mayonaise ball.
da_borg · 3 points · Posted at 18:20:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
VERY FUNNY I SPENT THREE HOURS SEARCHING FOR THE BOSTON SPACE NEEDLE!
slow_rick · 13 points · Posted at 15:57:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That... sounds like a compulsive liar thing?
GrandMoffAtreides · 25 points · Posted at 16:20:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or a joke?
Freeplantist · 35 points · Posted at 16:24:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those bumps on the road are for blind people when they drive
ShadoShane · 9 points · Posted at 17:00:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The hammer thing you use in Croquet is called a Penile.
TurmUrk · 9 points · Posted at 17:53:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Legos were invented because cement doesn’t work in soace
Cwmcwm · 5 points · Posted at 18:50:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well it does work in marinara soace, but not the cheese-based soaces.
H010CR0N · 3 points · Posted at 21:06:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was being sarcastic. He only does it when talking about "famous" buildings
prolemango · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s not really a joke when he doesn’t get called out though is it
EmporioIvankov · 5 points · Posted at 17:52:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's still a joke. It becomes 'haha I sure fooled them' instead of 'haha aren't I silly, friend?'
BrotherDBAD · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have no idea what this string of words is trying to convey.
themommaduck · 0 points · Posted at 17:04:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I constantly make up facts and tell my kids/husband. They ask me something and I make up some bullshit and they ALWAYS buy it. Idiots. 😂
michaelscottdundmiff · 61 points · Posted at 14:51:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's so petty. I love it. I am also this petty
thejosephfiles · 0 points · Posted at 17:49:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's not good considering this is a story about first graders.
Kickthemwiththetims · 102 points · Posted at 15:00:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
fuck Eloise
Bl0ndieb00kw0rm · 324 points · Posted at 15:23:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eloise is 7. Please don’t fuck Eloise.
RightWing_Ideologue · 36 points · Posted at 15:53:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was 7. We don't know how long ago this story took place.
prolemango · 9 points · Posted at 16:22:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Could’ve taken place last week lol. She was seven...I mean she is still seven now but she also was seven back then
TheInvisibleDuck · 6 points · Posted at 16:57:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it says that OP was 7, Eloise might have just been held back a few years.
ELI5_Interpolation · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out.
x3stealer112 · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or we could just ask op what age is eloise now.
Darkendevil · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Last week
timeforaroast · 4 points · Posted at 15:37:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That Was then.not now
psychologicalX · 17 points · Posted at 15:27:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not young enough for you as well, right?
Brendanmicyd · 9 points · Posted at 15:51:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus fucking Christ reddit
mp3max · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
jesus christ
Wiki_pedo · 2 points · Posted at 16:53:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No
Eternity_Incarnate · 3 points · Posted at 15:45:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
<_<
Riiight….
SwedishPenguin42 · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was 7
RedArrow23 · 2 points · Posted at 15:58:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That won’t hold up in court
Soup_Kitchen · 10 points · Posted at 16:30:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a similarish kid story. When I was about 6 my best friend was my next door neighbor who was like 7. He was older, and super smart, and seemed to have done everything. One day my dad told me that he was making a lot of it up, and that I should be careful about believing him. Dad said he was a One-Upper. I was doubtful, so we came up with a test. We looked up the fastest cars in the Guinness Book, and it turned out that the fastest car ever was like 630 miles per hour. When the neighbor came over my dad said "guess what, I was in a car that went 630 mph today. It was really fast." Neighbor boy doesn't miss a beat with "I went 700 in a car once." It fucking rocked my world. We didn't call him on it, my Dad had said that we shouldn't, but that I should be more careful about believing him. Last I saw him he was about 20 years ago and he was in the middle of a very unattractive 90's goth thing.
BirchBlack · 5 points · Posted at 17:50:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I kind of feel bad for Eloise for one reason or another.
Mac_MacDonald · 7 points · Posted at 16:13:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn that's fucked she just wanted to sound cool and your still all 'yeah fuck you!'
Don't get me wrong, I upvoted and laughed my ass off but damn
Enderdidnothingwrong · 3 points · Posted at 16:11:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she grew up to become unidan
Jackal_6 · 3 points · Posted at 17:17:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
HERE'S THE THING
cybertroll74 · 3 points · Posted at 17:18:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Crushing a 7-year old little girls delusions. You must feel pretty superior.
DundieAwardWinner525 · 9 points · Posted at 15:02:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Perfectly petty! You're my new favorite! I name you Pettybear!
Domriso · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know a shit ton of trivia, because whenever I think of a question about something I'll Google it and then file it away for later. I also like to share said information with other people, because learning is fun! I tend to get known for this random knowledge at whatever place i work at, because I replace small talk with random facts, since I hate small talk.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because I'm pretty sure I've had multiple coworkers try to catch me in a lie, assuming that I'm making shit up. I've had several coworkers from different jobs who said something along the lines of "I double-checked what Domriso said yesterday, and he's actually right."
Tankspeed13 · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminded me of a friend I had in primary school who knew every single about dinosaurs. The thing is though he actually really did know a lot about dinosaurs. I still remember a lot of the facts he said, it hasn't come in handy so far
socialistvegan · 2 points · Posted at 20:13:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to be this asshole kid, but about airplanes, when I was in about the 4th grade. I would make up tons of shit about every plane that flew overhead, and even got another kid in on it and we would just spout bullshit to other kids and back each other up. Some people were suspicious, and finally one of my friends points to a plane and asks me what it is, because he actually knows. By dumb luck it was a plane I actually knew too, a piper cub. He was visibly crestfallen when I named it correctly.
I grew out of the bullshitting phase in the next year or two, although it was probably an early indicator of my future adult career in marketing.
Blueta · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Great imagination though
inkydye · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"No shit Eloise"
PyrrhuraMolinae · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha! When I was seven, I had an argument with another girl my age. She claimed you could tell a ladybug's age by counting the spots on its back. Little bookworm and science nerd me knew that was bullshit and told her so. She got really snippy and said, "My dad told me! He's a scientist who studies bugs!"
Smartass me replied, "You mean an entomologist?"
She shut up after that.
cammo86 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did the same in primary school. This kid kept claiming to have all these toys, like no matter what, he had it. So I made one up and he said his mum's getting it for him next week.
So I guess he didn't lie about having it, but he probably would've either ran home to ask his mum for it, or it would've been added to his list of made up toys. Petty but it's annoying as a child - I guess even as an adult, to hear non-stop bullshit.
Normie-scum · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a pretty great story, suck on that Eloise.
Also; we would not be great friends judging by your name.
26_Charlie · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what you get for having an interest in something, NERD!
Gravity-Glitch · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did the exact same thing when I was 8 to a girl that claimed she had every single Yu-Gi-Oh card. Sweet justice lol
fishflavoursoap · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooh ooh me too! A guy cslled Gareth who I started a job with was a bit of a big black dog sort of guy - as in, if you had a dog, he had a bigger, blacker dog.
One day me, my mate and him went to get McDonald's on our lunch break. We started a conversation about Hellboy, and Gareth started talking about how he had allllll the comics and he was the biggest fan; Hellboy, Hellgirl, the works.
"Hellcopter?" I ask
"Yeah and Hellcopter" he goes
"Hellcopter," I say, flatly. Behind him, my mate is turning purple with surpressed laughter.
"Yep, Hellcopter too!" Gareth responds cheerfully
"Hell...copter" I say slowly. Gareth is oblivious. My mate and I got our big Mac's and left and never spoke to the silly fucker again.
mlpr34clopper · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OMG i had a friend just like this at age 7. Chronically lying to impress. Busted her a few times, but never about anything that mattered.
wound up marrying her 30 years later. did not work out well at all. Turns out she DID lie about significant stuff. and stole (not from me. when divorce started, an assload of folks came forward to tell me stories of her behavior. apparently she was klepto as well...)
Bonch_and_Clyde · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm more concerned about the beetle that you were keeping up your ass. Sounds uncomfortable.
Bufferkiller · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother and I make up shit like that to see how deep my mom’s lies will go. Calling her out does nothing anymore, so we just crack up about it later.
Quiet-Thinker · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is Eloise my manager?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:47:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guessed possible uk poster based on Eloise, was not wrong
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You sound like a kind person. Eloise is a priss
dastarlos · 0 points · Posted at 16:33:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck you Eloise.
MoreCowbellPlease · 0 points · Posted at 18:15:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eff Eloise.
DoesNotWipe · 0 points · Posted at 21:14:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a stupid name
aaacctuary · 377 points · Posted at 17:33:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid my parents were really strict about everything, especially staying home from school sick. Even to the point of sending me to school when I was actually sick but not "sick enough" to warrant staying home.
One time my mom needed to get out of work for some reason and she was on the phone with them explaining how her kid was sick and she couldn't come in. My 8 year old revenge was to pick up the phone in the kitchen and yell "SHE'S LYYYING" onto the line.
LunaFox13 · 82 points · Posted at 20:54:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL This is freaking hilarious!
Jaew96 · 4 points · Posted at 23:27:18 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice. What were the consequences for doing this?
aaacctuary · 10 points · Posted at 00:05:19 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
honestly I don't really recall, only that it wasn't anything particularly severe because we still laugh about it from time to time. I think she may have BS'd something about how she wasn't talking about me, she meant my brother. also quite probably it didn't really matter all that much because she was just leading an exercise class.
I just remember the sense of supreme child vengeance, YOU CAN SAY IM SICK BUT I CANT? HAVE AT YOU!
satan_rocks_my_socks · 0 points · Posted at 04:01:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I stg I’ve seen this somewhere
Jcmusic1324 · 1203 points · Posted at 15:22:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I record music at a studio but every now and then I have my friends over and we just hang out, get drunk and make some music. Anyway this girl was with us one time and everyone knows she is constantly making stuff up. We were well into a case of beer freestyling over a beat I made just for fun when she showed up. All the sudden she was really into rapping, talking about how she was freestyling all day. She goes into the booth and does a flawless verse. She comes out juicing herself up, but little did she know, that every single one of us in the room knew the verse she claimed to be a freestyle. She verbatim spit an MC chris verse thinking none of us knew it. Lost the last little bit of trust we had for her that day
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 17:35:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 68 points · Posted at 18:39:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ilikeeatingbrains · 23 points · Posted at 19:36:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My Dad went by Jango, like Django unchained
He fell to Mace Windu when his neck left his brain
No hard feelings though cuz he got sliced too
Don't trust politicians; slinging lies on Jedis.
LordBiscuits · 15 points · Posted at 19:58:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The cadence on that last line feels strange, does it lilt up at the end?
ilikeeatingbrains · 7 points · Posted at 01:28:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh sorry, I dropped the mic
Jcmusic1324 · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This was a while ago, I can't remember the exact verse but I specifically saved her part solod and it's somewhere on a back up drive
breakphost · 3 points · Posted at 18:45:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
FIND IT
ThrowawayFishFingers · 2 points · Posted at 23:49:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This pie’s so good it is a crime...
TangoHotel04 · 35 points · Posted at 18:37:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, that’s a name I haven’t heard in awhile.
“Look at me, man! I’m a giant spider wearing a disposable diaper. I’m insane, man!”
metastasis_d · 13 points · Posted at 21:16:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
MC Peepant
Buscemi_D_Sanji · 8 points · Posted at 23:44:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sir Loin was dope, but little brittle was my favorite scheme
TreesnCats · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fun fact, his full song isn't anywhere on the internet while the Sir Loin and MC Peepants songs can be found on YouTube.
regalrecaller · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sweeney, is that you?
FeatheredSun · 18 points · Posted at 18:43:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh. You should have come back at her with Evergreen and been like "you like that one? I just came up with it."
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 17:37:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Woo!
When Tasty Face came out I didn't know it was a parody. I was sad when I heard the original trash, but ty MC for Al always song over it whenever confronted.
thedellah · 19 points · Posted at 18:27:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
like this video i seen of some girl rapping a honey cocaine verse in a battle and the crowd realising halfway thru
bun-nie · 6 points · Posted at 21:29:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao I forgot about that! That happened at a high school in my county. A (sorta) friend of mine is in the background of that video. She told me that the girl switched schools or moved or something like that shortly after.
punkcore329 · 7 points · Posted at 18:10:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What song was it?! I love that it was MC Chris.
PM_ME_DARK_MATTER · 3 points · Posted at 18:21:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds awesome man.....I need to party with you
jirta · 3 points · Posted at 18:53:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mc Chris is the bomb
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:39:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LMAOOO MCCHRIS thats a name i aint heard in forever. used to love mcchris.
nerdyshades · 2 points · Posted at 05:02:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cruisin' Mos Espa in my Daloreon, wars over, I'm a peace time Mandolorian!
Mizz_Wright · 4 points · Posted at 17:43:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
french_toastx2 · -1 points · Posted at 19:34:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was just trying to be cool and fit in/impress
pikachuichoosesalad · 3968 points · Posted at 13:34:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad took his own life. 8 months go by, my mom hadn't gotten him a headstone. After several phone calls and "updates", a year and a half after his death she calls to tell me the headstone is finally in.
I go to the graveyard with some flowers and lo and behold, NO headstone!
I fucking BAWLED in the grass for a while. I realized that if she had really thought her husband's headstone had been at the graveyard (maybe the cemetery messed up), she would have gone to visit to see him, and found it not erected, and would have avoided putting me through turmoil.
But what actually happened to the best of my knowledge is that she fucking lied and said it was there, and it was not there, and she did not give a single fuck about my father or anyone's feelings in the family at all.
That was the cherry on the sundae. I suddenly started to realize many other downright selfish and outright abusive things she had done to me throughout the years and I cut her out of my life. These past 3 years I've never been happier.
Edit: thanks so much for all of the replies, good and bad. It's helpful to see many perspectives, even the ones that I've played out in my head and hoped for to no avail. I just want to showcase how much mental illness and alcoholism affects everyone, and I'm glad to have a dialogue if any. Thanks to all for support and well wishes, I tried to respond to everyone because I want that dialogue to keep going. We need to talk about these things. Thanks again and good night.
Delica · 693 points · Posted at 13:55:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, that’s rough. Your story had a happy-ish ending because you made the right choice, though. I hope your life balances out all the bad you’ve been through...
6079_WSmith · 1058 points · Posted at 14:49:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So in summary, your father is dead and you're estranged from your mother, but you've never been happier.
... Here's an upvote. I hope your future continues to be brighter than your past.
brillantezza · 98 points · Posted at 16:52:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you’ve never had abusive family/parents then that might seem strange to you. But cutting that shit out of your life can be life changing.
6079_WSmith · 44 points · Posted at 19:00:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, I get it. I just feel really bad for OP.
ImGCS3fromETOH · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess if he ever gets miserable we can run over his dog...
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 15:57:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I cut my mom out when my sister died and the last year has been much happier. It's weird how you don't notice it until you're free from them for awhile. I'm sorry to hear about your dad but I'm happy that you're finding happiness now.
pikachuichoosesalad · 10 points · Posted at 16:02:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks and good for you, too. Friends are the family you choose.
Being_a_Mitch · 14 points · Posted at 16:44:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I never understood people who desperately hang on to abusive family members just because they are 'family'. If someone is abusive to you, and refuses to be helped even after significant effort, they don't need to be dragging you down in life. Good choice and good luck.
NotKiddingJK · 6 points · Posted at 00:31:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I never did either, not until the day I realized I'd been doing the same thing myself. In some situations you so desperately want the approval of your loved ones that you don't realize that you will never get it. Additionally in these situations you can be convinced that it is your fault and not the abuser. I know it sounds totally irrational, but when abuse is normal to you, you don't always recognize it as abuse.
34HoldOn · 3 points · Posted at 04:28:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And this is what to explain to the "tough guys" who are so insistent that they'd never put up with such shit, and try to "question" the people who did.
34HoldOn · 3 points · Posted at 04:29:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly. And the abusers manipulate this societal norm of "Always respect family", and it's total bullshit.
jyuro · 12 points · Posted at 17:36:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This same thing happened with my grandfather. My uncle had been taking care of the arrangements and said the headstone would be in by such and such date. I was on my way to visit my dad some time shortly after the specified date, and stopped by the cemetery on my way, as it was about halfway between here and there. Still no headstone. I casually mention it to my dad, and he promises to check on it. During our next phone call, he tells me it will be in by such and such date. I make a mental note to go check it the week following that date. Lo and behold, still no headstone. I call my dad because I'm upset about this. This makes him angry, and he tells me in a terse tone that he will take care of it. I found out later from him that my uncle had taken all the insurance money, including what my father was entitled to, and had never even placed an order for a headstone. My dad paid for the headstone himself out of pocket. It was out there very quickly.
pikachuichoosesalad · 3 points · Posted at 06:20:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry to hear that. Some people think that being your family means they can treat you like however they please. It takes a lot of strength to stand up to that. And it hurts over a long period of time. But we can heal.
mondaiji8888 · 13 points · Posted at 16:38:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did your father ever get a headstone?
pikachuichoosesalad · 12 points · Posted at 17:58:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah she finished it. It was really generic and cold, and said none of the things my family asked for. Also, half of it is blank because she has the plot next to him... 😞
HistoryNutts · 11 points · Posted at 20:28:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If someone in your family gets the rights to the site then you can recommission a new headstone. One extremely beautiful and sweet headstone, and a plain headstone for your mother with a few dates on it. Trust me, everyone knows what is going on when a large ass headstone only mentions dob and dod.
HistoryNutts · 6 points · Posted at 20:29:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once your mother is dead of course.
bringmycadillacback · 4 points · Posted at 23:16:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that feels like an important addendum.
HistoryNutts · 3 points · Posted at 23:18:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know it's stupid but I didn't want someone to say "Yeah! Sue her ass for the rights!" He might win the case but suing your toxic mum is not as good as just waiting for her ass to die.
thewingedshark · 28 points · Posted at 15:42:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/raisedbynarcissists ?
pikachuichoosesalad · 23 points · Posted at 16:01:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep. But alcoholism too.
Rivka333 · 11 points · Posted at 17:16:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I suspect the two are often connected.
estrogenius · 11 points · Posted at 17:31:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar situation, except my mom didn't even hide the fact that she squandered all the money my dad left her to take care of funeral expenses on beer, shopping trips, and bailing out my worthless brother. My sister and I cut her and my brother out, and are currently trying to save up the money for one. We're both individually trying to improve our living situations so it will take awhile, but it'll be nice to do what she wouldn't for my dad.
TwixSnickers · 6 points · Posted at 19:32:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you considered setting up a Go-Fund-Me project? Maybe his old friends and extended family would want to contribute to the cause. Heck, I would send a few bucks for something like this.
Also, you probably already know it, but if he served in the military, the government (US) will provide a plaque or marker for free.
estrogenius · 7 points · Posted at 19:54:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually the thought never crossed our minds. He was never military but I'll ask my sister how she feels about a gofundme. Long story (emotionally abusive upbringing blah blah blah) we have a hard time trusting and accepting help, but it's a discussion worth having. Thanks!
pikachuichoosesalad · 2 points · Posted at 06:18:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry you're going through all that. Had to cut out my brother too, who was just as abusive as my mom. Good for you for deciding that cutting them out was the way to go, it's one of the most devastating and difficult decisions I have ever had to make. As time goes by you wonder if it was the right one. In my experience it has been incredible. Last week I had the BEST day of my life. I was so happy with where I was at and how far I had come that I shared it with everyone I talked to. Hope you get there. Stay strong.
estrogenius · 2 points · Posted at 12:41:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do sometimes wonder if I was too harsh or if I made a mistake, until those days hit me where I'm genuinely happy and I realize it's because of my decision. Also my daughter. I refuse to let her grow up emotionally stunted like I did. I'm glad you were able to prioritize your happiness. We're gonna be okay.
jsmiel · 9 points · Posted at 16:29:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey OP, my dad passed away when I was 17 and from that day my mom always chosen herself over her kids as well. Surely there are different circumstances but I can appreciate your struggle.
It’s hard for many people to imagine a mother can be that way in that situation but I just wanted to give you props for continuing on. It’s very difficult at times but you’ll end up a lot stronger from it in the end.
pikachuichoosesalad · 10 points · Posted at 18:00:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. Honestly the first thing I noticed was narcissism, because she was really, really good at hiding the pills and alcohol. I did pretty well going to therapy and taking care of myself, but at the end of the day I can honestly say that Al-Anon was the biggest and most important change in my life. That and C25K.
jsmiel · 9 points · Posted at 18:21:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom is pills and the occasion illegal drugs. Last winter I was in the same ER, same waiting room, same ICU room as when my dad didn’t make it.. only to find out she mixed cocaine with pills and id thought she made so much progress only to realize she cares more about escaping reality and herself more than her family still.
Do you have any kind of relationship with her still? I have a very weak one with my mom, but I take her out to lunch sometimes to try to make some nice memories. I’ve accepted she won’t change, so anything good out of our relationship has to come on my terms from a place she can’t affect me.
At the fear of sounding obnoxious I guess I wanted to share my similar experience and say I’m proud of you for whatever that’s worth. I think a lot of people with experiences like ours fail to overcome them. It makes me happy to hear your story and triumph
pikachuichoosesalad · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to get on the computer so I could type out a reply to you specifically, and others who responded because this is so much more common then most people realize.
I cut out my mom 3 years ago. It was harder to be around her than it was to be with her. She would get drunk and emotionally abuse me til I would explode, then tell me I was "being too sensitive," or "too proud." She poked and prodded to get a reaction out of me, then blamed me for ruining family get togethers when I would finally break down and yell, cry, or leave.
I want to plant the seed in your head: Al Anon. Maybe one day when you have drank too much and you throw up on the carpet and yell at your boyfriend, who you love more than anything in the world, you will realize you have a lot of unbridled rage and resentment at SOMETHING in your life. Al Anon was a place for me to talk about everything that ever happened to me as a child and an adult, with no judgement, and genuine support from all different ages and classes of people.
You've accepted that she won't change. That is amazing. That took me 26 years to figure out. You have a lot to be proud of from the very little you've shared. I don't have all the right answers, but it sounds like you're on the right track. Sending love and support.
bigfurrykitties · 6 points · Posted at 17:25:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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pikachuichoosesalad · 6 points · Posted at 18:03:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I'm sorry to hear that your family sucks. Hopefully you can get some counseling. I used to go through plots in my head bc I felt like they deserved punishment for the way they treated me, but I realize now that it's just easier to let it go and be at peace. They're not apart of my life anymore and I don't want them to have control over me, especially my mental health.
o-bento · 3 points · Posted at 17:30:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well I guess we have a lead on what influenced your father's suicide.
pikachuichoosesalad · 7 points · Posted at 18:04:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was bipolar, on the wrong meds. Antidepressants instead of mood stabilizers. But guess who refused to let me get him an EP?
McLovin804 · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am so sorry for your loss, but I am also glad that you are in a better place in life.
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 5 points · Posted at 17:38:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't know your mom, but she may have no gotten a headstone for your dad because then his death is real. My mom has my dad's ashes in an urn in a closet because she just can't. She can't deal with putting them in a final resting place. She flat out told me I was going to have to do it after she dies, because she doesn't have the emotional fortitude to do it herself.
Ivaras · 4 points · Posted at 21:17:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is also the school of thought that money spent on the dead is wasted money. OP knows her family best, but I just watched my extended family go through the most disgusting argument about my biological (gave my dad up for adoption) grandfather's funeral, memorial, and remains. Everyone was accusing each other of being cheap/selfish/dramatic/uncaring, and justifying their demands as "what he would have wanted." In the middle of all of this, I just flat out told my family that they're to dispose of my corpse in the most economical way available, and all I want is for them not to fight over shit I can't possibly care about, being dead and all.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The OP already said that his mom is a narcissistic, selfish drug addict. I highly doubt that's the reason.
pikachuichoosesalad · 1 points · Posted at 06:55:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, I get that. I think about many possibilities like that. Unfortunately it was not the case this time.
kittymctacoyo · 5 points · Posted at 19:01:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So sorry for your loss, and semi congrats on your freedom from her :(
pikachuichoosesalad · 2 points · Posted at 06:54:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you and everything is so much better now. No worries
Ginnut · 3 points · Posted at 18:06:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After my step father died my mam ended up with some asshole as a boyfriend. My mam changed totally.
I went down one afternoon to see if she wanted to go for a walk round where my step dad used to walk. She wasn't in and I realised my step dads ashes were gone.
I went for a walk myself and found a pile of ashes dumped on the wet grass along with some fresh flowers.
Got the story from her later, she'd taken her new boyfriend but not me or my sisters.
pikachuichoosesalad · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah, that hurts. I'm sorry to hear that. Are you doing ok now?
Ginnut · 1 points · Posted at 12:01:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, doing well. Don't speak to her anymore.
Hidden_Samsquanche · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Up until the end when more things came to light I was feeling sorry for the mother. It was very probable that she couldn't afford a headstone, the sudden death of a spouse, especially if they are the primary bread earner can really put you into one hell of a financial hole.
pikachuichoosesalad · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
LoneCookie · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair those things are expensive
pikachuichoosesalad · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it wasn't about that though. Insurance covered the costs.
eaterofworlds1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m so sorry for the loss of your dad and the flagrant disrespect your mom showed him, and you. Perhaps visit r/raisedbynarcissists for some support.
pikachuichoosesalad · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you and I did and it was very helpful to me at first til I got to a place where I could go to Al-Anon.
Owlettehoo · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm so sorry that happened to you, but I'm glad you're doing better. No one deserves that.
mrSFWdotcom · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
hey, my dad also took his own life, and I'm also estranged from my abusive mother. glad you're doing well!
pikachuichoosesalad · 2 points · Posted at 06:37:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry to hear that you are going through that. And so sorry for your loss. Have you checked out "Will I Ever be Good Enough?" by Karyl McBride? Also "No Time to Say Goodbye" by Carla Fine. Helped me get through both of those things. Also Al-Anon, if not meetings then "Courage to Change." Helps with the day to day.
Stay strong. There are lots of us out here who understand.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It might not be relevant in this situation, but graves need to settle before a headstone can be placed so that there will be minimal movement afterwards. For my Dad's it would have been around 18 months before it finished settling - hand dug and filled grave though, in heavy clay in an area where it rains a lot. In my area its common to have an "unveiling" a year or more after the death.
pikachuichoosesalad · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, I did talk to the director and he said they had to wait til Spring but it occurred in January, so it was only a few months. And still, if that was the case, she said it WAS there and I could go see, so there's not really an excuse for that.
Dragmire800 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, maybe she is resentful that your father killed himself? It’s a pretty selfish thing to do, leaving your family behind
Of course, it could be your Mum is just a bad person.
ThePolemicist · -21 points · Posted at 17:50:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You have every right to feel the way you do, but so does your mom. When someone kills themselves, it fucking sucks. Often, the people left behind don't want to revere the people who killed themselves. When my dad's grandfather killed himself (in his daughter's house!), they tore up all the pictures of him. There's no tombstone of him. In fact, his wife got married a month later to a guy she met at a bar to take his last name. They never lived together. She just wanted a different name.
So, you have every right to be hurting, but so does your mom. IMO, I'd feel the same way she does. I wouldn't want him to be remembered with a headstone. I'd want him forgotten. As his child, you have the right to buy a headstone and have it placed if you want. Different strokes for different folks.
OK, but one of your parents stayed with you, and the other chose to abandon you for the rest of his life. Careful which parent you choose to celebrate and which one you choose to turn your back on.
pikachuichoosesalad · 22 points · Posted at 18:09:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The last paragraph you said was gross. You don't know anything about my situation, and I suggest you read up on suicide and bipolar before you make hurtful statements like that.
The one who "stayed with us" onlybstayedbto use us and control us. Stole money from us, guilt tripped us, told me she was sad that I was ever born, didn't tell us how our dad died til the funeral, and gets paid from his pension every month for the rest of her life. She wanted someone to do everything for her and take care of her so she wouldn't have to work and she got it.
ThePolemicist · -2 points · Posted at 04:02:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're right. I only know what you shared.
You didn't share all that other information. You simply said you resented your mom for not buying a headstone, and now you disowned her. Not knowing the other information, that seemed harsh when this person is dealing with grief, anger, and loss, too.
As a person who has also had to deal with loss from suicide (including a father-in-law who has attempted suicide twice, most recently this spring) I feel like I know a lot about the emotions of the people who are left behind. I feel for you, but I also felt for your mother. Honestly, it has the be the worst feeling in the world to have a spouse who kills himself and leaves you to raise children. I couldn't fault her for lying to you about buying a headstone. Knowing the other stuff, yeah, she sounds like she's probably a shitty person. I'm sorry you had such shitty parents. Seriously. I hope things are going better for you now.
pikachuichoosesalad · 3 points · Posted at 06:44:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did say she was abusive. I didn't want a wall of text. I also have the feelings of those who have been left behind, and everyone experiences the loss in a different way. It's just insensitive and thoughtless to tell someone regardless of the situation that they have been abandoned by a loved one. I understand your thoughts, I just think you should be more careful about how you voice your opinions to people, especially if you're not informed. I'm not trying to be aggressive or angry, it's just some advice.
Edit: "No Time to Say Goodbye" by Carla Fine, helps give you a glimpse inside of what suicidal people are thinking, and the survivors themselves, if you're interested in different perspectives. It is a HARD read, but ultimately helped me.
fuck_off_ireland · 16 points · Posted at 21:00:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck yourself, dude. That's a fucking horrible thing to say and you're a cunt for saying it.
ThePolemicist · -6 points · Posted at 03:58:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Suicide is selfish. One of his parents chose to leave him permanently, and he's mad at his other parent for it.
I'm just saying, one parent is dealing with the emotions of having their spouse kill himself. She's left alone with children. She has to be hurting and also super angry about it. Now the children resent her for not wanting to buy him a tombstone. While they have the right to feel that way, how must it feel to her that the kids are acting like he's this great person and she's the scum of the earth when he was the one who left them?
34HoldOn · 5 points · Posted at 04:37:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The OP already indicated that this mom was an extremely selfish, horrible fucking person. Who the fuck are YOU to comment on a situation that you don't know anything about?
I think the OP is more inclined to explain how their mom felt than you fucking are.
Oh, and calling suicide selfish just makes you an ignorant shithead who knows nothing about mental illness or depression. Not surprising, given how you've acted thus far. And using your own experiences doesn't give you credence. Everyone knows someone close to them who committed suicide. Some of them put aside our pathetic need to demonize them for being "Selfish" long enough to fucking have some empathy. You oughta try it sometime.
swarf · 728 points · Posted at 17:10:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got pulled over by a cop and accused of going faster than I knew I was. I asked him to show me the radar gun. He walked to his car and came back with the gun to show me the speed. I asked why it had a negative symbol in front of it and he explained "positive means means coming toward me, negative means going away".
I quizzed him for a couple more minutes and eventually asked, are you sure you got me and not some far away object? And he replied "I had it trained right between your headlights". I asked him "how did you have it trained between my headlights if you caught me going AWAY from you?"
He didn't show up for the court date.
Llohr · 42 points · Posted at 04:39:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most of the time if you try to inject logic into a conversation with such a crooked authority figure, the just double-down and escalate the situation.
noisypeach · 7 points · Posted at 07:55:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, they feel they have to. Half the problem, to them, is that someone is questioning authority. Making sure the authority is accepted as correct is more important.
Asariel2011 · 44 points · Posted at 22:18:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God I love this
Korady · 15 points · Posted at 05:53:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a cop pull me over for a cell phone ticket early last year. I have bluetooth for my phone and a cell phone holder next to my steering wheel. Went in with my evidence, including pictures and receipts, saying it was possible he saw the phone in it’s holder and mistakenly thought I was holding it. Judge wouldn’t look at my evidence, laughed at me, said “some people don’t use that stuff”’and issued me a max fine. Fuck that judge.
ishnite · 31 points · Posted at 04:39:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a similar thing happen to me with a cop. He pulled me over saying I ran through a stop sign and almost hit his cop car. Going on about how many tickets and penalties and blah blah it was. Thing is, HE was the one that ran through a stop sign. It was a 4 way stop. I stopped first. The car to my left stopped 2nd. And as I went to go I saw the cop car pulled around the corner to turn in front of me without stopping at his stop sign. I SAW him not look and not stop. I was so furious that he was lying about it and that he would pull me over. I told him that I did not run the stop sign. He insisted that I did and and he went to go check his dash cam. Well, he came back and did me a “favor” and only gave me a ticket for not having updated proof of my insurance. And lectured me about how important stopping at stop signs is especially around there. There are children around. Im actually glad I didn’t have the updated proof of insurance (I had insurance just not the most recent paperwork) because it seemed like the guy was going to give me a ticket no matter what and I’m glad it was just for that.
Guess who went and got a dashcam of their own after that. Next time I’ll be able to post here about catching the lie!
VONZ87 · 16 points · Posted at 01:41:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He still ticketed you though?
swarf · 39 points · Posted at 01:58:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. He stumbled through some excuse of claiming that he meant tail lights. But, it was clear to both of us that he got caught.
misterZalli · 9 points · Posted at 01:30:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/bad_cop_no_donut
Counting_MEWs · 4 points · Posted at 05:54:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one time, I was reading an AskReddit forum about people who got caught in a lie. This person posted that a cop showed him his speed with a negative number in front of the speed and claimed it proved the cop was lying. Having used police radar guns for over 20 years (source: I'm a cop) I know that radar guns of any type measure the speed by calculating change in relative motion, regardless of direction. If a car is coming towards the radar unit, the radar gun(or Lidar, or whichever) sends a pulse of EM or light towards the target and receives a reflected pulse back. Several thousand pulses are sent each second and the radar gun measures the time each pulse takes to travel from the radar gun to the target and then back (Doppler effect). It then displays the relative change in motion in MPH. There is no (-) speed or symbol. This can even be used in a moving patrol car. The radar unit records the pulses it sends out and the reflections it receives from static objects to determine a cruiser's speed. When the officer triggers the radar to target a vehicle that is approaching or receding from his patrol car, it subtracts the target speed from the passively recorded patrol car speed.
swarf · 28 points · Posted at 15:43:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The fact that you just claimed to know something about all of the hundreds of brands of speed guns in the US just set you as the second lying cop in this story. But in case it's not obvious enough, I have more:
Lying cop is a liar.
flyingwolf · 6 points · Posted at 20:55:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fucking beautiful.
Counting_MEWs · -6 points · Posted at 00:22:19 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Congratulations swarf..you manage to Google the Doppler effect. Which pretty much states the exact thing I wrote.. and nice picture of a radar gun. That awesome "plus symbol" you claim shows a minus symbol? That is the "offset" or "forgiveness" amount an officer can enter before an audio alert is triggered. No two speedometers are exactly correct. Size of tires, wear of speedo cable, etc. So an officer can sit on the side of the road in a 50mph zone and enter an offset of 5 or 7 or 10 mph before the audio alert trips. The alert can also, if connected to a mdt or car recording system, automatically trigger a recording of the radar info and video to be used if the offender exercises his right to trial. Again, if the cruiser is equipped for that. So the officer actually is giving people a few miles an hour over the speed limit before they are alerted. Nice of them, eh? But the only information an officer gets when a radar gun is activated is the speed of the targeted vehicle and/or the speed of his cruiser and the target if it is a radar unit equipped with dual emitters. Most of us aren't drooling knuckle draggers. We can usually tell of something is coming towards us or going away.
So..still calling bullshit on your righteous indignation story.
swarf · 6 points · Posted at 20:57:41 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
sigh
You make it too easy to disprove your lies.
Here's another image of the same speed gun as before, this time with the + symbol showing along with speed. Clearly not a "forgiveness".
https://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2013/12/2014-chevrolet-corvette-hpe-600-radar-gun.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around%7C1000%3A667
And for bonus, here's the actual spec for that gun:
https://www.stalkerradar.com/pdf/006-0446-00%20Stalker%20lidar%20LR%20specifications%20Rev%20B.pdf
As you can see, the audio alert is a continuous variable tone, higher pitch for faster target, and the audio tone turns off when the beam is off target. See the "Target Speed Tone" and "Target Return Tone" sections.
That solidly tanks your claim that there is a buffer before "before an audio alert is triggered".
So you still don't believe me? Good news! I give absolutely zero fucks whether you believe the truth. I had a passenger with me who recounts the whole incident the same way. Your posts have been nothing but ad-hominem and lies. Good luck with that.
smokedmeatslut · 2 points · Posted at 06:53:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuckin lol
Lightstrider101 · 4 points · Posted at 09:14:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooft
swarf · 4 points · Posted at 15:44:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ooft nothing. This cop is lying too. Read my reply to him :)
Colin_XD · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a dumbass can someone explain this?
NeoMegaRyuMKII · 6 points · Posted at 05:48:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My guess is that it was a badly-calibrated radar gun and that cop had a quota for the number of tickets he had to write
swarf · 5 points · Posted at 15:50:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was also really near a freeway and the speed on the radar display was suspiciously close to a normal freeway speed (and above my speed by about 20mph). So I'm guessing he just tagged it on the freeway first then sat on a surface street and caught people coming around a corner. To be fair, people did tend to speed around that corner since it was downhill. But not anywhere close to freeway speeds. Also, I was in a sluggish old station wagon and couldn't have gotten up to freeway speeds by then even if I'd wanted to.
ungoogled · 113 points · Posted at 16:54:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My now ex husband was taking our six month old daughter to the library during the day while I worked for a little story time class. It was important to me for them to get out of the house and actually interact for at least a half hour a week with others. I had the suspicion he wasn’t doing much with her aside from feeding her and changing diapers while I was gone, and knowing that free program got them to do a little helped me feel better about returning to work. So, every Wednesday night, I’d come home and ask about how class went. He’d tell me it was fun, that things went well, what stories they read, etc... He didn’t know I’d suggested the class to a young mother in the neighborhood. One Wednesday near Halloween, we were walking the baby and the dog after I got home from work. He was telling me all about their day, and about how the librarian had read a cute ghost story, when this mom runs out of her house to thank me for telling her about the class and how much they loved it. Me: oh! Did you see these two there today?! Her: what? No. But I saw you walking and just wanted to say thanks! Me (talking to her, but staring at my husband): did you read Halloween stories? Her: oh, no...the librarian read stories about cows My ex: we went today! Are you sure you were at this library? Her: yeah My ex: huh, we must’ve been at different libraries. Her: ok, well...thanks again!
I called the library to ask which stories had been read under the guise of wanting to check them out. They were books about cows.
I was so upset...I found out he’d been lying to me for weeks. Only went to one class. It was satisfying to catch him, though. He was/is super into gaslighting and manipulation so to catch him flat out was beautiful.
ObviousLobster · 20 points · Posted at 21:54:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to go re-read the first bit of your story to make sure it said "ex-husband". Good for you! Gaslighting and persistent lying is a big deal.
beardlessw0nder · 784 points · Posted at 15:44:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Used to carpool with a friend. One morning I decided to just walk over to his house down the street as he was the driver that day. I called him to let him know I was waiting outside he answers and says right away. “I’m on my way just left my house”. I then proceed with “Oh. Ok well just so you know I’m standing by your car waiting for you”.
Doug_Dimmadab · 58 points · Posted at 22:10:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the most light hearted one I’ve seen in this thread
heliotropicthunder · 20 points · Posted at 23:57:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know, I've said similar white lies all the time.
BONESandTOMBSTONES · 26 points · Posted at 22:21:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know this is such a small lie but shit, it pisses me off. My mom would ALWAYS be late for everything and I had to listen to her tell all the lies in the world over the phone. The worst part is she would constantly ask me to call her job or the people she was meeting up with, and tell them a made up story why she was late. It never made sense to me why her fucking daughter, who was pretty young at the time, needed to do this for a grown ass woman. I was always sure by making me make those phone calls called out the bullshit even more.
heliotropicthunder · 12 points · Posted at 23:59:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sucks, "5 minutes late lies" are a lot worse than a pathological "5 minute late my world ended today lies"
anderdude · 25 points · Posted at 21:55:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did that turn out for him?
beardlessw0nder · 76 points · Posted at 21:56:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stammered. Lots of stammering. Laughed it off when he came outside though. Told him he needs to use his actual car to drive not the car bed.
PM_Me_Your_Grain · 3 points · Posted at 04:53:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This seems kinda harmless. I've said similar things before with keys in hand, turning off lights and grabbing my coffee, etc. Kinda funny that he completely ignored what you said when he picked up though.
PM_UR_NUDES_4_RATING · 4075 points · Posted at 12:54:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy in my circle of acquaintances was bragging to our mutual friend group that he'd dumped his girlfriend because she was such a bore, kept him at home all the time and kept him from enjoying himself.
I'd been talking to both of them during their break-up phase, and knew she was the one dumping him, because he was pretty irresponsible and didn't really pay attention to their relationship at all.
Edit: Since people were asking how I know the truth of the situation, I talked with him privately later and he admitted it, it was more of a "don't want to lose face" situation for him.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2247 points · Posted at 13:36:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my relationship right now. He keeps buying meth and selling my shit for money, leaving in the middle of the night and staying out. Says I'm boring.
I'm leaving him in a couple days.
Edit because you guys have lots of questions it seems.
We met through using heroin. We both got clean and because he was homeless at the time I let him stay in my condo, that I own. I told him he had to go to rehab because I wasn't okay with being around it anymore. We got jobs and started sleeping together and he told me he wanted to marry me(I didn't believe him for obvious reasons). Also, I didn't want to go to rehab myself (I didn't have insurance pr money at the time) so he would just give me some of his medications so I wouldn't have to use anymore either.
Well, his job is dishwashing at the restaurant I worked at(I quit when I decided I was going to leave him to look for a job elsewhere). He says he needs meth to get by. I knew it was an excuse, though. (And, yes, to the one guy that asked me if he shares it. I don't do it though I hate speed and I'm pretty sure meth isn't part of heroin recovery)
So... I have a plan to go out of town with my mom and I'm going to ask him to stay with a friend while I'm gone. I don't want him taking everything he can get his hands on so to him this is a "temporary" stay. I may wait outside with his shit when he gets home from work even.
I've saved up enough medication of his to last me the week and have signed up for rehab the day after I get back. I'm going to change the locks and the garage code. My brother has been helping me put new floors in my condo so he will be here when I send him off. My bf won't know that I won't be letting him back in though. My brother was the one who helped me come up with this plan and encouraged me to go to rehab.
So, because of my own addictions and the fact that my mom doesn't have a clue about my issues, she planned our trip for this coming Tuesday. She has to do payroll at work and find someone to take care of her dog. I just have to wait for now.
I also have two cats, no children, and I'm having my nephew stay here while I'm gone to watch them. I bought him bear mace and he has his conceal and carry license(and a gun). He has already been warned that my soon to be ex may try to break in while I'm gone.
Did I miss anything? Anymore advice guys?
Thank you all for your concern, I've never seen my inbox this full before. I feel like you all care and that's a really nice feeling.
CarLeasey · 1534 points · Posted at 14:23:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Make sure a friend or family member knows your plans. I don't know your situation at all, but it can't hurt to careful.
Hope it turns out well 👍🏻
MyersVandalay · 57 points · Posted at 17:16:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plus whether there's danger or not, it's always a good way to help you follow through. Brains can easilly lock into a "avoid conflict" kind of mode where we lose our nerve as soon as we see a not good for us SO that we should be getting away from. The fear of the embarasment of having to tell your friend/family member you chickened out, can help tip the scales toward following through.
CarLeasey · 12 points · Posted at 17:57:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so very true, good point.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 3 points · Posted at 23:32:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Idkheadscreepmeout · 3 points · Posted at 07:02:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really hope it all works out for you. Please update next week!!
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 07:54:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I will if you guys are interested! Should I edit here or make a new post?
OMothmanWhereArtThou · 791 points · Posted at 15:13:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If meth is considered exciting then I think I'd be okay with being boring.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 17:29:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Us boring people live longer.
NicoUK · 8 points · Posted at 21:01:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Live fast, die hard, leave a pretty corpse <--------- None of which applies to Meth
Erniecrack · 8 points · Posted at 21:22:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uhh I'd say the first two do?
mike5799 · 5 points · Posted at 22:04:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If meth is wrong then I don’t want to be wrong
aIaska_thunderfuck · 5 points · Posted at 18:49:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meh look at her post history. She posts in /r/opiates. She can’t be TOO boring if she’s using other drugs
MezzanineAlt · 5 points · Posted at 20:49:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some drugs are boring. Weed is super boring unless you're a participant. Meth is entertainment for the whole family.
__RelevantUsername__ · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once you get pretty deep in it its no longer very exciting pretty much same shit day in day out.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
PM_UR_NUDES_4_RATING · 155 points · Posted at 13:42:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Completely understandable circumstance to want to get out of. Hope it all works out okay.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
PM_UR_NUDES_4_RATING · 3 points · Posted at 02:32:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hearing about complicated situations like this playing out is always interesting to me, thank you very much for the extra details, and for letting me know you’d updated, I probably would’ve missed it otherwise.
Yet again I only wish you the very best, and hope this plan, and everything around it, works out okay.
dadiaar · 16 points · Posted at 16:17:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a couple of days? I'm not sure where is my line, but
buying methorselling my shitboth are far away from the border in the wrong side.credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
dadiaar · 2 points · Posted at 02:37:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, I realize I was too simplistic, and life is not a shiny straight line of virtue where anything to the right or left is wrong.
Hope you get better, keep us updated.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 3 points · Posted at 03:06:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I assume everyone I meet is fighting a battle I know nothing about. That's why I don't judge him and would even say I love him. Which makes this all the more difficult for me. I don't want to make anything harder for him but at some point, I'm enabling it and hurting myself. Maybe that point was a long time ago but I am where I am so all I can do is try to stop falling, catch myself and climb back out of this well or whatever cliche you want to imagine.
Thanks for your well wishes and I hope you have the strength to face the hardships in your life.
skittymcbatman · 60 points · Posted at 14:20:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good luck with getting out! Boring is better than being a meth addict <3
bonerjamz12345 · 9 points · Posted at 15:57:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that's methed up, good luck
MasterDoggo · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice one
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol
souplexity · 8 points · Posted at 16:30:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should probably leave him right now...
sSommy · 3 points · Posted at 20:07:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OP can't just up and leave in the middle of the night probably. Gotta have plans for where to go, who to get help from, moving their stuff, etc.
___Ambarussa___ · 2 points · Posted at 22:47:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OP probably has a job, bills, some shit leftover, maybe has kids. It’s not easy to up sticks and move.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
mihaus_ · 7 points · Posted at 16:36:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you're worried about your safety I believe you can ask the police to escort you when you're taking your stuff if you're moving out. I know that's a lot of assumptions but I also know what meth does to people!
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
mihaus_ · 2 points · Posted at 00:29:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks!
Edit: having read your edit, it looks like you've got it all worked out, so all I can say is best of luck to you!
Purpleheadest · 7 points · Posted at 16:24:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Run
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
poop_dawg · 6 points · Posted at 18:07:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated a drug addict once (didn't find out until later in the relationship) and he used to make fun of me for the good things in my life, like the fact that I was close with my Dad and grew up in a nice area, and generally made me feel insecure about the fact that I hadn't faced as much hardship as him. He used to tell me that if my life was a book it would be too boring for anyone to want to read. It's a really shitty thing to make someone insecure about, especially since I can say very confidently that my life has not been boring, I was just fortunate in certain regards to my upbringing. I really resent him for making me question things I should be grateful for.
___Ambarussa___ · 4 points · Posted at 22:51:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man that’s shitty. He must have had a horrible childhood.
I’m putting my all into making sure my kids have as “boring” an upbringing as you.
poop_dawg · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He did. Mine wasn't perfect either tbh, but to him it seemed like a fantasy. Thanks 😊
kittensms96 · 4 points · Posted at 16:24:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best of luck to you, good job getting out!
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Nemeris117 · 5 points · Posted at 16:54:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I play videogames and hang out with my dog. I like boring.
Old_and_Moist · 3 points · Posted at 18:34:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can I join you?
Nemeris117 · 8 points · Posted at 18:41:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uh
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Nemeris117 · 2 points · Posted at 23:59:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he really that dangerous? I know drugs make people crazy. It probably doesnt help that this will all be dumped on him but he most likely isnt gonna take a straight up break up very well either. Good luck and stay safe, hopefully he understands and finds help.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it will be a wake up call for him. And yeah, he is dangerous. He went to prison for 3? years for armed robbery. He's a big strong Romanian, his dad was a wrestler and his mom a gymnast. He's never been violent with me but drugs change people. I've seen it before. Which is why I'm out now. I don't want to get killed.
Nemeris117 · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats good, I see people I know who are just in a bad way because of drugs, some of them are on the streets and I know its gotta be difficult to give it up. Good luck to you friend.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 00:34:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. I hope you manage to make it through the struggles and hardships youre going through right now.
Fozzikins · 4 points · Posted at 17:22:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Leave him today
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:34:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
FeatheredSun · 6 points · Posted at 18:10:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do it clean. Leave a note or something to make it official, but aside from that, straight GHOST the motherfucker. No contact of any kind after the break - flat out disappear from his world in every way and treat his attempts to contact you as hostile. And he should be aware in no uncertain terms that you NEVER WANT TO SEE HIM AGAIN. Otherwise, believe me, you're looking at a world of lingering bullshit.
Good luck.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
enginkoc2k · 4 points · Posted at 16:57:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good luck, you can't find worse. It is a good move.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
enginkoc2k · 2 points · Posted at 00:00:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
thanks for letting me know, it seems to have started on a good base with you both leaving heroin, but he did the wrong thing and that's obvious you're leaving him now.
good luck, I wish you the best and that dude definitly is terrible.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He isn't a terrible person, he has a good heart but he is very troubled. He needs therapy but he hates to open up about things. Maybe this will be a wake up call and he will get his shit together. I wish him the best and I find that I honestly love him, but he is incapable of loving anyone else right now.
violue · 4 points · Posted at 17:37:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Does he at least share his meth?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
desirehf · 4 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'M divorcing my ex who did the same thing. You know he's fucking around with you while he's gone at night too right...
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly, women avoid him like the plague. He's not exactly prince charming. But yeah, he def would if he could.
ArmandoPayne · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yo just tell him you're going out for a pack of smokes and just leave his ass there.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
ArmandoPayne · 2 points · Posted at 10:05:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What type of cats are they? Also on a more serious note, good for you for going to rehab and wanting to get sober and stuff. Like if RDJ can kick the habit and live a happy life then so can you. Live the life you both want and can realistically achieve y'know?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 10:12:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a black fluffy 11 year old rasta lion and a grey and white spotted mutt of a jungle cow.
My bar is pretty low right now so happiness is just around the corner right?
ArmandoPayne · 2 points · Posted at 10:29:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you go by The Fixx's philosophy of their song 'Saved By Zero' then yeah. (Basically the song's saying how Zero is good because once you've reached the bottom you can only go up. You can't go negative, so whatever positives you garner from now on. (Looking after your cats, your family helping you out, going to rehab, kicking out your boyfriend, just improvements albeit minor or major) will greatly help you later on.
Just remember the old saying Rome wasn't built in a day. You won't be the best you can be tomorrow, nor will it be next week or next month but you'll be better and better's good enough for now.
a-r-c · 3 points · Posted at 17:33:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
holy shit how did it even get this far?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:35:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Thin-White-Duke · 3 points · Posted at 18:08:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar thing is happening with an acquaintance of mine. When they started their relationship, he'd only do coke occasionally at parties. It just sort of snowballed into an almost daily thing. He says she's boring. She tells him if he doesn't stop doing coke, she's leaving. The next day she comes over to his house to smoke and eat pizza. He walks in the living room, talking loudly on the phone, and says, "Hell, yeah! I'll come over tomorrow to pick up some blow."
RusstyDog · 3 points · Posted at 18:13:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
as the brother of a former meth addict. cut him out of your life as soon as possible. if you live together and he is the one leaving, change the locks. if you are leaving dont let him know where your new place is. and keep an eye out for any of his friends folliwing you. anyone who says im being harsh has never been pushed through a glass door for not remembering if the phone rang a few hours ago.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
RWDMARS · 3 points · Posted at 20:48:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How is dating a meth addict even in the realm of possibility?
MayoColouredBenz · 2 points · Posted at 23:18:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her world must be so different from yours or mine.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:38:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
RWDMARS · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good luck
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:34:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know other people have told you, but I want to reiterate: be careful leaving this person. When he finds out that his easy source of meth money is going away, he will not be happy. Protect yourself!
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:35:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:13:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 07:53:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is awesome advice. I'll be looking for a job and planning my future while I'm with my mom now. Thank you for this.
FourthDragon · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why in a couple days? Why not now?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Ninjaassassinguy · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why in a couple days? Why not now? Why not as soon as you found out?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Ninjaassassinguy · 3 points · Posted at 00:09:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm very glad you're taking steps to further your life. I wish you the best
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 00:22:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you, amd I wish you the best in your hardships as well.
Leaislala · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Omg, get out! Take care of yourself.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
ireadencyclopedias · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a couple of days?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Mad-Dog20-20 · 2 points · Posted at 19:55:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
why wait?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
MezzanineAlt · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
holy shit. good luck.
anguineus · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Please please please leave this relationship.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
anguineus · 3 points · Posted at 00:18:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m glad you have a plan. Improving your life is harder than coasting. Be strong, stick to your plan. You’ll thank yourself one day. ❤️
Bufferkiller · 2 points · Posted at 22:24:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a couple of days? Why haven’t you already left?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:38:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Bufferkiller · 3 points · Posted at 00:05:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Make sure that none of his things are there when he returns. If anything is there, he can claim he lives there and will need to be evicted. Depending on the state, I suppose. I had to help my best friend move all of her psycho exes things into a storage unit while he was in a psych ward, and then she put a restraining order on him. Make sure all evidence of him is gone, and good luck.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 00:21:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, I plan on giving him everything of his back. I don't want it. He can have all the shit he's been stealing from God knows where back too. I just want out. I don't think a restraining order will be necessary though.
Bufferkiller · 2 points · Posted at 00:24:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m not saying you keep anything, I’m saying if anything of his is still inside your home he can claim to be a tenant and force you to give him 30 days to vacate. Everything of his has to be removed from the property, not just boxed up and ready to go.
At least this is the case in GA.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 00:31:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I see, fair point. I'll check the laws where I am at to be sure. I plan to offer to help him drive his stuff over and be as adult as possible. I think that he hates cops enough he won't try to pull something over on me like that but I can't be sure. Thanks for the heads up.
Bufferkiller · 3 points · Posted at 00:52:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No worries. I hope it’s a clean break. During your research, look up local squatters rights.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 01:08:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hmm, okay. Ty
mellowhype702 · 2 points · Posted at 22:24:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mine does coke almost every night and gets shit faced drunk and goes to his friends house till 3 am while I take Care of our 5 month old infant and 5 year old son. And Has the nerve to say that I've gotten so boring and I don't like to have fun. Glad to know I'm not alone 😂
___Ambarussa___ · 2 points · Posted at 22:55:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s awful. I hope you have your escape planned and in the pipeline.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:39:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
Also, PM me if you'd like to talk. It's always easier to go through shitty shit with a friend.
puggatron · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah that sounds like a good idea. Good luck:)
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You've made an excellent plan and I wish you the best!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 08:46:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, I'm just a nothing to nobody. As a former needle junkie I just want to tell you that you are making the right move! The toxic people we have in our lives tend to pull us back into the cesspool we're trying to get out of. Also, if I may suggest, when you get out of rehab find something to do on a regular basis to attend to your recovery. I go to AA because that works for mr even though I'm a non believer. Maybe it works for you maybe it doesn't but it doesn't matter. Do something! AA, NA, HA, CA, Smart Recovery, Counseling, Yoga, church, whatever. They told me in detox that once a person becomes an addict their neural pathways are permanently altered. I don't know anything about neurophysiology, but I choose to believe them. It seems better to me that I would continue to address my recovery even though I don't have to than the consequences of not attending to the issue if they are right. Finally, if you slip (you don't have to but I did) just remember as long as you are alive you have a chance to move forward. It may not seem like it but you do. Most of he bridges I thought I burnt were repaired in time. You are worth it! I am proud of you! You can do it!
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 09:45:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It seems so scary to me but I feel like finding something to do to improve myself is the right path. I had previously tried to get YTT certified but fell short of the requirements. I hope I can get back into it when I get back. Thank you for this advice and for taking the time to encourage me. I hope that you've found peace with your demon finally. It gives me hope to hear your story. Thank you so much :-)
Dune17k · 2 points · Posted at 22:27:49 on July 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did it all work out? You ok?
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 00:51:33 on July 5, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it was a rollercoaster when I told him. He took off with $100 of mine, he owed me and got paid that night. I spent hours waiting for him and trying to get a hold of his mom to drop off his stuff. I finally coaxed him out of silence by saying I had the title to his bike, I was bluffing. Finally brought the money and took off with a birthday invitation (I scratched out all the info so he wouldn't harass them).
I went to pack at about 4am and right as I lied down around 6am, he came back knocking on my back door for his stuff. I asked if he wanted me to help take it to his moms and he said no. Then he kept saying I still had stuff of his in my place amd that my friend Matt was in the condo with me, he wasn't and he had everything. He rode off carrying everything on his bike after an hour and a half of keeping me from getting any sleep. I had to be up by 9am to leave for vacation with my mom.
I missed him so much while I was away. He started calling me and texting me on my last day and asked how vacation was. He told me he was really sorry and he missed me. He wanted to come home. He said he wasn't proud of the things he had said and done in the past. He seemed sincere and asked for another chance. I told him that I'm not in a place to be dating and that I can't take us seriously until he proves he can handle his own shit. He will be living at his moms for now and has been talking about getting his own place.
I'm proud of him for owning up to his mistakes and wanting to be better. I'm still not sure he doesn't want to do drugs. I asked him if it weren't for everyone getting mad at him, would he still do drugs and he said yes.
We both have some growing up to do and ourselves to work on. Although, he has been really sweet and showing up every morning since to see me and bring me gifts, make me breakfast, and tells me all kinds of sweet things.
I don't want him to feel like he can't have fun or live his life the way he wants, so we will see how long his efforts last. He knows where I stand.
Thank you for asking :-) Hope you're having a good day, and Happy 4th if you're in America!
Dune17k · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:26 on July 5, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy moly, that’s quite a story. I’m glad you stood strong and told him to get his life together. Even if it doesn’t work out you can hold onto the fact that you did everything the right way. I hope you continue to improve your life and the lives of those around you.
You sound like an awesome individual— keep looking for opportunities to better yourself and only good things will happen for you. All the best 🙂
credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 08:52:45 on July 5, 2018 · (Permalink)
I definitely didn't do everything the right way. I can tell he is a little resentful for springing it on him. I tried to talk about it to him and he got audibly upset. I'm not sure if I should take it as hostility or defensiveness. Either way, it made me sad he couldn't open up to me. That's probably my fault. I can make hurtful observations people aren't ready to hear.
At this point, I don't know how to treat the relationship. Sometimes I think he would be happier with someone else and he is only with me because it's the easier option (ya know, other than being homeless and not having his dick sucked). I would hate to waste the best years of my life only to end up with stretch marks, gray hair, a saggy ass and single in my 40's cuz the guy finally found the "one".
Sometimes I can tell he is happy with me and loves me. But its cloudy and not clear yet. I would hate for time to tell to late. I wish I could make a decision and be certain I will be happy with it. Because I was so sad without him but I can't help but feel like maybe I would be better off with someone more like me. Someone who doesn't say my sweaty hands are gross and that my cooking is good or at least not tell me I should change the way I look because I'm pale with gray eyes.
Sorry for the ramble. I'm still as lost as ever.
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credoquiaabsurdumest · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
nonsequitureditor · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope you’re ok!! sending my prayers
credoquiaabsurdumest · 2 points · Posted at 23:38:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ive edited my post with more info if you are still interested in my situation.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:13:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Purpleheadest · 14 points · Posted at 16:26:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Says a lot about a person when they're too much of a coward to break up with someone they no longer want to be in a relationship with and instead treat them poorly until they give up and leave.
thefamilyjules42 · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh, there is a possibility we know each other...
PM_UR_NUDES_4_RATING · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This story plays out pretty often, I'd wager. But it would be an interesting coincidence.
thefamilyjules42 · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
True true. I'm sure we just have similar stories. Thank you for being the good guy and listening to BOTH of your friends. :)
thejosephfiles · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really? Because isn't that just one person's word against the other?
PM_UR_NUDES_4_RATING · 7 points · Posted at 15:16:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I confronted him about it privately at one point, and he came clean. I'm pretty sure he's come clean to most people by now.
dyesauce · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good luck. Make sure you follow through
TomSankey · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn u r everywhere
macthecomedian · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was paying so little attention to their relationship that he didn’t even realize he was the one getting dumped.
outworlder · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did either of them PM’ed nudes for rating ?
PM_UR_NUDES_4_RATING · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
They did not, this was well before I started this account.
bonezillion · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's pretty much the reason I broke up with a dude last year, we ended up getting back together awhile afterward and it went downhill pretty quickly again for various reasons, including the original ones. I specifically remember breaking up with him because it was the first time that I have personally ever broken up with someone to their face.
A few months after we started dating again, I dumped him again because it was already rocky, he didn't care about me in the relationship which was making me irritable all the time and he had said to me that he had been emotionally cheating on me with his now girlfriend. So I dumped him right there.
Afterwards we became "friends" because we seemed to get along on that level but he kept throwing it in my face that I was so mean to him and that's why he lost interest in me. And after months of that, I ended the friendship but not before he said, "Well, I was being friends with you because I think you're a good person, but you're abusive. That's why I ended the relationship twice!"
UH, what?? I ended the relationship twice, I reminded him of that and he still kept saying to my face that he broke up with me twice and had been trying to get rid of me.
He was a total gas-lighter. His now girlfriend that he had been "emotionally cheating" on me with had the audacity to message me to tell me that he and her had been hooking up and did I have anything she should know about him. I already knew she'd talked shit to him about me before so I told her he was perfectly normal, heard from a friend that 2 months in now he's already being degrading and controlling towards her and she just takes it.
sandersm100 · 0 points · Posted at 17:21:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She dumped him for hopes of getting with you. You pay attention to their relationship better than he does probably.
WeebonizedAutism · -2 points · Posted at 19:13:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm currently trying to exhibit such behaviors so that my girlfriend will break up with me instead of me having to break up with her, it doesn't seem like this was the case though!
Zurkarak · 6315 points · Posted at 12:44:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother is in a stage where hes being super dirty and smelly and not taking showers.
This one time i bought him a deodorant. I started seing it in the same place for a couple days.. then weeks, IN THE SAME PLACE, not moving an inch.
So i opened it and placed a paper inside in a way that if you opened the thing it would fall. A month later one of those days when his smell was super gross i ask him if he has been using it and he says yeah of course. FUCKING LYING BASTARD i opened the thing and there it was the paper!!!!!
Edit: wow this blew up! A couple notes, when I say he sleeps I don’t mean a lot lot. It’s more like a 2 hour nap every couple days which doesn’t actually surprise me cause really, what did you guys did as 15 year old? He just browses internet and talks with his friends and plays video games
Besides that everybody outside the house, every teacher and person says he’s super cheery in the school and outside. He goes out and has friends and all that. It’s just that he didn’t use to shower that much because he didn’t needed it, but now with adolescence he does need it. He’s getting more used to doing that now as I haven’t smelled him in a week and before that in a month.
Anyway I asked him if he is feeling ok or if he is depressed and he says that no he’s okay and he just doesn’t smell himself and doesn’t realize when he smells bad so we have to remind him constantly. Also he has a couple favorite shirts and jackets so he wears them A LOT, so even when he showers and cleans himself his clothes still smell sometimes and he is too lazy to go out and pick his own clothes!!
arcant12 · 1109 points · Posted at 13:22:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he in middle school (about 12-13)? This is a relatively normal thing for middle school boys - at the old school I worked at, counselors had to have regular conversations with kids discussing that they stink and what they need to do.
If he’s older, it could be a significant sign of depression and you might want to try to get him to a doctor.
Zurkarak · 427 points · Posted at 13:29:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was when he started, hes around 15 or 16 now. We are just hoping its a phase...
baconbitarded · 722 points · Posted at 14:59:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's some high school social suicide right there holy heck
golden_n00b_1 · 209 points · Posted at 15:52:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ya, I spend some time in the Army and so can tell you no one cases about your small dick or anything else, as long as you don't stink. Get in the fucking shower man.
Bufferkiller · 15 points · Posted at 22:22:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stationed with a dude that always wreaked. He was sent to a doctor about it and turned out he had a medical issue and would leave two to three times a day to shower. Of all the stank soldiers I came across, he’s the only one I couldn’t be mad at. He tried. Took meds, injections, and constant showers to make us more comfortable. He was a skinny guy too. Can’t imagine being deployed with him not being able to bathe constantly.
katikaboom · 10 points · Posted at 23:55:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my brother in laws is like that. My SO and I noticed that he never, ever drinks water-it was always some sort of soda or sweet tea. He finally started drinking some water (not much, but better than nothing) and the smell got noticeably better. It makes me wonder how many stinky people smell like that because their poor bodies are screaming for just plain water.
Bufferkiller · 8 points · Posted at 00:12:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
While I can’t say this guy drank water when not around other soldiers, I do know he had to drink it in the motorpool. Had a high strung NCO that wouldn’t allow anything else. This was in 2004, so my memory may not be accurate, but I think it was something to do with a thyroid or lymph node or something that sounded enough like one of them to make me think of them. He got Botox injections in his armpits to cut back on the sweating, and I believe he said his risk of cancer was high because of it. Again, it was 14 years ago, so I could be off. I’m only positive that it was a medical condition that he had meds and Botox for. He was always sweating.
golden_n00b_1 · 2 points · Posted at 14:55:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is really a bad situation, at least he tried and I agree if people know you take care of yourself then there is nothing to be mad about. We had a guy who was embarrassed to shower when it was shower time, he was caught washing his balls in the mop closet. Dude took a ton of shit for that, eventually he realised no one was gonna be creeping on him in the shower bay and got right.
Bufferkiller · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a guy similar to that. He was super tall and showered when everyone else did, but always seemed to miss spots. Like having camo behind his ears long after we’d returned from the field. He was forced in the shower and a group of guys were sent in with him and toilet brushes to scrub him.
As fucked up as that is, the guys sent in with him feigned doing what they were told while he showered, and pointed out the spots he kept missing. I wasn’t in that group, but he went onto AIT with me and told me about it. I was glad to hear that. He went on to become a solid soldier.
golden_n00b_1 · 2 points · Posted at 01:43:39 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
O man, having a battle buddy help in the shower, not even once lol. Glad his crew was cool and didn't follow through. In our basic the hot water was off for the first 6 weeks, we did basic in February and it was so cold. The drill sergeants found out more than half way through and said we should have said something. We all figured it was so we couldn't spend more time than necessary to get clean. No one was gonna complain, and they found out after things get a bit more relaxed and they aren't as I. Your face.
spandexrecks · 35 points · Posted at 17:16:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's social suicide period. Nobody likes it when people smell offensively bad.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 19:23:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My poor roommate used to live with a slob. She didn't take care of herself or her place. Dirty clothes were everywhere even the kitchen. Wanna sit on the couch? Gotta shove crusty thongs out of the way first. She never bathed and in spite of all her clothes everywhere was ALWAYS naked when company wasn't there. He told me he could smell her vagina from across the room (doesn't help that she would sit spreading her legs) and the times I've been there when she lifted her arm a bit too high and smelt that grossness I believe him that it wasn't any better down there.
xAyura · 12 points · Posted at 19:46:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to vomit. How is she so gross and so public with it?
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 19:52:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She just was one of those people that her outsides matched the inside except to be honest she was worse inside surprisingly so as a result she didnt care about anything or anyone. Anything given to her would immediately be destroyed and if you did anything nice she bitched (after a rager at her place i woke up from rhe couch and cleaned her kitchen for her while she slept since we all had trashed it and she got mad that i didnt also put up her dishes, the ones in her dishwasher from her personal use not the party). Oooh the stories I could tell...
Edit: to elaborate on how gross she lived, ALL hard flooring was sticky. I agreed to house sit to watch their dogs and thought I would knock the cobwebs and clothes off of her old treadmill for a run but I didn't last more than 3 steps because even that was sticky. There were no safe places.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:17:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a disgusting piece of human trash
matrixreloaded · 12 points · Posted at 16:22:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't let him join the mathletes
JKMC4 · 5 points · Posted at 17:31:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my high school it seems like about half the people I walk by in the hallway don’t wash their clothes and bathe. It’s infuriating.
Jurjeneros · -70 points · Posted at 15:02:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Way to fucking overreact over a kid not showering and sleeping a bunch. Christ.
Edit: didnt read highschool social, just suicide woops
baconbitarded · 81 points · Posted at 15:04:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's not an overreaction, people will literally avoid you and your social life will tank.
Jurjeneros · 31 points · Posted at 15:47:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Didnt read what you said properly mb, thought you meant general suicide risk
baconbitarded · 15 points · Posted at 15:52:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh gosh nonono. I'd never suggest that. Just poor choice of words on my part.
[deleted] · -54 points · Posted at 15:12:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 15:28:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, you’d be surprised. Especially considering how venomous I have seen high schoolers treat each other at times, it would be way harder if you don’t at least have a couple of people you could count on in school
SouffleStevens · -24 points · Posted at 15:41:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's going to be rough but so what? Almost no one, not even people who don't go to college and don't move, stays friends with their high school friends except maybe one or two. A lot of people have bad high school experiences but you can start anew after it.
LadyMactire · 14 points · Posted at 17:37:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
High school is a time when you start learning to interact with others on a more adult level. If you are an outcast through that time you don't get that valuable practice. Not saying a kid can't recover from that, but certainly some don't.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 15:43:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn’t say anything about friend groups breaking up. What I said was that having at least a few close friends to rely on can make a shitty phase of life far more tolerable.
Doctah_Whoopass · 23 points · Posted at 15:41:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because it does? Its one of the perfect few times where you can actually develop proper skills instead of being an awkward hermit.
UnquestionableTurtle · 11 points · Posted at 17:08:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It absolutely matters for proper social development. Awkward, antisocial teens often end up considerably less successful than well adjusted teens.
Formlan · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
4 years is a long time to go with little to no friends or social interaction no matter the age.
MezzanineAlt · -4 points · Posted at 20:36:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you don't have friends in high school, by definition you can never have any lifelong friends.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:40:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you don’t have friends straight out the womb, by definition you can never have any lifelong friends.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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MezzanineAlt · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why you don't have friends.
SerRobertKarstark · 3 points · Posted at 16:44:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upvoted for edit. I misread it at first too and was like wtf, I doubt he'll kill himself just because he stinks.
TustinIsTheBest · 3 points · Posted at 21:24:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Alright Reddit, calm down with the downvotes. He misread the parent comment. Jeez.
Ainyan · 17 points · Posted at 16:59:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If he were still in middle school, I'd say it was normal (years of teaching and the stench can still overpower me) - but 15/16 is past the age where most kids usually start realizing how important hygiene is to being socially and sexually acceptable. I urge you to keep an eye on him - poor hygiene, poor sleep habits - does he hermit up? Is he obsessive about anything such as video games, a fandom, reading, cars, etc? I'd start being concerned about depression or other issues. Are you still in school? Can you bring it up with his school counselors if your parents are disinterested?
TheMobHasSpoken · 8 points · Posted at 16:11:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Usually, once they get interested in the idea of dating, that provides enough social pressure to convince them to start keeping up their hygiene.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 17:43:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Zurkarak · 5 points · Posted at 17:47:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think the same, parenting is a big deal and ideally both of them should work as a unit.
That being said, he is getting better. Since I have more time on my hands I’m constantly reminding him to shower and wear deodorant.
I haven’t had the need to tell him so in a week, and before that in a couple weeks
awesomest090_ · 2 points · Posted at 17:38:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a long phase man. I know a guy who is also like this and no one likes him, it's also cause he's a jerk but the smell doesn't help.
Zurkarak · 4 points · Posted at 17:45:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is, it started super light, in the sense that he was skipping a shower once every now and then.
That went for a year. Then he entered the phase where your body actually smells if you don’t take showers (that’s adolescence right?) and you actually have to wear deodorant. So at that point he started smelling bad maybe once a month. And then since last year maybe mid year he’s being smelling super bad like every 3 days.
Fortunately it’s getting better, haven’t smelled him in quite some time
awesomest090_ · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's good, you DON'T want to be the kid that smells bad in high school.
malavisch · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So it's been at least 2 years and you're still hoping it's a "phase"? Jeez, dude.
Mirashe · 3 points · Posted at 16:22:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a student that is smelly and around that age (a bit older actually). I've debated with myself a lot if I should say something to him? Like, he's probably not even aware. I see him for only 2 hours every week. But if I am to say something, what/how should I say it?
arcant12 · 5 points · Posted at 16:43:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you have a counselor that could handle the situation? They are generally trained with what to say, because sometimes it’s a puberty/laziness issue, other times it could be because water got turned off at the house or his family is homeless.
Mirashe · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well...no. it's a language school, so they are there for those two hours and that's it. I know he doesn't have a lot of money but he can't be completely poor because the shool is kind of expensive. Maybe I'll just let him figure it out by himself
femmeneckbeard · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just graduated high school this year and quite a few guys that sat around me smelled rank. A lot of teenage boys just have terrible hygiene.
scribble23 · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son is 12.5 and is definitely going through the stinky no showering phase! Drives me crazy. I feel really mean having to be very blunt and say 'Son, you stink' but subtle hints and asking nicely achieves nothing. Praying he grows out of it!
benevolentpotato · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember they gave us little deodorant sticks during the puberty talk. I, and I suspect many others, didn't really start using it until I experienced the horror of simultaneously realizing that girl is really pretty and my armpits smell like rotten cheese.
BatgirlPhoenix · 2 points · Posted at 19:45:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's also a pretty common behavior for autistic people. I certainly know I did it, and by god did my middle school years suffer for it.
VoliGunner · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know somebody who didn't get this talk until he was in high school. His mom never taught him proper hygiene so an adult had to talk to this poor teenage bastard about taking care of himself.
SirIsaacBrock · 4123 points · Posted at 13:12:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He could very well be lazy, but lack of self care is also a sign of depression. Just a heads up
Zurkarak · 1528 points · Posted at 13:15:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, he sleeps a lot too.
Our parents are definetly not good raising kids so he could very much be depressed, but i dont think so.
It could be, but i dont think so
SirIsaacBrock · 1044 points · Posted at 13:22:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know your brother better than I do! Also changes in sleep patterns can be one of the signs. Honestly depression been be hard to detect because the symptoms are so benign at first and when you think of illness you do the mental checklist for things like nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, etc... Not things like an inability to focus, weight loss or gain, that kind of thing.
Anyway, don't many to overstep my boundaries. If you are interested, here's a link with some info https://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/detecting-depression
Zurkarak · 194 points · Posted at 13:26:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dont worry! Youre not overstepping any boundry, i know oversleeping can be a sign of depression thats why i told you. I read a lot about depression some time ago as i was kinda suffering of it and thats why i can tell hes not, at least i hope.
Thanks for the concern anyway! But yeah of course I am on the lookout for any other signs
WarmBellyHeatPatch · 52 points · Posted at 16:09:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just so you know, depression can look different in different people! Mariah Carey recently revealed she has bipolar disorder, which means she has periods of depression and periods of mania. She suffered with it for years before she realized what it was because one of her biggest symptoms of mania was agitation, or irritability, and she didn't realize that is what mania can look like sometimes.
When I was depressed as a teenager it mostly came out as anger at a parent who I didn't get along with. I managed to keep good grades and have a good time with friends, but I was really dragged down by feeling upset and edgy when I was at home. I think I forced myself to try and have a good time when I wasn't home because I was so miserable when I was at home. When I look back at the friendships and relationships I had during that time, they were really superficial because I was carrying around this huge problem of my family relationships all the time, and I didn't have any energy to spare for these other relationships. I just sort of glided through them, happy I wasn't at home.
mariataytay · 12 points · Posted at 17:18:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought the same thing about my brother. Turns out he was. I have it so I know the signs but i couldn’t see it in him. Unless you’re medically trained don’t discount it or you may regret it
bonerjamz12345 · 122 points · Posted at 15:40:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
so lack of self care, sleeps a lot, and runs in the family, but you can tell he's not...you hope.
well then, that's all the proof i need
Zurkarak · -30 points · Posted at 15:42:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because he has a lot of friends and he’s always happy when he is with them, he goes out and does stuff and attends to school with good grades.
The problem is in the house, which I think is because we are all incompatible with each other
Shamus03 · 72 points · Posted at 16:40:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My best friend had all of that too. I knew him his entire life. All the major signs of depression but everyone (including me and his family) wrote it off because he “has a lot of friends and he’s always happy when he is with them,” etc.
Instead of trying to get him the help he needed, we all ignored the symptoms and assumed everything was fine. He hung himself just shy of his 18th birthday (late 2014).
Like someone said above, I don’t want to overstep my boundaries, but don’t write off the symptoms just because someone appears happy in other ways. It isn’t a constant sadness - you can still be mostly happy while dealing with severe depression.
NorthEasternGhost · 24 points · Posted at 16:07:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He could still have depression, even if that's true. Or another problem. You should try talking to him about it instead of assuming or waiting until there is a problem.
spinollama · 23 points · Posted at 16:44:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This described me as a teenager and I was clinically depressed for 10 years. Not saying your brother is/isn't depressed, but these things don't rule it out.
thechalkyman · 16 points · Posted at 16:17:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did and still do all these things. Ranged from severely depressed to mildly depressed and inbetween for 10 years. Go give your brother a hug.
lejefferson · 29 points · Posted at 16:43:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Newsflash. Having friends and being happy with them, going out and doing stuff, attending schol and having good grades do not preclude someone from having depression. In fact very often times people who have depression try to cope with their depression with social activities and try to hide their depression so people won't judge them and see how they feel inside.
I'm not saying your brother has depression but don't be so sure he doesn't have it either. Be sure to talk with him and really try to discover if he needs help rather than assuming he's fine.
Better to be safe than sorry.
nyxlynx · 27 points · Posted at 15:55:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can have all that and depression. I did too. The home situation was more than enough to break me after awhile. I couldn't keep up with life anymore after trying and doing well for so long. People were shocked, even my own brother, when it came out I was having harmful thoughts and severe depression because I just tried so hard to be normal and to be happy that they thought I was. Don't get me wrong, I was really happy around my friends and all that. But the home environment can really get to someone. Hope he is well though!
Edit: forgot a sentence
Zulrahslayer9000 · 26 points · Posted at 15:49:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds more like a teenager to be honest, how old is he if you dont mind me asking? It sounds more like he just got the the age of where showers become more important and he isn't self aware of his cleanliness
Zurkarak · 22 points · Posted at 15:50:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That what I think, he is 15
Zulrahslayer9000 · 25 points · Posted at 16:14:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just let him know if he is interested in girls (or guys) he might want to take care of his hygiene
lordofkonrad · 4 points · Posted at 19:39:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds just like me except I go to therapy for anxiety and depression. :/ Not saying that he has depression, just that you can't exclude the possibility due to him enjoying the company of his friends or has good grades.
bonerjamz12345 · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you should ambush him with a bucket of soapy water
Zurkarak · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahahaha as funny as that would be, that wouldn’t solve the problem I think. He has to remember to do so by his own every day
lejefferson · -6 points · Posted at 16:44:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a fantastic way to be a douche and get your brother to hate you. If he doesn't want to take a damn shower don't make him take a damn shower. How about we respect peoples bodily autonomy.
Duvetmole · 9 points · Posted at 16:46:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't disagree with you, but I think this person was joking.
bonerjamz12345 · 8 points · Posted at 17:13:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was joking you stinky baby.
However, while I was joking, we live in a "society" and as part of such, it's courtesy to not smell like a bag of shit.
umar4812 · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Gamers rise up
lejefferson · -1 points · Posted at 21:24:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"I was joking. Here's an explanation for why I wasn't joking."
You're fully within your rights not to stand next to a stinky person. That's your bodily autonomy. You're not within your rights to alter someone elses bodily autonomy or tell them how to live their life because you think they smell bad.
bonerjamz12345 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
here how's this:
"Take a fucking shower, asshole".
You seem really upset at my suggested 6th grade prank. I'm guessing you smell like shit.
darkdex52 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm super happy when I talk with my friends as well, and when I'm together with my wife, but I also want to kill myself and think about that a lot and nobody has any idea.
GigglesBlaze · 5 points · Posted at 16:03:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should talk with your brother about it. considering you have relevant experiences, whatever made you depressed could be having a long term effect on him.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:18:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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jessegammons · 4 points · Posted at 17:19:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Could also be schizophrenia with that logic. Or Alzheimers. Or quadruple amputation.
ireadencyclopedias · 3 points · Posted at 19:52:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kinda hard to take the cap off with no hands!
gvsulaker82 · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lack of hygiene and extra sleep can also be a sign of drug abuse.
nate800 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah well a self diangonsis and some googling makes you the expert so there we have it!
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 17:07:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Take my upvote just for saying he knows his brother better than you do. So tired of self-righteous people on the internet trying to tell everyone else about their own friends/family. The way you respectfully presented it as just a possibility was perfect
Some_Weeaboo · 14 points · Posted at 14:27:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shit other people might think I'm depressed
hornwalker · 6 points · Posted at 15:10:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some_Weeaboo you ok?
Some_Weeaboo · 2 points · Posted at 16:02:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I don't relate with depressed people when they describe how they feel, I do things with my friends because I enjoy it too.
Dat_Boi_Frog_Memer · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Either that or they think you are smelly
CriticalBreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck. I think I may have depression then. Changes in my sleep pattern and a bit of lack of self care.
deekaydubya · 6 points · Posted at 16:04:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you're probably okay if that's all that's going on
[deleted] · 195 points · Posted at 14:10:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Abshalom · 4 points · Posted at 18:42:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes it's just a sign of sleepiness.
Source: Just slept 12 hours, feeling great.
Addyzoth · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's also a sign of being a teenager so yaknow
PikpikTurnip · 36 points · Posted at 15:51:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depression is not all about being sad, nor is it always obvious. I'm starting to realize I've been depressed for a long, long time, and didn't even realize it, myself.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:15:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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maltastic · 6 points · Posted at 18:14:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not all depressed people stop bathing, and not all people with hypersomnia are depressed. If you’re worried about it, I’d def check with your doctor, though.
SouffleStevens · 28 points · Posted at 15:38:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sleeping a lot and not doing basic hygiene are tell-tale signs of depression.
AintThatWill · 14 points · Posted at 15:59:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sleeping a lot and letting self care go. 2 glaring red flags of depression.
Lazyandmotivated · 7 points · Posted at 15:57:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, guys don’t really have a dirty phase. It’s definitely something else, or the family Needs to reinforce proper hygiene habits so he isn’t called Stinky for the rest of he life and gets no girls
JimmyJrIRL · 4 points · Posted at 17:08:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You probably do t want to hear this but a kid at a church I use to go to hung himself when he was about 16. No one saw it coming he seemed pretty normal to most people. After the funeral and some time passed when talking to the family about his behavior before it happened it turns out he was showing almost the entire checklist for depression. The family just didn’t know.
fuckcloud · 4 points · Posted at 17:57:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You start off your comment with a big red flag (sleeping a lot) yet still dont think he's depressed?
Zurkarak · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly !
Alazypanda · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not saying he has this or that but sleeping a lot is a big sign of depression and I know if I get in a bad stretch of depression the first thing that goes is my self hygiene. I’ll go days, maybe a week or more without showering brushing my teeth ect.
floris5th · 3 points · Posted at 20:50:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lots of sleep (12-16 hrs) is a pretty big call of hey i hate my life
Zurkarak · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh noo he only takes 2 hour naps during the days every now and then!
Twirlingbarbie · 2 points · Posted at 16:54:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think your brother will hate you now if you tell him he smells awful but I think later he'll be grateful. I mean it should be your parents job to do that but since they don't do much about it. I had times where I wished my parents were a little more involved in things like that.
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Time for an intervention. Either depression nor just teenagery lack of hygiene. Intervene!
That being said, one of my 13YO Girl Scouts hasn't figured out she needs to wear deodorant yet, and it's going to be an awkward convo with her later this week.
tavy87 · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I slept a lot too and didn't care for personal hygiene when I was depressed. And being depressed made it easy not to care about getting undepressed.
a-r-c · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
sleeping alot is normal for teenagers
being smelly is...less normal
slowstick · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't want to try and convince you, just want to share my experience. I suffer from depression and it's actually incredible how the people close to me don't know. I just recently opened up to my girlfriend about it and she was surprised. We have been living together for a couple years and she knew that it was something in my past but didn't think it was prevalent in my life anymore. My parents and siblings have never known. Depression is called the invisible disease for a reason. Hope everything works out for you and yours.
Mandarinarosa · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You obviously know your brother well and hence think he isn't depressed but let me tell you that my parents, sister, relatives and friends didn't realize I had severe depression for 6 years, until I attempted suicide. And my case isn't unusual among people with depression. You should try talking to him to see why he's being like this, if he is indeed depressed, your support would be a big help.
Zurkarak · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just did!! Read the edit in the main comment if you’re interested
BurntRussian · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyone is reminding you about depression, but when I was that age I went to sleep at 5am and woke up around noon, then played video games all day (in the summer) so he could just be like I was. Wasn't depressed, just a teenage.
Zurkarak · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s pretty much him... Im not thaaaaat worried cause I was doing the same at that age for some time
trollboogies · 5 points · Posted at 16:42:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's 100% suffering from depression. Try to get your parents to take him to a therapist at the very least.
KFPanda · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sleeping a lot is another very common sign of depression, among several others.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/symptoms-causes/syc-20356007
PugWizardGaming · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ok, seriously, what kind of doctor do you talk to in that situation? i don't want to self diagnose but all of those apply to me on a regular basis. i have been putting off talking to someone, thinking it was just hormones (am 18), but i would like to figure out if it is something else
17648750 · 3 points · Posted at 19:32:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Psychiatrist. Or tell your regular doctor and they should refer you to a good psychiatrist.
lordofkonrad · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Definitely worth checking out with a psychiatrist, the earlier the better. If you are depressed, wielding the tools to deal with it will help you so much both now and in the future.
kercmerk · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're describing someone who sounds depressed. :/
rallfreedom · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also could be a sign of low testosterone, hormonal imbalances in a guy will make him lazy af
Lovat69 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sleeping a lot is also a sign of depression.
peterthefatman · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Denial is the first step to finding a solution
EzPzAf · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You: hey buddy, listen. I’m your older bro/sis, and as so I feel it’s my duty to take care of you. X, y, and z suggest to me that you may be depressed, are you feeling okay?
Him: yeah, I’m fine
You: THEN GET YOUR LAZY ASS IN THE SHOWER RIGHT NOW
iSeize · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't know how old he is but I probably had a phase like that. It's having too few responsibilities I think. Too much free time to sit in your room on the computer
avalanches · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You do know that sleeping a lot is also a sign of depression. Help your damn family.
dottiepalooza · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You say your parents were not good at raising kids, do you think he never got sat down and explained proper hygiene? Everybody had talk when they hit puberty that they have to make sure to shower on the regular and wear deodorant every day. I think that might get to be your job!
aranok · 123 points · Posted at 14:48:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Of course be careful, but I just want to chime in that if he's like 11-14 this might just be lazy boy behavior yknow?
Buffy_AnneSummers · 24 points · Posted at 16:07:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. Pubescent boys tend to be super nasty and sleep a lot. This also generally the age when depression first shows up. It can be hard to tell!
lejefferson · 8 points · Posted at 16:46:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah it MIGHT be but it also MIGHT NOT. It's better to be safe than sorry. If someone is exhibiting signs of depression it's better to talk to them and talk to a professional or seek a guidebook for how to parse out depression by taking to an individual rather than just assuming he's fine.
a-r-c · 6 points · Posted at 17:37:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree but we also shouldn't just assume someone is depressed either.
If he's leading a normal life otherwise (good grades, healthy social network, etc.) then he's just being a gross smelly teenage boy.
aranok · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, the reason I said this is that obviously it's A symptom but not THE symptom. I have depression, but I'm generally pretty clean with myself. Lazy though. Meanwhile my 13 year old brother hasn't been diagnosed (my parents checked when I was) but it's a mission getting him to clean
8337 · 24 points · Posted at 16:12:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly what I thought. Sleeping a lot, plus refusing to shower = typical 13 year-old boy.
In a year or so he’ll discover girls and his hygiene will improve. And he’ll start taking many, many long showers.
littleannieaddy · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If he's 15 I'm sure he's already discovered girls. Teenagers start to notice the opposite sex earlier than we like to think. I knew kids my age who were already having sex when I was 13.
TheMobHasSpoken · 3 points · Posted at 16:10:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was my first thought, too.
Gidanocitiahisyt · 9 points · Posted at 16:20:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you... As a young teenager I was extremely depressed and suicidal, didn't give a shit about my self, didn't take care of my hygiene, gained a bunch of weight, slept all day.
My family just kept talking shit about how lazy I was.
lemonfucker007 · 39 points · Posted at 14:58:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or he's in middle school? Not everything is related to mental illness.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:36:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's definitely this. Reddit is just being retarded about it
lejefferson · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or he's not. Better to be safe than sorry rather than just assume everything is fine and try to assure that he's not suffering from depression.
lemonfucker007 · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm just saying, I'm pretty sure everyone's little brother went through a phase in middle school where they just didn't shower. Mine did, my friends' brothers did. Chalking up normal, if not unfortunate human behaviors to some kind of disorder trivializes actual mental illness. Sure, there are different degrees of mental illness, but questioning all normal behaviors perpetuates the idea that something is wrong with you if you do things that aren't 100% healthy all the time.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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lemonfucker007 · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's the refusal to understand that your body has changed in the past year or so, and it requires different maintenance now. I never, ever brushed my hair as a kid and I hated showering. Showering every day seemed excessive. It's a teen thing.
StumpNuts · 8 points · Posted at 16:21:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks reddit. You solved depression.
Kheso · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We did it reddit!
weasel999 · 8 points · Posted at 13:26:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Came here to say the same. He might be in trouble.
bubblesthehorse · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was the same as a teen. Even if he is depressed, pushing him to shower will do him good.
Alchestbreach_ModAlt · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or hes a neckbeard. Lets hope the former over the latter.
Shittymemer · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're not like... the real Isaac Brock right?
twokidsinamansuit · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s also a sign of adolescence
psycho1social · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's just a sign of being a teenage boy
kDearest · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s true. When I have a really bad depressive episode, I don’t give a fuck about showering, brushing my hair or teeth. I just want to lay in bed and sleep and forget everything else.
RWDMARS · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s not an excuse to not use deodorant! For a month!
coaxialology · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. It most certainly is (although I can't speak for the brother of course). Insert deity here bless dry shampoo.
NotTheBelt · 119 points · Posted at 13:16:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“If by using it you mean staring at it with distaste, then yes, I’ve been ’using it’ every day.”
[deleted] · 228 points · Posted at 12:46:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Zurkarak · 143 points · Posted at 12:47:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Only god knows, i think he is too lazy.
We hope its just a phase
CakeAccomplice12 · 120 points · Posted at 13:09:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is when you come in with dual cannon febreeze every time you visit
johnqevil · 208 points · Posted at 13:31:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just Axe him in the face when you walk in the door.
athrowawayjackass · 163 points · Posted at 14:39:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
Skorne13 · 10 points · Posted at 15:05:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s a good one.
kirkbywool · 13 points · Posted at 15:41:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thought that was a bit harsh until I remembered that what we call lynx is Axe everywhere else
KATastrofie · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An axe to the face is only a tad bit harsh in England?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good idea Johnny, truly the shining example that needs to be set.
cynical-mage · 80 points · Posted at 14:01:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My oldest nephew is much the same, it's absolutely grim. He does occasionally wash, but no spray, and then puts his dirty clothes back on. He's been like it since he hit puberty, and he's now 20 :( it wasn't the way he was raised, as my mil, his nan, brought him and his siblings up, and she is very particular about home and self :(
internetdiscocat · 55 points · Posted at 15:15:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother does this. He says that he just doesn’t care about what he looks like and that he can’t smell himself, so why should anyone else care. He also has unruly mop hair and a neck beard that’s sort of attached to his little mustache.
My parents and I have been in a battle about this with him since he was about 14 and he’s 22 now.
He is also stubborn to a fault, so I think to a degree he’s not changing just to not change.
muskratboy · 16 points · Posted at 16:03:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Um, because we CAN smell you. That’s why anyone else cares. No one cares if you can smell you, but we do care that we can smell you.
I feel like maybe his logic is as questionable as his hygiene.
re_nonsequiturs · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is how I imagine inceltrolls living.
Not calling your brother an inceltroll, by the way.
shamanic_panic · 9 points · Posted at 17:11:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And in 5 years he will be on an incel forum raging about stacies and chads
internetdiscocat · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He’s such a sweet person. He teaches music lessons and is always really great to talk to when I’m feeling down about myself. Him evolving into a fullblown incel is one of my biggest nightmares, honestly.
shamanic_panic · 3 points · Posted at 21:19:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
it does sound like depression though or at least low self esteem. I was that person albeit I'd grown out of it by my 20s after meeting my now wife.
The whole "I don't give a shit and nobody can make me" is what my therapist called "pre-rejection". Essentially you put people off deliberately via aspects of yourself you aren't emotionally connected to in order to shield yourself from rejections over aspects of yourself you hold in high esteem.
If nobody gets to know the real you, they can't reject the real you.
ElChisme · 3 points · Posted at 16:48:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, don’t tell me he still lives at home.
internetdiscocat · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not anymore. He does have his own apartment, which he actually keeps clean despite how much effort he puts into himself.
ElChisme · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good on him for that. Hopefully, keeping his apartment clean is a sign that he is starting to understand the impact of cleanliness on his quality of life.
Doctah_Whoopass · 5 points · Posted at 15:45:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Say to him "Why are you such a weak pussy that you cant even take care of yourself?"
coscorrodrift · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
what? how do you even reach that point?
Zurkarak · 3 points · Posted at 14:18:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s a mix of raising and your own personality. But definetly not only raising
cynical-mage · 9 points · Posted at 14:33:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We are half way convinced about reincarnation, thanks to him. Definitely a touch of the sloth about him. He's also got a bad habit of lying. He says what he thinks you want to hear, e.g. he'll say he's employed, but he really isn't, because the shop he claims to work at has been boarded up for months. Just silly crap, like he's tidied, but hasn't. I love him dearly, but he has no get up and go :(
lejefferson · 5 points · Posted at 16:48:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like he has depression and he's trying to cover it up. Maybe try to have empathy and help him out rather than just dumping on him for not having the same energy that you do.
cynical-mage · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, he really doesn't, but I understand your concerns, given that lack of motivation, no longer caring about yourself, can be signs of depression. He's always been laid back, and has a cheery personality, just goes with the flow. I think some of it was picked up from his mother, before he moved in with his nan. She would sit on her backside, expecting everyone else to cook, clean, deal with the kids. If there wasn't anyone to take over, things simply didn't get done :(
credoquiaabsurdumest · 32 points · Posted at 13:30:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't shower when I'm depressed...
memeandencourage · 16 points · Posted at 13:34:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like his brother is hopefully not depressed, just a young teen who is figuring life out. I, too, have a hard time motivating myself to shower when I’m depressed.
lejefferson · 4 points · Posted at 16:49:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The reasoning she gives of why her brother isn't depressed is horrible. I'm not he is or isn't but it's pretty obvious he really isn't informed about it one way or the other.
avalanches · -1 points · Posted at 21:07:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wrong
Rusiano · 4 points · Posted at 23:18:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah same here :( I have stages of depression sometime where even getting out of bed is a chore...
credoquiaabsurdumest · 3 points · Posted at 23:55:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's hard and it sucks because not a lot of people understand. If you ever want to chat, about anything, PM me. Anytime.
iimorbiid · 2 points · Posted at 16:45:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a very common thing among people with asperbergers as well, there are many different spectrums of asperbergers (don't know all the terms in English) so it doesn't have to be very obvious but might also be something to keep in mind.
The reason I know is that my brother is on the mild side of this spectrum and what you are describing is exactly what made us figure out he had it.
I'm sure your brother is fine but it might be good to know.
Edit: I meant autism, apparently in my country the have somehow merged aspebergers and autism and it's now part of the same spectrum and one doesn't have specifically asperbergers instead they're just somewhere on the autism spectrum.. I'm not a doctor so I don't know shit about this and I also don't live or meet my brother that often to have enough information about all of this but I just know that poor hygiene is a common thing for people on the autism spectrum.
zbud · 1 points · Posted at 07:58:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pssst, Asperger or Asperger's.
iimorbiid · 1 points · Posted at 08:18:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh haha, thanks! That's how you spell it in my language so I got kinda confused! To lazy to edit my previous reply though..
zbud · 1 points · Posted at 09:18:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
TIL it's spelled differently in different languages. I'd figure it would just stay the same, regardless.
duckduckCROW · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:53 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
You were correct. The diagnosis is a person's name. It doesn't change like that in other languages that I know of.
dinh-nerys · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe he doesn't like that scent of deoderant? It could be as simple as that.
You could also get some industrial strength body wash (axe lol) and that'll help mask things a bit.
A_Philosophical_Cat · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or he can fucking bathe himself. I'd have been sleeping in the yard if my parents could smell me.
supershinythings · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother went through this phase. It lasted at least 15 years. Sometimes they need to be taken outside with soap, a hose, and a wire brush, then given The Business. If you can't shower at least once a week, you can't live here.
Super_Anxiety_Boy · -2 points · Posted at 17:34:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
20 people in this thread: "he might have depression"
You: "I'd rather call him lazy"
Zurkarak · 7 points · Posted at 17:35:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s interesting, how many of those actually know the person?
Super_Anxiety_Boy · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:47 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
How many people in the thread know blaming someone's issues on a character defect is more common than awareness of mental health issues?
letsridegethigh · -1 points · Posted at 20:56:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its obviously depression. Just so you know
agreeingstorm9 · 2 points · Posted at 13:39:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some kids go through a phase like that.
avalanches · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mental health issues.
BirchBlack · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depression
Tom_Bradys_Nutsack · 20 points · Posted at 13:23:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
deHODORant
Sounds fucking powerful
SirReginaldPennycorn · 11 points · Posted at 15:19:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hold the odor!
Zurkarak · 14 points · Posted at 13:27:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry dude! English is far from my first language, i couldnt figure out how to spell that word haha
Tom_Bradys_Nutsack · 13 points · Posted at 13:52:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah it’s cool man, was a game of thrones joke
Bombkirby · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Idc for that excuse since English speakers fuck up every word in the dictionary just as badly.
dinh-nerys · 5 points · Posted at 16:00:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree with what others have said about it possibly being depression.
On a lighter note, could you get him the spray deoderant or cologne? The spray bottles might appeal to him more? Although they don't save much time compared to the stick deoderant.
Maybe gentle discuss how girls (or guys...whichever gender he's into) won't find the BO attractive.
willhal54 · 4 points · Posted at 16:39:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was 99.99% sure that my at a camp last year didn’t brush his teeth for 28 days straight and lied when I got the RA to confront him about it. When we were unpacking to leave at the end, I watched him uncover a toothbrush that was buried under all his clothes THAT WAS STILL IN THE BOX!!
cnu18nigga · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should've written the date on the piece of paper...
FuzzyRabid · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother went through this phase as an early teen so I used to wake him up for school (he was notorious for sleeping through his alarm) with a super soaker filled with soapy water. Gotta love siblings!!
MonsantoGMOs · 4 points · Posted at 16:33:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I noticed my roommates bath towel in college never moved... for over a week. I had to report him to the RM and we all had a talk about mental health and personal care... scary times
torontodeveloper · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All it takes is one pretty girl telling you you smell and you learn real quick lol.
Zurkarak · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree with this!!
Tinfoilpain · 5 points · Posted at 14:28:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I really don't think he's lazy, he just don't have the motivation. And if there's no motivation to do even simple things that produce immediate results, very likely depression. Be kind, don't shout or tell him to get over it, so he can be honest with you.
Edit: To add a suggestion, maybe ask him why he's not showering or using deodorant in a calm curious tone. Don't try to shame him for it, let him answer first, so you can gauge the situation.
himishim · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the hell man? If I go out without deodorant for a day, I myself would notice how bad I smell in like 3 hours, never mind someone who just passes me and gets smacked with that stink.
Naisco · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I gave you an upvote. Not because of your story (although I think its funny) but because of beeing a good older brother/sister and buying him a deodorant. My little brother had the same stage and I only told him to use deo but he shouldn't dare to use mine. And the poor guy didnt even have money.
SentimentalTrooper · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
reminds me of death note where he puts that pencil lead in the door hinges
C0l0mbo · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother does the same thing with showers and brushing his teeth. Dude refuses and gets crazy mad if we try to tell him to
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If your brother is like 16-20 the lack of personal hygiene and messed up sleep could be early signs of schizophrenia and/or severe depression.
Zukotsu · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The technique with the paper...isn't that more or less the same one from Death Note that Light did to check if people entered his room before him? I remember I used it in middle school to check if someone was taking things from my locker after one of my school supplies disappeared. It makes you feel like a freaking genius.
PandaPlayTime · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My kids went though that stage, too. So stinky!
Ornathesword · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You need to drag him outside and hose him down.
ArkAngel8787 · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never understand why people do that, even when I was in middle school I always took regular showers and used deodorant.
joelthezombie15 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
+1 for depression.
I used to do this shit all the time when I was stupidly depressed. Even when people kept telling me I smelled like shit I just ignored it.
Eventually I just decided nothing was getting better with how things were going so I tried to change some stuff, first being showering every day. I fucking hated it at first but eventually started liking it. Another thing that helped was finding soaps and cologne that I really liked the smell of so I'd want to shower so I could smell nice.
Maybe take him out and get him a bottle of cologne he thinks smells really nice and maybe he might be more apt to shower regularly. Or he'll just drown himself in it thinking it will work like a shower. Who knows.
You could also offer to take him places he's really like to go on the condition he showers first. Might make him feel better.
Just don't try to put him down or make him feel shit about it. Small things matter a lot when you're depressed.
ugly_kids · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How old is your brother? If say if he's under 15 it's fine and he will grow out of it probably.
Zurkarak · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He is 15 and he’s getting better, it’s been like 2 weeks since the last time I smelled him and before that maybe like a month
Summeraude · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother has been exactly the same since about 14/15 years of age up until very recently at nearly 20, except he also used to go WEEKS without stepping foot inside a shower. My (now ex) boyfriend back when I was 15-18 was also the same, would happily go weeks without showering or washing his hair. Both smelled absolutely disgusting, of rotting BO, and neither cared. Both were also notably overweight with long-ish hair and a lot of body hair, making it even worse, and both would refuse deodorant.
Are there any theories or studies about why this sudden aversion to self-hygiene arises in teenage boys? It seems like it's way more common than I'd assumed.
mikethurston · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
not me but one of my friends knows someone like that, he stuck a rolling paper to the bottom of his bath, he went round 2 months later and the rolling skin was still stuck to the bottom lol. some people are gross.
TotallyNotAPlant · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I cannot express through words how relatable this is.
Punkskunk927 · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is he convincing himself it’s okay cuz he’s crust punk? My brother in law did that for a while.
Gunkspargle · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I misread this and thought you were saying your brother didn't move from the same place for weeks. I was assuming some kind of WoW addiction.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i did the same thing when i was 15
putting money on him having depression
weedandweed · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"used to"
Past tense.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:53:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
deodorant isn't woke. Seriously look up the toxic shit youre putting on your largest organ aka skin
magnificent_7samurai · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of Gabriel Inglesias and how he got his stepson to wear deodorant
ScousePenguin · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who goes through those stages?
That's gross as fuck.
alanmagid · -8 points · Posted at 14:49:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your brother is mentally ill unless he has been this way all his life. Prevail upon him to see the family doc if any.
Rendlesham_Sausage · -6 points · Posted at 13:52:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They should totally make this into a film.
VictorBlimpmuscle · 2563 points · Posted at 13:54:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Did you brush your teeth before getting into bed?”
“Yes, Dad.”
“Then why is your toothbrush still dry?”
“Duh...I-I-I...”
[mock imitating]”’Duh I-I-I didn’t brush my teeth Dad.’ Get back in there and brush your teeth.”
Kids think they’re slick, but they forget the little details to cover their tracks.
DundieAwardWinner525 · 1168 points · Posted at 15:10:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha! My daughter tried to pull that with her washcloth. She said she was ready to get out. I asked if she had washed her body. She said she did. I noticed her washcloth was dry and in the same spot.
Told her quit being a tiny little fibber. She asked how I knew. Told her I'm a mom and I just know these things. No need to help her figure out how to lie better lol
shesthatkindagirl · 255 points · Posted at 16:06:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Because I'm a Mom and I know everything! It's part of the magic." My kids think they're slick, too, but still believe in magic kisses and my omniscience xD
DundieAwardWinner525 · 62 points · Posted at 16:24:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mine is still pretty sure I have eyes in the back of my head and wonders why she doesn't have any there. I told her you don't get them until you become a mom!
happytrails1 · 11 points · Posted at 01:51:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was little I asked my if it was ok to say crap, was told no, it’s not a nice word. I then of course was saying “crapcrapcrapcrap” in my head and was then told “not even in your head” and I never up to that point felt so afraid.
kaelne · 63 points · Posted at 16:05:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right--next time the kid's just gonna wet his toothbrush. My cousin used to do this with showers. He'd wet his hair and play his gameboy for half an hour in the bathroom.
firefishyo · 37 points · Posted at 15:48:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents actually told me and I never got caught again
Ransidcheese · 33 points · Posted at 16:28:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good parents teach their children to lie for the greater good.
ErikWolfe · 9 points · Posted at 19:39:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The greater good
PalladiuM7 · 6 points · Posted at 22:49:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am the greatest good you're ever gonna get!
Eranaut · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The greater good
ActualWhiterabbit · 15 points · Posted at 16:32:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're strong. Me,
generous... me.
But I never taught you to lie.
That's why you're so bad at it.
honeybee923 · 14 points · Posted at 16:38:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I told my daughter a vein pops up on her forehead if she lies. She has nervous little mannerisms that give her away, so it hasn't failed yet.
Mynameisntsusan · 10 points · Posted at 22:54:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my son was about four I used to tell him a little red dot that "only moms could see" would show on his forehead when he lied. I realize I was lying to him but it was so damned cute to see him cover his forehead when he told me he had already brushed his teeth, picked up his toys, etc.
honeybee923 · 3 points · Posted at 23:31:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol, my daughter covered her head like that too. So cute and useful. Sometimes you need little white lies to make parenting easier
The_Ballyhoo · 13 points · Posted at 19:12:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tried to lie and tell my mum I had washed my face. She asked why the cloth was dry. My best under pressure response? I only used a tiny corner of it. That didn’t work. My sister’s response; she just used her hands.
No idea if my sister was also lying, but I learned two things that day; I am not good at lying under pressure and my sister is smarter than I am.
beermethestrength · 5 points · Posted at 18:39:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same with my 4-year-old and washing his hands. Whenever I check, he runs back in the bathroom to actually wash them.
AlwaysCorrects · 4 points · Posted at 19:41:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Teach them how to lie better for 2 reasons:
Up the stakes to becoming a better lie detector
Give your child the skills necessary to navigate a planet of other humans - the bluff, the straight face, the story teller, the adaptable.
xzElmozx · 3 points · Posted at 15:06:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea it's unfortunately but lying is essential to living nowadays. And not just lying, but covering them up well.
"Oh yea, I finished that report, I just forgot to leave it on your desk before I left. It'll be there first thing tomorrow, my mistake"
cue to midnight shot of doing the report at home in bed, morning shot of going to your office first to drop stuff off and "get the report", and hand it in
_procrastinatrix_ · 6 points · Posted at 22:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My daughter was about 3 when she told her first fib. It wasn't anything significant...I don't remember what it was. But, I knew she was being dishonest with me. I told her that when she fibbed, her ears turned red. For the following year, every time she went to tell a lie, she'd cover her ears with her hands. Shame on me for lying to her about the red ears, but I'll be damned if I didn't die laughing inside every time her hands went to her ears.
Leafblight · 5 points · Posted at 23:26:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom had a similar thing with me
I was quite the wild kid and would go places I shouldn't go alone, so she told me she had informants all over the village. I wasn't the brightest of kids and very talkative , so this basically became self-fulfilling, where I'd tell people I met in different places what my mom said and asked them if they were informants and they would always say yes, which always ended with me running back home
Levlove · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son is still convinced that moms grow eyes in the backs of their heads and I won’t correct him.
CapJohnYossarian · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:28 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have never used a washcloth in my life.
statuesofbees · 1222 points · Posted at 14:50:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
John this toothbrush is BONE DRY
WavvyJones · 525 points · Posted at 15:03:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If the court reporter reads back my remarks you will see that I did not perjure myself!
NoICantDiggIt · 23 points · Posted at 20:18:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
R/unexpectedmulaney
4354444 · 2 points · Posted at 05:48:23 on July 14, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the exact kinda comment I would expect from a future lawyer
Tinfoilpain · 11 points · Posted at 19:10:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TECHNICALLITIES
DarthMagnus88 · 76 points · Posted at 16:55:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
so we agree that this is your toothbrush
NickOfTime741 · 45 points · Posted at 17:13:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He looked at it said, "BONE DRY"
ajbolt7 · 10 points · Posted at 18:05:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every damn time man that exact wording giving me ptsd
BruceLee1255 · 46 points · Posted at 15:56:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/UnexpectedMulaney
USxMARINE · 33 points · Posted at 17:38:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty expected if you ask me.
Pronto295 · 9 points · Posted at 17:20:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
His new special is on Netflix now! Watched it last night, funny as all hell.
brh8451 · 1 points · Posted at 12:32:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedmulaney
lucy_inthessky · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
YOUR OUTSIDE BONES NEED TO BE CLEANED TOO.
crazykitty123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly what my grandmother said to my little brother when he insisted that he'd brushed his teeth. "That toothbrush is DRY AS A BONE! Get back in there!"
abcitsv · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love that I’m not the only one
pencilman_jefferies · -5 points · Posted at 15:59:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedmulaney
[deleted] · -12 points · Posted at 16:18:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
PalladiuM7 · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because this is the fifth time this has been posted.
TheRealDannyBoi · 28 points · Posted at 15:42:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tricked my parents into thinking I brushed my teeth by putting a tiny bit on the brush rinsing it off then scrubbing my teeth with a hand towel then flossing and throwing in a Listerine strip just so I could give a little smug "brushed my teeth see!" When I was younger I thought It was most genius trick but in the end my parents still won so they didn't bother
amidon1130 · 41 points · Posted at 16:06:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Imagine flossing so you don't have to brush your teeth smh
beetlejuuce · 9 points · Posted at 16:24:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was exactly me in childhood... I'd use one of those dental picks and mouthwash. Don't know why I resisted brushing my teeth or what I hoped to gain with this petty strategy lol
Drew-Pickles · 14 points · Posted at 16:24:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When we were younger, my brother used to hate brushing his teeth for some reason, and would avoid it as often as possible and lie about doing it. One night I walked into the bathroom to see him just standing there with his toothbrush on, doing nothing...
golden_n00b_1 · 13 points · Posted at 16:30:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My kids do this, I always tell them their mouth snells like they ate cat poop (we have dogs and a cat, so we know what it smells like).
.
Edit, almost forgot, I also tell them that the tooth fairy will punch them in the mouth of they don't brush.
PalladiuM7 · 3 points · Posted at 22:52:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That edit just made my day. I'm totally using that on my nephew.
ZB43 · 6 points · Posted at 16:12:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mother once shouted at me for this even though I did brush my teeth. I brushed them then went to say goodnight, and she asked me if I did. I said I had, but she just decided that I haven't. That's when I realised being right isn't as useful as speaking loud.
AlbinoMetroid · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom did this too, and said she felt the brush and it was dry. That was confusing to me because I really had brushed my teeth, but it was electric and I let it run for a little while after all done and cleaned so that it dries faster.
ZB43 · 1 points · Posted at 08:10:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
suck man. 7 years later and I still remember it
smithjake2 · 6 points · Posted at 16:31:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mum caught me out with this when I was a kid, so me being petty decided next time to rinse my brush, put toothpaste on it, stand there for 2 minutes then rinse it without actually brushing my teeth.
HIJKElemenohpee · 4 points · Posted at 16:33:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a daycare teacher, kids would lie about washing their hands/using soap.
"So if I smell your hands right now they'll smell like soap??"
cue dejected walk back into the bathroom to rewash
briar_angel · 5 points · Posted at 17:13:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My little brother figured out to wet his toothbrush so we had to start smelling his breath. With the amount of time he spent trying to fake brushing his teeth he could have just brushed his fucking teeth.
SteelAzul · 6 points · Posted at 18:10:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was so petty about this as a kid that I would stand in the bathroom,door closed, turning the water off and on every so often and wetting the brush for like 2 minutes instead of brushing my teeth even though brushing would’ve been less work
0berfeld · 5 points · Posted at 19:49:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"You know, I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it... to see if you actually brushed your teeth... or just ran your toothbrush under the faucet."
bitwaba · 3 points · Posted at 16:58:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You might not realize it, but you're training her to cover her tracks when she starts sneaking out at night in a decade.
Blame-iwnl- · 3 points · Posted at 17:04:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Alright, just not always! My dad tried to do this go me about brushing my teeth in the morning. But the thing is that I wake up at 6 and brush my teeth then. He gets out of the shower around 930 and then goes around checking stuff in the house. When he came back from work, he tried to confront me about it and I was really confused. I knew I had brushed my teeth, but my dad said that my toothbrush was dry! It was pretty frustrating
AshingiiAshuaa · 3 points · Posted at 17:49:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You killed the goose that laid the golden eggs to pay for that triumph. Now your kids will run their brushes under the faucet.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know I have a friend that works at the police crime lab. I could give him your toothbrush and he can analyze it to see if you've really brushed your teeth or if you've just ran it under the water.
wasntme666 · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's because of this I'm really good at covering my tracks and checking for indicator traps.
ramennumerals · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a little shit back in the day and would wet the toothbrush and the sink to get away with this stuff. Honestly it took about as much trouble as brushing my damn teeth in the first place.
Kurgan1536 · 2 points · Posted at 17:56:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me, is that you?
MyronBlayze · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck I was just thinking about this yesterday. I had some siblings/foster siblings who had FASD (mild to moderate at worst) who would constantly lie about brushing their teeth and that would ALWAYS get them! I'm not talking once or twice, I'm talking years of them lying and never figuring out that literally all they had to do was wet their toothbrush.
jsabs16 · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had this happen to me as a kid, never made that mistake again.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom forced me to take fish pills everyday but they were too big to swallow so I told her to put it in peanut butter, no way that was working. I would go wipe it off the spoon with my finger then wash my hands in the bathroom sink. One day, she noticed a small piece of peanut butter on the side of the sink. Needless to say I took them everyday in front of her.
ohsopoor · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Any chance you also once drive to McDonald’s with a van full of chanting children only to order one black coffee?
katmonday · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You shouldn't be telling them what little details gave them away though, they'll just get better at tricking you!
skeltalPorsche · 2 points · Posted at 21:29:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"John this toothbrush is bone dry."
YourFriendlySpidy · 2 points · Posted at 21:29:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was when my routine became put toothpaste on brush. Wet brush. Let brush run for a few minutes and then wash brush. Got caught because of my breath a few times.
I really hated the taste of toothpaste
metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it to see if you actually brushed your teeth or ran your toothbrush under the faucet."
myflurrygirl · 2 points · Posted at 22:11:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did the opposite for some reason when I was a kid. Thought it would be funny to brush my teeth and then dry my toothbrush on the hand towel the best I could. Because then I actually brushed my teeth, but mom would think I hadn't.
Got a spanking for lying about brushing my teeth when I hadn't since my brush was dry and had to brush them a second time...
FireBro27 · 2 points · Posted at 22:18:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always cover my tracks. I was supposed to walk my dog while my mom was out, my dog and I both took a nap. She left the leash on the floor as a little trap. I picked it up and even took a poop bag out of the connected container.
Meanwhile my twin sister repeats the post.
Jst_curious · 2 points · Posted at 23:00:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My brother when he was 7: just washed myself! Dad: okay, lift up your arms (Brother lifts up his arms) Dad: why are your armpits so dry? Brother: (runs up stairs and washes)
Dad would always check different spots and say how dry they were and my brother would run up stairs at lighting speed.
Fileobrother · 2 points · Posted at 23:24:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son would legit go into the bathroom, shut the door, wet his toothbrush, put a little bit of toothpaste on his teeth, and run the sink for like 2 minutes.
I caught him doing it once, and I laughed in his face and said, "How dumb is it that you're doing more work to fool me than you would if you'd just brush already?"
He's brushing his teeth better now.
BubbleGumLizard · 2 points · Posted at 23:32:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I lived with my dad and step-mom for a year when I was seventeen. I brushed my teeth every morning and night, but my step-mom still claimed I didn't brush them. She even said she felt my toothbrush and it was dry, but I definitely had brushed my teeth. It was really frustrating, because I had no way to defend myself against her saying "Your toothbrush isn't wet."
tasty_hotdog · 2 points · Posted at 00:40:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
And you just taught her how to fake that little detail. :-)
buck_foston · 2 points · Posted at 01:01:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents got sick satisfaction out of this too.
I hope I'm never satisfied catching my kid lying
TheTeraRaptor · 2 points · Posted at 01:03:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dad: Did you brush your teeth?
Me: No! Yes! ...I was dead at the time!
cuckingfomputer · 2 points · Posted at 01:54:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Parents think they slick, too. I remember after I brushed my teeth one night and my mom asked me that question. I went, grabbed my toothbrush, shoved it in her face and flicked the brushes. Her face was sprayed with water/saliva and I was yelled at.
YourMistersSister · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son never learns. Many, many times I've done the toothbrush check.
amorebizarrecandle · 2 points · Posted at 05:11:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
John, this toothbrush is bone dry.
Truunbean · 2 points · Posted at 09:38:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude I’m 24 and still get caught in this lie, I work with my Dad at a resultant we own and other then him I’m there more then even our actual employees, so one day I’m headed home and he tells me to take a shower when I get home right away since we have a plumber coming in the next day so the water will be off. I get home but I’m just to ducking tired plus I have to go to my other job in like an hour so I say fuck it, one day without a shower won’t hurt. Go take a nap then spend the rest of the night at my second job. Come home and the water is already off and drained for the plumber who will be there in a few hours, take another nap before leaving and get woken up by my Dad to start the next work day and I’m asked “You take a shower last night?” And I reply yes he just nods and then asks “Where did you put the bucket?” What I didn’t realize was the morning before my dad had woken up extra early to drain the water and try to seal the drain up with some flex tape and a liquid rubber sealant and had drained the water into a bucket in the tub. The dumbstruck look on my face was all he needed to know I had lied.
Laz0r_dick · 2 points · Posted at 10:41:04 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always learned from my mistakes.
MrRonny6 · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:20 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember my best buddy staying over when I when I was little and making me prepare for the "smell test". To test his brushing, his mother would apparently smell his breath, so he said we had to eat toothpaste. Tbh we could've just brushed our teeth, because that was absolutely disgusting
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:13 on July 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nam flashback. My step dad asked me when I was 9 if I had brushed my teeth, I said "of course pete." He asked if I was sure, I said yea, he started getting irate, asked again, I even got him to smell my breath. He marches me across the house to our bathroom and slides his dirty sausage finger over my toothbrush, "its dry" he said. He gave me a good ass whooping for lying, that for the first time in my life made me fight back, because I knew he was wrong. I clawed that fuck in the face, even gave his nuts a tug in an attempt to hit them.
Ever since I could wipe my own ass I've taken my toothbrush after using it and given it a couple good smacks against the rim of the sink to dry it off. Bone dry every time. After that I went back to keeping my toothbrush in my bedroom since my older brother and sister would stick my dummy toothbrush up the dogs ass for fun.
eboronka · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad used to smell my breath
Taramonia · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You don't tell them how you know though because then they just start running it under the water.
xx_uzername_xx · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahh you see, they will now trick you by running the tooth brush under the tap.
CrossBreedP · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao your dad is a fucking savage
PalladiuM7 · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: he is dad.
supereri · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Next time he/she will just run it under the water real quick. Can't give away you method of detection.
BeerBitchesAndBacon · -13 points · Posted at 18:33:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WHO THE FUCK GOES AND LOOKS AT/FEELS SOMEONES ELSES TOOTH BRUSH TO SEE IF THEY HAVE USED IT?!?!?! FUCKING PETTY AS FUCK
Even if you are checking on if your child did it, just tell them to show you how they brush their teeth and help the children do it right. Don't creep in after them and go all CSI!
Claystor · 9 points · Posted at 19:06:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you a parent?.. Cause it doesn't seem like it.
BeerBitchesAndBacon · -11 points · Posted at 19:50:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. Any other brain busters?
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 21:29:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This gave me about a good three-minute laughing fit. Thank you.
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rizzuto
BeerBitchesAndBacon · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha, ha, ha, ha, this guy gets it!
0ba78683-dbdd-4a31-a · 577 points · Posted at 15:33:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Them: I'm on my way.
Me: I'm talking to you on your landline.
Baxterftw · 163 points · Posted at 17:27:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Drug dealer: I'll be there in 5
2 hours later
"Yo I'm pulling up wya"
[deleted] · 70 points · Posted at 18:42:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old weed guy had really high quality stuff that was worth spending a little extra on, but he was so flaky and inconsiderate of time. I started going to his biggest competitor in town and have been copping from him ever since.
A girl I knew also used to cop from him. Why she stopped? One day she hit him up for an eighth. He says sure, I’ll be right there. He doesn’t show up. Two days later he texts her with “hey, do you still need that eighth?”
This is why nobody likes you anymore, Lonz
LeeChurch · 9 points · Posted at 21:21:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ikr. Lonz is such a knobhead.
Mackem101 · 5 points · Posted at 22:44:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Proper bellend.
LeeChurch · 4 points · Posted at 22:54:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Major cockwomble.
PalladiuM7 · 3 points · Posted at 23:44:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right dick gargler
LeeChurch · 2 points · Posted at 23:55:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Severe sausage gobbler
myflurrygirl · 8 points · Posted at 22:45:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once called a guy asking him to work a shift. He's like, "Oh I'm not at home and don't have my work clothes with me so I can't come in." so I responded, "I called your landline so I know you're at home. If you don't want to work that's fine, thanks anyway!"
[deleted] · 3403 points · Posted at 12:55:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex-girlfriend was blaming me for watching porn and she made me feel bad for a long time until I discovered she was watching hentai.
Rambo7112 · 1447 points · Posted at 15:00:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She's trying to make you into a man of culture. 2D>3D
Eternity_Incarnate · 173 points · Posted at 15:43:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jokes on you! I'm 1D.
Rambo7112 · 104 points · Posted at 15:54:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God damn you are a sexy
dotlineCmonster910 · 79 points · Posted at 16:41:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
1 dimension is one line
0 dimensions is a
dotnothingEither way they're hot as fuck
DarthMagnus88 · 44 points · Posted at 16:48:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
interdimensional porn, hot AF
bobbysq · 46 points · Posted at 17:08:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
when the line intersects the point oh man
metastasis_d · 5 points · Posted at 21:18:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You sick fuck
DarthMagnus88 · 5 points · Posted at 22:06:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
tired of all these fucking lines fucking all our dots-pornhub comment on interdimensional porn scene
Vict0rian_ · 13 points · Posted at 19:08:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I only get off to singularities.
LordBiscuits · 13 points · Posted at 19:51:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Getting sucked off by a black hole...
HNNNG
Eranaut · 4 points · Posted at 23:59:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You won't find a better s u c c in the whole universe than a black hole
0XiDE · 7 points · Posted at 22:49:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Singularititties
coolkid1717 · 13 points · Posted at 19:37:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Zero dimensions is less than a dot. It's nothing. You can't put a position on nothing.
But god damn is it fucking hot.
Nothing is hotter than nothing.
Cmonster910 · 6 points · Posted at 19:44:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You forgot to had "although nothing is still hot as fuck god damn"
coolkid1717 · 3 points · Posted at 20:22:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Better?
Cmonster910 · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Much
ScouserSwordfish · 13 points · Posted at 16:28:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like the band?
x3stealer112 · 11 points · Posted at 17:02:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No,the width.
Dagr0nScaler · 7 points · Posted at 18:38:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
1 D is all I can really handle at once anyway.
ArmandoPayne · 5 points · Posted at 17:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but which member of One Direction?
painfulbliss · 4 points · Posted at 18:46:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lik dis?
submortimer · 3 points · Posted at 20:46:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/surrealmemes is leaking.
Cub3nsis · 20 points · Posted at 15:14:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Feelsgoodman
EvilCheesecake · 3 points · Posted at 23:21:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just because you collect something in a jar, doesn't make it culture.
Rambo7112 · 2 points · Posted at 23:25:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What if it's a box or a coconut?
EvilCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're really committed to pretending to be clueless aren't you
Rambo7112 · 3 points · Posted at 23:44:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What if I told you that I legitimately am?
EvilCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd ask why you'd not choose to be better.
Rambo7112 · 1 points · Posted at 13:18:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
On a serious note, although I do watch a lot of anime (or at least a decent amount), my weeb friends consider me rather normie. I'm not as far gone as my comment suggests lol. Proof
EvilCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The risk of pretending to be something is that it involves acting just like someone who isn't pretending.
Rambo7112 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're very vague and criptic, you know that right?
EvilCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No I'm only pretending to be.
Rambo7112 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or are you?
94savage · 48 points · Posted at 15:51:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was trying to convert you
RasterTragedy · 34 points · Posted at 17:43:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What the shit is her thought process here?
IMCHAPIN · 12 points · Posted at 19:40:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I could see how someone would be mad at someone looking at porn as it could be seen as cheating seeing other women naked and getting fucked.
Hentai is animated, so it isn't lusting over a real person (like watching porn is), it's just watching something to satisfy an urge.
AustNerevar · 28 points · Posted at 20:54:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No...I couldn't even see the former. Porn is porn. Every adult relationship I've had with women have not had the porn issue, save for one but she was kind of sexist and controlling. That sort of thing is usually found in high school relationships.
Tuxieee · 6 points · Posted at 07:41:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup HS gf, who I strongly suspect was cheating on me, got super mad at me that I would watch porn. She was my first 'true love' and I stayed longer than I should have...
AustNerevar · 5 points · Posted at 14:06:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I had the same. Looking back that relationship was kind of abusive. She had me convinced that it was cheating and everytime I "failed her" I would feel so guilty and tell her. She would then spend hours demanding to know exactly what I had looked at in great detail while she was crying.
Fingfangfoom67 · 4 points · Posted at 21:40:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A well balanced diet of porn is part of a healthy lifestyle. Like if you are committed to someone over a long period of time and not sleeping around, porn is a good release.
yeahblowme · 12 points · Posted at 00:00:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated a girl in university who made me promise not to ever watch porn and when I made some joke about it once she realised I had so she took me to a local park where she wanted us to talk about it like it was some huge issue that needed to be confronted. I couldn't believe her and she couldn't understand why I thought she was being weird.
She had a ton of issues about sex.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 00:41:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She should see the percentage on the amount of men and women that are watching porn.
NicoEF · 19 points · Posted at 20:54:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, hentai is not porn, is art
idiot_speaking · 68 points · Posted at 14:25:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But see it's better since she isn't lusting after actual people. Now I personally don't believe in this, but if this was her reasoning I could see where she was coming from.
Anonymonynonymous · 64 points · Posted at 15:41:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
she's lusting after better-than-people
eetsumkaus · 19 points · Posted at 17:00:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
2D > 3D
TommyTwoTrees · 21 points · Posted at 15:02:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Relevant username
anethma · 6 points · Posted at 15:08:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No kidding.
Stephenrudolf · 0 points · Posted at 19:23:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I almost downvoted you for a second there.
mangoblur · 450 points · Posted at 13:08:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One girl I was with was always shy talking about porn. One day I asked to use her ipad, and she unlocked it and handed it to me and whaddyakno it was open to pornhub. I laughed and laughed as I tried to get her to watch something with me (she didn't want to, oddly enough)
babysalesman · 1079 points · Posted at 13:54:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think it's that odd to want to keep that private. For some people, watching porn is like taking a shit. Just because they're comfortable doing it alone doesn't mean they want to hold the hand of some dude jerkin' it while they pinch a loaf.
bg-j38 · 42 points · Posted at 15:23:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girls don't poop though.
Tuxieee · 3 points · Posted at 07:44:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Am girl, can confirm. We don't poop. That book was a lie.
vervurax · 7 points · Posted at 16:53:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some do.
draginator · 9 points · Posted at 16:46:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't deny that I take shits though
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 17:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people do.
evenman27 · 31 points · Posted at 14:00:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure that part was a joke
Dont_Be_Mad_Please · 102 points · Posted at 15:29:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was supposed to be a joke?
tmart42 · 14 points · Posted at 17:01:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh? What the hell are you talking about?
HotHamBetty · 533 points · Posted at 13:58:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, great, now she's even shyer probably after you laughed at her and tried to goad her into watching it with her.
Drew-Pickles · 153 points · Posted at 15:51:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right? What an asshole.
[deleted] · -32 points · Posted at 17:28:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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GoodCatWarriorName · 45 points · Posted at 17:35:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The comment said she was shy, it didn't say anything about making him feel bad. Maybe you're confusing it with the one above it?
HotHamBetty · 2 points · Posted at 20:00:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
His never said that, the comment he was replying to said HIS girlfriend was, but the one I replied to just said shy.
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wrong
Freeplantist · -34 points · Posted at 16:33:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or maybe she sees its not big deal. Like how if you get in trouble at work and everyone laughs it off
alayne_ · 27 points · Posted at 17:46:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, maybe if he hadn't actually made a big deal our of it.
HotHamBetty · 15 points · Posted at 19:57:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But what was the point of even laughing at her? God forbid she be modest in public but prefer some privacy on her own devices.
marteney1 · 14 points · Posted at 15:14:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got on my ex gf’s phone one day to google something, and pornhub was one of the suggested (frequently visited) sites that came up on the homepage. Never said anything about it, and I don’t think she realized it.
Blame-iwnl- · 12 points · Posted at 16:58:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It still amazes me that people don't know what incognito is...
BattleBoltZ · 33 points · Posted at 17:13:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people don’t care
Schuano · 5 points · Posted at 05:01:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's a gendered issue. Boys generally start jackin it earlier in life. This means...
Teenage boys learn about porn on the family computer and have embarrassing conversations and learn how to cover their tracks.
Girls start later when they aren't sharing devices so they never have to learn.
synfulyxinsane · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah, my fiance has no fucks to give. He refuses to use private browsing for porn. I only use private browsing though.
livgee1709 · 46 points · Posted at 16:01:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I suspect the responses you’re getting here are not what you expected. Learn from that and be a better boyfriend.
Lumb3rH4ck · -44 points · Posted at 16:14:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I suspect your wrong.
Chaost · 8 points · Posted at 18:56:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Irrelevant contrarian post with a typo. Are you trying to get downvotes?
Lumb3rH4ck · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Spotted the Typo, down voted myself
ilikeeatingbrains · 3 points · Posted at 19:14:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lumb is kill
ninjakitty7 · 2 points · Posted at 19:48:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
no
beardedkryptonite · 3 points · Posted at 19:24:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you can just delete the comment if you think its irrelevant to the discussion
Lumb3rH4ck · 6 points · Posted at 20:54:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I shall leave it as a warning to other idiots like myself
DarthMagnus88 · 5 points · Posted at 16:47:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you blew it, all you had to do was say want to finish watching it?(because c'mon whoever sees a whole porn flick through to the end).
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 15:44:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Scorponix · 59 points · Posted at 16:11:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this a new weeb thing? You can force people to watch cartoon sex but not curse?
Jaewok · 6 points · Posted at 22:22:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Look at this girl getting gang banged by tentacles you heckin jerk
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:12:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Kawaii_Neko_Girl · 6 points · Posted at 16:42:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You bastard. Never mention that number.
ImSabbo · 3 points · Posted at 16:56:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
...I know you picked that one on purpose, but you could have picked an actually decent one. :/
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:57:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ImSabbo · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hentai can be so, so much better than that one. In essentially every way. If you go to that one and click a tag which sounds nice (or even just click "English"), you'll find a very large selection.
Haulbee · 3 points · Posted at 17:28:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pfff, that story doesn't even have any of the good tags like "abortion", "penis birth" or "dicknipples".
ImSabbo · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly; it's horrible.
SmuglyGaming · -1 points · Posted at 17:22:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeb
ImSabbo · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Something like that.
Cmonster910 · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
imo hentai is more about the relationship than the actual secks
iTs sO muCH hOtTEr tHaT wAyh2ogie · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dare I even ask
metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 21:21:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Elliot?
LawroWoods · 3 points · Posted at 01:08:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Top 10 anime betrayals
jedipony1 · 2 points · Posted at 05:18:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She has good taste, but she's also a hypocrite
Zerotan · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don Jon is a great movie on this subject
S0LDIER-X · -5 points · Posted at 17:37:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She just wants you to be able to fill her love muffin with a gallon of your special cream filling.
[deleted] · 209 points · Posted at 15:41:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was the night time manager of a fast food place, and I religiously checked the time clock when I came in to make sure everyone was being paid to work (teenagers forget to clock in quite often!) and see who took breaks, etc.
I came in one day and noticed that someone was on the clock since 6am (it was around 4pm) but wasn't present. So I checked the printed schedule to see if there was any details to this. He was sent home sick at 620am, initialed by the manager I was relieving. Ok, no big deal. I clocked him out at 6:20am, and thought that was the end of it.
The "sick" employee came in at around 4:30pm to pick up his friend. Again, I didn't think a lot of it, but I did notice that he went into the back drive thru booth, which he had no business doing. I wasn't immediately able to address that fact, but when I took my dinner break around 7pm, I checked the time clock to make sure all was well with my employee's and their money. I noticed that he was clocked in from 4:30pm until I checked after being clocked out at 6:20am.
The first thing I did was print the screen, the second thing I did was clock him out, and third, I called the general manager. We had been looking for a reason to fire this guy for a while but the paper trail wasn't quite good enough yet. Until I religiously checked the time clock and saw him trying to steal time. Immediate dismissal.
Sure enough my GM and DM checked the cameras, he went back into the drive thru booth to "clock out" from his 6am shift. He tried to deny it, but my insane need to CYA when it came to the time clock, and the fact that all the registers were camera covered sealed his fate. He tried to say that I altered the time clock, but he forgot that we keep hand written notes on the schedule. The manager I relieved that day was always over detailed with her notes. Seeing him cry was so satisfying.
ObviousLobster · 20 points · Posted at 20:33:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean I don't know that kids situation, but probably better the shitbird learn his lesson as a teen rather than when the consequences could have been more severe had he tried that stunt later in life.
Mazon_Del · 205 points · Posted at 17:32:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my old bosses was a documented sexist (more on that later). My far more experienced female coworker and I worked together on something (more her than me) and she presented it to him. He basically worked himself up into a lather over how terrible and unsuitable it was. We spent like five minutes looking at it, decided that it was fine, so I went up and explained it (using the exact same words she said) and he sneered at her and said something like "See! Now THAT'S how this work is done!".
All our other coworkers were aware of what just happened.
When we decided to file a report on this and other similar behaviors, the lady at HR asked who it was and when we said his name she responded "Ah....yeah... he's known to be that way. Just ignore him, he's too valuable to fire.".
Lesson learned ladies (and guys, really just everyone), don't work for Raytheon.
pre-awesome · 24 points · Posted at 00:50:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
the same reason harvey weinstein was not fired - he made too much $ for company
g2hellboy · 14 points · Posted at 04:55:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was fucking Raytheon that let that happen?!
Mazon_Del · 14 points · Posted at 05:24:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that was not a particularly great 3 years of life. There's a fairly solid set of reasons 9/10 college newhires leave before their first year is complete.
CrypticalErmine · 7 points · Posted at 16:03:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you go into more detail? I have two friends at the company, and my SO is applying to work there, and I want to be able to tell them what to look out for.
Mazon_Del · 11 points · Posted at 18:20:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is the standard reasoning that companies want to get as much work for as little pay as possible, that is to be expected. Raytheon takes it to unholy levels at times.
As my mentors at the company explained, the company goes through ~13 year cycles where on one side they shower you with bonuses and on the other side they make you guilty for having the audacity to expect your paycheck.
Around 4 years ago is when the recent downward cycle started.
To explain some common things though.
If you are a female you will experience rampant sexism from events like I mentioned up to actually being patted on the head and talked to cutely for having the right answer. That friend from the story? She had two parents that were high up in the company, and for Raytheon nepotism is the law of the land. Even with that power and clout she left the company because the promised "good pay" never arrived, after ~8 years of being in the company, leaving to another post at another company netted something like a +30K increase in pay for an equivalent position.
You are salaried but treated as hourly. Example: If one week you clock 39.5 hours, you get bitched at to make up the half hour next week or your pay is docked. If you work 40.5 hours you get bitched at to remove the half hour in one of the legally acceptable ways (or pushed to commit outright timecard fraud if you can't...a felony on government contracts) and complained about for "Nickel and diming the company" and "Not being a team player".
And that brings up timecards and vacation days! At one point Raytheon had sick days and vacation days. Then they decided to be nice and just add the two together and have lots of vacation days...then some bean counter said "This is unacceptable! We are giving an extra week of vacation over what our competitors do!" so newhires lost the week...and didn't get sick days back. Also, you can carry over a maximum of 40 hours PTO to a new year and are NOT given cash equivalent pay for the lost hours (ex: 42 hours left would normally get you 2 hours of normal pay added to your next paycheck)...even if the company had forbidden you from taking PTO. Which is a thing they can do indefinitely. It's usually not a thing, but there are numerous stories of projects where "Christmas was cancelled" and no compensation was provided.
With timecards, I explained about the "Officially unofficial policy" of encouraging/enforcing timecard fraud... which again is a felony. How do I know? Because it is part of the yearly training that is MANDATORY...but unpaid. That's right, you have mandatory training in a salaried job that you are forbidden from charging company time to. How much? Depends on when, but as an example, their Raytheon Six Sigma training (not mandatory but you receive a black mark each year you don't do it, which is used against you for pay increases) has two four hour sessions during the week...for somewhere between 4-6 weeks. (I forget how long.) By the way...this is the Raytheon branded Six Sigma training, so you won't get the official Six Sigma certificate which is actually valuable for getting jobs elsewhere. Other training can include safety training. Officially each department budgets for ~2 hours of training per person PER YEAR...but they might not authorize it's use.
Education: Raytheon does have college/masters assistance programs which officially allow you to get any degree/masters that is even somewhat technology/engineering related. In actuality, rarely do they let you choose what you want and only allow what helps them. Example: A friend wanted a master's degree in some generic radio field. They forced him to get it in "Phased Array Radar Design"... which means he can only use it to get jobs with other defense contractors.
Pay raises: Now I don't know if this policy still exists, but when I was there it did. Your department is given X number of dollars to use for raises, of whatever money is NOT assigned as raises 50% is given as bonus checks to the managers. As you can guess the moment this policy went into effect, pay raises dropped to almost nothing (I had friends in accounting, they showed me the charts). Of the years I was there, I got a 5% (better than cost of living), ~2% (cost of living), and 0%. The last one was told to us in the following format during a meeting (and I wish I was joking) one day "Unfortunately, due to the hard times on the company, we all have to tighten our belts. So for all non-manager levels 3 and below (levels are 1-7ish) there will be no raises this year. However, you are all invited to the company party on Wednesday because we are celebrating how the company stock has never been healthier!".
Performance reviews: Officially there is a quota system. Only X number of "Far Exceeds Expectations Of Position" are given out, Y number of "Exceeds", Z number of "Meets" and so on. This means that the Far Exceeds rating is given as a prize (usually for people that go out to site locations) instead of for earning it, same with Exceeds. Official company policy is that if you spent ~30% of your year doing work 2+ levels above the expectations, you get Far, if 1 level above then you get exceed. Except...this isn't how it works. As a college newhire (E01) I was performing system level verification work with direct contact with The Customer...this work is E04 level at MINIMUM by company policy. And this wasn't 30% of my year. This was 100% of my job tasking. Due to the horse trading with the Exceeds levels, I never got more than a meets. My staff-manager (I forget the proper name, but you've got a task manager and a staff manager) was actually a good one and he'd let you know if anything was cropping up that would be used against you during raise-time, so I'm fairly sure that my performance had nothing to do with it (not to mention I was consistently a week ahead of my assigned schedule...). So, don't expect to be rewarded for going above and beyond. (It took one manager three months of meetings and phone calls to authorize a single $500 bonus for working 12 hour days 5 days a week for 6 months... without overtime.)
Random incident: During the blizzard in MA a few years ago where the governor shut the roads down, management had to have people leave early and gave them a charge number to let you fill out the time card for the missed hours. This was on Friday. On Monday the charge number was revoked and you were told to work extra or fill in PTO to cover the missed time.
I can go on and on, but I strongly stress, if your SO has any other options, choose them.
Edit: Oh! And I forgot. I once asked how to become a manager. I was told that unofficial required reading was a book on how to emotionally manipulate your employees emotions to get work out of them. A specific example in the early pages of the book was "You have a worker that normally works 10 hours every day. His SO wants him to back it down to 8. By the end of this book, you will be able to convince him that what he needs to do to make her happy with him is to work 12 hours."
Edit: Hey thanks for the gold! Never quite sure how to respond to it, hah. I hope I've given people fair warning about this company. To be honest, there ARE some points which are nice about the company (it is EXTREMELY stable of a job)...but you have to be willing to accept the things I've said which are real problems that the company has.
2defmouze · 368 points · Posted at 17:14:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy in a group chat was boasting about some hot girl sending him nude pics and he shared a couple to the group.
I recognized her right away as a regular re-post from /r/realgirls and the like.
I said "She's cute man. Looks really familiar. Hmmm...." And posted a link to her full gallery on imgur.
The whole group died laughing at him and he still hasn't lived it down.
ChiefCocoa · 74 points · Posted at 00:47:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sharing someone’s nudes is kinda fucked up even if its your close friends
[deleted] · 90 points · Posted at 01:39:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It isn't "kinda" fucked up. It's TOTALLY fucked up. No excuses
wisconsinwookie78 · 6 points · Posted at 07:22:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Might have been getting catfished.
elc0 · 97 points · Posted at 18:26:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Driving down the highway, about a mile from my exit, I notice a state police officer a couple hundred yards behind me, in the lane to my right. As I get closer to my exit, I signal and get over one lane (now in his lane), pause a moment, then into the newly formed exit lane. I watch the officer follow me off, and suspected something was up.
He flips on his light and I pull over. I roll my window down, and as he approaches my car I can see him already putting his hand on his gun. The tone in his voice is already quite aggressive given the situation. He ultimately writes me up for improper lane change and tinted windows. Apparently he thought I didn't notice his quite obvious state police car in my rearview in broad daylight, and just decided to get creative with reality. Of course I'm taking this one to court.
The court date arrives, I put on a button up and some slacks and head to court. I walk in, see the room filled, and notice he's not there. We all sit around for several minutes, our excitement growing by the minute as we may get off easy this day.
Suddenly I hear this melodic whistling come in from the doors behind me. I snap my head around, its him. The officer strutting through the court room doors in a dark plaid suit, rocking a fedora, snapping his fingers to his melody all the way to his seat. Yes, this really happened...
The judge comes in shortly after. We all rise, then take our seats, and what do you know... I'm first up. The judge lays out my offenses, asks how I plead, I say innocent. She asks the officer why he had stopped me. He outright lies, saying he was in an unmarked car that day and caught me driving recklessly. She then asks me to clarify how I was innocent. I explained, while I don't want to accuse anyone of lying, I clearly recall seeing him in a marked state cop car before even making my first lane change, and follow all laws while exiting the freeway.
She pauses for a minute and asks us how we could disagree on something that should be so obvious. She then pulls out the report from that day, and in the officers writing or logs, it explicitly stated he had taken a marked state cruiser that day. The judge then launches into some tirade directed at the officer over the next couple minutes as my shit eating grin slowly grows uncontrollably, and she immediately dismisses me. As I turn to exit I see that same shit eating grin on the rest of the defendants waiting their turn, doing my best not to mock the same strut the officer came in with on my way out the door.
Tldr; officer caught lying, put in check by judge in front of full court room.
CookieMEOW911 · 8 points · Posted at 02:42:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As someone who has to document everything, why the hell would you think you could get away with lying?
flyingwolf · 12 points · Posted at 21:13:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Police lie constantly.
Constantly.
I have cameras all over my house. I had a cop there searching for a missing person once, I explained that no one has been through here and he said he sat at the end of my driveway and watched them come through.
When I pointed out the 4 cameras that would have seen him coming down my 1/8th-mile driveway and the driveway alarm that would have notified me of him coming down he said he must have been mistaken about the house.
Cops lie constantly because no one ever calls them on their bullshit of fear of being straight up murdered.
CookieMEOW911 · 2 points · Posted at 08:54:47 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is why I wish I could record my entire life...
elc0 · 9 points · Posted at 03:53:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously. I wonder if this type of thing is tracked anywhere. This was probably around 2005, I wonder if dude is still on the force. This was pretty minor abuse of power, but who knows what of other crooked shit he's done since.
meandmyghost · 1109 points · Posted at 15:31:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I let my best friend stay with me when she was trying to divorce her extremely abusive, homicidal, psycho husband of 10 years. The husband threatened to hurt or kill me several times for helping her. I lived about 2 hours away from him and he lived in a very small town and had no car so I wasn't too worried that he could ever get to me. Anyway, I knew I had to help her get through this.
My friend was supposed to get a job and try to establish herself in my town. She was going to chip in for rent and buy her own groceries and stuff once she got on her feet.
Instead of looking for employment, she'd invite dudes over that she met at a bar while I was at work and caused a lot of trouble with my roommate and neighbors.
All the while, the divorce was going through so I tried to be supportive and thought maybe this was her way of coping with the end of her marriage. I paid for all the food, rent, etc. I went with her to the courthouse when she had to talk to the mediators, just in case psycho showed up (he didn't).
Eventually she said she met a guy named Greg that she really liked and said he was a nice guy who had a great job. I was happy for her and told her I'd love to meet Greg. She kind of blew this off for a month or so and would start going to Greg's house for a week at a time.
At first I didn't think too much of it but eventually I started pushing to meet Greg. This was my best friend, after all. She never felt weird about bringing randos to my house and screwing them, why wouldn't she want to bring Greg over to meet her best friend?
She told me that she didn't want me to meet Greg, like ever. She said we probably wouldn't get along because Greg likes guns and I'm anti gun. Greg is also a huge carnivore and I am a vegetarian. Oooook this makes no sense at all. This is where I start to get suspicious.
One day I come home from work and she's on my Xbox chatting with Greg. She had made her own account on there. I saw briefly, before she hung up in a rush, that his user name was Gregthepeg. She gushes about Greg for the rest of the night and by now I'm starting to put it together that Greg is actually her psycho husband that has threatened to kill me.
Later, I went into Xbox and found Gregthepeg. When I clicked on his username, it switched to her psycho husband's username. No idea how they did this. Busted. She had made up this crazy elaborate fake boyfriend for about 2 months. I was very confused and hurt but was also super worried about her because this guy was truly crazy. He'd pulled a gun on her in the past, beat her up, everything.
The next day I sat her down to tell her I knew what was up and I tried to be as understanding as possible. However, she flipped out on me and started packing her shit, saying I was controlling and a bad friend. What??
She left and went back to her husband. Blocked me on Facebook, etc, and never spoke to me again. That was 4 years ago. Never paid a dime in rent or bills, food, etc. She stayed with me for a total of 6 months.
I'm still friends with her brother, who told me recently that she did the same thing to another friend about 2 years later and went back to her husband again. She's been in the hospital a couple of times from being beat by him but she keeps going back and is still with him.
It's sad but I'm also so glad I got away from their crazy asses! After 15 years of friendship, she lied it all away.
TLDR: My best friend of 15 years leeched off me for 6 months and made up a fake boyfriend so I wouldn't know she was still talking to her psycho, estranged husband. /friendship
supreme_hammy · 93 points · Posted at 17:53:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stockholme Syndrome central over there. Be glad you don't talk to them anymore.
meandmyghost · 30 points · Posted at 20:29:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am definitely glad. It's just sad to think that she was such a big part of my life for so long and we were so close, yet she was able to manipulate me and then bail like that. I guess you never really know some people.
[deleted] · 51 points · Posted at 18:40:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ugh, thats so fucking hard. Im sorry you went through that.
But, you did the right things. Youre of course right to be upset. Shes in a horrible place, she needs help for sure, and im not gonna lie, folks like her will go back to their exes 7 times out of 10, but people like you make the world a better place worth living.
meandmyghost · 18 points · Posted at 20:31:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aw thank you! It's a fine line between being a helping friend and getting walked on.
DefinitelyPositive · 2 points · Posted at 01:31:18 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
You did all you could at that moment and more. No obligations now.
meandmyghost · 2 points · Posted at 11:44:05 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's true, no more obligation now. A weight has been lifted.
workingmansdead1 · 46 points · Posted at 17:51:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, hopefully she gets some kind of therapy soon...
meandmyghost · 14 points · Posted at 20:29:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sadly, I doubt she will get meaningful therapy.
lolkdrgmailcom · 15 points · Posted at 19:29:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had someone I thought was a friend just try to degrade me and accuse me of all these things I didn't even think about her.
I don't ever think it's right to have true arguments through text so I was just trying to set up a time to meet. Then that's when she just blasted me and said a lot of rude things without ever talking through it.
Took me awhile to realize, that I was putting a lot more into the connection than she was and the effort needs to be mutual for a true friendship. Was a realization that the odd anxiety of trying not to mess stuff up only happened around her because it was like walking on eggshells.
Amazing how we miss those things. Good life lesson though. Makes me stronger and more aware of what healthy boundaries are needed for myself in the future.
Edit: For a bit of clarification I had a very strong internal locus of control. So, in any factor of life I believed there was always something I should/could do to improve situations. Never tried to put blame or excuses on others. After the incident I think I have pushed more to an alternative extreme of just not being as driven anymore. Was very difficult to accept that hurt connections can be someone else's fault and that I shouldn't do anything after leaving the ball in their court.
Most importantly just knowing things can simply just be other people's fault. That still leaves a bad taste in my mouth lol(really fought against that concept). Doesn't make since to me why people can't just talk through thoughts and ask questions. (Then leave on good terms if still necessary)Just seems the respectful option. The world is confusing and weird haha.
itswhatsername · 18 points · Posted at 19:24:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The cycle of abuse is one hell of a drug. Very sad.
Trin20k · 6 points · Posted at 04:51:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My best friend did this to me too. She stayed with me for two years with her five kids while her abusive asshole of a husband was in jail. I did all of the parenting because she was too broken without husband. After he came out of jail he moved into a caravan on my property while they tried to sort things out as said he was doing parenting, relationship and anger management courses to sort himself out. After six months of him gradually becoming more controlling of her and ALL the children’s behaviour (including my own kids), I’d had enough and told him he needed to fuck off. He flipped out and insisted that her and the kids went with him. I told her she wouldn’t be safe with him because he was already getting violent with her again (and had often been before he went to jail), but she was too terrified & took the kids and went.
Next two months were a nightmare of her calling frantically begging for help and I’d go and rescue her or the kids, patch up her bruises, soothe the children, feed and clothe them...only for her to go right back. The police were no help, she was constantly bruised and beaten up (he flogged her with firewood on occasion, she was literally black and blue), the kids were traumatised...even FACS weren’t able to do anything. Eventually she hit her breaking point (or so I thought) and said she wanted to get away for good. As luck would have it, I had been offered a job in another town 1000km away in the meantime, and was leaving that night. I went and spent money I couldn’t afford to hire a mini bus, gathered her and all her kids into the bus at midnight, freaking out about whether he would turn up like he often did, and drove all night to get them all to safety. Got everyone new SIM cards for their phone so he wouldn’t have anyone’s contact numbers, swore everyone we knew back in our old town to secrecy.
The kids had a great time, they had just been through months of trauma and were finally safe and able to be just kids again. It lasted a couple of weeks...before her bruises had healed she called him. Took the money that I had been saving up from my new job for a rental bond for her own place and bought bus tickets with it and left with the kids while I was at work one day. Called me from the bus while I was at the shopping centre after work buying something for dinner and told me she was going back and giving him another chance.
So I told her I couldn’t do this anymore, I couldn’t condone the danger she was deliberately putting her children’s physical and mental health in, nor could I live wondering whether he would finally go too far one night and end up killing her instead of just hospitalising her. I told her that for mine and my own kids mental health I was going to have to cut our ties completely and have nothing more to do with her while she was still with him. I also told her that I loved her and the children and if she ever left him for good I would welcome her back with open arms but until then she didn’t exist to me anymore.
I’m still friends with her Mum and dad who are wonderful people and they keep me up to date with how the kids are. I miss her so much, and I hope with all my heart that she doesn’t end up dead at his hand but I’m afraid every day that it’s going to happen.
meandmyghost · 2 points · Posted at 13:03:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Geez those poor kiddos! I was always amazed at how the cops seemed to turn a blind eye with my friend too.
OscarRoro · 22 points · Posted at 18:26:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was satisfying in this discovery?
meandmyghost · 15 points · Posted at 20:26:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it was satisfying because I suspected that Greg was a fake person, but part of me still couldn't believe she'd make up a person and tell stories about them, etc. Seeing concrete proof that she'd been lying really made me know for sure that I wasn't crazy.
Allsmiteythen · 11 points · Posted at 19:15:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fucking Greg
ADrunkenChemist · 13 points · Posted at 19:07:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
stockholm syndrome takes serious professionals to address. You did what you could and good on you for it
houndsabout · 5 points · Posted at 20:11:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same happened to me... 20 year friendship down the drain due to lying and being a pathalogical liar....
nonsequitureditor · 3 points · Posted at 20:32:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel so bad for her :/ but honestly you did the best you could and sometimes you just have to let people fuck up their own lives
meandmyghost · 3 points · Posted at 20:34:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually still feel bad for her too, even though she did what she did. I don't think she'll ever be entirely done with him and I do believe that someday he could kill her. I'm hoping that he ends up in jail for a really long time before that happens. That's possibly the only way she'll ever get away.
nonsequitureditor · 3 points · Posted at 20:56:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
agreed. people never realize how hard it is to break the cycle of abuse.
MrStealYourCookies · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You never know people until shit hits the fan. This is something I live by.
Dune17k · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:55 on July 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
fuck that, glad you got the fuck away
BGYeti · -12 points · Posted at 19:07:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On the topic of calling bullshit lies I'll call yours there is no way to hide your username under a fake one on Xbox, either you made the whole story up for karma or you are embelishing your story
FlickRDSG · 11 points · Posted at 21:10:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Entirely possible they saw the real name and gamertag. You can set it up to do that.
meandmyghost · 10 points · Posted at 20:23:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well there was someway because when she was chatting with him it said Gregthepeg but when I clicked on it later, it showed her husband's name.
FlickRDSG · 13 points · Posted at 21:08:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Possibly showed his real name on his profile. My profile has my gamertag and I have it set so anyone can see my real name as well right below it.
t0rt01s3 · 5 points · Posted at 19:54:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They could be misremembering ya dingus. Quit taking Reddit so seriously.
Mishaygo · -11 points · Posted at 21:04:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Came here to make sure someone brought this up.
[deleted] · 15097 points · Posted at 14:57:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had a graphic designer apply for a post using my artwork in his portfolio. Asked him all about the work and the thinking behind the designs before I showed him the originals and the door.
Groenboys · 6485 points · Posted at 15:39:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Before I showed him the originals and the door"
lol
[deleted] · 1863 points · Posted at 16:45:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was a smooth ass transition
ctetc2007 · 306 points · Posted at 17:06:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smooth ass-transition?
Chrispayneable · 80 points · Posted at 17:14:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always a relevant comic.
whatisloveman · 21 points · Posted at 17:10:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smooth-ass transition
sudo999 · 29 points · Posted at 17:20:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
so like, a transition when your ass is smooth?
CreepyPhotographer · 9 points · Posted at 17:34:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was the guy a few days ago who was talking about natural ass lube
UltraChilly · 21 points · Posted at 17:37:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Natural as in coconut oil or natural as in naturally coming from his ass? The latter doesn't sound like something someone healthy should produce but I don't know enough about ass to dispute it.
FracturedEel · 3 points · Posted at 18:39:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me neither, but I can't help but be intrigued.
whatisloveman · 9 points · Posted at 17:33:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, you transition from hard-ass to smooth-ass
greenscout33 · 4 points · Posted at 18:16:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Its called Zeugma! My favourite linguistic device!
redditsoaddicting · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
With a word like zeugma in a thread about lying, I have to admit I totally trusted you weren't making it up.
whatisloveman · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Zuegma, maybe it's like smegma
Futhermucker · 3 points · Posted at 17:57:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
hilarious
TypingAndMouseClicks · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No. smooth ass transition
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scott610 · 16 points · Posted at 17:07:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder if the door had smooth lines and a simple yet thought provoking design. Did it speak to him on a personal level?
W1D0WM4K3R · 7 points · Posted at 17:18:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah. It said "Oh shit"
melkiaur · 18 points · Posted at 17:31:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, that was a zeugma. Or a syllepsis.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:38:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes! Finally someone acknowledges this figure of speech! And it's also such a fun word to say!
Zeugma!
G0ldunDrak0n · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well from now on, it shall also be known as smooth-ass transition (from the Ancient Greek σμοοθ-ασς τρανσιτιον, lit. "what the reddit-guy said").
dyslexiccoder · 31 points · Posted at 17:06:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You need to pick a place to put your hyphen.
Spokenbird · 35 points · Posted at 17:12:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/37/
masterwit · 8 points · Posted at 17:11:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was a smooth-ass-transition
sbcloatitr · 4 points · Posted at 17:45:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was a smooth transition-ass
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
my bad, internet. *smooth-ass
DionysusMan · 2 points · Posted at 17:42:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ll show you a smooth ass transition. 😉
lfantine · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was art.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sass
ItalianDragon · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Oh you have plenty of nice artwork in there. If you look behind you on the wall you'll find the originals hanging on the wall and the door, which you can take to get the hell out of here".
pandulfi · 14 points · Posted at 17:28:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sick zeugma
[1] bro.[1]
Zeugma and syllepsis
friedpotatoshavings · 10 points · Posted at 17:55:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
that's called zeugma!
GodleyX · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The comment was deleted... What did they say?
Groenboys · 4 points · Posted at 19:36:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He said something along the lines of ''Somebody used my artwork as their resumé and when they showed his resumé I showed him the originals and the door''
whiplash588 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What did it say that made the mods remove it?
Groenboys · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have no fucking clue
Azuranski · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Oh yeah I designed this door as well. So, am I hired?"
shadowthunder · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is called a "syllepsis", and it's one of my favorite literary techniques.
SpankTheDevil · 1228 points · Posted at 17:04:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hot damn. I got some secondhand satisfaction just from reading this.
Edit: I have no idea why OP deleted his post but I’ll do my best!
OP said something along the lines of he once interviewed a guy who was applying for a computer design position with artwork in his portfolio that OP himself did. OP asked how he came up with the ideas and what inspired him and such. Then OP showed him the originals right before he showed him the door.
sowydso · 72 points · Posted at 17:48:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We call this where I live "cumming with someone else's dick"
SpankTheDevil · 80 points · Posted at 18:09:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I...I think you should move.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:42:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think I should move to wherever that is
sowydso · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me too
TrailerHouse · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds unsatisfactory.
RoelOrSomething · 2 points · Posted at 19:16:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Second hand cumming
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 21:26:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It got removed so I'm gonna guess OP was a spam bot and that's not actually his story
SpankTheDevil · 4 points · Posted at 21:35:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah that makes sense. Twas a good read anyway. 😕
Robin_Hood_Jr · 42 points · Posted at 17:22:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a name for that, it’s called schadenfreude
Kaplaw · 19 points · Posted at 17:24:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dreidenfreud*
zamwut · 13 points · Posted at 17:27:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Threedenfreud?
Uzalapa · 7 points · Posted at 17:25:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What?
GolfBaller17 · 41 points · Posted at 17:34:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Schadenfreude is finding pleasure in another person's suffering. Dreidenfreud is finding pleasure in someone else's success.
Uzalapa · 12 points · Posted at 17:38:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you for the explanation. I knew about Schadenfreude but I never heard the term Dreidenfreud so I was confused.
TheEngraver · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you making shit up or is my Google search filtered? I got literally no results for dreidenfreud.
Forever_Awkward · 4 points · Posted at 18:20:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually, it's pronounced "skoodin froody"
Coming2amiddle · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That hoopy frood sure knows where his towel is!
Seakawn · 5 points · Posted at 18:29:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man, go to /r/maliciouscompliance and thank me later.
Flamezz13 · 4 points · Posted at 19:43:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maaan why was this deleted...
SpankTheDevil · 3 points · Posted at 20:21:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tried my best to retell it in my edited comment. 😬
ikcaj · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And I thank you for it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My favorite kind of satisfaction
Closer-To-The-Sun · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Anyone else got a justice boner?
lana_del_rey_lover · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dammit, can u give us a summary? It was removed & I love reading justice stories :(
SpankTheDevil · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Edited comment!
lana_del_rey_lover · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah thank you!! I wonder why that was removed? Lol man that must've been so satisfying
christoskal · 4 points · Posted at 21:12:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Comments on AskReddit are regularly removed when they are copied from previous successful threads only to farm karma so that the account can be sold to companies or political parties while appearing like a regular reddit user with a regular posting history.
e67 · 676 points · Posted at 17:08:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And how did he react?! You have to tell us, that's the best part
TIMPA9678 · 207 points · Posted at 18:30:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You won't get a response. It's a bot.
Edit: The deleted post was made /u/CasimiraAponte if you are interested in examining the account yourself.
[deleted] · 258 points · Posted at 18:40:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
[removed]
NukeML · 120 points · Posted at 18:43:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I'm scared. What about OP?? is OP a bot too?!?!?
irritabletom · 73 points · Posted at 18:46:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Am...am I a bot?
NukeML · 48 points · Posted at 18:47:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
every account on reddit is a bot except you
TomX20XX · 11 points · Posted at 19:01:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF
/r/totallynotrobots
-kindakrazy- · 3 points · Posted at 19:47:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
THAT IS A COMPLETE LIE FELLOW HUMAN
CallMeChristina · 3 points · Posted at 19:12:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is this, Westworld?
pWete · 2 points · Posted at 19:01:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We're all bots now
chrisbrl88 · 0 points · Posted at 20:13:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I do not believe so, fellow human.
10ebbor10 · 10 points · Posted at 18:50:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah.
It's the other way around actually. That shitty web article scraped it's content from reddit.
NukeML · 3 points · Posted at 18:56:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But the comment was still a repost
pulisic10 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And now his account is deleted lol
TIMPA9678 · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's still there u/CasimiraAponte
pulisic10 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahhh. Read it wrong. Thought it was an account deletion. The comment was removed by a mod.
10ebbor10 · 13 points · Posted at 18:52:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Actually, pretty sure that article was scraped from reddit too. This appears to be the original.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1e08x3/what_is_the_most_satisfying_time_youve_caught/
Xahn · 9 points · Posted at 18:48:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why is this happening?
TIMPA9678 · 9 points · Posted at 19:22:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Look at his post history. Every post is either karma farming or political. Karma gives you credibility, the political post are the goal.
10ebbor10 · 8 points · Posted at 18:53:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shitty websites and bots both steal reddit content. Sometimes they steal the same stuff.
gurenkagurenda · 4 points · Posted at 19:10:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's a whole industry for fake accounts on various sites. Marketers and propagandists need legitimate seeming accounts to vote and astroturf in online discussions.
Sometimes these aren't literally bots. Some people just create accounts and let them sit for a year or two, gaining age (since that's one thing people check to see if an account is real). Others will buy those (or create their own), and then basically shitpost as a job, making the accounts look more legitimate, and then resell them. I would guess that some of the latter group also use bots to add bulk to their history; anything that can be automated without losing too many accounts to bans will help their bottom line. From what I've been able to tell, the margins are pretty low (maybe a few bucks per account), so they have to do a lot of volume.
the-vague-blur · 7 points · Posted at 18:49:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit....is it really a bot? But what about all the posts and comments?
hypatiaspasia · 7 points · Posted at 18:52:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a propaganda bot that posts on T_D.
rymer · 3 points · Posted at 18:50:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wtf
KaleMaster · 3 points · Posted at 19:36:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So meta, we caught the bot lying in a thread about catching people lying
Gareth321 · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So we're basically turning into shitty blog sites now?
krizo · 6 points · Posted at 18:48:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did you know?
PM_ME_YOUR_GOOD_NEW5 · 14 points · Posted at 18:56:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You won’t get a response. It’s a bot calling out other bots.
_quicksand · 9 points · Posted at 18:58:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
5 month account but the oldest post is only 4 hours, the names follow the same format
TIMPA9678 · 5 points · Posted at 19:31:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First clue was the account doesn't engage in discussion, only posting links and top level comments. The accounts post history begins a few hours ago. Text post can be Googled to see that they're not original. Photos are taken from the internet and posted as "homemade". The rest of the post are political and posted to T_D.
Reginald__Cousins · 5 points · Posted at 18:50:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously, how could you tell?
TIMPA9678 · 3 points · Posted at 19:31:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First clue was the account doesn't engage in discussion, only posting links and top level comments. The accounts post history begins a few hours ago. Text post can be Googled to see that they're not original. Photos are taken from the internet and posted as "homemade". The rest of the post are political and posted to T_D.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:50:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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TIMPA9678 · 3 points · Posted at 19:31:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First clue was the account doesn't engage in discussion, only posting links and top level comments. The accounts post history begins a few hours ago. Text post can be Googled to see that they're not original. Photos are taken from the internet and posted as "homemade". The rest of the post are political and posted to T_D.
egotisticalnoob · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But why would a bot be taking interviews for a graphic design position?
UltraChilly · 1082 points · Posted at 17:51:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He apologized profusely and acknowledged it was a stupid move. Prior to that he was working as a cook in a resort and started making flyers for the restaurant because he was "good with computers", he quickly realized that was his dream job. He quit everything to enroll in a cheap design school nearby, learned how to toy with Photoshop but not much more. His freelance career didn't meet his expectations and after a couple years of working on and off for some restaurants here and there he decided he would never be able to sustain his family that way. His wife got pregnant a few months before and shit hit the fan. She left him, kicked him from the house. He sent dozens of resumes and applied everywhere but every time the answer was the same: no one wanted to hire a guy who knows a bit of Photoshop and spent two years reusing the same flyer template.
After he explained all that, it was harder to kick him from the interview, the senior art director intervened and said he would give him a chance and take him as a trainee.
The guy actually cried.
When they were about to sign the contract, they asked him what he was considering a fair wage, he answered he would work for tree fiddy an hour. That's when OP realized the guy's face was covered with scale and he was about 4 feet high and 24 feet long...
edit: typo, thanks /u/hotdimsum for pointing it
flyer08 · 583 points · Posted at 17:52:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aaaand I fell for it. Damn it.
spoongebub · 57 points · Posted at 17:54:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m out of the loop. What’s the joke?
Funky_Ducky · 74 points · Posted at 17:56:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a reference to this scene from South Park
taulover · 23 points · Posted at 18:14:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, never knew that the tree fiddy meme was from South Park
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 18:33:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How?
Kale187 · 8 points · Posted at 18:34:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always thought it was a reddit thing. Never liked South Park
selddir_ · 19 points · Posted at 18:36:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was at that moment he realized Reddit was actually 4 feet tall and about 24 feet long. That goddamn Loch Ness monster had got him again.
PmMeWifeNudesUCuck · 2 points · Posted at 18:46:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s hit or miss. Some of its fantastic. Some of it blows. The latest seasons were more centrally themed. The games are pretty fun too
DJToastyBuns · 3 points · Posted at 18:42:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good Lord, we've failed you
GrowsCrops · 20 points · Posted at 17:56:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing he was the Loch Ness monster and wanted his damn three fiddy
wcase88 · 6 points · Posted at 18:07:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tree fiddy
Beanerninja · 14 points · Posted at 17:55:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He’s not OP
GT_86 · 11 points · Posted at 18:31:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As an experienced redditor I always look at username first.
Kortike · 7 points · Posted at 17:54:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
🤣🤣
mtcruse · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Been a while since I heard a good Loch Ness Monstah rick-roll.
BobbyCock · 4 points · Posted at 19:10:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The real story is that he apologized profusely and acknowledged it was a stupid move. Prior to that he was working as a cook in a resort and started making flyers for the restaurant because he was "good with computers", he quickly realized that was his dream job. He quit everything to enroll in a cheap design school nearby, learned how to toy with Photoshop but not much more. His freelance carrier didn't meet his expectations and after a couple years of working on and off for some restaurants here and there he decided he would never be able to sustain his family that way. His wife got pregnant a few months before and shit hit the fan. She left him, kicked him from the house. He sent dozens of resumes and applied everywhere but every time the answer was the same: no one wanted to hire a guy who knows a bit of Photoshop and spent two years reusing the same flyer template.
After he explained all that, it was harder to kick him from the interview, the senior art director intervened and said he would give him a chance and take him as a trainee.
The guy actually cried.
When they were about to sign the contract, they asked him what he was considering a fair wage, he answered saying that he would not want to be paid in money, but by leading a morning ritual in which the office would commemorate the fact that in 1998, the undertaker threw mankind of hell in the cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through the announcer's table.
hellisonfire · 51 points · Posted at 17:54:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Son of a bitch...
J_mainwaring · 10 points · Posted at 18:00:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Burt Macklin
Zrik_ · 67 points · Posted at 18:01:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is what I get for not reading usernames. Take an upvote.
Preparingtocode · 21 points · Posted at 17:57:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck sake. You completely had me going.
speelmydrink · 15 points · Posted at 18:08:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Motherfucker. It's been years since I've seen that one.
BlooperBoo · 20 points · Posted at 17:54:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God. Dammit.
jish92 · 19 points · Posted at 17:54:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn you!! That was smooth
TrynaSleep · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A smooth ass transition
bluesky747 · 13 points · Posted at 18:04:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, fuck you. God dammit.
I_MELT_STEEL_BEAMS · 7 points · Posted at 18:20:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Take your upvote and fuck off, you magnificent bastard.
yoyodontgo · 4 points · Posted at 18:28:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow I'm pissed lmao. Got me.
theoreticaldickjokes · 4 points · Posted at 18:41:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
GODDAMMIT
harpocoffee · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heckin’ bamboozled.
MoneyMark4 · 3 points · Posted at 18:59:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bravo
MerryUncakedayToMe · 8 points · Posted at 17:53:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this the new hell in a cell?!? You took me for a ride my man
thewhaleshark · 42 points · Posted at 17:56:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my god, please tell me you're joking.
In case you're not, tree fiddy predates hell in a cell by several years, having started in ninenteen ninety eight.
MerryUncakedayToMe · 3 points · Posted at 18:01:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sadly I wasn't joking as I am out of touch and also really square. But I have seen the error of my ways now!
thewhaleshark · 2 points · Posted at 18:55:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are one of today's 10,000! Enjoy your learnin'!
bythe-o · 10 points · Posted at 17:57:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No this is the original. Hell in a cell is newer. It's a loch ness monster joke.
MerryUncakedayToMe · 7 points · Posted at 18:03:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
RIP me :(
Elcyis · 5 points · Posted at 18:05:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's okay! hug
UltraChilly · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh sweet summer child... :p
Mitchdotcom · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
GOD DAMMIT
hotdimsum · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
his freelance career**
UltraChilly · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
thank you, I knew it looked weird (English is not my first language)
Hashbrowns_Senpai · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
GOT DAMN LOCHENESS MONSTAH
Autarkhis · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hate you.
Entbriham_Lincoln · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
FriendToPredators · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously. Why?
UltraChilly · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a graphic designer, I knew I could make it sound real, that's all it took to convince me.
FriendToPredators · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But seriously. Why?
willbo360 · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dude
H_E_Pennypacker · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh god damn it
CefdinirOfLothlorien · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
...fuck you
jjackson25 · 2 points · Posted at 04:11:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You son of a bitch. Take your upvote
SlowlySailing · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
FUCK
Themiffins · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
God damnit!
sowydso · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/r/writingprompts
UltraChilly · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
shhh... don't tell me about it, I've been avoiding that sub for years, I spend way too much time on reddit already.
[deleted] · 339 points · Posted at 17:09:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · -132 points · Posted at 17:40:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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johncarlo08 · 118 points · Posted at 17:42:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it's called plagiarism and is taken very seriously. You can get thrown out of school or lose your job for doing exactly that.
BoernerMan · 44 points · Posted at 17:44:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah if she has to plagiarise her resume then that raises serious questions about her skills for the role, even completely disregarding the lack of trust if someone is willing to lie in that way.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:54:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Slightly_Tender · -24 points · Posted at 17:54:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol, why are you so mad?
MyDudeNak · 12 points · Posted at 18:43:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because you caused a long string of responses, and now half the discussion is gone because you're a baby.
FuckingFuckPissBack · -12 points · Posted at 18:03:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because they want to name you directly because how else would they bully you
[deleted] · -25 points · Posted at 17:43:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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DJTurnItDown · 28 points · Posted at 17:47:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you’re stealing other people’s work I disagree. There are a finite number of chances you’ll get in life. If this person hasn’t learned to not plagiarize by college then that’s a lesson they have to learn. Also there’s talented people with original ideas that would love to be where you don’t deserve to be.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 17:48:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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TheBullMooseParty · 9 points · Posted at 17:50:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They don't mean "you" as in you specifically, they're using "you" in the general sense. It's basically saying "if one is stealing"
amrak_em_evig · 26 points · Posted at 17:48:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When you're a designer your portfolio is all you have at the end of the day. It's literally your lifes work. To have the nerve to steal that from someone means you're completely lacking in integrity as an artist and it's probably not the right career for you.
Munt_Custard · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, normally those kind of people end up in management or politics.
amrak_em_evig · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
While I agree that such roles have regularly attracted... Unsavory people at least in my opinion there have been some exceptions. There have been some truly wonderful people I've interacted with on the management (and beyond) level who I admired because they understood the fastest way to make a great company was to encourage talent. When my boss had encouraged me in a truly honest way I've fought for them like nothing else. People just want to know you care.
johncarlo08 · 12 points · Posted at 17:46:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I definitely see where you're coming from but if you've done it before who says you won't do it again? Especially since most schools will give you a few chances. For example (my school) first time is an F on the assignment, the second time is a F for the class, and if it happens again you get booted.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 17:47:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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liontamarin · 6 points · Posted at 17:52:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except it is because she is directly profiting (in the form of admission) from his work and resume, and that means down the line she may take HIS design jobs (and therefore money) because she is using his work to get hired.
Nilmag · 7 points · Posted at 17:49:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ofcourse it should. She's a thief
TrontheTechie · 4 points · Posted at 17:49:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Think for a second, Why was she giving her resume to a school?
That in and of itself is enough to push that the context is probably a Job, and not school. If I get a particularly shitty resume or interview, or have bad past experience with a person, I would be inclined to also let my network of people know about the shifty individual as a courtesy heads up.
mallad · 6 points · Posted at 17:48:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nobody said she got kicked out of schools. I would assume this was a position she was applying for, in his field. You don't go around giving resumes to professors, and a professor can't just make some calls to blacklist you from schools.
liontamarin · 10 points · Posted at 17:53:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A professor can absolutely make calls to other colleges and say "she has plagiarized my work in her portfolio."
This would be an immediate rejection from any school notified.
mallad · -1 points · Posted at 18:44:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They can make the call, sure. But the schools all have their own policies and procedures, as well as admissions teams, that make the decision. They don't just say "oh she did ? We will make sure she can't get an education!"
I could easily call a number of contacts and make a similar claim against someone, even if it isn't true. Thus no, in general a professor can't just get you blacklisted anywhere else. Even at the professors University they don't have power to eject a student. They present the case, accusation, and evidence and the school makes the final decision.
liontamarin · 3 points · Posted at 19:24:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The schools would follow up. I don't know of ANY university that does not have strict plagiarism policies, and who ignore the accusation of plagiarism altogether.
They may determine that it was unfounded, but the chances of the prospective student getting into what is clearly an MFA in Costume Design program with such a call is nearly nothing if the professor makes that call.
mallad · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not common for a professor to do such. Not to mention the main point was this story made no mention of it being a student blacklisted from colleges. It sounds much more like someone involved in the professors other line of work.
liontamarin · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the theatre (as was mentioned) teaching and professional work go hand in hand. In the same way researchers must publish or perish, artists must work professionally, and both academic and professional communities are small.
SHITPOSTING_WAIFU · 20 points · Posted at 17:43:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plagiarism is treated severely in school.
I don't see how this should be any different.
SlippingStar · 23 points · Posted at 17:42:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Steal the credit and profits from someone else? Get some empathy.
Mexcaliburtex · 24 points · Posted at 17:43:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If she didn't have the talent, skills, or effort to make designs of her own in the first place I can't help but think it would be a very short career regardless.
YungEnron · 20 points · Posted at 17:44:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stealing credit for the work of others in a creative field is actually a super toxic personality-type and should have serious consequences.
deadleg22 · 26 points · Posted at 17:47:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I copy your comment and paste it below and get a shit load of upvotes for it, you don't mind.
"Getting her blacklisted sounds like a dick move. Ruin her career because she stole your work? Get a life".
Edit* well he deleted the comment, his words not mine!
generic1546 · 11 points · Posted at 18:20:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She doesn't deserve the career she didn't earn.
[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 18:11:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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sakdfghjsdjfahbgsdf · 3 points · Posted at 18:37:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Missing the forest for a single tree there, bud
Nilmag · 9 points · Posted at 17:47:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a stupid thing to say
taylorguitar13 · 172 points · Posted at 17:06:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohhh boy. How did he react?
TIMPA9678 · 13 points · Posted at 18:31:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's a bot. You won't get a response.
_Serene_ · 11 points · Posted at 18:10:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
he ded, that was his last resort.
Sir_Fridge · 8 points · Posted at 18:12:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cut my life into pieces
stooduponce · 4 points · Posted at 18:15:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Suffocation, no breathing. He didn't give a fuck if he cut his arm bleeding.
FrozenSquirrel · 48 points · Posted at 17:40:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In one of Ogilvy’s books, he recounts a similar situation; his advertising work in the applicant’s portfolio. IIRC, he told her he couldn’t hire her but loved her work and would gladly be a reference for her. Who wouldn’t want the king of advertising on their resumé, right? Unfortunately for her, everyone that called to check references was told by Mr. Ogilvy about her forged portfolio.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 18:15:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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FlatteredInsomniac · 7 points · Posted at 18:22:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's been dead for almost 20 years...
gen-ral · 18 points · Posted at 17:18:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I honestly want to know what there reaction was... I think I'd just rather die on the spot to be honest.
malavisch · 27 points · Posted at 17:27:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think someone who purposefully steals someone's work and tries to pass it off as their own is self-aware enough to feel that level of embarrassment, even if/when they get caught.
___Morgan__ · 10 points · Posted at 17:46:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a certified piece of shit I can confirm this.
I usually think all scenarios through when I'm doing scummy shit, so in this case I'd just be like "thank you" and carry on doing it because I would know there is like a 10% chance they know where the artwork is from.
8solutions · 26 points · Posted at 17:49:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Phew, got the original owner out of the way -- that means the coast is clear everywhere else that I apply"
yoyodontgo · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly this. It's super shitty though, but I bet he got a job.
ZannX · 6 points · Posted at 17:37:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They probably thought they were just unlucky.
PM_ME_A_WEBSITE_IDEA · 12 points · Posted at 17:26:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is a nice door! So do I have the job?
CrispyJelly · 39 points · Posted at 17:14:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Very mature response. Yelling "LOL! Repost!" would have been acceptable too.
Charlie8841 · 15 points · Posted at 17:07:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That guy should certainly not play the lottery any time soon.
funkeshwarnath · 7 points · Posted at 17:16:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm curious. How did he explain himself?
SchuminWeb · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How do you when you're confronted by your own lies?
bluesox · 12 points · Posted at 17:27:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did he at least get the reasoning behind the design decisions close to accurate? I’d be surprised if someone showed me that, but was able to walk me through my own thought process. Even though he’d still be a liar and a thief, he still understands graphic design. Not defending the guy, but just curious.
SchuminWeb · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I take it that full disclosure that it wasn't his own work combined with an accurate description of the reasoning would have been better?
anoanohajimemashite · 22 points · Posted at 17:06:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a zeugma
baugatwork · 10 points · Posted at 17:21:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Learned a good word today because of you
ZenLizard · 4 points · Posted at 17:50:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And your comment inspired me to go look it up, so I learned because of both of you.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:44:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
None of these comment have inspired me to look it up so I will forever not know what it means.
Coming2amiddle · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And unlike in my childhood, I can even hear someone say it so I know I'm pronouncing it right. We've come so far. <3
Sophisticatedmongrel · 26 points · Posted at 17:08:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But how? How could he think he would get away with that? It's your artwork? Of all the artwork he could have tried to pass off as his own, he chooses the artwork of the guy he wants to work for? HOW?!
maptaincullet · 46 points · Posted at 17:22:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Clearly the dude didn't realize whose artwork he was stealing
Sophisticatedmongrel · 5 points · Posted at 17:57:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I realise that. What I meant was: If you are going to do something as risky as plagiarising, then at least check who you are plagiarising from and who works at the company.
yoyodontgo · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
True, but with all of the designs out there, what are the odds he'd run into the original artist? I guess next time he'll check.
SasquatchMN · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sure, but if you're willing to use someone else's work as your own instead of creating your own stuff, you might not be one to do that kind of research.
The_Power_Of_Three · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I assume he grabbed lots of artwork, only some of which was OPs.
SchuminWeb · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I imagine that this is the case. I had a situation once with a death metal band that stole a photo that I had taken of a cemetery to make some graphics to promote their band. I did a DMCA on all of the instances of it that I could find, and they emailed me about it afterward. They told me that they had hired a graphic designer "off of the internet", and were assured by their designer that the image, which they were told depicted "an historic French cemetery," was clear for their use.
Imagine their surprise to find out that (A) the image that they were using was an infringement, and (B) that their "historic French cemetery" was in West Virginia. I started my response with, "First of all, there’s no nice way to say this: you got ripped off by your graphic designer. I don’t know what amount you paid them, but it was clearly too much." I then explained the history of the photo, and showed them other photos from the same shoot.
I suppose that the whole episode is a good lesson on why it's so important to vet people that you hire to do work for you, why you also need to do your own homework on what materials are being created in your name.
And to add insult to injury for them, the graphic in question is now hosted on my website, where I use it as an illustration in an article about copyright infringement - where there is a strong fair use argument for the part of the image that I don't own, i.e. the band's logo.
IlIIllIIIllIllIllIll · 16 points · Posted at 17:24:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Plagiarist might not have realised that the original artist would be interviewing.
Sophisticatedmongrel · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's exactly what I don't understand. How do you not check for that when you are doing something as risky as plagiarising at a job interview?
idle_watcher · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What I have noticed is that compulsive liars can be so accustomed to lying that they lie about things that can be easily verified. I personally think it's because they have done it for years with no major consequences so it keeps snowballing.
You are not wrong but your thinking is one of a normal person who isn't desensitised to lying. As a person who hardly lies, I am super paranoid when I lie that I will get found out and hence am very careful about it. And it boggles my mind when I meet ppl who plagiarise things in situations that hv very serious consequences if they get caught (e.g. expulsion), but a lot of the time they get away with it and go on to make even more audacious lies.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:52:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"This is the door. Note its smooth contours, complimentary colour and finish, and that you haven't left through it yet. Please fix that."
hypatiaspasia · 5 points · Posted at 18:51:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bad bot.
debridezilla · 8 points · Posted at 17:11:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"a cure for the common interview"
chrisl007 · 6 points · Posted at 17:07:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But now he knows he can use it every else!!! You gotta get all the graphic designer jobs!
flatirony · 6 points · Posted at 17:14:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So not just a liar, but a liar too stupid to figure out who did the original work?
wkrausmann · 3 points · Posted at 17:30:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How does a guy who steals someone’s work for their portfolio manage to actually create work on par with their portfolio when they actually get the job?
Bonch_and_Clyde · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just keep on finding ways to fake it and taking credit for other people's work. Maybe he's eventually found out, but maybe he's also able to work his way up to middle management. Not this line of work specifically, but I've seen it before.
krackenfromthedeep18 · 3 points · Posted at 18:05:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in a clinical setting (I’m an intern) and my supervisor has to approve all my physician reports and progress notes after I see a patient.... she never approves them on the first try and I’m pretty sure she hates me.
Anyways, I started using her past notes for the patients she had seen before and changing only the dates and the relevant information that had changed at the appointment... to see if she’d criticize her own work. She did. And now it’s confirmed she just hates me. It wasn’t satisfying.
supershinythings · 3 points · Posted at 18:47:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A contractor applied at a startup I recently joined. His resume crossed my desk because he worked at my previous employer as a contractor the same time I did, apparently doing THE EXACT SAME THING. That fucker took credit for MY PROJECTS. Those projects were the reason why I was recruited into that job, so it was quite an amusement and surprise to everyone to see this.
We didn't even interview him. And his resume didn't just go in the trash, it went into the very small NEVER EVER HIRE pile.
ChipChippersonsSoul · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow that sounds like it was made for tv! How did it go exactly did you freak out ornwhat
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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sharklops · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you feel obligated, you could say something like "original design by..."
AlexMiDerGrosse · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you answered a similar post some time ago? Or posted this to any other subreddit?
PM_ME_YOUR_KITTAYS · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And the paperwork for the copyright violation suit you were about to hit him with, I hope?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least he had good taste... ham I rite!
avalisk · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's so satisfying to even read about. Vicarious satisfaction.
Cain-Draws · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Come on, man. You left out the best part: his reaction!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Burnnnn
CertifiedMemeGod · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have played with him a little bit. I would have asked him questions like how long it took to make them and what his inspiration was. I wouldn’t have even showed him the door after. I would have sat there and stared at him to make things a thousand times more awkward for him
Bonch_and_Clyde · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is illegal, right? You own the intellectual rights I assume. You could report him?
HaMMeReD · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a software guy, I once interviewed someone who plagiarized me, but impossible to prove. Boss at the time hired the guy anyways (because who doesn't lie a little on their resume, bosses justification), but he turned out to be fucking crazy and never made it past his promotion.
DoctaJenkinz · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was his/her reply? I would have loved to have seen the look on their face.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was it solely your own artwork in his portfolio or was it mixed in with other artists? The former would be very ballsy
vcloud25 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
omg 😂😂😂 why would you plagiarize artwork?
kagurawinddemon · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It baffles me that out of everything, and everyone that someone could potentially rip off, they rip off the one person who they can't.
slick8086 · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
how clueless do you have to be? Did he not know your name?
salad-daze · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a florist and my boss told me about something similar that happened when she was reviewing someone’s portfolio. The candidate had emails photos of “their” work and my boss found a couple of pictures of arrangements she had designed. We don’t post the name of the company when listing positions online so this person must have taken them off of our website without knowing, needless to say they didn’t get a call for the position.
BattleFarter · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
OMG what was his reaction?!
WorshipNickOfferman · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of the time I applied for a job as a graphic designer. I wasn’t really qualified for the job, knew very little about graphics design, and frankly didn’t have an artistic bone in my body. So when preparing for this job interview, I grabbed some random guy’s work online and tried to pass it as my own. As luck would have it, the person whose art I plagiarized was the same person who ended up interviewing me! Didn’t get the job, but have a great story to tell everyone back at the half-way house!
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 17:22:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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afhverju · 3 points · Posted at 17:40:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would you want to defend someone who lies?
Gabepls · 2 points · Posted at 17:44:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to mention attempting to steal his work..
sandradesigns · 0 points · Posted at 17:45:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to see the piece.
axon589 · 1561 points · Posted at 13:20:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was working in retail a few years back. I remember this one time where I was at the cash register and was having a pretty shitty day since it was so busy and couldn't go on my break. At some point, this South Asian man was making a scene about how a cleaning item was marked off for sale. The thing is, I did the tags and organized that section of the store the day before. I knew it wasn't on sale. He was lying. Needless to say, the people behind him, waiting in line were getting irritated and so was I - so I decided to call his bluff instead of caving. I asked the other customers to go to another register while I got my manager to take the guy to check the price together. The guy stormed back, skipping the registers all together and walked out of the store with a pissed off look on his face.
Xpress_interest · 558 points · Posted at 14:02:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like this one - it’s so petty and so personally irrelevant to you whether an old asian guy saves 20 cents on scrubbing bubbles.
Uncreative_Color · 397 points · Posted at 14:54:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
ITS ABOUT SENDING A MESSAGE
briar_angel · 14 points · Posted at 17:10:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username related. You're green.
Uncreative_Color · 4 points · Posted at 21:35:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
👀
halermine · 2 points · Posted at 17:03:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
o/' Green is not a creative color o/'
hpl2000 · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nonononononononononononononono
eatonsht · 6 points · Posted at 19:45:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM
eetsumkaus · 24 points · Posted at 17:15:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
South Asian likely means from the Indian subcontinent. Just FYI. I know exactly the type, the ones who got away with it back home because of caste or money and thought they can pull that BS here.
Jst_curious · 7 points · Posted at 22:53:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a super store the other day and this guy (I believe to be Indian and was confirmed by another Indian lady since this guy grumbled before leaving) skipped the queue and cut a few people off. Even at the conveyer belt he skipped Infront of this lady right Infront of the cashier.
The cashier didn't say anything but the whole queue laid into him. He was so pissed off that he left!
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They clean the bowl so you don't have to!
Chalie00 · 34 points · Posted at 16:15:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had something similar happen many years ago. I was working in a mall and I was coming back into the store from lunch, I see a woman on her knees changing price tags. I didn't say anything, just waited until she decided to pay. She tried to argue that every other item had that price tag. I told her that I watched her change price tags and that there were cameras over the register and right above where she was changing tags. There weren't cameras but mirrored panels that made it look like they were hiding cameras.
I told her I was going to get security and we could all review the footage. If I was lying about her changing price tags, I'd pay for it. If she was lying we were calling the cops. She just left the store.
axon589 · 12 points · Posted at 21:07:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit you have balls of steel
Chalie00 · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:26 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was mad and it was a minimum wage job. So I figured if I got fired, I could get another one. I hate people who do that stuff. If you're just honest with me I'll help you out when I can but if you try to cheat the system, that just makes me mad.
Brendanmicyd · 16 points · Posted at 16:00:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You said cleaning item and for some reason I can only picture an Asian guy with a broom that says 50% off from $3
PalladiuM7 · 5 points · Posted at 22:31:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except it's Jackie Chan and now he has to use the broom to fight off a comical amount of inept henchmen.
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 17:33:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My Michael's store would always just let people go if it was under $15 or so. We had a couple, they were nice, but they would get away with murder. I once had to let them get over $50 off of frames. I was irritated cause they'd do this EVERY SINGLE fucking week, but this was my first time putting them thru with such a big amount.
My boss said something about them being consistent customers. Uh, what? Consistent shop lifters in a sense.
I found out my boss was scared because they were black and he didn't want a discrimination fuss.
SMH whatever.
eleven56 · 9 points · Posted at 16:54:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Customers really think we don't know the store at all. But heck we are there every single day, I could make it around that store with my eyes closed!
nonsequitureditor · 9 points · Posted at 20:36:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
as a south asian, I can 100% confirm that this is not usual. especially since south asian men are entitled AF.
most asians are trained to bargain, so we LOVE the clearance section because fighting over bananas at the albertson’s doesn’t usually go down well.
personally, I can make a fuss when something doesn’t go through as discounted at the register but a. I would never ever lie and b. I try to be as nice as possible to the employee because it’s probably not their fault.
we’re a stingy people, man.
KyaaMuffin · 16 points · Posted at 19:49:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t understand the importance of race in this story.
axon589 · 8 points · Posted at 21:02:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's important to point out because there could have been a cultural difference when it comes to bargaining and shopping. I also think it's important to give out as much detail about a story as there is often many different angles.
derawin07 · 8 points · Posted at 19:32:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why does his ethnicity matter?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:16:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to be rude, but how was his race at all relevant to this story?
LiquorStoreClerkII · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:01 on July 3, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did he expect the cashier to just take his word that not only was the product on sale but also what the sale price was supposed to be? It's protocol where I work to always check the shelf whenever a customer states a price was marked differently than what it rang up.
PantyGirlAurora · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's a weird thing to get pissed about. Weird situation overall. Retail sucks! Glad you got out alive haha
[deleted] · 387 points · Posted at 16:16:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to be friends with a guy who always relentlessly boasted about how many fancy motorbikes he’d ridden. But I caught him once and it was so juicy.
So he tells me one day, as he does, “oh yeah my mum let me ride her friends R1 (1000cc superbike), did 280mph, wheelied, great sound.” So as a present, I let him hop on my 50cc moped for a bit.
He gets on and sits for a good while before turning to me and saying “so which is the thing you turn to make it move?”
Spicy.
x3stealer112 · 19 points · Posted at 18:11:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao, how old is he?
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 20:38:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
he was 18 at the time.
ObviousLobster · 3 points · Posted at 20:18:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seven
Rocker1681 · 5 points · Posted at 20:37:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, you're not OP!
Hmmmmmmm
RikenVorkovin · 7 points · Posted at 21:58:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope. Obviously a lobster though.
TheWrathOfKhaan · 3 points · Posted at 23:32:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/lobsterconspiracy
Serfalon · 10 points · Posted at 22:10:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
280mph hahahahaha.
not even the H2R can get faster than 250mph. and that's world record now. and it's a highly tuned racing motorcycle.
so yeah. 280km/h is doable with the R1. that's not a problem. just need a long enough straight track. but not 280mph.
00redsvt · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:31 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I saw 280 mph and wondered what the heck I was doing wrong, lol. I rode a POS Ninja to school my sophomore year and upgraded to an R1 for my junior and senior years of HS. Loved riding it when weather permitted cause I'm a cheapskate who hated putting gas in my car (thx minimum wage, lol). I did get a lot of crap from fellow students though cause I was the only girl riding a "crotch rocket" to school!
STRICKIBHOY · 172 points · Posted at 16:43:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine way back in the day had the Super Nintendo. So did I, but he only had one controller when I had 2. With his cousin staying over at my friends pretty much most days I let him borrow one of my controllers. Weeks passed and I asked for it back, to which I was told by my friend, that his cousin had taken it. When I was in my friends house,I went upstairs to use the bathroom I could see the extra controller just laying on the floor, so I took it back. The muppet was angry that i went in his room and took my controller back, fuck him. But it was great catching him out and getting that controller back lol
fuckimtiredfuck · 10 points · Posted at 18:25:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Muppet is a great insult.
[deleted] · 1859 points · Posted at 13:34:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PeachPlumParity · 798 points · Posted at 13:45:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I use Fioricet for my migraines and it's people like her that make people think I'm some sort of junkie when I take them and immediately fall asleep :(
[deleted] · 458 points · Posted at 14:58:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PeachPlumParity · 183 points · Posted at 15:02:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know, it doesn't really give me a high it just makes me fucking sleepy and stupid and I can't even take it more than 2-3 times a week without getting rebound headaches so why would I try abusing it :(
ImpeachmentTwerk · 3 points · Posted at 20:39:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
might check out r/kratom.
It helps my husband's migraines. I want to say he takes maybe 7-9 grams in capsules at onset. if he takes them after he's eaten though it doesn't work.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:37:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sure after a while the headaches stop when you body becomes dependant on that for sleep. Or you just get sleep deprived and migraines XD
PeachPlumParity · 20 points · Posted at 17:32:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope, rebound headaches are characteristic of migraineurs and why we can't just pop painkillers 24/7 :(
KickANoodle · 4 points · Posted at 18:31:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right there with ya sister. So sick of migraines :(
chrisbrl88 · 4 points · Posted at 20:25:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Migraineurs? Is that what we're called now?
UnicornPanties · 5 points · Posted at 02:31:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's a name for everything, try not to fall behind. Fourteen new ones were just created but I'm not telling you for what.
sproutdogmom · 7 points · Posted at 15:33:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The last 2 doctors I’ve seen would not prescribe it for fear of abuse and insisted on Sumatriptan instead, which makes me feel 10x groggier, gives me a weird (not pleasant) tingly feeling AND heartburn.
Edit: misspelling
skeleetal · 9 points · Posted at 17:34:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trying to get my Fioricet prescription refilled by a doctor was the only time I've ever had a doctor refuse to refill a medication because they personally dont believe in using that type of medication to treat "headaches."
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 19:10:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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poetaytoh · 3 points · Posted at 20:53:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I take stimulants too and it's the only thing that makes me a functional human. The only doc I feel comfortable going to for scripts is the specialist that diagnosed me, because I literally need it to function and I probably sound like an abuser whenever I try to explain that need to GPs.
sproutdogmom · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was on Vyvanse for 3+ years for BED and was just able to wean myself off this month. I’m so happy to be done with the monthly appointment just to pick up a script. About 50% of the time my pharmacy would be out of stock and I’d have to go to another location. And I was always having to look for a coupon because it was like an $80 copay even with insurance. I feel like the circus that surrounded picking up my meds every month caused me such great amounts of anxiety.
DJDomTom · -17 points · Posted at 19:24:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you are insisting that you need the drug that I think you're talking about then that doctor is totally in the right to be nervous, as are the pharmacies. Get real.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 20:01:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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DJDomTom · -13 points · Posted at 22:34:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I stand corrected. I've never ever heard of anyone having to take piss tests whilst on Adderall, and I've never ever heard of pharamacies refusing to prescribe an extremely commonly used drug like Adderall. This is coming from someone who is prescribed it, and who knows about a dozen other people who are, so excuse me for being confused. I thought you were talking about desoxyn which is literally meth.
But the fact that my two sentence mostly polite comment set you off like this probably means you acted even worse to the doctor, which again means she was right not to give you anything.
Have a nice day.
ikcaj · 10 points · Posted at 01:06:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, she's right. Fuck off.
DJDomTom · -5 points · Posted at 02:19:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yee I'll wait for a response from the OP thanks. I'm sure s/he appreciates your white knighting tho
PeachPlumParity · 4 points · Posted at 02:39:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He. And you should fuck off for being a total fucking knob and accusing a person who actually needs medications to function like a normal human as sounding like a drug seeking addict, then saying you were being polite while doing so. Fuck off, and don't come back.
ikcaj · 2 points · Posted at 14:06:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"He."
Sorry about that. I missed that part.
DJDomTom · -7 points · Posted at 02:45:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was polite and I implore you to show me how I wasn't. I also implore you to show me how I called that person a drug seeker, because I didn't do that either. Go ahead I am waiting.
Edit: also thank you for correcting me on their gender (a subject I'm sure you're an expert on), I REALLY cared about that.
PeachPlumParity · 3 points · Posted at 02:52:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you think telling someone their behavior is worrisome because it looks like an addict and then telling them to "get real" is in any way polite you need a reality check.
As for the gender, maybe if you actually read the person's post you would have seen the part in the last paragraph where they said they were a guy.
Zwitterions · 3 points · Posted at 01:21:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My vote goes to Vimpat.
sweetpotato37 · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What does Vicodin do to people? I’ve heard so many negative things about it but I’ve never heard of it here in the UK.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:12:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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PeachPlumParity · 3 points · Posted at 02:41:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
UK and other places generally just use the "generic" name since it's just the chemical. Except they call acetaminophen as paracetamol (I think maybe only the US calls it acetaminophen).
kacihall · 5 points · Posted at 15:09:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love Fioricet. It and maxalt are the only things that hemp my migraines. Maxalt helps if I can take it when I first get an aura, but if I miss my chance and actually get the migraine only Fioricet helps (well, stronger meds help too but make me woozy.) The only side effect I get from Fioricet is a hangover if I have to take two, and for some reason I completely lose my brain to mouth filter. (I learned that while working in customer service. That was a fun day.)
LowlyKnave · 3 points · Posted at 18:54:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I also use Fioricet for migraines. As I read I kept thinking, what a boring drug to abuse! Like, "oh man, can't wait to take the Fioricet, I'm gonna sleep soooo hard..."
lurch91 · 4 points · Posted at 18:07:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dont take fioricet, but I take a pretty high dose of adderall for extreme ADD/CAP. I'm also without insurance so I'm constantly having to switch pharmacies to find the cheapest place to fill it. I'm also 27 years old so it does not help that I fit the general stereotype of a college kid using it to get high. Believe it or not, I'm quite the opposite. I dont drink, use drugs, or abuse prescription medications in any way, shape or form
Notorious4CHAN · 4 points · Posted at 15:30:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had Fioricet for migraines, but honestly it wasn't any better than ibuprofen. Often 2 of them wouldn't even touch my headaches. I have Rizatriptan now and that hasn't let me down so far. No idea if it's narcotic or not. But when I sometimes have completely debilitating pain 12 days out of 14, I don't care what I'm taking I just need that to go away.
PeachPlumParity · 5 points · Posted at 15:53:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to stop triptans because of interactions with my other medications; Fioricet works wonders for me!
As I understand it, it's pretty normal for migraine abortives to work completely differently for different people in terms of relief and that's part of why it can take so long to find the right one.
ChippyCuppy · 4 points · Posted at 18:01:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I tried SO MANY medicines before Fiorcet. It’s the only one that doesn’t give me violent side effects. I remember sobbing on the exam table and getting injected with Immitrex (after I told them it makes me feel worse), which made it 10x worse, then finally morphine and toridol. It made me IMPOSSIBLY high and I had terrible nightmares/hallucinations. Then my headache came back the next morning, worse than before. And I had to pay a $150 medical bill. I just wanted to die.
One Fiorcet cuts it off at the pass. It doesn’t get me high or have any noticeable side effects. I am able to rest and have fewer rebound headaches. I hope it never stops working.
[deleted] · -25 points · Posted at 14:17:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No it's not because of people like her, it's because of your government that created this problem and spent billions on propaganda villifying these drugs and those who use them.
covok48 · 8 points · Posted at 15:12:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh? We’re not talking about weed here, but headache medicine. You know the difference, right?
[deleted] · -18 points · Posted at 15:20:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
?? I'm well aware of the difference, I don't quite see why it's relevant?
CaughtOnTape · 11 points · Posted at 15:41:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They vilified weed, LSD, MDMA, etc. and pushed prescription medicine.
[deleted] · -23 points · Posted at 15:48:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They vilified drugs, usere and addicts. Doctors are apprehensive about prescribing controlled drugs because they're held legally responsible for the consequences, and in the eyes of society and the law, it's better to withold medication from those who need it than let an addict get their fix.
And if you don't think prescription drugs aren't vilified then you're just fucking stupid.
[deleted] · -16 points · Posted at 15:24:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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timewontfly · 6 points · Posted at 00:16:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you go through over 100 pills in a week, you're not just using them to improve your "quality of life."
PeachPlumParity · -1 points · Posted at 02:48:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh? Nobody mentioned anything about 100+ pills. It can be hard to even get a 30 day supply.
My Fioricet right now is just a 30 day supply that I take as needed but with no refills, and if I want to get more I have to schedule an appointment with the neurologist (which needs at least one week's notice) and then if I drop the prescription off I still might have to wait for the pharmacist to confirm with the neurologist that they ACTUALLY prescribed me Fioricet, and if that happens to be on a weekend or after business hours or during lunch...that's another 3-4 days for me to get my medicine.
And good luck even getting painkiller medicine you need prescribed in the first place if you don't go straight to a headache specialist or neurologist because your primary care physician is just going to suggest Excedrin or high strength IBUprofen and tell you to alternate it with Tylenol, and then tell you you're probably dehydrated or order blood work to see about your vitamins and minerals before deciding to actually prescribe something.
timewontfly · 2 points · Posted at 23:28:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The OP said she’d already gotten two scripts for 35 each and was trying to get 35 more - thus over 100.
And I’ve had chronic daily migraines for 17 years - I don’t need to be told the hoops you have to jump through to get treatment. Fioricet doesn’t do anything for me, nor do triptans, Botox or pretty much anything else.
PeachPlumParity · 2 points · Posted at 23:32:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I totally missed that that person was referring to Nicole from the OP because I didn't remember her name. That's totally my bad, sorry.
dougholliday · 688 points · Posted at 15:11:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom needs pain meds for chronic back pain. She’s very responsible, only takes them as instructed. Not a seeker and in fact hates having to take them, but she’s needed them for years and will likely always need them.
But in the last year or so doctors and pharmacies have started giving her an issue about it. They make it nearly impossible to fill a prescription and keep changing her prescriptions on her and then not letting her fill it because she needs new paperwork for the new medication and it’s the same thing almost every month over and over. And when she gets mad and says she just needs her meds, they treat her like a seeker.
She’s not mad because she’s a seeker not getting her fix, she’s mad because if she doesn’t have access to them she’ll be in tremendous amounts of pain and will also go into seizures.
I hate that seekers and the government have made it so hard for chronic pain patients to just get their damn medicine.
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sparklydoo · 64 points · Posted at 18:14:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except there are lots of Drs who just basically refuse to prescribe opiates to patients. So chronic pain patients all end up at the same Drs and pain clinics who will prescribe -- usually with mandatory drug testing and a lot of other hoops. Those places get then get labelled as overprescribers which makes even more Drs hesitant to prescribe. The system is totally fucked for chronic pain patients.
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ikcaj · 5 points · Posted at 01:14:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just lost the best doctor I've ever had in my life because he finally had enough of Florida's crap and quit to move to CA. Not only did he not overprescribe as pharmacists here accused him of (he won his lawsuit against them), the man ran a fucking non-profit opiate rehab on his own dime to help ppl who had been overprescribed.
I try to understand and think that you guys have rules you have to follow and paperwork and what but at the end of the day I have no fucking sympathy left for pharmacists.
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ikcaj · 2 points · Posted at 12:59:45 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeh, I didn't live here during any of that. My injury occurred in another state and I had been in pain mgmt for six years prior to moving to FL. It was a nightmare to say the least. At that time the Governor was the one refusing to allow a database like other states.
We're a town of almost 400k people with one PM Doc now and he refuses to write meds unless you agree to exploratory surgery. So we're all pretty fucked. And they wonder why people are using Chinese-bought fentanyl.
ImpeachmentTwerk · 10 points · Posted at 20:41:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
and then all the bullshit about trying to make kratom illegal because it offers an alternative that won't give you respiatory depression :(
KarmicDevelopment · 4 points · Posted at 21:18:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And is about as physically addicting (as far as w/d's go) as coffee. Fucking blows my mind.
ImpeachmentTwerk · 5 points · Posted at 01:01:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
well the coffee thing is misleading-- for some people, yeah, it makes them feel crummy for days or weeks or sometimes a little longer but that's if you're abusing it at like an ounce a day for months.
I've used it for maybe 3 years now at varying levels (normally 2 times a week, sometimes more sometimes less.) Before the attempted ban, I used it everyday because there were so many strains I wanted to try. So, maybe 4-6 weeks of using almost everyday sometimes twice a day and then stopped cold turkey for 10 days and didn't notice anything. I did have a little bit of insomnia but I normally have insomnia so that's not surprising to me.
Anyway, people are different but yes, it won't kill you. And it's better, in my opinion, to research and take kratom rather than depend on opiates and doctors. I do have a rather unfortunate opinion of most doctors though. I feel that there is less a curiosity about the human body and more rote regurtitation of what is considered medical knowledge at the time (despite some stuff clearly being wrong like our fucking food pyramid,) tied in with pervasive corruption of pharmaceuticals allowed to chase quarterly increases for their stockholders.
waterclosetlurker · 9 points · Posted at 20:18:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People bitch about doctors handing out pain meds like candy. Then people bitch about doctors being hesitant to prescribe pain meds because people bitch about doctors handing out pain meds like candy. Just can't win in this world.
infinitivephrase · 56 points · Posted at 16:07:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I go through this with my ADHD medication. It’s awful. I suffer from terrible side effects on most stimulants, so I’ve had to switch between prescriptions a lot, trying to figure out which one is effective without doing me harm. Every single time, the process ends up delayed by weeks or even a month because my insurance insists on a lengthy pre-authorization process.
dougholliday · 16 points · Posted at 16:53:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m starting to get these problems with my testosterone prescriptions too. They treat every person like a damn criminal just for medically necessary prescriptions.
infinitivephrase · 27 points · Posted at 17:18:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was pregnant with my son, my insurance declared that two meds would from then on be subject to prior authorization: adult ADHD meds (including the ones that aren't controlled substances), and anti-nausea medication. Through all 9 months of my pregnancy, I had 24/7 nausea and was prescribed Zofran. It was what kept me out of the hospital. My insurance also decided that no one would be permitted more than 7 Zofran pills per month. My OB threw an absolute fit on the phone. She got me my prescription. After pregnancy and nursing, when I went back on my ADHD meds, it was a total shitshow, and has been ever since, for years.
bonefawn · 19 points · Posted at 18:03:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have PCOS and take birth control to stop cysts from growing/rupturing on my ovaries, as well as regulate my hormones. You wouldn't believe the side eyes and backhanded comments I receive for filling Birth control - especially when I was 14, newly diagnosed, and not sexually active for another 5+ years. The looks I'd get!
It's even worse being stuck with the full bill for this as apparently my medication is only preventative sexual care and not the necessary hormonal treatment I use it for under insurance.
jedikunoichi · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought hormonal birth control was free under the ACA? Or have they revoked that now? Mine has remained free.
is_secretly_a_cat · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least one form of all 18 FDA approved birth control methods are required to be covered with no cost sharing. Under Obama you could only opt out if you were a religious organization. Trump said that anyone can opt out if it if it goes against their "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions"
My insurance covers 100% of birth control costs, but not all insurances do.
bonefawn · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It hasn't hit here, I still have a $70 copay each month :(
Thin-White-Duke · 6 points · Posted at 18:34:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me, too. God forbid I wanna go away for a weekend and need to pick it up a couple days early. I switched and CVS has been good so far, though. My roommate get his T at the Walmart pharmacy and everyone there is a nightmare to deal with.
LucasSatie · 7 points · Posted at 19:39:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have Crohn's Disease and the major medications for it are hit or miss because patients can build up antibodies to the medication. Due to insurance fuckery I had to stop and start the medication numerous times. This starting and stopping is a good way to ensure your body rejects the medication. They did this to me for three different medications.
Basically, thanks to my insurance ducking me around I've run out of viable medication options.
Good ol U, S of A, right?
bool_idiot_is_true · 3 points · Posted at 19:09:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been prescribed a couple of drugs to keep my mood stable (I was eight when I was first put on them. Don't know the exact reason. I think the Risperidone is due to autism meltdowns and Lamotrigine is just a mood stabiliser). When I take methylphenidate (ritalin,concerta, etc.) without them I'm pretty much a zombie who is too depressed to get up and look for brains. When I'm on the full cocktail the ritalin is bloody amazing. I have no idea why using mood stabilisers isn't standard with things like ritalin; but I feel damn lucky that my psychiatrist gave me something that works.
infinitivephrase · 3 points · Posted at 20:09:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My problem is that stimulants have two major side effects on me. One is that they magnify some low level obsessive/compulsive type behaviors. I start picking and scratching at my skin, for example. The other problem is that I have chronic esophagitis. Doc isn't sure what causes it. But stimulants make my esophagitis flare to the point where I am constantly coughing/gagging.
caserock · 4 points · Posted at 17:08:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After going through the same thing for two years, I just said "fuck it" and stopped seeing a doctor or taking meds.
bunnylover9000 · 118 points · Posted at 16:01:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Feel ya there. Did a surgery to remove a deep infection along with my tonsils/adenoids that left me with two golf balls sized holes in my throat but according to my states laws, doctors can only percribe 5 days of opioid at once. Got the equivalent of dry socket in my throat and recovery took 3-4 weeks, and I had to pay for almost ALL my meds out of pocket because to get a more than 5 day supply, you have to file a petition which can take a week plus to get a ruling on by the insurance companies.
Thank god my doc understood how much pain I was in (said it was one of the most "grotesque" surgeries he ever had to perform) and gave me three refills. I still was made to feel like an addict when I went to get them though, especially since I paid in cash (I'm a server) and was in my comfy sweatpants. Super humiliating.
dougholliday · 13 points · Posted at 16:53:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds terrible jfc
bunnylover9000 · 25 points · Posted at 16:58:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not gonna lie, it was a rough month. Luckily I don't remember much of it since I was in an oxycontin induced haze. Opioids get too much of a bad rap, especially since they can be so helpful for those who need it.
OriginalIronDan · 1 points · Posted at 08:52:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Since when can you get refills on an OxyContin prescription? There are no refills allowed on them; that’s been against federal law for years.
AntipodalBurrito · 28 points · Posted at 17:56:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad had chronic back pain and had two surgeries. After the first surgery he didn't have a pain-free day until his funeral. By the end he could barely get off of the couch. It was especially hard on him because he loved long walks, cycling, and traveling. Anyway, they did the same bullshit. They barely gave him medicine. His pain doctor gave him 1 mg dilaudid pills. His surgeon would later laugh at this.
My dad hated pain killers. When he told his pain Dr. that he had started smoking pot and that it helped more than his 1 mg pills she stopped seeing him as a patient.
My dad, 74 and couch ridden, applied for a gun license online, ordered a gun online, sucked up the pain twice to go the store to pick it up and shot himself. All because they wouldn't try to treat him. His GP came to the funeral and seemed truly sorry. He always tried to help but wouldn't prescribe heavy narcotics for extended periods. The whole systems fucked.
darkstormchaser · 8 points · Posted at 20:07:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
JFC /u/AntipodalBurrito that is incredibly messed up, unfair, and downright shitty.
I'm so sorry that you had to watch your dad go through all that, and still have to live with the aftermath. I really do hope you're doing okay.
PalladiuM7 · 7 points · Posted at 23:03:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that's fucking awful. I'm so sorry.
honeybee923 · 25 points · Posted at 16:34:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's getting worse. Heaven forbid you go to a doctor to manage your pain instead of texting a dealer who will deliver to your house for less than your prescription copay.
I fear people will start turning to the black market for pain relief in the near future...
GetShrekedKid · 23 points · Posted at 17:09:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They already do and it's why America has an opioid abuse epidemic.
Klausetheoverlord · 4 points · Posted at 17:11:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If your state has a medical or recreational marijuana program; it's a much simpler avenue for possible pain relief. It's not for everyone. But if you use a CBD product you can get the pain relief without out the the physcoactive head high.
skeptic_narcoleptic · 5 points · Posted at 21:46:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tell your mom she is not alone. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of us in the same predicament. My insurance changes the rules on me every month, it seems. First, they would fill my pain meds every month and because I am on a regimented pain management program, they drug tested me every six months. Then it was every three months. Then it was every month. Then they would only fill my script monthly, when it used to be three months. Now it's 15 days at a time, and a drug test every six months.
I can't keep up. It makes no sense and even the doctors and nurses have trouble dealing with the insurance company, trying to figure out how to make the system work in a way that doesn't drive everyone insane.
happytrails1 · 5 points · Posted at 02:07:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My husband is the same. He has protein s deficiency, about three feet of stents in the veins of his leg, destroyed return valves, lymphedema, and a restructured iliac vein that had collapsed and was essentially non functional. He’s in his early 40s and doesn’t look unhealthy but if you knew his medical history you’d wonder how in the hell he still had his leg, much less alive. I hate how he feels ashamed when they give him grief about his medicine. He hates needing it to function. But he does need it just like he needs his anticoagulants. There is not way he can get out of bed and stand up without being in excruciating pain. He’s been going to and getting the same prescription from the same dr for 10 years and goes to the same pharmacy every month and hasn’t tried to get them early except for one time it was four days early due to us being out of state for a family event. They still looked at him and tried to speak down to him and sighed a bunch when he asked them to call his dr (who he had just come from since he has to go in every month and get a paper RX every month along with his blood checks). The doctor called them before they could. We provided him with proof we were going to be out of state, like hotel and rental car reservations (short of providing a notarized death certificate for the family member). They still acted like he was a seeker. It infuriates me to see him humiliated like that because he uses this medication as it was intended in a therapeutic dose under supervision of a physician who has treated him for over a decade.
dougholliday · 3 points · Posted at 02:16:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just feel like a pharmacy shouldn’t be allowed to hold up a prescription or give people grief over whether they should have a prescription for such and such medication. If the doctor prescribes it, the pharmacy should fill it no matter what. If they have a problem with it, they should contact the prescribing doctor after filling the prescription. Pharmacies should not have the right to get in between a person and their medicine. Pharmacies should provide the medication, not decide you don’t need it.
CasualFridayBatman · 6 points · Posted at 16:20:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you looked into CBD oil or medicinal marijuana?
dougholliday · 6 points · Posted at 16:51:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She doesn’t really like weed but she’s looking into cbd
trevorefg · 8 points · Posted at 17:16:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
+1 for CBD. Proven to work, though not as efficacious as opioids.
Unfortunately, it's fairly expensive, and not covered by insurance. Also, depending on the pain management doctor and whether or not they drug test, may come up positive for THC. Just FYI.
CasualFridayBatman · 5 points · Posted at 18:17:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good to hear! CBD can come in many forms, a tea, or even chocolate! Or, you can go the more traditional medicinal route and make capsules containing CBD oil.
kittymctacoyo · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my moms story word for word!
Lostinstereo28 · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah I feel you. My mom has fibromyalgia and takes literally the lowest dose of pecocet you can get (5mg/325mg or whatever). She hates having to take them but it's the only way she's able to have a normal life as no other medication has worked for her, including medical marijuana. But the last few months they've been harder on her whenever she has to refill the script, which is only once a month. I mean I understand why, and so does she, but it's annoying cause it's not even like she's getting extra strong doses of it. It's 5mg! If she was abusing that she'd be harassing them for a refill multiple times a month!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:18:35 on July 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
That really sucks. I feel really bad for people who have chronic pain, because people with opioid dependency have really ruined things for them. As another poster has said, there is a nation wide crack down on Drs who prescribe opioids too much (due to an "opioid epidemic"). Additionally, I have seen people who have chronic pain saying that recently, the CDC has recommended not giving opioids to anyone with chronic pain (huge mistake in my opinion). Hope things get figured out for her :(
AustNerevar · 0 points · Posted at 21:03:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't blame the seekers. Seriously. The epidemic wouldn't be as bad as it is if we had proper rehab instead of totalitarian bans.
weary_dreamer · -17 points · Posted at 16:40:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seekers. Not the government. Without seekers, government wouldnt have had to place limits. The gov doesnt WANT to make shit that hard, but if it doesnt, it gets fleeced by seekers. It sucks for law abiding people in chronic pain though. Cant imagine your frustration z
Mac_MacDonald · -29 points · Posted at 16:25:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your mother may be a seeker. I never thought my father was, and then the light went on. You know your mom better than I do (I only see her friday nights. Bazinga). But be careful.
dougholliday · 24 points · Posted at 16:50:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom doesn’t drink because she doesn’t like her brain being altered. She’s not into weed for the same reason. She has the option of taking up to a certain number of pain pills a day and she usually takes much less than the maximum unless the pain is truly terrible. I’m not saying she’s not addicted, because you can’t take these medications for years without becoming addicted, but she doesn’t abuse her medication.
I grew up with one parent who is a substance abuser (alcohol and pain meds) and one parent who is pretty responsible about substances like that, I know the difference.
Nosfermarki · 10 points · Posted at 17:12:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey man, I'm in the same boat with my mom. Even down to my dad being an addict my entire life and ruining their marriage and her life. It's been terrible watching her get treated like a monster when all she's ever tried to do is battle against those kinds of things. Hell, she was a pharmacist.
If you ever want to vent about it with someone who totally gets it, let me know.
Mac_MacDonald · -2 points · Posted at 23:17:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good im glad.
I just would hate for anyone else to mr as devastated as I was. It sucked.
Sipredion · 16 points · Posted at 17:52:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is such a fucking pretentious comment to make with almost no information whatsoever. I'm not even OP and I feel insulted
bonefawn · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened to me. My dad was a seeker who kept it a secret for my entire life. I only found out about it after his death. I would have sworn up and down that my dad wasn't like that, but once confronted with the truth it made sense.
You never know. My dad did the same as OP's mom and never took more than his allotted prescription pill amount for the day, often taking less than allowed. He taught me about proper drug use and explained how if you abuse opioids, they won't work as well if you need them in a serious situation (injury/hospitalization). I remember being so angry that my dad couldn't get ahold of his prescribed pain relief when drug dealers were handing them out like candy.
Yeah, I was right that he wasn't abusing opioids - he curbed that by doing crack instead. And he didn't take extra pills, no. He sold them instead.
Nobody thinks it's their parents. But think about it - they raised you and probably have kept secrets from you before. They know how to if they want. I'm not saying for sure these things are happening with your mom OP, but it doesn't hurt to approach the situation with extra caution.
gucciguppy · 133 points · Posted at 15:29:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorryforthis. FUCK the controlled substance warning. One of my anti-convulsants is listed as a controlled substance and the pharmacy I go through makes it so fucking difficult to get it (when I pick it up, it's time for my evening dosage difficult) that I've actually had multiple seizures due to their bullshit. I have to call it in a week early, but nope.. Still not going to fill it until the very last second. And if my fill date is on a holiday? Sucks to suck, sounds like a personal problem. I've accidentally taken my morning and evening dose all at once; it gave me severe vertigo and I felt on the verge of a GTC for most of the day. I definitely want to abuse Vimpat so I can feel that way again.
And considering it's nearly $2k for a month's worth of pills? Fuck all of that noise.
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gucciguppy · 14 points · Posted at 16:05:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've already switched. :( I understand it's important to keep certain medications away from people, but anti-convulsants, really? They're not even fun to be on.. lol. I certainly don't abuse them, I don't have the money to replace my medications.
I will say I do like the "floaters". One of my favorite pharmacists is and I always like seeing her at either pharmacy, lol. Thank you for dealing with people like Nicole - there are others who actually appreciate the work you do.
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gucciguppy · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Vimpat gives you a high but not a good one. I've never been hungover so I don't know what to compare it to, it's awful though.. Tripping over your own feet (and air), nausea, the entire world seems as if it's spinning so quickly and it won't stop, and trying to vomit it back up doesn't help because they dissolve fairly quickly. It was an awful day figuring that out, but my pill tray has a loose night dosage box (they have boxes for morning, afternoon, evening, bed).
You're welcome though! Hopefully I can find balance if my fiancé, son and I move. I hope they don't suffer from too many migraines and have to wait for their controlled substance migraine medication.
ikcaj · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trust me, that state is unique. No where I've ever lived can anyone fill a controlled sub even one day early.
weirdb0bby · 8 points · Posted at 17:35:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man that suuuuucks. My SO has epilepsy and while his meds are expensive, they’re not scheduled thank heavens. I can’t imagine how much more stressful that must make things :(
Godspeed and fuck seizures.
gucciguppy · 2 points · Posted at 04:11:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm so sorry for your SO! I'm glad he doesn't have controlled substance medications, and I hope he has found meds that work really well for him. :)
Seriously though, fuck seizures.
sadwidget · 3 points · Posted at 06:04:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a fellow epileptic, I feel your frustration about the whole controlled substance stupidity. You first have to deal with the seizures and physical injuries from them, like a cut tongue or concussion. Find a neurologist. Go through several types and combinations of medication and dosages to get your seizures under control. Find something that works! Go to the pharmacy. Uh, ...I'll have to check, ....we might have to order it,...etc. Get judgmental looks. I hate this. no one should have to go through that for epilepsy medication
gucciguppy · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, they shouldn't. :( It's so difficult to get our medication and it really shouldn't be. To be so aggressive about a medication - that, yes, can be abused but it isn't abused in a fun way - that keeps me from having to spend time in the hospital? It makes me depressed when I have to start the cycle of calling my neuro and pharmacy to make sure they're going to stock it. My neuro has become my advocate because I've had to report every seizure due to the pharmacy's "mistakes". My main diagnosis (I found out I have TWO, I didn't know it was possible) is generalized convulsive epilepsy with intractable seizures.. Sounds like nonsense to the majority of people, but simplified means that I need my medication now. I've gone through 8 or 9 medications because they stop working, I'm not a candidate for surgery, I'm at such an increased risk for SUDEP..
Sorry. I just never get to rant about it. I don't care if anyone actually reads that or replies. I'm tired of this whole process.
sadwidget · 2 points · Posted at 00:34:59 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never be sorry. I don't think anyone really knows what people with epilepsy have to deal with besides the seizures themselves. Injuries, bad medication side effects, and social problems. Can't drive, people don't want to be around you because because I'm "embarrassing ", did you take illegal drug X?, mental hospital ? you must not be reading you're bible or else God would be helping you, etc. Taking a shower or using the stove can be dangerous. Taking care of small children, or even walking a dog is a no-no. Go to the hospital following multiple seizures with injuries, staff will demand drug test and accuse my husband of beating me. You have it a lot worse than I do and I'm so sorry. Just wanted to let you know you're not alone and I wish things will get better for you. Hugs❤
gucciguppy · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:45 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my god, you made me cry. Thank you so much! I appreciate you, you're a kind person. <3 We're not in this for the suffering olympics; epilepsy is awful and I don't care if I do have it worse (how would we measure that?), you're still suffering too. Thank you again, I got the warm fuzzies, lol. I really am sorry I did that. Thank you for understanding though. I hope your life is filled to the brim with happiness and that you have a wonderful day/week/life.
acorngirl · 8 points · Posted at 17:13:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn... I am sorry for people who struggle with addiction, I really am. But as someone who lives with chronic pain (spinal injury; nerve damage) people like Nicole piss me off so much.
I have known my doctor since way before I got hurt, and he helps me monitor my pain management including the medication. I never try for early refills even if it means just lying in bed existing for a couple days, and I don't abuse the medication I'm prescribed.
Still, I'm terrified of being labeled as a drug seeker and denied care. Once or twice a new person at my usual pharmacy has kinda given me the side eye when I hand in my scrip, but has been friendlier when I returned to fill it. I assume they've checked my history or called my doctor or both and seen that I don't appear to have issues.
Mind you, I don't blame them for checking- it's the responsible thing to do- but it sucks getting looked at with deep suspicion bordering on contempt or disgust. Makes me feel bad. Plus I know if I ever get "drug seeking behavior" in my medical notes, I'm screwed.
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acorngirl · 2 points · Posted at 19:01:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for the info! I'm honestly so scared of looking bad that periodically I deliberately fill my scrips a day or two late.
Maybe I don't need to worry quite that much. :)
sadwidget · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for being a good pharmacist. I've run out in tears having gotten "that look". You feel humiliated . having to deal with pain, surgery, epilepsy, and nerve damage is bad enough (car accident ). Doctors are very judgmental so getting a script is hard anyway. it's a nightmare. just wanted to let you know that I appreciate and admire people like you
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That had to be satisying. From the other end, I had a doctor treat me as a seeker for a sumatriptan scrip once (cluster headaches). I was utterly baffled, but he was a new doctor to me as I had recently moved, so I rode it out and thankfully only had to ER one dose before he squared up. It took him reviewing my files, and maybe educating himself a bit, before he chilled and stopped being weird about the scrip. He has never fought me or disagreed with ant request on the sumatriptan since, and actually has been a bit "pet project" with me lately, trying prevantative scrips to cut my number per month down. Maybe I should have just changed doctor's at the initial freakout, but we've had a pretty solid relationship once he got past that.
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__end · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it was super confusing since it's the only med I was on at that time. I think it was just the new patient, uncommon condition situation. Thankfully he was open to being wrong!
honeybee923 · 3 points · Posted at 16:32:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I take fioricet, why on earth would people abuse it? It just makes me fall asleep.
Oxytokin · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Resist the urge to sleep once and you'll know why. But it isn't pleasant. You just feel extremely messed up. Some people like that. Different strokes for different folks. Similar to people who enjoy abusing high doses of benedryl; makes you hallucinate spiders and dark entities and you can't tell fantasy from reality for almost 12 hours. Doesn't sound pleasant but people do it. Not worth trying to make sense of.
darkknight54 · 4 points · Posted at 00:41:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Working in a retail pharmacy can be really draining on people. I worked retail for a few years and was on a first name basis with almost all of my patients. You get your regulars and people you know to be problematic but you generally learn how to calm people down. I prided myself on my being able to communicate and effectively assist my patients coming in to seek help. The pharmacy was located in a predominantly black neighborhood in Pittsburgh and I've seen the works. Drug seekers, little old grandmas, younger kids just getting their meds. My hat is off to you, you tried working with the patient and being polite whilst doing your job legally. Good on you for standing up to her! People don't understand how hard it actually can be and the work that goes into it! And that's what I tried to explain to all of my patients. I think you handled that exceptionally well and you had the correct grounds to do it on! Kudos to you my friend!
eatonsht · 4 points · Posted at 19:04:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fiorecet is a nasty drug to be addicted to. It should be used short term only. Used chronically the patient is prone to rebound headaches, so if they stop taking it, they get a nasty headache and will want to take more to stop the pain. Fuck that drug, I'll never prescribe it
-blackoutusername- · 4 points · Posted at 20:35:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This kind of stuff..
To be clear, I support your decision- clearly you put up with a lot.
It’s just that it’s such a bigger issue than “Nicole is a bad person.”
As I know you are aware and have compassion for, addiction is a disease, and a symptom is drug-seeking. Drug companies push doctors to start patients on these meds and get them addicted, and the subsequent behavior is blamed on the individual (which is fair but oversimplifies the issue).
I hope that more pharmacists like you begin to call out the drug corporations that push these prescriptions on unsuspecting clients, as I highly doubt Nicole has been an addict her whole life; most don’t live to 70.
You and your colleagues can be a huge part of fighting this systemic problem, since mollifying the Nicoles does not cure their addiction, and neither does blaming them (which I do NOT think you are doing and I’m not accusing you of).
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-blackoutusername- · 2 points · Posted at 06:24:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fair enough. Everyone has their personal responsibility in this epidemic, and you would know better who deserves the bulk of it. Here’s hoping everyone does better- addict, Doctor, and pharm company.
Mythil18 · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my Grandmas was like that except her kids and other grandkids would feed her drugs because it's easy to steal from an old woman that's fucked up on pain pills. She would call every pharmacy in a 20 mile radius trying to get anything. It got so bad that my 80 year old grandpa would always have to calm her down when she would flip her shit about not getting pills
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:36:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once every month and a half, I have a period. This is the worst 8 days of my life, every six weeks, because I have endometriosis. I've already had two surgeries for it, it just keeps coming back, as it will. People like THIS CUNT got tramadol put on the controlled substance list. I'm only allowed 60 every three months, and I feel like a junkie having to ration myself on it, or decide to miss work. I hate these people.
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That would be great actually, thank you
TripleWhat · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a surgeon's office and I deal with these kinds of people every single day. It is exhausting.
iGalaxy_ · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember a guys who got 10 to 15 for armed robbery trying to get his hands on some xanax and codeine.
He was a safe guy but the addiction got to him and he was a bit stupid.
deepsouthsloth · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. That's some serious abuse of what seems to be a fairly non serious drug. Props to you for dealing with it effectively.
Also, TIL why it's so difficult to fill my stepson's Adderall.
marteney1 · 4 points · Posted at 15:27:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As an ER nurse, I’m glad someone is taking a stand. I recently started working at a freestanding ER and within a week I saw patients I recognized from their drug seeking adventures at the various hospitals I worked at. It pisses me off so much to see people trying to work the system. It gives me great pleasure to call them out on their bullshit and see them fail. Fucking leeches.
giger5 · 7 points · Posted at 19:47:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jeez, that's a bit harsh. It's actually a fucking horrible life to be an addict, desperately trying to keep withdrawals at bay and self medicate whatever psychological pain they have away. nobody lives that life for the fun of it.
Yes drug seekers can be difficult and a few can be rude and disruptive but they are still people with feelings.
-blackoutusername- · 3 points · Posted at 08:18:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well done. This nurse is the worst. No sympathy whatsoever means you’re in the wrong line of work. Get out now, jaded.
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ashalottagreyjoy · 13 points · Posted at 17:02:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On the other hand, I had a doctor prescribe me an unhealthy amount of steroids and give me extremely improper instructions to take it.
The pharmacist called to be sure the prescription was right. VERY sternly warned me that while they’re filling it, something is wrong and I should consult another doctor.
When I did, that other doctor was horrified. Told me to throw the medication away - it wasn’t the correct treatment or administered properly.
If not for that very concerned pharmacist, I can only imagine how I would have felt after all those steroids that didn’t solve my problem.
And at the risk of being downvoted - it’s not legal to share prescription medications with anyone even if they, themselves, are prescribed the same medicine.
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GreasyBastard_ · 3 points · Posted at 17:07:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I loved your response! Thanks for taking the time. CMV!
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GreasyBastard_ · 2 points · Posted at 18:46:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you should :)
Now I feel that the problem is you guys don’t have the context all the time and that’s why you question me. I probably did look like a psycho getting ambien and pain killers and looking like a mess. Now I think my pharmacists was right for questioning me, even though I had perfectly good reasons. I could see how I came across, probably like someone self destructive rather than someone following the chain of command.
GreasyBastard_ · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And that’s really interesting about the legal requirement to check prescriptions, like actively questioning.
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sadwidget · 1 points · Posted at 07:17:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can never understand why anyone would be upset if you called their doctor. I would feel better knowing they did. My husband needs to take an extremely high dose of potassium. His kidney doctor gave him a new script and said he was looking forward to talking with his pharmacist again. We found out every time a refill was due the pharmacist would call and ask for confirmation if the dose was correct. I'm on a controlled substance and I know that they have to verify, even though they are familiar with me as a customer . After some outright hostile places I've visited, I am lucky and relieved to have found a great pharmacy with a friendly staff. A good pharmacy is irreplaceable
dondraperscurtains · 7 points · Posted at 17:41:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Let me start off by saying I thought your comment was satire until well through the 3rd paragraph. The only redeeming part of your nonsense is that you admit you’re “confused,” so I’ll try to address some of your mostly baseless whining:
Currently, all new pharmacists are DOCTORS of Pharmacy, and have been for the past decade or two. Even those who practice with a bachelor’s have gone through extensive education in the practice of pharmacy and are probably more knowledgeable in the appropriate application of drug therapies to disease states than most physicians (this is not to minimize the integral role of physicians in healthcare).
Yeah, that’s illegal. While I don't personally care about your criminal act, I am concerned about safety. Please don’t give your prescription medication, controlled or not, to others. I really don’t think you understand how serious and potentially dangerous this is.
The entire role of a pharmacist is to dispense medicine safely and appropriately, not just blindly shove pills into bottles.
Not sure you understand the definition of “threatening.” Local governments, the federal government, and insurance companies set in place laws and restrictions. Failure to abide these can put pharmacists and pharmacies in trouble with the DEA, or in breach of contract with insurance companies.
Drugs aren’t magic. Treatment for the majority of ailments involves both medication therapy AND lifestyle change. Get over it.
Oh, the irony.
I understand that you’ve had some negative experiences with pharmacies/pharmacists, but from what you’ve written, you clearly do not understand the role pharmacist plays in treating a patient. Just because you don’t always get your way doesn’t mean we’re out to get you or on some sort of sadistic power trip. The vast, vast majority of pharmacists want nothing more than their patients to be happy and healthy.
GreasyBastard_ · -1 points · Posted at 17:44:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Found my pharmacists reddit account.
mattyrome · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
you sound like a real winner
dewdrop1138 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Former retail pharm tech here. I feel you.
Theappunderground · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why is she so addicted to them? Do they get you high?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:12:58 on July 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've had patients like this in the hospital. Trying to get another dose of something way too soon, and in some cases it's something like imodium when they aren't having diarrhea (because we won't give them their pain med when their blood pressure is in the toilet). It's so frustrating and really makes healthcare professionals weary to give out meds sometines.
arandomact · -3 points · Posted at 17:16:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kind of douchey to inconvenience someone like that over something that’s not even a controlled substance.
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Booner999 · 2 points · Posted at 14:22:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same. I fractured my foot and they prescribed me painkillers. I refused to fill it and just took advil instead. I don't want to take any chances!
crisptea · 485 points · Posted at 15:38:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some chick said they were having sex with this guy they were interning with during their lunch breaks.
That guy was my boyfriend and I regularly came down to eat lunch with him.
Edit: a word
OutlookNotGood · 37 points · Posted at 20:24:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn how long are his lunch breaks?
Emptamar · 38 points · Posted at 21:25:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Only has to be two minutes.
Solcaer · 30 points · Posted at 21:40:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No need to brag.
SecondRateSavior · 67 points · Posted at 20:03:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was she having sex with him?
crisptea · 97 points · Posted at 20:21:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Naw, I later learned that she compulsively tells small white lies constantly. Especially when it comes to making it seem like people are obsessed with her.
Definitely an odd moment.
Greatwhite194 · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:37 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yikes, might be a small lie to you and your bf, but if she's still working at the same place as him you might want to inform HR that she's already making false claims about intimacy. That kind of thing can come back to haunt you in an awful way.
eatonsht · 24 points · Posted at 20:53:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Those must have been awkward lunches
Jst_curious · 3 points · Posted at 22:35:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your boyfriend must be handsome..
ghostoutlaw · 349 points · Posted at 15:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Former boss was trying to pin a bunch of stuff on me for a writeup that I knew I didn't do but couldn't really prove but he ambushed me with the writeup and meeting.
He finally got to a later point and I could definitely say "I have no idea what you're talking about" to which he rebuttled "I know, because you didn't do this work you were supposed to."
At which point I realized "Wait, we didn't have anyone in that building at that time...I never set foot over there...I wasn't even here that day...so none of this is possible."
It was then I realized a lot of the stuff on that list had nothing to do with me and he was literally just gunning for me specifically so he could replace me with the supervisors husband...who me and her did not get along at all, quite vocally.
But it was then I had that realization. At that point I dotted every t and crossed every I going forward to ensure they could never get rid of me without blatantly lying. They had a hard time but eventually fabricated something and pulled it off. It took them another 3 years. I was already a stellar employee and respected within my department by all my other colleagues except inept supervisor but when I went into overdrive on the quality of my work, I knew it was driving them insane.
This had gone on, as mentioned, for 3 more years in which they fabricated a bunch of stuff I didn't do or was never here for to the point where I had filed paperwork for harassment against them. Conveniently when it did come to terminating me, HR lost all the paperwork in my defense...but when the state reviewed the case for unemployment they sided with me...very weird!
To this day it isn't unusual for me to get a call or text from a colleague asking me a "How do I?" or "What does this mean?"
shiftingtech · 8 points · Posted at 02:41:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You feel bad jerking your ex colleagues around, but the company set the tone here. The correct response to this is "my consulting fee is $ludicrous/hour."
ghostoutlaw · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the problem with US Healthcare. Either I give colleague the correct answer and expose myself to malpractice or I don't answer the patient suffers. A human could literally die. How do you choose?
shiftingtech · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh dear . All I have to say is that I am very glad I don't have that specific concern (as I am neither in health care, nor America). Good luck...
ghostoutlaw · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why so quiet now? A human life is on the line, we need an answer!
JonahTargaryen · 25 points · Posted at 18:28:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you mean crossed the t's and dotted the i's?
ghostoutlaw · 21 points · Posted at 18:38:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is that really all that came from that entire story? lol!
onceuponatimeinza · 20 points · Posted at 21:14:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's the details that count, like crossing your arms and dotting your eyes
Htakar · -1 points · Posted at 00:21:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
For you ya
bernardandoscar · 2 points · Posted at 01:10:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope you refuse to answer their questions
ghostoutlaw · 7 points · Posted at 01:45:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, my colleagues were on my side. In fact, several of them just left my birthday party.
Director and supervisor would NEVER EVER ask for my help, ever. Colleagues, I'm usually their first goto.
Even better example.
A colleague of mine asked me for help on a procedure. I came over and checked their work, everything looked a little off, but easy fix.
Me: "Are you supposed to do it this way? Because I do it differently to get this?"
Colleague: "Supervisor told me to do this procedure in this manner".
Me: "Hmm, weird. Supervisor definitely said this?"
Colleague: "Yea, 100% sure."
Me : "Okay, do that as supervisor said, document accordingly. Sounds good to me."
About an hour later when supervisor came in, but colleague had gone home, staggered shifts, I asked her: "Hey, did you tell colleague to do this procedure in this manner? Just want to double check because they said this, but director told me differently?"
Supervisor: "No, I never would have said that, ever. Colleague would never say I said that. I never said this, ever."
Me: "Okay, that's fine, just wanted to check, because they said you said this, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter and I just need to refer them to director but it's no big deal."
Supervisor: "No, I never would have said that, ever, they would never say that because colleague knows I'd never say that. In all cases it has to be done in this manner. I'd never say that."
Me: "Okay"
At this point the back and forth continues, repeatedly and pedantically, but I don't care because in either case, to me, the outcome is the same. And it's between them, so I really don't give a fuck. The only issue is if colleague asks me for help, I now can't because supervisor and colleague have conflicting stories.
Come in for next shift, 12 hours later.
Supervisor: "I talked to colleague they never said they told you that why are you making stuff up?"
Me: "He did, not sure why you confronted him about it because it doesn't make a difference. Policy says this, so not sure where the disconnect is?"
Supervisor: "Well he agreed with me that we never said this and this isn't an issue so why are you making an issue out of it?"
Me: "I'm just trying to figure out how we want to handle X, universally."
Supervisor: "We'll I never said that and he agrees, I talked to him, I'll call him right now if you want!"
Me: "You do understand that he's just trying to save face in front of you and doesn't really care either way, we both just want to know the procedural way to handle X. Like, no one cares, we all just want to be on the same page."
Supervisor: "Well I never said that and you need to stop putting words in peoples mouths."
More back and forth for 20 minutes. I need to go do work, I leave, I really dont give a fuck.
Next morning, she comes back in.
Supervisor: "I talked to him again just to make sure I'm not crazy and I know I told him to do this procedure this way!"
Me: "So he is supposed to do X."
Supervisor: "Of course, I told him too, that's the policy because he was trained this way and I trained him personally."
Me: "Okay, that's what I originally asked, exactly, so the original answer was yes."
Supervisor "No, you said blah blah blah"
Back and forth more because she's a dumb cunt and in the course of 36 hours did a complete about face but refused to admit it and doesn't understand what her job actually is. Everyone in the department complains she does the exact same shit to her. The issue with her is she spends every minute of every day in the directors office explaining how everyone else is wrong he's actually started to believe her. There's a reason everyone in that department is miserable.
But to sum up, I do answer colleagues questions because without my help, sick people would be negatively impacted.
sardine7129 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jeezus. Sounds exhausting
ghostoutlaw · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Indeed. Everyone was too afraid to stand up to her shit for fear of job loss (as demonstrated).
BruceLee1255 · 456 points · Posted at 15:38:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right now.
I'm in a heated placement battle for my kids. The guardian ad litem in the case felt that I was being pushy because I wanted the kids overnight for Christmas Eve in 2017 when it wasn't my turn. My ex has been working her over pretty good, telling her sob stories about how I'm demanding and rude, asking for things that I'm not entitled to, and generally being a bully. It's actually the opposite. I explained to everyone involved that I should have had them in 2016 and since it didn't happen it needed to be made up, to no avail.
Thursday I found an old email where I REQUESTED Christmas Eve 2016 from my ex-wife and she denied it for a really bullshit reason. It won't matter now, but in the long-term we'll be able to prove how much she lies. It was like finding a $100 in my pocket.
LadyofTwigs · 42 points · Posted at 21:39:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey man, I hope everything goes well for you and your kids
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 23:42:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dunno. Maybe you should put a sign on your fridge to remind yourself - child's best interests, not how ownership of the hours/days will be divided between parents.
codinghermit · 3 points · Posted at 13:26:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This bullshit is what takes kids away from a parent that ACTUALLY WANTS to spend time with them. Short of abuse or other legal issues, "best for the kids" is seeing both parents, not just giving them to the mom like courts seem to think.
BruceLee1255 · 11 points · Posted at 00:07:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe I already have and just left that information out of this post because it wasn't entirely relevant.
[deleted] · -12 points · Posted at 00:14:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hope so. The concept of time needing to be "made up" doesn't really sound like it though.
BruceLee1255 · 13 points · Posted at 00:17:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I could spell out the whole situation: Abusive ex, comes from a cult and is indoctrinating the kids, the constant lies and deceit that I put up with for 11 years because I hoped she would change, them the three years since of torture that I've had to put up with since, but instead I'll just say this:
You don't know me. You don't know my story. You have a good night.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 00:34:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jehovah's Witnesses by the look of your post history. Fair enough. I have no experience of religion in my family and can appreciate the motivation to try to expose the kids to as little indoctrination as possible.
BruceLee1255 · 10 points · Posted at 00:34:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I grew up in it, and yeah. My sister has PTSD and they protect pedophiles.
Duckwhiskers · 453 points · Posted at 15:26:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Playing BS I made someone take half the deck when they said “2 eights” and put down three cards. I hope you are reading this Kyle I read you like a book
scratchisthebest · 68 points · Posted at 18:30:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
^ Why BS is the best fucking card game to ever have been invented.
Also fuck Kyle
stickyvibes · -6 points · Posted at 21:20:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cuz you’re like Kyle, and you suck ass, at every game you try to play.
scratchisthebest · 6 points · Posted at 23:26:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No u 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
stickyvibes · 0 points · Posted at 23:42:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought my comment would be a slightly more obvious reference to The Pwner song
GrandAppleMoocher · 15 points · Posted at 18:45:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That feeling when you have all the Queens and it's your buddies turn to put down queens. "Don't even bother. BS." That look of defeat just makes my day!
carnessmanqwe · 7 points · Posted at 18:24:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol
hiyeuh · 5 points · Posted at 21:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But that’s what BS is about. I always try to sneak down extra cards. Especially if I have four aces or whatever. I put extra down under them and even if they call BS, people normally just check the four on top.
Kyle understands BS. He just isn’t very good at it.
And yes, I’ve been caught doing this. But still... BS is all about bullshitting.
MCC_Country_Gaming · 4 points · Posted at 22:35:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love playing extra cards because it's so damn difficult to get them just right, and it's satisfying as hell when it works.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:01:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was playing BS with people who were inattentive at the time and I got away with 8 cards after saying four kings
Grrrrimulf · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The amount of times ive distracted someone and put down 10+ cards is stupid, people got to be more on their guard playing bs.
aliviugh · 148 points · Posted at 16:33:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A girl (let’s call her Karen) I went to school with was always telling little lies for absolutely no reason, and I always found it really irritating. My best friend and I had made a fake Facebook account to post nonsensical things when we were in 8th grade. We never said anything offensive to anyone, and our intent was just to make people confused and entertained. We had messaged Karen something dumb, like “I like to eat pizza on trampolines.” Later that week at school, during a class the three of us had together, she said that (the fake account) added her on Facebook and wouldn’t stop messaging her saying he was outside her window and then kept texting and calling her. Karen claimed that she got the police involved and has a restraining order against the fake profile.
We never said anything to her about it, but it was nice to have a confirmation that she was a compulsive liar.
sockhead99 · 443 points · Posted at 16:01:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This will probably get buried, but hey ho. We had a good week of snow in the UK at the back end of March this year. In the middle of the night, someone snuck into our garden and stole all of the Yorkshire stone that was topping our wall. This stuff sells for £15+ a square meter, and he took maybe £150 worth. But he managed to cut himself in the process and dropped blood on the snow all the way back and forth to his house 50 meters away. Anyway, called the cops, they popped round, I showed them the blood trail which we followed to the guys house. They knock on, he denies everything despite the blood trail leading straight to his door. Just at that moment, his mate pulls up in his van and double parks. Van driving mate says to the cops and says “I’ll just be a minute, I’m helping my mate load some Yorkshire stone”.
Ohreally...
Fallenovergirl · 82 points · Posted at 19:21:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love this one because he probably kicked his mate for that!
ObviousLobster · 18 points · Posted at 21:23:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Glorious.
MrsCharSelf · 69 points · Posted at 16:00:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This relatively famous dance instructor in my area passed away. My cousin's wife and a lot of my friends danced at his studio. I knew him through dance competitions and the community in general. My coworker called in a couple days after his death and told our boss she needed the day off so she could go to his funeral. She then proceeded to state that the funeral was in the town he grew up in, when actually his funeral was in our town and it wasn't until Saturday. It was so pleasing getting to inform our boss of this when he asked why I wasn't attending.
Same job a guy started working there after having quit a few years back. Everyone knew him, but he didn't know me, which was unfortunate for him because his SIL is my best friend. After I quit to pursue my dream job I get a call from a friend at my old job asking me to pass sympathies on to my friends family because the guy came to work saying his son had passed away. I of course freak out and call my friend because her and her nephew are extremely close. She had no clue what I was talking about. In fact she had just seen him the day before. The man was lying about his kid dying. It was nice to let my best friend be able to call him out.
russells-crockpot · 2 points · Posted at 04:56:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In fairness, it's not unheard of for one person to have more than one funeral.
My grandfather had 3
MrsCharSelf · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish that had been true, but he only had the one. She would use any excuse she could to get a day off work.
Imasil · 74 points · Posted at 17:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a roommate who was a compulsive liar, one time he had just gotten back from a trip to the east coast and said he had gone on a run and done a four minute mile, claiming living at our elevation (Colorado) must have been why. I had to point out that was almost as fast as the world record and that he didn’t run regularly and there was no way elevation difference would give you that much help. He just mumbled something and went off to his room.
KushDingies · 3 points · Posted at 00:52:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fitness lies are hilarious because usually the person is so clueless they have no idea how ridiculous their lie sounds. "Oh yeah man I never go to the gym but I totally benched 300 the one time I went, I guess I'm just strong"
Tomahawk117 · 72 points · Posted at 17:50:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My justice boner is still holding firm months later from this! (Maybe I should see a doctor?)
Details are intentionally vague because of reasons.
My last boss was awful at just about every aspect of his job. It didn’t matter what he did, it would always, somehow, be broken or incorrect or against our SOP.
He also had a very nasty habit of blaming anyone but himself, regardless of how flimsy an excuse it was. This plus a power trip meant he was insufferable to be around. I got on his shitlist early in my employment. My previous job required a lot of paperwork and I was used to having a paper trail by habit- so one day he tried to blame something on me, and I pulled a copy of my shift log and CC’d him and his superior explaining it was him and not me.
From that point on, i was a target. But since I kept records of everything I did, he had a lot of trouble finding anything to nitpick. This only angered him, but since ‘his’ boss liked me, all he could do was bottle it up.
So! Months pass, and one day something breaks that makes doing one part of our job impossible to do. So we all report the l problem and wait for him to fix it, as it was not something we could do ourselves.
Days pass. Every night we report the issue. Every day, we get no reply. I break SOP and CC his boss one day in the days report. The next day I get a verbal warning of disciplinary action, but also we all get an email from him stating he will fix it soon, and to specifically stop informing him of the issue. I immediately copy and archive it separately.
He never fixes that issue.
Months more pass, and because of that issue, something seriously bad happens. There is a break in and vandalism, and the thing we should have been maintaining is broken beyond repair
Corporate security is involved, and asshole boss doesn’t even hesitate in pointing the finger at us, and names me specifically as one of the people who’s job is to keep the thing working properly.
Our email server is kinda shitty. After 2 months old emails are deleted. He did not expect me to tell him to hold up, walk to my workstation, pull up a side folder and bring his email full-screen in front of him, the CFO, the director of corporate security, and a couple other higher ups (IT and HR, i think?).
He was gone by the end of the week. :D
Nmrod561 · 3 points · Posted at 13:56:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lesson to be learned: CYA
WoodyWordPecker · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my favorite.
frenchbritchick · 67 points · Posted at 16:20:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I found some receipts that indicated that my ex was somewhere other than where he said he was. Receipts that featured two adult menus and one child menu.
I talked to my best friend about it because I was very distraught. First thing she said was "just so we're clear, it isn't me lol"
Of course it isn't I said.
Then as I'm texting her I'm still finding more receipts, so she's getting my reaction live on messenger as I'm pulling out receipts from the ex's bag.
And then I found one last receipt which had her name written on it.
So I said "and the final flourish, a receipt for a clothes shop, credited to the loyalty account of BEST FRIEND Care to explain? "
kittymctacoyo · 4 points · Posted at 23:23:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit!
bestem · 191 points · Posted at 16:22:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was 10, my sister was 5, and my other sister was 3. I don't know what the argument was about, but middle sister was trying to say something (loudly) to baby sister, and baby sister had her ears covered and was shouting "I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"
I really want them to stop arguing, so I can go back to reading my book. I look over at them, and not raising my voice at all I say "yes, you can."
Baby sister instantly replies "No, I can't!"
Middle sister and I just started laughing, which got baby sister to stop shouting. And then I was able to get back to reading without leaving our room.
jedipony1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That sounds like something my friend Bam would say. He's great
[deleted] · 228 points · Posted at 14:29:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Caught an ex cheating on me because the idiot forgot I was on their Snapchat. At first it was satisfying then it was very unsatisfying. I'd do it again though.
fallensummer · 9 points · Posted at 20:01:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Same-ish circumstances over here. The idiot forgot to sign out of Facebook on my iPod, the takedown was brilliant. I'd do it again as well, I enjoy the feeling of crushing someone out of pure revenge.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:11:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. I wish I would've had a clear mind so I could've planned a takedown for revenge. But I was blind with emotion. Oh well you live and you learn.
Jules_Noctambule · 9 points · Posted at 19:41:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Similar story but via Instagram. The look on his face when he realized he was caught is such a satisfying memory!
TheGoebel · 7 points · Posted at 21:24:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think people do that because they want to end the relationship but they're too chicken shit to do it. So they do something so awful it forces you to end it. Then they leave the evidence easy to find. I'm sorry that happened to you.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:09:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. I can't respect someone who can't end it themselves so they intentionally deeply hurt someone and make the person (me in this situation) hate them.
EsotericVerbosity · 6 points · Posted at 20:17:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So, uh, what'd they do that got them caught?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:07:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They posted a photo of themselves with someone else with one of those heart filters on. Then proceeded to post like 3 more photos that were practically the same, hearts and all.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:10:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where I live they just scream at you for not giving them money or trying to sell the ticket even if you are still standing right there.
hiyeuh · -4 points · Posted at 22:05:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you think cheating is just a regular thing? I have never cheated. Even if we aren’t “Facebook official.” But I always feel like she is cheating on me. She is so amazing, I couldn’t imagine her giving her love to just me...
But I am pretty ok too. Should I just have a few on the side too? I could do it. I don’t want to but it might make me feel more even? Even though idk if she has other guys on side for sure. I’m pretty sure but I have no real proof.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my opinion any decent person would never cheat. You don't want to get revenge by cheating too because you'd be no better than them. The best revenge is being successful without that person. Show them what they're missing.
With that being said investigate if you want to but don't get caught.
Flk1017 · -6 points · Posted at 01:30:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've done that before! I was cheating on my ex with her cousin! We posted blue hearts on each other's snaps and saying we miss each other! My ex put 2 and 2 together and told her cousin which was her cousins brother wich didn't know I was sleeping with his sister and was very protective over her! We go to my exes house im in the car and he walked up to my ex to give her something and she shows him her phone and showing him something. He looked back at me and back at the phone. Then I realized I fucked up and forgot she had both of our snaps! He got back in the car and said are you talking to my sister. I was scared af and said no lol. I ended up breaking up with my ex and being with the cousin for 4 years and she cheated on me with my coworker! Gotta love life and how it works lol
Diizr · 6 points · Posted at 07:57:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you deserved that ending.
coprolite_hobbyist · 326 points · Posted at 15:11:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was in the military, a senior NCO put in the paperwork to deny me re-enlistment. She waited until both the unit commander and my immediate supervisor were out on leave/TDY to do it and got the XO to sign off with her as my 'supervisor' despite the fact she wasn't in my chain of command. I had that shit reversed within 24 hours of getting to my next post. I told the admin guy what was up and he took one look at the paperwork and said 'fuck that'. The satisfying part was that she ended up coming through my new unit on a tour and I just leaned against a desk staring at her the whole time she was in our office. Bitch wouldn't look me in the eye, but she sure as shit saw me there a year after my first enlistment was up. Fuck that cunt.
shamanic_panic · 39 points · Posted at 18:06:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For those of us that have no idea about the military, what would have been the repercussions of her actions had she gotten away with it. For you I mean, what does being denied re enlistment do?
coprolite_hobbyist · 71 points · Posted at 18:11:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It means just that, I would not have been able to re-enlist. I'd be separated from the military and have to get a job to support my family. The really ironic part is that I didn't really want to re-enlist and was only considering it because it was guaranteed employment. Had she not tried that underhanded bullshit, I probably would have happily gone back to civilian life. It pissed me off so bad that I just felt like I couldn't let her get away with it.
shamanic_panic · 13 points · Posted at 18:15:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah that makes sense. What a cunty thing to do to a person. Was there a reason she had it in for you?
coprolite_hobbyist · 28 points · Posted at 18:25:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Officially it was something along the lines of "failure to adapt to a military environment" or somesuch. I think it was more that she just didn't like my attitude. I was junior enlisted and had a lot of contact with senior officers, I mean it was not uncommon for me to give a briefing in a room where the lowest ranking officer still had a star on his shoulder. The real problem is that when I was asked a question, I actually said what I thought and what I thought about what were were doing was that it was pretty fucked up. I wasn't that blunt, but the subtext was fairly clear.
dramboxf · 2 points · Posted at 22:59:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was your MOS?
coprolite_hobbyist · 3 points · Posted at 23:03:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wrong branch. I was an intelligence analyst.
dramboxf · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So, AF/USMC/USN?
coprolite_hobbyist · 2 points · Posted at 23:11:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, I was trying to keep things vague, but AF if you must know.
Edit: doesn't every one but the AF use MOS's?
dramboxf · 3 points · Posted at 23:25:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dunno. Thought MOS was for all services.
coprolite_hobbyist · 2 points · Posted at 23:31:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew army used it and I trained with some Marines so I knew they used it, I had to check and it looks like the Navy uses it too. Looks like the AF is the only one to use something different 'AFSC', Air Force Specialty Code. I guess we're special for some reason.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:36:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice.
But, why did she have this weird vendetta against you?
coprolite_hobbyist · 15 points · Posted at 19:21:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not really all that weird. I had a bad attitude and spoke my mind a little too often. Nothing that I could be disciplined for, but she just didn't think I belonged in that career field, so she tried to pull a fast one. Someone less knowledgeable about administrative procedures wouldn't have caught it and she would have gotten away with it. That kind of thing is pretty common in the military.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:03:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah. Im trackin. Im active, gonna retire soon
kelsifer · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why'd she want to do that though?
coprolite_hobbyist · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I answer that in another comment, but basically she didn't like my attitude. To be fair, I had a pretty bad attitude.
19-91 · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would she do that? Did something happen between you and her to make her not like you?
coprolite_hobbyist · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, pretty much. I spoke my mind a little too much for a junior enlisted and I wasn't happy about what we were doing or how we were doing it. Never anything I could actually be disciplined for, so she tried that sneaky shit.
ObviousLobster · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was her beef with you? That sounds awfully petty unless she had some kind of axe to grind.
coprolite_hobbyist · 5 points · Posted at 19:52:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess I should have included the reason in my post because everyone keeps asking. Anyway, it was basically a personality conflict. As a junior enlisted, you are mostly supposed to keep your mouth shut and wasn't very good at that. Never anything that I could be disciplined for, so she tried to be sneaky about it. And yeah, it was pretty petty on her part, which was why I was so happy I was able to engage in my own pettiness when she came on that tour.
ObviousLobster · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah I think she just didn't like all that old hard shit you were leaving around the place dude.
coprolite_hobbyist · 3 points · Posted at 20:39:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was before my turd fossil days. I think what really burned her ass was that I was good enough at my job that the CO and most of the people in my direct chain of command were willing to overlook my faults.
moriresvivir87 · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
They're some real asshole people in the military. When i processing out i got told by some steroid using Marine that i didn't belong in the corps because i was in the upper end of the max weight. He was a real POS who didn't even look decent in his blues but he was buff.
saltedeggcrab · 775 points · Posted at 14:13:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who is pretty much a compulsive liar and told everyone in our circle of friends a different story to victimise and take the blame off of himself when he was caught screwing up.
What he didn't know is that the rest of us began compiling inconsistencies in his stories. So when he was calling me to tell me what "happened", I refuted each lie in his story and made him explicitly admit that he lied to all of us and that he would have continued lying if I hadn't called him out on it.
Recorded and transcribed the call, sent it to all my other friends. Felt great.
MordorMordorMordor · 6 points · Posted at 15:23:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Zack Morris?
blorgbots · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you're not watching Zach Morris is Trash on Yewtoob, you really should. It's great. Best thing FunnyorDie has done in like.... 5 years. Not a lotta competition though
saltedeggcrab · 1 points · Posted at 07:03:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Huh?
LemurLo · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Woagh hol up do you go to wfhs
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:55:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
wut
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
wat
bluesox · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Saved By The Bell
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bayside
Booner999 · 710 points · Posted at 14:54:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in insurance and I've had my fair share of people lying to try to get cheaper insurance.
The best one was this lady who told me she didn't have any other drivers in her household of driving age (one of the company specific underwriting questions that, if not answered correctly, is considered non-disclosure and is a policy-cancelling offense).
One day we get a call about a claim on one of the vehicles she has on her policy (she has 4 vehicles btw, which is pretty fishy already for a single-driver household). She was hit by a guy driving one of our insured's vehicles. The lady that got hit took pictures of his insurance card, his license plates, etc. The guy that hit the lady then asked the lady for the phone so he could type in his phone number. She asked him what insurance company he had and he just spouted out that he had Geico. She then said "Wait.. I just saw your ID card and it wasn't for Geico!" That is when she noticed that he was deleting the photos she had taken. She grabbed her phone back and he ran back to his car and fled the scene.
The only picture that didn't get deleted was the one of the insurance card that was tied back to our insured.
This, of course, erected some major red flags. The first thing that happened was we called our insured asking if her vehicle had been in an accident. She said no. When then asked her again if she had anyone living in her household that was of driving age other than her. She again said no. After we got her recorded responses, we then took the issue to our underwriters who were able to pull records on that address. We found out that both of her sons, in their mid to late 20s, also lived in that household and had never been licensed elsewhere. Both sons had terrible driving records, both sons had been arrested on multiple occasions, and one son had been caught selling drugs.
We had to call the lady back and let her know that someone was claiming that her vehicle somehow hit this other vehicle on the date of the accident. She then said "Oh.. that date.. I.. thought I hit an animal. I didn't realize it was another car. The damage wasn't too bad so I didn't want to put a claim in." We the asked about the two guys with licenses tied to her household. She said "Oh those are my sons. They don't live her. " We got all of that on record as well. We took the new information back to the claims department, who were in contact with the person that got hit. That person decribed the person that hit her, including a cast on his leg with a boot.
This back and forth went on for a couple of weeks. Each time we called, she would dig herself a deeper hole and we would have to present this information to claims and underwriting.
Finally, they sent a claims represenative to her home and guess who answered the door! The son with the arrest record, who also happened to be wearing a walking boot and cast.
It turns out that these two guys, because of their terrible records, couldn't get insurance anywhere except with non-standard carriers with rates that were through the roof. The mom was sheltering them and claiming that all the vehicles were hers.
The other party got their claim paid, we still had to pay for their vehicle being repaird, but they got cancelled immediately after that. This lady had blatantly lied to my face time after time after time, so when she finally got caught up in all her lies, it was a freshly baked batch of karma! On a whim, I decided to do quotes for her and her sons through a non-standard carrier. The average premium was about $28k a year.
TL;DR: Compulsive liar was sheltering her sons and lying to get cheaper insurance which backfired dramatically when her son fucked up.
MadameSeRine · 87 points · Posted at 17:02:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm an insurance agent so I totally understand. It's incredible what people think that they can get away with, especially when they're really bad at lying.
Had a customer a couple of weeks ago who came into my office 2 minutes before closing rudely yelling at me to write her a policy because her old one (she only paid dp) had cancelled and her car got repossessed. I begrudgingly wrote the policy, but with this company we have to submit inspection photos if the vehicle has physical damage coverage. She said she'd bring it by Monday since the had to get the car back from her leinholder. Monday rolls around and I'm busy so I hand the office camera off to my boss to get the inspection photos. While he's taking the pictures she tells him a tree limb fell on her car causing scratches on the hood and to the windshield and he of course tells her not to file a claim because we have no proof that the damage wasn't already there and it MIGHT cost the amount of her deductible to get it fixed so she only get a small amount from.the I insurance company. She comes inside complaining about what my boss told her and I told her that he was absolutely right.
Flash forward to the next day when she comes in yelling and screaming that another limb fell onto her car. I ask her why she would park her car under a tree again after a branch had just fallen on it the previous day. She then backtracks saying that the tree is in a lot next to her house and a storm must have hurled the limb into her car (two days in a row) once we tell her that those are two separate incidents and therefore two separate claims she would have to file she storms out of the office coming back with a police report now claiming that someone vandalized her car. I ask her why she just told me that a limb fell onto her car and she starts screaming that she never said that to which my boss comes up there and starts screaming right back that she told him it was a limb yesterday that her car was parked under and caused the damage. She then corrects him saying that the tree was in her backyard where she parks the car and then goes right back to claiming that the damage was a vandal. At this point we pretty much tell her to go ahead and file the damn claim so that she would fuck herself over and she does.
Turns out that everything she told the claims department was contradictory as well, so a rep calls me asking some questions. I explain to the rep that the reason we dont have inspection photos from the day the policy was written was because at that time the insured did not have possession of the vehicle. This is another lie the insured told us because the vehicle had been given back to her two days prior and already had the damage to begin with so the entire claim was fraudulent and she will probably be getting sent out a non renewal. She might have been able to get away with it if she wasn't so stupid and could at least tell the same story.
On a side note I pulled up her address on Google maps and looked at the street view. She doesnt even live next to an empty lot in the first place so there was no way for a stray limb from a fictitious tree to come flying into her yard in the first place. People, am I right?
Booner999 · 30 points · Posted at 17:12:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha! Yep! That sounds about right!
We had a client who's roof got damaged by a hailstorm and they took the claims check, cashed it, and spent it on who knows what. Then, about a year later they put another claim in for hail damage. The claim inspector goes out and takes pictures. They realize that the pictures of the damage match up exactly to the pictures of the claim they put in the previous year. Our company denied the claim saying that it was the damage from the previous storm that was never fixed. Eventually the policy gets canceled due to claims frequency and we have to write them with another policy, but we can only do so if they have their roof repaired.
They call us back and say they finally get the repairs done. My boss goes out to inspect. He takes pictures. There is still significant damge to the roof, same places as the previous pictures, only he had duct taped a tarp around his chimney.
I guess duct tape and a tarp cost around $15k nowdays? That is what his claim check was for.
MadameSeRine · 20 points · Posted at 17:27:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh goodness! We have a customer who back in 2012 took out a home insurance policy and when the inspector came out and saw significant damage to her roof her policy was cancelled. She comes back into the office earlier this year and takes out another policy and the exact same thing happens. Apparently she goes around to different insurance companies and takes out a policy to get about a month or so of coverage for it to cancel and her just start the same process again, when she could just spend the money to at get some of the repairs done. We now have notes that we are not allowed to write a policy for her unless we have proof that she's had the repairs done, but it's been fiveish years since this started so I doubt she'll ever do anything about it.
Booner999 · 7 points · Posted at 17:37:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It is crazy what you come across in insurance. Those Farmers commercials are pretty accurate. XD
MadameSeRine · 4 points · Posted at 17:41:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha ha too true! :P
kittydentures · 4 points · Posted at 20:15:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am a legal assistant to a personal injury attorney and these kinds of cases give me life. We get both sides, too — the clients who lie to us as well as the defendants who are clearly lying to their insurance co’s attorneys. Either way, it’s just so satisfying to lay out the evidence in front of them and just enjoy the dawning realization that they fucked themselves by not being truthful.
MadameSeRine · 2 points · Posted at 00:43:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wish I could experience that feeling more often! When that happens at my office I mostly just have to deal with the aftermath of the customer though. Not always fun.
Angerman5000 · 23 points · Posted at 16:19:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
$28k per year????? How fucking bad a driver do you have to be?!
Booner999 · 31 points · Posted at 16:21:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It isn't the highest one I've ever seen.
The one that takes the cake was a $36k premium. The MVR report for the $36k quote was 19 pages long, including several DUI's and a couple of handfuls of reckless driving tickets thrown in.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:06:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For shits and giggles I've put a 1996 Volvo 240 with my details though comparethemarket . com and the highest premium listed was £107k. This was a couple of years ago now, I'd imagine it would be a bit cheaper now
Mackem101 · 4 points · Posted at 22:00:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wtf, we're you a young male at the time? Some companies purposely price themselves out of the market on comparison sites when it comes to young males with a short/non-existent driving record.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:06:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I still am a young guy (21 nearly 22 now, searches done when I was 19 or so), but I was even younger at the time. The search was done with the monthly installments option selected only, which pushed the price up further. If memory serves me correctly it was about £80k-£95k if paid in full.
If done now I suspect the high outlier prices will be less bonkers. Having my license a few years longer has a massive impact in reduction of premiums, even if my record is no longer clean (2 recorded accidents in 8 days in September 2016 - 1 at fault, and 1 not at fault).
Was tempted to call the insurer up with the same car and details and see what the reaction would've been for the telephone operator, but I couldn't be bothered.
Edit: just noticed your username. If you're a Sunderland supporter you have my condolences.
Mackem101 · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you, at least I get to experience something that my dad did, Sunderland in the 3rd division.
I think we'll get back to the Prem eventually, but it will take a lot of rebuilding and a good 5+ years.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The North East / Tyne and Wear needs a top flight derby, feels odd seeing just the one club in the Prem.
This new owner isn't that bad and is pretty cashed up - Eastleigh were one of the biggest spending clubs in the Conference/ National League (family member currently plays for Aldershot so I had been following the league as a whole).
Why couldn't he buy out the Dildo Brothers + co? :( Tbf Pellegrini is in charge now somehow AND WE FINALLY HAVE A DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT THAT (West Ham fan in case you didn't get that lol)
chrisms150 · 31 points · Posted at 15:59:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait really? Your company actually paid out even though the lady was committing insurance fraud? I figured your company would have said "tough shit policy is void bai" leaving the lady who was hit having to sue your "customer" (either them self or have her insurance go after her)
Also there was no arrest involved here? Isn't insurance fraud a big deal?
Booner999 · 32 points · Posted at 16:09:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Keep in mind, insurance laws have to be specific. Anything vague and they will rule in the favor of the client. Even though she was lying, there was enough insurable interest in the vehicle to have to cover this claim. They then used the non-disclosure as a reason for canceling her policy (not non-renewing... outright canceling).
She did lie about how the vehicle was titled as well and that is something they were having to overlook, which pissed my boss off.
I don't know about what happened to the son. Once we dropped her, we no longer had contact with her or the claims department on how this claim was being handled. Once a lawyer is involved we are no longer allowed to talk to a client about anything claim-related.
chrisms150 · 6 points · Posted at 16:23:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn that fucking sucks, I guess the laws are good to keep you guys honest, but man to people fuck the system as much as they can.
AirlinesAndEconomics · 7 points · Posted at 17:14:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So the lady used you guys for insurance and the guy that was hit used you guys for insurance?
And why was he deleting everything off her phone?
Booner999 · 12 points · Posted at 17:20:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The lady that was hit had a different company. They were exchanging information so they could handle the claim. The guy that hit her was not listed on his mom's policy even though he lived in the household. They lied about it so they could get cheaper coverage on his vehicle since he had too much stuff on his record to get his own policy.
He said he was putting his phone number in her phone so if they needed to contact him about the claim, they could call him. In reality, he never gave her his phone number and started deleting the pictures she had taken of his info and vehicle.
DarkFett · 16 points · Posted at 19:52:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was confused and had to read your original part of the story a few times. It sounds like the 'she' you're talking about is the lady who had the policy in the first place, so I thought she was the victim and the guy that hit her deleted pictures. Had to read further to get it was a different woman and the guy was her dirtbag son.
KarmicDevelopment · 5 points · Posted at 21:57:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had the same difficulty understanding. I think the story could have warranted names or labels for all of the involved parties instead of he, she, sons, and woman.
frogjg2003 · 10 points · Posted at 18:25:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's why you don't give a stranger your phone. They say the number out loud, which you immediately call.
AirlinesAndEconomics · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahhh! Thank you for the clarification!
MidnightDragon99 · 6 points · Posted at 18:57:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, that part made me laugh too hard. Jesus Christ lady, what sort of animals have you been seeing or how fucking big is your car?? A semi?? A tank??
Just strikes me as hilarious that she tried to say it was an animal.
onceuponatimeinza · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even a medium-sized animal (like a deer) can really fuck up your car
MidnightDragon99 · 3 points · Posted at 21:20:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, yes, I know that. But a car is bigger than a deer. I live where there’s deer, so I know that deer can fuck up a car.
onceuponatimeinza · 4 points · Posted at 21:32:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's almost as if the lady may have been bending the truth slightly
MidnightDragon99 · -1 points · Posted at 21:52:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was a joke, my man.
onceuponatimeinza · 5 points · Posted at 22:00:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was also joking...
MidnightDragon99 · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck. Lmao. Jokes over the internet are hard. Sorry my man.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She doesn't strike me as a compulsive liar so much as someone who thinks they beat the system.
spyczech · 2 points · Posted at 18:46:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Would her insurance go up after that, or any long term consequences for her?
Booner999 · 2 points · Posted at 12:27:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If she keeps a clean record for 5 years and the sons move out, she can get a lower premium policy again. Her son's arrest record was bad enough that he would have to keep a clean arrest record / driving record for more than 10 years before he could be rewritten with a standard company.
InsanityWolfie · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
$28,000 a year!! That's fucking insane. My insurance premium for 2 cars and 2 drivers is $1,200 a year.
Booner999 · 1 points · Posted at 12:28:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, my jaw dropped when I saw that one as well. Mind you, I have a clean driving record, one driver, one non-driver, and one vehicle and mine is nearly $1300 per year.
EDIT: I do have a few upgraded coverages though just from the paranoia of seeing what happens to people who don't have enough coverage.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh. I'm not proud of it. But my mom did the same for some of my siblings back in the day. It's just because we were a low-income family, and it helped them to pay her the lower rate that she got through insuring the cars under her. She eventually got caught, but I don't know the extent that she was penalized.
Given that we live in a state with some of the highest care insurance rates in the nation, I can't say I blame her, even though it was wrong. But fuck car insurance in my state. It's Goddamn ridiculous.
HullOggie · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair though, insurance is fucking extortionate.
Blueta · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The first few paragraphs dont make sense
Tarmogoyf424 · -9 points · Posted at 16:46:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Am I the only one who consider insurance as THE fraud?
rudbek-of-rudbek · 4 points · Posted at 19:55:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think insurance is a pretty good idea.
kittymctacoyo · 5 points · Posted at 20:29:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’d certainly change your mind if you were TBoned by a wreckless driver, totaled your car and injured yourself. You’d never be able to pick up the pieces of your life without that driver’s insurance compensation.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:21:45 on July 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. My FIL is dealing with issues because of this. He was hit by an uninsured driver. It was his best commuter car and he had just put several hundred dollars of work into it, had groceries in the trunk, just filled up the gas tank, and had just had a cervical spine fusion to help with major pain issues related to something completely separate.
The wreck ended up wrapping the back end of the car around to the drivers window (hard to explain, but while the drivers door was untouched, the drivers side rear paneling was within 6 inches of the window.... seems impossible, but FIL kept the car--to salvage parts I assume--and i have seen the damn thing in person.). His dad lost all of the groceries, the gas he just bought, his best commuter car, and worst of all, his ribs separated from his sternum, which he is still struggling with a year later (I dont think he had/has medical insurance either, as he just can not afford it). He is still wrapped up in the legal fiasco and is having difficulty even getting medical bills reimbursed by the other driver.
Also, while groceries, gas, and a older commuter car may not seem like much to most people, his dad has been out of work for a long time due to his spinal injuries, and had finally quit the workers comp program that was helping pay the bills months before the accident as it was a lot of political bs, and he figured he would try and get a job due to slightly increased mobility from the spinal surgery (minimum wage job). So he isnt in good shape financially. He also kind of lives on a farm, and owns cows and chickens, so hes required to do heavy lifting even in his free time, which is not helpful for healing sternal issues.
And for the uninsured driver, I suppose her issues may be large as well, though I dont feel too bad for her. The wreck was entirely her fault, she was irresponsible for driving without insurance, and she was trash talking my FIL online after the wreck. She had just gotten a new truck, which is what she was driving uninsured. I'm unclear on if the vehicle was totaled in her case (pick up vs Grand Prix). She also likely owes my FIL several thousand for just his medical bills, let alone whatever his vehicle was appraised at, and legal fees. Though it may take a while, eventually she will get what is coming to her, and hopefully he will be able to pay his medical bills and get better.
f15k13 · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reckless
kittymctacoyo · 2 points · Posted at 21:09:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ha! I used talk to text feature and didn’t catch that
Tarmogoyf424 · -5 points · Posted at 20:33:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't struggle in the USA. Where I live, this is taken care of by our social security. Keep struggling murica.
mechanicalsam · 7 points · Posted at 22:29:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would love to not pay health insurance, and instead pay higher taxes for universal healthcare, but that opinion is extremely unpopular in the southern state in which I live. We'd rather pay for a 54 billion increase in military spending because reasons.
Mackem101 · 3 points · Posted at 22:04:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I live somewhere with free health care and a welfare system, we still need at least 3rd party insurance on our vehicles, someone has to pay for any damage you cause to property.
Sour_sghetti · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why?
PNW_Baker · 57 points · Posted at 16:11:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom used to tell me all the time that my brother (14 at the time) kept disappearing I'm the hospital the day I was born. It turned out he kept going to the nursery to see baby me. During my teenage years I started joking about being switched at birth and my mom replied "Nuh uh. I never let the nurses take you away from me. Not for a second." Well which one was it Linda?
jedipony1 · 2 points · Posted at 06:42:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you explain this a bit better?
sunshineandcloudyday · 7 points · Posted at 08:06:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's a running joke in OPs family that when OP was born, his older brother kept disappearing to watch OP while he was in the nursery. OP's mom also claims she never let baby OP out of her sight. So one of those must be a lie since if OP was in the nursery, he would be out of her sight.
jedipony1 · 3 points · Posted at 08:17:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you.
jacksonater27 · 63 points · Posted at 16:56:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
During my Outward Bound course (summer camp), one of my group members one-upped anything and everything. If you had done something he had done it better. If you had watched something and had an opinion on it, he had a better one. Anyway, the rest of the group and I made up a tv show to talk about to catch him in the act. We called it “Judgement” and started a bs conversation about the characters and how we were excited for season 2. When we asked him about it, he was an EXPERT on the show. In fact, it was his favorite show! It just happened to not exist. We never told him but it was very satisfying seeing him bullshit an entire conversation about a fake show.
TheGuardianX · 7 points · Posted at 00:56:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know a guy who's a compulsive liar and has some need to one up anything said in his vicinity, this dude's(lets call him Bort) catchphrase is "bro! You think that's crazy!?" Proceed to bullshit. Bort's the type of person who doesn't have a conversation with someone, it's a god damn monologue where he just talks non-stop. I realise, after re-reading, this isn't related but I just wanted to rant and your story reminded me of good ol' Bort.
drf129 · 159 points · Posted at 16:45:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have an employee that misses a ton of days he claims it’s because he has ptsd from his time in Iraq. Every time he does something wrong he claims it’s because of his ptsd from combat. 2 days ago my assistant managers and I are talking about him because he hasn’t been to work in 4 straight days all no call no shows I call him over to tell him I’m going to have to terminate him. He sat arts going off screaming and ranting about how I know about his past and all he has gone through. His aunt who also works for the company walks across the lot and says “ I can’t take this anymore!” “This boy didn’t even make it in to the army! He has never been outside the country and definitely didn’t go to Iraq!” He ran off screaming at her calling her a bitch.
Asariel2011 · 10 points · Posted at 22:15:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How long had she covered for him?
LittleSeneca · 249 points · Posted at 15:13:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had just met this guy, he was a friend of a friend, and we were making small talk. I asked him what he liked to do for fun. He told me that he was into sports, all of them! He then said that he also enjoys working out and lofting weights. I got excited, because I am active in the strength sport community and am a powerlifter. I asked him if he knew anything about the local competition that was coming up. He said he did and was interested in signing up. I told him that he totally should do it, because it would be a lot of fun. I then asked, "What's your best lift?". Note, in powerlifting, there are exactly three reasonable answers to this question. Squat, Bench, and Deadlift. His answer, "Leg Press". I was like, "oh....uhhhh, and you said you are into powerlifting?" And he was like, "Yeah! I even have a few local records, but that is back in Alabama. I set the Altima leg press record for my leage" And that's when I congratulated and then never trusted another word he said.
Powerlifters don't use rails.
SirensToGo · 36 points · Posted at 18:30:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wouldn’t it be pretty obvious if they were a power lift record holder? Like I’ve seen pictures of these guys and they look like they could punch a lion dead
onceuponatimeinza · 8 points · Posted at 21:27:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can be a liar and have muscles, ya know
notarealfetus · 6 points · Posted at 00:37:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Depends. Powerlifters train for strength not hypertrophy (big muscles). Often hypertrophy is a side effect of strength training but at the same time i've seen dudes who I wouldn't look twice at musclewise lift crazy weights.
Also depends how lean they are, a little fat can cover up a lot of muscle.
OG_Flex · 12 points · Posted at 17:41:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to be into powerlifting. And then I opened a gym. Now I barely workout 😂
ObviousLobster · 20 points · Posted at 20:54:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should start a dodgeball team
yourfavoritegay · 6 points · Posted at 23:39:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, this one sounds like he might have been confused.
Llohr · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm picturing a dude throwing weights as high as he can. :)
tackores · 2 points · Posted at 01:28:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Powerlifters do use rails lmao. Nothing wrong with the leg press as an accessory exercise per say only if you use it to substitute squats completely. Hell tons of WR holding powerlifters do pin squats, rack pulls, tons of variations/accessories that involve rails.
UnicornPanties · 10 points · Posted at 03:10:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not for "best lift" qualifying activities though, that seems to be what OP is saying.
warrenwolfy · 103 points · Posted at 21:16:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I made a bully cry.
Some critical set-up information first:
When I was 11, I got the best Christmas present any kid in 1982 could have gotten: the AFX Lazer 2000 wall-climbing slot-car race-track set. My parents were not rich, and the only way they were able to afford it was they invoked the normally-dreaded, "This is both your birthday and your Christmas present," rule (my birthday is December 20th), both to split the cost and to prevent my older brothers from committing jealously induced fratricide.
I loved that race-track, but of course by the time Spring rolled around I'd grown bored with it. I still appreciated it, though, and I would make the effort every few weeks to set it up and play with it for a while, mostly for the benefit of letting my parents know their financial sacrifice had not been in vain.
One day, I went over to a friends' house, and when I arrived he immediately pulled me aside and whispered to me, "My cousin is here. He's staying with us for a few months. Be careful around him, he's a troubled kid."
In 1980s speak, 'Troubled kid', typically meant abuse victim with behavioural problems.
Let's call him, "Tim".
Tim was several years older than me. He was tough, he was loud, he was impulsive. He was always bragging about how he had the very best BMX at home, several Wayne Gretzky hockey cards at home, how he actually had a real full-sized Pac-Man arcade game at home, and so on, and so on.
It was all lies, obviously. But we didn't call him on it, because the truth was that he had an alcoholic father and an absentee mother at home. He was staying with his cousin because he'd been expelled from his school and had to finish the school year somewhere else. Apparently, Tim was the school bully, and the school had finally had enough.
The thing is, Tim and I just kind of hit it off. I was a small, quiet, meek, kid, so we couldn't have been more different, but somehow we just got along. I never saw anything of the violent side of him. We would talk about whatever, and I would let his lies just slide.
One day, I went over to visit and found that they had set up an old AFX race-track. As soon as I joined in, I realized something was different. Tim was practically holding court, demonstrating exactly how to tear down, lubricate, tweak, and re-assemble the tiny AFX cars to squeeze slight speed increments from each vehicle. And he wasn't just spouting his usual B.S., either, he actually knew what he was talking about this time.
We had a lot of fun, because unlike with my out-of-the-box set, it wasn't just about squeezing a trigger, instead you had to actually do something just right to get your vehicle to win. Tim was, for the first time I'd ever seen, actually speaking about a subject he was a legitimate expert in. He would give us the advice, and we would genuinely listen.
Tim eventually decided he wanted to show me his pride and joy: a broken AFX GTX car. The GTX models, he explained, were capable of up to 6000 mph scale speeds, unlike the regular AFX cars which could only manage 4000 mph scale. Tim was trying to fix the car, but the most he could get it to do was run for about half a second or so. In retrospect, the brushes were probably worn out from heavy use, but none of us knew that at the time.
That's when I made a bad judgement call. I told Tim to wait, I had to run home, but I'd be right back. I rode my bike home, dug out my 2 Lazer 2000 GTX cars, and while I was doing that I noticed that the box clearly said that Lazer 2000 GTX cars were even faster than regular AFX GTX cars. They could go 8000 mph scale.
I got back, put one of my cars on the track, and squeezed the controller. My car started literally lapping all the others. It was indeed almost exactly double the speed, no tweaking, no tuning, no special lubrication.
I looked over at Tim, and it was like he'd just melted. The excitement was gone. He didn't get mad or anything, but you could tell I'd just accidentally killed his passion. I distinctly remember him picking up the pieces of his prized GTX car that he'd been trying to repair and quietly dumping them in a box.
I took my cars home that night and thought about what I'd done. I felt terrible. I decided that I was going to buy Tim his own Lazer 2000 GTX car for his birthday.
The local Hobby Hut was selling them for $30 (Canadian) each, which in 1982 dollars is about $78 today. Over the next couple of weeks I collected up my paper route money, and when I finally had enough I went to go purchase it.
When I got to the counter, though, there, in a special limited-edition protective carrying case, was the brand-new, gold-trimmed, limited-edition ultra-fast GTX 10000. It was capable of 10000 mph scale, and it had a price tag to match: $45
I knew I had to get it, so I borrowed the extra $15 from my mom after explaining exactly why I needed it. She was skeptical, asking me if I was absolutely sure, but I assured her I was.
Fast-forward to the day before Tim's birthday, and we're playing AFX cars again, and I'm smiling to myself as Tim is trying to convince himself and everybody else that he now doesn't care about his GTX car not working, about how he's fine with the slower cars, and that yeah the Lazer 2000 cars are fun, but they're hard to work on compared to the regular models and since he's going to become a mechanic one day it's more important to learn how to fix model cars than to just have the fastest one.
When it's time to leave, I realize I can't find one of my cars. We all look for it, but can't find it. I ask Tim if he’s seen it, and he says no. Since I'll be back tomorrow, I decide I'll find it then.
The next morning I arrive for Tim's birthday, and his cousin pulls me aside and whispers to me, "Tim stole your car."
I nodded, thanked him, and said it would be okay.
I mean, yeah, I should have been mad, but I guess it somehow all seemed to made sense to me. Tim didn't actually have any friends. Even his cousin and his aunt treated him with a kind of distance to the relationship. He was, indeed, "troubled", and so he'd stolen my car, not because he wanted to hurt me, but because he just couldn't help himself.
When it came time for Tim to open his gift I was watching, and when he realized exactly what it was he did that same melting thing. You could tell it crushed him emotionally, but this time in a good way.
Later, Tim came up to me.
"Warren, why did you buy me that car?"
"Because you're my friend."
"But, why? Why did you buy it for me?"
"Because you're my friend."
He then showed me the car he'd stolen from me.
"Warren, I stole your car. I was going to keep it."
"I know."
"Why would you give me that present, then?"
"Tim, you're my friend. I knew you'd love it. That's what friends do for each other."
We raced, and Tim's new car could indeed beat mine.
My cousin told me later that Tim had spent the night crying. He confessed everything to his aunt (even though she already knew), and just kept repeating how he didn't understand, how it made no sense that I'd just bought him the fastest, best AFX car in the world, just because we were friends, even though he'd stolen from me and lied to me about it.
Tim went back home to his parents a few days later, and I never saw him again. I don’t know what happened to him. I hope that my friendship had an effect on him, and that he did manage to become a mechanic.
TL;DR – Habitually-lying bully steals my toy car and lies about it. When he finds out I knew he was lying, but was still his friend anyway, he cries his eyes out.
kittymctacoyo · 10 points · Posted at 02:38:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the best story here :(
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 23:16:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's really nice of you
TheNessLink · 6 points · Posted at 01:38:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
dude that was super cool of you
Thursdays_Child77 · 5 points · Posted at 02:47:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s more wholesome than I was expecting out of this thread. I hope Tim is doing ok too.
kayneargand · 4 points · Posted at 07:00:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats ok i didnt need my eyes anyway
OriginalIronDan · 5 points · Posted at 12:41:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I need new ones. These are leaking.
Schattentochter · 3 points · Posted at 20:56:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have no words for how much I appreciate what you did there, man. Thanks for making this world a warmer place for this guy even though most would've understood had you decided against it. You're awesome.
runningthroughcircle · 3 points · Posted at 13:10:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This made me cry, you were a genuinely great person here 😊
GallicanCourier · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:00 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck you, you made me cry too
ItsAllComingUpRoses · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:01 on July 15, 2018 · (Permalink)
Favorite story in this thread 😭😭
bumbleesandcupsoftea · 51 points · Posted at 17:34:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom made my sister complete a math workbook over a summer break. My sister tried to cheat, found the answer key and copied answers for a lesson. My mom checked her work and...one of her answers reads “answers will vary.” 😂
squidforlife · 140 points · Posted at 17:18:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess this is kind of the opposite of this question, but the most frustrating lie I ever heard. I was in high school and 5’4”. Girl in my class was 5’9”. She told me she was 5’3”. I basically said uhhh I’m 5’4 and you’re way taller than me. she then tried to convince me I was actually about 5 feet tall. It was the weirdest and most pointless lie I ever heard and there really was no good way to argue about it.
greedyiguana · 8 points · Posted at 23:54:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
there weren't any rulers or anything around?
BattleBoltZ · 6 points · Posted at 03:46:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s crazy. When I was in high school there was this short girl, maybe 5 feet tall, that kept insisting I was 5 foot 9 and she was 5’ 4” even though I was 5’ 3”!
[deleted] · 427 points · Posted at 14:52:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess it’s not a huge deal, but was playing competitive overwatch - single queue. All six of us were randoms and pitted against a six stack. We were getting our asses kicked. It wasn’t even remotely close. You could barely even consider it a fight.
One kid, sounded early teens, was Pharah and kept bitching at every one else. Healers are shit, tanks are awful, flankers aren’t doing anything, etc. we were all switching up roles to try to find something that works, but he refused to give up Pharah “I have gold eliminations” he cried. “You guys just aren’t doing anything!”
There was a bit of silence, then I checked. I, a healer, also had gold eliminations “yeah, first off, medals don’t matter. Second, gold eliminations is ONE. So that’s nothing to brag about.”
He kept complaining. Kept blaming everyone else. Refused to switch or try to go in as a group, whatever. Then it finally happened. His face pops up in the corner having killed someone.
Gold eliminations was still one.
This entire time he had been lying. “How is gold still one if you just killed someone and already had gold?”
Silence.
“The game must have messed up. I promise!” His voice started to crack. “It does this sometimes. I’ve always had gold!”
None of us bought it.
We might have been thoroughly and deservingly getting our collective asses handed to us, but catching this little whiny brat in such an obvious lie, and hearing him stutter to try to cover up said lie - especially when having medals is completely meaningless - made that entire match worthwhile.
I didn’t care that the team lost. It felt like a win.
osound · 58 points · Posted at 15:43:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
the Overwatch community in a nutshell. all it takes is one of six team members to be a shitstain and the game is lost.
hr_shovenstuff · 25 points · Posted at 15:40:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t play over watch, what’s gold eliminations?
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 15:51:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
While playing, the game tracks certain stats - amount of damage, eliminations (number of kills), healing performed, etc. the top 3 for your team in each category is given a medal (bronze, silver, and gold). You’re able to see if you have a medal in any of the categories at any given time, but you can’t see what medals your teammates have, or if they have one at all.
In my story, someone claimed to have the highest elimations, at which point we all checked and saw that we all had the highest (we all only had one kill). Then later we all saw him get a kill, but the highest was still only one, so he was lying before when he claimed to have had the highest.
golden_n00b_1 · 13 points · Posted at 16:39:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So the gold elimination medal would be awarded to the top killer on the team? Like he was saying I won't change because I am getting the most kills on the team (or in the top 3 players with kills since 3 people get gold)?
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:49:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Correct. Top killer would have gold eliminations, 2nd most would be silver, and third would be bronze.
f15k13 · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Players with the same number of elims share the medal. If gold elims is 1, several people have probably gotten 1 elim.
On top of that, eliminations aren't kills. Eliminations are kills+assists.
Overwatch doesn't make a big deal out of solo kills, as it's a very heavily team-oriented game and focus fire is very valuable. If it only rewarded solo kills people would be less likely to focus fire, instead trying to get this valuable solo kills so they can have the shiny medal that only they can see.
golden_n00b_1 · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a fun game, someday I will have to give it a shot. Too bad the team can't see the stats at the end of the game thoigh, I can see how it would be used against some new players or people who want to try a new character though. That is really just a gamer priblem in general though, and I don't know what can be done to help with the problem, sometimes people take their team games too seriously. Those people should probably join a grenade team or a clan though.
hr_shovenstuff · 7 points · Posted at 17:25:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahh I see okay. Thanks for explaining lol, I wanted to understand this kids bullshit properly.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 17:27:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sure thing!
To simplify:
Kid: “you guys suck - I have the most kills” Me: “we all have the most kills. It’s one” Kid gets a kill but the most is still one
CosmoZombie · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, I finally get it now... Took me long enough lol
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:09:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was absolutely satisfying.
Also is it just me or are Pharah mains the worst to play with?
Then again as a support main im just sick of Pharahs that need constant pocketing and also being solo ullted by Pharah is the worst.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:14:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I find someone that’s ACTUALLY good with pharah I usually friend them. Pharmercy is devastating at lower tiers
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I imagine it can be a pain higher up assuming someone is willing to try it.
cokuspocus · 7 points · Posted at 18:01:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
While I tell myself I was good with pharah when I played I know in my heart I probably sucked ass but I’m not a toxic player. I know I suck and I will tell you if we’re losing that it’s probably my fault.
doshdoshdoshdosh · 5 points · Posted at 21:12:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd rather play with bad players who have fun than good players who are toxic. You do you, bud
jsmiel · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I relate to you so much.
I don’t understand why we can’t see the kda/basic stats of the whole lobby if not the whole team. I mean they do it so people don’t get flamed for being bad but when they don’t even consider trying to cooperate.. they should be flamed.
That why when I get Insta-locked Genji, Hanzo, Doomfist, Widow teammates who are most often ass at the game, we could all just see they aren’t doing anything and they can’t hide behind this veil to avoid switching to a more useful role.
The best I can do is look up stats and be like “hey man I don’t mean to be a jerk but you have a 30% win rate across 100 games as Hanzo would you consider playing someone else” then they tell me to fuck off lol.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I sort of get it. The stats are meaningless for the most part. Take win rate - I’m not good with Zen, but I have a 70% win rare because the few times I use him, it works really well with the comp and my team does well. I have under 50% win rate with Mercy, not because I’m bad with her, but because over half the time we have 5 inta-lock dps that refuse to switch so I have to solo heal with no tank.
The only time I bitch about stats is when we have 3 or 4 dps and I have gold damage as a healer or tank. Then I say whoever doesn’t have a fucking medal needs to be our 2nd healer or 2nd tank or whatever our comp needs because they clearly aren’t doing shit
jsmiel · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I get what you’re saying but that’s why I include “across 100 games” because if it’s significantly below 50% across many uses it’s fair to say they’re most likely related.
I agree with your second point though. Most games that are lost by my team’s selection are when we have too many dps picks and they lack the awareness to say “I’m not doing my role well enough, so I need to find a way to contribute.” 3-4 dps can lead to wins if they are actually good, but more often than not this is not the case.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve gotten to the point that I just don’t even join voice chat anymore. I don’t think I’ve had a single game all week with less than 4 dps.
jsmiel · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone I know in real life (who was quite bad at the game) once said “I have to go offense because I can’t trust these randoms to do damage,” but always performed horrendously in an offensive role.
Eventually it hit me and I was like “you are the randoms. You’re literally the player we all hate to get matched with.”
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my closest friends has a brother that I play overwatch with. I like the guy just fine, I just know the other guy a lot better.
Anyway, my close friend hardly plays but me and the brother play a good bit... but I would mute/block/avoid him if I didn’t know him. He’s actually pretty good, but just super annoying in voice on purpose. Just says cringey or creepy things nonstop. Says racist shit even though he isn’t racist at all. Basically just trolls when he’s online and I just don’t get it.
jsmiel · 4 points · Posted at 17:10:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think there is a part of gaming culture that does that. Idk there’s an obnoxiousness in a lot of gamers when their voice can be heard for some reason. I have a friend who talks to our party chat like he’s a steamer and we’re his audience and it makes me realize some people don’t converse on a game like they would in real life, similar to your friend’s brother though maybe in a different way.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can see that. For whatever reason I instantly become like a tactical leader - whether it’s warranted or not. Tell people what they need to be doing, make quick decisions on the fly, etc, and I’m not like that in person. In person I’m far more chill and just down for whatever anybody else wants to do
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s always those DPS mains, man. They all think they’re MLG Pro.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What’s obnoxious is sometimes I’ll get frustrated, switch to dps, secure gold in every category all while being on fire, then go back to tank/support and they’ll still insist that they’re needed for their skill on dps.
itsjisoo · 2 points · Posted at 23:11:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember playing 76 one day and having the junkrat on our team screaming at me to get off soldier bc I wasn't killing the pharah. he was teamed up with a mercy who was pocketing him.
I tried to tell him that I couldn't do a damn thing when I wasn't getting healed but he wouldn't listen. kept yelling.
so I got our rein and dva to cover me, ulted and killed half their team so we could capture the point. played DPS next round despite him still bitching and played a big role in making sure we held point A and won.
he bitched the whole time about having gold elims/damage, but at the end of it all.... our rein got a card for 3 gold medals.
Captain_Baldy · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is it worth getting back into Overwatch? Havent played in a while, last time i remembered doomfist came out. Did anything change to Hanzo for the better or for the worse?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hanzo is the single best dps right now - if you’re good. The problem is most people are trash but still play him anyway.
Brig was released recently (I main her) and she seriously changed things up. Dive isn’t nearly as viable since she punishes it hard.
I can’t tell you if it’s worth coming back - I played the beta and preordered the game, but didn’t really start playing until December of last year.
Captain_Baldy · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So does that mean Hanzo is now more based on actual accuracy and calculating the geometry and the velocity of charged arrows and such? I remember Every Hanzo player using scattershot and raping everyone
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:46:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Scattershot has been removed (thank god - it’s not hard to aim in someone’s general direction).
It was replaced with volley (I think that’s what it’s called) which lets him fire six shots extremely quickly at reduced damage. Accurate players can tear through targets with this. They also increased his regular arrow’s velocity so he’s better at taking down fast moving or airborn targets. And they gave him a movement ability to get into and out of combat easier.
One of the best comps right now is Rein, Zarya, Mercy, Brig, and Zen, with Hanzo as the solo DPS due to his versatility
KenDefender · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The crap DPS claiming everyone else is crap is pretty much a staple of Overwatch competitive. That said, your story reminds me most of playing Heroes of the Storm, because in that game you can see every player's kills, deaths, and participations. So many times i've had a team member go on and on about how we're only losing because of another player, when there is mathematical proof that they are playing worse than anyone else. That game has the toxic atmosphere of any i've played. I swear more games are lost from defeatism and teammates distracting each other than actual skill or balance deficits.
Kreatorkind · -1 points · Posted at 17:40:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Stolen valor is no joke son. Many a man braver than him fought and died for those medals. I didn't lose a leg in Vietnam so some little wet shit could claim a medal he had no business even laying eyes on. If I were 30 years younger, I'd fuck his mom and get her arrested for statutory rape.
naturalluci · 212 points · Posted at 16:11:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught myself.
I used to lie for attention in my early teens to early twenties. It got so bad that I even believed some of it myself. Once I was finally caught and rock bottom with nobody I decided to get therapy Its been a hard road but I've recovered well and my mental health, relationships, friendships, my physical health, Everything has recovered for me.
I'm very satisfied with that.
I recommend anyone reading this thread if you're going through a severe bout of compulsive lying, Please get help. Its only going to hurt you in the end. Be honest with yourself and everyone around you. You may burn some or even most bridges when your lies are revealed but you'll be better off shedding that mental weight and seeing a professional. I couldn't recommend it more.
GutShotRunningGin · 11 points · Posted at 18:39:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is very important, thank you for posting it.
naturalluci · 2 points · Posted at 13:08:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much bless you my friend <3
19-91 · 8 points · Posted at 20:11:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is really great to hear! Thanks for being so honest about your situation.
naturalluci · 1 points · Posted at 13:07:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hehe, Thanks a lot! Part of recovery is to never deny what I did in the past <3 Bless you
iGalaxy_ · 4 points · Posted at 19:21:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lying.
It's one of the most useful skills one can have if you know the 2 rules.
NEVER LIE TO YOURSELF. No matter what always be brutally honest with yourself.
Always make sure you can't get caught in a lie. And if you are make a bigger lie to cover for your lie. Never get caught purposefully in a lie.
Lie about very small and insignificant things purposefully badly so the other person knows and later on act as if your tormented trying hide the lie from them do pretend to open up completely and be remorseful and come clean. They will be fooled into thinking your a bad lier and can't lie to them without breaking down and coming clean. Now when you flawlessly lie about the important things they won't suspect a thing.
Tell a lie absurd and big enough and people will believe you. Look at hitler or Stalin or any other leader.
Edit: Obvious satire so really downvoted?
I used hitler and Stalin as examples said 2 rules and listed 4 completely bullshit nonsensical rules.
vampire-182 · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait a minute...
iGalaxy_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You've been lied to....
naturalluci · 1 points · Posted at 13:10:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hahaha! I understood your satire no worries, I think I'll stick to rule 1 and to make my own rule if I may? To be honest with others.
Bluedime777 · -1 points · Posted at 19:31:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
the two rules huh....
iGalaxy_ · -1 points · Posted at 19:35:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your missing the point: Lies.
findingemotive · 138 points · Posted at 15:21:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My two friends and I got triforce tattoos together in 2011. We stopped for coffee and a guy saw one of theirs and immediately started hitting on her, tried bragging that he held the Speedrun record for Super Mario 2, at a time less than half the current world record. I was so excited to catch someone in such a fringe topic lie.
HEYitzED · 10 points · Posted at 20:26:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait you actually knew the world record by heart? Impressive.
LetsSynth · 12 points · Posted at 22:07:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No one is casually into speedrunning, and you tend to see TONS of rankings very close to the actual record
unobros · 4 points · Posted at 02:00:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey! I'm casually into speedrunning. Its because I find the progression videos that a youtuber makes really soothing I think tho.
findingemotive · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks, though there were much fewer to remember back then.
JarlMTG · 8 points · Posted at 19:18:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
IT'S A MASTAHPIECE BAYBEEE, SUPAH MARIO BROTHERS 2!!!
jrad1299 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Morr dongle
Sally-exe · 47 points · Posted at 15:37:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy I work with constantly spouts bullshit stories. You know the type of guy that’s nice enough but is always going on about the things he’s done and always has a better story than you- and you know it’s 90% bullshit. Starts telling us a story on how he went on a pub crawl in city so my boyfriend starts telling him how he went drinking in the same city and went to this amazing motorcycle bar. ‘Oh yeah I went there, it was awesome’ ‘No you didn’t, I made it up. It doesn’t exist.’ Que awkward stuttering ‘urm, I must’ve been somewhere similar then’ Cruel, but satisfying to see someone called out on their bullshit.
bttrflyr · 46 points · Posted at 16:02:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at a movie theatre as an assistant manager in an snooty upper middle class suburb of Denver that had signs that said “The Pride of Colorado” so people had no shortage of money or attitude. One day these two older ladies come into guest services, they speak to the employee working the desk and complain that “the newspaper listed the times for such and such movie but your marquee has different times, we think we should get free tickets for your mistake.”
Employee calls me up there as he was not authorized to give free passes, normally I wouldn’t give a crap and just come their tickets to get them to go away. But the fact they specifically asked for it, I knew they were just trying to scam us out of some free tickets. So I listened to there complaint, that the newspaper listed the wrong times and that they should get free passes for our mistake.
“I apologize for the confusion, I just happened to have a copy of the newspaper right here so let’s check the times to make sure they are correct.”(the theatre a,ways kept a copy of the days newspaper on file so we could verify they printed everything correctly that day) and lo and behold, the times were correct!
The ladies looked flustered so I tried to suggest that maybe they accidentally looked at a different film and misread the times. However I told them, sorry no, I cannot give yo7 free tickets here. They got a little flustered, bought their tickets and quickly went into their movie. The employee definitely had a smug look on his face too which,are the whole thing even more satisfying!
TL;DR two ladies in snooty, upper middle class suburb tried to scam movie theatre out of free movie tickets, called BS on their lie and no free tickets.
Nerdolicious3 · 45 points · Posted at 16:25:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Happens all the time at work. I am in charge of email and all communication for a large company. A few weeks ago one of the head people in accounting freaked the hell out that a large folder in her mailbox was missing. She accused “someone else” of going into her mailbox and sabotaging things. When I assured her that no one else in the company has access to her mailbox she turned on me and accused me. She had a complete freak out and got my boss involved. As it turns out she deleted the folder herself and then cleared out her deleted items and didn’t want to admit her mistake. When I provided her with the audit logs showing that SHE deleted the folder and recovered all her items I didn’t even get a thank you or apology from her. My boss and I had a good laugh about it afterwards.
Don’t lie to IT. Just don’t. Everything you do may be recorded in audit logs and you’ll end up looking like an idiot.
alexbuckland · 1 points · Posted at 10:23:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What do you use that audits folder deletions?
Exchange?
Nerdolicious3 · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We use O365. Mailbox auditing isn’t natively enabled when a new user or mailbox is set up, so I wrote a little script that runs weekly to enable it for all new boxes. It’s nice because you can choose which operations you want logged and do not have to provide the storage space for the audit logs.
sarahamanda88 · 48 points · Posted at 18:26:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I dated this complete loser off and on for about 10 months. In the last several months I ended it (he swore I was cheating on him and amidst the fight he confesses he has been talking to another girl). A month or so later he comes back saying "please give me another chance" and that he had ended things with the other girl. Stupid me agreed to give it one more shot but were just going to be talking - not officially a couple.. Whatever. Anyway I noticed his relationship status on Facebook and MySpace (I know) never changed to single after ending things with the other girl. He acted like he just never got around to doing it. Well he stayed at my place one night and he had to go to work the next day. He accidently left his phone at my place, and I looked through it of course. He had been texting with the girl he supposedly broke up with while he was with me, saying "I love you". So I called the girl from his phone. Asked if they were dating (they were) and told her who I was and what was going on. He called me from work and asked me if I could bring his phone to him at work. I said sure and didn't let on that I knew anything. Before taking him his phone, I met up with the girl and rode with her in her car to take him his phone. He looked like he was about to die, it was great.
I heard from another source that he was so distraught that he had to leave work early and then decided to go drinking to drown his sorrows I guess. When he was pulling out of the restaurant he got pulled over and got a DUI (again). But he told his family and everyone that I called the cops on him and that's why he got pulled over 🙄. I could literally write a book on all the lies this guy told.
Digital_Fire · 90 points · Posted at 16:43:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok, so this is only sort of my story.
A few years ago I started dating my current boyfriend. We were introduced by a couple of mutual friends, so I thought "hey, great, he'll get along with the rest of our friends." Then things started to get weird.
A few months later my bf was dealing with pretty severe depression, so I sort of disappeared from my friends for a bit to help him (a little too much to be honest, it caused a lot of issues). I would occasionally try and get him to hang out with a good friend of mine's wife, because their interest are damn near identical, but he was super resistant to the idea. After about a year of this I started running a D&D game in an attempt to reconnect with a couple of friends (including one of the mutual ones), and invited him to join me, since he'd never played.
He wouldn't play, and we started arguing a lot, particularly on days I ran the game. In all honesty we should have probably broken up (though I'm glad we didn't). Eventually the game fizzled and died.
After maybe a year and a half of not seeing my friends, I FINALLY convince my bf to text my one friend's wife. They get to talking and eventually hang out. That's when the truth came out.
See, one of the mutual "friends"(the one I didn't play D&D with) had been telling my bf for months and months that all of my friends were constantly talking shit on him and that they hated him, which is why he'd never wanted to hang around any of them. She'd made my friends wife out to be a horrid bitch. And to really clinch it, she told him that I was really attracted to the other mutual friend and that we used to make out(he's straight, but drunkenly gave me a peck on the lips once a couple years before I met the bf), so my bf had been super jealous as well.
But there's more. She'd been telling the friend group that my bf thought they were all just a bunch of alcoholics, that the bf hated them and was keeping me from them, that the bf was spending all my money so I could barely pay bills (which I couldn't, but that had more to do with the fact that I worked at McDonald's). Just a whole bunch of shit.
She's still on the periphery of that friends group (she rotates people to get to feel sorry for her, but that's another story), and still tries to start shit, but mostly everyone is done with her shit at this point.
monkeyboyinc · 35 points · Posted at 17:26:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, that's one of the nastiest lies in this thread. Happy to hear that you're still together after all that.
Colin_XD · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Either I read this or this is a repost cuz I feel I’ve read this somewhere
Digital_Fire · 1 points · Posted at 11:41:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think I've ever talked about it on Reddit before, but there's probably similar stories.
duelingdelbene · 680 points · Posted at 13:45:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was talking to this girl from tinder who was kinda flaky and she used the same excuse on me twice within 2 weeks. That her grandparents were coming into town and she hadn't seen them in forever.
I mean, what the fuck are the odds it was actually her other set of grandparents?
BeXmo · 623 points · Posted at 14:31:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If my math is correct... 50%
PM_ME_UR_BROWNIES · 28 points · Posted at 15:52:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/theydidthemath
Careless_Corey · 3 points · Posted at 17:49:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/technicallythetruth
azjamo · 5 points · Posted at 19:07:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/theydidthemonstermath
AFrostNova · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
R/itwasagraveyardgraph
this_one_guy_who · 6 points · Posted at 17:35:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It doesn't take into account how long "ages" is, and the chance that both sets of grand-parents came to see her on days old mate wanted to meet up, within the two week time period.
BeXmo · 3 points · Posted at 18:17:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Okay so I redid some calculations, looked over a couple of formulas. Asked a couple of guys on different forums. It is About... 50%
ifly6 · 6 points · Posted at 17:11:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It either is or it isn't. That's a 50 per cent chance, isn't it?
Damn_Dog_Inappropes · 3 points · Posted at 17:42:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy stats
imeatingpbnj · 130 points · Posted at 14:26:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd say those odds might actually be pretty good? I mean who uses an excuse like that twice in a row?
duelingdelbene · 77 points · Posted at 15:36:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People who flake a lot because they're talking to a hundred dudes and can't remember what dumb excuse they gave each one.
Sarsmi · 6 points · Posted at 18:34:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone who talks to a lot of people on Tinder and forgets who they use the grandparents excuse with.
Momumnonuzdays · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Watch as it was late November so family was visiting for the holidays
TheFarfigschiter · 92 points · Posted at 14:44:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should of tried one more time to see if she had a third set of grand parents.
kacihall · 6 points · Posted at 15:17:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I grew up with three sets of grandparents, and so does my son. One of my friends got the jackpot and had four sets of grandparents when she was the only grandchild. So many Christmas presents!
The odds are fairly small for that, though. (Even weirder, my mom and her family AND my in-laws are coming to visit us from out of state next weekend. Neither has been here in over a year, but my brothers baseball tournament is the same weekend that my in-laws made plans for two months ago. Small odds, but it happens!)
zenarya · 5 points · Posted at 17:07:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have 5. Mom's, dad's, first stepdad's, second stepdad's, and stepmom's.
nolrai · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have three sets of grand parents, my mom's are dead though..
TheBottomsOfOurFeet · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have 4 sets of grandparents since both of my parents’ parents divorced and remarried.
ralphington · -1 points · Posted at 01:00:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Take a fucking hint dude. She ain't interested.
duelingdelbene · 2 points · Posted at 04:00:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I forgot to mention she was sending me nudes in between these two times.
Some people are interested but they're just annoying and flaky. I usually put my foot down on it because I'm tired of it now. Which I did with her after this shit.
So no need to be a shitcunt without knowing the situation, but thanks for offering your input anyway.
Bigttkiller · 188 points · Posted at 15:20:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve got a fresh one! I’m current traveling in Taiwan with my family. A bit about the background- my family is from Beijing and my cousin just got married to a Taiwanese. We all speak mandarin but have distinguished accents. Story time - we were at a night market getting dinner. My father wanted to get some beer from a 7-11 on the street so I went with him. We picked up a 6-pack Heineken and proceeded to the cashier to pay. I vaguely remembered seeing an ad on the fridge door saying the 6-pack was on sale for NY$199 (around $6.5). The female cashier rang us up and she peeled the plastic wrap to scan the barcode of the individual can. Confused I asked her why would she do that while there was a big barcode on the wrap. She told me their machine couldn’t read the big barcode. I shrugged it off cuz it happens. Then the total came out, it was NT$235 instead of $199. I got more confused but I didn’t want to jump into conclusion that she was trying to scam us so I went back to the fridge to double check the ad. Sure enough, it said 6-pack Heineken was on sale for NT$199. I was so pissed and ready to fight back. I returned back to the cashier to find a male staff serving my father. He tried to justify her behavior by saying she was confused about the size of the cans, they were different prices. We thought it was BS but didn’t want to cause a scene so we left after accepting the refund. I’m so glad I saw the ad and was able to catch her lies right there. I’m still pretty pissed because she probably thought we were stupid and gullible since we were from mainland China. Gotta say that woman spoiled my perfect experience in Taiwan. I hope she farts viciously whenever she drinks Heineken.
unionfitter582 · 8 points · Posted at 17:13:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, everyone farts viciously when they drink Heineken.
BetterBeRavenclaw · 20 points · Posted at 17:39:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You probably have distinct accents not distinguished ones :)
Rosedragon711 · 17 points · Posted at 19:02:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t know about you dahling but ma accent is veeeeeery distinguished!
SirensToGo · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would she even do that? Do you get a bonus for selling a certain amount, even just working the register?
Imakefishdrown · 6 points · Posted at 20:36:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe it was a family owned market, and she was trying to cop some extra income.
-Ginchy- · 6 points · Posted at 23:41:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she thought with their posh distinguished accents they could afford to pay a little more.
apwinters · 4 points · Posted at 03:02:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
To be fair, I've had this same exact thing happen. To me in China as well. I mean c'mon! The price of alcohol there is already psychotic. I've always said, " it's overpriced and under-alcoholic"
mthemedicalengineer · 2 points · Posted at 14:02:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Slightly irrelevant
As a whitewashed Hong Konger with crappy chinese. I have a hard time understanding accents sooo I’ll confirm Beijing accents are noticeable.
Godsshoeshine24 · 42 points · Posted at 16:24:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine was hanging with this girl he had been banging, who happened to be a good friend of my girlfriends. We all had plans to hang, but when I txted my friend to ask what the deal was, he made some long winded excuse about how he was with his dad and had to run all these errands and he wasn’t sure when he’d be back. All the while the girl he was with was txting my GF asking if we were still coming over because they were sitting there doing nothing and bored.
russells-crockpot · 4 points · Posted at 20:13:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So... Why was he lying about it?
Godsshoeshine24 · 8 points · Posted at 20:47:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess he was hoping he would get laid if it were just the two of them there.
McLovin804 · 5 points · Posted at 21:09:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would he need to worry about that if they were already fucking on the regular? Dude couldnt wait a few hours to spend time with some friends?
Godsshoeshine24 · 6 points · Posted at 13:11:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You know his constant lying about stuff like that eventually waned and stopped and now he is married to the girl who was sitting next to him bored on he couch that night so I guess it pissed me off at the time but they are happy now.
McLovin804 · 2 points · Posted at 13:55:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well I'm glad things worked out in the end. It's a shame he put his friendship at risk like that though.
EmergencyShit · 1 points · Posted at 01:56:35 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
He wanted to bang. Did they end up coming over that day?
cynical-mage · 532 points · Posted at 12:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most recently was at work on Monday just gone. I work in a store, chilled department. On the Sunday, we absolutely gutted the back stock, wasn't much left afterwards. Anyway, I came in the Mon morning, and nights had left us a fair amount of their delivery to deal with. But, here's some good news for you, we cleared the back up for you....
"Oh, did you now? How did you manage that, seeing as it was almost empty?"
Yeah. The colleague was ever so flustered, and then muttered that, ok, she had put out 2 boxes of cooked meat. Cheeky cow had thought afternoon shift had cleared it, not my morning crew, and tried to claim it to cover for how much delivery they didn't finish.
tonysnark81 · 56 points · Posted at 18:29:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work overnights at a big-box retailer, and one night after inventory, we had two full trailers of product to put out. The way we worked was this: we’d unpack a trailer, sort the product onto pallets, runners would take the pallets to the floor, then the team would split once the sort was done and work the pallets.
My partner and I worked chemicals (laundry soaps, cleaners, etc.). He and I agreed on a plan right off the bat. As soon as we had a full pallet, I’d pull it to the floor, break it down and put up the laundry soaps. By the time I was done with that pallet, another one was full. Repeat as necessary.
We did seven pallets that night, all stacked to about 6’. We were the only department to completely finish that night. Everyone else had pallets stacked in the back and took at least two days to get caught up.
I’m off the next night, so I come back the following night to hear one of the laziest guys on the crew complaining about having to “clean up my mess”. He was telling everyone he’d done 4 pallets by himself because we didn’t do anything on the double-truck night.
I heard all this, and shook my head. Just then, one of the supervisors who’d been there on double-truck night walked by, so I took the opportunity.
“Hey, boss! Wild Bill here says he had to put up 4 pallets left from double-truck, besides what showed last night, all by himself.”
Supervisor looks at me, then at Wild Bill.
“Really? If I remember correctly, the only department that got completely finished was chemicals.”
Bill just sat there, bright red, while the rest of us mocked him for his bullshit. He never spoke to me again the entire time I worked there. He also never claimed to do extra work again.
Lesson. Learned.
KarmicDevelopment · 9 points · Posted at 21:52:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can someone translate this?
DkAlex610 · 5 points · Posted at 04:12:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some second shift retail monkeys busted their asses to get their entire department stocked, and outshined every other department that couldn't finish in time. An overnight shift retail monkey tried to take credit and got schooled.
Source: I'm an ORANGE (home depot) retail monkey. An orangutan, if you will.
JuicyJay · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My night crew at Costco is terrible too. Is this a common theme?
cynical-mage · 3 points · Posted at 22:02:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More than likely. Days, you have managers aplenty, and an endless supply of customers ready to pounce, but nights aren't very well supervised, so they take the piss. And get better pay...
JuicyJay · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not at Costco. But I work 4am-10am so I don't deal with customers either. I believe we only have one more manager on most days (but a few more supervisors).
Costyyy · -128 points · Posted at 13:22:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow mate, no need to call people rude names.
cynical-mage · 36 points · Posted at 14:40:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol we call each other far worse :D she's actually the best chilled night colleague we have, but she tends to exaggerate or downplay stuff. As in, she'll say 7 cages left, and it will be more than 10, or that nights only brought back 3 cages of overs, and then when you go and look, you can't even move in the back up because there are so many.
She'll call me a gobby bitch, and I call her a miserable old cow, and we get along great.
Drew-Pickles · 21 points · Posted at 16:20:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're so fucking English it hurts.
cynical-mage · 8 points · Posted at 16:22:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, an accident of birth, not much I can do about it lol
Drew-Pickles · 7 points · Posted at 16:34:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sound bruv. I was born with the same affliction
cynical-mage · 4 points · Posted at 17:01:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You south east?
Drew-Pickles · 4 points · Posted at 17:23:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nah, midlands
cynical-mage · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was the bruv that threw me. Although they say fam more these days.
Drew-Pickles · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry fam, I was just trying to sound like one of the cool boys. Although I'm pretty sure bruv isn't exclusive to the South East, I hear it round here plenty.
cynical-mage · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Innit blud. But honestly, it's like a whole new language, how these yewts talk. I need my kids to translate most of it lol
GrandMagisterRommath · 71 points · Posted at 13:34:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cheeky cow is a fairly tame name lmao
rhubes · 25 points · Posted at 14:03:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a quirky hamburger place that does stuff like put slaw and onion rings as a topping.
TheFarfigschiter · 6 points · Posted at 14:36:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a local burger place and us employees there single handedly got the owner to think about putting onion ring burgers on the menu. This guy is a health nut (he had a heart attack 3 years ago) and he said that if he could eat it he would every other day.
Tl;Dr onion ring burgers are too good
cynical-mage · 8 points · Posted at 14:34:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That would actually be pretty awesome :)
rhubes · 4 points · Posted at 16:29:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've never had a hamburger, but I know for certain onion rings, slaw, lettuce, pickles, and way too much mustard and bbq on a bun is amazing!
Nasty_Old_Trout · 38 points · Posted at 13:38:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, tone down the language fuckface.
imeatingpbnj · 13 points · Posted at 14:22:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cool it ya nasty old trout.
Nasty_Old_Trout · 7 points · Posted at 15:51:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
QUIET, don't talk with your mouth full.
johnqevil · 13 points · Posted at 13:34:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll allow it.
littl3skittl3 · 73 points · Posted at 16:07:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a mutual client with a teacher at my workplace. One time our timetables were clashing as we both booked the same client on the same day. I was booked out and couldn’t move the mutual client around. She told me (while looking at her calendar) that she was booked out, not knowing that I can see her shared calendar on outlook, and she had all the free time in the world.
BossOfWar407 · 75 points · Posted at 17:17:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Friend of the family, a cop, 6’6”, always thinks he’s right, kinda a jerk. Anyway, my family moved away for years and eventually ended up near him again.
Anyway, I had home-ec. We learned about Biscotti’s.
I’m chilling at home and my mom has a giant pottery thingy that says “Biscotti” real big on it.
Family friend walks in “Hi, hello, I’m here” yada-yada.
Being a moody teen, I retreat to head upstairs to my room.
Dude sees the pottery and exclaims “Biscotti! French for biscuit.”
I stop dead in my tracks and give him a shitty teen stink-eye and soberly state “It’s Italian; for twice baked” before continuing on my way.
I was a snobby little shit being a prick, but to correct him in foreign language... it just felt satisfying.
In retrospect: he didn’t deserve any of the flak I gave him. I should go give him a call. 🤔
fortifier22 · 698 points · Posted at 12:58:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I went up to camp last year, I found out that someone had stolen candy from my tent.
Considering that I had more valuable stuff in my tent, and I found a trail of candy wrappers in a linear pattern across the camp site, I determined that it had to have been a young kid whose parents would let him roam the site doing anything he wanted.
Thanks to the help of some other kids from the campsite, I found more clues and even had one of the kids wait by my tent to see if they could catch the kid in the act. He did, yet he was so fast and small that he could only see the back of his head. Yet that was enough evidence to find out who it was.
When I inevitably found the kid, he denied it of course, yet I directly went to the parents with my evidence and witnesses. The kid still lied and the parents were more reserved around me from then on, yet the kid never roamed the site freely ever again.
UPDATE: Just for context, I was a university student up at a camp many members from my church went to for one week every summer. I was working for the kids program that was part of camp, and having a "candy thief mystery" helped cure both my boredom and the boredom of many kids at camp. I gave them all free ice cream (which I volunteered to do with others almost every night) as a reward.
thicketcosplay · 109 points · Posted at 15:19:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to spend parts of my summers on a ranch. Other kids would steal my snacks and then deny it. I was never able to figure out who it was. Ended up having to hide my snacks in all kinds of containers and hidden pockets just to actually have some left for myself. I never found out who was eating them, and it happened every year. I'm still upset. It's been like 15 years.
palordrolap · 22 points · Posted at 16:50:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did sugar-free gummy bears exist back then? I'm not saying you should give a thieving little kid a case of diarrhoea, it would have helped you narrow things down.
thicketcosplay · 2 points · Posted at 23:37:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man, that would have been amazing. I was too young and dumb back then to think of solutions like that.
The bathrooms out there were awful too - definitely not a place you'd want to be stuck in having diarrhea. We used to joke about keeping a pet whale in the pipes because of how loud it was whenever someone flushed. The septic tank kept backing up too. And the stalls were made of old plywood that was falling apart, some didn't even have doors. And the little girls were AWFUL at keeping it clean. In my later years when I was with the older group, people would stick used pads to the walls of the stall and stuff like that. Bathroom cleaning duty was the WORST. Honestly, shitting in the woods was better than these bathrooms. I wish I had a time machine to do this now.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's funny how this little incident may have literally affected your entire life
MichaelScott315 · 3 points · Posted at 18:20:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Carbon Monoxide poisoning
KeyKitty · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Get a lunch box and a lock.
lakersfan224 · 289 points · Posted at 14:59:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is extremely weird.
NotTheSweetOne · 16 points · Posted at 15:57:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At least it's a lot more innocent than other ones on this thread
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:42:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not really. Camp site, lots of folks of all ages close together, small kid wandering around steals candy.
hr_shovenstuff · 8 points · Posted at 15:23:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah it is. I’m just hoping it’s some kind of reference or joke.
john_sealion · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
yea
Ian1732 · 5 points · Posted at 16:44:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only thing worse than a thief is a litterbug.
JFlammy · 11 points · Posted at 15:48:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're very well spoken for a nine year old
dobydobd · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You must've really loved them candies
ReversePolish · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have told the parents that their kid got into your stash of drugs.
3p1cw1n · 2 points · Posted at 22:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're lucky a kid got to it, and not an animal. Don't keep food in your tent, I've seen that end badly before
clayvn · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like you should consider writing "but" rather than "yet" sometimes. A lot of the instances of "yet" in your comment seem awkward or almost just incorrect.
I'm usually not the grammar Nazi guy calling people out on Reddit but this was especially bothersome. I might be ignorant though and you could have been using it properly.
thejosephfiles · -3 points · Posted at 17:52:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So you went off on a kid with no evidence. Are you 8?
dadiaar · 36 points · Posted at 16:13:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Totally opposite story.
When I was a freshman I was with a group of friends partying outside, dudes and girls.
We were discussing about which type of Anime we liked most. They were kind of experts, some of them even studying Japanese. I was stupid and wanted to cause a good impression to the girls, so when they asked me I replied:
Hentai
I didn't even know what hentai was, and unfortunately everybody believed me.
ObviousLobster · 12 points · Posted at 22:42:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is the best one here
LdsPdVIII · 64 points · Posted at 16:22:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When me and my friends drank, there was this friend who always played overly drunk. One time we bought sodas and said they contained alcohol(spoiler alert: they didn't). After a few cans he started acting like he was drunk. Well, good luck with making us believe you that.
Troubador222 · 9 points · Posted at 20:23:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine who was a bartender liked to mix fancy drinks for people and add little to no alcohol. He said they would begin to act intoxicated just like they had alcohol. He only did it with younger people. Older people tend to order more straight alcohol based drinks. None of the “Sex on the Beach” stuff.
LdsPdVIII · 7 points · Posted at 20:36:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We also had a case where we poured a shot glass to a friend(different from the one above) with literally no alcohol, some kind of juice. We told him it was a different kind of tequila. He was a little drunk. Drank the shot and said ,,damn, that was strong". Yeah bro, it really was...
Schattentochter · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You guys are all underestimating the placebo effect. If one expects sth to happen strongly enough, our psyche can go quite crazy.
Asariel2011 · 7 points · Posted at 22:28:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of that episode of Freaks and Geeks where they switch the keg out for nonalcoholic beer but everyone at the party still thinks they're wasted
kplatinum777 · 7 points · Posted at 22:31:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Placebo-ing is hilarious.
Hidden_Samsquanche · 4 points · Posted at 21:03:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've never understood the point of playing over drunk. Most people try to play off that they aren't as drunk as they really are
FagMob420 · 5 points · Posted at 22:48:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
its an established psychological phenominon called the 'think drink effect'. look it up
CDuddng · 66 points · Posted at 16:30:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some guy came in to rent a car. There was a company poster with a white dude with brown spiked hair. On the wall. We were talking how the company switches people out often. He said he knew the new manager,and pointed to the poster and said, "He kinda looks like that guy". And walks in the new manager, a black guy. I said "Hey (new manager's name). The guys face dropped when he saw who I was talking to. I tried so hard not to laugh at him
666ygolonhcet · 280 points · Posted at 15:29:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a horrific situation where a kid said I did something horrible at the school I taught at.
I record EVERYTHING on a digital recorder from the time I got out of my car till I got back in (1 party state, totally legal).
Fun was had when the recording did not back the kid up.
Then the asshole principal made the county leave me at the school (normal practice is to move the teacher when found not guilty) and another kid went to the police. Same result, but super scary.
The principal swore up and down she never said that she made em leave me there because I was too good to let go.
Out comes the recording. She started shaking and crying and sent me off.
She left the country to teach to avoid the civil suit I have waiting (had to wait till my contact was up) for her, but she won’t last and the minute she hits the US I will file it. Till then the money I set aside to sue her grows.
carcinoGeneticist413 · 80 points · Posted at 16:46:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What did they say you did?
NoDoThis · 61 points · Posted at 18:16:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guaranteed it was sexual harassment/abuse
carcinoGeneticist413 · 8 points · Posted at 20:29:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But there are several things that could be considered bad like selling drugs, using drugs... selling drugs. Extramarital affairs with another teacher, not teaching, threatening... There are lots of things
666ygolonhcet · 3 points · Posted at 15:55:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are correct! Said I was masturbating in the boys bathroom (school only had 2 adult toilets so we were encouraged to use kids ones).
Principal we called The Marshmallow because she was fat, white, and had no backbone. She was terrified of parents and eventually if ME.
Got accused, put in teacher time out, proved my innocents, was supposed to go to another school but she made me stay.
When the police investigation started she made me sign a bullshit letter (or he fired on the spot) to try and protect herself. Prevented me from changing schools because she put it in my permanent file. Bitch.
After I proved myself innocent again I was told by my lawyer to just ‘suck it up or not work again’.
Police was scary. Anything can happen when you are the wrong race in a mostly one race school system.
I was told by 2 parents and several teachers to watch out because the parents do not like gay people. I did nothing wrong but got painted with the scarlet A.
I knew I was retiring this year (inheritance and frugal living) so I really cranked it up a notch on her and the asst principal.
I also suffered from PTSD. In the winter (time of year it happened) I kept waking up thinking it was the cops calling again. They called at 7 pm a month after I thought the matter was settled and in their usual asshole ways were not nice in the phone.
Part of therapy was talking to the Principal about her selfish stupid behavior. She was all deny and indignant. Then the proof came out. She started shaking and crying. It was awesome.
Gonna find her school and email the sound files and a message about saving her money because of she sets foot on US soil she will be sued. Just a nuesience law suit, but she will have to defend her self and I can just drop it at any time. But I will string her out as much as I can.
I set aside money to sue several people. A few I gotta wait till they are 18.
I am a patient man.
NoDoThis · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn. So sorry you had to go through all that, I can’t imagine. Kids are such assholes.
666ygolonhcet · 5 points · Posted at 17:27:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Parents. Parents brought this on. The kids had just been to a Puberty field trip and their imaginations gave the parents some fuel to go.
Kids can be assholes too, but in this case it was parents.
666ygolonhcet · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Look at the reply below.
Evan-Arthur · 45 points · Posted at 19:08:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heh reminds me of a tame version from my time in high school except I was a kid so never recorded my day and got the punishment.
I was in the NHS (national honors society) for my school and I was getting some community service hours at a local elementary school tutoring kids in basic math. This was easy and I was able to get my required hours quickly to acquire honors for graduation.
Anyway this one kid I was tutoring got mad that he couldn’t figure the math out despite my instructions that worked with dozens of other kids. He threw a bit of a tantrum in the semi-closed off “reading nook” where we were working and threw his binder in my face. It kind of hurt. I told him to calm down and if he hit me again I’d tell his teacher I wouldn’t work with him anymore.
Queue this kid running to the teacher bawling that I was smacking him upside the head and beating him up for getting his math wrong. First this is the most retarded story as I was helping him get the problems right, and second hitting him? I was a fucking honors student with zero high school record of violence and was a noted leader for some of my own school’s clubs. ie i wasn’t some punk.
This kid almost got me thrown out of NHS which I had worked my ass off for and was telling a ridiculous lie that was believed. My advice is to never trust children. They do not understand the consequences of their actions so will not hesitate to try and destroy your life just to get out of a reprimand. DO NOT TRUST CHILDREN.
ObviousLobster · 17 points · Posted at 21:07:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Believe this person. A close family friend went through absolute hell after being accused of abuse by one if the children she nanny'd for. A police case was opened, but it was quickly dropped when the investigators - seasoned child-abuse specialists - realized it was all bullshit and the kid was making it up to get attention.
But the mother of the child went absolutely nutzoid, refusing to believe anyone but her manipulative little brat. She ruined my friends career in childcare by persistently calling all her other clients and employers (who all called bullshit on the lady but eventually got sick of being associated with the persistent drama and opted out). Friend eventually switched careers entirely and was rebuilding her life after dealing with the emotional toll of being accused of horrible things, and this crazy lady tracked her down and tried to get her fired from a great job helping the less fortunate at a non-profit in a big city. Luckily she made enough friends that created a wall around her and shot down all of the bullshit from this lady. She has since moved to another city a state away, changed her name, and is still helping others as the executive director of a non-profit which helps poverty-stricken individuals off the street and into secure housing.
Fuck anybody who lies about child abuse.
nostandinganytime · 7 points · Posted at 21:33:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Also, fuck that woman.
Raveynfyre · 2 points · Posted at 03:23:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can see where he gets his cunty attitude from, that's for sure.
Lilly_Satou · 3 points · Posted at 00:56:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't understand what happened in this story at all
666ygolonhcet · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Look at my other reply in this thread.
SoMoneyAndDontKnowIt · 3 points · Posted at 20:10:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is all so confusing. I have no idea what happened.
Youknownotafing · 2 points · Posted at 21:21:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, it's not well written
666ygolonhcet · 0 points · Posted at 15:57:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Look at my other reply in this thread.
Evan-Arthur · -2 points · Posted at 21:31:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Whatever dude moral of the story is at the end.
Baked__Bread · 0 points · Posted at 19:40:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait so was the principal out to get you or something?
666ygolonhcet · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Read the reply above. She wanted me to stay because I had a revolutionary library program that kids/teachers/test scores LOVED. Only me and my sister implemented it because I wrote all the games we used.
The poor lady that replaced me is gonna be so down. Those kids had 3 years of good times that were super educational. She just reads story books.
I NEVER read a book to kids in 16 years.
Evan-Arthur · -2 points · Posted at 21:33:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was the principal mentioned? No. It Has nothing to do with principals. I’ll give you the third grader version: A young child lied about me beating him so I could not tell his teacher he was behaving badly. I was nearly removed from an honors program.
mcnewbie · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
it did though...
Baked__Bread · 0 points · Posted at 23:50:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow. That sucks.
Paigelley · 62 points · Posted at 15:50:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in college, met a friend in my dorm room. Couple hours later, notice one of my purses was missing. Call her out on it. Denies. Fast forward 5 years later I’m visiting her parents house and I observe said purse on the floor of her closet.
I didn’t say anything.
lastleaf_onatree · 11 points · Posted at 17:49:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one...needs more.
Paigelley · 11 points · Posted at 19:50:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fast forward 10 years later I’m a bridesmaid in her wedding.
We have a pretty tight group of friends; over the years we’ve all compared stories. Everyone has had an incident of some type with her but we all feel it’s too late to bring any attention.
Just don’t steal people.
LeeChurch · 3 points · Posted at 21:49:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you take the purse back at least?
34HoldOn · 3 points · Posted at 08:00:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ehh, I understand not bringing up shit from a decade ago. But at the same time, the breakdown of my relationship with some members of my family was shit that built up over time, and was never resolved. I came to find out that I hate always letting shitty people fuck everyone else over, and always get their way.
I don't know your situation, so I'm not telling you how to act. But damned if it hasn't taught me to confront a problem when it happens.
einstein_tesla · 33 points · Posted at 15:17:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Buddy of mine told us he unboxed this 200$ knife in CS:GO. I didn’t believe him so I checked out this website that lets you see previous owners (if there are any), and wow, shocker, there were 3 different owners before him. This guy has been known in our friend circle to lie about everything.
x3stealer112 · 3 points · Posted at 18:06:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's strange for a friend circle. In my friend circle,my friends usually don't give a shit how you got your skins but if you actually have it.But then again,my friends were mostly active on this topic before trading restriction on csgo on betting issue.
einstein_tesla · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thats the thing is we dont give a shit he could have just told us, but hes a compulsive liar.
Petrichorest · 30 points · Posted at 15:50:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I took my DNA test. Only one sibling matched 100%. Drops mic.
Hidden_Samsquanche · 8 points · Posted at 21:51:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How many siblings are we talking about here?
If it's one then there's nothing to be alarmed about. If it's 5 then there may be some questions
OriginalIronDan · 7 points · Posted at 12:34:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The only way they’d be 100% the same would be if they were identical twins.
wasd733 · 3 points · Posted at 17:00:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oooooo caught in a lie. Juicy
GoofyToof · 32 points · Posted at 17:18:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When we were teenagers at the county fair, a friend of my wife (girlfriend at the time) was telling us about her new boyfriend and how cool he was, then she started pointing at this sweet Mustang parked with one of the car clubs. She went on and on about him giving her rides and speeding around in the car, we kind of smiled at each other both knowing how full of it this girl is, and sure enough some old dude hops in the mustang and drives off as we are all standing there to see. Not knowing what else to say this girl just looks at us and says "I don't know who that fucker was but he just stole my boyfriend's car!" We left her alone with her demons after that.
Fallenovergirl · 16 points · Posted at 19:39:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can’t fault her for the commitment to the lie though. 😂
GoofyToof · 5 points · Posted at 19:56:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I honestly believe that that poor girl convinced herself that everything she said was true
GoofyToof · 7 points · Posted at 19:57:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She had half of o ur school believing she was a foster kid... until her mom picked her up out of class in front of everybody.
littleflowerpower · 34 points · Posted at 17:19:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This was probably 5 or 6ish years ago when Mac Miller was first getting popular. I was on a date with this dude who I instantly knew I wasn’t going to click well with. He was kind of a know-it-all cocky type. Anyways we were talking about music and I brought up Mac. He said that he’s been a fan before he got big. I was like awh yeah my favorite song would have to be “My Purple Snap Back” (which is totally made up). He responds that My Purple Snap Back is also his favorite song and that he has got a lot of his friends hip to Mac by showing that song specifically. Why lie dude??
Heavy_Riffs · 349 points · Posted at 13:48:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was out driving a '69 Roadrunner that my dad and I are restoring and stopped to grab a bite to eat. Some guy in his mid 40s or 50s got out of his car and asked if I'd sell it to him, totally out of the blue, for $5k. It's worth at least five times that and a project that's between my dad and I so it was pretty offensive. He then told me he had a similar Roadrunner back in the day, but orange and with the 454ci engine. I just chuckled and walked away.
For those missing the key component here, the 454ci was a big-block Chevrolet engine and was a direct competitor of Plymouth/Dodge/Chrysler (Mopar) and never existed outside of someone's dreams or unholy backyard transplantation
Ganaraska-Rivers · 66 points · Posted at 16:02:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Get used to it, you are going to hear similar bullshit stories every time you take the car out, and 10 times a day if you go to a car show.
Heavy_Riffs · 15 points · Posted at 16:06:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it's pretty funny when people pull that kind of stuff out of their ass. I just let them have their moment and laugh about them later!
funkmon · 24 points · Posted at 17:49:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Here in Detroit, those ungodly backyard transplants are uncommon, but not rare. People absolutely put 454s in Lincolns and Plymouths and shit.
xr4tim · 4 points · Posted at 19:14:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Upvote for Detroit!
NoChieuHoisToday · 7 points · Posted at 18:24:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My favorite thing to do is to go to a car show with friends and sit them down by my car, so that they look like the owners. Then I’ll go walk around for a bit and come back to my car and walk up to it like I’m just browsing. 9/10 times some random guy will have been there for 20 minutes jawjacking to anyone who will listen. It’s always a blast hearing about “indirect nitrous injection” or something completely stupid.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:28:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lmao I had a similar time a guy told me his mustang had a 350. I looked under the hood, 318. Guy was like 60 as well. No excuse
80_firebird · 7 points · Posted at 20:17:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, he put a Mopar engine in a Mustang, then tried to tell people it was a Chevy engine?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:28:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup. Chrysler engine in his Ford and he thought it was a chev 350 (that or thought the 350 was a Ford engine) also I totally recognize your username, you responded to a post of mine a while back. I only remember it because I've owned an 80 firebird when I was 21 lol
80_firebird · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, the shit people will say about cars is ridiculous. I had a guy tell me he had a stock 64 Comet that would do 200 mph the other day. Why do people even think that you'll believe that shit?
OriginalIronDan · 1 points · Posted at 12:21:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was his name Halley?
80_firebird · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Idk.
OriginalIronDan · 1 points · Posted at 01:50:53 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was referencing Halley’s Comet.
89LSC · 6 points · Posted at 20:18:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The car world is filled with obnoxious wanna-be one-uppers. It's easiest to let then say their piece then nod and move on
Heavy_Riffs · 3 points · Posted at 20:25:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Agreed! Best to let them have their moment then joke about it later!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:08:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was talking to a guy the other day, hes talking about his Ferrari, which he does infact own a 308. But he was telling me it does 200mph in 30 seconds. Nice try, To bad they topped out at 140.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 16:09:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Heavy_Riffs · 11 points · Posted at 16:15:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I agree, the 454 big block isn't rare or even uncommon stock. However, I meant in terms of stock Mopar. One could easily exchange the 454 for something like a 351 Windsor or a 350 Chevy or a 429 Ford. The point here is that the dude falsely claimed to have owned a similar but impossible (stock) vehicle.
80_firebird · 4 points · Posted at 20:17:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No they didn't. Olds, Pontiac, and Buick had a 455, only Chevy have a 454. Also, Olds had a car named 442.
redzero77 · 585 points · Posted at 14:22:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I found out that 13 y/o kid on xbox live had never banged my mom.
Pathstrider · 22 points · Posted at 16:15:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
But the rest of them still did, right?
JellyCream · 2 points · Posted at 02:44:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, even that kid has by now.
PM_ME_UR_BROWNIES · 6 points · Posted at 15:55:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Am I the only person on Xbox live who wont make sexual comments about another user's mother? Because I'm pretty damn sure I'm the only one who doesn't
Zer_0 · 11 points · Posted at 17:36:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You and me. Instead, I keep my mouth shut until they are a total prick, and then I reveal how I’m a mom who knows their mom. It’s epic.
I made a kid cry a few months back when he thought he could school me in Madden. Boy, please! I’ve played this game longer than you’ve been alive. He talked trash to me until I told him how pregnant I was, and that it’s mean to say things like that when a baby can hear. RIP kid.
PM_ME_UR_BROWNIES · 2 points · Posted at 03:16:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Awesome, OP. I think the only time I was truly a dick was in this thread. What do you think?
willbear10 · 11 points · Posted at 15:18:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can trust me though
greg_man8 · 4 points · Posted at 19:13:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
top 10 anime betrayals
Noorquacker · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jokes on you, I have 😈
Wiki_pedo · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was actually 12.
Solcaer · 2 points · Posted at 22:44:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Username does not check out, and is concerning when discussing children.
MayorNarra · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Must have been a fun conversation with your mom
avskyen · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Finally this is what im here for
SandMouse1012 · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Take my upvote
Moses_The_Wise · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No
[deleted] · 160 points · Posted at 15:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I talk to people a lot about mental health, especially with the psychotic illnesses.
Background on DID: Dissociative Identity Disorder, where multiple "alters" (essentially identities of people) will live in the same body. Shows up based on trauma in early childhood (by age six is the cutoff date). Alters can merge and allow a person to live out their life as a single identity, but therapy/other treatment is needed to reach this point.
This girl I knew who I suspected was a liar because her mental illnesses kept changing (mostly self-diagnosed, but that's another can of worms) said she had DID around age 14. She had shown no signs of having it before and gained around thirty alters overnight. Thirty is a lot and while not impossible, pretty uncommon. The alters were all very... odd... in that they were all mentally ill, LGBT+, etc. There's nothing strange in it of itself in being any of those things, but when all thirty people in a room have those traits, it's very odd. They were also all uniformally obsessed with hating me, but that's another story.
About two years later, I asked her what happened to the alters because I hadn't seen them in a while. "Oh I don't know," she says. "They all just disappeared."
She never received any treatment for them, so that is gen-u-ine 100% BULLSHIT right there and finally I had proof of her lying about mental illnesses.
DissociatingDingo · 10 points · Posted at 17:08:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean, I'm absolutely sure that you were right. That does sound exactly like my experiences with people who fake DID.
However, I do want to point out that with DID you aren't really dealing with "30 people in a room". You are dealing with 30 fragmented identity states that make up a single individual person. They are all pieces of a single person, and so they are all going to be similar to each other in a lot of ways.
For one thing, yes all the alters in a DID system are mentally ill. For one thing, DID itself is a mental illness. Beyond that, it's born out of trauma. Each alter in a DID system has a tendency to display the effects of that trauma in different ways, whether that is through anxiety, hostility, depression, etc. Some people with DID will communicate about that by saying things like "My alter so-and-so has OCD". I mean, it's not exactly an accurate way to talk about it but it's a convenient way to talk about it. Their alter displays the traits of OCD as a manifestation of the trauma they experienced.
About the LGBT thing. Gender and sexuality is COMPLICATED for people with DID. It's extremely common for people with DID to have cross-gender alters (this is typically yet another manifestation of that trauma, which is often early childhood sexual abuse). So you end up with male alters in female bodies, and female alters in male bodies. Sometimes people use the words trans or gender queer to describe themselves, because it's convenient. And then to top that off, because sexual orientation is a spectrum, you have a bunch of alters who have various different feelings about their sexual orientation. One alter strongly prefers women, she calls herself a lesbian. Another is a little further over on the spectrum, she calls herself bi. Another definitely never wants any sex at all, she says she's Ace. So you end up with a whole LGBTQIA spectrum in one body, and yeah that can seem pretty fucking weird to outsiders, but within the DID community it seems normal as hell.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 17:17:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you, you've raised very good points.
Most alters I've met prefer to be treated as their own people, so I'm used to referring to them in that way. Sorry if it was confusing.
Your point about mental illness is very well presented. Thank you. In her case, many of her alters had illnesses unrelated to trauma such as autism, which, as far as I'm aware has nothing to do with trauma. It would have made more sense if she had autism herself, but her doctors specifically said that she didn't at one point.
I've heard of cross-gender alters, yes! Thank you, you've again raised a very good point. I thought in her case that it was weird that every almost every single alter was trans or genderqueer (not because of them being in her female body- but because their alter body didn't match up with their gender identity (she had a trans woman for instance)) and not one was straight. It was just such a mind boggling thing for me. One of my dearest friends is a system and I love them all to death, and while many of them are LGBT+, they do have straight members.
I will keep doing my research, then. Thank you so much. :)
DissociatingDingo · 5 points · Posted at 17:40:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most people with DID do insist on being treated like individual people. I probably have a unique perspective because I have an education in psychology as well as having DID. I'm very practical and realistic about who and what I am.
The autism thing is very interesting. Sometimes severe PTSD can actually look very much like autism in adults. I've seen several discussions here on reddit from people in autism and trauma communities saying things like, "I'm not sure if I have undiagnosed autism, or PTSD". I actually have an alter who behaves almost exactly like someone with "high functioning" autism. Arlo has all the sensory issues and communication issues you'd expect from someone on the spectrum. I avoid actually saying "Arlo has autism" because I think that it's not technically correct to diagnose individual alters with disorders that the whole system doesn't have.
I have a smaller system of 13 (9 of them old enough to have a concept of sexual orientation) and I'm really struggling to think of one that would self identify as straight.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:43:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks so much for your perspective. You've given me a lot to think about. I'll try to be less judgmental in the future and more open. :)
Can I ask what your opinion on self-diagnosis of DID is like? How easy is it to confuse with something else?
DissociatingDingo · 5 points · Posted at 17:53:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Self-diagnosis is such a complicated issue, especially with DID.
The reality is that because DID is such a controversial diagnosis (due to long historical issues I won't go into), it can take people up to a decade to get the correct diagnosis. Many people with DID are misdiagnosed with a half a dozen different things before being correctly diagnosed. For a lot of people genuinely living with DID, there is this point where they just KNOW what they are dealing with and a diagnosis is redundant. I have talked to these people. I have no doubt that their experiences are the same as mine (as a formally diagnosed person). It's really terrible that they can't get adequate care, especially when it's because they live in a country with inadequate access to mental health resources.
The flip side of that is that DID is a very "interesting" disorder. It's fun and fascinating and it's often depicted in media as something exciting or scary. There's also this very natural thing that happens to people in their teens and twenties, where they are going through a stage of identity development and they feel like trying out different versions of who they are. It can be very easy for someone with a slightly unstable sense of self to read a bit too much about DID on the internet and start thinking that they have it. These aren't necessarily people who are intentionally faking DID, but people who have confused themselves because of their identity instability.
There are also a couple of other disorders that are on the same spectrum of DID that can be easily confused for DID, like Borderline Personality Disorder and CPTSD. I spend a lot of time in the DID subreddit answering "Do I have DID?" questions and gently redirecting people to seek out a therapist and maybe check out the subs for CPTSD and BPD.
What most people who wrongly self-diagnose forget is that DID requires amnesia. If you are not losing time, you do not have DID. The other thing that is not really a diagnostic criteria, but a necessity for the formation of DID, is that DID is caused by severe early childhood trauma. If you did not experience early trauma before age 6, you don't have DID. The caveat to this is that if you really do have DID and you have amnesia, you might not remember the abuse. So if you have severe amnesia but don't think you were abused, maybe you do have DID after all! (This was the case for us, as our "original" spent years in denial about the abuse.)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much for this. You've been so polite and insightful, this has truly been a wonderful experience for me.
I've read the historical issues before, so I do know what you're talking about. It's such an interesting thing for me, as with the psychotic disorders, the exact diagnosis doesn't matter as much as the treatment, while it seems different for the dissociative disorders.
The "interesting" disorder holds true with schizophrenia as well. We get a lot of posts on the SZ subreddit about that too.
Thank you so much, this has been a very big help.
golden_n00b_1 · 6 points · Posted at 17:02:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Serious question, in the case of DID why would you expect to see mentall6 healthy personalities if the mind they are all contained in is mentally ill? It would make sense to me that the base system being damaged could cause mental illness in all other personalities.
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The same could be asked about the fact they all hate you. Hate is such a strong emotion I can see how it could carry as a core value to all other personalities.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 17:10:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've known a good number of people with DID and while some of them may have mental illnesses (it's not uncommon in the slightest), to have all 30 being mentally ill is frankly odd. I do know a system (a person who has DID) where everyone has the ability to hallucinate in some capacity, but every other system I've met always has someone who is mentally stable.
Additionally, the mind splits into a DID state because of trauma and so protective alters often form. These protective alters aren't always mentally ill because they handle functions for the host when the host is overwhelmed, upset, etc. Protective alters usually have thick skin, comparatively, while hers were super easy to upset (when I was trying to be as civil as possible).
Regarding the hate, she's said she's hated me or loved me or both depending on how she feels that day so I think she has a hard time making up her mind.
golden_n00b_1 · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks for the info, I suppose it makes sense if the alters form based on mental trauma if the alts handle hard situations for them.
GardevoirRose · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Alters can merge?! TIL.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As far as I'm aware, alters can split and merge but won't usually fully "integrate" into one identity without therapy.
kplatinum777 · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you’ve ever seen the show “United States of Tara,” was that an accurate portrayal of DID?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've never seen it, sorry, but it doesn't look horribly off like Split or something.
bun-nie · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
DID tends to be one of the most faked mental illnesses I’ve seen recently. Mostly by young girls. It’s alluring to them because it seems quirky and cool. Sadly all these lies ruin the image of people who actually have DID. Hardly anyone who hears about it thinks its real due to all of those weird “meet my alters” videos they’ve seen on youtube. I’ve only seen about two, maybe three people who I feel actually have it but you could never be sure. Hell, maybe even some of the ones I think are fake are actually real ! But that just gets back to my point. Fakers ruin it for everyone else.
TentativeGosling · 79 points · Posted at 16:28:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My car MOT was coming up and the tyres were looking a little scruffy, so I got all four replaced brand new for a pretty good Costco deal. Fortnight later, I took my car in for the MOT and they claimed that my tyre tread was as low as 2.2mm. Obviously I called bullshit and told them that they were brand new, but they wouldn't believe me until I literally walked them out to my car. They got the mechanic out and I pointed out the tyres having loads of grip, so they backtracked and claimed they meant the "tyre pressure", which is normally quoted as 30-something psi or similar. I've never been back to that place.
onceuponatimeinza · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hell if they really meant mmHg, that would be about 0.04psi (or in layman's terms, a flat tire)
Wewlet · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
2,2 bar is quite standard (what I have in my tires), thought I have never had a call from someone telling me that the pressure is exactly what it's supposed to be
TristezaR · 389 points · Posted at 15:02:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wanted to rent a movie but couldnt decide between two, so I thought I'd ask the gentleman working the counter what he thought. He didn't even look up at me before telling me they both sucked. I thought "I'll get him Good!" And pretended to browse for a second before turning back with the same two movies. "Oh those are better" he said, again without looking up.
"They're the same movies!" I told him, gotcha.
He did not appreciate my ruse and I am not allowed to rent there anymore.
bstyledevi · 95 points · Posted at 16:06:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This place would be great if it weren't for the fucking customers.
TristezaR · 20 points · Posted at 16:30:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And someone stuck chewing gum in the locks.
ft_chaos · 30 points · Posted at 16:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A bunch of savages in this town.
TristezaR · 9 points · Posted at 16:26:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's what I said!
Blunt-as-a-cunt · 16 points · Posted at 16:16:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sounds like your money is better spent elsewhere anyway
TristezaR · 29 points · Posted at 16:20:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tell me about it, I went to the convenience store next door for a packet of cigarettes and it was closed while they played hocky on the roof!
Blunt-as-a-cunt · 11 points · Posted at 16:46:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Retail is hard, dude - guy was probably called in on his day off
TristezaR · 8 points · Posted at 19:38:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
His friend wouldnt shut up about not supposed to being there.
criminalanus · 17 points · Posted at 16:35:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Movie rentals...? You from 1998 or something?
Rosedragon711 · 9 points · Posted at 18:20:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Family video still exists friend...
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
1994, actually. And before color film was invented.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:12:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worth it.
golden_n00b_1 · 7 points · Posted at 16:45:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did that guy also order 30 porn movies in front of your kid before ordering happy scrappy hero pup?
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Edited porn autocoreected to open.
TristezaR · 3 points · Posted at 19:38:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So much porn.
DaFunKychEEzE · 11 points · Posted at 16:41:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I watched the movie"Clerks" as well
TristezaR · 8 points · Posted at 19:37:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never heard of it. Is it like Happy scrappy hero pup?
GitEmSteveDave · 5 points · Posted at 20:13:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
More like “Cum on Eileen”.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but My Pipes Need Cleaning, and All Holes Filled With Hard Cock were cult classics.
2SP00KY4ME · 5 points · Posted at 17:45:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're telling me a random day shifter got so upset by your random video thing that they banned you from the store? Sorry, no.
iLL_Behaviour · 7 points · Posted at 18:13:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s not that black and white.
TristezaR · 6 points · Posted at 19:39:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seemed a lot more colourful in the burger joint.
backfire10z · 8 points · Posted at 16:21:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s just some poor dude who hates his job, leave him be lol
TristezaR · 4 points · Posted at 16:27:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Title doesn't dictate behaviour.
Freeplantist · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should have said “this would be a great place for a rental store” while leaving
crumpuppet · 6 points · Posted at 16:14:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
thank you for this :)
TristezaR · 14 points · Posted at 16:21:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey there are a lot of commentators on reddit but not all of them will bring you lasagne at work.
mandiefavor · 3 points · Posted at 17:24:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think you tried to rent from Randal in Clerks.
TristezaR · 6 points · Posted at 19:39:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He's a beserker
WildZeebra · 4 points · Posted at 16:22:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He banned you from the store because you fooled him? What?
TristezaR · 7 points · Posted at 16:27:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's ok, big choice is better.
thibbledorfpwent · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You shoulda went with 'Happy Scrappy Hero Pup'.
bruingrad84 · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Mommy, what's a video rental? You see, baby, once long ago we had to choose a movie simply based on the cover of the box. No trailer, no IMDB, nothing that would give us a hint. This is why Nicolas cage was a huge star."
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think I saw that dude renting hermaphroditic porn at the video store across town.
TristezaR · 2 points · Posted at 09:32:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best of both worlds?!
ajbolt7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Took that man on a ruse cruise and he couldn’t handle the heat
RedrumRogue · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lmao worth
nurpdawg · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"...and then I Randalled out the door"
lilbebe50 · 58 points · Posted at 15:18:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catching an ex in the midst of a lie. I knew he was cheating. I knew who he was with. And when I asked "So who's so and so?" the look on his face said everything. Heart breaking but still very satisfying because even though he lied, I fucking knew the truth.
weeabootits · 55 points · Posted at 15:54:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn’t really catch them lying but when I found out they were lying, I couldn’t even feign shock. An ex’s friend claimed she had brain cancer - apparently she had it before him and I started dating so it had been well over a year. My dad had an aggressive form of cancer so I know what someone dying of cancer looks like. I’m pretty sure she knew that, and I never met her in person, but from pictures she looked totally fine. She claimed to be taking pills and smoking weed to help her but it turns out she was just a drug addict.
One day ex calls me up crying saying his friend had admitted to lying about having brain cancer. I literally just said “yep, not surprised”. It was satisfying because I had already thought she was manipulative as hell, but his proved it.
He stayed friends with her lol.
OnTheRiseBB · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this a normal thing? I might be experiencing this same thing with someone in Dallas and I’m not sure how to go about it...
cmdrdoodbob · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Emily only faked cancer once, yahooo!
MayaAdam · 3 points · Posted at 04:18:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dam that hits close to homw. My brother lied for almost 2 years about having cancer. When we finally found out it was a like, I was not surprised. I told my mom thst I thought it was a lie a long time ago.
MimicCynic · 52 points · Posted at 16:52:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had the same elective class in high school, and one of the guys there was a chronic bullshitter. It was a game for him - he tried to always fall just a hair short of implausible, and there was never a way to prove him wrong.
One time my sister was talking about dubstep with another classmate, and the bullshitter was nearby, so they ask him if he liked dubstep. He said he loved them, and went on to spin a tale about how he snuck backstage at one of their concerts and smoked joints with the drummer or something.
He had assumed Dubstep was the name of a band. My sister just nodded and smiled, and let him make an ass of himself before correcting him.
Agent__Duchess · 29 points · Posted at 16:32:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work with a Live Event Producer who, like me, has been in the entertainment industry since the 90s. We swap a lot of “war stories” with friends. Events that were epically large, or giant shit-shows, or gigs that nearly killed us, ...whatever.
Each time we bring up an event we were on, this guy (let’s call him Jeff, because that’s his name) would inevitably claim to be attached to that event, or “know” everyone else who was on that gig.
Me - “Well, when we did that big movie opening for The Day After Tomorrow, I had to work with Rod Tudor, he was a pain in...” Jeff - “I know Rob, he’s such a pain in the ass.”
Friend - “Remember that camera guy at the All-Star game?” Me - “Richie... Mulhern... I think...” Jeff - “Yup! Richie Mulhern”
He’s been doing this to us forever. For the past two years though, I’ve been using the names of NHL players from the late 70s and early 80s. Campbell Conference players, who didn’t have big careers. I text my co-workers the Wikipedia pages of the players who I reference, usually just before I name-drop “that Audio Guy... you know, he worked at MSG... Jimmy Mann.” I’m sure Jeff knows him.
¹ Rob Tudor - 1979 Vancouver Canucks ² Rich Mulhern - 1978 Calgary Flames ³ Jimmy Mann - 1982 Winnipeg Jets
Catalyst09 · 28 points · Posted at 16:57:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a step brother who was a constant liar. Seriously almost every time he talked he was twisting something. He was a drug addict and I guess that’s just in their nature. I went out of town for a week, and just knew that he would try to steal something from me. I made a list of all the Blu Rays I had (about 300) partially for this reason. Got back in town, immediately noticed movies were missing. Checked my list and sure enough about 10 movies were gone. Looked around the house giving the benefit of the doubt, nothing. Went to the local reseller video game/movie store, and wouldn’t you know, I found most of those movies and they had just came in! I knew a guy that worked there and he low key confirmed that it was my step brother. To this day he still hasn’t owned up to it or paid me back. But everyone is so proud of him because he’s held a job for more than 3 months.
andybarkerswife · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah but just think about the level he’s on... he had to have fucked shit up SO bad that they are proud of him for holding a job for more than 3 months. That’s sad (in the pathetic kind of way). Good on you for not fucking your life up like he did. What goes around will come back around eventually so keep on keepin’ on!
RockoStrongarm · 27 points · Posted at 17:35:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school this guy claimed to be green-blue colorblind. He was a routine liar and no one tended to believe anything he said, but this one was questionable because he had literally kept up this lie for years. From 7th grade until junior year in high school, he would tell people this.
Junior year me and a couple friends took a psychology class. In one chapter they actually show the colorblindness test and how it works. If you have normal vision, it looks like one number and if you are colorblind, it looks like another number.
My friend showed this to the liar and was like “hey this is kind of cool. Since you’re colorblind you probably can’t see some of these numbers huh?” And the liar took the bait and was like “oh yeah I see this one, but this one and this one there’s nothing there.”
My friend took the book back and looked like he was figuring something out as he ran his finger across the text. “Ah yes it says here you have class B colorblindness...class BULLSHIT” and then explained how he knew he was lying.
The guy stormed off and didn’t come to school for two days after. To this day, I have no idea why he’d lie about something so stupid or keep it up over the span of five years.
NotATunaCasserole · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who lied about her birthday for YEARS. She always maintained she was the oldest in our friend group until we were old enough to get licenses and hers CLEARY stated she was a year younger than she told us. I have no idea why she felt this need to lie about something so trivial.
Pessimistic_Idiot · 676 points · Posted at 14:28:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haremjutsu is a nonce.
[deleted] · 986 points · Posted at 15:07:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Drew-Pickles · 24 points · Posted at 16:26:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was slightly confused until I worked out pp meant profile pic
contradicts_herself · 17 points · Posted at 18:34:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Who tf abbreviates that
Pessimistic_Idiot · 54 points · Posted at 15:11:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He didn't even have a fucking picture, that's why I asked in the first place. She used to do things to annoy me on purpose, I knew when she was doing it aswell. This was years ago, I got my revenge about a month ago. Best served cold.
[deleted] · 93 points · Posted at 15:18:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Pessimistic_Idiot · 6 points · Posted at 15:20:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No worries bro, rid of then she wouldn't leave me alone for the two years and damn I only just clocked that lmao 😂😂
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 15:21:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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linusblanket · 10 points · Posted at 17:39:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dw no one says it like that
ilikeeatingbrains · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is this for putting pp in?
Pessimistic_Idiot · 5 points · Posted at 15:22:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah dude, lol
HappycamperNZ · 2 points · Posted at 21:52:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That never even clicked till I saw your comment....
GoodCatWarriorName · 6 points · Posted at 17:39:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You guys have been broken up for years and you still care enough to want revenge? That's pretty sad.
Pessimistic_Idiot · 2 points · Posted at 17:41:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, she text me like a month ago and it went from there. It's not like I planned it before hand.
KungFuViking7 · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
.... Love to hear a revenge story
golden_n00b_1 · 8 points · Posted at 16:24:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in my day we called it a weiner, some Congress man ruined the name though.
Lovebot_AI · 35 points · Posted at 16:31:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Am I the only one who had to read this 5 times to understand it?
Edit: for anyone who missed it, it was a story about his girlfriend adding a guy on facebook and lying about it. He made a few grammatical and punctuation errors that made it hard to figure out what he was saying, and switched between saying "ex girlfriend" and "then girlfriend" in a confusing way.
ObviousLobster · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seriously. It read like a drunk 12 year old wrote it. Wtf. Looks like OP deleted it. That's probably in everyone's best interest.
namey___mcnameface · 15 points · Posted at 15:41:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your first sentence makes it sound like his pp came up on your feed.
Careless_Corey · 7 points · Posted at 17:37:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heads up, profile picture is shortened to pfp, not pp.
Pessimistic_Idiot · -7 points · Posted at 17:38:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Where you're from, yeah, not here, tho.
iGalaxy_ · 3 points · Posted at 19:10:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope.
Pfp = Profile Picture
Pp means pee pee or penis.
That's how it is in all English speaking places.
It's not like lol means laugh out loud in New York but means lots of love in LA.
donkey_OT · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
P2PBM
iGalaxy_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eh
Hytyt · 1 points · Posted at 08:31:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's not true at all. In England we call it a DP (I know) which is for Display picture
iGalaxy_ · 1 points · Posted at 09:42:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bare people from UK say PFP
Pessimistic_Idiot · -6 points · Posted at 19:24:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What is with you fucking people today, different place different names. We all said pp because it was shorter. Imagine that, something's different from your version. Woah. Literally nobody in England refers to their penis as 'pee pee' that's fucking ridiculous.
iGalaxy_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eh, ya clarified don't ya lad so it's all good.
Just bare people read pp as a picture of the guys dick which may be fucking confusing aight lad.
Have a good one.
Pessimistic_Idiot · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You too
Haremjutsu · 0 points · Posted at 19:26:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’re on a website where the majority uses pfp. Get used to it or get out, nobody is gonna understand you. It’s like going to China and speaking German.
Pessimistic_Idiot · -5 points · Posted at 19:28:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Key word: Majority. You said it yourself. They can't accept it's different somewhere else..... like wtf? That's dumb and so narrow minded. Get used to it or get out? Shut the fuck up. It's a fucking website you bellend, who the fuck are you to say anything to anyone you wet cunt?
Haremjutsu · -3 points · Posted at 19:31:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’re the asshole here for not going with the majority, 90% of people didn’t understand pp, but would have understood pfp. Don’t try to turn this around on me fucker.
Pessimistic_Idiot · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I made an edit so people woukd understand, sorry you see 'pp' and automatically think of penis. Nobody has ever said that where I'm from so there's no reference, again, difference places. I'm the asshole for using what everybody says here? Sorry, that's kind of how things work. Just like with you, if I read a post and saw pfp I wouldn't know what it meant. Jesus Christ, how difficult is this man. I'm not turning it on you either? But who the fuck are you to say 'get used to it or get out' Like you're somebody, get fucked.
Haremjutsu · 0 points · Posted at 19:42:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you really wanted to edit it to make people understand, change pp to pfp.
You get fucked
Pessimistic_Idiot · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I already edited it saying pp meant profile picture, dipshit. Fuck you.
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope, people will still have to pause to think, because the edit is at the end of the comment
Fuck you too :^)
Pessimistic_Idiot · 2 points · Posted at 19:45:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's pretty obvious, as Facebook is mentioned right before it.
Prick.
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, it’s not. Even after seeing fb, I, and lots of others, were still confused.
Prick :^)
Pessimistic_Idiot · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And you'll be informed properly after if that's the case. What is that dumb face lol
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Meaning you still have to go through the confusion
You have a dumb face :^)
Pessimistic_Idiot · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's part of the fun.
Of course that would be your comeback, what are you, 4? First pp now doing silly faces, what next, you gonna take my nose?
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, being confused is not fun
Got your nose :^)
Pessimistic_Idiot · 2 points · Posted at 19:54:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Especially not for a little lad like yourself, ay? What's a 4 year old doing up at this time anyway? It's nearly 9pm! Oh wait, you're in a different place so it's a different time. Different like a lot of other things in different places, did you know people in different countries speak in different languages?
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Times cannot be helped. Pandering to the majority with language can be helped, especially after you’re aware that the majority didn’t understand your dialect, and given a phrase that the majority would understand.
:^)))))
Pessimistic_Idiot · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was under the impression most people put 2 and 2 together, which coincidentally adds up to your age again. Anyway, have a really extreme moment jetting under the super umbrella. Have a good day ya smeg head.
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most didn’t put it together until after the initial confusion. Nobody likes being confused.
:^)))))))
Pessimistic_Idiot · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Confirmed, you are actually a child. Or of fucking wa, wasteboi.
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
:^)
Pessimistic_Idiot · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can be just as childish though, look at my original post now, lmfao.
Haremjutsu · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right. Add the /u/
:)
Pessimistic_Idiot · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bye
ObviousLobster · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus christ you guys.
ThePolemicist · 6 points · Posted at 17:58:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm thinking she dodged a bullet, too...
RossPerotVan · 7 points · Posted at 16:46:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought said "licked his pee pee" dyslexia is fun
Mogsitis · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This story was a fucking ride to read.
You got the pp. You got the "I fucked her off". I kind of don't even understand it fully. It's like a movie that I'll probably never watch again.
I love it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Pessimistic_Idiot · -1 points · Posted at 17:19:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was a blank profile picture.... I literally said 'Why did you like a random guys blank profile picture lol' Nice try though.
Moses_The_Wise · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean. She could have just said he was just a friend. The fact that she tried to hide it makes it worse for herself.
Pessimistic_Idiot · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Exactly
[deleted] · 71 points · Posted at 16:44:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An employee said her Bi-polar was "acting up" and she wasn't going to be there for today...or tomorrow..
Excuse me? Even a manic Bipolar disorder sufferer has no idea that tomorrow they will still be "acting up" that's part of the problem in itself, the unpredictability.
On facebook we say her location change to a bar, then another bar. She posted things to keep her story covered, but her location was on.
RIP "Young Merc", ya fired.
poorcupid · 147 points · Posted at 14:29:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
had a former friend who was a real mooch. told me and a friend she didn't have any money at all to buy lunch, but we knew she had to be lying because she always did this so she could take our food. she was annoyed and said, "im gonna go mooch off of the boys then," and left... so i checked her wallet and there was about $50 in there. and she wasn't poor, she just refused to spend money and always tried to find ways to take other peoples' food/things. i never gave her food again. confronted her about it and she lied... found out a year later all the mooching bought her a macbook pro :)
Billboe21 · 4 points · Posted at 18:21:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I mean having money your willing to spend and having money are kinda different things. Not coming to your former friends defence or anything, but i have a bunch of college money squirreled away but I'm not gonna go out and buy stuff with it.
poorcupid · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
yeah this was a friend who never ever bought food when we went out with friends, even if we literally planned to go eat lunch/dinner somewhere. just pulled the "i'm not hungry" card and picked off of other people's plates and hoped someone would give her their leftovers. she was manipulative in many other ways
lemonfucker007 · 11 points · Posted at 15:43:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why did you check her wallet??
x3stealer112 · 9 points · Posted at 17:27:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
leveling up pickpocket?
backfire10z · 14 points · Posted at 16:17:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because she wanted them to buy her lunch and used the excuse of being poor. Wallet was checked so OP could make sure she wasn’t actually poor, but just taking advantage of OP
lemonfucker007 · 5 points · Posted at 18:28:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess, but you can always just say no. Going through someone's wallet seems weirdly invasive. Nobody is holding you to the promise of providing them a meal, you don't need a "good" reason not to do it. Ya' know?
poorcupid · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
because she consistently lied about never having money to do ANYTHING. This was in high school so usually our parents paid for stuff. one friend invited us to go to a water park and the tickets were about $60? and my parents just paid for me to go. the liar told me her mom said no and had the nerve to ask the friend who invited us's parents to pay for her. turns out, she did ask her parents who had no problem paying but she kept the money for herself to stash.
shamanic_panic · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Should have kept the money and enjoyed the show of her having to pick which reality she wanted to keep. The one where she is broke or the one where she had the 50
robinzegg · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You simply say no. Not go through someone's wallet. Weirdo.
poorcupid · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel like you've never been lied to by someone you trusted completely only to find out they lied about everything
OnePointPi · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So if it was a MacBook then she wasted the money after all...
relevantmemehere · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You could have taken the 50 and then when she realized it was gone you could be like, "But you said you didn't have money."
poorcupid · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
haha i thought about it. but i decided to end our friendship shortly after that.
gypsypeachh · 24 points · Posted at 16:39:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My (ex) boyfriend and I were talking on the phone and he seemed very distant. We had broken up but decided to mend everything even though I was living out of state at the time. Anyway, I could tell his attention was on something else while we were talking, so I asked him a few questions. 1 being if he was talking to anyone else, and 2 if he had still kept his newly made profile on this dating website that he had made pretty much right after we broke up (my friend sent me a screenshot of him active on the website). He of course replied "No" but I instantly knew. He was still on the dating website! I had an extremely strong feeling that this was the case. So I go on the website, make a simple fake profile, give the same location he's in, start searching and SURE ENOUGH that bastard had a profile and was online! WHILE WE WERE ON THE PHONE!! I was irate. So I get off the phone with him and start messaging him from the fake profile. Almost immediately he replied back, stating he was completely single and down for whatever. I screenshotted the convo and sent it to him. While Also reminding him that "I always find everything out, so nice try, and fuck you." Haven't spoken to him since. I was deeply hurt by this at the time, but I look back and laugh now because I went private detective on his ass 😂😂😂 no shame here.
noodlepartipoodle · 210 points · Posted at 13:54:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was approached in a parking lot by two young men asking for bus fare. They claimed to have not known school was cancelled and were stuck at their current location with no way to get home. (Narrator: school was not cancelled). I asked them what school they attended. It just happened to be in my husband’s district, where he is an administrator. I casually asked their names. Ended up calling my husband to ask if school was canceled, because ____ and ____ seemed to think it was. Big old nope. Shared this information with the young academics, and was met with sheepish grins. They moved on to their next victim, and their absence was reported to the school.
black_hawk2233 · 234 points · Posted at 12:42:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy wanted to say something big when I passed with my girlfriend so he said he bought a 1000cc Suzuki Hayabusa. So I said there's only 1300cc version.
oneyozfest182 · 62 points · Posted at 13:23:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eyyy I ride a ‘Bus. 😛
black_hawk2233 · 35 points · Posted at 13:36:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That has a bigger engine tho 😂
oneyozfest182 · 26 points · Posted at 13:39:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are correct. There’s never been anything other than a 1300 ‘Busa. 😋
One time there was this kid who was obviously lying telling me he also had a Hayabusa when he saw mine, so I asked him if it was a two-stroke or carbureted, (I know, the question doesn’t even make sense, and the bike is neither), but he answered two-stroke. 😂
black_hawk2233 · 4 points · Posted at 13:42:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did it have a kickstarter too? 🤔 Cos they had it before '99. Just 'Busa things.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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oneyozfest182 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well a two-stroke just has to do with how the engine works more than the size. Larger engines do tend to be four-stroke, but some engine sizes you can get in either, (especially dirt-bikes). as far as I know, though, no street bike is made with a two-stroke engine. 😜 Look into how they operate for some really interesting info. 😊
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:02:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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oneyozfest182 · 1 points · Posted at 14:30:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/hV3LImCslpo
LemonishSnickers · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Eyyy I ride the bus.🙃
oneyozfest182 · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
😂
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:37:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The other 300cc are on layaway
Igottamovewithhaste · 22 points · Posted at 17:13:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh Oh! I can react to this! although a bit late. But where I live we take our own lunches to school. So in primary school at some point I always had this pretty good cookie/snack with me, but by the time lunch came around, my cookie was gone. So who took my cookie every day? Nobody would admit but little Igottamovewithhaste had an idea: Carefully open the package of my cookie and toss the bottom of it full with pepper and whatever spicy stuff I could find. That day at some point a kid in class had to go to the toilet, lo and behold he came back with red eyes and half crying. The headteacher of the school said he had to buy me something back to make up for it. I declined, everyone seeing him getting out if that toilet was satisfying enough.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 17:18:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school I was dating a pathological liar. I figured this out myself and a lot of people had a hard time accepting this about him when truths started coming out. But my favorite burn was when he had moved on to the next girl, she posted a poem on Facebook. It was the same poem he “wrote for me” and I received great pleasure in calling him out on this. He actually said “you win.”
CZILLROY · 44 points · Posted at 15:32:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend tell a group of friends a funny story that happened to him. He went on and on in great detail. At the end of the story I said "No, that happened to me." He paused and looked pensively at the sky for a moment before going "...oh."
This happened long enough ago that I dont actually remember the story, unfortunately. Maybe he is still telling it though.
StNeotsCitizen · 21 points · Posted at 16:23:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Used to run a pub. Saturday morning and L is scheduled to work the lunch shift. She calls and says she can’t make it as her nan is in hospital and she has to go and see her.
I call another employee J to see if she can cover. “Sorry mate going to the fair with H (another employee) and maybe L”
Interesting since L had to go see her nan right? I call L back. “Yeah I did originally plan to go after the shift, I haven’t told J I’m not going yet. Just waiting for my mum to pick me up and take me”
Ok, give her the benefit of the doubt. So I manage to get cover and we open. Regular customer R comes in. “How we doing? Your staff are all over town today, just seen L and H having breakfast at (cafe)”
Again I call L. “Are you seeing your nan or having breakfast with H?”
“Ohhhh no im totally leaving in ten minutes as soon as my mum gets here”
I tell her look, we both know you’re lying, come to work now and we’ll say no more about it. She knows she’s caught but doubles down. “No my nan really is sick, they think she might actually die, my mum is just coming to get me to go to the hospital”.
Ok fine, maybe her nan IS sick.
So lunch shift passes and we’re having a nice quiet afternoon when L’s Mum turns up. “Oh how’s your mum, L said she was sick, sorry”
L’s Mum: “...she’s not sick. I’ve just come in to see L, is she not working I thought she was...?”
A quick selfie with L’s Mum, snap chatted to L who was indeed at the fair, and the longest apology I’ve ever received. Very satisfying
canihavemymoneyback · 22 points · Posted at 19:41:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is going to be buried but here goes. When I had my first child my sister came to see me on the day I got home from the hospital. She was about 15-16 years old. She brought a girlfriend with her and the girlfriend’s mom. We visited and chatted for a little bit and then the girlfriend asked to use my bathroom.
Sure, no problem. I lived in a 2 story house, with creaky floors. I heard the ceiling creak over my head which was where my bedroom was located, not my bathroom. The girl came back downstairs and immediately said, “ you guys ready, I am, let’s leave”. No sooner did they walk out the door did I jet upstairs. I had had money on top of my dresser that was now gone. I ran outside and caught up with them, leaving my newborn infant alone in the house. I know. I wasn’t thinking straight. Nothing happened to her but I still kick myself for that part. I caught up with them at the end of my block and confronted the girl. Her mom took offense, not MY daughter, my sister took offense, not MY friend!
I said “bitch if you don’t give me back my money I’m going to strip you naked till I find the money and then kick your naked fucking ass all over this street”. She took the money out of her bra and meekly handed it over. Then the 3 of them walked away without another word. My sister, to this day, has never apologized or even acknowledged she brought a thief to my home. The satisfaction when that bitch handed over the money still makes me smile though. Even after all this time. My daughter is 35 now.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 22:59:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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User_31 · 10 points · Posted at 23:10:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your stepsister and ex are awful people.
[deleted] · 56 points · Posted at 15:47:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of the girls I work with called in sick and left me up shit creek without a paddle, I had a feeling that she was faking it (wasn’t the first time) and my suspicions were confirmed because the stupid bitch snapchatted her drunken night out to my girlfriend.
She got fired to some extent.
not_tight_butthole · 9 points · Posted at 21:03:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To some extent?
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:17:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got given no hours afterwards because of the beauty of zero hour contracts to be specific.
andybarkerswife · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can you ELI5 zero hour contracts for me?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yep, it's basically a contract of employment which doesn't guarantee you any hours, so you could technically be employed by a company but not work there at all.
Hytyt · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So, basically, a company can write you a contract that says "we will give you x amount per hour" but it will also say " we are not required to give you any amount of hours"
Gravity-Glitch · 19 points · Posted at 17:17:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Okay so this was in grade 4, but I still feel satistfied thinking about it lol. I had recently moved to a new school and was getting into Yu-Gi-Oh, which was huge for everyone since this was early 2000's.
Another student in my class that was also pretty much a bully starts bragging she had every single card from the game and knew every description. I instantly smelled the bullshit and decided to have some fun, mainly because some kids actually believed her. I proceeded to ask her about cards with names/descriptions I had completely made up, and she fell right for it claiming she had them all. I'll never forget the look on her face when I said I just made everything up to catch her lying. Never bothered me again after that.
SolumafSpaz · 19 points · Posted at 16:58:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend telling me he has solved 5 sides on a rubix cube and that’s his record
russells-crockpot · 3 points · Posted at 21:30:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well, if he solved the cube, then he technically did solve five sides. As well as one, and two...
MagentaCloveSmoke · 2 points · Posted at 22:34:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have one of those! People moving stickers is how that happens.. smh
SolumafSpaz · 2 points · Posted at 23:05:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not for him, called him out on it and backed him into a corner before he claimed it was a joke. ¯\(ツ)/¯
GallicanCourier · 2 points · Posted at 00:32:42 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
But the thing is, if you have 5 out of 6 sides with only a single colour, then the only squares left, moving stickers or not, would be only the last colour, solving the sixth side.
MagentaCloveSmoke · 2 points · Posted at 00:47:55 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Except when the "moved" stickers don't stay on anymore. It's missing 3! 😂
AliceAyres22 · 17 points · Posted at 19:38:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a law enforcement police officer for 9 years and I was off duty and hanging out with some friends at a bar. This guy sits down and starts a conversation with me. Just idle chit chat, the usual bar stuff so he starts telling me how he's a cop as he puffs up his chest like I should be impressed.
Oooh really, I say, that's sooo kewl! Who picked up your commission? Bar guy gets a confused look and I automatically know he's lying cuz he doesn't understand what "picking up commission" means but I continue...
I ask, do you work municipal? County? State?
He asks, what's municipal? Do you mean where do I work?
:rollseyes: Yes, what department?
And it goes on for a few more minutes and he has no clue what LE 101 basic questions are that all officers that have been though the process would know. When he became super uncomfortable and he knew the jig was up, I pull out my LE ID/badge and tell him I'm a police officer.
russells-crockpot · 9 points · Posted at 21:45:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just out of curiosity, are you a woman? Was this a failed pickup?
AliceAyres22 · 13 points · Posted at 21:54:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes and yes.
russells-crockpot · 12 points · Posted at 22:02:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That makes it so much better
ladyrage8 · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:45 on September 2, 2018 · (Permalink)
Isn't this how an episode of Criminal Minds opened?
The guy said he was a real FBI agent to JJ, Garcia, and Emily at a bar?
drot525 · 18 points · Posted at 02:27:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I rented a room to a "friend." He was up in my town, Reno, for work. So why not, I live alone, have a couple of spare rooms. It's going fine. But in a little while I lost my job. No big deal, it's construction. Not wanting to waste time and money, I go on the road to Utah north of SLC and am working.
He stops paying the rent, it's like a 100/wk, (he makes about 1800/wk) he's 7 weeks behind and I've had enough. I call in sick to my shift, drive back to Reno, and tell him he needs to gtfo. And give him the required 72 hours. He refuses. The 72 hours go by, meanwhile I'm missing more work. I tell him, when you go to work Monday morning, I'm moving all your shit out back, and changing the locks.
He says he'll call the cops. "I know my rights!" Not far off from how that YouTube yokel Steve Jessup says it. I'm like whatever. Pack his shit, put it outside. During his pack up, I find and take a picture of his illegal steroids, and needles. We're construction workers, so you won't be surprised to find out he's on probation, on his last chance probation, that if he violates it, it's prison time, like 7 years.
So I snap a pic and google it to see wtf it was. Some blackmarket shit outta the UK. I don't think nothing of it, just take it and the rest of his shit out side. New locks on, I'm leaving to go back to SLC, and here comes dickhead in with a cop car following him. I turn around, and we're hashing it out on the side of the road, where he lies to the cop and said I gave him zero notice.
I beg him to go, tell him, "hell I'll buy a week in a motel for you, just get out so I can lock up and go back to work in SLC."
He refuses. I get super angry and the cop sends me back to my truck. He talks to him, and then comes and talks to me. While waiting on the cop, I had pulled up the pic of the drugs. Cop comes over, he's super cool.
Cop says "I can tell you're the good guy in this, and he's the kind of wiseass dirtbag that knows how to work the system. He has the right to smash a window and go back in if he wants. Without written proof, you're screwed."
I'm shaking my head and I see my phone. I told the cop "I appreciate you handling this, you're being super fair and civil, and that's all anyone ever wants from the police. I can't prove I told him three days ago he had to go. But I know this, he's on probation."
Cop is not surprised. I said "take look at this," showing him the picture. "Those are illegal steroids. Now as it's my house, I can give you authorization to search the place."
Cop's intrigued, he pulls out his phone, and googles them. "Hmmm, I've never arrested anyone before for illegal steroids. Let's give it a shot, follow me to your house."
The three of us pull up to my house, the cop and dickhead on the street across the yard and me in the driveway. The cop and dickhead speak briefly and then the cop turns to me "is that motel offer still good?"
I countered with "I'll buy him one night."
Cop "We gotta a deal."
Later the cop said "I just asked him 'if I searched through his stuff was there anything in there that shouldn't be' and he caved." Then we both had a big laugh, the cop hung out with me while dickhead packed up all his shit and drove off after I gave him 60 bucks for the room.
And that's how I used a cop the other guy called to blackmail him into doing the right thing. Fucking dick.
Abtino11 · 69 points · Posted at 16:13:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew that a friend of mine had had sex with my ex girlfriend a while back. Years later he asks me how I’d feel about them dating. I asked if he had ever touched her, he told me no. I told him he just ruined any chance of keeping me as a friend since he lied.
skippingstone · 4 points · Posted at 22:15:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Would he have received your blessing if he was truthful?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Asking the right questions.
Abtino11 · -1 points · Posted at 00:56:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had always chalked up that initial time to a drunken hook up since I knew they spent time around each other, so I guess I like to believe that things could have been different. The fact that they think they have some fairy tale love story is what annoys me
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 01:50:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Abtino11 · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a whooooole lot more to the story than the 2 sentences I put on the Internet. If your buddy had assured you there was nothing going on for years before he had the balls to seek approval I this scenario, wouldn’t you be a bit upset?
andybarkerswife · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did they have sex while you were with her?
Abtino11 · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had broken up but we’re in the process of trying to build ourselves back together
HomerAtTheBat · 17 points · Posted at 17:45:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
High school band director. We had a girl who was constantly skipping class, so she was marked absent all the time. Mom got super pissed because she was dropping her off every day, and we must be lying. Conference with the mom and principal. Principal wants to hear what the girl has to say and calls down to her class to get her. Girl wasn't there. Such a beautiful karmic moment.
TrulyVerum · 16 points · Posted at 17:47:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A catfish (pretty bad one too) was using horizontally flipped and occasionally watermarked pictures of unrealistically hot women (primarily Peter Coffin's wife) saying it was them, along with tons of other fake info; she was also SUPER into me within the first 10min of chatting... like flirting and talking about meeting and hooking up, which is weird FOR ME. She was supposedly a European flight attendant who was totally up for flying to a town near me to meet.
So, I play along and
pretendI'm a desperate virgin utterly stupefied that some beautiful girl would be into me. "She" goes heavy on the flirtation and starts cybering with me and I fake it while I dig up the name of the actual person in the pictures.Big dramatic climax and afterward I say "Omg... that was amazing... I can't believe Peter Coffin's wife is interested in me..."
I was instantly blocked.
BUT this was Skype, so I went to an alt account and sent an add message lecturing them to not use watermarked images of unrealistically hot women of varying appearances when catfishing and git gud and all that.
Incidentally, a day later I was added by a European go-go dancer who was also incredibly into me almost immediately, even if somehow her pictures were also on some American Instagram model's profile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
russells-crockpot · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey, at least she learned her lesson.
Sort of...
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 16:42:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex girlfriend I had lied to me about if she was hanging around with a guy the other day, I either saw her with the guy or a bunch of people told me that they saw her with him.(i can't remember)
Either way, when i asked her where she was and that i thought she might be talking to this other guy, she told me she hadn't spoken to the guy in ages and that I was crazy and over protective and went on the offence against me.
I never told her I saw her with the guy, i just let her keep lying to me and trying to make me feel insecure, that then made it super easy for me to dump her, and knowing for certain i had made the right decision.
jwside · 35 points · Posted at 17:32:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my ex told me our daughter, after her teacher had inquired about me, denied my existence to the teacher. Basically, my ex took my daughter to another state after the divorce. I was corresponding with the teacher about report cards etc... teacher then asked my daughter about me. Ex-wife called me saying teacher had called her upset wanting to know who I was since my daughter claimed not to know me. I emailed the teacher asking about it she responded saying basically, "yes, asked child about you and she told me exactly who you were and that she visits you every chance she gets." Very satisfying to have some proof of the lies my ex tells. Parental Alienation runs rampant in my life.
whynotateaspoon · 34 points · Posted at 20:42:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mum shouted "dinners read"
Go downstairs
Dinners not ready
alexbuckland · 2 points · Posted at 10:30:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well she did say read and not ready.
mister__cow · 2 points · Posted at 16:54:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mom: "Oh look, you got here just in time to put the silverware on!"
ZachfromOhio · 63 points · Posted at 15:46:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knocked on my roommates door and said, “are you in there?” And he said, “no.” But then I found out that he was in there the whole time just lying about it.
SquidgyTheWhale · 6 points · Posted at 21:49:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What gave it away?
ZachfromOhio · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:53 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
The fact that he was in his room. Did you even read my post?
SquidgyTheWhale · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:07 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait, I thought he said he wasn't in there. Get your story straight.
ZachfromOhio · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:08 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was lying about not being in his room. What do you think this is?
SquidgyTheWhale · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:09 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, okay. But you never explained how you found out he was in there.
ZachfromOhio · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:00 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I busted right through the door Kool-Aid style!
ObviousLobster · 3 points · Posted at 21:43:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Clever lad
Tragiktile · 15 points · Posted at 17:30:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once had a friend I was always bailing out of their mistakes promise me she wouldn't lie anymore because she was pathological and it was over stupid stuff that didn't matter. Said if you lie again, we won't be friends anymore. Literally at the end of the conversation when we hung up and moved to texting the first thing she said was that she was hanging out with a mutual friend that I was sitting next to.. sent her a selfie of the two of us and said "you lasted less than 5 minutes..."
rangedragon89 · 16 points · Posted at 18:28:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My whole family always knew my sister in law is a pathological liar but it really bit her in the ass when she had a baby and the real baby daddy showed up at the hospital, she couldn’t lie her way out of that one.
n8dahwg · 217 points · Posted at 14:32:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My high school girlfriend forced abstinence. Went to different college. Surprise visited her and caught her in the act. Was horrible. But it allowed me not to keep up the false impression and enabled me to start trying things I actually wanted to persue.
PerfectChaos33 · 50 points · Posted at 15:36:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh baby you, you got what I need. But you say he’s just a friend, but you say he’s just a friend. OHHHH BABY YOUUUU
Aladayle · 5 points · Posted at 15:59:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks, I had just forgotten Zinyak singing. Best part of Saints Row 4
justhereforacomment5 · 7 points · Posted at 16:23:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Biz Markie...
ActualWhiterabbit · 5 points · Posted at 16:37:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Zinyak! Zinyak, you leave Biz Markie alone!
YoureInGoodHands · 10 points · Posted at 17:20:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Like getting laid.
n8dahwg · 3 points · Posted at 18:35:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was definitely a perk. Truth be told she was very controlling in ways that I hadn't noticed until later.
avocado_whore · 39 points · Posted at 16:15:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She forced abstinence? ...Or she didn’t want to have sex with you? You know it’s not legal to make someone have sex with you, right?
Sssgth · 40 points · Posted at 16:29:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She probably said "we'll wait for each other until after college" and then proceeded to not wait.
[deleted] · -32 points · Posted at 16:47:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She met an alpha she couldn't resist.
Narapoia · 7 points · Posted at 17:32:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You should look up why that Alpha memery is bullshit.
dragon50305 · 17 points · Posted at 17:06:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope this was meant to have a /s and isn't some weird incel/cuckold shit.
Sssgth · 17 points · Posted at 17:12:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The poster regularly uses r/TD and r/Libertarian, so I don't suspect any sarcasm
dragon50305 · 9 points · Posted at 17:38:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oof.
n8dahwg · -6 points · Posted at 20:07:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Truth... Sadly
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 20:15:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah...poor guy loved her with all of his heart and was willing to provide marriage and lifelong commitment, at which point he would get the sex she promised he'd one day have, but he unkowingly just failed to sexually arouse her.
Then he actually caught her in the act easily giving another man what he so desperately desired, all while this other guy didn't have to offer marriage, or probably even any dates. Hell, they probably weren't even officially dating.
Guy got burned, like so many other countless young men out there today, with no explanation as to why. So, he concludes that "she's an evil person," when in actuality no grown man ever taught him how to be a sexually attractive, masculine male.
n8dahwg · -3 points · Posted at 20:24:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so spot-on its absurd. I wish I didn't learn this so late but better late than never I suppose.
If she had just been honest it would have hurt like a Band-Aid but at least I could have made meaningful actionable steps in the right direction.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It hurts, man. I understand completely.
When I was 18, I was with the love of my life. Would have done anything for her, married her, gave her the world, etc. She was a virgin, as was I, and the thought of us sharing intimacy together, wrapped together in love, was just overwhelming to me. I wanted nothing more than to be hers, forever.
Unfortunately, this relationship formed not too long after my parents' divorce, and I was still broken from that. I'd sometimes cry in front of her, and share my emotions and thoughts too often and too easily. I believed that being so emotionally open with her would only improve things - after all, we both said we loved each other.
She wanted to wait for intimacy, however, until the "right" time, so that it would be special.
Imagine my thoughts and feelings when I heard the news one day: she had gone to a party one night with my sister, lost her virginity to some guy she had just met that same day, and she was now even pregnant as well.
Brain: formatted. Heart: gutted. Mood: furious.
I dated another girl for 2 years eventually, and we had lots of sex. I ended that due to incompatibility.
I'm married to a great woman now who treats me like a king.
You never do forget what it feels like to go through something like that, however, when you realize everything you thought you knew about your woman you loved more than life itself was completely wrong.
Bottom line, and harsh truth: if she isn't intimate with you, you are simply failing to fully arouse her.
I hope you're okay, now.
n8dahwg · 0 points · Posted at 21:08:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We've walked a similar path. Props for coming out ahead and doing well man. Thanks for sharing and best to you sir.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 00:21:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
<3
n8dahwg · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly I think that's a pretty good way of describing it as forced abstinence. She made it very clear that if I had sex with anyone else it would be the end of us. She is the one who set the boundaries. What is a better way of describing it perhaps?
BossOfWar407 · 10 points · Posted at 17:19:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You caught her in the act of abstinence? That bit<h!
Licence2Chill · 5 points · Posted at 20:19:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some people are getting caught up in your phrasing, but I think you are right. She can choose abstinence if she wants, but lying to you and then not following through on said abstinence is not only abusive and manipulative, but can be very damaging to your ability to trust people.
I hope you are lucky enough to find someone you deserve.
n8dahwg · 4 points · Posted at 20:37:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That means a lot. I really appreciate that.
Rivka333 · 8 points · Posted at 17:22:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was wrong to cheat on you. But as far as her not having sex with you goes, she had the right to choose not to. "forced abstinence" is a disturbing way to word it.
KushDingies · 3 points · Posted at 01:16:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Of course she has the right to choose not to. But convincing him to wait for her while she goes around fucking dudes behind his back is hypocritical and shitty.
Rivka333 · 3 points · Posted at 07:24:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As I said, it was wrong of her to cheat on him.
KushDingies · 0 points · Posted at 15:49:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think we're in agreement here. I'm just saying I don't think OP meant to imply "she's such a bitch for not fucking me" or anything like that.
n8dahwg · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Truth be told I absolutely adored the girl and would have done anything for her. You're right that she had the choice to subject our relationship to abstinence. She also had the choice to have sex with a football player. I can't pretend that her choices didn't effect me though.
BetterBeRavenclaw · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Saying it like that implies you think you are entitled to sex, that you are owed it.
Think about what you are REALLY saying. "She forced me not to kiss her. She forced me not to hug her. She forced me not to touch her breasts. She forced me not to touch her thighs. She forced me not to touch her clitoris, she forced me not to touch her vagina. She forced me not to put my penis inside her."
Newsflash; her having boundaries is not a force upon you, is not a violation upon you in any way.
You literally disgust me.
n8dahwg · 10 points · Posted at 17:48:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I respected those boundaries and by no means pushed her. Sorry you interpret my words this way as I would never force sex on anyone that didn't want it.
I just wish she would have honored the boundaries she set in the relationship.
avocado_whore · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah he is awful. Good thing his girlfriend found someone better.
MetallicAchu · 70 points · Posted at 15:18:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had an employee who asked for a day and a half off, a month in advance. He got it. The morning of the half day he didn't say anything. Just went about working half a day and going home.
The morning off he asked why he didn't receive a schedule for the day, so I referred him to his email requesting a day and a half off. He told me it was a mistake and he wanted today to be half off and tomorrow to be off. Knowing full well I won't be able to manage a schedule this quickly.
I decided to be a good guy boss, and move some of his clients from tomorrow to today, and there's only one left which I told him he will have to do tomorrow and then take the day off.
15:30 he sends his wife to text me that he's suddenly feeling ill and can't even manage to find strength to call in sick, and he won't be able to do that client tomorrow.
A week later I find out pictures of his holiday on Facebook, from that day. I fired him a week later, and it felt so so good.
nursing301 · 15 points · Posted at 18:24:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Caught kaltire in a huge lie. My radiator hose blew (pretty obviously even to me) as i was leaving kelowna to head back to the lower mainland. So stop at the closest place to get it fixed...this being kaltire. So they fix it right then and there but convinced me my gas cap is cracked and needs replacing. Was quoted $1600 and their mechanic would need a couple days. I asked if it was drivable and was told absolutely not. Wouldnt was even make it over the first hill out of town. So freaking out (being a poor student) and called my parents who said they’d come pick me up the next day and tow my vehicle back to the lower mainland where my stepdad was a backyard mechanic and could fix it for much cheaper. So paid for a hotel room that night ($140), gas for my parents to drive up, a flat bed rental to tow the car on and missed a day of work. Guess what...NOTHING was wrong with my car. I had to leave my vehicle in Vancouver to be fixed while i went back to work on Vancouver island and when i got that call that my vehicle was fine...holy man. I was livid. So was my stepdad. He reamed into them for trying to pull a fast one on a 25 yr old female. They lost his business that day and he used to use kaltire all the time for his company vehicles. I was out over 700$ in hotel costs, rentals, gas, bus tickets, and lost wages. Kaltire refused to acknowledge what they did and wouldn’t reimburse me a penny. Screw you kaltire!
A4_Ts · 14 points · Posted at 17:34:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Friend of mine said he was training a fighting style and he’d tell me every here and there about his hard sparring sessions and how hard the other guys were trying to knock him out but he was too tough snd his defense was really good.
I meet up to do light sparring with him and I can tell right when he got in his stance that he was lying. He bended his knees a little and kind of put his hands up and it looked super awkward. I could tell he never trained before. If he got into heavy sparring like he said he’d be in the hospital
Helen-the-welsh-one · 30 points · Posted at 15:15:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A sob storey from a person saying their fridge had broke down and they had no food. Almost fell for it till I checked the book of faces and saw that they had sold it for £70 on a local selling page.
I gave them a f*** off tablet and haven’t spoke to them since.
[deleted] · 454 points · Posted at 14:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Huff_Toots · 64 points · Posted at 15:08:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm glad you are alive
H010CR0N · 14 points · Posted at 15:18:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When you can make a sarcastic post about your mental issues, you know you have overcome the issues. Good for you.
hr_shovenstuff · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So accurate.
cant_be_me · 12 points · Posted at 15:56:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m so damn proud of you, both for recognizing that you could pull through, and for making yourself do it. Thank you so much!
FierceHawk · 3 points · Posted at 18:04:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TBI is a huge deal and I'm proud of you
gonna_break_soon · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you, I'm glad you found the strength to keep fighting!
trtlbnny · 3 points · Posted at 20:20:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sending a happy hug that you fought for yourself and family and won :)
regalrecaller · 2 points · Posted at 23:24:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What happened to you? I'm taking care of medical for my mom who had a TBI in the late 1960s. How different is your baseline from before the accident?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:49:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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regalrecaller · 1 points · Posted at 10:09:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My condolences. At least you don't have seizures. Pray you never have one.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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regalrecaller · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus, I am so sad that this is true for you. My mom is on keppra and lamictol.
Do you live in a state where cannabis is legal? CBD is about to be approved by the FDA for use to prevent seizures, it might help you...
kdm158 · 2 points · Posted at 00:11:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A long-distance high five to you, Internet stranger. I can’t imagine how hard that was.
GingaNinja98 · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m sure that it’s hard, but do it for them. I’m proud of you for keeping going in the face of pain and sorrow. I know that no matter what, your family is so happy and grateful to have you.
JackIsDjent04 · 1 points · Posted at 13:15:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m also glad you’re alive
Miekachu · 13 points · Posted at 20:23:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was dating this guy in university, constantly felt like things didn’t add up or seemed odd. I couldn’t go to his house/meet his family. I never met any of his friends outside of university and our social group. When we would go out he was always bumping into people he knew and they’d ask him how X was doing (x being his ex girlfriend). I was young, insecure, gullible, all that Jazz. However, I was adamant that he was cheating on me, it caused a lot of fights but eventually I’d cave in and apologise because I was just being ‘paranoid’ or ‘jealous’ or ‘insecure’.
While I’m not proud of it, I got to a breaking point. One night when he’d come over after work and was asleep, I checked his phone.
Bam. I was in his phone under the name of one of his best friends, his ex girlfriend was in his phone as another best friends name. Turns out she wasn’t an ex girlfriend at all. She was THE girlfriend and I technically was the side girl, I just didn’t know I was.
I was devastated but I knew if I just woke him up yelling at him that he’d deny it again, so I took screenshots, sent them to myself and then deleted the screenshots and the messages sending them off of his phone. I go out into the kitchen, call my best friend and I have a cry. I compose myself and go back into the room, flick on the bedroom light and throw a pillow at him, telling him to get dressed and get out of my house.
I waited out in the hallway while he was getting dressed because I couldn’t even stomach to look at him. He asks me what’s wrong, what did he do ect. So I tell him that I know. He hands me his phone and says I can go through it, he’s got nothing to hide. He’d cleared his phone up while I was waiting for him to get dressed. He tried to reassure me as he handed his phone over and all I could do was laugh, pull out mine and say I already sent them to myself because I knew he’d delete them.
I felt like shit, cried a lot but it was so satisfying to get validation on why I was feeling so ‘crazy’ and insecure. Also being able to throw it in his face because he was so self assured, thought he was the smoothest guy ever and could get away with everything was pretty nice.
Not today Satan.
Dont-be-a-smurf · 13 points · Posted at 20:31:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catching people lying is 1/2 of my job as someone who represents child services in court.
It’s far more often than not that people are lying and I need to reveal it. However, the most satisfying times are using jail phone calls.
For those who don’t know, most jails have a phone bank for inmates. These calls always start by telling each party they are being recorded, but this warning doesn’t always stop people from talking far too much.
In one case, a mother was telling case workers that she was no longer associating with the boyfriend that was in jail for abusing her children. They attempted to hide their calls by using different inmate PIN numbers to make it look like different inmates were calling instead of the boyfriend. This, of course, didn’t work and I was able to pull the calls showing that Mother full on was ok with her boyfriend hitting her children and was planning on lying about their relationship and finding a way to get the charges dropped after she could trick us into thinking they were separated.
The mother even attempted to warn the boyfriend that they were being monitored but he kept calling her stupid and saying how they were using different PINs and that we’d be too stupid to figure it out.
Either way, the Mother took that lie all the way to trial despite me giving her defense attorney the exact calls. I had to play them in open court and she practically freaked out on the stand afterwards.
I’ve had people on the stand making up stories about how their children got their bruises and then later admitting they saw everything and watched (dad/boyfriend/mother) abuse the child. It becomes difficult to lie when forensic evaluation of the wounds don’t match up with your excuses.
Tipsy_Owl · 14 points · Posted at 21:19:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had someone tell me that not only did they know “so and so” he knew her really well and proceeded to tell me all about her. He didn’t know that who he was talking about was me.
EmergencyShit · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:25 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
What was the situation you were in?
GiffelBaby · 13 points · Posted at 04:59:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I moved in with one of my best friends at the time. We were both having problems at home and because we live in Denmark we got removed from home and got a "youth apartment" paid by tax money. This is important, because neither of us could move out quickly if anything happened. We also both had personal mentors that helped with our individual problems.
I always knew he was a compulsive liar, but it never really bothered me that much. It was always about small things that didn't really matter. We moved in and the lying became more often and mattered more and more.
Because his parents had more money than mine and was willing to pay for furniture, our living room was basically all his stuff. At the start this wasn't an issue of course, but 6 months in when we began having issues, he basically claimed the living room as his and would't allow me to use ANY of his stuff. I wasn't allowed to use the TV, sit on the sofa, use his shower head, the microwave oven and the list goes on.
As the issues were ramping up between us, his stuff would start to break and he would tell his mentor and blame it on me. His mentor was incredibly gullible and there was nothing i could do about it other than pay for what was broken. Right away i notice he was lying about the price of the things that got broken, so he could buy better stuff than what was broken. I decided to fish up all the receipts of the things he replaced from the trash and save up for a hidden camera i could hide in the living room. lo and behold, 2 weeks after i set it up his "$650 4K" TV (It was actually a $300 was totally destroyed. I came home to him, his mentor and mine, all waiting for me in the living room to have a conversation about this.
They started asking me right away, what the hell i was thinking and why i would destroy a "$650 TV" if i had to pay for it anyways myself. I just started laughing and walked over the the camera i had set up inside a backpack. Picked it up and said "Give me 10 minutes alone in my room and i will show you what actually happened". Looked my "friend" in the eyes on my way to my room and the horror in his eyes was priceless. As soon as i closed my door and turned on my PC, i could hear his voice in the living room and i knew there was no way he could explain away what i was about to show them.
I came back in 10 minutes later with a hand full of receipts, a clear video of him destroying his own TV and about 20 browser tabs open of the real prices of the things that got destroyed.
1 week later he got removed from the apartment and a month later i got all my money back. Also found out later from one of his classmates that he had to sell basically all of his stuff to give me my money back and pay back his parents. Apparently his parents found out he had stolen around $5000 from them and wasn't able to pay them back even though he sold all of his stuff. Yeah, i'm glad i'm not friends with him any more, lets just say that.
rkskr · 27 points · Posted at 15:21:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine in high school was a ridiculous compulsive liar. She would make up the most outrageous things for attention. We went to a magnet school so there were only 6 of us from our middle school at our high school so I guess she assumed that the odds that the other 5 of us kept up with old friends from middle school were slim, but on one occasion she actually lied about one old middle school friend dying and made this huge thing about it with crying and not going to class and all of our friends were concerned about her. Like a month later we were all at the mall and I saw the 'dead' friend and my lying friend saw them as well and saw me see them and she just nervously started a random conversation and tried to steer the group in the opposite direction. I didn't out her to the whole group but you best believe I pointed it out to our friend who had been catering to her every sad little whim ever since the tragic loss of a dear friend lol.
And guess what yall she didn't learn. Over one summer she concocted another crazy scenario about a guy from our middle school. She said his step dad was beating him and so he had run away and was hiding out in her room (conveniently she had lied about running away and hiding out at his place earlier in the school year and then played out this whole thing where she'd slept with him and felt so bad about it and cried about it at school for a couple days for the attention) but as the summer went on the story progressed to the guys step dad finding him so he had to leave town. Then the step dad was beating the guys mom so he had to come back which resulted in the guy and the step dad getting into a huge fight that resulted in the step dad shooting the guy. Like I was friends with the guy on MySpace I was scrolling through the pics of him going paintballing that weekend while she was bawling her eyes out on the phone about the whole situation and how sad the funeral was lol.
beaconblue · 3 points · Posted at 17:11:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus christ....
SoMoneyAndDontKnowIt · 2 points · Posted at 23:08:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was super hard to read. You need more punctuation my friend.
OnlyFighterLove · 26 points · Posted at 17:00:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone on my company's floor started peeing on the toilet seats in our shared, and only, floor bathroom. We were pretty sure it was one guy since it started happening all of a sudden. We put together various pieces of evidence and built a strong case against one specific guy.
Soon afterwards I was washing my hands in the bathroom and in the mirror I see our top suspect walk in and go to a stall. I hear him go in and start peeing on the seat of the stall I just used. I waited for him to finish and walked past him to check the stall as he came out. Of course there was now piss all over the seat.
I yelled, "what the fuck did you just do?!" and confronted him in a very strong and non-aggressive but confrontational manner. He was absolutely terrified. Tried playing dumb, called him out for pissing on the seat, he tried to say it was like that before, told him to use the fucking urinal if he's incapable of not controlling his dick.
If he hadn't just pissed all over the toilet seat I think he would have pissed his pants, which made me feel a little bad. After that there was no more piss on the toilet seats though.
realtorlady · 11 points · Posted at 17:59:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My DH back when he was drinking told me his car broke down along the highway and that was why he hadn't gone to take dinner to MIL as he had earlier agreed to do. Actually, he'd taken his bike to a nearby bar and spent the evening drinking. I got home from an appointment and stopped at Wendy's for a quick burger and as I sat at the traffic light, he drove right past me on his bike. I parked around the corner from his garage and called him. He told me he was still waiting along the highway for his friend to come jump his truck. I pulled around where he could see me. BUSTED. It was right after that that we reached the big ultimatum. No more booze, no more lies or no more marriage. He's sober 7 years and I can't remember the last time he lied to me.
ephemeralkitten · 2 points · Posted at 01:01:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
can i ask how he turned it around? was it AA?
realtorlady · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:13 on July 13, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes it was thru AA.
antigravy · 3 points · Posted at 18:04:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess you found out what the most important thing to him is. I am glad he changed things for you
lets_try_anal · 11 points · Posted at 18:01:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was helping my ex-wife's dad install counters at her grandmother's house on Halloween. After i was finished we were suppose to go to one of her co-worker's houses for a party. I get done and call her to come pick me up. No answer.
Borrowed one of her Dad's vehicles and go home and clean up and head over to the co-worker's house to party it up. Get there and they are eating dinner. Haven't heard from the wife all day.
So I remember her saying that the party was a bonfire down a certain road. Drive down the road and Don't see a bonfire anywhere, we we're going to burning an old barn to the ground so it would've been highly visible.
Finally, I'm pissed and head home and set there until 4am when I finally passed out on the couch.
She comes in at around 9am the next morning. Excuses out to Wazoo. We we're at this party all night yada yada yada. We waited on you yada yada yada. And then she slips up and says something about being at Raywick, small location in central Kentucky, with another co-worker named Elliot.
Huge fight ensues because I caught her slipping up about her whereabouts all night. She finally fesses up to having an afair with the dude. Pack my shit and moved out.
Now happily married 8 years later to my 2nd wife, with 2 kids, 2 dogs, 1 asshole cat, amd a snake. Couldn't have worked out any better for me.
klcarr892 · 11 points · Posted at 21:21:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister is currently a contestant for Miss United States. She posts daily on social media about her life “struggles” and most of them have been lies. The best one was how she graduated university early to move home and help my ailing mom while in reality, it was me who quit my job and moved home while she lived with her boyfriend for two years following her 5 years of school. I’ve kept quiet about it all on social media but everyone treating her like she’s Mother Teresa is getting old.
sorry for the rant
kittymctacoyo · 5 points · Posted at 03:36:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was a good rant
minniemoomin · 11 points · Posted at 23:15:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After years of being cheated and gaslighted but never having proof, I found a second Skype account on my boyfriend's computer full of dirty chats and nudes with about 9 or 10 girls. Finally had the balls to confront him and end it.
It might not sound satisfying to outsiders, but having the proof that he was a cheat was just great.
justanothermelody · 12 points · Posted at 04:59:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so going to get buried, but I need to get it off my chest. At the time this happened, my son (we'll call him Mark) was 3 and my nephew (well call him Ken) was 4. We were staying with my in-laws (the parents of Ken) from out of country. One day, my sister in-law took us for haircuts at her hairdresser. When we were done, I helped Mark pack up his toys which consisted of 4 beloved plastic eggs that you could open and put something inside (like Easter eggs), and we left.
As soon as we got home, my nephew descended on my son so he could play with my son's toys - typical kid behaviour, right? Not too long later, I noticed one of Mark's eggs is missing. The green one. Green is Ken's favourite colour and he had a tendency to take the things he liked for himself...
"Ken, do you know where the green egg is?"
When he shook his head extra vigorously, I knew he'd taken it, but I figured I'd just find it later in the house when the kids were asleep and put it back with Mark's stuff.
That night, it didn't turn up. It didn't turn up the next day either, and I didn't notice it when I took a quick peek in Ken's room (that he shared with his parents). So I sent a quick message to his parents about it.
Hey, can't find Mark's green egg. He and Ken were playing with it the other day. Please keep an eye out for it.
I told my husband the chain of events and how I was sure Ken had taken the egg and hidden it in his room, and my husband was on my side...it was totally something Ken would do. I mean, we both understood he was just a little kid, but he was also a little kid who lied often, got whatever he wanted, and was never disciplined for bad behaviour.
A few more days go by with no sign of the toy egg. I've continuously looked throughout the common/shared areas of the house, and even my husband had ventured a peek in Ken's bedroom. It was frustrating because on top of our suspicions, our young son had been asking everyday where his green egg is and if we'd found it yet. Heartbreaking. At this point, my husband starts to have doubts.
"Are you sure Mark didn't leave it at the hairdresser's?"
I'm sure. I helped him put a dime in that egg and then packed it into his little backpack together with him. I know Ken took it.
Another day goes by and it's coming up to our departure date. There's no way I can leave without this toy - Mark would be devastated to leave it behind - so I grit my teeth and swallow some pride and ask my sister in-law,
"Do you mind asking the hairdresser to see if we left the green egg there?"
She's does and she messages back that the hairdresser didn't see it, but will check under his couch in the waiting area tomorrow and let us know.
Tomorrow? Why not now? Whatever. It's a little odd, but I let it slide.
The next day, my husband and I go out with our kids for a bit, but when we return in the afternoon, lo and behold, the green egg is waiting for us on the table! My son sees it right away and is thrilled for its return. He cracks it open right away and demands that I put something inside.
What happened to the dime I put in it?
At that moment, I got a message from Ken's mom, my sister in-law:
"Great news! The hairdresser found the egg! My mom popped over to pick it up from him and left it at home on the table. Yay!"
Man, the hairdresser must be hurting if he had to steal 10¢ from a kid. I still had my doubts, but I just begrudgingly thanked her and decided to just be grateful we'd gotten it back at all. My husband was more naive and went about feeling guilty for having blamed Ken and for having searched his room. While I nodded, I still didn't feel the whole story was adding up and said so, but I had nothing but suspicions to back it up so my husband wrote me off as crazy.
Well as luck would have it, my husband had a chance to get his hair cut himself that evening at the same family hairdresser. As he left, I told him to "thank" him for me for finding the egg...which was really my way of wanting to hear the story of this found toy directly from him. It was petty, I know, but it turned out I didn't need to be petty. When my husband returned, he immediately pulled me into our bedroom to talk.
"When I got there, the hairdresser recognized me as Mark's dad and said right away how sorry he was that he couldn't find Mark's egg toy."
O_o
Instant karma.
That meant not only did Ken steal Mark's toy and lie about it, his MOTHER lied about it too and covered it up!!!
A simple "hey, I found my kid with the toy, sorry about that," would have been totally cool - they're still little kids after all - but NO! She aided and abetted him and then LIED about it!!!
I never outed her on it, just the satisfaction of knowing I was right the whole time was enough. She's an odd one herself, and my poor nephew is learning her ways.
dogsaretheanswer · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:20 on July 5, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a similar thing happen to me with my young cousin. She stole my small penguin figurine right after I unpacked it from the box. Her mother asked her several times if she took and and she always said no but we never did find it. Super cleaned my room and everything. She wasn’t allowed in my room by herself anymore
nekizalb · 46 points · Posted at 16:54:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Part of me wonders how many of these stories are themselves lies in an effort to gain karma... 🤔
BlueDragon41 · 14 points · Posted at 17:23:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How ironic.
They could call others out on their bullshit, but not themselves.Justsayit_Goos_Fraba · 3 points · Posted at 17:23:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was wondering the same.
TwigletSparkle · 3 points · Posted at 20:32:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m just waiting for a reply to the effect of “nice story I posted 3 years ago” EDIT: btw, if this does happen, please post it in this thread for postception
SquidgyTheWhale · 3 points · Posted at 21:41:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How do we know you're really wondering that?
nekizalb · 3 points · Posted at 22:33:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We can't trust anything!
ObviousLobster · 3 points · Posted at 21:54:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's lies all the way down
pathemar · 10 points · Posted at 20:17:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first ever serious girlfriend told me she was dying and we had to break up so she could live out her last few months in happiness. That and her parents hated black people. That was almost 8 years ago and she just had her 2nd kid. I never confronted her about not dying but at least I don’t have kids! High five! 🙌
TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe · 3 points · Posted at 20:38:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dodging bullets like Neo!
Fickles1 · 11 points · Posted at 20:17:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a police officer and while yes lying to police is to be expected I still find it hugely satisfying when I catch one out. In addition: during an investigation if you can prove someone is lying on a point of evidence it is to be taken as an admission. Not sure if that is in most countries but it is in mine.
So. I respond to a call where a man states that hus neighbour had drilled a hole into his air conditioning coolent line saying he stayed up after having an argument with his neighbour about his air conditioning and watched from the window. I don't know much about air conditioning but he said it didnt work anymore. I go look at it and sure enough there is a tiny hole about 2 mm in diameter. I confronted the neighbour whom I then found out jad just moved in. He was the smuggest arsehole I had ever met. Denied every question and regularly brought up how much the victim annoyed him and how loud his air conditioning unit was. I asked him where he was last night and he said he was with his mother in the mountains about 90 minutes away. I got him to call then and there his mum who had no idea what he was talking about. Victory! Charged him and thought nothing of it.
About a year later the court matter turns up. By this time the little arsehole had another lie. He decided that he was with his mate also in the mountains at the time and he saw another police officer the same day at that location. Well fuck you. I summoned the police officer for court and she actually made notes about meeting him, a month prior and she had that day off according to rosters. Victory 2.
Fucker got convicted.
SCVanguard · 20 points · Posted at 17:19:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A student had to do a recorded major scar test. They were not a very good student and could hardly play their clarinet. So the directors are in the office and listening to their recordings and are blown away at the tone quality....and we realize there is no chance that was them playing it.
So we get on YouTube and type in “Bb scale clarinet”. The very first hit is EXACTLY the same, all the way to the awkward breath that happened in the middle of one of the octaves. So we bring the student into the office and ask.
“Hey, this is a great recording!” They responded, “yeah I worked really hard at it.”
So then we tabbed over to the YouTube recording. “So we were really shocked to see that this wasn’t you on YouTube.” We played the video and she instantly started crying. “I didn’t have enough time to practice!” She exclaimed.
Bitch, it took you longer to rip that shit off YT than it would have taken to simply record it. And we play Bb every damn day in class you lazy butthead.
rebelwith0necause · 9 points · Posted at 16:13:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My classmate back in college. We were in the library once and I guess he was trying to impress me. He was "talking" to somebody on his phone pretty loudly. He was asking how his "business" was going. If there no problems with their "transactions" or if they had any issues with their suppliers or anything. I figured he was bullshitting so I also took out my phone and called him. Well what do you know, his phone rang pretty loudly in his ear. He was startled and shouted the equivalent of "MOTHERFUCKER" in our language. He realized it was me and looked at me. At this point, my friends and I were in tears from laughing. He was so red from embarassment and walked away.
Methebarbarian · 9 points · Posted at 16:21:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a feeling someone was bullshitting frequently about the stuff their kid would do. I got my proof a few weeks ago accidentally. I showed her a viral video with a little girl who was crying and saying, “I just can’t stop thinking about pancakes”. Two weeks later, she must have forgotten I showed her, because she told me this story about how when her kid was stalling bedtime she came out with “I just can’t stop thinking about pancakes”. I didn’t let on that I knew she was 100% lying as she described to me the video but attributed it to her kid.
Thing is, she’s a great person with a funny kid. There was zero reason to lie. But it let me know that my instinct was right to trust everything I hear from her.
samtoole43 · 10 points · Posted at 16:33:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time at summer camp this kid went into the bathroom to shower and I noticed my towel was missing shortly after. I went into the bathroom and it was hanging outside the shower he was in, so I asked if he had taken my towel. He said he didn’t take it, so I said “If you didn’t intend on using my towel it won’t be a problem if I take it back to my bed right?” and he said no go ahead and take it. A few minutes later he came out of the bathroom wearing the same dirty clothes as before, but he was soaking wet.
Bamboozeldee · 9 points · Posted at 19:17:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my dad said he got my nose when I was younger, I said I could still breathe through my nose. And he made that Jim face.
Sablemint · 9 points · Posted at 22:39:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The maintenance guy in my apartment complex really hated me. He lied to the management, saying things like I wouldn't let him in during an emergency (I let him in, I just didn't want him playing his damn radio, so he stormed off.) One time though he went too far. After an annul inspection, we got a notice that unless we addressed all these problems we'd get evicted.
but the thing is, we told the management about these problems. Several times. So I went to go meet with them about it. The head maintenance guy was there, and said we never told him about these problems.
Well the management folks went and looked... And they found that we had told them about all the problems they complained about. And every single report was signed by the head maintenance guy.
I still have my apartment. He no longer has a job.
lindsoe · 8 points · Posted at 22:55:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I travel a lot. I used to have a friend at home who came over often, we would often kick back and watch TV with my mom. When I went away for the summer, she would still visit with my mom and they would watch TV. I was catching up with my mom and she told me she thought my friend was stealing money from her. I couldn't believe it until I returned and found I was also missing money after a night that she had visited. I was a bit nervous to accuse someone of stealing without any proof. So I made a plan, the next time she came over I put a red dot with pen on all of our bills. My mom woke me up in the middle of the night and told me she was missing money, so when my friend was asleep I went through her wallet and there it was, the missing $20-with a red dot. I woke her up and told her she had to leave. She cried and cried and swore she didn't do it, and I wanted to believe it, but the proof was right there. That was the end of that friendship. Not very satisfying, but I caught her in her lie red dotted!
smnrlv · 10 points · Posted at 01:31:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at a gig many years ago (Ben Harper I believe), in a great spot close to the stage. These three girls were trying to push their way to the front by saying "my friend needs to get to the front, she has asthma and needs an inhaler!"
I looked at the friend and said "What kind? The blue one?" "uhhhh... Yeah" she said. "You're in luck, I have one right here" I said, and pulled it out of my pocket.
She looks at it and clearly has not used one before, and it's clear they're faking the whole story just to get to the front. They retreated in shame.
mindduk88 · 16 points · Posted at 17:16:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was talking to someone and he said he knew a guys who bust their balls while doing the splits. I knew this guy had made up a bunch of stories before so I knew this one was fake too. So I said “was it Andy Bernard?” His face lit up because the thought he had managed to turn his lie into a real story so I continued and said “tore his scrotum with his car keys at at party in Niagara Falls right” and he agreed knowing he can’t make anything up or it will blow his cover. So then I said “that’s kinda weird, you know him because he lives all the way in Scranton Pennsylvania” I don’t know how he didn’t catch on earlier but I saw the moment of realization on his face, and he stormed off. It was the best part of my day :)
Jdisgreat17 · 17 points · Posted at 17:32:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Suspect girlfriend is cheating on you, get undeniable evidence that girlfriend is cheating on you, confront girlfriend who denies any cheating, she goes on to say "I'd never do that to you, baby, I've been cheated on, it's horrible." Show her the screenshots of her phone that show she's been cheating on me, plus, for some reason, she had a video of her sucking some dudes dick, that wasn't my dick, she goes on to say that "I didn't mean to." I start packing her shit and set it outside the apartment, and then kick her ass out. Hilarious
Imakefishdrown · 11 points · Posted at 21:12:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He totally got bit on the dick by a venemous snake and she was just trying to save his life.
Jdisgreat17 · 3 points · Posted at 21:13:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would have grabbed her by her pants and tossed her out without that bullshit response
Hidden_Samsquanche · 2 points · Posted at 21:49:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Or what if she tripped and fell mouth first onto a fat dick? Shit happens, right?
Paulr114 · 17 points · Posted at 18:33:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I am driving my wife’s BMW 3 series through London and in Dulwich I was nudged on my nearside rear wing by a Polish juggernaut. Oh dear (She was not pleased). Took it to a local BMW dealer and had the standard sucking of teeth and lots of tutting. They fixed it and the bill that went to the Insurance showed that they had put a new wing on it due to the amount of damage - £2800. Okay fair enough. Six months later it goes in for a service. I go to pick it up and am met by the deputy manager who tells me that there is a problem. There is the car with a big strip of paint missing from the (new) rear wing. ‘Sorry sir this happened when we cleaned it - however we will be able to sort it out for you, should take about two weeks and will be roughly £2000’. I wandered over, pried off a piece of filler held it up in front of his face and asked him what he feels I should tell the insurance company that they packed the wing with filler for £20 and resprayed it rather than put a new metal wing on it. ‘It will be with you in a week Sir, with our compliments’
rowdyanalogue · 8 points · Posted at 16:26:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A little girl came up to the cart I was working, and told me that her brother had dropped a bottle of water and she asked if she could get another one. It struck me as weird that somebody would send their 7-year-old to get a replacement water, so I start asking questions.
She ends up giving me some story about how her brother was spilling it all around the park and I asked why she didn't get a water at another cart on the way over here. Right then, her dad walks up to see what's taking so long, and she looks at him and says "I don't know, he told me to say it!" He quickly grabs her arm and pulls her away.
There was something so satisfying about watching his own daughter give him up like that.
too_many_barbie_vids · 9 points · Posted at 17:10:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Satisfying in the sense that he has no idea why the cops are coming to his house. Not satisfying in that I now know for sure that he treats his new GF as badly as he treated me.
He swore he had gotten help and that he was treating his new girlfriend better than he treated me. (This was a condition to me not taking him back to court to revoke parental rights.) That the kids would never be witness to domestic violence again.
My ex just butt dialed me while beating up on his girlfriend. My guess is that I must be the last person he talked to as he just called to set up visitation for next week. I could hear her crying and what sounded like him hitting her. And yelling shit like “you always do this.” Our kids together are home with me and don’t know. But they have said in the past that they haven’t seen him hit her just that they fight a lot. He has an infant with the new GF.
russells-crockpot · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Were you able to get his visitation rights revoked?
too_many_barbie_vids · 4 points · Posted at 20:28:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That will require going to court so I won’t know for a bit. The butt dial just happened today.
russells-crockpot · 3 points · Posted at 20:34:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fair enough. I wish you the best of luck
too_many_barbie_vids · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you. On the plus side, my kids are teenagers and if he starts getting violent with his GF with them near they both have phones and can call 911 while they walk home (we live less than a mile away).
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 17:16:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ephemeralkitten · 5 points · Posted at 03:35:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
you go girl
TrialByFire91 · 8 points · Posted at 17:18:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Before university I dated this girl for a few months. We had had sex a few times and things seemed to be going well. We got our A Level results and it turned out she was going to have to go to the crappy university in our home town but I had gotten my first choice. Shortly after she broke up with me. Fast forward 6 months to being at uni I get a random phone call from her telling me I should go to the clinic and checked out for STIs because she had contracted one. So I go and get checked out and turns out I am clean. So I phone her and tell her that everything was ok with me, thank her for giving me the heads up and suggest that she speaks to anyone she had been with since. 5 minutes after hanging up she texts me thinking she is texting her best friend basically calling me a liar and that she is certain I gave her the STI. Turns out she is cheating scumbag who was sleeping around while we were together. She didn't take it well when I confronted her with this fact.
TheRealTravisClous · 7 points · Posted at 17:36:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy I use to work with, compulsive liar everything he said was a lie. He was telling us about this nurse aid we work with and how they use to date back in high school. Like a month later he and I went to this aids floor and he started up a conversation with her and it went exactly like this;
Him: Oh hey Nurse Aid, it's me Liar McLiar Pants
Her: Oh hi
Him: do you remember me we had math with Miss teacherlady
Her: Oh really? No sorry I've been out of high school for 3 years I don't know who you are.
Him: Oh, well we had math together
He was bragging how he use to bang her and all that silly stuff and she didn't even know who he was when he talked to her.
He quit around November last year because a big company head hunted him to be their lead graphic designer for $80K a year with a company car. I saw him driving his Jeep asked about the car and he said it's for business only. Last I heard he did work for that company but as a truck stocker in the warehouse. Oh well, good riddance to the liar
LesterBurnham3409 · 8 points · Posted at 17:37:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Took my car to the dealership because the SRS (airbag control module) light came on. They told me the module was bad, and needed to be replaced. Quoted me over a $1000 for the work. Declined the service and they threatened to not give me my car back without the work being done because it was too dangerous....I yelled enough to get my car and took it to an independent mechanic. it ended up being a 30 cent fuse had gone out.
ephemeralkitten · 2 points · Posted at 00:51:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
this is why i'm kinda scared of mechanics...
xradsirx · 7 points · Posted at 17:57:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was about 21 I had hung out with this guy Mike a couple times and he was going to be in my city for a party and “would invite me but it’s his friend’s friend’s party and didn’t want to just invite people”. But he also “couldn’t wait to see me again that weekend and take me out again”.
That was alright though because my roommate’s friend Jess was coming up and we were going to a party at her boyfriend’s house. I didn’t really like my roommate’s friend but had already agreed to go because I thought it was a different friend (also named Jess).
So Jess gets there, I realized it was super annoying and crazy Jess and not nice, fun Jess and I’m thinking “Eh whatever, it’s still a party and I have nothing else to do, maybe her boyfriend is friends with Mike’s friends and it’s the same party”. I ask Jess what her boyfriend’s name is and GUESS WHAT? She said “Michael Lastname”. Holy. Shit.
So I try my best to keep a straight face and get my roommate in the kitchen and I say “You know Mike that has been over a bunch lately, THAT’S HER FUCKING BOYFRIEND.” He’s like “WHAT?! He has a girlfriend?” Yeah. It was news to me too! So I said “Well obviously I can’t go to the party...” He’s like “No, you HAVE to go to the party.” So I put on my big girl pants and drive us to the party. He opens the door and gives her a big hug and a kiss, looks at me, looks at my roommate and gets a look on his face like “OH FUCK”.
I say “OH HEY!” Then Jess STARTS INTRODUCING US TO HIM. All he said was “yeah I know radsir and roommate” and just kinda looked at the ground. I just say “So where’s this party woooo?” Later on I talked to him and was like “How weird that my roommate’s friend is your girlfriend huh?” All he said was “We just started dating.” Ok dude, you told me 20 minutes before that you couldn’t wait to take me out again.
pealerjoe_ · 9 points · Posted at 18:35:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Obligatory not lying, but cheating on a test. In second grade, I distinctly remember during a math test, seeing a fellow student next to me looking at my test for answers. So, I wrote a wrong answer on purpose and finished the test. I waited for her to turn it in and then I corrected my answer. Felt so good when I was eight lol, even though now, it's just a funny memory.
jennifuzzbox · 9 points · Posted at 19:28:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Big client launch. Suddenly everything is on fire and needing to be done immediately. As usual with this particular coworker nothing is actually ready to go or anything close to organized. She gets asked by executives why it’s so rushed and she explains it is the client - they submitted their details late.
Having worked with this person before I was skeptical, but whatever, doing my part. Got on a call with the client to help expedite the process and clarify things. We are missing some pieces so I explained that we could have them ready in 24 hours once we received the new files. Client says “I believe I already sent these two weeks ago when I sent everything else”
Super satisfying because I no longer feel guilty not rushing everything for this coworker because I know it’s totally on her.
The hardest part is she has yet to figure out that if she just tells me she screwed up and needs my help I have her back... it’s trying to blame it on the client that crosses the line.
Eeeeearth · 9 points · Posted at 19:30:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I make a point to not date horrible people, anymore, buuuut.
One time I was dating this horrible guy. We had plans to hangout that night. I text him to check in and make a plan. He says he’s sick at home and just wants to be alone. I just had a feeling, given how out of the blue it was, that he was lying. I was driving by one of the many bars he went to and I decided to pop in.
There he is, drunk as fuck and playing pool with some girls. I just post up in the corner and text him back and forth for awhile.
“Oh I’m sorry- what’s wrong? Can I do anything for you.” “Thank you, my love. No, just need to sleep and clear my head.” “Okay, well I hope you feel better. Maybe when you feel better and we can go to [bar] and play a couple of rounds of pool against some really pretty girls.”
Looks up, eye contact engaged. He just puts his pool cue down and literally walked out of the back the bar.
Bye, bye.
smm523 · 9 points · Posted at 20:18:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad died three weeks ago and a girl I used to be friends with showed up to the funeral. She told many people at my university and even messaged my cousins that I was drunk at the funeral and she had to buy me fries. The girl who went with her totally exposed her and now everyone thinks she's a mega bitch for lying about that. Karma.
Loloen · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Condolences about your dad.
kittymctacoyo · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Disgusting
Arra-E · 6 points · Posted at 09:33:47 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was looking at places for a while with my ex gf, she kept finding something wrong with every place we were viewing. I started getting suspicious but wasn't too sure at first.
Then one day I caught a glimpse of an email she was typing, she put down a deposit that we put aside for our place on a single bedroom apartment for just herself and her best friend. Turns out she not only took the deposit money I put aside but was also having a lesbian relationship behind my back.
Phoned my bank, got the transaction reversed, went back to the place we were currently sharing (my parents paid for it) and put her shit outside for her to come collect.
unneuf · 7 points · Posted at 14:26:34 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was about 11, I went over a friends house to play makeup. I placed my phone down (it was 2012, a hand-me-down iPhone 3, I think) and went to the toilet. Came back, it had been moved to her dressing table.
Me: “Could I have my phone back, Ali? I should probably start walking home soon.” Her: “That’s my phone.” Me: “But...that’s my case?” Her: “Yeah, we have the same case.” (Called bullshit, it was a cute purple penguin and we got it online. What would the odds be? Plus, I’d seen her case and it was pink and sparkly.) Me: “Riiiight...could you turn it on? I want to check the lock screen photo.”
Jesus Christ, the panic. She started stammering and sweating.
Her: “Uh, well, I’ve ran out of charge...” Me: “We’re at your house! Just grab your charger!” Her: various excuses
I got fed up and grabbed ‘her’ phone, turned it on, it had tons of charge and WOW, would you look at that, the lockscreen was a photo of me and my parents. I remember I just turned to her and said really snidely: “Wow, that’s kinda creepy that you’ve got a photo of me and my parents as your lockscreen.”
kaybet · 48 points · Posted at 15:49:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didnt get to see their face, but a while ago my friend and I were talking about iPhones and I mentioned that apple purposely fuckes with the battery to make people buy new models.
She got mad and said just because I didnt like apple I didn't need to shit on them. I replied and sent the article where they admitted to doing it.
We haven't talked in a while.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:32:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They don't "fuckes with the battery", rather they decrease performance on older models to prevent battery damage (at least according to them). I believe there is a setting to turn that off.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
where the fuck is this option
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
To eliminate all battery problems in iPhones, simply deorbit the Earth. Battery problems can't exist if Earth doesn't exist.
PM_ME_OLEFIN_COMPLEX · 9 points · Posted at 18:19:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a pathetic reason to stop talking to somebody
kaybet · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She hates being told that she was wrong. Hell, in college she would get mad at me if I corrected her in any way, even though most of the time the things she made up were complete bullshit. I remember one time, after a night of drinking, she said I couldn't drink water because that would make me drunker. I never really took the things she said for truth.
I think another reason she has cut me out of her life is that she also moved back home and maybe dropped out of college. I'm not sure, she only really posts inspirational stuff on facebook.
34HoldOn · 0 points · Posted at 07:56:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She sounds like a really big fucking mess. God bless the people that have to put up with her bullshit.
muskratboy · 11 points · Posted at 17:13:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I told my friend that all batteries degrade and power management systems are necessary to maximize battery performance over time, but she got mad that I was using objective facts and left.
Mdb8900 · 14 points · Posted at 17:14:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to do backstage/stagehand work for extra money when back home from school. My brother would hook me up with the gigs and there was always a motley crew of random locals who worked at the theatre. This one guy was about my age (20/21) and was a verified compulsive liar. Much of his family worked as the cleaning crew, and he actually has a brother who had a deeply cynical demeanor but otherwise seemed 100% cooler than him.
Anyway, this kid claims to me that he dated this hot Russian girl for years, and that he used to speak Russian fluently. When he first told me this, i was a little incredulous, and since I had lived in Moscow for several months studying Russian, and I knew there were basically no Russian people in our podunk-ass town... so i attempted to greet him... здраствуйте! Раньше, у тебя был девучка русская? Откуда её?
He just gives me this feigned frustration/pained gesture, makes a grunt, and says “oh man she left me a while ago, i used to remember!” ...”i just can’t remember a lick of it anymore, whoops!”
It’s like, yeah, you used to be fluent and then you forgot every word... not even a привет.... because THAT’s how language works. The funny part is i’m pretty sure he knew i had lived there before, i’m not sure why he thought that BS narrative would work on me...
thunderplop · 6 points · Posted at 20:36:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Здравствуйте! Раньше, у тебя была (you’re referencing a female) Девушка русская? Откуда она? (Again referencing a female) also when referring to a liar always call them a (сука блять)
Mdb8900 · 3 points · Posted at 22:54:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TY, didn't realize the verb structure of that phrase in russian, then forgot that past tense verbs reference the gender of the DO. :)
SuperheroDeluxe · 14 points · Posted at 17:14:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not so much satisfying, but relieved.
I had a girlfriend who was behaving like she was having a seizure and she told me that to stop it I needed to slap her really hard across the face. I ended up slapping her as she became more panicked and convincing. Not very hard though, not even enough to redden her face. She kept trying to get me to do it harder. Afterwards, she told me that she had a family history of it, even giving me specific details of how her brothers and sisters would behave then the seizures happened.
Then one holiday dinner with her family present, the subject of seizures came up and her mom mentioned that her family was lucky, none of them had seizure issues.
I look over at my girlfriend and she was smiling.
During the trip home, I asked her about it. She told me that a previous boyfriend had liked beating her and that she was testing me to see if I had it in me to be that way. I did ask her mom later to verify that it wasn't some more bullshait.
SoMoneyAndDontKnowIt · 6 points · Posted at 23:29:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What in the fuck...
LookAtThatMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 11:45:16 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I'd be saying bye to that fruitcake.
mrchristian1982 · 14 points · Posted at 19:30:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught my ex-wife cheating. I gathered my proof, which included a recorded phone call of her and the other man. When I confronted her, she denied anything was going on. I gave her several chances to come clean, she refused. Told me I was crazy and that she'd never. So I took my phone out of my pocket and played the audio of her and the other man talking about how great the sex was last night. I made her listen to the whole thing. Her eyes were so wide, she went pale. She had no words. Gotcha, bitch.
valicat · 6 points · Posted at 17:22:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So there was this guy that started at my job, we are cooks. It's a high volume kitchen so some degree of experience is necessary, it's definitely not the sort of place you can just start and pick up as you go, if you didn't know something, you would have to be trained--which we do!--but that requires the bare minimum of admitting that you need to be trained.
So this guy, his first day he tells me he has six years of working experience. Oh cool! Me too, guy! I bet we'll get alone fine
Well it became pretty clear that he was lying because he was just really bad. Like, I would have been surprised to learn if he'd ever worked a day in his life. He had no sense of urgency, none of the earmarks of an experienced cook, knew none of the culture or ettiquette. He would ask me how to do basic shit that is super obvious and anyone should know. Like he asked me how to scoop cheese sauce out of a container. He's literally holding the spatula in one hand, container in the other and asks me "so how do I get it in the pan?". How much experience he had would change constantly. Six years, seven years, by the time he was fired a month later, nine years of experience. There was another guy I worked with that also had 6 years of legitmate kitchen experience also knew he was a liar, he asked him one day if he knew how to clean a flattop and he said he never had before. Dude WENT IN on him, accused him of being a liar right on the spot, no one with six years of kitchen experience makes it that far without having to brick a grill at least once
When he quit he accused me of being the reason he had to leave, said I didn't know how to do my job or something. I was just the one that had to work with him the most and I would really not pretend that he didn't know what he was doing. Working a shift with him was exhausting, it would be like if I brought a twelve year old to shadow me for the day. Couldn't reasonably expect them to do anything on their own so I would basically have to do all of my stuff and all of his stuff and hope that he at least didn't make it worse for me. And he would! all the time! burn things or make things incorrectly with the wrong ingredients, try to send food out that wasn't finished yet. I'd keep trying to show him how to do things right over and over and over again but it got to the point that I was showing him things I had just shown him an hour ago and he wasn't understanding any of it. It's just funny to me that he knows he was caught and he still tries to save face
ubersiren · 7 points · Posted at 17:47:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ll try to be brief.
My son (6) was at the neighbor’s house playing in their yard and came home crying that some boys came into their yard and beat him up. Like, pushed him to the ground and kicked him in the ribs and head. Of course my husband and I ran out to see if we could see these kids but they had moved on. But not before leaving behind a bike. With an address on it.
So, I Wazed that bitch’s address which was next neighborhood over and found some kids sitting outside the house. I got the bike out of my trunk and asked who it belonged to and one kid said, you found my bike! Turns out the bike was stolen earlier that day and those kids knew exactly who stole it. They all looked at each other and back to me and said, “Andre.”
They showed me where Andre lived and his mom answered. I told her what happened and she denied everything. She said he couldn’t have done it because he was at his grandma’s house. Where does Grandma live, I asked? Oh, that’s my neighborhood, lady!
By this time, a group of teenage boys came out of the house and circled around me in an intentionally threatening way. And then Andre appeared in the doorway. A bit older than my son. He shouted “well he was making faces at me and [one of the teenage boys] told me to do it!”
All I could do was laugh. I looked at Andre and said, “Next time you steal a bike and leave it at the scene of a crime, don’t leave the owner’s address on it.” The boys closed the circle on me and told me to get out. I told them I’d be filing a police report. I also noticed a large number of bikes on their patio.
The whole time I was walking back to my car they were calling me names and, I shit you not, throwing uncooked hotdogs at me.
Filed a report. Did not press charges. The cop I talked to said we helped them ID the teenagers who were with Andre. They had destroyed property in the area just before the incident with my kid. Moved out of that area ASAP.
titan384 · 6 points · Posted at 19:03:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was called by my university (after I graduated) to be a juror in final design evaluation for first semester students. One of the students brought a model, which was quite not his work. I asked him about the design, and why he did that and everything, he made up stuff about it and told me. I asked him how he came up with that particular idea being in the first semester and it being too technical for him, he said he just knows stuff.
When he was done, I took the model, and pulled one of the blocks off, and there it said 'My Name, enrolment no. - Class of 2012'
The model was something I submitted for the model making class when I was studying there, and it had been lying in the exhibition room. That kid just took my model, and was claiming it to be his work.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 19:36:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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kittymctacoyo · 3 points · Posted at 04:36:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good riddance! Poor kiddo, though :(
pcoon43456 · 7 points · Posted at 19:52:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a car dealership. I had a vehicle dropped off for service the night before for some recall work. Vehicle and owner had never been to our dealership for service. I checked the vehicle in as per usual company policy and wrote the repair order to get the work done.
Fast forward to the end of my work day. Said vehicle owner arrives at the dealership to pick up their vehicle. They get their keys, I thank them for their business, express wishes that they return for any future service needs. She is a little defensive, giving me the usual “I never service my car at dealerships because you are thieves.”
I think to myself, “okay, bitch, unnecessary comment. Goodbye...”
I watch as she goes out to her car. The rear passenger side in particular. Immediately, she Stars marching back towards my desk.
“Yes, Ms. See You Next Tuesday, what can I do for...”
“Which one of you hit my car!!!”
The following two or three minute tirade proceeds. I always let the customer vent until they are done. I wait until I hear that satisfied loud exhale and the final “what are you going to do to fix this?”
My turn.
“Absolutely, we can get this vehicle to our body shop for repairs. However, this dent was existing at the time I checked your vehicle in for service this morning. Would you like to contact your insurance to start a claim or pay cash?”
Cue thermonuclear detonation of entire Soviet and American stockpile circa 1985.
My service manager comes out. As the Asst. SM, he trusts I have the situation in hand, but wants to make sure nothing out of place occurs.
Rant number two ends. I ask, would you like to see the pictures that I took of your vehicle this morning? As per company policy, we are to take pictures on our iPads of all vehicles coming in for service. Every time.
“Well I didn’t do this. One of your other customers must have hit my vehicle!”
Our dealership is next to a not very good neighborhood unfortunately, so we have security cameras as well. I asked the Service Manager if we could review the footage.
“THIS IS BULLSHIT! YOU JUST DON’T WANT TO FIX THE DAMAGE YOU DID!”
Storms out. Naturally, we review the footage. She backed into one of our light poles while parking her vehicle the evening before. She then proceeded to park the vehicle three spots over so that the light pole wasn’t close anymore. Thankfully, there was only slight cosmetic damage to the concrete base.
Fuck (most) people.
1337haXXor · 7 points · Posted at 20:16:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late, but one of my proudest moments.
Working as a cashier at a home improvement store. Customer pays for his few screws with a ten, taking it out of his bifold wallet. As I'm giving his change back, he says, "I gave you a $20, not a $10." The customer's always right, keep things copacetic, if you've worked retail before you know the protocol. Except in this instance, the customer had made a fatal mistake. I pulled out the top 20 and 10 from my register till, and showed him that the 20 was crisp and straight, and the 10 had a slight bend in the middle, Defeated, he yanked his couple dollars change for my hand and grumbled on his way out of the store.
So many retail stories...
Cdogger715 · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:12 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have you ever posted to r/talesfronretail ? They would love to hear your stories over there.
anonjab · 7 points · Posted at 00:45:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but... when I was younger I used to randomly notice clothes missing from my room. I always blamed my younger brother because I mean who else? He would always get angry at me for blaming him without any proof. One day I see him wearing a pair of my shorts and I call him out and he looked me straight in the eye and said “these are mine”. I had a 10 minute argument with him trying to convince me they were his. Mom eventually got in the middle of it, looks at the shorts and says to my brother those aren’t yours. She did the laundry.
rgallazzi · 7 points · Posted at 00:57:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
benzethonium · 9 points · Posted at 01:15:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My SO's parents died, leaving everything to her and her sister. A few weeks later, we get a letter on an attorneys letterhead that her parents received a loan from her rich uncle many years ago, and they did not pay him back. He forwarded a signed copy of a loan agreement and wanted principal and interest, quoting almost all my SIL and wife were to receive. My wife knew her folks were better with money than that and never heard anything about this. She spent days going through her parents papers and finally found a signed release of loan, paid in full. We went to his attorneys office, supposedly to discuss his payment. At the meeting, my wife asked her uncle's attorney what her paper indicated. He reviewed it and showed it to my wife's uncle, asking him if that was what it appeared. I told him I had already had his signature verified by handwriting analysis (advantage of my employ) He stammered, choked and said he didn't remember them paying him back. His attorney apologized. My wife called him a greedy bloodsucker and we left. She never spoke with him again. Sad what money will make people do.
HeyBriansOn · 7 points · Posted at 02:01:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I HAVE A PERFECT STORY FOR THIS! Now my friend was a notorious liar. Like all the time about stupid shit. And it’s pretty blatant sometimes. The stories just don’t make sense. I would always be skeptical about his stories and point things out that don’t make sense and he start saying “ oh here comes the detective. Detective HeyBriansOn is on the case!”. I never really had any evidence to his stories being true so I’d always just have to bite my tongues to his crazy stories. Anyway a new game called payday 2 comes out. We are all super excited to get it. We finally all pick it up, download it, and get everyone together to play. We get in the lobby and this guy is a super high level and has tons of guns and armor and all that stuff. We are all super surprised to how he’s played so much but his account says he has less then a couple hours played. Doesn’t make sense at all. He had to have cheated. So I say “you totally cheated”. Which his response is “ oh here come detective HeyBriansOn! Why would I cheat on a game I just got that we are all going to play together”. No evidence obviously but we all smell bs. Well we load into the game and over his character, in big red letters, it says “CHEATER”. We screenshot it and now we use that as proof to all bs stories he tells. I think I still have it on my pc. I’ll look for it when I’m back.
iaywwnm · 25 points · Posted at 15:27:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My SO suddenly wanted to break up after 3 years. Later I found out he was trying to get back with his ex that he dated when he was just a kid. What made it better was she was clearly uninterested in him. Fucking pathetic ass hole.
FireflymyHigh · 12 points · Posted at 16:08:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I investigate work comp claims so I have quite a few stories about this.
One time, the employee claimed a case of water had fallen and hit his ankle. He didn't report it and had the weekend off. On that Sunday, he was at home and called 911. He was transported by ambulance to the ER stating the damage to his ankle was from the water case hitting him the previous week at work.
I checked his social media immediately and found a friend of his who made a comment about their night out at the bar over the weekend. Found out that friend also worked for the same employer. Called the employer and got the friend on the phone and asked him about the claimant, what he knew, and what they did over the weekend.
Completely caught off guard he didn't have time to really deny or make up another story. He said that he and the claimant did go to the bar over the weekend and that the claimant had a decent amount to drink and hurt his ankle.
Called the claimant as soon as I got off the phone with his friend and took a recorded statement. I went along with his story until he had felt he covered it all. Then I asked about his weekend. This question surprised him so he tip toed around what he did over the weekend. I then let him know what I had found out and asked if that rang any bells for him or if his memory was a little fuzzy. Then there was silence. At that point I ended the call advising him I would send him my decision soon but I'm sure he knew in that moment what it was going to be.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 17:17:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at a friend’s house and my sister was talking about Lebron and I told her that she didn’t know anything about Lebron. She refuted. I looked at a counter that had an espn magazine on it with a cover photo of Matt Kemp who is a black baseball player. I picked up the magazine and said, “This is Lebron.” She looked at me and in a very arrogant voice said, “I know that!” It was the perfect set up and execution for exposure.
ashwheee · 13 points · Posted at 19:03:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I would NOT say it was satisfying, but it changed my outlook on a lot of things when it came to people, and learning the truth was relieving.
I’m in California. When I was younger a friend of my (then) boyfriend had left for the US Army, went to Iraq or Afghanistan for two tours, came back honorably discharged and with PTSD. We knew him before and after he went. When he came back, he rarely talked, drank a lot, and was always depressed. We would go out and he would just be sad for a lot of it and say he was having trouble being home after things he saw.
One night out especially, an older gentleman at the bar was talking to him about his grandson, apparently they were in the same group (I am unfamiliar with it...battalions? Groups of military, sorry.) Our friend and the grandson were in the same group of army, but the grandson had lost his life. The older gentleman bought our friends tab. Our friend opened up, said he met/knew the grandson, what a great guy he was, and also opened up about some painful sounding things he encountered abroad, one being witnessing children being shot and dying.
My then-boyfriend and me were sitting at the bartop listening the whole time and I kept asking my bf, doesn’t that sound weird? Why would he be telling people these things? If I had killed a child, I couldn’t tell anyone but a therapist. My boyfriend assured me that it was difficult for our friend, who was in tears talking to this man about his mission and the mans grandson, that he also knew, dying in action.
About a month later, my boyfriend considered moving in with the friends dad, who was a regular at my boyfriends bar and they knew each other fairly well. We went to look at the house, and casually asked a question about the pictures hung up in the house, and casually asked why he didn’t have any of the sons army photos up.
Dad said, “what photos?” Confusion. When we tell him some of the military stories, dad replies with, “he has diabetes type 1 and found out during his medical evaluation. He never even went to boot camp. He lived with his mom in Utah before he came back.”
Rhamni · 12 points · Posted at 16:37:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually wrote about it on /r/ProRevenge. Here it is again:
tl;dr: Best friend's ex spreads nasty rumours and claims there's a restraining order out against my friend. We prove her a liar in front of most of the people she knows.
When I went to uni, me, my best friend and his girlfriend were all part of the 'philosophy society' together. Basically a club where, once or twice a week, we would all meet up at campus and walk into town where we had reserved a room at a pub. There we would have terribly important discussions and solve all the world's problems over a pint of ale or a cider. We had some very good times in this society. Discussing thought experiments, philosophers, ethical dilemmas etc.
And then the two of them broke up. Like any relationship, theirs had its ups and downs, but from the outside it had seemed to me all along like there was a little too much drama. Like a lot. And after they broke up, the drama only got worse. They were still in the same society, and the ex really, really was not able to just get along.
I won't bore anyone with the endless flood of drama she was responsible for, but it all basically boiled down to two things. 1) She needed to be the centre of attention whenever possible. She would claim credit for things she never did, present other people's ideas as her own, get upset if she wasn't invited to parties, etc. And 2) she had a really bad tendency toward black and white thinking. Everyone was either her best friend or the demonic personification of treason and kiddyfiddling sent by Satan to torture her. All her exes were monsters. All her former friends had taken advantage of her or been mean to her (She was really good at making friends, just... she was also really good at losing them). I'm not a licensed psychologist, so I'm not going to say with confidence that she has Histrionic Personality Disorder... But I am going to say that she regularly saw a psychiatrist and never told us more than that it was for her anxiety.
While they were still together, she was exhausting to deal with, but after the break up she turned into a tvtropes ex girlfriend from hell. She hated my best friend. Somehow she was still cool with me, probably because I was pretty diplomatic and didn't call her out in public, just quietly corrected perceptions and factchecked people when she wasn't around.
Anyway, for a year or so after their breakup, they still both went to the philosophy society. Then my best friend graduated, and while he was still in the city, he mostly stopped going to 'philsoc'. And when he stopped going, her lies got worse. When the three of us first met, she told us a few horror stories about the abusive men she had known before going to university, and my best friend and I were happy for her that she had managed to get past that and gotten to know good people like us (It's not hard to be better people than her exes, or so it seemed). But when my best friend stopped going, she started saying the same kind of crap about him she had said about her previous exes. She said that while they were together he had forced her to put up with things she didn't want sexually. She said she had done the breaking up (It was the other way around). That he had started stalking her after the breakup and groped her. Stuff like that.
It was pretty clear to me that most of these were lies, because some of the 'incidents' were stuff that had happened in real life and I had been present for, like destinations for trips or movies we had seen, etc, just with nasty lies added. And if she lied about some of them I was inclined to think she lied about the rest too, especially since my friend is one of the least violent people I've ever met, and all her lies were about him being violent or humiliating her, just like all her previous exes had supposedly done. After a few months of these lies she said she had gotten a restraining order against him, and that that was why he hadn't come to philsoc anymore. This... upset me. Obviously I disliked it all along that she had been lying about my friend, but most of the people he had liked in philsoc had graduated when he did, and he had asked me to keep my head down so she didn't turn on me too. This however was something else. She had lied about having to call the cops on him. And she had demonstrably lied about a restraining order.
As I said, she still liked me, for some reason. She did most of her rumour mongering in private, with a few people at a time, so maybe she didn't think word would spread and was just looking for sympathy in the moment from the few people she lied to. But the whole club knew most of the stories she had told. So here I saw a golden opportunity. You see, I was social secretary or whatever it was we called the post. I was responsible for planning some of the events for the club. The main one being... the Christmas Dinner. We decided on a restaurant for the Dinner, and then I went there and set it up. Once the venue was booked, they needed to know the exact number of guests and everyone's order. So I collected names and orders and made a list and collected money from everyone who would attend.
Except, I made two lists. One list I showed the club, and one list I showed the restaurant. The restaurant's list had one more name on it. My best friend's name.
In the last few weeks before the Christmas Dinner her lies got even worse. She started implying that the reason there was a restraining order in place was because my best friend had raped her. At this point, just about everyone in the club was very sympathetic toward her, and treated her like a hero for standing up to the bastard. With 90% of the members being undergraduates, people disappearing and being replaced by new faces all the time... Half the members had never even seen my best friend, but they sure knew he was a baddie, and wasn't allowed anywhere near the society.
The day of the Christmas Dinner came. My best friend and I were the first to arrive. One by one, the other members of the society arrived. Most had no idea who he was, and we just introduced him (truthfully) as a former president of the society. He got along great with some of the new faces and had a few convesations about philosophy and uni life. And then his ex showed up. Or I should say, her boyfriend showed up. She was outside. Someone had warned her the 'dangerous ex' was inside, and that she should call the cops. Her boyfriend came in, made a scene and demanded that he get the hell out of there. Here's the thing. The new boyfriend genuinely believed her about the restraining order. So he gave us the perfect set up. After he shouted the restaurant went dead quiet, so my best friend was able to explain, calmly and in his normal speaking voice, that there was no restraining order, and she had lied about that like she had lied about everything else. The new boyfriend thought we were lying, so he rushed back outside, ready to call our bluff. He urged her to call the police. But of course she couldn't do that, because there was no restraining order and the police had never heard of or from either of them before, and the only one who had made a scene was the new boyfriend. My best friend was just quietly enjoying a dinner he had paid for and was trying to have conversations with the new members.
After maybe 20 minutes the ex and her boyfriend came in. She told everyone who asked that she didn't call the police because she didn't want to 'ruin his life'. Just about nobody believed that, fortunately. Me and my best friend had a great night. His ex, not so much. She left pretty quickly after eating. There was a lot of buzzing and people asking about what had really happened over the next week or so (before Christmas break), and slowly but surely almost everyone realized that the woman had been lying her ass off about at least some of the stuff she was saying, and was probably lying about the rest too. Her new boyfriend stayed with her, and they are still together now, years later. I'm not sure what he believes at this point. It should be obvious that she lied, but he was always pretty heavily into the "always believe the victim" stuff, so maybe he just refuses to think about it.
I don't want to end on a preachy note. We all know that sexual crimes are some of the worst things you can do, and lying about someone doing them is right down there on the bottom as well. I disliked the woman long before the Christmas Dinner, but the fact that her lies escalated all the way until we were able to quash her in public, in front of most of her friends, and that they all learned the truth about what an awful person she was... That makes this probably my favourite memory from university. My best friend and I remain BFFs almost a decade later, and the Christmas Dinner is something we still laugh about when we discuss it.
Asariel2011 · 3 points · Posted at 23:17:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much for orchestrating this and standing up for your friend
Rhamni · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone had to do it. Glad it could be me.
DJNilla27 · 11 points · Posted at 17:37:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was living in a house with a bunch of "friends". I'm not too careful with cash so I would leave some lying around on my desk in my room and I felt like some had been disappearing, but I didn't think too much of it. Then I noticed $400 go missing from my wallet. I figured the only time I don't have my wallet on me is when I shower, so I set up a camera for the next time I took a shower. Sure enough, on the very first try I caught another guy that lived in the house walk into my room, open my wallet, and take out $60. When I asked him about it he denied it. Then I showed him the video he tried to say it wasn't him. Eventually he admitted it. Pretty satisfying to catch him red handed, but I had no evidence of the $400 so I never got it back.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:23:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy on my friends old Minecraft Realm joined. Within ONE DAY he claimed to have found an end portal, killed the dragon, found several chests worth of elytras, shulker boxes, FIFTY dragon heads, and full enchanted gear.
I snooped around until I found his manually built end portal, then set up a sign in front with a single word. "Explain". Then I set up a command block to lock him in front of that sign as soon as he joined.
He was promptly reprimanded and banned.
HippomanX · 6 points · Posted at 17:28:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Slimebeast · 6 points · Posted at 18:42:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I noticed someone was trying to trademark a common word in my 'community'. When I told people, he claimed it was to protect the word from misuse, not for his own gain. (What a hero, right?)
A little bit of digging found him on a legal forum asking how he could protect the word for his own personal use - and leaked audio years later had him outright talking about it as his 'brand'.
After I notified the 'community', people fought the trademark and it was denied.
Probably boring for other folks, but it's rare to actually have some sort of "WikiLeaks" style revelation in your own personal life. Even received threats from the guy's lawyers, saying I must never speak his name again for the rest of my life or I could go to jail. Laughed over that one, read it out for people.
Wrote up a document about the whole situation, and more, with a few others who came forward: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P5MudbZIQq54H55ltSynqvEdg17eQn7Sx05DV6ev3vg
kittymctacoyo · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ill be finishing up reading this tomorrow!
TryonB · 5 points · Posted at 19:35:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was waiting tables at this bar/poolhall place. We didn't have dedicated bussers, so we'd all help bus each other's tables. I was delivering food and passed by one of my table's that had just left, I noticed a $10 tip in the form of two 5's under a salt shaker. As I was finishing up with the other guests, a co-worker cleared my table. You always leave the cash tips in place after you bus another's table so I went to claim my $10 and saw only one 5 under the salt shaker.
I asked my co-worker "Hey, did you see another $5 bill on that table? There was two when I passed by, but only one after you cleared it." he faked concern, even looked into the trash bin he used...He saw the suspicion in my face and checked his apron. "Oh, sometimes I throw small trash like straw wrappers in here, must have fell in. Here it is" He handed me a crumpled up $5.
Now, I'm a bit of a pussy, plus I was really busy, so I just sarcastically said "Really?" and mumbled "asshole" as I walked away. I reported it to the manager, but he didn't do shit, so I told all my coworkers not to let this guy bus their tables and they all had no trouble believing it so they all started treating him like shit and telling him and he eventually quit. Over $5...(plus the times he didn't get busted of course).
dirtybirds233 · 7 points · Posted at 19:37:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex girlfriend broke up with me out of the blue one night, we’d been together 4 years, and also lived together. I stayed at a friends house the next night and just couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t adding up. So I went home and she was gone, but her iMac wasn’t. Now, I have never, ever asked to look at a significant others texts or anything, but I think I was perfectly in the right to do it at that moment. Texts had gone back months with this other guy. Nights where she was at her friends, or at the library, or wherever, she was at this guys place. What made it worse was they were both making fun of how oblivious I was to it.
Anyways, I printed the texts out and asked her if we could talk the next day. I made her explain why she ended things, and it was “I just wasn’t feeling it anymore, I just don’t feel the same about you.” I asked f there was anyone else, to which she replied, “How could you accuse me of that? After 4 years you really think I would do that to you? I’m not that kind of person.” I slowly handed her the printed out texts, and she went as white as a ghost. Of course, I was called an asshole for going through her things, but I didn’t care what she had to say at that point. The satisfaction from seeing her caught and no way to wiggle out was incredible.
deadsoul88 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
WoW
mrzpldubbz · 6 points · Posted at 19:45:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Long story, my MIL had to move in with my husband and I for a couple months because she escaped a frightful marriage (husband was a compulsive liar, verbally and physically abusive, just overall jackass). It was only supposed to be for a couple of weeks, but turned into 3 months. It started to affect our marriage, as it was 5 people (husband also had younger school-aged siblings that moved in with their mom to our place) in a one bedroom apartment and she kept promising and promising she’d find a job and be out soon. She also promised to cook dinner, help pay for groceries, electricity, etc. never saw a dime so I started thinking she was mooching off of us and taking advantage of my husband.
When my husband and I were out working, I let her use my computer for online job applications. I would come home from working a 10 hour shift on my feet all day, to a messy house and shit everywhere. I asked her what she did all day and she said she was working on her resume and applying to jobs. This went on for weeks, where I eventually cleaned everything up and made dinner too, which I always had to clean up. After about the 2nd week of this, I was done. One of those days, I had asked her for my computer so I could check my emails. I took it into my bedroom, closed the door, and went through my computer’s internet history. She spent all day on Plenty of Fish and Match messaging guys and setting up dates with them (while we were stuck watching his younger siblings) but she told us they were job interviews. I went back a week into the browsing history and she hadn’t applied for not one job.
My husband got home from work an hour or so later, so I pull him into the bedroom and showed him. So he devised a plan. We went out into the living room and he asked her how her job search was going. She said “oh so well I’ve been on interviews and such!” So my husband said something like “if they’re going so well, why not any offers?” And he even asked her about some of the places she’s applied. She listed off random companies and we knew she was lying. So he said “how did the interview with James or redrod29” go? Her face DROPPED. She yelled at us saying it was an invasion of privacy and that we were disrespectful. She moved out 2 days later.
It felt so good! We have a good relationship now (this was 4 years ago) but we like to keep our distance.
eltiburonmormon · 6 points · Posted at 20:17:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex wife racked up a TON of consumer debt without me knowing it. I found out because debt collectors started to call me because they couldn’t get ahold of her. I went home and rummaged through our shred pile and found shredded letters from the credit companies demanding payment. I painstakingly found the pieces and taped them together. When I confronted her she denied everything, lying through her teeth. When I showed her the letters, her color drained and she continued to deny things. Total debt was about 25k. Been happily divorced for three years.
frugalfrankie · 5 points · Posted at 22:10:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a pretty severe injury that required surgery and a month off work. Upon my return to office, boss lied and claimed that the doctor's certificate didn't cover my entire absence (it did) and tried to dock my pay.
I went back to surgeon and got a second (identical) document clearing my entire absence, so then boss tried to put me on probation for exceeding allowed amount of sick days in a year.
And when that didn't work either, he trawled through my social media accounts and had me sacked for a minor infringement of the employee code that had happened two years prior.
Imagine his face when I found an identical violation of the employee code on his social media accounts, and attached it to the lawsuit I filed.
(I won)
kittymctacoyo · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A+
chanyp · 4 points · Posted at 03:00:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in a very busy salon and spa. One day, I had a very particular client who wanted a balayage. A balayage is a hair painting technique that is very natural and sun kissed looking. Our salon charges 180+ for this time consuming and delicate process. I do the balayage. It comes out gorgeous. After toning and cutting her hair as well as styling, her check comes out to 230. She tells me she loves her hair and even tips well. WELL. Two days later she calls in demanding to speak to my manager. She claimed I had chopped all her hair off, laughed in her face, refused to style her, and sent her away crying. She demanded we give her money back so she could "get it fixed elsewhere or she'll sue" Little did she know, we have cameras with mics in our salon, similar to webcams. They'd been installed to prevent these types of claims and to make sure product was not stolen. So, our manager pulls up the feed, opens up the date and time of her appointment and has us watch it. I stood smugly behind her as my manager played the entire pleasant exchange. The client claims that wasn't her and storms out of the salon, never to be heard from again. It was hilarious lmfao.
Justhereforhugs · 2 points · Posted at 03:08:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The nerve of some people! Good riddance!
chanyp · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:42 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Right?? People always try and get their services for free, it's sad haha
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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chanyp · 3 points · Posted at 03:46:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fairly certain she was a typical salon hopper. They're people who go from salon to salon to get their hair done and then demand a refund basically to get free services. It's sad but it happens surprisingly commonly lol
wastedsanitythefirst · 5 points · Posted at 06:34:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got pulled over for speeding late one night although I wasn't speeding. The officer tried to press me about it and was about to give me a really difficult time if I didn't just agree and all that. Until I said "well officer I'm pretty sure I wasn't speeding but I guess I can just bring my dashcam footage to court with me on a DVD and flash drive".
"Drive safe and have a good night"
Poe414141 · 5 points · Posted at 09:06:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was working with a manager who always threatened us with the owner showing up and not being happy. One day he was going on and on about how "The boss is coming in and he's been watching the cameras. He's really pissed." My phone rang and I answered it. It was the boss. He had a question about my schedule for the next week. So I asked if he was coming in that night because the manager kept insisting he was. He wasn't even in the city. He asked to speak to the M.O.D. and proceeded to read him the riot act.
Munchomania · 6 points · Posted at 09:51:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work in a sports club in the kitchen with two other women. These women were older than me and liked to bitch about people all the time, they weren’t very nice people to be honest and I was starting to get fed up with having to listen to their shit and nastiness about people who I actually didn’t have a problem with or quite liked. Well they started to turn nasty towards me eventually (when they’d run out of people to talk shit about) and at first I didn’t care much because I knew what they were like. But it started to get worse and they started bullying me into doing things they knew I couldn’t do (I had a back problem that required surgery at the time and couldn’t do heavy lifting). I overcame that by straight up refusing to injure myself so they dropped that but started to bitch and moan about me whenever I left the kitchen. Now by this point, I was starting to get fed up with it all. So I asked them one day why they had to be so cruel about people and why they felt the need to bitch about me whenever I left the room, and they said they hadn’t said a word about me or anyone else..! (Like, I legitimately stood in the same room while they bitched about other staff) it got to a point where they told me I was “hearing things” or “just shit-stirring to cause trouble”. So I waited for a day when they were being particularly bitchy, took out my phone and stuck it on “voice memo”. Then I put it back in my bag and excused myself to use the bathroom. I did this about 3 times. That evening I listened to the memos back and caught them absolutely ripping into me! Saying all sorts of nasty things etc- I text one of the women and asked why she/they had said these things about me and she said she “didn’t know what I was talking about” and that “this obsession has to stop”! The next day I walked into that kitchen and without saying a word, played them the memos. The looks on their faces was brilliant. One of the most satisfying moments of my life.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Then what happened ?
Munchomania · 3 points · Posted at 17:52:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
They were MAD! Lol. One tried to threaten me with legal action because I’d recorded them, but she never did. I left that job shortly afterwards. I gave them 2 weeks notice after this happened but I was never put on the rota, one of the women was the one responsible for the rota and told management that she’d tried to call me for work but I “never answered my phone” and was then called out for lying by management a week later when I showed them my calls list on my phone..
RaspberryCai · 5 points · Posted at 18:26:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend, let's call him Jay, and he moved to Australia on a gap year whilst we were in uni. He said he was already dead successful and had made it down under, so two of my friends and I decided that we'd surprise him by taking a trip to Australia, because God knows we needed a holiday, and we hadn't seen him in half a year. Last time I'd seen him, he'd drowned my yellow fiat cinquecento during a game of monopoly (don't ask.) Once we arrived in Sydney, near where he claimed to be living, we went to the club he claimed to be the manager of. We tried finding him to no avail, but when one of my friends went for a piss, we found him working in a toilet. Turns out he lived in a tent in his uncle's garden. The look on his face when we found him from across the globe was priceless. We still all had to kip in a tent, mind.
Kennie730 · 2 points · Posted at 01:32:43 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Love Inbetweeners!,
Dangereux21 · 5 points · Posted at 02:40:28 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was on the bus once late on Halloween night. A guy got on dressed like Charlie Chaplin and sat next to the girl behind me, and immediately started hitting on her in an obviously fake Russian accent. Not sure why he thought that particular accent would charm her, nor did it make any sense with his Charlie Chaplin shtick, but hey. Its Halloween and he's feeling good.
Im rolling my eyes as he awkwardly starts trying to impress her with stories of moving over from Russia, and she's clearly not into it at all (because why would she be??) After a few minutes of listening to this excruciating attempt at an accent I got so annoyed that I turned around and started speaking to him in gibberish. I was so 100% convinced he was not only not Russian, but also didn't speak a single word of Russian, that I was extremely confident he would have no idea I was faking it. (I'm good with accents and languages so I think I did a pretty good approximation.)
As soon as I started talking he looked extremely panicked. He was like "Sorry what was that?" I told him "I speak Russian, don't you?" He immediately tried to backpedal and gave the lamest excuse ever: "What I meant to say is that my parents are Russian and I get the accent from them, but I never learned the language. Just the accent."
Sure. Okay buddy. He got off shortly after that and I have never felt so fucking smug.
sotis6 · 7 points · Posted at 19:18:06 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was proctoring the ACTs this year. As a proctor, you have to record the last question someone answered at the end of each section because they can’t go back and complete other sections.
A student across the hall got caught on the second section (of 4) going back, and was removed. I had been stressing this in my room, and let my room know after that section that someone had been removed, so please don’t make me remove you.
During break, I was going through their second sections and recording their last question. One girl finished on 56 of 60 questions, so I asked my supervisor should I write the last question she answered or the first unanswered one, and we looked at her test together, and decided we write 56.
3rd section comes around, and I walk around the room and see her test now had all questions in that section answered. Asked if she went back and she says “no they were lightly shaded, I just bolded them” not knowing we had gone over her test specifically.
Had my supervisor come in to remove her, and she refused to leave, holding onto her test tight and started yelling. We had to get someone to forcefully remove her.
It turned out she went to the preppiest school in the state, and most likely had the impression she could do whatever she wanted, so it was pretty satisfying watching her throw away over $100 of her parents money.
Final part: as a teacher, it is so funny how dumb students and children think we are. We see much more than you think.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:37:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex gf ghosted me for about a week and a bit? And i broke up with her after that, because thats some immature shit yo. We then caught up a while later, and she told me about her new boyfriend, and i asked her when they started dating, and it was during the time she ghosted me.
I suspected as much, and it felt kinda good to be on the moral high ground?
But luckily ive moved on from then on long ago. Now i have the most amazing girl ive ever known in my life. I've grown mentally and emotionally and generally improved my life. I am glad i am not with her, nor the same person i used to be.
Look after yourselves my dudes. Always evaluate yourself, and improve where you can and accept what you can't change.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 14:11:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
when a friend of theirs made a comment about the lie they were telling online and i happened to see it . ahhhh thank you stupid friend for exposing the liar
eltibbs · 15 points · Posted at 16:13:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex denied that he had any feelings for a girl who was in our friend group. I confronted him about spending too much time with her and he would just tell me I’m crazy. At the time we had been dating four or five years and he drunkenly broke up with me via text. Now they’re unhappily married. I caught him in a lie and ended up with a fantastic husband. They both deserve their unhappiness.
Probablyprofanity · 10 points · Posted at 15:34:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My little brother could cry at will and got away with everything because when my mom asked who it was he would turn on the water works. She believed he wouldn't be so upset if he was lying and I always got in trouble for whatever he did and for 'lying'. I'm still terrified whenever anything goes wrong in our house but all the times there is undeniable proof that he is lying are the most satisfying and relieving moments of my life.
DrLesterGrinspoon · 11 points · Posted at 16:04:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Postmates support sided w/ a dishonest driver and I caught the support employee I was DMing with on Twitter lying about the incorrect phone number he claimed was on my account. Sent him screenshots and asked for him to provide some proof of his claims. Crickets from him and a refund for me! LOL
PinkBuffalo · 10 points · Posted at 16:54:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught my mom once, I remember looking at her and saying, "You're the one that taught me not to lie and you're the one lying to me right now."
The look on her face was of shock, she was literally speechless. I was on my way out anyways so I just left after that without saying bye or anything.
TheShoosher · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was friends with a girl in like 8th or 9th grade. She had a huge crush on me and I didn't feel the same way. Shortly after some of my others friends (we had a small friend group) started saying weird stuff to me about things that didn't happen, like I called her a bitch or yelled at her or whatever. One day one of her friends and the girl are walking down the hall and I heard her say something about me being a dick to her, which surprise, surprise hadn't happened. I confronted her immeadiately about it and she continued to make excuses and said I did it in a text. When I showed her the text conversation she came clean.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:33:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Went to visit my brother at work one day back when we were Young. A guy he worked with told me he was in medical school at a local college.
I had to inform him that the state only had 3 medical schools and that school want one of them.
PhantomTissue · 6 points · Posted at 19:38:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my college dorm, I have 3 roommates. 1 is super quiet, and always keeps to himself. Number 2 is super annoying and always makes assumptions on topics he knows very little about, often creating "facts" to support his opinion. and finally, number 3, is the smart one. Hes the one that knows that when I get into an argument with someone, chances are, I'm right.
And because of this beautiful layout, roomie number 2 constantly tries to prove to me random crap. Just yesterday, he tried to proove to me that Carbonation is bad because it loads CO2 into your blood stream. It took 10 minutes of trying to explain to him that your stomach has no direct connection with your blood stream. Hes going and going, and finally, roomie number 3 comes out and says, ok, lets google this, but I already know that PhantomTissue is right.
and PhantomTissue was right. agian.
I have a natural love of arguments. and with these people in my apartment, I always get the satisfaction of being right :)
OriginalIronDan · 1 points · Posted at 14:25:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope your in pre-law. Sounds like you’re a natural!
PhantomTissue · 2 points · Posted at 16:27:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m not skilled enough for that, just a slight cut above the rest. Besides, law and court rooms stress me out.
LadyBearJenna · 5 points · Posted at 22:02:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
During my divorce from my ex husband, I got his lawyer to quit him by submitting 98 pages of proof of perjury.
Imagine the nastiest divorce 2 not rich people could have, that was our divorce. He cheated on me while I was pregnant and 3 weeks after having our second child, he left us for her.
Crockinator · 5 points · Posted at 02:32:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
She told me she didn't love me and that it'd be easier to just part ways and keep on living our lives. I doubted this, so I kissed her for the first time, and she kissed me back. Totally caught her in her lie, and it's been satisfying since then.
olderstillnew · 2 points · Posted at 12:31:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I could upvote this twice I would.
googleitmofugga · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How wonderful is this response? Nice
Car_radio21 · 5 points · Posted at 04:47:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a good one. Not my catch, but being caught. I was up and about starting my normal daily routine and I heard my doorbell. Disclosure: I am not a morning person.
I had not eaten breakfast or woken up yet really. I was home alone, not expecting anyone, nor was I told anyone would be coming. Naturally, I’m in my underwear so I brisk past the window where the man at my door probably saw me pass. I’m hustling to put some shorts on and I hear the doorbell again. In my town it’s not common at all for random people to be at your door, especially early in the morning. So instead of answering the door and confronting the stranger, my disoriented sleepy self decides to call my mother to see if she was expecting anyone. No answer.
Ding dong, doorbell again combo’d with a firm knock. At this point I’m flustered and panic call my father. After explaining the situation to him, he tells me to calm down and answer the door like a normal human and ask him why he’s here. I agree, calm my nerves and go to answer the door.
I open the door, and while standing in the doorway rudely ask him, “can I help you?” He responds with, “yes I’m here to deliver a package. Sorry for bothering you this early. Is your doorbell working?”
Without hesitation I reply, “no it hasn’t been working for a while.”
He buzzes it. We’re both standing there listening to the doorbell tune for a solid two seconds. I feel my face start to flush red, and he’s giving me the most smug smile. He didn’t really say much, just smiled and nodded while maintaining the most “i gotcha now bitch” eye contact I’ve felt in a long time.
wisconsinwookie78 · 6 points · Posted at 06:10:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work with a woman, let's call her Haley, who would come in to work and then start "feeling sick" and asking to go home early. The next day she would openly tell people how drunk she got the night before. Over time, things escalated, both in the frequency of her "illnesses" and the flagrant openness of her evening activities. Two instances come to mind. Once (this was in a Nursing Home) she followed me in to a resident's room and, unprovoked, proceeded to complain about how bruised her thighs were because she went pole dancing the previous night (after going home "sick"). IN FRONT OF THE RESIDENT. Another time she started feeling sick and, after being told she could leave, spent the next hour or so wondering out loud and asking other coworkers which bar she should got to that night. Oh, third story popped to mind while I was typing this. I once got a call from her on my day off saying that her car had broken down and she asked me if I could cover her shift for her. She told me where she was and, don't know of she knew this or not, I lived less than two miles from where she claimed to be. I offered to pick her up and take her in to work and she said she would just "call someone else." I was SO tempted to drive to where she said she was and check.
copyandtoothpaste · 6 points · Posted at 09:04:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, I launched a sting operation on a classmate. With the help of my friends, we caught a kid who murdered, snapped, and buried pens and pencils in the playground. At the time, there was a mystery student who kept on messing with the supplies. My teacher was upset and threatened to shorten our recess, but no one came out to admit their wrongdoing. We received collective punishment, and there was drama around this Secret Pencil-Snatcher. Everyone was upset, so I set up a plan. First, my friends and I carved our initials just enough that it was noticeable onto all pencils that we owned. We deliberately set our pencils out and never used them. If any of us reported that a pencil was missing we would quickly find out who had borrowed it. However, one of my friends pencil went missing without a trace. We had interrogated the entire class, but this pencil never returned. We were never allowed to visit others desks during the class time, and the only other available pencils were the ones the teacher provided at the supply station. It was only possible for someone sitting close to my friend to be able to get their hands on that pencil in that situation. Since our desks were arranged in groups, it was determined that the main culprits were my friend’s cluster. Admittedly not appropriate, we ruffled through the desks to find my friends pencil jammed in the bottom of one of the desks. We all confirmed that the culprit was him. Once again, my friend left out a pencil. However, this time was when we got crafty. I had a brilliant idea to utilize a cheap pencil’s crappy quality to catch the stealer. The wrappers on the pencil slide off easily to reveal white pencils. I wrote, “we got you!” On the all the pencils (even my teachers...) and slid the plastic wrapper to hide the message. All we had to do was to wait until the culprit was back in action. Luckily, the kid took the bait, and I asked him what my friend’s pencil and teacher’s supply were doing in his desk. He blatantly denied this allegation, but I took it and savagely slid the wrappers to reveal this shocking revelation. In the end, I got in trouble for writing on the teacher’s extra supply pencils, but the snatcher was caught. It was the biggest win in my life. Friends and I were heroes for a week or so.
numquamsolus · 5 points · Posted at 09:59:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an office manager who manipulated my household expense reports to include her own expenses in them and was sufficiently astute to do so in a way that if the irregularities were caught it would appear that my maid was stealing from me.
The office manager would spend money on items for her own household then include the bills in my own expense report which she prepared based on my submitted receipts.
The office manager was smart enough to remove the top of the receipts--the part that included the address of the particular grocery chain, but she wasn't smart enough to remove the store code.
When the irregularities were discovered, the office manager claimed, based on items that my maid commonly purchased for her infant, such as baby formula and diapers, that it was my maid who was using expense money to falsely claim those expenses.
I pointed out, based on the store numbers, that the purchases were made essentially next door to the office manager's house, some 20 km away from where my live-in maid would purchase items. Moreover, the baby formula was a different brand.
It was fun to see that manager scramble for an explanation....
YouArePsyched · 4 points · Posted at 10:56:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had this time where the maid lied about having cleaned the rooms already. Argued a lot with her. She didn't realise we had CCTV cameras installed. Showed her the video where she simply sat for 5 minutes and left the room. The look on her face... Priceless. However, later got accused of "invading her privacy", but whatever.
K-Shrizzle · 5 points · Posted at 11:10:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time, a few friends of mine were seeing a movie and invited another friend. The friend declined, they said that they didn't really like going to the movies.
We are leaving the movie (it was a late showing, not a lot of cars in the lot afterwards) and we see what is unmistakably [friend]'s car. Same bumper stickers and other distinguishing features.
So we took a snapchat of us Slav-Squatting looking tuff next to his bumper with the caption "[friend] doesn't like movies"
They were on a date with their girlfriend so we understood why they didnt come with us, we just found it a hilarious coincidence
ChalupaBatmanBT · 6 points · Posted at 15:00:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This was back in high school. One day we walk into our first year Spanish class and our teacher immediately dives into this rant about cheating and plagiarism. I guess she caught one of her students in the previous class before us. She didn’t tell us the students name but she showed us the hw and how she “caught” him. We all got a laugh but I didn’t really think much of it after.
Later that day I’m heading into basketball practice and right outside the locker room I can hear one of my teammates yelling. Let’s call him Tom. So I walk in and Tom is pissed. Telling everyone how his Spanish teacher hates him and how she’s a total bitch for saying he cheated. Tom is 100 percent sure he didn’t cheat and knows the teacher is lying. Tom is full of shit.
So I chime in, “yeah that’s not what happened Tom. She definitely caught you.“ “How the hell would you know?”
Flashback to when our teacher showed us Tom’s homework (we didn’t know it was his at the time) The very first question of our homework is...
-Cual es tu nombre? (What is your name?) Tom’s answer to this was... -Mi nombre es Michael! (My name is Michael)
Tom’s name is not Michael. First question, dead to rights. I just couldn’t believe he had the balls to lie after being so damn dumb in his cheating ways. My teammates died laughing. The entire practice we called him Michael. Tom pretty much hated me after that and rarely passed me the ball (he was the point guard) but that’s ok. I’m just waiting to run into him one of these days, look him dead in the eyes and just scream, “MICHAEL!!!!!”
Omgcorgitracks · 8 points · Posted at 18:28:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Senior year of high school, i have been dating a friend of mine for a year almost, she has another friend who graduated the year before us and would ALWAYS tag along with my gf and get in my way, cock blocking if you will, anyways prom rolls around and my gf is hyped as hell and tells me how me and her are going together and riding together (obviously) i set up a cool way with asking her to prom, anyways 2 weeks later about 3 days before her brother is over at my house (long story) and tells me how my gf is planning to sort of ditch me and ride with her friend (the one who already had her senior prom the year before) mind you nothing had changed in those two weeks, it's not like we were fighting, so i was confused, i called her up and asked why she was ditching me and she told me that we'd still be doing most things together that night and that "everything we had planned was still gonna happen"
She denied the whole thing, until i told her where i got the info from, que her yelling for her brother over the phone me having the best grin cause i finally won one i was still pissed tho, told her i'd talk to her later and hung up.
a day later (didn't see her at school) she called and apologized, she was now gonna "do this right" she didn't even know what she was thinking, and her friend already had her prom last year, so why should she get in the way of our time ect and that her brother talked some real sense into her.
so easy sum up, ex-gf was gonna ditch me for her friend and do pre prom things with her even tho we had planned it weeks before, her brother ratted her out to me, i confronted her over the phone and she denied it, later told me that she was gonna spring it up on me the day OF that she would be spending her time with her the friend before prom and not me cause of (insert made up lie here) because of a promise/tradition they had? but i took over importance now and was a unexpected surprise so yeah.
we broke up a year later cause i was out of a job and i told her i watched porn, watching that was the "finial straw" for her. i still laugh about that today
bg-j38 · 16 points · Posted at 15:16:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Junior year of university so 1997-1998. I was still in the dorms, I shit you not, because they had just installed 10 megabit Ethernet to all the rooms over the summer. Back then I was running Linux (a unix operating system different from Windows and Mac OS for the non-techies) and had a lot of monitoring turned on. I noticed within a day or two that someone on that network was trying to log into my computer using common default passwords. On a whim I went to their IP address with a browser and found the website of "The Draconian Cabal". A supposedly worldwide hacking organization that just so happened to be hosting their website on a computer in my dorm!
There weren't a ton of options for who this could be. It was coming from the same sub-network I was on, so the person was on my floor. Maybe 30 or 40 potential people. I did a walk around and almost immediately came upon a door that had this asshat's "business card" for the Draconian Cabal posted on it. So I knocked and he opened the door. I didn't introduce myself, just said "Why the hell are you trying to hack into my computer?" Cue awkward trying to come up with excuses for a minute until I finally said "Don't do it again." and walked off.
Eventually he approached me to apologize and I got to know him a bit. Wouldn't say we became friends, but I figured he was potentially trouble so I wanted to keep an eye on him.
A couple things about me. In the early 90s I ran one of the largest hacking and phreaking (free phone calls) bulletin board systems in the country. A BBS was essentially a message board and file storage area that people called into with modems before the web and the Internet took off. It was pretty easy to smell this guy's bullshit a mile away with that background. I also worked for the university's computer science department, building out their networks and servers. I'm not sure if I ever told him this.
In any case, I kept an eye on this guy. He was always spouting off bullshit about hackers that he was friends with, almost always European. I'd never heard of any of them, but hey, it was a big world. I was pretty sure it was all bullshit. The best thing though was he started posting audio "interviews" with a so-called British hacker on his website where they talked about his exploits. It was immediately obvious that it was just the Draconian Cabal guy answering his own questions in a crappy fake English accent. It was laughable it was so bad.
These were posted on his website and shortly thereafter he came to my room pounding on the door in a panic. I asked him what was up. He explained that he had actually managed to hack into some university department's website and defaced it. Really childish stuff, and he was caught. He had no idea how to mask his IP address or clean up the logs to hide his trail, and the campus network security people immediately traced it back to his room.
I had absolutely no interest in getting dragged into that shit, especially given my job, so I told him to leave immediately and not contact me again. As he sulked down the hallway I also called out "Better work on that English accent while you're at it!" I had to needle him on that.
He did end up getting in a lot of trouble. They didn't press charges, but he was kicked out of the university for a while. About a year down the road I was looking at the new student account roster for the comp sci department and saw his name on there. I made sure to alert my boss to it just so we could keep an eye on him. I also set up an alert that would tell me if he logged into any of our public lab computers. Sure enough, a couple days later there he was. I happened to be in our offices, so I wandered over to give him a friendly hello, we're watching you! No idea what happened to him after that but I think his hacking days were over. Unfortunately I don't remember his name, so I can't look him up. I wonder what bullshit he's involved in these days.
Wanderlustskies · 47 points · Posted at 14:37:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I knew my ex straight up instantly lied to me. He once randomly told me how once at work some really hot red head kept looking at him and flirting and how he flirted back etc, and that's when he started liking red heads. I said "so you're outright flirting and acting single while you're with me?" He instantly said that was before we met. Problem is, I have a good memory and I VERY specifically remember the time we were somewhere and he's randomly talking about how he likes red heads. It was great proof to all my feelings that he was always looking for other girls.
golden_n00b_1 · 6 points · Posted at 16:53:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahhh.... couldn't he have liked redheads before he met you? Just because he told you he liked redheads didn't mean he didn't like redheads before you guys got together.
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I'm sure there are many good reasons to leave him behind, but I can't see the lie unless you were there at the restaurant when he talked to redheaded waitrrss..
Wanderlustskies · 4 points · Posted at 19:30:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was a very specific time where he said basically "now I realize redheads are hot" though, plus he's from a country where no one has red hair
golden_n00b_1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok, makes more sense now.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 15:19:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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colorlessbitch · 4 points · Posted at 18:09:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’re right. You’re not handsome, you’re beautiful.
RusticPath · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom lies to me too.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oof
russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How is that satisfying?
MartinPurvis · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait. WAIIIT. Does this mean-??? Oh god, I’m not prettyyy :(((
frozensand · 8 points · Posted at 16:28:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
was going for dinner in Budapest, Hungary.
2 girls asked of i knew this and that bar and said no. (red flag for bar scam)
then, walking back they asked again! so i asked why they were looking for a stupid bar for 3 hours. they forgot they asked me aready.
marion4sho · 7 points · Posted at 17:10:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in Martha’s Vineyard and needed some cheap sunglasses. Walk into one of the dozens of shops, pick out a pair, ask to purchase a non-display pair and she says they don’t have any non-display.
Weird cause now there is an empty slot on her shelf... So I told her I’d like to buy two sets cause it was such a good deal.
She gets a second pair from the stock and starts to pack both of them up as if I didn’t just point out her dead lie.
When she had both the glasses cleaned and ready, I told her I changed my mind and walked out.
Trashman67111 · 8 points · Posted at 17:19:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once talked to a girl and on our first date she claimed to have cancer. I had a serious suspicion she was lying but how do you call that out if it happens to be true. She told on herself by saying her cancer came back but didn’t have money for her chemo yet she was worried about her hair falling out.
06EXTN · 8 points · Posted at 21:07:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This just happened Tuesday.
Had a woman realtor knock on my door at 8:30am. I have a no soliciting sign clear and in view. Opened the inside door, pointed to the sign, said go away and slammed the door. Then re-opened the door and said "gimme that business card"(which she was holding out in front of her). Snatched it and went back inside. Found her Facebook page and posted a negative review. She replies accusing me of grabbing her arm and trying to pull her into my house and physically assaulting her. Her team lead also posted to a private realtor group accusing me of the same thing.
I have two different camera views of the front porch that shows I never did such a thing. I took it to her boss and now she's busted and will have to post a public retraction.
kittymctacoyo · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:50 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice!
Mrofcourse · 4 points · Posted at 16:26:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My step brother would steal from my room all the time, fortunately it was usually only Xbox controllers (we would have a lot of LAN halo matches). One day I get home and one’s missing I go to ask for it back and he blows up at me for accusing him, I mean yelling and cursing. My stepmom comes in to see what’s going on, and he is in a full tirade. I tell them to look at the controller for my initials carved in the back. His face drops, he halfway mutters that I must of done that to his controllers. My dad and stepmom later asked me how many controllers have gone missing since we moved in and made him pay me the cash value for them. I used some of that money to get a key lock on my bedroom door.
brodeos · 3 points · Posted at 16:36:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Saw one of those guys in a food court showing cards with some sort of small trinket attached that’s said “I’m deaf and selling this for [something]. Please help if you can. :)”
He came by the table and I politely read the card and mouthed “no thank you.” (Only because I had no cash. Not because I’m a skeptical asshole.)
The guy looked a bit perturbed and walked away.
His back was completely facing me and I shouted “Hey, wait a minute!” He turned back around and looked at me and a look of regret/“uh-oh, I’m caught.” instantly came across his face.
I just smiled and waved.
TheBottomsOfOurFeet · 2 points · Posted at 02:40:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He probably was lying, but friendly reminder that just because someone identifies as deaf it doesn’t mean they don’t have any residual hearing. I identify as deaf but my hearing loss is actually classified as moderately severe. If someone shouted at me I would react, but I wouldn’t be able to understand at first try.
Meonde · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend said "My dad owns 30% of WWE and gets 500,000$ each month" I was alright then... then next day he told me he owned "10% of WWE" I was like thats b.s also he claimed that owing 10 shares is owning 10% of the company, I who bately knows anything about stocks knows that theres millions of shares that a company gives out and is only worth a fraction, I know it depends on company and market cap etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong im only 16.
ermahgawdawful · 4 points · Posted at 17:01:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work as a nurse in a privately owned doctor's office, so they're pretty lenient about sick time and such. No point system. No required doctor's note when you're sick. Nothing.
Enter to the story, let's call her M. M worked right down the road at another office and decided she didn't like it there and came to our office. After a week or two, I find out that M lives about a mile or two away from where I live. Months go on and I start to notice inconsistencies with everything she says and so does a few other people. We compare stories; she has custody of her kids and she doesn't have custody of her kids. Her husband does this for a leaving, oh wait...no he doesn't.
Anyways, she all of a sudden comes up with this terrible undiagnosable illness that requires her to stay in the hospital a few days. I work full time and go to school full time, which means I have an odd schedule. I'm driving in the area near my house and THERE SHE IS, driving around when she's supposedly in the hospital sick to death. I don't say a word to her when she comes back. I don't think she saw me. This fake illness bullshit goes on for MONTHS. She has everyone pitying her, the doctors in our office are concerned about her well being, blah blah. I see her several more times when she's supposedly in the hospital.
Then, my manager texts me and asks me to work in our main office the next day because M called off due to hospitalization. I'm laughing like a maniac at this point. I just passed her house, they were 10+ cars in her driveway. They were having a pool party. I inform my manager that I just drove passed her house and M is alive, well and at home hosting a party. Manager is curious. Fast forward an hour later and someone leaves a "thanks so much for having us over, we had a great time!" message on M's Facebook. I see it within 1 minute of it being posted and take a screenshot to send to my manager. M deleted it within 5 minutes of it being posted. Manager is even more curious and consults with our HR. HR lady doesn't take any shit. They give M the day off. Upon her arrival the next day, HR asks for a doctors note. Oh shit, she can't get one because she was at home! M left work for HOURS trying to find a doctor that would see her and give her a note for yesterday. She didn't answer any calls or texts from work this whole time. She finally got a note stating she was seen that day, not the day she called off. HR lady informs M that she will be required to bring a doctors note after every illness.
GUYS, she MIRACULOUSLY recovered and has had one call off in the last few months. We found out she was using her "illness" to cheat on her husband. Dumb bitch.
buyongmafanle · 4 points · Posted at 17:06:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
About 10 years back, this guy came by my apartment knocking on the door. He said he needed to come in to borrow my phone for a sec, but I could tell by the smell of him something was up. I asked him a few questions about why he needed the phone, and then he changed his story up a bit to needing some cash to get some gas instead. I could tell right away that this guy was bullshitting me, so I called him on being a fifty foot monster from the paleozoic era. Bastard wasn't getting my tree fiddy.
Gamerguy1098 · 4 points · Posted at 18:06:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember a summer day back in middle school when my brother and I were left in my mom's car while she went shopping. We had the keys, the A/C and radio on but with the car not running, which is an issue later on. Since the car wasn't running, it started to get hotter so we decided to leave the car and just go shopping with my mom since she was taking quite some time. When we all got back to the car, we realized I had locked the keys in and began doing our damndest to get them out, with some cursing and arguing do to the temperature, and succeeded! Unfortunately, when we tried to leave the battery was dead since we didn't run the car. My mom called a tow truck with a jumper and they met us in the parking lot to jump start our car. The driver pulled out his portable jump starter and preceded to tell my mom that she'd have to buy a new battery since it wasn't taking any charge. Even as a 6th grader, I saw him not turn the machine on. My mom commented on this but he insisted the battery was too far gone and needed replaced for a hefty, on the spot sum. It being a sweaty summer day and having already had to deal with the keys being locked in, she pushed him aside then pressed the "on" button for him and tried to turn our car on and, sure enough, it worked. He then tried to fumble with some excuse trying to say our battery wasn't good even though we already fixed the issue and the car was running fine. My mom said thank you and drove off without giving him a second glance and it's a story we still tell people to this day.
yoshidawgz · 5 points · Posted at 19:54:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is kind of awful, so I struggle to say it was really satisfying. In high school, a close friend of mine accused another close friend of mine of raping her. She never went to the police which was a pretty obvious red flag, just complained a lot about it. As she was always close to me, and accusations such as these can never be overlooked, I trusted her. Once I learned she hadn’t told anybody but me and a couple of other friends I decided to check into it a little bit. I asked the person she accused about what happened that day. Not only did he have no idea that she was accusing him of rape, but he showed me their text messages from that day. Turns out, she CLEARLY invited him over and offered him sex (no mistaking it as she literally said “have sex with me.”) The reason she lied about it is because her boyfriend apparently had found out. When I approached her and said that I knew what really happened and showed her the screenshots of messages she had sent, she denied it and got mad at me for going behind her back. I told her that I’m not going to say anything, but it’s not right to falsely accuse people of serious crimes. I told her I just wanted her to be honest with the people (like me) she’d lied to. She changed her story, but still stuck to the accusation. However, she never went to the police or told anybody else after that. We are no longer friends because I don’t want to be anywhere near a situation like that, nor can I trust someone who’s willing to lie like that.
I suppose it’s possible she had some truth to her statement and it was only exaggerated out of proportion, but if that is the case I believe it to be her responsibility to take it to someone who can help.
TL;DR: friend accused another friend of rape, turned out she was lying and we are no longer friends.
Nate_Dawg132 · 3 points · Posted at 20:16:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a gf for about a mmonth annd a half and then she randomly cold shouldered me. She wouldn’t give me an answer as to why she broke things off the way she did.
Fast forward three months.
Me and my buds are hanging out and one of them brings up that the girl is getting a little mad because she has texted me and i wouldn’t respond. I replied with, “Well, then maybe she should tell me why she’s broke things off with me.” She claims that she felt like we were drifting apart and some bs.
Fast forward another month
I see the said girl at some random dance. I decided that I should ask her in person why she broke things off with me.
Her reply: “oh, I was grounded at the time” (she was a freshman in high school and I was a sophomore for context).
I then asked her why she told my friend something else. “It’s embarrasing to tell people you are grounded” I’ll admit, it is especially when your in high school. But I let it slide.
Fast forward ANOTHER month
I’m just chillin with a bunch of people and someone brings up said girl and how she is the best and they’ve been together for some time now. Well, I get a little curious and start probing about how long. Come to find out, she was cheating on him and me. So I asked this guy to send me all the texts from him and her and I took a picture with him.
Later that night I get a text from her. (We had been texting for the last month as friends because I thought everything was behind us.) it says “Hey, Wassup!” I then replied “Hey, wassup with ———“ she just says. “Oh, he’s just a friend” I then send her all the snapshots of their texts and say “Some friend huh...don’t ever text, call, or talk to me again. Bye.”
TL;DR: Girl cheated on me and I got to meet the guy. We teamed up to catch her in her own lie.
coffeetish · 3 points · Posted at 20:19:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
During a fight with my ex-roommate.
We were driving home after a girls night drinking. I felt like utter crap and just wanted to go to bed. She wanted me to babysit her kids while she took off with her husband for the day. I told her I wasn’t feeling good and I didn’t want to babysit. I was just going to go to sleep when we got home. She got very mad (she never likes being told no). As she is berating me for not wanting to spend time with my kids or hers, she mentions that a couple of days ago I took off for the whole day to spend with my mom and she didn’t mind watching my kids for me then...
Except she didn’t watch my kids at all that day. They were with me and my mom. Which I proceed to remind her of. She called me a liar, that I am always leaving my kids with her (I never have...I like to take my kids with me), so I point to the backseat and ask her “if you had my kids all day, as you claim, why did they throw all those French fries all over my back seat?”...the look on her face was priceless. I went home and went to bed. She didn’t talk to me for a few days after that.
Also, I moved out the first chance I got.
criuggn · 3 points · Posted at 20:32:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm just going to copy and paste what I commented in another thread.
Edit: formatting
smellexisb · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And then everyone clapped.
General_Lee_Wright · 5 points · Posted at 20:34:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked retail and had someone try to scam me at the register: They had left, and turned around and came back. (Customer - C, Me - M)
C: "Hey, I just realized you gave me change for a 20, i gave you a 50."
M: "Oh, ok. I'll have my manager come open the drawer."
called my manager, he opened the drawer. No 50's in my 20's slot.
M: "Are you sure? Because if I thought you handed me a 20, i would have put it here... but it's not here..." C: "Well you must have put it in the right spot then." (The right spot is under the drawer, not something I remembered doing)
M: "Then I wouldn't have mistaken it for a 20..? It's fine, manager can go look at the video feed and see which slot I put it in. Just to make sure. Shouldn't take but a second"
C: "Oh look, here's the 50. Nvm!" and they left.
It's a pretty common scam.
Jayiscanadian · 4 points · Posted at 21:14:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Co-workers dad died and he tells me that he inherited 10 million dollars from his dad. Then continues to say that he turned it down because he wanted to make it on his own.
JCrowley2478 · 5 points · Posted at 21:17:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interviewing a suspect in a rape. Told him that we needed to swab his penis for the victims DNA and that he had two choices. Either we watch him swab it properly or we swab it for him. I got up and told him he had a few minutes to think about it. Once I left we had him on video spitting into his own hand and he proceeded to “wash” the victims DNA off his penis.
yyinder · 4 points · Posted at 23:02:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Weirdest lie ever: An old friend of mine showed me her baby picture which looked nothing like her but she kept insisting it was her for weeks.
Months later, we were looking at her crush’s Facebook profile and found the exact same picture. Turns out it wasn’t her—she was trying to pass off this guy’s baby picture as her own.
She couldn’t look me in the eye for a good week after that.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
wtf :/
ReleaseTheKraken72 · 4 points · Posted at 00:42:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A woman at work (lets call her the Liar) and I were close friends. I started to distance myself from her when I found out she was a compulsive liar just to get attention. We got to the point where we would only say "hi" to one another at work, or just chatted briefly about surface stuff in lunchroom while we waited for the microwave-and that is it. Which was fine for me.
Then she lied at work about having cancer. I knew from the way she was vague on details (other ppl in office were very concerned and asked about her hospital, her treatment, symptoms etc). Also I was quite familiar with her body language and speech when she was lying. I was 100% SURE she was lying. I told no one that, though.
Anyways the Liar was getting a lot of paid time off as she went through a lot of fake doc appts, fake treatment, fake recovery after fake chemo. I should mention we both worked for a very small company. 25 employees, no HR staff on site. HR issues were covered by the only two bosses in office. Who were sales guys. Need time off? No problem, just take it-no doc note ever requested, etc.
I knew her sister quite well. The Liar and her were very close. I had spent a lot of time with her when I was hanging out with the Liar. Her sister was a lawyer for a non-profit organization who had given me some helpful free legal advice in the past. One day her sister texts me to followup casually about the legal matter I had asked her about.
We got to chatting, just catching up. I said, "The Liar seems to be doing really well, considering her difficult chemo." Her sister did'nt know what I was talking about!!! I had to explain innocently that the Liar had cancer, of course! She was freaked out. She said she did'nt know etc etc. I innocently told her everything that the Liar had been telling ppl at work about her fake cancer and fake treatment. Sister went silent with me..while I'm sure she called the Liar, called their parents, then called Liar again...
After that happened, Liar was not in office ever again. When I innocently made a concerned and casual inquiry to our bosses, they told me that apparently she was off sick "for an indeterminate amount of time". No doc note requested of course.
I expressed my concern about my "friend" to the Boss who told me. Then I played totally innocent and dumb and acted very confused when I told the Boss about the convo with the Sister, that Sister did'nt know. After that the two Bosses conferred behind a closed office door for a long time. Then they came up with brilliant idea to contact the Liar via email...explain that they would be putting her on LongTerm Disability/Sick paid leave...and for that they requested a doc note from her, specifying the reason for her needed long term absence from work.
The requested doc note never showed up at office. Neither the Liar. They fired her eventually after this, but it was a slow process. But. They fired her.
I texted Sister 1 week after they finally got rid of the Liar, making inquiries, playing dumb. I got a 4 word reply from Sister: ("Liar's real name). Never. Had. Cancer.
ReleaseTheKraken72 · 2 points · Posted at 00:50:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Note: Im being sarcastic when I said the Bosses had a "brilliant" idea. And to be clear about this story, the Liar wasn't lying to her family about the fake cancer story. It was simply a lie she was telling at work. To get attention. Liar forgot that her "work world" and "family world" were not separate. That I was the one link between those 2 worlds. I think she forgot I knew her sister or maybe Liar thought I also didnt talk with her sister anymore? I honestly don't know WHAT Liar was thinking there. When Sister found out abt this lie, she was concerned whether or not it was true, called the Liar, and her family confronted her. Liar had to admit her tremendous "office lie" to her family!!!!
alpaca-whisperer · 5 points · Posted at 02:25:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a grocery store in a small tourist town on and island. Small enough I know a local from a tourist that is for sure! We know the locals that are trouble. They either end up banned from the grocery store (and it's the only one on the island) or my boss has to talk to them over and over again.
The tourists are always a gamble. But we get a ton of foreign tourists here and when English isn't the first language we run into trouble which is understandable.
I watched these two women profile all the cashiers working. Myself, and my two co workers, ill call them Jackie and Hannah. Jackie is an older woman who is kind hearted but bless her heart a little oblivious, Hannah is a few years younger then me, sharp and on it. I've worked there the longest and constantly get asked questions cause I have the "manager" look to me just based off of the tasks I have vs the other cashiers.
These two older women targeted Jackie. I was working at the till in front of her with my back faced to Jackie's till. They avoided me and Hannah. They weighed a light bulb box down just enough to feel like there was something in it and tried to return it. English is not their first language. Jackie had the longest line an they waited for her because they noticed she wasn't as on it as Hannah and I. I'm good enough on till that I can auto pilot for the most part. I had a customer at my till with a medium sized order when I heard the ladies trying to return the light bulb. I didn't see or hear Jackie look into the box. I finished my transaction just as she was about to put it in the till and I came over. The one woman was doing most of the talking and as soon as I came over her attitude changed. She wouldn't address me directly and immediately grabbed the box off of the counter when I came. I noticed this immediately. When the lady realized Jackie was now out of the picture and she had to talk to me, all she would say to me is "I'm telling you this is how you do it" Over and over. No matter what I fired back at her. Eventually I say "Okay, fine. Let me see the product. What was the issue?" "We didn't need it so we returning it." I grab the box and I put it down on the till. I look at the ladies face and she seems relieved. I say "where's your receipt" which Jackie already asked for but I didn't see it. It did all add up - which means they bought the product took it out and put something in it and tried to return it. I still had the box next to me and I honestly don't know what they thought was going to happen, if I was just going to not open and forget like Jackie had. I said "Im sorry this didn't work out.." And in one very fast swift motion I grabbed the box, opened it and dumped out what they'd used to weigh it down and said "but clearly it did!" and for me the cherry on top is that my boss had overheard this and seen me run over to jackies till and he came to investigate right as I dumped it on the counter and he intersected the ladies as they tried to scurry out and leave. I was off shortly after and never heard the aftermath but I was on my high horse all day the rest of the day!
paraouji · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:56 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
bar harbor?
alpaca-whisperer · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:50 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope, I find it so funny whenever I vaguely describe where I live I always get placed in Maine! Wrong coast and country unfortunately hahaha
Jajaninetynine · 4 points · Posted at 03:55:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Building apartments next door, the builder has to re-do a bit of the road and connecting vehicle crossing (start of driveway) as a council requirement. Builder is supposed to give decent notice that we won't have access to our driveway while they rip up and re do the concrete. We become aware when we get home from work and cant access our driveway. "We gave you notice!" Nope. Next day a letter is in our letterbox backdated two weeks that the road and vehicle crossing is getting replaced, along with the fax headder from the current date and a note that they need to pretend they put this in our letterbox two weeks ago and to convince us we simply forgot to check our mailbox. Idiots.
Gameofthefaiths · 4 points · Posted at 04:10:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a teacher at a community college. I emailed this student telling them they never emailed their paper like they said they would. She emails me back saying she “must have sent it through her mom’s email.” She will resend it later. I emailed her back to please forward the old message with the time stamp so I can see that she actually sent something to someone. She replies: “Nevermind I am just so busy moving! Bye!” Then emailed me a week later why she failed the class... caught her in a lie and then she didn’t understand why she failed the class!
thisisnotdan · 3 points · Posted at 05:17:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a neighbor start asking to borrow money from me. It started off with his car breaking down, and he needed to borrow some money to fix it. He was also a chain smoker, but he was so old it wasn't worth it to try to get him to quit. He swore he'd pay me back, and sure enough he did. Then a week or two later, he'd borrow more. Always paid it back when he said he would, and he usually had a sob story of some sort when he asked to borrow money, but as the sob stories piled up, I started to feel like I was just enabling his addiction rather than actually helping him. This went on for several months.
One day he came over saying that he needed money to buy insulin because he couldn't make the co-pay on his insurance or something like that. My wife, who was starting to get fed up with his nagging visits, overheard his predicament and chimed in, "Oh, hey, I'm a type 1 diabetic, and I have some extra insulin!" All of that was true. The guy looked shocked and asked her what kind of insulin she has. "Humalog," she said. He must have misheard her, though, because he immediately responded, "No, that's no good. My doctor says I can only take...uh...Humalog." "Oh, but that's what I have!" She gleefully responded. She immediately went to the fridge and returned with an unopened prescription box containing a bottle of Humalog. The guy was obviously shocked and flustered and insisted that he could never take her insulin, but all of a sudden he didn't need money for it anymore, so he left.
I just loved that the guy pulled the insulin card, which I'm sure he thought would be an easy win against a healthy young guy like me, and my wife absolutely called his bullshit. She still brags about that to this day.
Locus12 · 4 points · Posted at 05:25:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some kid on the bus I take to school said his dad died. Couple months pass and he's bragging about how rich he is
"What car does your dad have?"
"A Ferrari"
"Thought you said your dad died."
sykopoet · 3 points · Posted at 06:55:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a lawyer and I recently had my first trial. One important issue was whether my client had signed a document on his mother's behalf or whether his mother had actually signed it. Opposing counsel calls an office worker to testify, and she swears up and down that she actually sat down with the mother and watched her sign the document. I thought my client was toast. I got up and started questioning this woman. She didn't remember what the mother looked like. She didn't remember if the mother was disabled (she was, significantly so). I asked her how many other people she had sat with to sign similar documents during the project. 5-10, per day, 5 days a week, for 3 months. So, something like 300 people? But you remember this woman, specifically? I won the trial.
Vanc_Trough · 5 points · Posted at 07:21:35 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure this will get buried by this point, but here goes anyway.
I had a pharmacy law professor who was a total a-hole and knew nothing about pharmacy practice. She was only a lawyer (who did not pass the Bar and tried to sue an ex professor of hers who caught them for plagiarizing). Every thing she tried to explain was completely wrong and her exams were impossible. I'm talking, highest grades on her exams were like 40-50%.
Anyways, this story isn't about her. One time, she had an open book mid-term exam that was taken online at the comfort of our own homes during a 8 hour time frame. As you could imagine, EVERYONE took the exam with 3-4 of their closest friends. The professor somehow trusted that we would take the exam on our own, despite the fact that my class was full of a bunch of hooligans. So, everyone took the exam and the average was <50%. My three buddies and I took the exam very carefully to not raise any sort of suspicion that we were working together (started at different times and took the exam slowly).
Fast-forward a week and the professor comes into class and doesn't say a word. She pulls up an excel document on the projector and it lists every single person's name, their grade, the time at which they finished the exam, and the time it took them to finish the exam. I kid you not, some dumb asses completed the 70-question exam in less than 10 minutes. And their completion time correlated perfectly to the time the exam was completed, with those taking the exam last finishing the fastest. The fastest finishers also had the highest grades.
She couldn't prove who cheated and who did not, so she threw out everyone's grades. Regardless, half of the questions had the wrong answer selected by her anyway.
FuzzyEarz · 4 points · Posted at 07:34:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in middle school and my school was in a bad neighborhood with some shady kids. I was into yugioh at the time and tried to play with some kids at my school. I was the most into it and had a decent deck with some decent valued cards. A kid I was playing with during the game asks to see the card, pretends to drop it and go under the lunch table to look for it. He pops his head up saying that he can't find it. I freak out and look under the table and then realize that he took it and put it in one of his cargo pants pockets. But he kept insisting that he didn't have it. So after lunch I kept an eye on him and tried to look into his wide pockets to try to figure out which pocket it was it. I figured it out and just ran behind him and reached into his pocket and grabbed the card and stuck it in his face and shouted "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS HUH". He was just speechless and I walked back to my desk.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:38:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was around 11 I had a cousin who was notorious for stealing stuff from the rest of us (all us other cousins, we were all close and around the same age) One day I find my brand new white t-shirt with some outline of a girls face on it, I wore it a lot until I "lost it" when I said "hey isn't this my shirt?" she denied it right away and said she had never seen me wear a shirt like it, so I pointed to the picture of us at a birthday party from months ago that was pinned to her wall and said "I'm wearing the shirt in this picture". She was quick to say "well our moms shop at the same store, you must've lost yours" yeah, I packed it into my bag and took it home.
darkiicaballero · 3 points · Posted at 07:45:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was sure that a good friend of I was cheating on counter strike but everytime I was spectating him he was prudent and never did obvious things, when I was at his home he always deleted the cheat from his computer and he promess me that he was not saying that I was a bad friend because I never believe him about this. Last week he have been vacbanned for cheating during one of our game, he still promessing that he is not a cheater ... I deleted him of steam and im questioning our friendship because if he is able to lie to me like this for a computer game I'm sure he can do really worst ...
If my English is bad please correct me
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Promises *
Other than that you're fine
googleitmofugga · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
friend of mine, not "friend of I"
Not a gamer, but know many and some of them talk about cheating (with code, somehow) anyway, it sounds like basic optimization.
Why is it a big deal ? Are there monetary prizes or something? Sorry just trying to understand why you feel betrayed.
darkiicaballero · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cheating in a shooting game mean that you do absolutely nothing to aim and that you can see through the wall etc and its ruining all the strategic aspect of the game. There is no money involved but we are playing at a good amateur level and we are training hard to get better because the game is hard and he is always bragging about how good he is when in fact without his cheat he is bad ... we are really into "esport" with 3 other friends and it's a waste of time because in a LAN tournament he can't use the cheat so he will be completely useless
googleitmofugga · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I see.. makes sense. especially at a LAN party.
tango421 · 5 points · Posted at 10:14:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I actually have quite a few juicy ones.
I was a trainee at this time and I also handled special events and such that catered to clients and their needs. Large multinational corporation, lots of documents and departments.
I discovered one of my suppliers was not paid. I thought it was my fault (I did most everything personally and kept records). It was a good chunk of money and well because it was reported after the fiscal year they were going to charge it to our budgets for the year which were slim enough.
So, fast forward to a meeting to fix all of this: I felt something was fishy. The procurement head said, things weren't ever approved, and we submitted past deadlines. I clearly remember submitting before the deadline because, well, I did overtime at the time and I went on leave a day or so before the deadlines. I find my signed received copies and show them, and the head says that the deadline was a week before that. I remember an email on it and said that, the head called me a liar flat out. I excused myself and left the room. I went back to my desk and went through my emails ... to around 8 months or so before, and well, I printed out everything.
Apparently, they emailed a lot of things, including my approvals (weeks ahead of deadline), their communications on the fiscal deadlines, and that they processed all my documents and were all good before their own deadlines (I was already on leave at the time).
The head tried to dismiss it, but the rest of the room was silent, my boss, the accounts payable head, my teammates, everyone went silent. The meeting shifted from how we would pay for it with our budget, to "it's now your department's problem."
The meeting wasn't fruitful, but we escalated it above a few times and it was discovered that the problem was the head herself. I was copied in a few group submissions and holy crap was the money lost due to her negligence ... a lot. She resigned a month or so later.
A note after the meeting; my boss called me to her office. She said she was so happy I had the balls to go on full offensive. I mean a trainee junior supervisor went head to head with a full Vice President (my boss at that time was an Asst. VP). My more senior teammates were slapping me on the back and laughing like hell, their own cases were all fixed as well. I met other people around the company and even other suppliers who even years later know the story.
Pilbarabobcat · 4 points · Posted at 12:06:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish I got here earlier, I use to go out with a crazy girl. We had only been seeing each other for about six week when I realised that she was a little bit off. She was good at hiding the crazy at the start but it started to slip out towards the four week mark. I decided to call it quits, I got a phone call later from her later that week telling me she was pregnant. I told her I did not believe her, but for the sake of it I would come around with a pregnancy test of my own for her to use and shown me, she agreed. I took it over there, at this point I thought she may have been telling the truth but I still had in the back of my mind she was lying. So the first thing I did when I got there was say I was busting for the toilet so that I could get in there before she did, search the toilet so that I could be certaian there was nothing that could make her cheat the test. I opened the bin and found a cup of urine, it was from one of her pregnant friends. I took it out to her, she claimed that she had to go to the toilet earlier so she saved it! Long story short I got the fuck out of there.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 2 points · Posted at 14:04:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why stop the story there ? Give us the rest
sfa7x · 4 points · Posted at 14:35:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I was working for a flagship company store that sold games for their console. None of our games are locked up because they believe in trusting our customers or some bullshit like that. So this guy walks in (Let's call him Freddie) and this dude looks like Post Malone and he was in all white clothes and a thin white jacket. So he casually strolls in and he is being really friendly and asking me what games are good. So Freddie is being really polite and we had a solid conversation about how he has a son now and he doesn't get to game but now that his son is a bit older he can game again. Now I believe the story because sure why not? But then he said "Alright I'm good thanks for your help" as if the conversation was over. So I get my coworker to stand in front of me and act like we're having a conversation but enough so I can look past my coworker to watch this guy. Of course, every game I recommended ended up in his jacket. So I go over our walkie talkies to my boss to call mall security because this dude has like 10+ games in his jacket. So this mall wasn't busy this day so cops and mall security are standing right outside our entrance just waiting for this guy. So Freddie is walking out with his head low with the games clearly showing through his jacket and he is walking by me and I go "you know they're waiting for you, right?" He was so confused so he looks up to see the whole security team staring at him. He turned so pale and at that point the cops notice that I said something so they walk over and tell the dude to take the games out of his jacket. He pulls out every special edition of every game we had ($80-$120 each) they cuff him and take him away. Five minutes later, a lady with a kid (about 6 y.o) walks in and asks "have you seen my boyfriend? White guy with dreads and face tattoos? His son wants to go for ice cream." I felt kind of guilty at this point but daddy is a piece of shit. Not knowing how to address this situation, I just say "yeah he went to see mall security. Go to the front desk." Confused, she leaves the store and heads for security. A few hours past and security stops by and tells us that the girlfriend showed up, and asked to see him so they let her in the room and saw Freddie sitting in cuffs alone in the room. She started to beat the shit out of him and the cops finally rush in to pull her off. After they restrain her he ended up with a fat lip, bloody nose and black eye. They kicked her out of the mall and he got sent to jail since it was grand theft and well over $800 in games. Justice was served.
[deleted] · 67 points · Posted at 13:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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bg-j38 · 23 points · Posted at 15:37:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Do you do this out of necessity or ...?
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 15:46:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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bg-j38 · 15 points · Posted at 15:46:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry to hear that.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 16:30:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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epicflyingpie · 11 points · Posted at 17:06:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope your situation improves friend
Aladayle · 5 points · Posted at 16:03:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Youd be shocked at the tons of decent food stores will throw out
Matino · 44 points · Posted at 15:05:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wow, that sounds kinda sad for her.
hr_shovenstuff · 19 points · Posted at 15:31:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
...sounds kinda sad for like everyone.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:22:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you live in the U.S. Go get some food stamps.
Megandapanda · 1 points · Posted at 01:25:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
You called the cops because she stole a bottle of vinegar from you? That's a little over the top.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:13:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 0 points · Posted at 12:43:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol okay I'm a garbage person because I'm "defending someone" for stealing a bottle full of vinegar
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:04:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · -1 points · Posted at 13:05:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm not defending anyone, chill out. All I'm saying is that calling the cops for someone stealing a bottle of vinegar that you used to purposely set them up is a little much.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:09:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 0 points · Posted at 13:10:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I understand that, no need to be an ass about it. I still just think it's a little ridiculous that you set her up and then called the cops on her. Her stealing a bottle full of vinegar is 0 proof that she stole the rest of whatever that she stole.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:18:00 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 0 points · Posted at 13:18:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kid? XD
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:54:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 0 points · Posted at 18:55:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol what? Just because I questioned you calling me a kid and used an emoticon doesn't mean that I'm a kid. I actually turn 20 next month, FYI.
AppleFromHell · 1 points · Posted at 10:47:58 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can be a kid regardless of age. It's about how mature you are and your adult view on things. Doesn't matter whether you own an appartment.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:58:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 0 points · Posted at 18:59:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, a kid has a job and their own apartment. Okay.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:02:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Megandapanda · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
What? I'm literally just trying to prove a point. I'm not even close to boasting. All I'm saying is that children don't work and have their own apartment. That's it.
Edit: I give up. Whatever. I really don't care if some redditor says that I'm a child. I wish I was, it'd be nice not to have to pay bills or juggle work and college ontop of chronic illness. Sorry that you're eating out of a dumpster, buddy. Hope your situation gets better soon.
Pookle123 · -3 points · Posted at 15:41:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I thought you said vinegar seems like you are the one lying
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 15:45:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Pookle123 · -12 points · Posted at 19:49:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So you lied to the police and think that is OK
Lachiko · 6 points · Posted at 21:06:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He said he told them it had vinegar in it, how did he lie?
N3MO_ · 7 points · Posted at 14:03:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I caught my ex lying about hanging out with her ex. It finally gave me a tangible reason to break up with her
solkaro · 7 points · Posted at 15:21:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is gonna get buried at this point, but I'm posting it anyway.
It wasn't necessarily me that caught the lie, but I was there to witness the whole thing. My dad has had a '96 Dodge Ram 2500 for about 20 years. About 2 years ago, it developed an issue, and he was too swamped to fix it himself. As a result, he hired some a repair place to do it for him.
Fast forward a month. My dad goes to pick it up, they tell him it's running great now and they fixed it. My dad drives it home, inspects it, and immediately returns to the garage (I just happened to be with him).
These bastards had the gall to break an already broken truck and lie about it. But here's the real kicker. My dad is a mechanic. He's been working on cars for 30 years, and knows that truck inside and out. I got to watch him chew them out, and basically tear their own ethics as an auto repair shop apart.
Idaguy · 6 points · Posted at 20:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My buddy said his mom died, about two weeks later he sent an email and cc'd about 20 people, I saw one of the email addresses had Alicia in it which I knew was his mom's name. I emailed that address just saying "Hey how's it going! Is this so-so's mom? I just had a question for you." She hit me back confirming that it was his mom, and I just came up with some random question for her, but now I knew she wasn't dead. When I confronted him about it, he stopped dead in his tracks and just said "Please don't tell anybody." I told everybody.
howlongwillbetoolong · 10 points · Posted at 15:55:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is my sister’s story. When she was about 8, she and a neighborhood girl were really into gel pens. One day, after they had been using them together, my sister noticed that several of her gel pens were missing! She asked the girl next door (Jessie) if she knew where they were, and Jessie of course said no. But my sister had suspicions.
Later on they were playing in Jessie’s basement and my sister saw the missing gel pens. She knew they were hers because of some distinguishing characteristics. So that day, when Jessie wasn’t looking, my sister stole a little dog keychain. When she got home she ripped out the keychain part.
A couple days later they were playing again, and my sister pulled out the dog figurine. “I have one just like that, but it’s a keychain!” Jessie said. My sister said, “oh cool, go get it and we’ll play with them together.”
So Jessie went to get hers, and after a really long time she came back and said she couldn’t find it 😂
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:45:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was confronted by a woman at a bank once who claimed that I was stealing her info by oohing and aahing the the FaceTime technology the bank had (goodbye bank tellers, hello kiosks). She kept screaming at me while the lady onscreen just stood there dumbfounded. A few of the employees there, including the bank teller who was helping my mother with her account, shook her head.
"LOOK AT YOUR SCREEN, ASSHOLE!"
Sure enough, the woman turned, and there was nothing on the screen except for the lady. She was still pissed and said nothing, and she stormed out and flew out of the parking lot.
NightRaven88 · 6 points · Posted at 16:33:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend who invented kind of an alternative universe. With her mother's "best friend" (male) raping her when she was 11 then when she was 14. After that she befriended him and her mother(who had schizophrenia) wanted to shoot her. This just to say a little part of it. Everything for attention. She made false Facebook accounts for them, and used them to spy on her girlfriend. (the lie was so complicated, me and her girlfriend sat for days and found between 18 and 24 invented people) (we aren't sure about some of them)
Hayleyxichooseyou · 5 points · Posted at 17:35:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad had a neighbor that would frequently (I'm talking at least once a month) back up out of their driveway and hit his mailbox with their car, knocking it down. They always claimed it wasn't them, so my dad attached a balloon full of paint to the bottom so the next time they did it it popped on their car. When they came home and my dad confronted them, of course they claimed it wasn't them and even went so far to say they were going to file for harassment with the law.. until he pointed out the paint and caught them red bumpered.
zeskozor · 7 points · Posted at 18:03:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at a corner store in a small town in my early 20s. This teen, maybe 16 years old, comes up to the counter with a case of beers, I ask him for ID and he hands it over. It only took me half a second to recognize the guy in the picture, I was in that guys classes for 10 years during preschool/highschool. Told him straight up that isnt him on the picture and he starts arguing telling me its him. I just went for a full face palm, took the beer behind the counter and confiscated the ID as I told him "tell Bruno he can get his ID back if he comes pick it up himself". The kid feeling defeated had no responses and just left without a word. Feelsgooman
kwikmarsh · 6 points · Posted at 18:26:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a pretty immature girlfriend recently, and we started to break things off and it took us a couple days to talk things out since it was semi long distance.
She asked me to keep the details between us, and this was just after I saw that she was posting on her Instagram talking all kinds of shit about me in multiple posts, including some personal details which I don’t generally open up about. How venting on instagram helps I have no idea, but these are my friends too who are hearing what a terrible person I am. She blocked me and I had to hear this from a friend who showed me the posts. Just silly what a side of her she was hiding, I knew she was immature but this was a leap
Igor_Lascaux · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex lied and told me she was pregnant post-relationship when we were in a very uneasy FWB situation, then said OH WAIT FALSE ALARM. After I said we should remove the WB from the FWB, she then doubled down on the lie and told me she had a miscarriage. Being a schmuck, I believed it at the time until I mentioned it to a friend, who proceeded to poke holes in their story. Haven't spoken to her since the exchange of possessions left at each other's respective houses, which my then-girlfriend and now wife drove me to.
udar55 · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy in our social circle "died" from a cancer and his "friend" announced it on FB. Dude was seriously sketchy to the point I had avoided contact with him. Anyway, a friend of mine bought some stuff from the "friend" to support his funeral. When he got it, he asked me if I had any examples of the "dead" guy's handwriting since this stuff oddly came from the "dead" guy's hometown and had his return address. Sure enough I had hundreds examples of his handwriting since we had traded DVD-Rs. Turns out the handwriting of the "friend" was exactly the same as the "dead" guy. We sat on it because we didn't to mess with crazy and if he wanted to fake his own death, that is his own crazy ass right. But we said if he came back with some ridiculous excuse, we'd have to expose him. Guess who showed up six months later alive and claiming he was hacked? Had to expose his lie and it set off a tidal wave within our particular online community.
EmbarrassedSalad · 3 points · Posted at 16:05:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time this girl was showing me something on her phone a text message came up from this guy and I said, “I think I know him- he messaged me on Instagram, do you know his Instagram?” She said she didn’t know him well, but I said, he’s texting you though? She said just had a question where to purchase an item but they don’t know each other that well but distant acquaintances and doesn’t have him on social media or anything or know his username. I went through my old pics to find his username and clicked it and I was like, it says you follow him? She said oh, must’ve been from a long time ago! And I was like but you liked his most recent picture from week ago, and actually all his pictures when I scrolled through? And then she stuttering and said how their dads are actually best friends. I didn’t understand why someone would lie about something to trivial but it felt good to catch her.
ATILUS_ · 3 points · Posted at 16:12:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girlfriend cheating.
She swore on her daughter's life to my eyes in front of me whilst I held evidence in my pocket of what she did.
Kinda priceless.
TheLurkingMenace · 3 points · Posted at 16:20:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was buying a used car from a dealer who was the absolute worst sort of used car dealer. I told him what I was looking for on the phone and that I'd be taking it to my mechanic. I get there and he's not there but he has someone else there in his place. This guy doesn't have the car I'm looking for. I wanted an automatic transmission and the car he wants to show me is a manual. He wants me to test drive it anyway. I know how to drive a manual but I wasn't willing to do that in a test drive, plus it would be my wife driving a lot of the time and she doesn't. My friend (who drove me), however, suggested he'd test drive it. The guy handed him the keys and away we went.
The car broke down half way to the mechanic. I called the dealership, told them they'd have to tow it, and I'd be by later to drop off the keys.
We got back to the dealership, the owner is there, and I give him the keys. The starts yelling at me about abandoning his car in the street, but I'm yelling right back about the bait and switch he tried to pull. Then we got into a heated argument about whether "standard" means manual or automatic transmission.
While we're arguing, I'm noticing the other guy looking more and more nervous. I turn to him and ask, "Is there something on your mind?" The owner yells at him to say nothing. Then he sees the look on our faces and realizes he just said something he shouldn't, so he decides to double down.
He accuses us of joyriding in the car, that he had phone calls coming in from other dealerships, saying they spotted us driving all over town. And specifically, that I was driving.
Which was, of course, impossible seeing as how a) it broke down and b) it was a manual, which a smarter person would remember we'd already argued about my not wanting to drive. So I called him on it.
That's when my friend spoke up, pointed out all the problems he discovered while test driving it, and a few things he hadn't mentioned to me. Things that are illegal, like the odometer being tampered with.
I swear I saw that guy literally shrink. He went with threatening me with calling the cops to begging us not to call the cops.
Meek2Meek · 3 points · Posted at 16:35:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had a science teacher in high school who had a story for any and everything. He spent more time telling us about his experiences than actual teaching.
He claimed that he knew countless celebrities. His identity was stolen by a spy from another country. He had limitless jobs which included the military, a firefighter, a police officer, an astronaut in training, and more that I can’t think of right now. He lied so much that he couldn’t keep up with the lies.
One time When someone complimented a picture of his family on his desk, this man literally told our whole class that he had custody of his grandson because his daughter died of a drug overdose 3 Years prior. This story stuck with me because of how sad it was. Needless to say he lied. Right before Christmas break he started telling us how happy he was because his daughter was bringing his grandson to town for a visit. He went on to explain that he and his daughter had an estranged relationship after he divorced her mom.
No one in class really called him out for lying, we just stopped entertaining his stories.
BoredsohereIam · 3 points · Posted at 16:39:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Knew this girl who lied constantly about the dumbest things. We'd call her out every so often, it would stop for a bit, then she'd do it again.
One that sticks out was when she said she was late because her boyfriend was trapped on a roof during a fire at his work. We checked the news, nothing. Then messaged a buddy in the area and he sent us a picture of dudes work place...which was defiently not on fire.
It happened so often we just stopped talking to her, until she started dating a guy I knew. We warned him, he went with it anyway. Whatever dude. So one day she breaks the news that she's pregnant! We were a bit confused, as we know that guy was snipped and couldn't have kids, but she had flashed a hospital bracelet and posted ultrasound pictures. Didn't say anything to her, went straight to him, worried she cheated.
Dude had no idea what we were talking about. Turns out he couldn't see the pics through his profile, she had set the post to show to every one except him. Googled ultrasound pictures and the one she posted was the first to come up. Dude also mentioned the doctor never spoke up when he took her in the hospital for a normal checkup. Ah, that's where she got the bracelet.
So we knew she was full of it, he knew, but she didn't know we all knew. We let her go a few days, laughing everytime she had "morning sickness" around us but then was fine when he walked in. Convinced her the guy had twins in his family, suddenly she was pregnant with twins.
At this point dude went in to make sure he was still sterile, got paperwork stating so. We were all sitting about, when someone casually asked dude if he was excited about the babies. Her face went white, he laughed and mentioned being sterile. Suddenly she doubled over holding her stomache saying something didn't feel right and she had to go to the hospital. Dude had her stuff from his place already in a box, brought it out and said good luck with that.
She made a huge deal online about a "miscarriage" and how the father didn't even care and kicked her out (she wasn't even living with him!). He got blocked, so we posted a picture of his paperwork stating he is completly sterile. We all got blocked, and haven't had to deal with the crazy since.
Fun times.
jeffjeffjeff3times · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily “the lie of the century” that this person was caught in, but was nonetheless funny to see the situation unfold-
Senior year of college a few friends of mine decide to brew their own beer with one of those at-Home brewing kits. As you might expect for first time brewers who were doing it pretty casually, it was some seriously“meh” beer, but it’s college so that’s still good enough. Also it was called “Balls Deep Brewing Company”- because, you know, college students are practitioners of only the most sophisticated humor, Any-who a few nights after bottling the beer (I want to say they had maybe 40 bottles filled) they had a party at their place. The party was progressing well when I was hanging out with one of my friends by the door and an underclassman starts making his way for the exit. He had his coat zipped up in an apartment with 60ish people in it (uncomfortably hot) so we take a closer look. We then see a few of the very distinct red bottle caps peaking up out of his coat, the same ones used in the bottling. We asked where he got the beer from, so he kinda opens his jacket (he had like 4 in there) took one out and said “Oh these? I brought them.” My friend and I take one look at each and start burst out laughing “Take a look at the name” we say.
Balls Deep Brewing Company.
We let him keep one of them. Like I said “meh” beer.
Phonophobic · 3 points · Posted at 16:49:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I now attend a mixed martial arts and jujitsu gym. Before that I wrestled for a number of years. I have always loved it when somebody comes in claiming of all the “victories in the street” they have won. When the lie is exposed in this way it doesn’t get any better... and when that person proves them self to be truthful it’s just as good
ephemeralkitten · 2 points · Posted at 02:20:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
happy cake day. i like your name.
HipsterGengar · 3 points · Posted at 16:59:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex cheating on me. She wanted a break while her ex was in town, I said no. We continued dating and months later during a fight she claimed she didn't know her ex was in town, but when she wanted a break she openly stated he was (therefore she knew he was).
I did the math, didn't even respond to her. Things clicked in my head and I just got up, left, blocked her. Never talked to her again.
1313pd1313 · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a process server, and folks try to lie about their own identity to avoid being served all the time. I get all sorts of lies. I do my homework, though, and I often already know what they look like, what they drive, if they own the property, etc., etc... before I first knock on their door. Don't know who John Doe is? "Why are you in his home?" Don't know who Jane Doe is? "Why is her car parked in your driveway?" Don't know who Joe Blow is? "Why do you look just like his Facebook profile?"
russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Don't know who Joe Shmoe is? Then why are you wearing his face?
No, seriously, why are you wearing his face you sick fuck? Where's the rest of him?
AUGUST_BURNS_REDDIT · 3 points · Posted at 17:49:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When in school, my teacher had it out for me. No idea why. It may have looked different from the outside, but to me, he really felt like a bully.
Within the first few months, I had missed maybe 4 or 5 days of school. I got a letter from the director warning me I'll be kicked from the program if I miss anymore due to missing 15 days of school. This was ridiculous since I hadn't missed that many.
The next day, at the beginning of class, I emailed the director to send me a list of days that I was marked absent. The last day on the list was the day I sent the email. While sitting in class. I immediately left without saying a word to him so I could meet with her and prove I was in school and he was lying.
Over the next couple weeks I recorded evidence of abuse (yelling at me for "poor work"), recorded him showing up late every day and made sure to take a picture of myself in class every day. He was fired a month after this.
Polyboy03g · 3 points · Posted at 19:08:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Couple months back I go outside to my driveway to find a penis drawn with what looked like stamp ink? Sure enough upon careful inspection one could see the small circular rubber stamp "footprint." my kids come home and after a few moments they mention that some kids at school (highschool) we're playing with red ink stampers during lunch. Sure enough the drawing was in smudged red ink. I find out who the kid is and head over to there house. I knock his dad answers and after some explanation he calls for the kid. He walks in has red ink smudged all over his fingers and hands. "hey man, I like your ink." I say to him as I point to a stamp of the exact same marker as the ink I found on the garage door that morning, on his arm. He tries to deny and I bust out the photo of the D on my garage. "um, it wasn't me!" he starts as his dad's face goes veiny purple. He later cleaned the ink by hand in the hot Florida sun for half a hour. TLDR confronted graffiti artist with the ink still on his hands as he denied it. Literally caught him "red handed"
wimwood · 3 points · Posted at 19:31:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Seeing the look on my abusive ex’s face as I packed my toddler and newborn into the car and he told me I’d never really leave. and this time, instead of crying and going back inside, I told him I’d spent the last month and a half secretly finding a battered women’s shelter, amassing free home furnishings and hiding them in other people’s garages, and that I’d just signed a lease that very day when he thought I was going to the grocery store.
russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good for you!! I hope everything is better now
Maxnelin · 3 points · Posted at 19:48:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I finally had proof my girlfriend was cheating on me. It took so long. I wasn’t even angry any more. I was just happy to know I wasn’t crazy.
Mykeythebee · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I walk into the room and out of nowhere my 3 year old says "I didn't drink your soda".
butlerbod · 3 points · Posted at 20:09:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I go to a military boarding college and at around Christmas last year, quite a few people were trying to brew booze in their rooms.
Secret Santa comes around, I get my gift but have no clue who has got mine. I open my gift and it's just a cereal box with a lucozade bottle with 'Home Brew' written in sharpie on it.
Was pretty happy with it as it's supposed to be strong af. Get back to my room and take the bottle from the box, it's warm (suspicions arise), I'm pretty sure it's piss, but I'll go with it for now. Go to the kitchen and was about to pour it when the gift-giver comes in, excited for me to try it.
I tell him about my suspicions and he gets mad, he's persistant. I offer him a deal, if he drinks it and it's not piss, I'll drink it, otherwise I chuck it.
He takes a sip and immediately runs to his room to throw up. Not only did I dodge a piss-coated bullet, I got to witness the hilarious face of a man who just drank his own piss.
ashrae9 · 3 points · Posted at 20:13:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened last year. My best friend was getting married that summer and we had plans to attend a wedding tradeshow that Sunday evening to see what options might appeal to her. We planned this date months ahead as arranging stuff like this is near impossible between 4 bridesmaids' schedules . I booked this particular sunday off months in advance.
Saturday evening i got a call from a coworkers sister, begging me to work sunday night. My coworker who we will call Melissa, was in the hospital with severe dehydration and would have to stay overnight at the very least. I was the only option. I was kinda flustered as I made these plans well ahead of time, but told her sister I would work her shift. Me and the gals went to the tradeshow earlier that day instead of that evening. Whatever.
Its about 5 pm at the tradeshow and we are in line at the show to get a drink before I have to go get ready for my shift.
I hear a familiar voice. Yep, you guessed it. Ahead of us in line is Melissa, slamming back cocktails with 2 girls. One of whom I recognize as her sister. I approach them and say "Careful. Drinking can cause dehydration. And you better sober up, you've got a shift starting at 6."
Me and my friends proceeded to enjoy cocktails until the night ended. I am sure I was grinning ear to ear the rest of the night.
Oh and the cherry on top? Melissa got fired for showing up late. And drunk. Justice served.
Sketchylemons · 3 points · Posted at 20:14:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had my friend over when I was like 6 and he spent the night. We played with my Legos the night then went to bed. When I woke up, he was already downstairs eating breakfast and I noticed my favorite Lego minifigures were missing. I went downstairs and told my mom he stole them. She asked him and he said no. She searched his backpack and they were at the bottom of it. That felt pretty good, but looking back at it that's kind of awkward. They were just Lego minifigures.
solarjunk · 3 points · Posted at 20:21:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was in Grade 2 playing 'ministicks' was the awesome thing to do at recess. I had a green Anaheim ducks stick. I was the coolest cause my stick had a bend on the blade cause I dipped it in boil water and made a curve.
One day my stick went missing. Being the young sleuth I was I searched high and low for my stick. One day I saw a guy in Grade 6 or 7 using what's looked just like my stick but he had coloured it in with marker in some spots. I asked him if that was my stick and Jason said no. I reported this to my teacher...it so happened I also had a printed photo of the stick too. My mom has put my name on it just above the blade as well. I told this to the teacher.
The teacher asked this older student to see the stick because there was suspicion it was not his. He resisted but eventually she got the stick. She rubbed where my name was placed very careful to pull the layer off that he had coloured on and blam...up came solarjunk right where I said it would. My stick was worn but it was mine again.
Fuck you Jason
was_that_out_loud · 3 points · Posted at 20:28:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me ex’s parents took me to small claims court for an the balance of a loan they took out at their son’s request. His father (my ex father in law) told the judge in Spanish that I called him after my divorce was final and promised to pay the balance. I advised the judge that I do not speak Spanish. (My ex fil doesn’t speak English) The judge asked him to explain how we had that conversation? He couldn’t, judge ruled in my favor.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:30:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In 8th grade I had this piece of shit Biology teacher who would always claim I never turned in my homework. I always did, on time, fully completed and I saw no reason why he wouldn't have it.
One day I was walking out of class and I saw my homework in the trash more than 5 feet from his desk. I confronted him about it and he said "Oh it must have fallen off my desk, I'll grade it tonight".
A week goes by and it's not graded, my mom is on my ass about it and doesn't believe im turning my homework in. So naturally I proceeded to video tape myself turning in my homework on my phone, every assignment for a week.
Mr.X calls and tells my mother if I don't start turning in my homework I'm going to fail Biology. My mom asks which assignments I didn't turn in, he goes ahead and tells her the names of the assignments and she responds..."That's funny....I have a video recording of him turning those exact assignments in, fully completed". He continues to deny throwing them away.
My mom then instructed me to ACTUALLY not turn anything in for the rest of the year, fail the class and I'd just have to make it up the next year and we did just that. Took physics and biology to make up for the missing credits.
Edit: spelling
simplegurl · 3 points · Posted at 20:33:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Roommate had someone in our room at like 3 am in the morning while I was sleeping. It happened once so I ignored it. Happened again the next day so I told her "I would appreciate if you didn't bring people into the room so late when I'm sleeping". She said it happened once, I said "no you did it two days in a row." And she was like "oh...."
Zkyo · 3 points · Posted at 20:33:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not exactly a lie, but one of my previous managers used to often say she always listens to everyone, yet I always got the opposite impression, she didn't listen and just waited for her next chance to talk. I tested this once by having a conversation where I spoke gibberish (actually, it was the lyrics to Skyrim's title theme) in a normal dialect. She didn't even notice, and was even agreeing with what I was saying. I never confronted her, but this was in the presence of ~3 other coworkers and the head manager, which was good enough for me.
smellexisb · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Speech level: zero
Zkyo · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Didn't even start out at 15.
smellexisb · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Her given 15 were retracted.
qhost_liqhts · 3 points · Posted at 20:35:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First, I want to say that I have a strange streak of truths dropping into my lap out of nowhere. It is both the most entertaining but tiring things since I find out a friend or family member lied to me.
So a friend shows us a piece of art that he claimed to have made. We're all amazed, so he shows us more and more art over the next few months. One day, he lets us see fan art for a show called Sailor Moon. It was well done as always. A few nights later, I find the exact image on a Japanese Twitter account. His had a signature; this one did not. I became giddy at this point and began snooping around the account to make sure it definitely wasn't his. Next day, I tell a friend about my suspicions. She reveals that she held the same suspicions too. Another friend saved some of "his" art in her phone, so we reverse search them. Many of them come back with a link to different popular artists and others lead to a dead end. It was obvious then he was lying about drawing any of those works. We're not sure of the purpose. It was most likely to fit in, as we're a friend group consisting of artists. In the end, none of us confronted him about it (though I was itching to see the look on his face once we reveal it all-- he probably wouldn't have cared about getting caught anyways). I did block him on all social media. I don't have time for that filthy liar.
ADHDCuriosity · 3 points · Posted at 20:43:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a weekly satisfaction:
People trying to steal shit through the Self Check I manage. I pick up an item, they'll tell me they already scanned it. But if I scan it again in the Void menu, and it's not on the receipt, this little message will pop up: "Item not sold in this transaction". Basically, I get the computer to tell them in plain English that they're stealing. The look on their faces...priceless.
RealProtatoe · 3 points · Posted at 20:50:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a really nice friend who was in a financial struggle and had a rough upbringing and told him he could stay with me after high school and I would even pay for his tuition to a jr. College as long as he had good grades (he was very very smart according to ACT and SAT scores). I figured after 2 years he would be able to get a scholarship or something for a university. After the first year of jr college I thought he was doing really well, he always left the house for class and always saw him studying, so I thought. At the end of his first year he said he got accepted to the Uni I was going to and was paid in full by a scholarship. The summer of his first year at the Uni he went home to visit family in another state. While he was away he got a letter from the Uni saying important open immediately. I opened it and it said he owed money for tuition.. I was under the impression that he had a scholarship. This was a red flag for me because he had been acting weird lately, towards the end of the semester he was staying home every day. I started to snoop around and had known his password for his jr college email. He had been doing really poorly at the Jr college and had photoshopped the unofficial transcripts to show me he was having good grades. I called him after I had gotten all the proof I needed and asked what was going on, he said everything was going great and had a 4.0. Even after I told him I got the letter and checked his emails he still told me I was lying and making it all up. I called his parents and told them he wasn't allowed back to my home and why. He had told his parents he was going to a prestigious university in the city next to mine and had no idea what I was talking about. I had my suspicion from his first semester, but I wanted to believe he was doing the right thing. It was very satisfying knowing he was $6,000 in debt with terrible grades after knowing he had been lying about all of it.
morganmariex · 3 points · Posted at 21:15:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
most satisfying moment happened last week... i work at a beauty bar on the weekends. there’s one girl who i don’t quite trust and sure enough one day she told lies to my boss saying when she’s not there i’m always on my phone and never get work done, etc etc. so last saturday my sister was moving to Texas which is a big deal, we’re close and she’s moving countries, i obviously wanna be there to say goodbye to her but my boss needed me to work because she was going to be doing makeup for 2 weddings far away and this girl can’t be working by herself! so i planned on having my sister come to the salon to have our goodbye. i’m obviously sad because i can’t be there and try to not let it stay on my face but finally this girl tells me i should go be with my sister and get to say goodbye to her properly and i genuinely believed her, like i wanted to go so bad but i didn’t know what to do, i couldn’t let her be alone. and what if this was a set up? what if she sends me off to the airport and tells my boss ‘she left and i was here all by myself!!’ so i told her ‘if you’re cool with me going, call the boss and see what she says’ her response? ‘oh, no no. i don’t wanna call her.’ so she gets busy doing something and i sneak off and call my boss and tell her everything. ‘she told me i should go and she can handle everything. she refused to call you when i told her to see what you’d think. i think this was a set up so i’d leave and she could rat me out on you, i don’t know.. it’s sketchy... i had a bad feeling..’ and my boss says ‘i don’t trust her. that’s weird. i think it was a set up too. you did the right thing and thank you so so much for calling me. i appreciate it.’ so yeah, that girl got PISSED when i told her i called the boss and wasn’t going because i basically ruined her plan haha..
TDLR. a girl i work with told me i should leave work early and say goodbye to my sister at the airport and leave her all alone at the salon. i felt like this was a setup for her to call my boss and get me in huge shit...i called my boss and she said she thought that was super sketchy and doesn’t trust this girl.
kmonte90 · 3 points · Posted at 21:19:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but my husband--- He once took our car to the shop to get a simple job done, like the tires rotated or something. Before he went, he changed the oil in the car himself. While he was waiting, one of the guys working on the car comes up and tells him the car also needs an oil change. He called him out on it, letting him know he had just changed it not even an hour earlier.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:22:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think that’s needed sometimes.
Back in high school or early college if I caught a friend lying, I’d call them out. “Friend, you don’t need to lie to me. Whatever the issue is, we can figure it out or you can let it go. I don’t really care. I just care that you’re being untrustworthy.” Eventually I just started ghosting those kinds of people. I’m not a therapist, and I don’t need any extra drama in my life. When you’re an adult and do it, there are deeper issues at play.
Levi_Loves_You · 3 points · Posted at 21:28:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work as a technician for a major electronics company. We’ve had a string of fraud people come in with phones and electronics that are damaged internally. Only problem is the phones aren’t genuine, and the issue results from tampering with them. I helped one gentleman last night. Because of the damaged I had to find a diagnostics computer in the back area out of customer view. Lo and behold I couldn’t get anything off the device. Because of this, and because he’s a known scammer, I told him I wouldn’t be able to replace it, but that I needed to send it to the repair center (where things are looked at more thoroughly). He immediately told me I’m playing him for a fool. He pointed out he was missing screws and blamed me for them.
I looked him in he face and asked him why I would need his two screws when I have thousands of them in the back. He told me he would come back tomorrow.
I helped him again today. Same story.
TL;DR don’t try and hustle me boi
stinkload · 3 points · Posted at 22:47:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at Muay Thai school in Vietnam and they had an older American guy who "said" he was Bjj black belt former soldier / former NYC street cop / former private security... yaddah yaddah yaddah.. One afternoon he is regaling the class with stories his days as a beat cop on the rough and tumble streets of NYC. He is 5 mins deep into this nail biter story of the time he was off duty and a whacked out junkie tried to shoot him in the face and steal his car. At this point in the story he is kneeling down on the floor in front of us with his arms raised, showing us all how he had his gun drawn and "dead eyed dick'ed" the junkie.. "locked in his sights".. I casually ask what kind of car? his eyes dart left & right.. big pause... "ahhhhhhh just a shitbox" Then I ask "what color?" again it throws him off as he tries to remember if he already mentioned a color. We exchange a quick look and I nod. Shortly there after maybe 5-10 mins later I quietly leave the classroom and go back to the main room and do bagwork while I wait for the next class. If you are going to be a liar at least be a good one fer fucks sake! Read the room dude .
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:27:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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OriginalIronDan · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught one, too. Poster claimed she had an rx for OxyContin with refills. No refills on those.
SlientK · 3 points · Posted at 00:03:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
TL;DR Fiancé cheated one me while I was out camping with her daughter, found a note from a dude when I got home.
Had a feeling my fiancé was cheating on me which she totally denied and called me insecure and paranoid.
So one weekend all my friends were going to a small local camping/music festival. I wasn't going to go until the last minute when on a whim I decided to go. Pack my gear and her daughter some clothes to come camping with us, and we leave Friday night. Fiancé had to work Saturday and was going to come out Saturday night. Have a fun weekend and Sunday I pack the family up and we head back home. We were in two cars since she came out Saturday.
She decides to take kiddo for ice cream and I beat her home. Walk in drop gear off, then I notice a note on the kitchen table. It's was in a guys hand writing and said something to the extent of "had a great time you're so sexy can't wait to see you again." I instantly start boiling. Not sure if she was just stupid and didn't throw it away or wanted to get caught.
She got home and I went off. It was the only time in 4 years I told her to fuck off. I told her to pack up and move out. We were 3 months way from getting married. I let her sleep on the couch until she found a place because I didn't want her 5 year old daughter to have to suddenly move out of her room.
Dodged a major bullet because while I loved her daughter and wanted to be a dad, I had begun to ask myself quite often why I was even marrying this woman.
jwrosenberg · 3 points · Posted at 00:54:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once had an employee that every so often would tell me she got sick from food poisoning. Low level employee so never thought much of it. So again she calls in sick from food poisoning and mentions “sushi”. I went to search field and typed in “sushi”. She had claimed the same thing 10x over about a year. She quit before I could fire her.
Humanchacha · 3 points · Posted at 01:05:51 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My landlord: "how do you know I don't have a renters license"
Me: "because it's not on the licenses and inspections website"
"it's in another person's name"
"it's tied to the property not any person"
RANDOMEDIA-7 · 3 points · Posted at 01:17:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was having a conversation about PC gaming (which this person clearly knew absolutely nothing about) but was acting like they did. He start trying to subtly ask where I get the games from, stuff like "so do you get them off the app store?" And I was like, "Uh, no...I use Steam." when he suddenly started trying to act like he knew it and was like "OH YEAH, I USE STEPHEN ALL THE TIME!"
I also do game development, and to make fun of this, I later made a web page to host my games, which I named "StephenPowered"
4br4c4d4br4 · 3 points · Posted at 01:21:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a petty little shit of a plant manager who suffered a real bad case of Napoleon syndrome.
We had a managers meeting every morning, and in this one meeting he had just finished berating the QA manager for not doing something he asked for, after she replied "but you said you were going to do that part".
She (knowing he lies) whipped out a printed version of his email where he had said that, and shut him the hell up in front of everyone.
He didn't say a word to her all week!
It was glorious.
I fucked with him other ways too, it was a pain working with someone like that, but there were fun times in messing with him.
Optix_au · 3 points · Posted at 01:45:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In a previous job, I wrote the instructions for switchers for planned work on a utility system. There were three of us in this office and lots of work, continual paper moving through.
The senior bloke in the office was a loud, brash type who was useful in that regard, however was also a white anter - he would undermine his co-workers privately.
We had a new, younger boss. Of course the senior bloke was always in his ear. I had heard via a third party what he had been saying about me, how I was lazy and did little work and spent most of the day on the internet. While it was annoying I ignored it.
Until the day my boss happened to say something to me about it. I don’t recall the conversation, but I remember I came out of it pissed off and determined.
So I went back through our records and compiled a spreadsheet of who had done what for the last six months, with charts. I presented that to my boss. He went away, read it, came back and said “thanks for that, very informative.” I never heard another peep about my work output.
CompetitivePumpkin · 3 points · Posted at 02:55:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mother is the most pathological liar I know. I could go on for hours about all the lies I have caught her in, but her most recent bold faced lie turned out to be three lies all woven together.
My parents got divorced 2 years ago. About a year ago, she told me she had to sell her wedding band to one of those "cash for gold" places to buy food. Not long after that, she told me she had to pawn her wedding band to pay utilities. After she moved away, I was helping my father clean out the house they lived in. She left behind her jewelry box. Lo and behold, her wedding band was in it. Yesterday she told me that she wanted me to visit her to "give me some things" (her way of trying to get in my good graces), which included her wedding band.
So she (1) lied about selling her wedding band, (2) lied about pawning her wedding band, and (3) lied about having her wedding band to give to me.
vampiresinc69 · 3 points · Posted at 03:20:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I catch my husband lying all the time. Always stupid shit. Its never satisfying. Its exhausting.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:56:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Alcoholic?
vampiresinc69 · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Recovering". Like wont drink for a while, then goes and get shitfaced. Then wont drink for a while and repeat. Dealing with a 'repeat' type night right now. Drunk version of husband is "1:pick fight, 2: blame everything on me, 3: threathen to divorce me, take our kid, leave me homeless and kill me" this versions only exists when shitfaced. Then we go on with normal, responsible, regular type husband the test of the time. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn, was just a guess. Sorry to hear of that trouble.
vampiresinc69 · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good guess it seems. Its life. Been doing this for 15 years. Guess ill just keep doing this till one of us gets tired of it and bails, or he kills me. C'est la vie....
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:01 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
You sound like my mom. She stayed with her abuser for the kids and now that we're grown we avoid them both because we resent her for staying.
vampiresinc69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:49 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
My kid hates me 90% of the time since im a "parent" (you know, rules like no candy for dinner, brushing teeth and not staying up till midnight every day) kid loves dad, cause dad is his "buddy" (very few rules, gives him anything he wants, etc) i unfortunately dont see the kid ever being mad for me puttng up with "super" dad.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:37 on June 27, 2018 · (Permalink)
your call
ads3500 · 3 points · Posted at 03:58:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had this friend who would constantly lie all of the time. She would always make up these very unrealistic stories about random things and it was obvious that they were made up; like once she told me how she was one-upping this lady at her work about who's life is harder and she said that her coworkers were clapping and cheering her on, basically a story you would see on r/thathappened. So anyways, she was kind of obsessed with me and would video call me any time she wasn't at work. This happened last summer, and she spent that whole summer hooking up with random guys on Tinder. She would always lie to me about it, but she would immediately brag about it to her other friends, then those friends of hers would just tell me. One morning when she was calling me, she said "How much do you wanna bet that I'll end up with a night shift tonight?". The bet was for a cookie and she took the side of having a night shift with me getting no choice. Then later that night I get a text from her saying "Guess who owes me a cookie", which meant she had a night shift. So since she constantly lies all of the time, I was very skeptical, so I messaged a friend asking if he wanted to go on a walk, and he agreed because we would sometimes go on walks late at night and he wanted to prove she was lying too. We started our walk at about 11pm and her work was about an hour away. When we got there, she was nowhere to be seen, so I decided to text her with just a "hey". She responded about 15 minutes later with a jumbled message saying something about 3, which I figured she was saying she had to work until 3. After that, we walked back to my house and I went to sleep. In the morning, she called me as usual, and I asked her what her message meant. She replied by saying that work kept her in until 3. I then said "Are you sure about that?", then she kept on insisting that it was true. Then I just let out "Because me and (My friend) walked up there and you weren't there". She then just said "Oh" and went silent. I can't really describe how she said it but it was the most satisfying thing to hear. After the silence, I got her to admit it was a random hookup and asked her why she lies all of the time. She then just got really mad and said "I'm hanging up" then hung up on me. She started talking to me again a few days later and promised she wouldn't lie anymore, but about a month later, she got fired from her job because she would always scream at workers, be rude to costumers, lied about her age, and she forced a girl who she was training to go to a different store to buy her grapes while that girl was on her shift. When she got fired, she made up this story about how she was the victim and did nothing wrong, and I kind of believed it at first; only until a few people from her work told me what really happened. I finally stopped talking to her a few months later because she continued lying and I was sick of it.
GarrisonFjord · 3 points · Posted at 04:07:24 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm really late to the party so no one will see this, and it's not really catching, but it kind of is. I drove up to an ATM once with my friend in the car, and there was an ATM slip in the machine with a balance of over $20k on it. My friend asked to see it so I handed it to him and thought nothing of it. A couple days later his girlfriend who was renting a room from us at the time mentioned how he told her he had a bunch of money saved up and even gave her the ATM receipt to show her. I asked her if she still had it, and she said yes and handed me the same slip that I had taken from the ATM a few days prior.
I told her he was lying and that the slip wasn't of his account, but she didn't really seem to care all that much, or she just didn't believe me. When I asked him about it, he said he was trying to see if she was just a gold digger, but I know he was full of shit and trying to impress her with his lies. Especially because she was already dating him, and he didn't have any money.
MudzyLoL · 3 points · Posted at 05:31:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught someone boasting about having a high rank on a game in another country (League of legends). So I live in Australia and this prideful boastful narcissist happens to pick up this game and tells everyone that on another server he has a really high ranking account. He was known to pile lies one after the other to showoff and boost his own ego. One time, this year he was made to repeat his final year of college after 'surviving cancer and PTSD' and then went off telling everyone all these different girls liked him, several being my friends in lower years. It was funny enough when the majority of them said 'whos that?'. He even boasted about 'I drink this very very strong Italian alcohol you haven't heard about', he also said he was invited to several beach party houses which they didn't even know this guy that I was talking about. Its crazy how much he lies.
But onto the main story, somehow everyone actually believed him that he had this other special account and we couldn't prove it at the time. A few weeks later, a website called OP.GG allows you to view other players match history and live games. This was when I put him on the spot infront of our group. It was a good school morning. We showed that it couldn't have been his account because someone had been playing at the time while he was there that morning. He decided to pile lies after lies saying that it was his overseas friends using his account. Alot of us didn't buy it, so I went an extra step forward after school and made another account on the european server and downloaded and waited alot. After this was done, I added his supposed account and messaged him. After talking to this person, he did not know the guy I was talking about at all. I screenshotted the chat logs, screenshotted everything that he boasted about. I laid it all upfront to him several school mornings later in front of my best friends. And he was completely caught and speechless. It was so satisfying, like a phoenix wright game ending where you lay out all the evidence and yell out that glorified ''OBJECTION''. I never ended up showing all my other friends, however. To this day, only me and my 2 best friends know about this, because I sorta felt bad for the guy and didn't end up telling anyone else.
I'm so glad this question was posted, because I've been wanting to share it for a looooong time.
LocalBumblebee · 3 points · Posted at 05:50:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A psychotic ex-friend was trying to convince myself and another friend that she was pregnant, and her failsafe to get out of this lie was claiming a miscarriage (at only 3 weeks, but not the point).
It's pretty hard to claim you're at the hospital having a miscarriage when your mother posts a picture on Facebook of you and your entire family at a hockey game and your SnapMap location is nowhere near the hospital.
smaghammer · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few years back, I used to manage a phone store. I was out with a few friends, would have been around midnightish on a Saturday. I get a text from one of the other managers saying that, another worker was not able to come in the next day as his father was in hospital. Ok, yeah that's reasonable. Slightly annoying as I need to organise someone to cover him now but completely understandable situation. I start sending a few texts, not really expecting to hear anything until the next morning- when I turn and see said worker, pinging off his face and dancing with some of his mates, also pinging.
I just walked up to him and said, "Hey bud, good news, I approve your time off tomorrow," then walked off. He received a nice call from the owner the next day.
JoDoc1995 · 2 points · Posted at 06:24:54 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Forgive my naivety, but what do you mean “pinging off his face”?
smaghammer · 1 points · Posted at 08:00:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahh yep, my apologies. That's an Aussie term I think. It's a term used for when someone is obviously high on some sort of drug- usually pills/ecstasy. Colloquially referred to as "pingers" here.
DoctorQuinzell · 3 points · Posted at 06:16:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's a bit of a story to it, but my former boss lied on camera (posted on the company's social media page) about his education. It put a nice bit of egg on his face.
The thing is...we only planned the video because we knew he would lie. He was a terrible person, an awful manager, and I have no regrets.
SourSackAttack · 3 points · Posted at 06:26:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but worth sharing.
I used to grow weed and worked in a garden center. Nothing crazy grow wise, just some plants in the woods that was a side project with some friends.
Well, I got stuck covering a shift with this guy who was known to lie and pretend his life was better than it actually was.
Some how, we start talking about our morning routines and he says :
"yeah, I love getting up early, brewing some coffee, snapping a weed bud off my plant and rolling a nice joint with it before work ".
Now, even the most novice Marijuana enthusiasts know that weed must be harvested and cured AKA dried out before consumption.
Stunned at such a ridiculous lie and that he assumed I knew nothing about growing, I simply played dumb and said "wait, don't you have to cut the plant up and dry it before smoking?"
The combination of him back peddling and mumbling that I didn't know what I was talking about was super satisfying for some reason.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
How long does it have to dry out for ?
thecreator122345 · 3 points · Posted at 06:49:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’ve caught the same person lying multiple times.
1st Lie:
She said her kids ate everything she put on their plate. I was surprised as my kids don’t like to eat veggies. Later on, I saw and heard her kids refuse to eat vegetables multiple times. I didn’t say anything as it wasn’t my business.
2nd Lie: She told me once that her kids were great students and got good grades. Later on, she was complaining about how her kids had bad grades and she wished they would work harder. Again, I didn’t say anything because it wasn’t my business.
3rd Lie: My son got a letter that said that due to his academic performance he was getting a scholarship to study in Canada. Him and I both refused (he was too emotionally close to us, and Canada is too far away). The letter said that it was only an opportunity for 5th graders. I told her about this and she said her son (who was in 1st Grade at the time) got one too. Again, I didn’t say anything because it wasn’t my business.
People of Reddit, don’t lie if you have a shit memory.
FrankRawL · 3 points · Posted at 06:56:26 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There is no satisfaction for me in catching someone in a lie. It's horrible and I hate it.
lightless117 · 3 points · Posted at 09:05:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A cousin of mine had just started his bachelor's and I had friends from my school who went to his University so I was often contacted for guidance. His dad came to me one day and told me his son was asking for financing (from his dad) for his startup. I assured the father I would talk to him. Once he starts explaining his concept, Instantly began to see the gaping holes in it. I let him finish before I started asking questions. He kept repeating this line about needing the money at least a week before the semester ended, so he pay the website designer and set the ball rolling. I asked him how much money he needed to begin with, and how he would be spending it. The numbers didn't add up. At this point alarm bells started to go off in my head (he was trying to major in CSE). I postponed my verdict saying big noI wanted to discuss it with some one more knowledgeable. I immediately had people start making inquiries as to the dude's activities. Turns out the kid managed to get involved in drugs and gambling. He had racked up quite a few debts and gotten some of his stuff taken. He was trying to scam his own father to pay off these debts.
To this day , I am glad wasn't on autopilot that day
tteltraba · 3 points · Posted at 09:23:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Unsatisfying at the time, but later in life i’m more than estatic it happened:
To make a long ass story short, After years of wanting to commit to my ex and knowing well i couldn’t trust his words or his actions while away from home for months. After many incidents validating there was something going on he didn’t want me knowing about i finally mustered up the courage to ask “is there something i should know?” he snaps and accuses me of tRyInG tO RuIn OuR rElAtIoNsHiP¡. I begin to feel like the the denial card is usually played by someone who knows their chances of guilt are high, so i do what every SO in questioning does: Search through his phone!!!
Spoiler: it did not pan out well for him (• ◡•)
I’m in a thriving relationship now so i’ve put it behind me, i truly did start from the bottom.
gemzietots · 3 points · Posted at 10:41:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Most important two words ever when you’re dealing with anybody... PAPER TRAIL.
My first manager told me that and I never forgot it.
Long_arm_of_the_law · 3 points · Posted at 12:20:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I left my job for another one but things didn't work out so I returned to my previous job. Some girl that I knew wasn't there before I quit tried to pull that "I've been for way longer than you, so I have more authority" and lied about being there for 4 years. I told her that I knew most people working there and she wasn't there before I quit; in fact, she started working there right after I quit.
NocturnalZombie · 3 points · Posted at 02:02:18 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mega late, but one of the recent times my bf lied to me, it was over something as dumb as playing a video game.
How did he get caught? He and his friends were put up against me and a friend of mine. We won. Boo-ya.
officialkodos · 8 points · Posted at 17:16:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TW: mention of rape
A girl in my art class talked about Batman a lot, back when being “scene” was still a trend and Batman was Hot Topic’s superhero of choice (probably replaced by Deadpool since). Only it didn’t go past “I love Batman” and “Batman is my favorite superhero”, and then something-something-ilovecomicbooks. Granted, I didn’t know shit about comic books either, but it was pretty obvious that she didn’t, either. She had lied about a lot of other stuff before. One time she came up to my friend and me while we were chatting and my friend finished a story with, “I almost screamed”, and she knelt down to say, while smirking, “I screamed once, too. When I was four and being raped in a motel.” Which, don’t worry, was definitely false according to close friends of her’s. Point is she lied for attention fairly often.
But anyway, back on track, she was talking about how much she loves Marvel and I said something back like, “Me too! Did you see they added a new mutant to the X-Men Comics? His name’s [classmate’s confusing Greek surname].” She nodded and started talking about how she heard about it, how pumped she was, etc. etc. I told her I made it up and she mumbled something before returning to her painting of the Batman symbol. Felt pretty good.
Besides the steady stream of lies she told everyone, she wasn’t too bad. I hope she eventually got the attention she was craving, in more constructive ways, and learned she doesn’t have to like certain things to fit a certain mold. I think everyone spent an exhausting amount of time in middle school trying to memorize information about something you don’t care about for the sake of an image.
noob-for-life · 7 points · Posted at 21:50:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That time the president lied about not being able to do something, then he had to sign a paper to stop doing that thing. Fuckin classic. What a liar.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:44:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My first boyfriend was a miserable excuse for a human being.
Told me he was going to stay with a friend in England for a small vacation- told me the guys name and entire backstory of their friendship. I said cool have fun! Long long story short I found out he was cheating on me with a woman who lived there (well technically he cheated on her with me? They were together for 2 years before we started dating, had no idea)
After we broke up I went undercover with a fake profile and talked to him, flirting and what not. We talked about past relationships and he made up a story about his ex cheating on him and how he could never do that and on yeah he was single and did I wanna hang out. I revealed to him it was me, called him a fucking liar, sent the conversations to the other woman he cheated on me with and then blocked him out of my life completely :)
MattIsMyCat · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why’d you post this story twice?
deathfromabovekitty · 5 points · Posted at 18:40:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My psycho ex daughter in law claimed her dog was hit by a car while celebrating my son's birthday at Disney World. I had planned this trip for months, flown across the country, and arranged an amazing dinner during the nightly fireworks in which we would finally reveal her as my sons secret half sister (family secrets on dads side). The day of we are all gathered at Disney World with her family of 3 including her 4 year old and my son who was turning 9. Supposed to be a magical day for all involved. Instead she brought the drama, said they were cutting the day short with us and no dinner/reveal because her neighbor called and said her dog was hit and dying and they had to go. Her behavior seemed off to me and I just had this feeling she was lying to get out of spending the day with us but my husband didn't believe me and dismissed me as crazy for thinking such a thing. The thing was, she was a social media whore and there's nary a post about her dog being hit.. There was a huge falling out shortly after because she involved us in an affair she had.. her soon to be ex husband came clean and apologized that she had lied about the dog and wanted to ruin the day for the children just to mess up my plans and how ashamed he was. I literally jumped up and yelled, "I KNEW THAT BITCH WAS LYING!!" validation tastes sooooo good..
simetraollopa · 2 points · Posted at 02:30:31 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wait- she was your daughter in law and ALSO your son's secret half sister? I am very confused.
Also fuck her for lying about her dog dying.
deathfromabovekitty · 1 points · Posted at 13:27:30 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
yeah it's complicated to explain in writing but my (now ex) husband had lost custody of her at young age and she grew up hating him. 15 years later I come along and try to reunite them via social media (a decision I later regretted).. at the time my son was about 2 years old. She told us to fuck off multiple times and I wasnt comfortable telling my son she was his sister until I knew she was a stable person in our lives. Finally by this event it seemed things were good enough to tell him about her but instead she threw a fit and used animals and children in her manipulations. so yes, fuck her a thousand times!
dick-nipples · 77 points · Posted at 13:07:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If/when Trump gets impeached, whatever it’s for, that will be it.
Yasslord6900 · 52 points · Posted at 13:32:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can't belive that Robert Mueller's reddit username is u/dick-nipples
blueholeload · 36 points · Posted at 13:31:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s not going to be satisfying. He’s still got a group of idiots who will believe it was a witch hunt.
Xpress_interest · 34 points · Posted at 13:54:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They have a whole alternate reality created by billionaires telling them it’s a witch hunt and that all of their worst, most bigoted thoughts are patriotic and balanced things to think. FoxNews is bad, but all the radio shows out there are absolutely insane. I used to listen in once on a while to see how events were being spun, but they entirely stopped talking about the negative stories and simply deflected or completely ignored it to talk about how our mess is all due Hillary/Obama/liberals. I don’t know how to counter this level of organized disinformation.
ciaisi · 6 points · Posted at 15:44:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is exactly what they're planning on
Overmostheads · 7 points · Posted at 16:38:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just letting you know, they feel exactly the same about you and there's more of them
UnicornPanties · 0 points · Posted at 09:08:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your comment does not make sense.
fogobum · 2 points · Posted at 22:35:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Half of the house can impeach, but it's at best pointless (and at worst career destroying) if two thirds of the senate aren't going to convict.
TL;DR: not going to happen while the two parties are evenly matched.
pitchesandthrows · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Rent. Free.
WGReddit · 5 points · Posted at 18:28:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Putting political comments on a non political post, and getting over 60 points says way too much about Reddit.
covok48 · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And when he’s not can we show you this thread later?
blueholeload · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well they said “if/when” so I’m not sure what satisfaction you’d get out of that
Phoenix591 · -5 points · Posted at 13:36:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
People on the other side of the aisle said the same about Obama. I dislike both Trump and Obama myself.
Mohomomo · 6 points · Posted at 13:42:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If I may ask, for what reason(s) do you dislike them? Is it their policies or their characters?
Chairboy · 9 points · Posted at 15:04:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The poster is super religious and lots of churches (especially Evangelical) got on board with the “he is a super secret Muslim infiltrator“ hoax narrative so some of that might have rubbed off.
Phoenix591 · 3 points · Posted at 23:14:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dont think many actually believed that, but being closer to the right I certainly heard that and other stupid overreactions to some of Obama's policies and executive orders. Now its the lefts turn to overreact to every little thing Trump does. (Not that I like what hes doing more, its just hearing it with Obama for 8 years and now its literally the same with Trump, I am just sick of parties and politics and this shit)
j5a9 · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
He did have a Freudian slip about being a Muslim. Could have been bc the rumors were on his mind but makes the theory not so far fetched
Arnold_Mal · -7 points · Posted at 14:56:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
/u/Phoenix wants to equate Obama with Trump to imply that both sides are the same.
Obamacare and drone strikes = Treason, collusion, racism, backstabbing our allies, and trade wars
Edit: seems like Russian trolls are in AskReddit now
Hupso · 11 points · Posted at 15:37:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What in their comment made you come to this conclusion?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Literally nothing that's not in their head
NaturalisticPhallacy · 0 points · Posted at 20:54:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A dearth of thought.
Pingusus · 2 points · Posted at 00:04:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Treason? No evidence. Collusion? No evidence. Racism? Give me one example. Backstabbing allies? Don't really consider it backstabbing, but I guess the case could be made. As for trade wars yh ok you can have that, bit I'm sure some would argue they were a necessity. You forgot to mention he was a white supremacist and a nazi and islamaphobic and all the other isms and ists.
Arnold_Mal · 0 points · Posted at 00:37:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
спасибо, товарищ
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No you're just wrong and can't handle it, so you have to pretend the source is external.
Anovan · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m gonna have a justice boner for literally years after that happens and I don’t even have a penis
osound · 0 points · Posted at 15:41:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You mean his group of supporters that will pin impeachment on the "deep state" and isolate themselves even further from reality?
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 13:25:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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sappydark · 0 points · Posted at 14:09:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's Mueller time,lol!
badmotorpetey · 5 points · Posted at 16:06:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First grade, I was swiftly killing a worksheet that it was taking Jill forever to do. “Finished!” I shouted, but when I turned to her her paper was gone. “I already turned mine in,” she gloated. I furiously went and put my worksheet on the stack of finished papers and rifled through, looking for Jill’s. “Your paper isn’t in the pile!” I accused. “It should be,” she feigned. While she went to go “look” for her paper, I confidently reached into her desk, pulled out the first paper I touched, and bam: unfinished worksheet. “I rest my case” I said when she returned, slapping the paper on her desk. She turned red and sat with her head down and my triumph turned to shame. Always regretted it and now I no longer try to call out unimportant lies. Who the fuck cares.
marvinv1 · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Couldn't agree more.
Twisty1020 · 4 points · Posted at 20:17:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Second grade. My mom had packed some Oreos in my lunch and I was really looking forward to them. When lunch time came around I opened my bag to find that the Oreos were gone. I remembered seeing another kid in the backpack area going through bags earlier, so I told the teacher about it. She questioned him and of course he denied it, but I noticed he still had Oreo crumbs all over his mouth. I pointed this out as "matter of factly" as I could and busted this little shit.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 13:37:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Rousseauoverit · 10 points · Posted at 14:49:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've known some people like this-- where they say things that don't add up. They're inconsistent, even if they mean well, they embellish, change their stories in accordance to seek empathy/ camaraderie they've always lacked.
But, calling people out on bold-faced lies never ends well. If they're forlorn, which, anyone who makes obvious things up-- they often do so because they've never learned that it's safe/stable to be themself. You told her , face-to-face, that you trusted her, then told everyone in this thread that you DO NOT trust her. You lied on purpose.
EDIT: I wrote this the other day after a night of tossing and turning, and felt really bad about it! I'm sorry for implying that OP was "a liar," to "a liar." It's never my goal to perpetuate vitriol or point fingers on reddit! I meant the comment with kindness and openness RE: deception. Ideally, we should be firm and set boundaries, but tact, kindness and firmness aren't mutually exclusive.
jarjar- · 6 points · Posted at 20:16:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated a pathological liar in college for 3 years. Prior to the relationship some friends who knew her past would warn me, but I was naive and gave her the benefit of the doubt.
We started off great. I had no complaints and nothing about her seemed sketchy to me. We were happy together and never really fought about anything.
She had moved in with me at my college home during the last year of our relationship, which was about 3 hours away from where we were from back home.
During the last year of our relationship she would tell me she would have to ‘go back home’ to help her mom with some things. I never questioned it, but this became routine almost every other weekend. Besides, she had never given me a reason to doubt her two years into the relationship.
On Valentine’s day weekend she had told me that her girl cousin had invited her out to a rave back home. I let her go. She left on Thursday night and was planning to come back on Sunday by 4pm. This would be her first time going to a rave.
Unfortunately, I could not attend because I had a huge project to finish and a test to study for that weekend.
She told me she wasn’t going to do anything in terms of drugs or alcohol as she was going to be the designated driver.
The rave was on Friday. I texted her the next morning of Saturday asking how it went.
“Cool! It was fun! I was sober, but it was still fun! Actually, there’s going to be another last-minute rave (in another city 2 hours north). I’ll be with my cousin!”
I let her go.
I call her the following Sunday morning, asked how the second show was, and where she stayed.
“It was really cool, I was the DD, blah blah blah, I stayed at my brother’s place. I’ll be home a little later around dinner time, I gotta drop him off work at 1, pick up a few things from home-home, and be on my way back (to where we lived together in college).”
A few hours go by and I get a phone call from her sister asking me where she was.
I relayed the message. “She’s coming back from _____. Told me she was gonna drop your brother off to work at 1pm, stop by your place by 3pm, then back to me by 6/7ish.”
Few minutes go by and her sister tells me she called her brother and he said he never saw my girlfriend.
I immediately try calling and texting my girlfriend and it led straight to voicemail.
Her sister had also told me that my girlfriend had taken 4 Molly’s and crossed it with alcohol.
I had called several acquaintances that happened to be at the same show had told me they saw her go home with a guy she had just met at the rave. I learned that they had slept together that weekend.
I’m pissed. She hadn’t been responding or picking up my calls and it’s 8pm. I eventually get a hold of her cousin whom she went to the rave with and her cousin gave me the phone number of the guy that my girlfriend had met and slept with. I call him.
“Hello?” “Where’s my girlfriend? Put her on the line.” “Um one sec.”
Few seconds go by..
“Hello...?” “Where the fuck are you? Oh, and how was your brother’s place? And your fun friend, Molly?”
Silence.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought, you fuckin bitch. Hope the dude was worth it too. Your shit is gonna be outside in the rain by the time you come back.”
In all our relationship I’ve never sworn, yelled, or demeaned her, but I was not allowing her to play me. Not like this.
She comes back home to college at 2am on Monday. I’m wide awake and didn’t give a shit about my school responsibilities that day. I’ve never yelled at somebody so loudly before. I called her out on her bullshit and she had nothing to say.
She moved out a week later.
Can anyone guess where she moved out to? I’ll give you a hint: not back home to her mom’s.
Yep, that scumbag that she met at the rave and slept with. She moved in with him.
Fuck you, Olivia. I’m doing WAY better without you.
KuroiDenki · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Did you warn him about her? Maybe he became a victim too...
jarjar- · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why would I have done that? He did me wrong by sleeping with her. He can go fuck himself too and by this point I wouldn’t be surprised if she’d played him too.
KuroiDenki · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes, but like you, he probably didn’t know that you were already with her, otherwise he may not have gone out with her either. Maybe the previous guy was pissed off too, and didn’t tell you either, and now it comes back to you. Do a good thing and inform that person of her wrongdoings, lest the cycle will continue. Don’t be a douche.
jarjar- · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He knew she was taken. He is friends with my ex’s cousin. I’m good.
Edit: I found out she had been sleeping with multiple people post-breakup
greenbeans98 · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in retail. We were having a super sale day, and we’re pretty busy, so I’m kinda done with bs from customers at this point.
A lady brings like fives things up to the counter. I notice two of the items have clearance stickers newly stuck on them. I checked the price and they were still at the original price. She stuck them on herself and she was trying to get me to change the price. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Also in my department, many coupons didn’t work that day, since we had a really good sale going on. She had items that didn’t qualify for any (clearance, specials, a certain department, etc) and I explained to her like 50 times that none of her items qualified. She was holding up my line arguing over $30 worth of merchandise.
She then proceeds to say “Well, a lady told me I could get 50% off of all this stuff today!!” And I just asked “Who? Who was the lady? Describe her to me, so I can call her over and ask.” The lady starts stammering and was like “I, uh, I don’t know it was just some lady over there” everyone in line was staring her down at this point, so she just finally decided to buy her shit and leave.
I was so happy that I caught her on her shit in front of everyone. Dude, if you’re gonna be a cheap ass bitch on a really good sale day, don’t go shopping.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 08:14:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's interesting. Because in my state, the sticker price is final. So you have to give the customer what's on the item, or listed on the rack, not what's in the computer. Or at least I thought it was law. That's why it was a big deal when we'd catch people trying to switch price tags.
enjybanjy · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex tried to take me to family court and remove my parental rights. Among the claims were that I was violent, abuse and had a drug problem. None of those were true.
She also got her mother involved, who lied on filed court documents. She claimed that she “never went away for fear that he will come and attack my daughter”
Unfortunately, my ex was scared of the dark. Her Mum went away for a couple of nights for her wedding anniversary, and I had multiple messages from my ex asking me to come round to stay as she was so scared.
This is one of many times they’ve lied to try to take away my rights - none of them have worked. Satisfying when you can prove in court that she’s full of shit.
russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Is the mother getting charged with perjury?
enjybanjy · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sadly, no. Whilst it was a lie, it wasn’t blatant enough and didn’t cause me any jeopardy.
puffermammal · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Many years ago, I took a short contract job while i was between permanent jobs. It was like a couple month long project that I got through an agency. There was already a guy there in a similar position to mine, but the guy was just the worst in every way. He was completely incompetent, openly racist and sexist, and just generally creepy. I honestly never saw him do anything productive there at all. He seemed to spend all his time just skulking around and trying to undermine me. He spread stupid, easily disproved rumors about me that nobody believed, including one where I was literally a high school dropout on some kind of welfare to work program, and that my son was disabled from being born drug addicted. I mostly just ignored the guy, but periodically, he'd come around and start bossing me around telling me what to do, like he was my boss. He worked for the same agency, so I'd call them, they'd talk to him and explain that he wasn't my boss and should leave me alone, but the message never stuck.
He once reserved a conference room and called me in to reprimand me, and he was there with this strange woman I'd never seen before who was dressed up in full 1970s regalia (it was probably early 2000s at the time). I just told him he needed to stop bothering me like that, and called the agency again.
Around this time, he started following me out to my car, and I started getting calls in the middle of the night with someone just breathing on the line. But also, I got a really cool new job. So I called the agency and told them that I'd be leaving before the contract was up because I was sick of getting harassed. I told them not to tell the creepy guy know I was leaving, and I told them I'd write up a detailed description of where I was in the project, along with instructions for what was left to do.
So I left. The creep called my house to yell at me, I told him to fuck off and that if he called again, I'd call the cops. I guess the cops thing scared him, because I didn't hear from him after that.
Then, a couple of months into my new job, I got a copy of his resume on my chair with a note from my boss asking if he should hire him. On that resume, he listed one of his job responsibilities as training and managing an at-risk single mother on a welfare to work program. So I called my boss and made it clear that he was not to hire this guy, and that that pathetic teen mother he managed was me (I was in my thirties at the time). And my boss said, dang, he gave us this work sample that looked really promising so I was hoping he'd work out. I asked to see it, and it was the stupid maintenance document I wrote when I skipped out on the project. Literally a fucking memo I wrote.
So anyway, that guy got permabanned from that employer (it was a biiiig company and the major employer in that industry), and they also temporarily banned the agency that forwarded his resume for not checking the references.
And that boss? Albert Einstein. (Seriously, though, the rest is really true.)
Hovie1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a hot-headed employee that went off the handle on a co-worker . He was trying to get the co-worker's attention from a ways off, which is fine. It's loud in there and I can understand that. But he then proceeded to go over and scream at the guy point blank till he was red in the face. I reprimanded him for it and he was extremely upset about that.
So the next day I come in, go out on the patio to smoke a cigarette, and he's out there with a couple coworkers. And he's telling the story of what went down the day before to them, but it's his version of how things played out. Like blatantly lying about how it all went down and how in the wrong I was for disciplining him. He didn't have the sense of mind or the self-awareness to just. stop. talking. when I came outside. I interjected and immediately called him out on his bullshit, explaining that whatever the problem was became irrelevant the moment he decided to throw a temper tantrum.
He decided to walk off after that and was terminated for job abandonment.
croyalbird13 · 2 points · Posted at 16:43:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At one of my last jobs my coworker said her dad was in the hospital after a stroke and she needed to leave to go to him. My boss let her leave immediately. Not even an hour later her dad shows up to our store to order some lunch and asks where she was.
My boss wanted to fire her or at least suspend her a week but he was transferred to a new store that week so our regional manager ended her suspension after two days because she didn’t believe our boss about the coworker.
We all hated that coworker even more after that day. And our regional manager.
TailwindsFoxy · 2 points · Posted at 16:54:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex as of yesterday straight up lied to me about going into work at a new job. Made up some bullshit story about how he and the manager got into an argument over scheduling and he turned down the job. I knew it was total shit when he told me. A couple days pass and I find out he never even went into the building. He panicked and pussed out of the job completely. He's 26 and this was a basic stock job. Wtf did he think he'd get away with? I'm not stupid.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll be honest, I don't know why this merits a throw away account
Literally_Whiskey · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My x boss was a total gaslighter/psycho. When I first started, she was so horrible to me, people would see her emails to me and say "What's her problem? OMG". I would break down into tears, as she seemed to have an answer that was against me for everything I did. I was simply there to make her look good, by her making me look bad. Que a 'discussion' because I got the flu and called off one day. (I had 80 hours of unused sick time). She said that she had an in person meeting with my previous manager before she hired me, and he told her about my "multiple" (her favorite fucking word) unexcused absences, and how he tried to no avail to get me to stop calling off of work. My previous manager is a good friend of mine and is also my neighbor. He had no recollection of ever speaking to her. My oh my the tides were turned after that day. I never mentioned that I knew she lied, but was able to avoid the emotional manipulation from then on.
SciGuyKai · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was maybe 6 when I tricked my mom into revealing Santa wasn't real. I told her I was running away and she said, "Fine but you can't take anything I bought with you." So I grabbed a coat that "Santa" brought me and she said, "You can't take that! I bought it for you!" I smirked and said, "I thought it was from Santa?"
I've been using such trickery on people ever since.
AnimusHerb240 · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I remember George H.W. Bush mention Iraq in the middle of some foreign policy tirade about terrorism and 9/11
"Iraq? What's Iraq got to do with this?" I says
Watching the discourse and the war unfold, it seemed to me the justification was always alarmingly tenuous, extremely suspect, and it was the first political opinion I was old enough to really have formed about anything -- I was a teenager
It was most satisfying because it was the first time of my life I saw a politician in the media convey something that set off my political bullshit radar that had me kinda yelling at the TV the way my dad yelled at football games, the first time I noticed I even had such a thing as a political bullshit radar, or had accrued enough knowledge or sensibility for such an opinion to arise
In my sixteen years of growing up around broadcast and cable news, Good Morning America, Meet the Press, nightly news, I never saw an adult around me react as emotionally or as emphatically to any piece of global news in the way that I was reacting to the news of the Iraq War. Maybe a certain celebrity death would elicit some response, but nothing about presidents and policies. So I had my political outrage hymen broken, which I didn't even know was a thing that could happen
MisprintPrince · 2 points · Posted at 17:17:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Literally all psychics
Beianzeru · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A man named Adam Connover did a funny video about them a while back. Can't figure out how to link from the app.
booshley · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend was supposed to drive me and our other friends to an amusement park for a day trip. She dipped out and made up some excuse about having to take her grandma to an appointment. She dipped out the day before, so we were unable to find a driver and our trip that we planned a week ahead of time was cancelled because of her. Whatever, I would have rather her said that she just didn’t want to go instead of lying. Anyway, she forgot she had her location settings shared with me for when she goes on tinder dates so I can make sure she’s safe if anything goes awry. Her location showed her going to a tinder boy’s house instead of said appointment. But even when I called her out, she continued to lie. It’s satisfying that I know I was right, but also concerning that she will continue to lie to us over stupid things.
MrScottyBear · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was in a car accident about 2 months ago. Lady in a U-Haul slammed into the driver's side / front end of our brand new accent. Pretty hefty damage, hospital visit for my mom, and all that fun stuff that comes with a U-Haul hitting you.
For reasons I'll never fully understand the paramedics decided to move our car out of the road. Cops arrive ask both sides what happened, she starts going on about how we swerved in front of her and the accident was all our fault etc. Thing is, once I had finished making sure the driver, my mother, was okay I started taking pictures with my cell phone of the scene. Where our car was, where the parts that have been knocked off of our car were, all that fun stuff. I showed the cop, he checked the road and found her skid marks on the sidewalk before and after our car. And yeah big surprise she was at fault. We were waiting to make a left turn and she had swerved over the sidewalk before slamming into us.
I'm not sure I've ever seen someone get so angry and flustered so quickly.
crasstyfartman · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boyfriend (ex now) placed a Craigslist casual encounters ad using my computer. When I confronted him about it he said that was absurd and he had his hands full enough with just one woman.
So I set up a fake email and replied to his ad with some fake pictures too and we set up a date. It took a week to set up.
You should’ve seen his face when I walked into the bar.
Ilovemycereal · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was on the phone asking one of our vendors about processing a certain invoice, and my coworker overheard my question, and then proceeded to berate me, saying we'd spoken about this before and that I should already know this.
We had not, but it's a common tactic of hers. I'd been there a year, and she was not happy about my hiring. She is competitive and territorial as hell over nothing, really, and is often trying to find ways to subjugate her peers and look superior in comparison. I was forced to rely on her, and she took it upon herself to resist giving me as little information as possible and then berate me for completing tasks incorrectly. But this time I'd had enough.
I asked her when we had spoken about this issue, and she backtracked and said she talked to me about it when it happened to her. I then asked if she remembered when we'd had *that* particular conversation, and she couldn't pinpoint any specifics. I pulled her aside later that day and told her that I was just trying to do my job, and I'd like to move forward, but that was too much for her. The next day she scheduled a meeting with me, where she proceeded to tell me she was, "just trying to train me a certain way."
And that's when I lost my shit and unloaded a year of bad behavior from her that had nothing to do with my training. It was glorious. From making a huge stink to the higher managers about me being late on one particular day everyone *knew* I'd be late, to blaming me because she was asked to cover for another coworker. She'd make a huge deal about the smallest things, withhold information and then berate me for not knowing, or would flat out manufacture reasons to be upset about me, and I called out every single one; Because that's the space that she and others like her live in, in the land of passive-aggression where nothing can really be proven and you can wiggle out of being held responsible to your own behavior using plausible deniability and the understanding that most people don't enjoy confronting slimy assholes.
At first she tried to deflect, but once she realized I wasn't buying it, she got quiet, and that just made me angrier, because, how dare you? How dare you just sit there and act like you don't know what I'm talking about, when you've been doing this from day one? How dare you, when I can't even ask *another* person questions without you berate me for not already knowing? "Enough," I said. "You've had a year. It's about time you cut the shit."
The bulk of the passive-aggressive bullshit stopped there. For a few weeks after, she got into the habit of quietly changing my work behind my back, I think, to justify her behavior to herself, but I caught her on that too, because she was actually adding mistakes. Now she'll do something here and there, mostly interpersonal, but not flat out interfering with my work, which fine, I'll deal. It's a lot easier than dealing with someone who is outright trying to sabotage your job. But I don't trust her further that I could throw her.
TL;DR: Confronted the passive-aggressive bitch in my department with a year's worth of pent-up frustration, positiveish results.
benqueviej1 · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Freshman year of college. English professor assigned an original poem. I wrote lots of poems in high school, so I was excited about the assignment. I added line numbers because I saw it in a book once. She gave me a F for plagiarism. She did not know from where or by whom, but clearly I copied and was too stupid to omit the line numbers. I confronted her and explained the numbering. She changed it to an A, but I always wish I had gone directly to the dean for her academic misconduct but I was just 18.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I bit late but, in 6th grade, we had a project for school to make a roughly 5 minute film, about something to do with history. Our class was devided in groups of varying numbers to make the films. We were watching a film by one of the groups, and I thought to myself this looks too professional. The thing is it was a 13 minute long professionally looking stop motion animation made with Playmobil figures. It was my quest to find the original video on YouTube on my phone with my friend. After some time, we found it, it was uploaded 3 years ago at the time. I felt empowered. We showed the teacher, and I think they were told off. Fortunately nothing else happened to them.
hnvss · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who is constantly lying about the most idiotic things ever. So he bought a Nissan that was a 2.5, base model. And he took off the 2.5 and replaced it with a 3.0 decal. He would tell everyone it was a 3.0 until one day I took a flashlight and you could see the outline of the 5 underneath the 0.
Best feeling ever.
TheRealSpecs · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
noisewar · 2 points · Posted at 17:38:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my wife was at a start-up doing 3D visualizations of cellphones, I noticed the animations looked too good for the amount of time they had to implement, and the action had that tell-tale mocap look where the actor is acting without a specific focal target.
I tried to tell them that their animator was ripping them off just putting in mocap he had gotten elsewhere, and that's why he always argued with them about why certain animations weren't possible on certain characters, or why the male and female animations were the same, or why all the fight moves were board-breaking kung-fu moves, blah blah.
Sure enough, weeks later the character TD dug into the animation files and found a leftover object named suspiciously with the same name as a free animation library collection. Course the production turned a blind eye to it, but a lot of respect was lost for the guy.
ProbablyNotADuck · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In university, there was a guy who liked to tell stories to make himself sound more interesting than he actually was. In one story he started to tell, he claimed to have gone streaking down a street that is the namesake for/filming location of a fairly widely distributed religious show. He claimed that, while streaking, he ran past many families and children who were doing average things in their homes and playing their front yards and spoke about how shocked and dismayed everyone was. However, as someone who actually grew-up a few miles away from the place in question, I was really confused and verbalized my confusion. The issue was that, while the street does technically exist, it is really just an entrance to the parking lot of an industrial park. There are no houses to run past. It is possible he could have run past children and families, but that would have meant an event was taking place at the facility, and I doubt he would have made it far past security. It was the details he tried to add in, I guess to make things sound more exciting, that gave him away and proved he'd never even actually been there.
nyquill81 · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but I’m a veterinary assistant. A client had an English Bulldog with chronic allergies and GI issues. She always swore up and down she never fed the dog table food. Brought the dog in during an episode once and right in the lobby the dog proceeded to vomit several whole French fries and half of an unchewed McDonalds cheeseburger. The client sheepishly said “Well I mean every once in a while she gets a little treat.”
TechniChara · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in my call center days, there was this co-worker, who always felt the need to impress people and prove how cultured and smart he was. Particularly, he bragged about his great skill with painting, has a gallery (in a different state, conveniently) and will soon be selling his work at tens of thousands a piece
So I started a conversation with him about the impressionist pieces of Bach, the cubanism works of Stravinsky, and the surrealist paintings of Mozart.
Dude bullshitted his way through that discussion pretty well, filled in a lot of the air with his own voice, and all the while I was trying really hard not to laugh. I was really sure he'd realize the jig was up when we were talking about "Mozart", but no.
ItsAzekii · 2 points · Posted at 17:45:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This will probably fall into nothing.. But whatever. Had a coworker that claimed to have all sorts of fast cars. Never any proof, pictures, absolutely anything. One week is bragging about another one. Proceeds to pull up a YouTube video and the info such as the uploaded and video name pops up (lol). Cue excuse "that's my friends account" or whatever.. Looked up the video on my phone and it was uploaded a couple of years prior. Never called him out on it directly as it was pretty sad the amount of bullshit that was spewed. I figured mental health issues.
Tovvi95 · 2 points · Posted at 17:45:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Working as a detective I once caught a man in lying about being with the suspect on the time of a crime.
Destroying his testimony we got the suspect convicted of sexual assault and rape of a minor.
Although I usually pride myself of being objective, I were disgusted that he would lie to my face to cover up such a crime.
Kjellery · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Teacher I work with suspected that one of the papers turned into her was copied from another student. I showed her how to look into the edit history and people who the document was shared with on Google docs. Turns out it was the same exact document that was turned in to another teacher with the header changed. This girl didn't even bother to make a new document, just sent the one sent to her.
amberchristine · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time this girl I was dating was dating wrote me a few poems and one stuck out as particularly familiar. Sure enough I Googled a line from each one and they all pulled up on the first page from classic poets. I confronted her about how lame I thought it was and cut things off
rockyroadnottaken · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boyfriend who lied about still being on Tinder. He tried to gaslight me because I saw it in his phone. He tried to convince me it wasn’t there and wouldn’t show me his phone, but I knew I wasn’t crazy. Fast forward maybe two days. We’re lying in bed and I see him on it. I said “I thought you said you deleted it” and he immediately closed it, asked what I was talking about, and when I told him what I saw, he told me I was dreaming. I laughed and started packing my stuff to leave because I was done with him and as I was leaving, he admitted it and begged me to stay.
Foreglow · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old boss lied about everything all the time. He served in the reserves for a bit and supposedly rescued navy seals all the time. He fought in Afghanistan and took a lot of terrorists out. He had been a police officer and seen some action, as well as baffled the chiefs or whoever with his intelligence.
The best lie I ever caught him in, though I didn't tell him about it because he was vindictive and I kinda just enjoyed listening to the fountain of refuse that was his mouth, was when he promised all the supervisors a "significant" raise "soon". We all pretty much knew it was a lie when it came out of his mouth, but we didn't have the proof. It was supposedly already approved by the President and CEO. After a couple months I asked him, in a meeting, when "soon" is and what "significant" means. He gave me a definite date and a rough estimate of the amount. It was supposedly an almost 50% raise. When that date came, he started blaming the boss above him for holding the raises up.
He also blamed the terrible scheduling on computer glitches that corporate was fixing.
Anyway, I eventually got to talk to the president of the company, who was concerned about certain problems at the company. I asked him point blank, "I was told you approved raises for us. I was also told the schedules are messed up due to software glitches that you're fixing on your end. True?"
President guy angrily called my boss a liar.
At work the next day, boss brings up raises again and how they're coming soon if he can just get them past the other boss. I just kinda smile and lean back. "Don't worry about it.I'm not upset at the other boss. I'm sure he knows what he's doing."
Not what boss expects. I see him shify nervously and sweat a little. "He just doesn't appreciate you guys like I do."
Me, "Ah well! Maybe I'll talk to him about it some time."
More sweat and shifting.
Occasionally I'd just mess with the guy like that when he'd least expect it. It was marvelous.
We Googled him once and found his resume online, as well as some videos that lead to him being fired as a cop. Sometimes we'd ask him questions about his work history or why he chose to leave the police force and just sit back and listen. That guy really should have been a writer for "based on a true story" movies.
bobbydean86 · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work as a collection manager for a furniture store. Guy got a king mattress and was trying to run on us. I seen him at the gas station one night flirting with the clerk. I went back to the work truck to look him up on Facebook to make sure it was him, and it was. I went back in and asked him if he was the guy I was looking for. He quickly said no, that's when I pulled my phone with his profile still pulled up. I looked at it with a sarcastic face and showed it to him and asked him, "is that not you" he immediately got red and asked if i would step outside with him. He started threatening me for looking at his public profile and threatened to sue me. I explained Facebook was public domain and he could do nothing. I then followed him home and got our stuff back.
thaMagicConch · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smoked weed in the dorms in college with my roommate. Had suite style dorms where you shared a bathroom with another pair of people. My neighbors were cool but would complain about us smelling up the floor all the time. We were always careful vaping as much as possible instead of actually burning weed and we also used a sploof. We decided to not smoke in the dorm for a week and a couple days later we asked our neighbor if he had smelled us since we had been smoking a bunch in our room. He immediately said he had and about how bad it was. Well guess what bud, it's not us then so fuck off.
Mazon_Del · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
And another one. One of my grandma's is the sort of person that insists on being right and getting her way.
Well, the whole family had just done the Georgetown Loop (a cool train thing) in Denver and were taking a long route back to Estes Park through the mountains. Well, I had gotten one of those whistles made from a block of wood and was trying to get the plastic wrap off. I had no intention of blowing the whistle in a car full of people, I wasn't (that much of) a dick.
Well grandma sees me fiddling and says "Don't try blowing that whistle, whistles don't work at this altitude.".
Now, I was in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time but I was a smart child, the sort that when the teacher asks what forms of matter exist (solid, liquid, gas) I looked up from my copy of The Hunt For Red October and said "Plasma.". So, this statement felt very wrong...but at the same time I didn't want to seem stupid.
So I sucked in a full lungful of air and blasted as hard as I could into that whistle. Turns out they work just fine in the mountains.
mag1cians-assistant · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my ex and I started dating he told me he had cancer as a child and I was very sympathetic with him having just lost my grandfather to cancer. So I eventually got really close to his parents who basically told me his entire life story and they didn't say a word about him ever having cancer. He was an only child and had the sweetest parents, their child having cancer is not something they would easily forget. I broke up with him after 3 1/2 years and brought up the fact that he never had cancer and made a huge deal about it, tried to backtrack everything.
c0mmander-in-queef · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the early stages of my relationship with my shitty abusive ex-boyfriend, he was always on this online forum, and I suspected he was posting pictures of me getting dressed after we had sex. I confronted him about it, and he said it was some online forum like Reddit and that “they know about me.”
I tried to steal a glance, but he was secretive about it. RED FLAG. On the top part of the screen I saw a capital letter “V,” and using only that information plus his name, I discovered he was in fact posting pictures of me to the IGN forum the Vestibule.
I made an account with my name and commented on my semi-nude thread and said, “Oh look, I’m famous.” (I know I could have said something much better, but I was so blind with rage.) Asshole showed up at my house in THREE MINUTES, begging for forgiveness. I told him to get out and never talk to me again.
Dated him for two years. Ugh.
Lion_of_the_lake · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got into Warhammer 40k in primary school (year 5 or 6) through a teacher who set up a club. He tried turning us into a team playing chaos space marines and took us out to Games Workshop's often. Shortly into the club starting, members (there was maybe a maximum of 7 of us) started buying their own armies. One guy seemed to be getting an insane amount of models very quickly having them painted and all. At this time models from our army started going missing.
One lunchtime I was eating with one of the members and he was about to go somewhere and I asked where. Said he was going to check on the models to see if they were all still there. Found this fishy so I went along with him. We start counting the models and I see him putting something in his pocket. I ask what he put in his pocket, he answers that it was a tissue. But he hadn't blown his nose at all prior. I was able to lightly touch his coat pocket and felt the plastic models.
Didn't call him out but when the teacher talked to us about stealing once we started losing a significant amount of models I spoke to him after the session and told him about it. Unfortunately instead of kicking him out of the club he shut it down instead. :(
Hiimthatguy1990 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That little shit was stealing 5 bucks a model. Fuck warhammer prices...just saying.
Lion_of_the_lake · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it's another reason Games Workshop is going down the drain and got rid of one of my favourite Warhammer youtubers by changing their policy on third parties selling their products
NegaVereZ · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friends and I were on a Discord server (for those of you who don’t know, it’s a group chat/call service). Once when I joined, I noticed there were 3 new additions to the group. We were all guys, but three girls were randomly added. My friends told me they met them while out in Toronto, so I played along, all while dropping hints that I was suspicious. I kept saying “isn’t it convenient that while this one girl is messaging, this other guy isn’t?” and stuff similar to that, or “if you met them in person, why is she only addressing you by your screen name?” They were using the girls to compliment the guys (themselves), so I kept pushing and eventually dropped every reason I had that proved they were fake, and they admitted they made them up. It was probably a joke to be fair, but still felt satisfying as hell to expose them in the end.
0w1 · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was the busy shift at a coffee shop kiosk in the mall, and this teenage girl walked up to the counter to ask for an employment application. This is how the exchange went:
Her: I saw on the mall's website that you're hiring. Can I have an application?
Me: It's all done online. There's a link on the job listing that takes you to the form.
Her: Oh, I can't just have an application?
Me: No, sorry, we don't have any because it's all done online.
Her: But I don't have internet!
How can I fill out an online application if I don't have the internet?!
Me: How did you find out about this position again?
Her: From the mall website!
Magikarp_King · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was working at AAA I covered an area that had a race track. We don't cover or tow vehicles that are used for racing or show and we especially don't tow vehicles that have been in accidents on a race track. This guy called in and said he was at an address that is about 1/4 of a mile from the race track and that he was in an accident and needed a tow. I pulled up his location on the map and asked him if he had been racing. He says no I got in an accident heading to the track. Little did he know that the website for the track posts the cars that we're going to be racing that day and have cameras that you can log into from the website to watch. I logged in and then asked him if he was driving a red mustang with his license plate number. He said yeah how did you know? I told him I just watched his crash online at the track. The phone immediately hung up and I didn't hear from him for the rest of the day.
caramelcooler · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My grandpa always keeps score when my family plays card games. He also always happens to win. He does that thing where instead of writing the round's scores, then adding them, he just adds them in his head and writes only the new total.
One time I sat next to him and watched his score tallies. I called him out (nicely) and said, "Wait. Shouldn't that be [correct score]?"
He changed it and somehow didn't win. He's lost many games since then.
I don't feel bad.
ivanttobealone · 2 points · Posted at 18:18:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
not a big one but my friend telling me she couldnt get me a piece of info i needed because she was "in the car" and i was like "...i called your landline, you're not in the car"
Av8tr1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she forwarded her home phone to her cell? I do that pretty much every day.
Bubbafet8u2 · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Long read but I think it’s worth it.
Two years back I started dating this girl, she was a year above me in high school and I thought she was out of this world. She was my first legit girlfriend and you know with your first love you would do anything or want to believe anything.
So I was at this party we threw for the departure of our exchange students, near the end of the party two of my friends tell me that she had cheated on me, I was broken, had a long teary, stumbly walk home. I called her about it and she denied it. I was still sceptical so I would bring it up when we would do something together but every time I would she would deny and leave. (This was a very toxic relationship.)
So a month passes by and I’m about to get on this sailing trip where I can’t use my phone for 10 days(still with the cheater). The night before I board the boat she starts acting all distant, then ends the night with we need a break. My dumbass takes this because it was still my first relationship as a break up. Her sister says she’ll fix it so I shouldn’t worry. Get onto the boat devastated that I lost my girlfriend, even my best friend who was with me thought we had broken up. As we board the boat instead of walking to the group of guys and introducing myself I take it upon myself to be whoever I want to be because I can, I talk to the girls first. Through out the trip I notice a girl (who was stunning) took a liking to me, in the end we made out. The last day we get signal back for a few hours and I turn my phone on, I see that my cheater girlfriend texted me a bunch of really sweet things about being sorry. I thought we broke up, I felt horrible about how I kissed the other girl and told her immediately. This became a painful night at our hostile. We talked for hours and all she did was made me feel like shit. I felt bad that I accused her of cheating yet really I did. (Full disclosure, I thought we had broken up but it was just a dumb decision made by a heartbroken boy)
Skip a few months and I get a message from this random girl I had not really ever talked to(she was far out of my league) I reply to her “Hey” and we begin chatting, (at this time I am still with the cheater but had fallen victim to her lies and believed she did not, completely dropped it) she asks what I was doing this certain day I say I was hanging with the cheater till this certain time. She types that she was sorry but that my cheater had slept with her boyfriend that day. I confront her about what happened when we went on a walk one day, I was quiet and she could tell there was something up. I tell her what I was told and she denies it, she starts crying and shows me her wrist and says she was cutting, there was this small scab but it could have been anything. I don’t fully believe her but I was weak and hated to see her cry. Later that night we’re at my place she’s asleep next to me and her phone goes off, normally I wouldn’t look but after all of these past accusations I looked, it was the girl who was out of my league’s boyfriend or ex. I sit there for a few minutes contemplating if I should look, I knew it was wrong but I wanted to put my mind at ease. I unlocked her phone and looked through their messages, what do you know they talk about never telling anyone that they had sex the night my friends told me she cheated. The kicker that hit me the hardest was that she said he raped her, like forced her to have sex. Her story was inclusive and bullshit, I know it’s bad to accuse someone they weren’t raped but she kept changing the story, the message that I knew she was lying about being raped was she said after what they did that she’d “always be down for more late night adventures”. Heart dropped when I read that but I knew she was a liar.
Present day I’m dating an amazing girl and that very girl is the sister of the guy who my cheater cheated with. My cheater texts me out of nowhere asking why I’m with the girl I’m with... Sometimes nice guys do come first!
TLDR: Two years ago my girlfriend cheated and lied countless times, she made me feel like shit for not really doing anything wrong, cheating story comes back up, figure out its the truth, and now I’m living my best life with the guys sister who she cheated on me with.
ValarSpoilaeris · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of the guys I shared a house with during my studies was a serial liar. He'd exaggerate about literally everything to the point where we even doubted his name. He'd claim all sorts of ridiculous things like being best friends with celebrities, winning the lottery, organising orgies etc... (think Jay from the Inbetweeners). We never really confronted him about it as we wanted to see how far he would go and to see whether he actually thought we believed his BS.
One day, he was telling us that he'd slept with a girl in our group of friends (this girl had been avoiding him since they met) and even went into detail about what happened. We told her the following day and she came to the house where she confronted him. She basically told him what was on all our minds. He broke into tears and apologised to us, which was pretty satisying to watch.
Nothing changed though as he was back to his usual tricks the following morning. We never spoke to him again after moving out.
bears_bee · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a "friend" in highschool that wasn't mean or anything but would lie about anything and everything. One day, after the Japanese tsunami, she kept trying to say that she signed up for a program that let's you foster Japanese kids and that morning, she had woken up to a baby on her doorstep. Finally decided to call her out and ask her a ton of questions: "why choose a highschool student? What the baby look like? Why wouldn't they ring the doorbell?" Of course, she had an answer for everything but after a bit, she was starting to look flustered. Decided to wait a week to ask again. She said the baby was taken back and that was the end of it.
I'm sure something was wrong with her. Had her over for a sleepover once and she would go on and on about these stories that had a ton of detail but we're obviously not true. She went as far as to say she was in a incestuous relationship with her (non-existent) brother and that her parents would make them train every night with knives and swords.
LadyOfLordsburg · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a brewery where the tasting room (bar and seating) is in the same building at the actual brewery. It’s separated by a wall, and on one side is a glass, swinging door, and there’s another connection on the other side of the building with sliding barn doors. Costumers aren’t allowed in the back brewery, unless they’re being given a tour or we have an event.
One day, I look in the back and see two people- a guy and a girl, just walking amongst the equipment, picking stuff up and touching everything. We’re a small brewery and only 2 years old, so I know the entire crew who works there, and these were just two entitled strangers. So I go back there and tell them they aren’t allowed back here, and who they are. They were sitting near the barn doors on the other side of the building where I couldn’t see, and wondered into the back. The guy immediately starts talking over me, saying stuff like “no, it’s okay. I work with you guys. I help you guys can beer and I’ve been here before. I’m actually helping you can on Tuesday.”
Again, we’re a small brewery. We have a 10 person staff, max, and self bottle our beer to cut costs. We don’t even can yet, but I don’t think this guy thought I’d know that. Knowing he’s lying, I play into it and say “oh! Right! You work with Jake on all that, right?” And he says “yeah! I usually work with Jake.”
“Jake” is made up. He’s not real. So I tell him, “no one works here by the name of Jake. And we don’t even can. So where are you getting this information?” His face goes red, and by this time we’ve walked back into the tasting room where a bunch of people watch. To top it all off, my boss/owner of the brewery walked by right after, so I called him over and explained “this guy apparently cans for us and is going to this Tuesday. Do we can?” My boss explained that we don’t and that’s super weird he would say we do.
Still red, the guy quietly ordered two beers, and left quickly after.
palmouse · 2 points · Posted at 18:27:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a motel so I’ve had quite a few liars try and fuck with me. Had one lady, who has been staying here for months, tell me “well we haven’t had ANY service, you’re the first one to come through” which I knew was bullshit. Anyway ten minutes later, she noticed I didn’t wipe down the tub (I don’t usually because we’re not supposed to touch their stuff and there’s usually a lot of personal belongings in the tub) and she said “why aren’t you doing the tub? They always do the tub.” To which I smiled and said “I thought you hadn’t received service?”
(No I didn’t but I wish I had. Too chicken shit. Oh well.)
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After closing one night, my manager ( who had the weird obsession with keeping the keyboard stands of the computer up) accused me of snapping my keyboards legs off! I mean SCREAMING at me! Super confused at this point, (because why tf would I do that) I walk over to my computer and lift up the keyboard, flipped the damn legs straight up. She looked at me, sputtered red, and walked away. She never said sorry or any damn thing
Kinkyhead4 · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend once who lied about having cervical cancer. She told me that it metastasized to her kidneys, but that she was going to be totally fine. She said she was doing intravenous chemo two times a week, but she had no marks on her arms from the IV, not hair loss, and no weight loss. Its just didn't add up. So I just straight up told her I didn't believe her. We arent friends anymore.
leon_russian · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Left 80$ on my table while my friend was in my room. When I left for the bathroom and came back it was gone. I confronted him about it but he denied to ever seeing any money and blamed me for being delusional. I kept my ground so he told me he’ll be generous and give me 80$ instead
joemcgrvy · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was dating this girl named Katey. One day out of the blue she sent me a picture of her boobs. I thought that's kinda hot. But, after looking at the messages feed I noticed it was sent to me and another number. I called her up and asked who who else she sent that photo to. She denied it. I rattled off the number and she broke down.
...Dated for another 6 months. Oh I was dumb at 16.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wife and I own a few rental properties, and I cut the grass on them.
One night, a problem developed in the wiring that sparked a fire in one of them. The tenants got out without injury, but the house was heavily damaged, and uninhabitable. We helped them move to another location, forgave any due rent, and let them out of their lease while we decided whether to rebuild or just tear it down. Reason for the decision was monetary, as we had installed several new items in the place, and wanted to weigh our options; salvage and scrap, or just fix it.
One day, I arrived with my mower on a trailer, got the mower off, and proceeded to getting the grass seen to. We have a little Mother-in-law house that's being rented on the same property, and I like to keep everything maintained as a result. While cutting, I saw a guy try to slip out of the burnt house and ease away from the area; he'd obviously been having a little look around inside.
I rolled up to him before he could get too far away in order to politely confront him, but he beat me to the punch by asking "Hey, you know anything about what they're gonna do with this place?".
"I'm not sure, why do you ask?", I responded, being deliberately vague.
"Oh, y'know... just wanted to know, it's a nice house..." he answered.
"What are you looking for?" I asked.
"Oh, the owners said I could help myself to whatever wasn't gonna be saved, and that I could have it" he replied.
So I hit him with "No, I didn't", and watched him process everything that such a simple three word sentence conveys. After several seconds of trying to reconcile it, he bailed on that plan of action, and immediately went about to extricating himself from the current situation and the area.
Before he could lay another lie on me, I told him to simply "Stay out of there", to which he muttered a non-verbal consent. More of a grunt, to be honest.
I boarded the place up shortly after that.
Insectshelf3 · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably when I went out to dinner with my family at a local wing place and saw my girlfriend out with another dude. I went and pulled up a chair and just sat there and asked her how she was doing. Dude put two and two together and walked out.
The wings I had were good, the next few weeks however weren’t.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and all my neighbors would play with pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Well this one kid kept stealing mine so my dad put some black marker over the top of my deck. So the next time mine got stolen my dad went over to kids house and told the parents. The mom said her son would never do that so he asked her to get the cards. Bada boom bada bung my cards with the black marker were on them. The next day all his cards had black marker on them because "my mom thought it was a good idea too". I stopped hanging out with that kid.
rocknrollnobody · 2 points · Posted at 18:38:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once stepped in at the last minute as a technical head on an interview panel, to cover for someone who was sick.
We interviewed a guy who said on his employment history he'd worked at a particular organisation. Which was odd, because I had worked there, and been running the dept he said he'd been working in, during the years he claimed he'd been working there.
I waited until he'd finished telling us all about his achievements and projects there, and then explained that I knew he was lying, that I actually was in that dept at the time.
The lead interviewer lady said he could either start telling the truth, or leave. The liar left.
meggerplz · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Used to get the Sunday paper delivered to me. This was in NYC and it would frequently get stolen. So I’d wake up super early, like 6AM so I could get the paper before the thief did. Turned out the shop owner next to my apartment had his worker steal my paper every week. Came downstairs and caught them both. On my birthday. Best fucking birthday ever.
idlikearefund · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex husband told me he didn't cheat on me. He fell on the bed, his pants fell down and her mouth fell on his dick.
I didn't need to catch anyone. He just thought I was dumber than him
arahzel · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My husband was drunk in the passenger seat while I drove him home. I asked him if he was wearing his seatbelt. He told me yes, then the little ding alarm went off for the seat belt not being attached.
Busted!
He was so sheepish. I laughed. He put on his seatbelt. We moved on.
EthanEpiale · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This wasn't perfectly in the moment, but it counts. My sister was kind of a shit to me as a kid. We generally got along pretty well, but occasionally she would realize that, despite being younger, she was absolutely bigger and stronger, and she felt the need to remind me.
Well, we were at the zoo once. We were all just walking along, I was minding my own business looking at the flamingos while our dad fiddled with his camera, and suddenly SMACK! She just slapped me on the back of the head as hard as she could. I kind of slapped back at her with the most pathetic whimpy slap ever while she suddenly hollered like she'd been shot, and by the time my dad turned around all he saw was my move of retaliation. I tried to tell him she hit me first, she of course denied it, and I got in trouble.
Well the next day my dad calls us both in laughing. He was looking over the video he took and caught her smacking me on camera by complete accident. He'd let his arm fall for a moment and perfectly caught her just out of the blue smacking me in the head.
She got in trouble, my dad managed to apologize to me through his laughter, and I've never felt more vindicated in my life.
Aidan_Malchor · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When someone was talking about their amazing career in the military. Except they knew nothing about the military. The way they talked about it and words they used were a dead give away that they had no idea what they were talking about.
This was someone who had stolen a bunch of stuff from me when we were kids, I took great joy in pointing out very publicly how full of shit they were.
ProcrastinatorPhD · 2 points · Posted at 19:08:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an extremely incompetent professor as a fresher in University. We had to write our practical files by hand for her class which was a lot of work. She sat down to approve them a day before they were due for an external examination. She pointed out some problems in my file without reading it and I knew she hadn't read it. So I took the file back, flipped some pages around, and brought it back entirely unchanged. Well she didn't just sign and approve it, she also told me the edits were really good. Ahahaha. Asshole.
Alterex · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old boss was always making things up.
He was always saying that he was trying to get me a promotion. I never asked for one, I never inquired about the promotion he had been hinting at. But he still decided to try and prove to me that he was trying to do this.
So he gets on the cordless office phone, fake dials and holds a fake conversation with his boss.
This phone does not have call waiting, if you try to call it while someone is using it you get a busy tone.
Anyway, I spun around in my chair as he was having his fake conversation and pulled out my cell phone. Rang up the office phone...no busy tone, the phone rang right in his ear.
He still tried to play it off as if he "switched" over to the new call.
Witchywelds · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My husband has been cheating on me for months and I could not prove it with concrete evidence....his friend had been house sitting while we were gone....I found a roll of condoms which we did not use in the drawer I went outside one day when they were in the garage and in front of both of them asked his friend if he ever spent the night and had girls over he said no so I whipped out the condoms and said so these must be yours babe and he turned white. So satisfying.
Nish5115 · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in a prison, and responded to a fight by the time I get there the officers in charged had already gotten most of the guys rounded up. Any way the guy they beat up said that this one guy had started and then let his cronies finish the job while he got away. So me and another officer went to this guy cell to look for any scratch's, marks, etc.. on this guy, and he's sweating and breathing real hard. And this guy weighs around 320 lbs so we ask him why he's so out of breath. He says he just got done doing his work out and I ask what his work out consisted of and he says some things that were kinda believable, and then he said he just finished 300 push-ups. We pull him out of his cell and then he starts saying why we targeting him he didn't steal anything out of the kitchen, he also happened to be a kitchen cook. So I go back to his cell and look for stolen food and find tons of bread, fruits and cookies and cake along with a lot of canteen items that after we looked up were not on his purchases. So he got in trouble for fighting, stealing food, stealing from other inmates, and lying to officers.
albot4000 · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Think this story fits - "How I potentially told a guy in great detail for 5 minutes what a prick he is and had him agree with me politely."
The locking pole protecting our rental flat’s allocated parking space has been knackered as all hell for many years. It’s life-cycle follows an arse-achingly predictable pattern. The budget-quality concrete holding it in, succumbing to repeated beatings from harsh Scottish weather, begins to crack. The pole then drunkenly lists for a few weeks, before ultimately yielding. At this point we chase our landlord for weeks until he grudgingly gets some shady chancer to fill it back in with even shittier concrete in some truly awesome displays of slapdashery. Increasingly however this circle of life is being prematurely interrupted. Like sharks drawn to blood in the water, sensing the weakness, some utter pricks spot the cracks beginning to form and merely rip the pole from the ground, toss it aside and use our space (most without even bothering to crudely prop the now-fucked pole back up when they leave to protect said space until we get home). All this for the sake of saving themselves a couple of quid in parking fees or a few minutes walk.
This has happened a few times, but lamentably I had not caught any of these utter specimens in the act. Until one fine day.
I come home from work and see a massive German-manufactured luxury car in our space, with the pole, once again removed from the ground, lying by it’s side. The first thing I do is take pictures to document the registration number and so that I can report the vehicle’s owner to the police for damaging private property. But I am still incensed. This is bullshit. I decide to wait for the owner of the vehicle to come back, as I very much want to let them know how much bullshit this is and ask them why they feel they deserve to enact such bullshittery. I however realise, entering into “spirited discussion” with a stranger in such a manner in Glasgow could get me a bit punched, or stabbed, or at the very least potentially become a needless jamboree of acrimony. I reason that as the prick in question could react negatively, it would not be worth the hassle of engaging them fully. I resolve to just tell them from a distance I am reporting them to the police for criminal damage and walk away like a safe but incensed coward.
When I eventually see the tall, young gentleman in designer clothes swanning towards his luxury vehicle and remotely unlocking it, sudden rage impels me towards him and introduce myself with a polite “excuse me, sorry, but that’s my space”. At this point the young man instinctively mumbles an apology, before immediately glancing at the freshly-plucked pole, back to me, back to the pole and then, with a visible wave of realisation as to why I may be quite pissed off rippling across his face, he lets out an emphatic but entirely unconvincing “Oh… OH! I did NOT do that!....” (now pointing at the pole). He seems very concerned and moves towards me to continue our conversation. I next say to him innocently “Oh, sorry, was it already out of the ground when you got here?” and he leaps on this with a “yeah, yeah! I promise it wasn’t me!...”. He is really nervous-looking now. I probe a little further:
ME: “Do you mind me asking when you got here then? Just this keeps happening and we would love to pin down who is doing it and when it happens so we can report them” POSSIBLE PARKING PRICK (PPP): “Um, it would have been around 8AM…” ME: “(Incredulously, but realising I now have him) Really? Because that is pretty much 15 minutes before my partner leaves for work…” PPP: (Interrupting and seeming increasingly nervous) “Oh, ah, um, I mean, about 10AM, , maybe 10:30? er…” ME: (Not buying it but playing along cheerfully) “OH! OK, I see, oh well thank you, it is really helpful to know it must be happening EXACTLY between 8 and 8:20am, you see, we really want to catch any pricks who are doing this...”
Wonderfully, at this moment, a strategy occurs to me. If this man is still seriously claiming he did not damage our pole, there are two possibilities: (1) He really didn’t rip the pole out of the ground, is just a bit flustered, though did take advantage of a clearly vandalised space. (2) He did rip our pole out of the ground and is covering his prick ass. I realise I have an opportunity.
I decide to play this like I believe him, and, in order to ostensibly comfort a man who now seems very nervous and worried that he has committed a grave transgression, I spend the next 5 minutes “reassuring him”. I tell him that I am “totally not annoyed” at HIM, someone making an “honest mistake” of using our space when “some completely selfish and entitled entitled prick” had “already done the real criminal damage”. I continue to “reassure” him, by thanking him for his “taking the time” to speak to me in order to help me “pin down the total arseholes that keep doing this sort of thing”. Unsurprisingly, despite my great efforts and geniality, the man does not seem very reassured, appearing, of anything, increasingly nervous. Nonetheless, he is nodding and making agreeable “yeah, totally man” and “that sounds rubbish”-type statements. I finish up with some knife-twisting detail about how it causes us “weeks of hassle”, in terms of the dealing with our letting agent (who I paint as the devil, which is only a slight exaggeration), and jokingly ask him “I mean, how selfish does someone have to be to do such a thing?! To put us through all that, so thoughtlessly?” and “seriously, what sort of excuse for a human would damage someone else’s property for the sake of their own temporary convenience?!”. Looking thoroughly deflated, the man apologises about 20 more times, reassuring me he will never park in our space again, before I look him in the eyes and with a big smile say “thanks for understanding man”.
At worst, I exploited the standard-issue social awkwardness and politeness of someone who did nothing more than chance his arm parking in an unguarded space, but in such a way that I made it extensively clear to him that I was not remotely upset by his actions as long as he agreed not to park in our space again. At best though, I got to tell a guy, in great detail, making constant eye contact, what a total fuckbandit he was with a shit eating grin on my face. I got to explain all the intricacies of exactly how prickish his actions were, and got to watch him stand there, listen to it, and agree with me.
Zoolix · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oooh I seldom get to tell this. I was a sophomore in High School in a video production class. Teacher had a policy where you had to hand in your ID to check out equipment for the period. One day I pull out my ID set my wallet down and step like 4 paces away into essentially a camera pantry to get my gear and and leave my ID. Step out and realize my wallet is missing, I know it is stolen. Proceed to suspect A. Let's call him Trevor. Trevor and I have a history of fucking with each other the way sophomores in High School do, I was hoping that fun little exchange didnt escalate into wallet theft but I wasn't taking chances. There was money in that shit. I go to Trevor's editing bay, give him a shove and demand my wallet. He proves his innocence by suggesting I ask the teacher to check the security cams. I apologize for shoving him and he says he would have come to me first too and done the same. He offers to help. My friendly rival is now my deputy! Teacher lets us use the cams. All I had to was find where I set my wallet down then we would have our guy. I find where I set it down and get borderline giddy. I run to Trevor's bay and hype him up to speed as we go back the security monitors. There are many students by my wallet, none that saw me set it down, and none that would have questioned someone picking up a lonely wallet.
Zoolix: "This is where the fun begins. Who's your guess?"
Trevor: "Adam"
Zoolix: "My money's on Corey"
Trevor: "Oh yeah Corey 100 percent"
I press play. Corey is walking towards my wallet. Our hype level is on the charts compared to what's about to happen. Corey walks past the wallet.
Trevor: "Damn"
Zoolix: "Fuck"
Corey doubletakes and scoops up the wallet. Our hype level goes from on the charts to Falcon Heavy instantly. High fives happen, we show the teacher, tell him our plan to confront Corey, he okays it. We establish that I dont want him punished as long as he pays me back. (could have had him suspended). I confront Corey alone at his bay.
Zoolix: "Hey corey can you check out something I've been working on? I need a song rec."
Not knowing I know.
Corey: "Sure"
We walk past my editing bay and continue towards the security monitors.
Corey: "Isnt that one yours?"
Zoolix: "Yep."
We reach the monitors and hes sweating bullets. I press play.
Zoolix: "So there's me setting down my wallet...and stepping away"
Corey: ...
Zoolix: "There'd you walking towards it"
Corey: silently sweating Huricane Katrinas
Zoolix: "Aaaaaaaaand there's you taking it and fleeing to your bay"
Corey: Persperiation is starting to pose a risk to the camera equipment
Zoolix:"..."
Corey:"..."
Zoolix:"...So yeah what song?"
He returns my wallet the next day with a little extra in it. I treat my deputy to doughnuts during lunch with the reward. Never fuck with a man's Regal card.
Edit: formatting
Incognite_ · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some days ago I asked my mother about how she found out about my father cheating. She told me that the day he sent her roses, she knew (he is the cheapest bastard you can think about). After that day, he asked him directly, and he denied it. Then, she went to my grandparent's city to find her. When she came back, she told me "Incognite, I think your dad is cheating on me" and I answered something along the lines of "so I wasn't paranoid! When you were on that city he took me to eat with a co-worker and I had the feeling that they were hooking up"... and that's how she found that he had one mistress in each city. One day, he left his computer unlocked. She confronted him again and told him to please be honest. He denied it again and said to her that she was an awful human being, a piece of shit and so on. One month later, their anniversary came. He gave her a cheap coat a present. She gave him a printed copy of all of his whatsapps and emails with those ladies, (with sexual stuff, them thanking him for the pearls, photos of them traveling together (he told us he was on a congress) and one of them telling him that the reformation of the bathroom that he paid looked wonderful) and the divorce papers
krose4 · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so buried but I have a great one. I went into the bathroom and noticed my razor had hair in it. Not very long, but longer than my beard. None of my roommates had much facial hair either. You can guess my next logical conclusion. One of them also had a girlfriend who lived out of town coming to visit that weekend. I went up and asked him. His reply was stone faced, “No, I swear to god.” After I pressed him more he said, “I swear, I’ll show you my pubes right now.” And I said, “Okay, show me them.” And his face went a little blank. He reassured me that he would show them to me and I told him to proceed. He literally grabbed the front of his pants and started to pull them down before stopping and admitting it was him. It was semi-humiliating for him after I told everyone in the house and made him buy me razors.
tl;dr: Roommate used my razor to shave his pubes, went super far to clear his name by offering to show me them. As he was in the process admitted it and bought me new razors.
Whereabouts-Unknown · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who has to always one-up you.
If I'm talking about the nasty pit I was in at some punk show, she'll talk about how she was stabbed with a broken beer bottle at a punk show. If I'm talking about a famous person I met (I work in the entertainment business so I regular meet famous people or D-List people who think they're famous) she'll jump in and talk about how she met famous people and spent the day hanging out with them and they about the silly adventures she had with them.
Anyways, we were at this hookah joint we go to about once a week with another friend.
We're talking about funny but fucked up situations we got into while in high school. I'm telling my story about how I once got mugged under a freeway while I was trying to waddle home as fast as I could because I had diarrhea and I wasn't sure how much longer I could keep my asshole clenched. How after getting my wallet, Blackberry (i was in tenth grade and this was 2009) and SanDisk Clip stolen, I had to waddle three more miles to get home but by mile two, I knew I was gonna shit my jeans so I ended up going into the only empty place I could find (a mega-church parking lot) and shitting by a tree and wiping with a sock.
Anyways, she of course had to one up me and starts telling us about how she once got jumped while walking through a park to get home after school. She was taking a short cut when some "cholas" saw her and decided to mug her. She got jumped by 5 other girls and then stabbed after beating two of them up.
She laid there bleeding out for half an hour until someone found her and called the cops. She told a story of being surrounded by police, EMTs and news reporters. With at least 4 helicopters in the air.
How she needed a liver transplant, several blood transfusions, had cracked ribs and was hospitalized for over a month. She was bragging about how it had been all over the news.
Now, all three of us went to the same high school and had been best friends for many years and we never noticed her missing for a month.
We called her out on it, accused her of lying, googled the park to find there story. She admitted to lying, promptly stood up and drove away which sucked because she had driven all of us there and we were one hour away from home.
She still lies but not to the same level as she used too.
FesteredRage · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was cashiering at my store relatively late at night just doing my thing, ringing people up one by one, when this guy came in with a cart full of stuff I assumed he had brought here to return. Customer after customer later, he brought up a few things he wanted to purchase.
I rang them up as normal, and then I began ringing up the stuff he wanted to return. I suddenly got this feeling that we weren’t allowed to do item returns on some of the items he had in his cart, so I called up my manager to the front, but before I could do that, the guy insisted that it was perfectly ok for me to do item returns on these items, but I disregarded his advice because I knew that I had to make sure.
So I called up my manager, and a supervisor came up to the register alongside her. I asked her if it was okay for me to do returns on the items he had on his cart, and she said no and that she needed to see the receipt first. So after a little reluctance, the guy gave her the receipt.
Unfortunately for him, our supervisor recognized the guy as a previous shoplifter who had stolen a bottle of olive oil, which conveniently happened to be in his cart, so she called him out on that. On top of that, his receipt was from a store at a different location, which didn’t really help him out much.
Eventually he left in the most butthurt state imaginable after we threatened to call the cops on him. Honestly, I didn’t even really know for sure if he was up to no good until my supervisor called him out on his bullshit, but it was still kinda satisfying to see that dumbass crash and burn along with his scummy plan to make a quick buck.
umdaddi · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In college I lived in a fraternity house with 42 other dudes. It was two dudes to a room and I had one roommate, let’s call him “Chad”. I was working out at the time and had stashed some protein bars in my sock drawer for when I was on the go. The only person who knew these protein bars existed was, of course, Chad. He was there in the room when I brought them back from the store.
So, one day after a workout I went to grab a protein bar and sure enough, just socks. Not a single bar left behind. Sure, it was a minor inconvenience at worst, but I thought it was kinda lame that Chad would do this without asking.
When I confronted him about it later that day, he denied it. Saying he was offended I would accuse him of theft, and that I was a shitty roommate for even thinking of that. I thought his reaction was overly theatrical and seemed like a classic lie.
So I let it go for a day or so, but then it began to bug me. “Why would this fucker lie about the protein bar?” I thought to myself. “I couldn’t care less if he ate them. They are $2 a pop, but out of principle if you eat another mans post workout snack, own it!” So, naturally I began to think about how I could catch him in this bizarre lie.
I decided to go to the store, and purchase another protein bar. Only this time, rather than stash it with my socks, I ate it immediately and saved the wrapper until I got back to the fraternity house. I waited until that evening and confronted old Chad-O while he was smoking pot with some other guys. I held up the wrapper and said, “hey man, you left this in your trash”
Chad’s high was decimated. He went into hyper apology mode saying how he’d pay me back and all this and that. Best part was, since the rest of the dudes in the room had no idea what was going on, I told them the whole story about how Chad was a scumbag/lying sack of shit and a dumbass for falling for my evidence planting scheme while he was there listening the whole time.
Chad ended up being a pretty crumby person - he slept with his best friend’s girlfriend, stole a bong from another friend, and ruined most of the relationships he had formed during college.
TLDR: roommate stole protein bar and lied about it. I planted fake evidence in his trash and used this to get him to own up. Then proceeded to rub his face in the lie publicly.
sharrrp · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Knew this guy back when I was probaly 12-14 or so. He was always making up bullshit to sound cool.
Some highlights:
Claimed he was once in a car that tried to beat a train and it was so close the train tore the rear bumper off.
Claimed he had a Jeet Kune Do manual written by Bruce Lee. Not AUTHORED by Bruce Lee, WRITTEN by Bruce Lee. As in, in his hand writing.
Claimed he owned the leather jacket Brandon Lee wore during the filming of The Crow (his favorite movie).
That last one is relevant to the time I busted him. He also claimed that he had family who worked in the movie industry and when he was visiting them in L.A. he got to visit the set of The Crow. He was there when Brandon Lee was shot and heard him scream from the next room. At the time I just rolled my eyes and went on. Later however, I had occasion to look up Brandon Lee and discovered that he died in North Carolina, because that's where The Crow was filmed, not Los Angeles.
The next time he brought the story up around other people it was very satisfying to drop that bomb.
di0tima · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work for a small retail company. My boss, who is also the owner of the company sometimes tries to discredit me and my team's ideas and implementations within our stores by telling us that the managers of our stores dislike/don't agree/think our ideas are stupid.
Sometimes he goes as far as telling us that the managers think that 'x' is a far better idea than what we've come up with, but it's his idea and a complete lie that they have said that.
When he does this now, I simply call him out now. I say, they didn't say that, you said that. Stops him dead his tracks and I see a tinge of embarrassment.
TheBlazed · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
girl i dated 2 months........ started talking about sex she says..."im healthy, and always used condoms"
me: well lets go to the doctor and get a checkup
(HIV reaction thing shows positive for HIV)..... it was her swab....
Doctors face: (O_O)
Her Face: (O_O)
MY facee: :D
I quietly exit to the bathroom... at my house
Clayman8 · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Didnt get to see the face of the
waste of human meat-fleshperson sadly, but story goes:About 15 years ago, my mother got herself yet another boyfriend, everything was ok for a few years until we slowly noticed he was delusional and probably schizophrenic with a violent streak. This ended up with me coming back from school and finding one particular item from my collection missing off my wall.
That item was a 9.5 inch hunting knife.
The sheath was still there, but the blade itself was gone. I confronted him about it, he denied of course and later called my mother in secret trying to put the blame on me that i hid it and was trying to frame because "i hated him" (i did, fuck that piece of shit. I still have a bullet with his name on it if he ever appears again). Cue a small verbal fight, after which he shoved me to the ground and gave me a few bruises and stormed off to the balcony for a smoke. I nope'd out of there, called and met my mother at a hotel she worked with (they gave us a free room in the maid's quarters for a few days, so that was cool) and we stayed holed out of our own home for 2 nights. She called the cops the same night, who came in and actually had to bust the door down as he had literally barricaded himself inside.
As far as i know, they had to fight him to the ground and took ghim in for the next few days before sending him back to his home turf in Belgium. The blade itself magically reappeared in the sheath the same night after i left...
Weird huh?
The satisfaction came from knowing he got his useless ass handed to him by real men, and was denied all his bullshit claims as well as getting sent back to which ever hell hole spawned him.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I catfished my ex husband. After finding out about an affair i filed for separation. He begged and pleaded for a second chance. I agreed. But being the apprehensive non trusting person that i am i wanted to see how serious he was. I knew he always had a thing for this woman he used to work with so i found some of her pics online (she didn’t have a Facebook account) so i setup a fake Facebook and texting app. I kept the ruse going for almost 3 months all while “working on my marriage”. One morning i sat him down and told him i wanted to go through with the divorce. Not 5 minutes later he starts texting my fake persona. She broke up with him that day too. It was the most satisfying thing ever!
Inspector__Gidget · 2 points · Posted at 19:48:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One day my husband called and asked when I'd be home from work. I told him 5. I left work at 4. I walked into my house at 4:30 and there's my husband, naked, running through the house. He told me he was having a moment with himself and I'd walked in on it. He told me to take a shower and he'd make me some tea. I walked straight to our guest room and there was another woman in nothing but her panties. She ran out of my house like that.
From then on years of lies came undone. He was a pathological liar and had been picking up random strangers for the 8 years we were together. Devastating. I was never the same after that.
daintily_cured · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was he unemployed?
Inspector__Gidget · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nope! We worked at the same job for 7 years. That's how we met!
daintily_cured · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why was he at home while you were at work? I just hate scenarios when women walk in on their SO's cheating while they were at work.
Inspector__Gidget · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He worked 6-3 and i worked 8-5
daintily_cured · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Damn. He had a slim time window to do his dirt. I'm upset you stayed as long as you did after this.
Glad you got to see it with your own eyes.
Inspector__Gidget · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He worked a second job at night and i was a full time college student at night. Found out he was taking women out to bars after his bar closed at midnight. Then he'd come home at 2am saying they stayed open late.
Honestly that's probably the only way i would have believed it. He always seemed like he had really good morals but he was just a liar. I would never have believed he was cheating if i hadn't seen it.
fap_nap_fap · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I texted my sister to ask her to hang out right then. She told me she was still in a city 1.5 hours away for a bachelorette party. Pulled up next to her at a red light in our city not 2 minutes later.
CAUGHT YO DUMBASS! It’s chill if you want to be alone and not hang out, just tell me that rather than lie to me. That or she can teleport, in which case you need to tell me that shit too cuz that’s pretty dope
lionfilm82 · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a senior in high school, three friends and I planned and executed a really great prank. We snuck onto school grounds the night after graduation and went to work. We did a few little things, like run the Jolly Roger up the flag pole, messing with signage, that kind of thing. Non-invasive, relatively minor stuff. But for the BIG prank, we climbed up onto the roof of the school and detached a bunch of newly-installed, two-foot high marquee letters than spelled out the name of our high school over the front entrance. The school had recently invested a lot of money in renovation, and had shelled out a pretty penny for these letters. We re-arranged most of them to spell a vulgar, yet relatively inoffensive phrase. The extraneous letters we hid at various points around the rooftop, lowering them into hard to access portals and shafts with rope that we had brought in our kit bag of pranking goodies.
Anyway, it was a completely successful operation, and caused quite the stink when the rest of the school returned the next day (again, my senior class graduated about a week before the rest of school let out). We pranksters were all stoked and proud that we had accomplished it without getting caught, and without doing any kind of lasting damage or vandalism. Find the letters, grab a wrench, problem solved, right? The school had a hissy fit when they couldn't find their expensive letters and wanted to press charges, but even though they had footage of us entering and leaving, we had successfully shielded our faces to prevent identification. Eventually they found the letters and no charges were filed (not that they could have been anyway, since they couldn't ID us).
Anyway, here's where the busted lie comes in: A week or so later one of my friends who was involved with the prank was having a graduation party. Present at the party was another young man who I will refer to only as "Z". Z already had a reputation as a serial, and perhaps pathological liar. We had all witnessed it on many occasions. His lies appeared mostly harmless though, so he was rarely called on them. Anyway, one of my other co-conspirators and I are listening to Z talk, and at a certain point he starts telling the story of how he and someone else pulled off this great prank. Our ears perk up. Z proceeds to fabricate an entire story about how he planned and executed this prank with all the gusto of Danny Ocean or the Pink Panther. My co-collaborators and I are just listening, astounded, offended, but we say nothing.
So we all huddle in a corner and decide we're going to out this lying asshole. We go up to him, and start to ask him very specific questions about how he pulled off the prank. He starts fumbling and can't answer with any sort of credibility. A large crowd of people are watching this unfold, just as we'd hoped and encouraged. Finally, we drop the bomb. "No. You're lying Z. You had nothing to do with it. You know how we know? Because it was us. We did it." We outed ourselves in order to out him.
The look on the kid's face was priceless. He went pale and his chin scrunched up and he started to cry a little bit. He knew he was busted, and it stung him hard. To us, it was supreme vindication, and also served as a public place in which to confess to our own prankster-ism. So we felt like we had our cake and ate it too. In retrospect, it almost feels a little cruel how we baited him into it, but at the time, it was a supremely satisfying comeuppance for those of us who were sick of him lying all the time and no one calling him on it.
JustDaveyBoyy · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at Home Depot and spent my first year in the paint department. Now I do a lot more, including helping customers with returns. However, we do not return mixed paint for obvious reasons.
A guy came in with a can of paint and set it in front of me. He said he needed to return it. I told him our policy and pointed out that the paint had clearly been used because the sides of the can were covered in dry paint. He insisted the can was 90% full and he needed to return it because it didn't match the other can of the same color he and his wife had bought the week prior.
Another important thing to note is that when we mix paint, we put a sticker on top of the can that has the color, formula, and date. Our stickers for the last five years have be circular as well. The sticker on this guys can was rectangular so I asked if I could look at the label. This paint that he'd purchased 'two weeks ago' was mixed over a decade ago in 2008.
I literally point all this information out to the guy including the part of the sticker that says in bold letters that it is not returnable. He continues with his lie for a while, even asking me if I could check if the person who mixed it accidently put a 2008 sticker on the can. This is forehead-slapping stupidity at this point and he just won't back down.
Until suddenly, he flips his script 180 degrees and acts like it was all a mistake. "Oh this isn't the right can! This is from 2008. My wife must have given me the wrong one. I'll go get the other can."
"Alright," I said, "but even still we won't be able to return the other can either."
"No worries," he says as he's walking away. "I didn't want to return it anyway."
Then he left and almost certainly started talking crap about how terrible of a store we are. But it was nice being able to catch someone in such an obvious lie.
drawkward- · 2 points · Posted at 19:58:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was living overseas and I was trying to make friends so I went out with an acquaintance to play pool. While he was lining up a shot I went to the bathroom. The bathroom door was next to the urinal so I peaked my head out to watch him shoot. He missed. I watched him move the cue ball and try again,this time making the shot. He then proceeded to sink his second shot before I came out. When I returned he told me that he had made an amazing shot and put two balls in the pocket- If only I had of seen it.
I didn’t hang out with him again
AllNightPony · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was bartending a few years back. One day I had this older couple in for dinner. The lady ordered a bone dry martini. So I chilled the booze (can't remember if it was vodka or gin) with no vermouth, and served it to her. After she finished it I asked if she'd like another, she says "yes, but with a little less vermouth". I said "Really? I didn't even put any vermouth in that one." Crap like this happens all the time when you bartend, people act like they're experts.
SirSmokeEnough · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at a bar in San Francisco talking with a group of about 3 guys and 5 girls. The guys were impressing the hell out of these girls. The guys worked for the Golden state warriors in marketing or something. The problem was I and the two guys I was with actually work for the Warriors. One guy for 20 years. There’s not that many people that work for them. I asked who there boss was. One guy said some name that clearly did not work there. Every was was “ WOW so cool what’s that like working there?” I said the only problem was that we actually work there. Laughter ensued, they left, my buff married one of those girls
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every day I worked for CBP.
You get to be a great lie reader. And every day someone lies to you. Sometimes you’re too tired or busy to catch it. But when you do and someone gets sent to jail or deported for it, it’s very satisfying.
Throwitaway32640 · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Broke up with my girlfriend but due to circumstances had to keep living with her for the rest of the month. Things weren't terrible, but were forsure awkward. Toward the end of the month I found out she lied about the reason things weren't working (she was actually already talking to someone else), and had been lying to her friends about how I had been treating her. Saying I was being an asshole to her and taking everything.
First off, everything was mine. So I was taking my stuff. And I was also leaving her the bedroom set, bed, kitchen stuff and food.
So I decided to actually be petty and live up to her description, moved out that day while she was at work and took every last thing of mine. Left her with an end table, mattress pad and a plastic Walmart container.
The_improviser · 2 points · Posted at 20:13:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a roommate who acted broke for almost 5 semesters in college, he told me different sad stories of how things were really bad with him and his family. Somehow i was committed to take care of his feeding and often times we go out to eat together.
One day i was also out of cash as all the monies my parents gave to me blows out quickly than expected and it made them think i was living a lavish lifestyle. That period they were trying to teach me a lesson by delaying to send money.
I went into one of those hunger-related deep sleep when i woke up my temperature was dropping and shaking, I decided to pickup the closest jacket in the wardrobe, it belongs to my roommate John. when I wore the jacket and put my hands in the pockets, I found huge stash of cash.. an amount that can feed us through out 70 the semesters. I quickly removed the jacket and put it back.
That same day, I ran into John my always crying broke roommate as i was leaving the dorm, he started with one of those stories of how he hasn’t eaten since the previous day and doesn’t have a dime on him, i told him same here, I’m broke, he didn’t believe me.
Funny thing was as John complained, I can smell the rich odor of soup and fish combo. John has eaten but came back to lie. So he went to sleep for about 4hrs when he woke he started composing again, “no money” I’m suffering with sickness and no food.! I! He still swore he hadn’t eaten so I asked him to join me as i go buy dinner for both of us, little did John know I’ve taken money from the jacket I found earlier to pay for our meal. He came the next day with another hunger lullaby and every other day but i keep taking money from there to pay for our food.
I spent almost all that money on us and John till today didn’t have guts to ask about the money directly. he only told me he’s looking for something the day he brought out that jacket, he couldn’t say money was missing! That’s how John played himself.
Salki1012 · 2 points · Posted at 20:13:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in Mississippi when I was around 9 or 10, back when the first gen of Pokémon were a huge deal. One day I came home and found that someone had come into our house and stolen half my cards. I had no idea why or who would do this. A few weeks later my “friend” and I were playing at his house when I noticed that he had a stash of cards that turned out to be mine. He had broken into my house at 9 years old to steal my Pokémon cards. I made a new friend.
YT__ · 2 points · Posted at 20:14:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was 20, I worked at a concert venue as a food stand manager. I managed anywhere from 3-8 stands a show, depending on what was open and all. My actual title, because all managers in the open area wore the same shirts, was an Alcohol Compliance Surervisor. Walkie talkies, bright red shirts, cool rain coats if I ever needed it, had a great time. So if I encountered anyone violating the alcohol rules we had, mostly just two drinks per person and you have to be wearing a wristband to carry, it was my job to step in and figure pout the issue. Sometimes it was as simple as their friend paid and so they didn't get the stand issued wristband, so I'd put one on them and send them on their way. Sometimes I was that guy that threw away the underage kids' alcohol. Plenty of stories with this job.
Another task I got to do, was that if my stands had an issue with an ID, they'd call me over to examine it. We had studied the books of IDs they provide and knew the tell tale signs of fakes. I could also call over the head of alcohol compliance if I needed. One of my favorites though, was this one girl. She just didn't look like the girl in the picture really, and so they weren't sure and asked me to look. ID looked real, so I asked her some questions. What's your name? Such and such. Correct. What's your address? I just moved and I don't remember it. Fine, I won't hold it against you. Then I caught the kicker. I asked her when she got the ID. She said idk it was a few weeks ago. The ID had been issued that day. I sent her off without a drink because she failed to lie well enough.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:17:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not exactly me, but... Nigel Farage being called out on his lies on live national TV.
chinky_cutie · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Texted a coworker if he could cover my 5-2am shift because I had an exam at 11 am the next day and wanted to get some last minute studying in. He says he can’t because he has an exam at 8 am the next day. Well I’m in my 11 am exam, look up, and see that he just turned in his exam. I mean it’s just a little lie, but it annoyed the hell out of me!
CohenIsFucked · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was sitting in a VFW bar in Korea drinking with a friend, we'll call him Larry.
Larry was a 23 year Army veteran freshly retired from the Army working a contractor job in Korea. He was also a complete and total drunk, far worse then any alcoholic I have ever met.
Larry liked to lie...a lot. Larry's lies were normally subtle enough to not get called out on...but today he's going step on a land mine.
Larry decided he was going share a war story about his time in Kosovo, I thought that unusual because I'm very familiar with the Kosovo conflict and to be frank...it didn't involve a lot of combat for US Forces.
So Larry starts off on his tale, him and his platoon where in Kosovo and the fighting was so bad they had to take their doors off their humvees so they could shot their machine guns out of the doors.
A few issues with this
I ask larry "So how many men did you lose in Kosovo?" He said "What do you mean?" I said "How many men died under your command in Kosovo, how many men did you lose?" (I was trying to be really clear)
Larry looked at me and said "I lost 7 men, it was hard" I clarified "So 7 men of yours, died in Kosovo right?"
The whole bar is quite cause a lot of other guys know exactly where I'm heading towards, I suspect Larry knew too.
"Yes 7 men died in Kosovo under my leadership"
I took a big drink of my beer, looked at him and said "Larry your fucking lying" he said "how dare you call me a liar" to which I said "Larry the official death toll for US forces was 2...those 2 soldiers died when their Apache engine seized and they fell out of the sky. You might be able to argue 3 because the day after the conflict one soldier died when he was hit as he was directing traffic"
The bar fact checked me, I was right, Larry was thrown out of the bar.
TL:DR Drunk Army Retiree was talking about his war stories, they were bullshit he claims a higher casualty count then the entire conflict created
Atlas_Black · 2 points · Posted at 20:21:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m one of the most senior people in my department at the restaurant I work at. It’s a fast paced environment, and recently corporate has put out a new labor policy that required tons of cuts to hours and manpower.
My department used to be manned by 3-4 people, and now they have it down to 2 maximum, maybe 3 if it is reeeeally busy.
I’m also the one that trains all the new people coming in, and after the labor policy change, I didn’t have time to keep up with training new people and answer all their questions while still answering phones, taking catering orders, packing food, doing cash transactions, stocking containers, baking bread, folding napkins, and preparing go bags for deliveries.
One of the things eating up most of my time was answering basic questions for the newbies. So I took it upon myself to make guides when I got home one night. I hopped on m computer and typed up:
“Side Guide” Which basically explained what sides come with what dishes, what dressing comes with what salad, as well as what size container they need to be in, and what items get wrapped to avoid spills, and which don’t get wrapped to avoid becoming soggy.
“List of Duties” This basically explained what your basic duties were, depending on what role you were playing in the department that night, and how those duties were divided depending on the size of the crew. It detailed everything from where to find certain supplies, to how things should be cleaned at the end of the night, and by who.
“Stocking Guide” This was basically just a picture of the shelves in our department when fully stocked, showing what they should look like before we leave for the night. It gave exact amounts for cups of butter, Parmesan cheese, and salad dressings.
After typing these up and putting them on a flash drive, I showed them to my manager the next day and asked if I could print them out and post them around, so new hires would have answers to basic questions all around them, so they wouldn’t have to wait for the person training them to not be busy in order to answer.
The manager loved it. So I posted them up, and they remain in my department to this day.
Well, one day corporate came to do a walkthrough, and a manager I don’t particularly like was giving them the tour. When they came through my department and saw the guides, I quietly watched as they read the guides and said “That’s a good idea. We need that in every store. Can you get more of these for us?”
My manager: “Yeah. That was just something I did to help new hires. It gets busy so this helps them find answers to frequent questions.” He said, taking credit for all my work.
I stepped forward but didn’t say anything immediately. He didn’t notice me since his back was to me.
Corporate person: “When can you get them to us?”
Manager: “They’re saved on my computer at home. I can email them to you tonight.”
That’s when I stepped in and said, “Or... I have the flash drive in my backpack, I can email them to you right now since I’m the one who made these. Ask [other managers name]. I have signed approval from them to post these guides... Also in my backpack.”
The people from corporate stated daggers at my manager and then looked to me and handed me a business card with their email. “Please do.” And then they looked at the manager again and just went “tsk tsk” and continued on with the tour.
My manager didn’t talk to me for weeks after that, and corporate thanked me after I emailed them, and sent pictures of the guides posted at our other restaurants over the next few months. I received an award from corporate (but would have preferred a raise), and the corporate head of our department (Carryout and Catering) came down and presented it, and asked for my input on training material.
The manager who tried to steal credit moved to Delaware about 5 months later and is no longer with the brand.
I will receive a bonus when the new training material goes live, but I will be leaving the brand as well to move to Texas, so they aren’t giving me anything beyond the bonus. There are a couple locations in Dallas, Texas, as well as our corporate office, so I may stay with the brand if I can find a house near Dallas, but I’m mainly looking for a house with land, and nothing in the Dallas area has really caught my eye, and I don’t want to be in the restaurant business forever. My dreams reside elsewhere.
Nevertheless, by catching my manager in a lie for trying to steal credit for my work in front of corporate, I became a key part of rewriting training material and having my guides launched nationwide at all 50 locations. I will receive a bonus, and that bonus will help me start a new life with my beautiful soon-to-be wife. (She doesn’t know about the bonus yet. That’s what’s going to buy her wedding ring.)
AGulliblesloth · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I found out my girlfriend was cheating on me. Oh wait, that wasn't satisfying...
LadyDAwesome · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This time when I was waiting outside a washroom stall for the user to finish. The girl comes out without flushing and starts walking away! I ask her to flush and she says the poop was already there! I literally heard you pooping woman! Some people aren't bevsn human smh
snowdorf · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a 3 person group assignment in college, presentation day comes along and ask group mate why he didn't meet us for practice and he gave some lame excuse that he had lost his phone and didn't have his material that he would cover one of our slides and take credit. He had been lying throughout the assignment so this time I decided to call his phone and sure enough his back pack started ringing. Lying POS.
Told the professor that he was dead weight, professor then told me it was our call to drop him from the group and he would respect our decision. Dropped him before we went up and he got a 0 on the assignment. That kid probably ended up failing the class since it was such a large assignment.
BandwagonEffect · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily a “lie” but my cook started closing up for the night early, saying we were dead quiet and he didn’t want to waste company money on him when we didn’t need to be.
I had seen on his Facebook earlier that he was going to a a concert so I told him we just got a late order and we might even be late to close.
After being content with the look on his face as he started up the grill I told him I was kidding. We made sure he got to his concert on time.
Don’t bullshit me Mathew I see all.
AC3x0FxSPADES · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So to start, I manage a QA team that works off of checklists. We had a guy who would never be at his desk, had super low reporting numbers, and was generally not fit for any sort of technical position. His checklists (that were shared by the feature team) were almost never updated when they should be, and his excuse was always that he just hadn’t updated yet. Uh, bullshit. I told one of my coordinators to fill out his checks with specific lines swapped. (Pass is Fail, Fail is Pass) Hey look at that, his results matched! The dude was waiting until the rest of the team finished and just copy/pasting their work. He got transferred shortly thereafter.
DarcyTheFrog · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
u/cows_
cows_ · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:31 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am being falsely accused, I am innocent
DarcyTheFrog · 2 points · Posted at 02:25:37 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha sure
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a senior in high school, this guy that i'm gonna call The Sensei moved to town and opened up a martial arts studio in the same shopping center my mom's work was at. Every time I saw this guy, he would hassle me about joining his studio which I wasn't interested in because I don't care about fighting people. The guy claimed that he synthesized some new form of martial arts that allowed him to win tournaments around the world. It was totally believable since he obviously could make way more money working in a shitty shopping center than in UFC or something.
A couple years after I left for college, I convinced my friends to stop in my hometown so I could get some pizza from this local pizza place I had nostalgia for since it was on the way. While we were eating, The Sensei walks in. Since we were the only people in the restaurant (this was at like 3 pm,) he comes over and starts talking to us trying to sell us on his business.
One of my friends was a dude named Ryan who was a couple years older than me and did some amateur MMA. I think he had something like 3 bouts at this point, nothing too crazy. The Sensei won't leave us alone the entire time we're eating so after we finish, Ryan asks if we have time to run by the guy's studio so they can spar.
The sparring session, if you could call it that, was hilarious. The first thing the sensei does is try a spin kick which doesn't connect. Ryan takes him down when his back was turned and gets him in an arm bar within like a minute. Ryan lets him go and we get ready to leave.
The Sensei says "hey, not fair. I didn't know we were doing take downs. Let's only do striking moves and try again." Ryan agrees and they sparred for like three minutes or so. The Sensei is too slow to really land anything, gets mad and tries to tackle Ryan. This ends with Ryan putting him in the second arm bar in like 5 minutes of fighting.
we all laughed at him and left.
monocst · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Throughout middle school, this kid always said he was born in 1999, while everyone else was born in 2000/2001, and he was talking about how he had his license, and a car and everything under the sun. One day we were bsing with the SRO and he pulled up the kids records, and he had been lying the whole time, and he was born in 2001 just like the rest of us.
TeaSwiz · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wasn't necessarily lying, just thought he knew more than he did.
Had an employee who said he was "entitled by law" to two 15 minute breaks in addition to a 30 minute lunch when working an 8 hour shift.
Noone ever took breaks aside form the short lunch, he was a smoker and would constantly go, I allowed him plenty of times when it was dead. The day I said no and pulled that shit... Let him google it himself. He never got a smoke break again.
Our company had their own policy of course to help with this, as most do. but 99% of the time they are "guidelines" based on "business needs and manager's discretion"
TL;DR- In TX there are no labor laws requiring rest periods. Employee made a fuss one day, learned his lesson. when he googled it.
hailclouds · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A girl in my school faked having leukemia. She has shaved off her eyebrows and cutted her hair short to go deep into the lies.The story went around the whole school and everybody felt so sorry for her. Until a friend of her asked her parents about how her chemo was going. And ofcourse the parents had no idea what she was talking about until they found out the lie her daughter had spread. Everybody hated her after she got exposed. She did it to get more attention from her friends.
HenryHiggensBand · 2 points · Posted at 20:37:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son claiming he doesn’t pull our dog’s (husky) hair underneath the door at night when he should be in bed. Dog sleeps outside of son’s room each night, and has been yelping and leaving the typical sleeping spot looking pissed as of the last several nights/nap-times.
Stake-out resulted in seeing a set of 3-year-old fingers reaching underneath the door. Naturally I grab them, hear him run away, I stifle a laugh, open the door and calmly say, “caught ya.”
Who knew something could be so satisfying and frustrating at the same time
-kel- · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is way late and probably won’t be seen, but I dated a type 1 diabetic for about 2 years in high school. One summer, I went on a vacation with my aunt and cousin to Disney world and I got some texts from my boyfriend at the time saying he was in the hospital with pancreatitis and it was looking really bad. He played into it hard, like he didn’t know what the outcome would be. I freaked out and called my mom to try and get a plane ticket back home. My mom didn’t trust this guy, so she called my ex’s aunt who lived right next door to him to see what was going on. His aunt said something like, “He isn’t in the hospital. I’m looking right at him. He’s outside mowing the yard right now.”
Right after that, he called me acting like he had no idea what was going on and claimed that someone remotely hacked his cell phone and was texting me all of this. From them on, I realized that he was the biggest compulsive liar and manipulator I had ever met. I tried breaking up with him many times but he kept saying he would kill himself if I did. Eventually, I realized that I didn’t not love him at all and it was not my responsibility to keep this kid alive and ruin my own life in the process.
I’m now married to the best, more honest man and couldn’t be happier.
SpicyHashbrowns · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Co Worker skipped out on work saying she needed to visit a therapy center out of state. Our boss ran into her at a college football game, thing is, we sell merchandise in booths there and we have 5 booths.
3SpoutTeapot · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not the MOST satisfying time but the most recent time.
TLDR: my dad often makes up fake science to explain his annoying habits, even though he never graduated college, never really took a science course, and I’m a medical student.
I love my dad. But he is a compulsive liar about weird things.
I’m currently visiting my parents for a week on recess from medical school. Earlier this week we visited a huge amusement park (lots of roller coasters). Now inversions and swing-like motions give my dad motion sickness, and always have. So midday when my dad told me he needed to go on “something easy” for a while bc his stomach was upset, I obviously believed him, knowing his history.
For almost two hours we go on some very boring, chill rides and he’s still “not feeling better.” We sit down for a while doing nothing, and walk around a gift shop. The gift shop is attached to a cotton candy shop and he gets all excited and says he wants cotton candy (I’m holding the credit cards in my purse, so all purchases go through me lol).
I told him no, since his stomach is upset and sugar won’t help. I want to go back on the intense rides and don’t want to wait even longer for him to feel better. Then he claims he NEEDS a Twix bar. I told him we are done sitting around and if he gets a Twix, we are going on some coasters. He reluctantly agrees.
Following inhalation of the Twix, my dad says “I already feel better, bc the Twix coated my stomach.” He goes on to make up some explanation of how he knew a Twix was the perfect snack to stop acid reflux, which was NOT what he was complaining of earlier.
I stop walking and just stare at him. “Seriously? I’m a medical student. Do you not think I know how much BS that is?”
Dude looks like a deer in the headlights. Then he admits he was lying about feeling sick the whole time, he was just tired of walking around and waiting in line.
For those of you familiar with acid reflux, it’s recommend you AVOID chocolate as it’s thought to be a trigger.
My dad went to college but never finished a degree in horticulture and constantly makes up fake medical science to validate his mild obesity.
Ramalama85 · 2 points · Posted at 20:40:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work with a woman that constantly lied about everything. We worked as bartenders at a large chain restaurant and she would always have some kind of problem or other that she was crying about to get guests to give her money. She even went as far as telling people she had cancer AND would use the story of her daughter committing suicide (which was true) to try to get larger tips.
However, the best lie I caught her in was this: she was working the day shift and I was coming in to relieve her. When I got to work I saw her bawling her eyes out at a table. She was on the phone saying, “Someone stole my purse. It had all of my money in there, including my mortgage payment.” While this is happening, I am staring at her sitting there with her purse on the table next to her. She sees me looking at her and hurries to get off the phone. I ask her if everything is okay and she immediately stops crying like nothing happened and says, “Yea, I’m good. How are you?” Here’s the kicker- this was my story!! Someone had stolen my purse from behind the bar the previous year and it indeed had my mortgage payment in it. I was devastated when it happened, but lucky enough for me, I had great bar regulars that ended up tipping me enough that night to cover what I had lost. This chick tries to use my bad fortune as her own in hopes of getting money out of some poor sucker. Pissed me off to no end.
po0f · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hubby and I were looking for a wedding photographer.. this guy reached out, advised that he has been out of the photography game for a while but would be willing to do a wedding.. he offers to do it for $250..... now up until that point we've been getting quotes not lower than $900 to do the event.
Since this was fishy I reverse image searched some of the examples he sent, which were really good quality fantasy photos. Why would someone this talented and professional be 'out of the game'? Sure enough we find the photos, which were stolen from a real photographer's blog.
We definitely sent her an email with screenshots!
pm1966 · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy I knew (and didn't like at all) in graduate school was bragging about having had sex with a mutual female acquaintance. And when I say bragging about, I mean in very crude terms.
I tried to suggest that I thought he was full of shit, and just bragging, as a way of getting him to shut up and stop being a total ass, but he wouldn't take the hint, After a few minutes, I revealed that she had I had been dating for some time and that I was surprised she had never mentioned her ongoing relations with him.
He went quiet for a few long seconds before admitting that he had been making the whole the thing up, and started stammering out an apology. I just said "Don't apologize to me" and walked away.
DlSCONNECTED · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyone in this thread.
unlikelystory1 · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In third grade I sat across from this kid that lied about everything he had to seem cooler and better. If you said you went to an *NSYNC concert he said he’s been to 3 already. He always had to “up” people, and I knew a lot of it were lies.
One day I told him that I found a rare $20 gold coin, one side gold and one side silver (I obviously made it up) and he said he had 5 of them. And I immediately was like “ah ha!!! I made it up, that doesn’t exist.” And he had nothing to say.
HA TAKE THAT YOU DUMB THIRD GRADER!
moooozy · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Caught my little brother lying about stealing $500 from my wife and me. I accused him of stealing because it was either him or my parents (and my parents just don't do that). Things got heated when he was denying it and I said "if you needed money you could've just asked" and he replied with "you would've never given it to me!"
Satisfying isn't the exact word I'd use. But it represented a form of closure.
betaassult06 · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend who claimed to have a 5.61 kda on Black Ops 2. So I checked his profile. He had a 0.75.
altxatu · 2 points · Posted at 00:21:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ouch. That’s better than mine, but I suck out loud. I’m awful. I’m sitting at .72.
btm231 · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me catching someone, but satisfying nonetheless.
A family member was in a year-long legal battle with the city on charges of assault on an officer. While much of the evidence pointed to a lot of tom-fuckery, it's very tough when it's an officer's word against anyone.
After over a year of trial, the whole thing resulted in a hung jury so we were set for yet ANOTHER possibly year-long battle. However, during a recompiling of evidence and cross examination, it was found that one of the officers lied about why his recording equipment was off and when it was reported, which put an enormous hole in a bunch of other circumstantial evidence brought by the city.
Result: Family member acquitted, counter sues, wins settlement.
dabrothergoose · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Screenshotting the stuff they say now that deep down you think will be something you can use against them later when they try and tell others a fabricated lie, but you already have the truth.
ameliabedelia7 · 2 points · Posted at 21:06:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This isn't satisfying I just want to tell someone. Two weeks ago I found my boyfriend of ten years getting notifications from a throwaway account on reddit, totally by accident (I wanted to show him a gif i sent him). He said it was nothing, to my face, WHILE deleting the account. I just sort of leaned over and saw, literally, the delete confirmation. He was totally caught and I slowly dragged out that he'd been posting my pics on some wifesharing sub without my permission, whenever I go to bed early.
altxatu · 2 points · Posted at 23:56:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well that’s super sleezy. What scum.
ElegantVariation · 2 points · Posted at 05:00:42 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
FTFY
ameliabedelia7 · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:02 on June 26, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well we have a therapy session today. We'll find out
Ddbphotog · 2 points · Posted at 21:09:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m late but maybe someone will read this.
When I was 12 or 13 my older brother’s friend asked him to jailbreak their ipod so he had it for a few days and then we didn’t see it for a week or so. Then he started using it a lot more. And eventually was using it every day. It was almost like it was his but he didn’t have a job and was really bad with money anyways so he couldn’t have bought it.
One day my mom asks to see it and he gets defensive and says something like no it’s my friend’s I don’t want you to drop it or something and break it, but my mom puts her foot down and he eventually give it to her. My mom goes into the settings and sees it’s named ddbphotog’s iPod Touch.
Several months before I had lost my iPod Touch. I had looked all over the house, checked friends houses, lost and found at school and in the front office there too but nothing. I have ADHD so it made sense that I just lost it but it still sucked and I moved on.
Nope my older brother stole it out of spite, hid it somewhere in his closet and forgot about it. Later when he found it he figured enough time had passed and he could use it again.
He got in so much trouble and had been known to lie a lot when he was a teenager but thankfully he’s much more truthful now.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:09:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife's former best friend had a reputation for being a drug addict, which of course she would deny at all costs.
One series of days she spent over at our house, she spent nearly the entire time in the bathroom. In for an hour, out for 20 minutes, for 3 days, only broken up by her quick "walks" around the block. We live in what could be considered a rough neighborhood, as there are at least 2 obvious dope houses on the block. She would emerge from the bathroom all fucked up and distant, and then pass out on her phone. We questioned some big red bumps she had developed on her veiny cleavage, and she said they were spider bites. We don't have spiders like that, because I would have already torched this place.
I knew what she was doing. It was super obvious, but she has been my wife's close friend since they were kids so she wouldn't believe it.
The morning of the 4th day my wife walked passed her open purse and saw a sandwich bag full of needles and tiny plastic baggies.
I kicked her out immediately, told her to come back after she got help. We tried to be nice about it, but I can't just have someone dying in my house. That's a lot of paperwork.
TL:DR Caught "not a heroin addict" with a bag full of needles and heroin.
Rustery · 2 points · Posted at 21:09:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid a neighbor of ours was jealous of a small figure I had. That figure was worth a good bit of money. One day he came over and we played in my room. He noticed the figure and instantly wanted to play with some toys next to it. He essentially fooling anybody. Halfway while we played monopoly he asked where the bathroom was and while standing up he slipped it in his pouch for his glasses.
Unamused, I proceeded to continue playing with him while watching his pouch to make sure he didn’t go for anything else. Literally a few minutes later he tries to go with the excuse that his stomach aches. When he was sitting up I grabbed his hand while he stood half up stunned. I opened my hand up and asked for my figure back since we were done playing, I gave a wide smirk. The kid tried denying it and tried playing dumb. While his bag was dangling from his belt I yanked it and opened it in front of him. The figure dropped and to my surprise there was no glasses in there either.
The boy went full tomato and stormed out of the house. I followed to make sure he didn’t take anything and slammed the door.
Floss-Boss · 2 points · Posted at 21:10:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catching my ex cheating. Wasn’t satisfying at the time lol but man it feels good now
bg001x · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had just started dating a girl, and she mentioned that she had to go visit her grandparents in Kentucky. No big deal.
Over the few days prior to her leaving I started noticing one particular guy leaving posts on her Facebook. Fairly innocuous, like a countdown kind of thing, so I figure that he’s a friend from her hometown. Normally I wouldn’t think much of it, but there was something that just rubbed me the wrong way about it. So I look at his profile and it says he lives in Iowa. Again, I thought maybe he was going to be home at the same time and they were just friends.
She leaves for “Kentucky” and a day or so goes by. I message her on Facebook just to see how everything is going. Now, keep in mind, at this point Facebook messenger would show you where the message was sent from. As soon as she responded, bam, somewhere in Iowa. Immediately I knew what was going on. She hadn’t gone to see her grandparents but instead went to Iowa to meet up with this guy.
I didn’t say a word about it. I let her have her time alone and let her think I had no idea.
When she came back I invited her over for dinner, and just asked her general questions about the trip. How it went, how her grandparents were, if anything interesting happened. Super simple and basic responses to all of it. Finally, I paused and asked her how Dude From Iowa was. She turned white as a ghost. I showed her the messages with the location tag and she started to apologize and tried to reason her way around it.
I broke up with her then and there, kicked her out, and went back and ate. But the look on her face when she realized she was busted was something I’ll never forget.
Choppstickk · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was served a glass of vinegar at the bar. I could immediately smell it, and called her on it. She acted surprised, and said she'd get me a new one. I said "hold on, this was an accident? Either you're so bad at your job you 'accidentally' served me a glass of vinegar, or you did this on purpose, which was it?" She sheepishly apologized, but I still called my best friend who happened to be the kitchen manager who reprimanded her and sent her home.
tightropeofweird · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked as a hostess at a popular chain restaurant a few years ago. This other girl I worked with would never do anything but complain and I constantly had to pick up her slack. One day she said she was going out back for a smoke break, which was okay because we weren't super busy at that moment but it was going to pick up relatively soon. She went out back, and I watched as she walked around the front of the building in the direction of the shops. I would have understood if she were running to her car or something, but unless it was extremely crowded none of us parked in that direction. She was gone for a good while, so I told one of the managers what I saw and he said he would look into it. A few minutes later, she came back with Victoria's Secret bags. SHE WENT SHOPPING ON THE CLOCK. Maybe if she had gone to get food or something that she actually needed I could sort of justify it but Victoria's Secret??? She didn't even care that I knew when she came back, but I was super ticked off and confirmed with the manager what had happened during her "smoke break". Sadly it wasn't as satisfying in the moment because she didn't get fired until a month or two later (they let a lot of things go on a lot longer than they should have around there) but I'm sure that contributed to their decision.
trunks111 · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at a job where all of the coupons we had were in our system. Sometimes when someone called in an order, they'd say "I have a coupon for x, can you apply that and tell my total". No, you don't. I would have already applied it. We always tell the person, "we don't seem to have that coupon in our system, if you bring it in you can apply it".
They never do.
BitcoinBanker · 2 points · Posted at 21:18:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A mate had a designer claim his work was hers, while he interviewed her. I believe he took the opportunity to give her a little advice before showing her the door.
The_Coolest_Undead · 2 points · Posted at 21:20:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine used to tell everyone he made the money he had by trading money in an app in his phone, he used to brag a lot and we were sceptical so i started to study a bit of how trading works and once we started chatting about that it was cristal clear that he didn't know shit about that... Still we don't know where his money came from
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:23:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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HockeyHokeyHockey · 3 points · Posted at 21:33:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
must be some rocking pussy
altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For real. For what my opinion is worth (nothing mostly) there isn’t a cock or pussy that’s ever been, that will be worth that amount of crazy. Never in human history. Maybe Helen of Troy.
Re-lar-Kvothe · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Literally happened two days ago.
As far as I can tell, this is the truth, period. Several months ago I was asked to be part of a team at work. I was to work with several others to identify and then solve some problems. We did some work. We performed some analysis. Interesting data because data is data and it seemed to support some theories. None the less, a decision was made to move forward and pursue other potential solutions to problems that the data did not support. There was a recommendation based on much less data yet still solid in results. Two days ago we received the results of the test. I in no way intend to blow smoke up my ass or anyone else's. But the data indicates that I was right in my assumptions. It was decided to run a batch with what are the optimized conditions. The batch was produced. It met all predetermined targets. It also met all of the physical changes that were called out, or assumed. I was very happy. Our team had great success.
However, today I find out it was not a team effort. It turned out to work like this. One person came up with an idea. The same person created a process design and executed it flawlessly. The rest of the team decided to undermine the one or two people that did 99% of the work.
To make a long story short: Today I was told that another engineer deserved credit for my successful ideas and solutions. Essentially he was entitled to my success. I made a comment on FB and this engineer posted that, "He always comes to me for guidance and was lucky to have me part of his decision making process on this issue." His entire response was a lie. My boss and his boss came to me and asked what I wanted to do about it. I told them that I am close to retirement and will not p[ass judgement on a fellow employee. It is up to them to deal with it as they see fit. My boss wants him fired. The other engineer's boss wants to sweep it under the rug.
Not looking for sympathy or empathy. Just want to warn others how important it is to be extra diligent in your efforts.
altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Always CYA.
whateveridc43 · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked with someone who had been accused of child molestation. He claimed he was being falsely accused and he was the actual victim-REALLY playing up the victim role. A child came to us but he blamed the child and made us the bad guys for trying to ruin him. Months later he's fired for attempting molest a child. Didn't want to be right, but glad he's no longer working with children....
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm bilingual and used to work in warehousing driving a forklift. Most the workers were latin and spoke Spanish including the supervisors. A guy made a major mistake loading a truck with me and blamed it on me, I was within earshot. I let him finish, took my loading sheet to the supervisor and proved my innocence. I was gonna let it go but on my walk back to the forklift I heard him snickering with a few co-workers in Spanish. Now I came up speaking Spanish with some really rough cats, so I can make my words cut just as well as English. I walked up to him and cursed him up and down in Spanish, flipped his clipboard over and walked off. Nobody fucked with me again.
Beaulderdash2000 · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an employee who's grandparent was dying or died for like the 3rd time in six months. She called me up super distraught and panicky. I was about 80% sure it was bullshit. But what can you do? Ask for a death certificate? I give her the weekend off for bereavement. Sure enough, the dumbass posts pictures of herself in Reno with her boyfriend.on Facebook or Instagram that my supervisor and other employees see. (I don't follow them, don't let them follow me). I guess she thought they would be more.loyal to her than to me. Yeah.. she was done. It was great
Shlalice · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few years ago I was living in a shared house with a few other people during university. One of the guys I lived with didn’t work or study, and kind of lived in a trash heap in his room, but seemed nice enough. We’ll call him Jack. I kept all of my bowls and glasses etc. in the kitchen downstairs, where all the roommates have separate cupboards. After a few months of living there, I started noticing that some of my stuff was going missing from the kitchen. I asked everyone in the house, maybe someone had been desperate for a glass and forgot to return it. After asking everyone, it seemed that Jack was a bit shifty about it, and I was certain it was him. I asked him repeatedly, so I gave him many chances. One day he went out and left his door open, so I peeked inside to see if I could find my missing stuff. I’ve honestly never seen a more disgusting and messy room in my whole life, apart from those hoarder programmes where people live in squalor. There were clothes EVERYWHERE, old food packets and... my bowls, cutlery, glasses, everything. Worse of all, they were caked in mould from whatever he’d eaten out of them. I left them there as I couldn’t take them without him knowing I’d been in his room. I confronted him and said I knew he had them (without revealing the room peel) and he got super defensive and aggressive, shouting and walking up close to me. I got so upset and left the house to calm down. When I got back, all of my bowls and glasses were washed and drying in the kitchen.
Such a stupid situation, taking to the nth degree, over some kitchenware!
thebungeechair · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well my ex told me about 2 weeks after the breakup that she had cancer. Found out the next day she didn't. I was pretty satisfied that not only did she not have cancer, but also that I was not with her anymore.
ShowMeYourM0ves · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy would try to one up me whenever I talk about a gaming achievement.
Me: I beat dark souls 3
Him: yeah same I beat all the bosses without dying once.
Me: I got a skill to 99 on RuneScape.
Him: LOL I got all 99s like a year ago
Me: just got the platinum trophy for bloodborne....
Him: already got it
Me: you don’t have bloodborne
Him: I have it on PC
Bloodborne is a PS4 exclusive
AllPurposeNerd · 2 points · Posted at 21:38:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew a dude in high school who did this. Worst was when he bragged about being "already on the second disc" of Final Fantasy X, which was the first Final Fantasy game released on a singular DVD.
Ron_Jeremy · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a guy on my floor freshman year of college who would just lie constantly. Not big lies, little ones. Did you see that movie? Uhh yeah sure I did.
So his roommates invented a band who had a hit song and asked this guy if he knew it. He said of course and they string along him for weeks about this song. He ended up inventing lyrics to it and sung it out loud for us.
After he sang his roommates asked him why he was lying, and he lied about knowing it was fake.
mynamesrach · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex in high school was a psychopath and a compulsive liar, and often not a great one, but because it was mostly about dumb inconsequential shit so we just either overlooked it or gave him the benefit of the doubt.
One example that recently came back up is that he always said this girl in the year above - who is very pretty, athletic, generally pretty popular I guess - was his cousin, and that their Cantonese parents would often get together so they'd chat over lunch and everything. By chance, I ended up studying the same course in the same uni as her, and we recently just interned at the same architecture practice (all coincidentally). On the first day, we were chatting about old high school days and got to the topic of exes, midway through I stop to say "sorry, I don't mean to be chatting shit about your cousin or anything."
She looks up like... "the fuck?? I've never spoken to him before in my life?"
So, not related. Didn't even know he was from Hong Kong as well. She'd only heard of him as my boyfriend. And neither of us can figure out why this is something he would even lie about.
There were other instances about inventing fake cousins, telling sob stories about his parents getting divorced when they obviously were not, saying his mom had stage 9 (???) liver cancer when she OBVIOUSLY did not, creating doctored military documents in pdf form that he would "accidentally" send to me for attention and sympathy etc.
There's something satisfying about knowing that his tales are naturally coming to light and that people are increasingly finding out what a fucking psycho he is.
happy_limbless · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fucking love telling this story because I used to hate working with this girl. I was a desk worker for the dorms in college, and this girl transferred buildings just because she wasn’t getting scheduled to work at midnight instead of 4am, despite her only having evening classes. Basically, she was fucking people over by taking good night shifts from people who had morning classes and still wanted to work. We also had these mandatory meetings, and she always had perfect excuses to not be there. Among other reasons, I was sick of this girl taking advantage of everyone else’s kindness and flexibility. Karma finally came for this bitch one day.
She had a night class with my roommate, but she never knew this. A mandatory meeting was scheduled during the night class, so she finally had a legitimate excuse. However, my roommate always texts me and asks to grab dinner in case their class gets out early. Almost within five minutes of each other, my coworker sends a group message reminding everyone about her night class and my roommate asks me if I want to join her in the dining hall because their class dismissed early.
I’ve never screenshot shit so fast in my life. Supervisor learned about her lying ass, and we were finally given a break in the next scheduling.
eclipsesix · 2 points · Posted at 21:40:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yes! Finally. This isnt anything crazy, but it was my girlfriends birthday at a fancy restaurant and I pulled out as many stops as I could to make it special including inviting all her friends secretly. This one Russian girl, we'll just call her Laura, shows up dressed to the 9s in a skanky club outfit. We all sort of knew this girl was a bit of a liar but had never been able to catch her in one for the years we had known her. Well 20 minutes in she comes up to me and dramatically apologizes and tells me she has to leave early, her little sister is drunk and needs a ride home from a party. I sniff the bullshit a mile away and something snaps.
"Did she text you?
"Yeah, shes wasted Im so sorry I wish I could stay"
"Show me."
"What?"
"Show me the text she sent you"
(Obviously panicking )" sure, fine, here" (scrolls through phone for about two seconds, decides the ruse is up, goes beet red and tries to joke)"Ok I lied its not my sister I just have this other thing"
"Laura, youre a fucking liar. Dont bullshit a bullshitter. Now go do whatever the fuck is more important than your friends birthday and get the fuck out of my face. "
God it felt good to call someone out to their face like that.
rholan24 · 2 points · Posted at 21:40:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Coworker called out of work because they had a death in the family. Their instagram later revealed they were on a cruise.
JollyBroom4694 · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy at uni tried to lie about being an army medic.
Now I’ve never served and don’t claim to have, I believe it takes away from the sacrifice some people make to their countries. But I have long military lineage in my family and as a result spent a fair bit of time learning about military life.
My friend was a paramedic.
A few simple questions and his stories started to fall apart and he just grunted and carried on drinking. That friend and me just nodded to each other and carried on like nothing had happened.
Toridrel · 2 points · Posted at 21:43:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work for the welfare department... there isn’t enough time in the day to tell all my stories...
Please_Be_My_Friend · 2 points · Posted at 21:47:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Broke up with a compulsive liar. On the last phone call, she told me she was pregnant and that she was going to never let me see the child and nail me for financial support. I take pills for an enlarged prostate that helps it relax so that I can pee without popping a forehead vein. The side effect is that no semen ever comes out (basically, male birth control. Look up rapaflo). I let her continue on and I pretended to be shocked. I made her yell and cry about how I was going to take her to court and take away the kid. It was hard to fight back the laughter.
Eventually I told her I was on the pill, and she had no idea despite the fact she claimed to be a doctor (she wasn’t).
Bonus Odd Fact: I highly suspect she was a stripper that happened to know a lot of medical terminology. Maybe she would watched House in between shifts lol
sallysellzseashells · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at Chick-Fil-A as my first job. I was working the drive thru window on a Thursday afternoon, when a car full of people comes through. The driver starts demanding we remake the order on the receipt he’s waving around. He says the food tasted disgusting.. I ask my manager to step in because I’m young and afraid of confrontation. My manager looks at the receipt and asks the guy what day they came through. He says, “oh, it was last Sunday.” Gotcha! Everyone knows CFA is closed on Sunday’s! So, my awesome manager says, “well, that’s strange. We’re closed on Sunday’s.” The driver gets angry, calls us “stupid peons,” and speeds off. In my little drive thru world, full of rude customers, it was very exciting!
igg73 · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My buddy was talking about how heath ledger is the best actor in history, he should be studied etc. I asked him to name 3 heath ledger movies and he could only name two
altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hell I can name three off the top of my head. Dark knight, knights tale, and I’m not sure if it counts but dr. Parnassius. I don’t even care about acting.
igg73 · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had to help him with parnassius, the turd
holdontoyoungideas · 2 points · Posted at 22:07:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but I was there to witness it. There was this kid in high school who would say he was great at just about everything. A group of us were talking about playing musical instruments and this kid was going on about how he could play every Beatles song without guitar tabs. So one day my friend brings an acoustic guitar to school and tells him, "Here, plays us something" and this kid was just nervously holding the guitar. He ended breaking a string, I still remember that look of shame.
Ohana-Means-Family · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who 'made'me some super cute cupcakes for my birthday. They were so delicious and incrdibly intricate I was surprised she had made them herself. She has a habit of exaggerating and lying sometimes but I never had solid proof. I just knew.
Fast forward a couple years and I'm looking for local cake decorators for my wedding cake. I came across one site that looked pretty good. There was a scrolling image showcasing her work. And what do I see? My exact cupcakes from a couple years before. I check my Instagram and they are 100% identical.
The cupcakes were so good I booked the designer as I knew it'd be good. I confronted the liar and she said she mde them on a cake decorating course with the designer. So I asked the designer. She says she remembers them really well as they were the first ones that her teenage son helped her with when he decided to join the family business.
That was satisfying.
jupitaur9 · 2 points · Posted at 22:15:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was about 15 and my sister was about 25, she had to move back into the family home temporarily. She was reading a book of mine, no big deal. I asked how she liked it, she said it was good, she was glad she had bought it.
I said, no, that's my book. She said, no, it's her book. We went back and forth on it for a while, about where it came from, what it was about, etcetera. She was like, I should know it's my book, I've had it since before I moved out! You must have taken it out of the boxes of stuff I left behind.
She had moved out three or four years previous. I said, really?
And opened the book, pointing to the copyright page which indicated it was first published in the current year.
msimpson94 · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was in divorce court, representing myself ( no money for a lawyer ) against my soon-to-be ex-wife. She had played this story about her infidelity was just a single indiscretion. During cross examination I asked her about her single indiscretion. I had her describe the word indiscretion...objected by her lawyer...judge overruled. She had to confirm it meant sexual relations. I asked her where she met these men. She answered online. More than one...yes, she stammered. I asked if she also had sexual relations with men she worked with. She answered yes. More than one? ...yes. I asked if she had had sexual relations with men that were friends of the family. She answered yes. More than one? ...yes.
This is significant because for years everyone assumed it was me cheating. I took a lot of heat for years from a lot of people. Her bible-thumping fan club was in the court room that day...and it literally was incredible.
gardenkweenPNW · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My best friend whose a lesbian, was sending her nudes to this Arabian guy who was friends with my other best friend, whose straight. Obviously the guy messaged the straight friend and was like "do you know her?" and we then knew she was messaging this guy behind her girlfriends back. This was about 8 months ago.
Last month all of us were hanging out, and the straight friend let the cat out of the bag, and the drama afterward ensued full force.
Lesbian friend started getting hysterical that someo e had hacked her phone and stole her pictures. After some back pedalling, she conceded that she did that but it was years ago, it wasn't recent.
Then an hour later, she confesses fully to doing it a few months prior, but she was blacked out drunk when she did it and doesn't remember.
It was a grueling conversation I wish didn't need to happen, especially with the hostility being thrown at us. I wish straight friend would've been a little better in her approach, but atleast it's out now.
Lesbian friend got me evicted from my first apartment almost 10 years ago, so in a way it was satisfying to see her face some consequences for her reckless decision making
analfartbleacher · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
how did u manage to stay friends with someone who got you evicted? she sounds like a draining person to be around
gardenkweenPNW · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We grew up together since we were really young, like brother and sister. It was through trial and error that I realized the limits of our friendship. She's a lot of fun to be around and is hilarious--as long as you don't live with her. I don't live near her anymore so Im not around her often enough for it to affect me negatively. Sometimes you just gotta learn how you can stay friends with people without it wasting your energy
aliciouspegs · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This goes back to my first boyfriend, he was not the best choice for boyfriend. He thought he was smarter than everyone, was super shady about almost everything and wasnt even that attractive.
I started dating him because I was 20 just lost 60lbs, got my braces off and he was literally the first guy to show interest.
Anyway a girl I know didn't like me that much told me that he was trying to get a date with her. When she asked if he was dating me he said, I was just a crazy, clingy girl. Who, he was hanging out with because I needed friends, but I might be mixing up friendship with more. You know how crazy girls are.
I confronted him, but he assured me that girl just didn't like me and was just trying to cause drama. You know how girls are. I let it go.
We eventually broke up, but he kept in touch. The next year a friend of mine, sweet person, asked if it was okay she start to date him. She didn't want any beef with me and wanted my blessing. I didn't care and wanted her to be happy, so I was like, "go get em girl!"
I texted him how excited I was for him to start this new step. And guess what the loser said? "She was just a crazy, clingy girl. Who, he was hanging out with because she needed friends, but she might be mixing up friendship with more. You know how crazy girls are."
I screenshot the entire thing. Send it to my friend and we both never talk to that low life again.
GIRL POWER!!
LaffItUpFzbl · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-husband. He kept cheating on me, and as I made it increasingly clear I was not going to put up with it AND that I was getting better and better at finding out that he was cheating, he got increasingly more wily with things like logging out of our shared PC, using cash instead of credit, etc.
I didn't mean to turn all Sherlock Holmes on the guy, but frankly, knowing that he's cheated before and having some evidence (but not enough) that he's cheating again makes you kind of nutty. I'd never sink that low again. If my new husband ever cheated on me or couldn't explain why it LOOKED like he was cheating (this happened once about 6 years ago, and he easily explained what the problem was and it took very little to confirm it independently), I'd just leave.
Anyway, husband number one was slipping back into his cheating pattern after about 8 good months of maintaining the behaviors we set forth in counseling. But he was also INCREDIBLY canny with covering his behaviors as he never had before, so I had to go to extremes to figure out what was happening. Don't ask, let's leave it at extremes.
I finally got the proof I needed in the form of an email, and shortly after he told me I was being insane and that our counselor said that I had to trust him just as much as he had to trust me not to drag up the past, BAM. Hit him with a printed copy of the email. He just stood there for a few minutes, dumbfounded, then started sputtering about how I was the one creating distrust by rummaging around in his emails (which, per our counseling were supposed to remain open to me). So that was my clue that he wasn't going to change. So that's when I left. He got super mad, because he was this rich guy for whom a divorce was going to create all kinds of optics problems, but I was poor before I met him. I left all the money on his doorstep, even some that we'd earned together, just to nope the fuck out of that relationship, and I think that struck him to his core: That someone would skip the money just to maintain sanity or morals. Then I had a year of counseling to try and get the bad taste out of my mouth from my own freaking behavior (totally admit it was completely insane) then another year for his. Then I was free!
Luzluz718 · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In the elevator of my building, a guy picks up his cell phone and lies to his girlfriend about his whereabouts. The door opens and there she is.
hpresent · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Trump, whenever he opens his mouth.
Rhomega2 · 2 points · Posted at 22:28:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Playing an Ace Attorney game.
Rybred225 · 2 points · Posted at 22:28:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The real mind fuck about this question is I bet a lot of people are making up the stories they post in this thread. Think about it.
satanchaps · 2 points · Posted at 22:28:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in a psych unit with this girl (LB Lying Bitch) that couldn’t stop lying. She wasn’t admitted for lying but it was apparent that everything that came out of her mouth was utter bollocks.
The first time we caught her out was when she used to have cheese on literally everything. Breakfast, lunch and dinner was a complete cheese fest for her. A few weeks later we have a new patient who admits she lactose intolerant. LB suddenly expressed that she was lactose intolerant too and that she couldn’t eat foods like that because it gave her gas. When we asked what food she couldn’t eat she just said “you know, pasta and stuff” No. This wouldn’t have been half as funny if she wasn’t currently sat eating her dinner with, of course, it plastered in cheese.
We had various incidents like this over the few months we knew her everything from “I was born in Texas and moved to England last year” (She went to the same school as another girl and had done since primary) or the “I ran away and had sex with a guy with an 8 pack in the sea” (Sea is fairly close, she never ran away because she actually got leave and she was 16 at the time, I don’t know where she even got the idea of an older man with an 8 pack but it definitely wasn’t true). But my favourite was the weed one.
LB was still making up these stories but the more she heard us talk about drugs, the more her lies expanded to include drugs. Again, starting off with the mild “I smoke cannabis all the time” to the “I just ran away and swallowed a bag of heroin” Her lies were infuriating by this point and having to live with her 24/7, I had had enough.
On her second to last day, we took her outside to the smoking area. (All of the girls except LB were in on this) and explained that we’d managed to smuggle some weed in and would she like some? LB eyes immediately became weary but she said yes. The night before we stole a tea bag from the staff area, this was going to be our “weed”. So we rolled up this tea, presented it to LB, who immediately inhaled and coughed but proceeded to smoke fucking tea. She then “couldn’t” stand up, we were giggling anyway at the state of this girl who had admitted that this was the “best trip of her life”. She came back inside, giggling, making us promise to not tell the staff. We did because the equally had to put up with her bullshit but were relieved she was finally going. Lb proceeded to tell us for the next two hours that she “was high as a kite”, felt as if she was “in a bubble” and that she was overly hallucinating. All because she smoked a smidge of PG Tips. Made my year.
tutannichen · 2 points · Posted at 22:29:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not myself but my girlfriend's (R) Aunt. Less caught, more confusingly sad... She used to tell R that shirts don't come with pockets. That she sewed them on for R's dad because she loved him sooooo much and every new shirt he bought she would take it first and see the pocket on. That's just the tip of the iceberg. She's sweet but a bit of a nut; The kind of person who will just start rearranging things at someone else's house just because. We always have to keep an eye on her at family gatherings.
Jessie_James · 2 points · Posted at 22:36:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife worked in a bar. I'd visit from time to time after I got off work at 5pm or so, and I'd have dinner there. One day I remember walking in and seeing some guy at the bar having an "unusual" looking ... connection with her. I'm not the jealous type. She introduced me to him, let's call him Dan. He was nice enough but something was just off.
She frequently told me she worked until close - 2am and then an hour to clean up. So one night I decided to come in later. Got there around 10pm. She wasn't there. Asked a co-worked and said something like "Hey, Amanda said she was going to Dan's house, but I got here late. Do you know where he lives?" She did, and she gave me his address!
I drove over there. Her car was in the driveway. She was straddling him on his couch in full view of the street. I went home. Next morning I called a divorce lawyer. Put together some paperwork. I told her when I got home from work - she had the day off. I told her I had proof of her infidelity, and if she didn't sign the paperwork I would drag her and Dan through the wringer and ruin their lives - legally.
Signed without a word. She moved out. Moved in with another lover. Fell apart 6 months later. Got stuck in a dead end office job. Gained a ton of weight. A few years later she called me asking for help. I refused. No idea where she was. Until a few years when Facebook suggested her as a friend to me and my new wife.
Jacadi7 · 2 points · Posted at 22:37:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Old Landlord tried to reduce our security deposit because someone’s car ran over a gutter. The gutter still worked fine, but he tried to tell me he just found out about it after he had already agreed to the full amount of our security deposit. I had heard him complain about the gutter to his son on the same day that he agreed to the full amount of the SD about a month before move out. Then when it was time to pay he said ‘well I just saw this gutter so I’ve gotta reduce it.’ I called him out on it. That lie was worth $150. I later went by the place because I knew one of the guys that moved in there and he never even fixed the damn thing because it was working fine.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, I got one of these!
So we had a customer get a truck towed in, and this thing was right chewed up underneath; driveshaft came apart and spun, smacking everything in sight - mutilated most of the lower engine, some hoses got ripped off, no oil in the vehicle, all the fun stuff. Everything needed to be replaced, it was a mess. The quote came to something shy of 20k, essentially a whole new engine bay, ridiculous damage.
We asked the guy what happened, he said he heard something while on the highway, low oil pressure light never came on, he towed it home and parked it, and it wouldn't start again... pretty much only that last part we believed, because there's no way all that damage could happen from doing the safe thing.
Well, he tried to claim warranty. Warranty saw the photos, heard his story... denied. He tried to claim insurance, insurance saw the photos, heard his story... denied. Magically the story shifted that his son drove the truck, but nothing was leaking at the time and it was okay when it was parked. Still denied, denied, denied.
Worse yet? The truck was leased, so he had to either fix it, or buy out the truck and keep a hefty paperweight. Last I heard, he was getting sued for the remainder of the truck's purchase. Either way, he was screwed from the start, but he knew he should've pulled over and stopped. It would've saved the truck and made the situation salvageable (and covered by warranty!!!).
Mrjelly141 · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend (Will) is a pathological liar. He once told my friends and I he had a Tesla no one really cared but it became suspicious how much he brought it up, I found out he made it up 6 months later. Alright on to the story. Once in an argument me and a different friend (James) were talking about how AMD is better than intel then Will said “intel is better but I have both in my computer.” So I looked up and said so you have a intel core and a AMD graphics card, he said yes. Around 3 weeks later he tried to brag to James and I about how well GTA runs on his computer with his titan X. So I called him out for lying, he denied it. Even with a small lie like that it always feels so good when you shut down someone who constantly lies to you.
JZN · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex left a backup of her phone on my laptop. I restored it onto an old phone. In her lies I was messaging her screenshots of her own phone to her as needed. Very satisfying to stand so tall over such a rotten person courtesy of their own words.
brereddit · 2 points · Posted at 22:45:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A cop said a friend of mine pointed a gun at him and they sent him to prison for 10yrs. I filed open records requests and found a notebook where the lead investigator interviewed the cop immediately following the shooting. What he said then was another cop said something to make him think they were under attack. Basically the opposite of what he swore to in the charging documents. It took 3. Yrs but my friend’s conviction was overturned.
your_late · 2 points · Posted at 22:54:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know I'm way too late to the game, but in college I had this frat brother who would constantly lie. One day, he was bragging about selling pounds of pot in high school. He said he went and got it in Baltimore and would bring it back to his hometown. I asked him what state was Baltimore in. He said Virginia.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
foxthechicken · 2 points · Posted at 22:57:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my profession, people lie all the time and I constantly catch them in the act via face-to-face interviews:
- Admissions of drinking after being confronted with physiological evidence (nystagmus, poor SFST performance)
- Admissions of ownership of contraband/weapons in a vehicle and/or upon his/her person
- Admissions of committing a criminal offense through some type of res gestae (unprovoked) statement: "Well, the only reason I broke her phone is I knew she was going to call 911!"
Then there are examples of people lying and being caught as a result of some incontrovertible evidence:
- Texas requires that you change the address on your license with DPS within 30 days of moving. I make contact and they admit that the address on the license is no longer where they live.
"I just moved last week!"
"The insurance card that shows your new address was issued five months ago"
- When lying about one's identity:
"What's your DOB?"
"Uh.... the fifteenth... of, uh, January."
"What year?"
"Uh... 1992?" (upward inflection)
"How old are you?"
"22"
- During roadside interviews (drug interdiction):
"Where are you headed?"
"Home"
"Where did you come from?"
"Home"
One moment that stands out, not necessarily as a "lie" per se, but definitely an omission that could have resulted in a lot of danger and risk was a disturbance/armed encounter/shots fired call that we'd received on the south side of the city. It was at a house known for gang activity. Several callers reported extensive gunfire from this specific location. When we got there, someone answered the door and, for whatever reason, allowed us to enter and search. Of course, several units responded so there were a lot of officers there. We entered the home to find about four or five guys casually sitting on the couch, doing the "nothing going on over here, officers!" act. We searched everywhere and we knew they'd definitely shot guns on the premises (gunpowder smell, shell casings) but couldn't find a shred of evidence of a fucking gun. We are literally about to leave when I look at the four guys sitting and tell them to get the hell up. They did the sideways "shit" glances at one another and complied. I lifted the couch cushions and found ammunition, magazines and (I don't recall exactly how many) several handguns, including a TEC-9. We seized the guns because literally every person in the house (including the resident) denied ownership but couldn't arrest anyone since, technically, no criminal offense occurred. We couldn't prove they were shooting and, even though several of these fellows were convicted felons, we could not attribute ownership. Even if we could, Texas has a very strong "castle doctrine" and popping a felon with UPF in his own home probably wouldn't fly, especially in Tarrant County (conservative DA).
I felt pretty good about that one. Last thing I need is for one of those fucking things to make it onto the street.
ActualGamerowned · 2 points · Posted at 22:58:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was in 5th grade I had a copy of Pokemon Fire Red for the Game boy Advance. I nearly got done with it and decided it would be fun to game shark it a little bit. So I added in a Deoxys in through cheat codes. Well one day I lost it. "Coincidently," my friend had gotten "his" copy of Pokemon Fire Red sometime later that week. I thought that was an odd coincidence so I asked to look through what pokemon he had. Turns out he didn't delete the save file. This copy had the same name as my trainer (I always named the character after myself), and OH LOOKIE HERE, it's my Deoxys I hacked in. Imidietly took the game out of his game boy and walked away. Look on his face told me he knew that I knew what he did.
bucksnrt1 · 2 points · Posted at 23:07:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reading these reminded me of one more: I worked for a remote control car company in customer service. A coworker comes to me and tells me they have someone on the line that says one of our cars hit their dog and killed it, and emailed in a photo of a dog on the ground with blood. He wanted money and toy cars. He was pissed. Coworker put customer on hold to figure out next step and came to me.
As me and my coworker discuss next steps (quite concerned for this poor soul) we can still hear the person talking on the line... but all he hears is our hold music. We hear him laughing and telling someone "they are buying it, the ketchup on 'fido' (I don't remeber) worked [real lol]. " I immediately picked up the line, and politely introduced myself. I proceeded to tell him I heard everything he just said and that he was banned from receiving any services or products directly from our company. He promptly hung up without a word.
Smileinstead · 2 points · Posted at 23:09:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yayy I finally get to put this story on Reddit!
So the girl I dated after my fiancee left me was hanging out with the ex-fiancee. Not quite friends but at the same parties and such. Fun coincidence, after I broke up with the new gf, her new boyfriend and my ex-fiancee's new boyfriend were friends, so obviously my two ex's were hanging out a lot..
Anyhoo a 'friend' of mine knew this the entire time I was dating the GF and not only didn't tell me but once I found out about the new boyfriend situation he kept insisting that they weren't 'real friends' and 'didn't really hang out' and shit like that.
And after another one of his bullshit sophistry tirades I said, "That's not what (Ex-fiancee)'s dad says." (I had called him to confirm, you see)
So my friend says "(Ex-fiancee)'s dad..." and we just sat there in silence for awhile and then I just got up and left. Fucker.
LilithAkaTheFirehawk · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Long story short, I have a friend who was previously in a lesbian relationship with this girl. So they broke up and there’s legit months of ex-GF saying that my friend is talking shit about her and won’t return her shit and whatever.
So my friend comes to me at lunch one day and says, “[ex-GF] is saying she has cancer.” and you know, I was like, “OH shit.”
My friend said that another friend of hers follows the ex-GF on Instagram and that the ex-GF posted that she had two cancerous tumors and was undergoing chemo.
The ex-GF shaved her fucking eyebrows and they were growing back, but told everyone in our general vicinity that it was from chemo. So me and my friend got a hold of the ex-GF’s mother and asked if everything was okay, because she was posting about having cancer.
Mom’s Response: “No?? [ex-GF] is fine!”
And now the ex-GF hates us, but she probably deserves it. She threw away six years of friendship with me over that.
silentjay01 · 2 points · Posted at 23:18:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Regular customer came into the convenience store and said she just bought several bottles of Mountain Dew but said when she got home she realized they were expired and wanted to either exchange them or get a refund for them. Seems a reasonable request. She then pulls out 6 pint bottles.
"Where did you find these?" I ask.
"In the soda cooler." She replied.
"Because we don't sell pint bottles of Dew."
"Well, I got them here."
"No, you didn't. Have a look, we don't have a space for these."
"You should still let me exchange them for 20 oz bottles that are not expired. They're basically the same size."
"What? No."
This went on for a little bit until she took her expired soda and left. My belief is that she bought some expired stock from a Dollar store and then tried to hustle it into some good soda. I called the other store my boss owned in town to warn them of her.
cold_toast_n_butter · 2 points · Posted at 23:22:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend in elementary school was a serial liar. Always embellishing stories. And whenever we called her out on it she'd always say, "I'm not lying, you can ask my mom." Well one day she was going on about how she had flooded her bathroom up to the ceiling. When we were like, "nah, man." She came back with her typical response. Just then her mom walked around the corner and was like, "she's lying."
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL
TranscontinentalNine · 2 points · Posted at 23:30:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In college, there was this classmate who kept stealing pens. Especially mine all the time. I loved pens and used to try different ones. Not really cheap ones, and kept loosing them. He brazenly kept taking and using them. Would deny if asked and say it is his.
One day I disassembled a pen and stuck in a note that said "Belongs to TranscontinentalNine". Well, that pen disappears and he has it the next week.
So I grab a couple of our common friends and accuse him of stealing my pen. He denies it indignantly. Our friends were looking at me as if am being petty and silly. I explained that this is not the first time and am fed up with it. Then I ask him to open the pen and see what is inside. He opens and lo and behold, there is a note. He takes it and reads it. His face was a sight to behold. Well, he lost credibility after that incident and would avoid me till college ended.
mendeddragon · 2 points · Posted at 23:32:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Too late for many to see but its going to feel good to write down. At work I made a google spreadsheet with some pretty impressive coding for scheduling. During a program wide lecture a colleague claimed loudly he had made this same spreadsheet (he had been using a carbon copy of it and passing it as his own). I had the pleasure of saying “Dr. X, im going to let you back down on that claim before I embarrass you in front of everyone.” He didn’t so I had the pleasure of pulling up my copy of the spreadsheet on the 12 foot presentation screen in front of the department with an origination date and data from before he had even joined us. Same color scheme, same formatting. There was no backing down so he claimed he must have forgotten that he made a copy.
RockTheShaz · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'd say every day at work with one of my co-workers but he still works there...
Rayfax · 2 points · Posted at 23:51:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not exactly a lie, but will tell this story because it feels good.
My dad is emotionslly abusive and very manipulative, as well as angry and self-centered. He and I got in a fight one night; he called me names, said I was lazy, etc. and I was holed up in my room while he told my mom the story. Well the walls are thin in my house, and I noticed he was conveniently leaving out the details about the name calling he had done to me.
I stormed into the conversation and got up in his face about it; told him that if anyone is lazy, it's him (he dropped out of high school and has never worked a more rewarding job than delivering pizzas) and continued to barrage him with the things I've accomplished that he didn't and never would. Note that he is a big man, not easily talked down to and has an extremely short temper. He hasn't done anything like that to me since.
Sounds like an asshole thing to do on my part, but considering how emotionally and mentally damaged I am from dealing with my dad, it felt so damn good.
coolstance · 2 points · Posted at 23:55:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Might be a bit late but here goes. My ex boyfriend and I were dating for close to 2 years and he started acting strangely so when i addressed it he said he just needed some more distance and spend more time with friends as he feels he neglects them for me. I didnt mind him spending more time with his friends but he always insisted i couldnt come because it was guy's night out. Okay i guess. He goes to his best friends house on the weekend to play cs:go and he was messaging me throughout so i didnt think anything of it. Fast forward a week, we're having dinner with his parents and his father snaps at us saying how dumb do we think he is that we lie about his son's whereabouts. I really didn't understand, his mum goes ahead and says something along the lines of "you know [ex boyfriend's best friend's] mother and i talk all the time, i know that [ex boyfriend] wasnt at his house", then they were ranting he could've just said he's gone to a houseparty. I, still confused, stare at my then boyfriend who turned bright red and asked what they're talking about. His father was smug and laughed because i was lied to as well. I was calm and quiet for the rest of the dinner and afterwards he tried to bullshit his way out of the story but yea he was going out with his friends to get drunk and high and cheat on me. It was satisfying to listen to his parents getting angry at him and telling him he done fucked up lying to me as well. Cause he did. We broke up shortly after.
Not_Again_Reddit · 2 points · Posted at 00:08:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was searching for short term sublets in the bay for summer. I was looking through these sublets and temps on Craigslist. I have had multiple friends telling me that more than half of the ads on Craigslist are all scams. But never thought I'd actually stumble upon one.
I saw this really nice post for a 1b1b available at a well maintained gated community in the bay. I got in touch with the person who called himself Frank Parsons. Naturally following a couple questions about the unit, I asked him if we could agree for a open house. This guy told me that he's at New York for some contract based job and that he won't be able to show me around the apartment before moving in. But he asked me to secure the unit because multiple people were looking to secure it. He said after paying rent + security of $2800, I can go to the front desk and collect the unit's key for immediate move in. I thought huh. Super sketchy. Following is a screenshot of some of the message exchanges we had.
https://imgur.com/a/l6VZrJP
I basically called the front desk and asked if there is anyone by the name Frank Parsons in #406 and if they had the keys to the apartment. The lady on the other side told me that there are currently two other residents in the unit, and noone by the name Frank Parsons what so ever. Fuckin Frank Parsons. What a fuckin liar.
Never felt so good.
SouthTippBass · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice.
persondude27 · 2 points · Posted at 00:09:44 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe not the most satisfying, but it happened just a few hours ago.
I time races - we own special equipment that reads the timing chips for bicycle, triathlon, and running races. We have a rule that if you don't use your chip, you aren't eligible for prizes.
This gal came up to me at a triathlon today and informed me that her chip had fallen off her leg during the swim. I've never seen that happen in ten years of racing - in fact, it's a euphemism for "I lost it."
As I was going to put in a manual time, I see that that her chip was NOT PICKED UP. Meaning she didn't lose it - she'd never picked it up in the first place. She knew she should, considering she lied to say that she lost it...
So, I politely said, "Wow, you got lucky! Normally a lost chip is billed for $10, but someone found your chip on the bottom of the lake and returned it to us already. What a lucky occurrence!"
She understood.
needadvice5446 · 2 points · Posted at 00:15:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just yesterday actually shopping for a diamond wedding band. I've been adamant about getting a rock bottom price and therefore mainly shopping "wholesale" (which yes, I know is pure marketing). So I've been doing a lot of shopping around and comparing and the wife of this family owned place is giving me her spiel about how they back their quality bc their name is on the line, so all pieces are manufactured in house, sourced and set/created by them, blah blah blah. AS I'm HOLDING this ring in my hand with a big fat MADE IN CHINA sticker on it! So I say, does that apply to this piece right here? She quickly changed her tune and lowered the price after I pushed, but I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw em. Won't be purchasing there.
prideradio · 2 points · Posted at 00:20:29 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My coworkers brother died last year after he was poisoned by his wife and he choked on his own blood. He died again this year from cancer and after I brought up how he died last year she didn’t mention it again.
Kidgorgeoushere · 2 points · Posted at 00:27:13 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In my mid 20s I did a west to east coast of tour of the USA, mostly alone for the majority but I paid for a structured tour with a group for a few cities. One of them was Las Vegas.
The group were generally quite cool, a mix of Europeans and Australians in their 20s and 30s. But one of the Australians was a complete nightmare, he was from a very small town and clearly didn’t have much street smarts/exposure to the world - which is fine, if you haven’t ever left your town I can see how new countries can seem intimidating, but rather than use the opportunity to learn and understand he would charge around like a bull in a china shop. And he lied. A lot. Weird lies too. He initially told us he had his own business, although we later found out he lived off his parents - that kinda stuff.
I generally didn’t call him out on stuff as we all knew he was a bullshitter and I didn’t have the energy to get into arguments. Until Vegas that is.
A friend and I were walking around our crappy Vegas motel late at night trying to get WiFi signal which only worked in certain parts of the building. We saw Australian on the ground floor by the pool, talking to a woman who looked like she was soliciting. She was scantily clad and touching his shoulder and giggling, and he of course was loving it, and seemed oblivious to why she was paying him attention. She asked him if he had ‘anything cool’ in his wallet!! I mean seriously.
He of course pulled out his wallet and started showing her various store loyalty cards and pictures he kept in it. It also has a huge wad of dollars as he insisted on carrying loads of cash (of course he did).
She reaches over and grabs the entire wad of cash out of his wallet, giggles and says thanks and strolls off. He starts shouting and getting upset and begs her to give it back and she just laughs and keeps walking.
At this point I shout over the balcony at her and tell her to give it back or I’ll call the cops - I have her stealing on my phone video and I’ll turn her in (i don’t, but she didn’t know that).
She shrugs and hands the money back to him and walks away saying she was only playing. Australian is ok, a bit shaken up, but we walk him back to his room and give him a hug and he awkwardly thanks me for intervening. All is well and I’m glad I could help.
The next day my friend and I walk out to the tour bus and Australian is regaling the group with last night’s story. Only it’s changed. Now in his version a ‘horny woman desperate to fuck him’ tried to steal his money and he pushed her away. She was a ‘crazy bitch’ apparently.
Friend and I exchange looks and I say ‘that’s not quite how we remember it.’
Someone asks if we were there too and before I can answer Australian interrupts that we watched from the balcony and got really freaked out and he had to calm us down. Thank god he was there. The group then start praising his bravery.
Nope.
So I explain to the group that actually the horny woman was a hooker, and she DID rob him, and the only reason he got the money back was because I shouted at her when he was on the verge of tears.
It was a bit dickish but I was sick of his lies and suddenly becoming the damsel in distress after saving his ass really pissed me off. It did feel really good to finally correct him and shut him up.
Dominiong · 2 points · Posted at 00:43:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back when I worked at a cinema I was one of the only employees other than the cleaner and the manager. I loved working there and would volunteer in my non-working hours as much as I could, which led to a lot of exploitation by the manager. A few months after I started we got a brand new popcorn machine as our old one was tiny and barely catered to the customers, unfortunately it had an international plug. This would've been fine, had the manager not bought a faulty plug. I'm eager to get this thing working, but he informs me the local stores don't have any more plugs at all. It is a pretty small town, but everyone selling out of them? I didn't believe it at all. So one rainy day I finish work and decide to go buy a pair of earphones from the shop, and as I'm walking towards them there is a giant rack of international plugs of every size, shape, and colour. You bet I bought one because I'm not enduring the pain of using that tiny ass popcorn machine again. I didn't end up telling him where I got the plug, and he never ended up getting his own. So when I moved from that town, I decided to take the plug with me. I ended up throwing him under the bus for a lot of other lies, and I'm still surprised he works there.
Gerontogious · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in secondary school, a close friend of mine claimed he was moving away to Scotland. It actually kinda made me upset at first because he was one of my best mates, but i definitely was sceptical about it from the get-go, as he was renowned for his lying
The day arrives and he is nowhere to be seen, nor is he responding to our messages and at this point I was very doubtful, so I gave up trying to find him.
The next day comes along and I message him once again. A while later, he actually responded. The conversation we had was irrelevant, but if you really want to know, he was bullshitting about what his new uniform looks and how the other Scottish students were all cunts. Back to the point, the first message he sends is tagged as from our town, so he was immediately busted. Very satisfying, I was proud for not falling for it haha. I didn’t call him out on it though, I wanted to see how far he’d go with it, for da bantz.
A week later he suddenly turned up at school again, and claimed his mam was contacted by the school and they had to get him back to finish the school year before he could move schools. pfffffftt
I called him out for it alone, as to not embarrass him, and decided to let it go, as no harm was done and if i’m honest, i was impressed with the balls he would’ve needed to actually attempt to pull that off.
We stayed really good mates for around 3 years, and i’d crack jokes about it a lot just to take the mick out of him for it for da bantz
That friendship kinda ended when he tried to get me girlfriend to cheat on my with him. 👌
TL:DR Best mate lied about moving away, I bust him for it, but remain friends till he tries to induce major adultery
This was very difficult to write, hope you enjoy
marsglow · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
One night I’m sitting on the couch when the phone rings. (This is before cell phones.). I answer it and it’s some woman who is whispering. I tell her I can’t hear her and she talks a bit louder. She says she’s having an affair with my husband- in fact, he’s in her shower right now so she takes this moment to call me because she feels so guilty. I didn’t say a word. I just handed the phone to my husband, who was sitting by me. He said hello and she hung up.
I have no idea who it was or why they called.
The funny thing is that he did screw around on me before we split up but I don’t think he was at that time. Who knows? At least he wasn’t that night.
ballisticscholar · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was this guy in college who got obsessed with me 2 years after we graduated (let’s name him Jared). He told me about all this land his family owned, and his “Japanese” lineage. He even created fake social media accounts of cute Japanese guys that were supposedly his “brothers.”
I don’t know why I believed him. There were just a lot of stuff on his story that kinda made sense. We kinda went out a couple times and he even bought me some nice gifts.
And then one day, lo and behold, I received an email from a Japanese guy who looks exactly like one of his “brothers” and said that he’s been trying to have all these fake accounts that Jared created to be deleted and/or cancelled for a while now. I figured out that this was the legit guy because he sent a photo of his ID in the email with some info redacted.
I felt so SICK but at the same time satisfied. I sent him the screenshot of the Japanese guy’s email to me. I blocked his number and other stuff after that. He explained to me that it is a problem of his, but I just told him that i’m not into pathologic liars. He tried to bother me for at least a month and then just gave up. It was satisfying but at the same time tiring. Lol
crazylazylazer · 2 points · Posted at 01:12:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't exactly me catching her lying so much as the vice principal catching her lying about something that happened with me, but goddamn was it satisfying as hell.
Back in middle school a girl (we'll call her Tara) spat gum in my hair, during first or second period. Nobody said anything about it until lunch when my friends pointed it out and told me Tara had been bragging about it. We went to the office mainly to get help getting it out of my hair, and my friends were the ones who told the vice principal that Tara was the one who'd done it and bragged about it. I actually had no intention of getting Tara in trouble, mostly because I just didn't think gum in the hair would be considered that serious of an issue so it wasn't really worth the effort to tattle.
But to my surprise, the vice principal took it very seriously and was completely disgusted that someone put gum in another student's hair like that. Tara got called down to the office to give her side of the story and apparently told some inconsistent lies, first saying she didn't do it, then saying it was an accident and she tried to tell me but I wouldn't listen. But VP wasn't buying it, so she told me that instead of a couple days detention, Tara was now getting three days suspension for lying about it. Which thinking about it now, maybe Tara actually preferred being out of school entirely, but at the time I was happy because she was in more trouble.
tl;dr - Girl spat gum in my hair. She would have gotten a couple days detention but because she lied about it she got three days suspension, because the vice principal at my middle school apparently hated liars.
hammajammah · 2 points · Posted at 01:13:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sixth Grade lunch...
Girl: Well I would know. I’ve been to every country in the world. My dad’s really rich? Me: Oh really? So you’ve been to (gibberish country name)? Girl: Yeah Me: I just totally made that up. You’re full of shit!
(Was much more satisfying given the age)
pumpactionbanana · 2 points · Posted at 01:27:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Caught my ex lying about a LOT of things. Never been so proud and horribly broken at the same time. This is recent too :/
doom1701 · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Another VP had “written” a policy that he was sharing via Skype with me and another guy on my team. Reading it, I could tell that 1. he wasn’t as familiar with it as he should have been and 2. it was much better written than he was capable of.
I muted the phone, told my guy “watch this” and proceeded to Google one of the document’s lines visible on the screen. First result was the exact same document from the State of Massachusetts web site. We followed along using the State copy for the rest of the meeting, including when he would read off something about a department that didn’t even exist in our company.
I’d be lying if I said I had never heavily plagiarized a template document when developing an internal policy. But I’d never claim to have written the document. I’d also be a little more careful replacing company names and department names.
uncwidiot · 2 points · Posted at 01:54:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to take away from the awesome stories in this thread but... https://imgur.com/a/T0j7icv
Sorry if not allowed but it seemed appropriate given the question.
Smash_McManly · 2 points · Posted at 02:23:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Came home from a business trip and smelled cologne in our apartment. Asked wife about it and she said my imagination was going wild. Later taking a bath found semen in the shower. Pointed it out! Hah. Not so imaginative now am I! So...yea...I was right....
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:01:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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Spirit_Light · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
well its mostly mucus if im not mistaken.
Pottsonfire · 2 points · Posted at 02:47:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife and I left Mormonism and she got her first tattoo. Very, very small, just the silhouettes of a few birds flying. She had only shown the tattoo to her parents, a sister and I. We were going to travel down to Utah where we'd be staying with my family and seeing a bunch of her family and friends there. She was pretty good at hiding the tattoo at this point. I think it had been 8 months since she'd had it and her sister who she was around constantly had no idea. She asked me if she should hide it from my parents and I told her no. Not only for the fact that I think it was stupid to hide it, but my step-mother also had tattoos (she had them before she joined Mormonism I believe). So we go down to Utah and the only people she let see it was my family. While we were there my step-mother went to a wedding reception of some people we knew.
We get back home and I get a call from my mother-in-law, crying and telling me that my step-mother had told person x, who just so happened to be my mother-in-law's sister's best friend, who in turn told my mother-in-law's sister that my wife had come to the house "all tatted up" (keep in mind these are 4 simple silhouettes of birds about the size of a large pea each). My step-mother also bad mouthed my in-laws and spilled the beans about them leaving Mormonism too which was a humongous shock to my mother-in-law's sister.
Now at this point my step-mother knew that we were also visiting my mother-in-law's sister, so mentally that was her fail-safe. What she didn't know was that my wife was keeping the tattoo hidden from her. My family were literally the only ones in the state of Utah that knew about the tattoo. So at this point I know what happened, it's exactly what my mother-in-law had explained to me. There was literally no other possible explanation.
So I wait 30 mins or so to kinda calm down and I call my step-mother and ask her if she told anyone about my wife's tattoo. There's about an 8 second pause and she says "no, I don't think so." So I ask her again and tell her that her aunt had called my mother-in-law saying Ashley had a tattoo. My step-mother says "well yeah you guys hung out with her." I said "yeah but she wore a jacket the entire time to cover the tattoo." She says "well it probably slipped out." I said "look, she's hidden it from her sister who she hangs out with every day for months now, it didn't slip out. Clearly you told someone about it." At this point she is incredibly defensive and still denies telling anyone. Even goes as far as to say she has tattoos so why would she say that?
So I said "(wife's aunt) heard from person x, who says you told her. She also says you were completely trashing my in-laws." Step-mother says "well person x is lying. I'm sure (wife's aunt) saw it at some point." I'm like "why would she make up a story that someone else told her about it then? That makes absolutely no sense!" At this point my step-mother is hysterically defensive. She trash talking my in-laws to me now (I love my in-laws, they're some of the best people I've ever met) and swearing up and down that she isn't lying and getting mad at me for not believing her. I just told her the facts don't add up, that I didn't believe her and had person x's phone number and would be calling her to get her side of the story. There was a silence and my step-mother said "I don't know what to tell you to make you believe me" and hung up.
I called person x who wouldn't answer my phone call. I sent her a Facebook message and she just responded back that she didn't want to be involved in the drama any more than she had been.
So a day goes by and I get a call from my step-mother who tells me "apparently I did mention something about (wife's) tattoo and I don't remember at all. But I swear it wasn't negative and I know I didn't trash talk her family." I said "well you can't remember what you said about (wife's) tattoo but you sure seem to have a great memory about what you said about her family, which are people I count as my family, and I just don't believe you. You've lied to me through your teeth to this point and I still think you're lying." She said she wasn't and I thanked her for her honesty, said goodbye and hung up the phone.
This was the straw that broke the camels back. They lie to us every chance they get. They play mind games constantly and trash talk even their closest friends behind their backs. They had run our names and my in-laws names through the mud for leaving Mormonism and though I knew they were doing it I could never prove it until this. Probably the most satisfying lie I've ever caught someone in and it stopped them trash talking us and my in-laws (I think lol).
Nutella_Bacon · 2 points · Posted at 02:52:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My high school girlfriend, we dated from the start of freshman year to when she broke up with me 2 weeks before Valentine’s Day senior year.
I still loved her, and would do anything for her. For months she told me she wanted me back and even cheated on her new boyfriend with me when I tried to flat out leave. Before prom, told her to make up her mind, if she wanted to talk to me ever again she had to pick between me or him, and that would be final. She picked me, but since he already asked her to prom she wanted to go with him and would break up with me right after that.
Yes, I was whipped as fuck. I believed her.
The day after prom, she tells me she changed her mind and wants him. I told her she has to tell him everything or else I would. She told me she did and again I believed her.
4 weeks later, I go 30 hours without sleep from video games with friends. I have the awful idea to text her boyfriend how he’s almost as whipped as I was for staying with her even after her admission of what she did.
She didn’t tell him a single word. He asked what the fuck I was saying. I showed him screenshots of her messages. That was the end of that.
I didn’t even intend to break them up. I thought he knew it all since she told me so, and just wanted to give him shit for making the same mistakes I did for like 15 minutes or until he blocked me. 🤷♂️
Yue4prex · 2 points · Posted at 03:23:07 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work for a well known video rental place. We had drop boxes for after hours drop offs. At the time I was there, it was policy to let an item be charged to a customer if it was returned damaged.
I had a brand new resident evil game for PS3 come back with a meaty crack into the data layer, essentially making it unplayable. I even popped it in our PS3 to make sure it didn’t work. I didn’t check the game in and let the guests account get charged.
A few days later, after having been charged $60+ for the game, I get an angry call. I explained that we got the game back but it was damaged. He was infuriated. First he said he dropped it off, then when I say it was damaged, his brother dropped it off.
During our conversation, I asked how he liked the game. He said it was good so I said, “sir, the game is so damaged that it will no longer play. So if you got to play the game, it means that it got damaged in your possession and I will not remove the charge.”
Needless to say, the issue was resolved and I now keep a trophy for myself.
supercharr · 2 points · Posted at 03:42:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex-boyfriend wanted to take a two week break over the holidays. We had been fighting for weeks on end and he said that he just needed some peace to spend the holidays with his family, who were visiting.
During this break, 3 of his closest friends called to tell me that he had been with another girl. Collectively, they told me the day, the time, the location, and the girl's name.
When we met back up, my boyfriend kept assuring me that he had been faithful through the break and had spent the whole time with his family.
In the most pathetic voice I asked him, "Really? long pause You didn't sleep with [girl's name] on [extremely specific date] at [extremely specific time]?"
The look on his face was so satisfying. Almost as satisfying as later telling him that his friends had gone out of their way to snitch on him.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 2 points · Posted at 00:16:34 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wish you hadn't given up the friends.
supercharr · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:31 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh I didn't give up their names. I merely told him the number of friends who had ratted him out. He tried guessing which ones and all of his guesses were off.
OreoSchnitzel · 2 points · Posted at 03:50:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend when I caught her stalking me after she denied doing so. She would always lie about how coincidentally she showed up at public places where I went. It was really annoying that she couldn't just talk about this and would always deny her obsession of constantly checking where I was.
Kuni64 · 2 points · Posted at 03:56:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a few friends over for a party. One of them was sitting in the floor next to me on her phone. The way she had her phone made it very much in my range of vision and I couldn't help but to see her screen. I could tell that she was deleting her outgoing messages in a thread, but I didn't see who and didn't want to be rude so I shifted my vision. 10 mins later she starts talking about how a guy she new was being creepy and messaging her non-stop. She then proceeded to show me a message thread that was completely one sided on his end and told me how she never answered but he just kept it up. After that I made a mental note to apply a grain of salt to whatever she was telling me.
Brandelis · 2 points · Posted at 03:56:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My uncle married this monster, she is a monster in every sense that she is extremely overweight, has rolls that should never be seen and grows hair in unimaginable places.
It would have been 10 years ago it was claimed that she was pregnant with triplets, naturally no one could notice so at this point we were all none the wiser. Months later she claimed to have miscarried and we were sent photos via email of the dead babies and my grandparents were all upset claiming the babies looked like my uncle. Needless to say I wasn’t convinced and reverse googled the images and came to a website that no longer exists called sleepingangels.com or something similar. On this website parents posted photos of their babies who had passed and to our horror we found the exact 3 photos that were emailed to us. These photos were on this website for years and I believe uploaded from someone in America (we are not American).
I worked in a local hospital laboratory where I could look up results going back years, I looked up her results for a HbA1C during the time she claimed to be pregnant and this test requires knowledge of whether a patient is pregnant or not and she had answered no.
To this day she still claims they were legitimate and makes a Facebook post every year with their names and so on, my grandparents still believe her. I have no idea what her motive was/is she has been married twice previously and has children from another marriage. They are still married, I believe she is just a leech sucking money out of those who believe her lies.
Td;rl Psychotic Aunty lied about being pregnant with triplets and emailed us fake photos of the babies that she ‘miscarried’ from google.
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:25 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I come from a maladjusted family that generally acted rotten to each other. My oldest brother caught me in a lie as a teenager, and reamed my ass TWICE over it. I'm talking, screaming in my face at the top of his lungs, I broke down and everything. And he did it the next day because he was taking underhanded shots at me, and his girlfriend told him point blank "If you have a problem with him, then you need to talk to him". So there goes round two of getting reamed out, and breaking down again.
Well, as adults, it turns out that my brother is just a pretty huge piece of shit. Just a lying, immature, selfish, self-destructive man-child. He'd lie about all kinds of shit. He lied when he didn't want to admit that he was hanging out with this LOWLIFE bitch that was leeching off of him (he was cheating on his wife, but they both cheat on each other. We only cared because this chick was BAD NEWS). He lied about why he had to ditch out on me on my birthday. He'd lie about being drunk all the time. And he'd lie about lying. Claiming that he never said such and so lie. And of course, he'd have that "selective amnesia", where he'd conveniently forget when such and so shit went down.
It wasn't satisfying, because I had to acknowledge that my brother is a piece of shit. But some of the worst PTSD I have is how I was treated as a kid, and those incidents stood out to me. My brother treated me like I just stabbed his cat. And ten years later, HE is the lying sack of shit. Fuck him.
TheFacetiousLinguist · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh God. I work with a girl and her boyfriend. Their relationship is problematic anyway, he always cheats on her, has kids with another girl, so on and so forth. They're both pretty trashy people tho and exactly who you would expect to be together.
Anyway, this girl lies about everything. She told my other coworker and me that they got married and we were asking to see the wedding ring because we knew she was lying. First she told us about how she couldn't wear it because she had a brace on her wrist and the ring would cut off circulation (???). The next day when the brace was off she said that she didn't want to wear it to work because the diamond was so big that it might get in the way, so we said we wanted to see a picture the next day, not believing her but acting like we were excited for her and just wanted to see her wedding ring. She then told us that she got mad at her boyfriend, punched a hole in the wall, and the ring flew off her finger and got lost somewhere in the wall, because I guess that's how houses and physics work.
The next day, we were all standing together talking and I asked her boyfriend how their wedding was. He looked at us confused and said "What? I could never marry her, we hate each other too much." None of us ever brought up the wedding again.
jordanlund · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:52 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So my wife and I were co-commuting which meant early mornings and late nights. Our teenaged son asked if he could have the teacher's kid over after school to "practice cello". Sure kid, whatevs, we trust you.
We get home, key is in the front door lock and I hear running.
Awwww yeah, dis gonna be good.
I open the front door and he's right there hands in the air.
"Wait, wait, I can explain."
"Let me put my things down, let your mom in and we'll here what you can or cannot explain."
Girl is getting herself together and politely excuses herself.
Our kid has a giant freaking hickey on his neck.
His "explanation" was that he was bending over under his desk to get headphones and hit his neck on the edge of the desk.
I told him he's grounded not for lying to us, but for being a bad liar and assuming we were dumb enough to buy it.
Commence the whining about "you don't trust me..." etc. etc. etc.
So I went fine, took the headphones, tossed them under the desk and asked him how he bruised the front of his neck bending over under the desk to get headphones.
There was an honest attempt with much twisting and contorting. "Yeah, still grounded."
IHaveAnAnsr4This · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:03 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A classmate of mine used to always say how her lover was filthy rich and how he would treat her to very expensive items all the times. People used to ask me about this since her lover was a buddy of mine and I never really believed that they were being serious with what she said and that they were stretching out the truth until she told me herself. Now she didn't know that I was one of the people her boyfriend hangs out with, so it really didn't work out in her favor. Needless to say, no one will be believing any of her tall tales.
Colin_XD · 2 points · Posted at 06:26:49 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh boy do I have a story for you.
Wait never mind it’s not really a story it’s just funny to think about.
So there was this guy at my old school and he was a pretty kewl boy at first, and then he started compulsive lying and then shit got hella bad (I mean nothing harmful it was just... annoying?)
So here’s a bunch of lies and then more lies then contradictions.
I don’t tell him about this though because hell have a breakdown
neffdiaz · 2 points · Posted at 07:00:40 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Followed someone I knew on Twitter and realized that they stole my header image. I messaged them asking if my phone was somehow messing up or if we did have the same header image. He said he saw it on someone else's twitter and he liked it. But it was undeniably my picture. It was a picture of downtown Houston. The way the picture was cropped. The cloud formations. It was exactly my picture. I just replied with a screenshot of the original in my camera roll. He acted surprised and "couldn't remember" who's profile he had supposedly seen it on. He's since changed his header image. Never spoke about it again.
It was my picture....
zamzam96 · 2 points · Posted at 07:26:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My little shit head friend lies all the time with shit like fake statistics or facts so I always have to be skeptical about everything he says so it’s kinda hard to narrow it down to one time from the hundreds of times I’ve caught onto his bullshit.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even if you prove he's a liar he will say your proof is fake news.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 09:56:20 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
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ROARscaredyoudidntI · 2 points · Posted at 14:40:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Jesus go outside and play
oceanceaser · 2 points · Posted at 10:06:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A family friend got married to a guy who claimed to be an nhl team owner, Nascar team owner, doctor, lawyer a whole bunch of BS. I couldn't find anything on him anywhere and whe we called him on his lies, he stuck to it. A while after they married it all came out, he was a con artist and scammed the shit out of her.
Brock2845 · 2 points · Posted at 12:47:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A coworker enjoyed saying she went to destinations abroad (vacation like Cuba, Mexico, Dominican Republic). She bragged about it and annoyed every coworker. One time, she was supposed to be away, I go with other coworkers at a bar out of town.
Guess who was there, in the corner, trying to be invisible?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:32:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-wife's car was still registered in my name. So when she went through a red light, the city sent me a picture of her license plate and her in the driver's seat. I had to dispute the ticket by naming the person who was driving. I gave her a "head's up" that the ticket was coming. Her reply: "I don't know what you're talking about as I've never even gone through a yellow light much less a red light." It was so satisfying to know that even in the face of documented proof she was still a lier who couldn't take responsibility for her actions. It reminds me to this day that divorcing her was the right decision.
Soullessammy · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
this is what my mom told me later as i was on the toilet or something, but a friend was over and we were supposed to go to the fare so i got money from mom which she lay on the counter for me. she has barely turned around and the money is gone, and the only person left besides mom was m6 friend. my mom asked her if she grapped my money, she denies , my mom doesnt buy it and asks her some more, and finally she confessed she did it mom was livid.
heanthebean · 2 points · Posted at 05:02:14 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
OH MAN. A friend in high school approached me and asked what camera I used for my photography and which lens, as he was wanting to get into photography and do photoshoots for some extra cash. I gladly told him and wished him luck on his projects. About a week later, I see he has an Instagram account already up with some photos on it. I'm looking through these pictures and he already has like 3 different couples' photos up from shoots. I thought there was no way he bought the camera, got the couples, and editing software in that amount of time. Sure enough, he was plagiarizing. All it took was a google image search of some specific features in these couples to find the REAL links he was pulling them from. I was pissed off. Over the course of the week, he had posted more photos every day. One night I got so mad about it, that I hunted down every single link to each photo and posted them as comments on those photos. Was immediately blocked and he avoided me at school for the remaining two years.
asBad_asItGets · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:31 on July 6, 2018 · (Permalink)
SORRY I'M LATE.
TLDR: I pretty much proved my Asian female teacher was racist and sexist towards all students who werent an Asian girl.
My freshman year of high school, I took an art class. The teacher, let's call her Ms. Blue, was an Asian woman who was just unpleasant in every way. I'm a Filipino male, so not the "model" Asian like Japanese or Chinese, and significantly darker than those types. The school I went to had a pretty heavy Hispanic and Latino population, with a good number of Asian and other ethnicities. Anyway, throughout the whole year, I always got a sense that Ms. Blue hated me. But over time I learned I wasn't the only one who felt that way.
My class was mostly filled Hispanics and Latinos, a couple white people, a couple Asians, and me. But I was noticing a pattern that Ms. Blue seemed to be extremely unpleasant to everyone who WASN'T an Asian girl. At first I thought it was only Asians she was nice to, but I would ask the Asian boys and she'd be resentful to them too. By unpleasant, I mean she would kick kids out of class, give them detention, hold them in for lunch, or basically do anything that makes students hate teachers; all for basically nothing like whispering to a person next to them for directions or standing up to throw something away. But the worst of it was when she'd assign more work or give us extra work because our original work wasn't up to par. See, during class, we had "levels" of assignments. You'd do the first level, bring it to her for approval, then move to level 2 if she gave you the OK. But you had to keep doing level 1 until she said, or if you weren't getting it, she'd divert to remedial work.
Anyway, I was noticing the two Asian girls in our class would always get WAY out ahead on these levels before everyone else. One of them was my good friend I sat next to. And I was venting my frustrations with a certain project. My friend took it and did some for me and said to take it to her then, and I did and got rejected again for like the 3rd time. I decided to basically do a racism/sexism test. I told one of my Mexican male friends to turn his level 1 paper (it was an ink drawing assignment where we all draw the same thing) in for check, and keep in mind all 3 of us were pretty good at it. I go up with my male friend with our papers and we show her, and she gives us her normal scowl and takes 3 seconds to look and at our papers and says "no see there's too much space here. Do it again." and throws it back to us without even lifting her head up to look if we grabbed the paper before it fell.
We just roll our eyes and go back to our desks. I sit next to my female Asian friend and literally just sit there for 10 minutes doing absolutely nothing. Keep in mind this girl is on level 4 already and the teacher PRAISED her for her level 1 as if she was Van Gogh himself. I ask to borrow her level 1 paper and she realizes what I'm doing. She gives it to me. I tell my Mexican male friend to get that other Asian girls paper who is on level 3. We both go up with PRE-APPROVED level 1 papers that got flying reviews from Ms. Blue and done by her beloved Asian girls. We hand them to her and she immediately says "nope see this part is too dark and you still have too much space here." Me and Mexican dude look at each other and just laugh and roll our eyes and walk back. I never reported this. Or did anything. I just knuckled under her class and passed trying to get out of there as fast as possible.
Caught the lying racist and sexist bitch red handed and never even did anything with it or showed her, her own fault. I wish I did though. I wish I shouted right in her face like HA. THIS PAPER WAS EMILY'S TO BEGIN WITH YOU LYING BITCH. But alas. I never did. Hope you guys enjoyed the story. It's my first reddit story. Lol. I joined a couple days ago.
TheGothicLibrarian · 2 points · Posted at 18:40:30 on August 8, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is by far my favorite story, because I knew this person was stupid, but holy shit she proved her self amazingly stupid, and it took her 5 hours to realize it. It's long, sorry.
Background: we had a terrible part time library technician, she was a flaky older lady who just couldn't grasp that work is not social time with her friends and always messed up the simplest tasks. When she started, she couldn't count a cash drawer, but we just hired her after she left her job at a bank, a fucking BANK where her job was to count money out to customers. By this time, she's been working with us for about 6 months.
She applied for and was hired to another part time library job in the neighboring county (we are separate systems), and was told that she needed to work out her new schedule around ours as we are her first job. It's not that hard and I had worked at the other system for a little bit before starting where I am now, so I know it was easy and possible.
My coworker had a tendancy to take off whenever she wanted, lie about where she was when she needed to be at work, and kick up a fuss because she was a "veteran". She actually though Veteran's Preference meant she could do whatever she wanted at work.
The other Library required one week of her going into work everyday to be thoroughly trained, this could be done by taking an unpaid week off from our location. Coworker didn't like that at all and pitched a fit at my supervisor, who told her to cool it or leave. She cooled down and didn't bring it up.
Two days later coworker comes in with the newspapers, she is bawling her eyes out and inconsolable, her son was in ICU at the hospital because he was in a motorcycle accident. It all checked out, we had met her son several times as he would bring her lunch occasionally. Yes, that really was him in the newspapers, yes he was at the hospital, yes it was serious. My supervisor is the greatest person I've ever worked with, and was sympathetic and allowed coworker to take 2 weeks off, but only one week could be used as a paid vacation, to look after her son in the hospital.
I was just hired into a full time opening that required I do children's programs, ah to be so young and full of spirit again. I was told that the neighbor county library system was hosting an early literacy educational program and that I should go to get some insights and make connections, sounds good to me! I could even say hello to the coworker whose job I accepted and get some advice.
I get to the library, but it's not open yet, so I wait until they open. While I'm standing outside, I noticed one of the staff had the same White Old Lady in Florida hair cut that Coworker had, I thought nothing about it because, all old ladies in Florida have the same hair cut. Doors open, and I head to the kid's area for the program.
Not even half way through the really short building and I hear my name called, it's Coworker who was supposed to be at the hospital! She asks me why I was there, in a small talk way, I tell her. I ask why she was there, in just as much a small talk way, and she tells me she started her training to work there. I had an obviously confused look on my face, and she says the most costly and obvious lie I ever heard "it's okay, (Supervisor) knows." I just nod and excuse myself to the program, but the entire time I'm replaying what the fuck just happened.
If coworker had not approached or even called out to me, I never would have known she was there, and she would have been living a lie uncaught. But she was dumb and I was a tattletale. After the 3 hour program, I had an hour lunch where I went to Panera and got a Brownie to go before I went back to work. The least I could do was soften the blow to my supervisor.
I clocked in and went right to my supervisors office and handed her the brownie before saying "You'll never guess who I saw today." By the time I told her everything, her face was beet red and I had never seen fury so physically embodied as I did then. My supervisor told me to stay , as she called the other Library and talked to their supervisor, and had me retell everything. While I did this, my supervisor was emailing HR to start the Firing process when my supervisor got an email ping. It was Coworker, emailing to quit her job with us as her son's injuries where nearly paralyzing him and she would have to stay home to take care of him full time. Bullshit. My supervisor emailed HR that Coworker quit, and to ban her from ever being hired again.
The Other Supervisor thanked me for my time and knowledge and hung up, I could hear she was also mad. She didn't know until then that her son was in the hospital.
Not only did she quit, but she was fired 15 seconds later, my good coworker was sitting right next to her when their supervisor ran into the office, and screamed "You are Fired, (coworker)! Get your stuff, and hand in your keys and badges and leave. You have 10 minutes before I call security to remove you."
mbmeadowshill · 4 points · Posted at 20:24:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After my friends wouldn't stop bugging me, I signed up on Match.com. I soon found an interesting man that lived about an hour away. Lots of messaging (before cell phone texting,) then phone chats. We met each other about 3 weeks after we first met on Match and hit it off instantly. Never ending messaging, phone calls, and dates. After about 5 months into our seemingly happy relationship, I began to have a gnawing feeling that something wasn't right and I may not be his only one. I blew it off as my just being paranoid since I had been cheated on before, and we seemed to have the perfect relationship. Yet, this hunch that something wasn't right kept popping up in my mind. I didn't want to say anything to him because if he was seeing other women I knew he would lie. To find out the truth, I set up a fake account on Match.com and started the whole process using the fake name "Amy" and living about a half hour from him. My fake profile included many things I knew he was interested in. I contacted him on Match and there were at least 75 messages between us in just two weeks. No phone calls as I told him I was hesitant to give out my number so soon. After the two weeks of messaging, he wanted to meet me and we agreed to meet at a bar/restaurant near where he lived. Of course, I had been there with him several times. We planned to meet in the bar area. I printed off all of the messages between us from the past two weeks and put them in an envelope. I walked up to him in the bar and he looked dumbfounded, and not happy to see me. He asked me what I was doing there and how I knew he would be there. I smiled and said, "Hi, I'm Amy," and handed him the envelope with all the printed messages. At first he looked confused and then he was mad. How dare he be mad at me when he was cheating on me. I walked out and drove home. Shortly after I got home that night, I got message after message from him, still mad at me, I guess for being caught, or upset there was no real "Amy." He said he was never going to talk to me again. Did he really think that I wanted to continue having contact with him?! Within a few weeks, he started messaging me, wanting me to forgive him and get back together, apologizing for his terrible mistake. Not going to happen. The last time I talked to him was when he called and I saw the caller ID on my phone. I answered the phone saying, "Hello, This is Amy." Never have I had so much satisfaction as when I walked into that bar and handed him all the pages of messaging between "Amy" and him. This was 12 years ago and I still get satisfaction and a little elated about my sleuthing to catch him as a cheater.
Piscope · 2 points · Posted at 02:30:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was your relationship supposed to be an exclusive one?
Megandapanda · 0 points · Posted at 01:28:32 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Holy wall of text batman!
StellarTabi · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's never really been satisfying for me because when they're caught it's always too late, whether that be a sex partner, business partner, or coworker that has fucked me over.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:59:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
First relationship, about 21 years old, had noticed my girlfriend smiling at her phone often, and using it to text much more frequently. She went to the bathroom and I checked her phone, of course found messages between her & some guy- "you are so cute" ect ect. I was furious, upset, cried, than I fucked her so hard we passed out.
Few weeks go by, same thing, I had felt like I needed to check her facebook messages when she went to the bathroom, opened her laptop, convo between her & the same guy- "you want to go to the carnival? Come over, my dad isnt home" ect ect. I got a call for an interview directly after reading this, so I was in tears on the phone and on the way to the interview.
Finally, I decided to drop by one night she wasnt answering my text or calls. Of course, her car wasnt there- I was around for hours...maybe until about 1am. Of course she pulls up thinking she got away with everything. I confronted her and she lied, saying she was at her moms house. But her mom lives down the street, and I had been checking both her fathers & mothers house for the past few hours. Hmmm. And she was all dolled up, clearly coming from that guys house. I'm pushing her buttons cause I know, If I remember correctly she finally admits it. We go inside her house, I'm just...dead inside at this point, decide to leave after she gives me a shitty attitude. And shes pulling on my arms, begging me not to walk out.
It might not have been the best feeling in the world to catch her, but at least I constantly had evidence of her lies that she denied over & over. Sidenote: shit like this would go on to happen to me for the next 2 girls I dated. It goes without saying I'm single by choice now and fucking exhausted.
Bulletoverload · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I feel this post so hard. It truly is exhausting, and scarring. I'm sorry this has been your experience.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sad reality, I think it's just so common. We live in a world of selfish humans.
Bulletoverload · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It does seem to be more common. I'm not sure if it's just internet prevelance or what, but i'm seeing more and more memes about casual cheating, and I hate it. It shouldn't be our social norm, or expected. Unfortunately it seems to be.
tokenabs · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a teen I worked with a girl I’ll call Stef, who was constantly making excuses for why she was late every day. She would call in sick almost every Saturday (clearly hungover based off her social media postings) and we would be short-shifted or I would have to come in on my day off.
Stef was always bragging about all her money and her parents’ boat, mansion, and lake house. She bought a new pair True Religion jeans every other week and had countless Michael Kors bags. She was that kind of girl.
Everyone at work despised working with Stef and we were all sick of covering her slack or being short-shifted and running around like chickens with our heads cut off. Our boss had been informed many times but didn’t want to train a new employee during our busy season so she stayed.
One day I ran into the Stef’s mom and aunt at a farmers market, who recognized me from work and stopped to chat for a few minutes. Stef’s mom was making comments like, “I’m so proud of Stef she’s been working so hard,” and “Stef really knows the value of money, she’s such a smart and mature young lady.” She also made comments about how Stef was working ‘right as we speak’ and I politely informed them that Stef had called in sick this morning. After some lengthy questioning I led on that Stef had called in sick the past three Saturdays and was only working half shifts most other days.
Stef never showed up at work again. Her mom dropped off her work uniform the following week and confided to me that she’d sent Stef to an all girl’s boarding school 3 hours away because she’d been fooling around with a 35 yo drug dealer! It felt pretty good, not gonna lie.
ApparentlyLotL · 3 points · Posted at 18:35:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll just leave this here.
tl:dr, I discovered my ex was posting stories on Reddit about our relationship a year and a half after we broke up - thinking I wouldn't see them - all about how shitty and cringe-worthy of a person I was, how crazy all my friends were, and how he finally got fed up with everything when he found out I cheated on him. (My friends and I are much more normal than the stories made me out to be, and HE was the one that cheated.)
Well, I found the stories, spent the next day and a half compiling all the proof I could to prove his stories were all lies to make him look good to a bunch of strangers on Reddit, posted it, and sat back and watched the magic happen. He ended up having to delete his account and make a new one, change his online handle everywhere, and claimed that his ex-best friend was the one that wrote and posted the stories using his account (even though I know his writing style and there's no way they were that similar coincidentally.) But I let it go and claimed I had no proof that claim was wrong, I just wanted to prove that the stories themselves were fake, which I gloriously accomplished.
It really is a hilarious read, if you've got the time. Enjoy!
iTzHard · 2 points · Posted at 18:40:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i've read the post and i've gotta say this: ggwp my dude
ApparentlyLotL · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks. It's funny cuz me and RC are actually on friendly talking terms when we pass each other in the internet-halls, and Loki and I are dating now. Life is funny.
tinyahjumma · 3 points · Posted at 20:15:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I can’t give details. But I am a lawyer. Witness on the stand had “proof” that my client committed the crime: photo she took on her phone. I asked the judge permission to check the photos before and after the photo in question, you know, for context.
The accompanying photos showed the witness to be a liar liar pants on fire (that’s the legal term.) I was actually in a big hurry that day, so I showed her photos, ripped her to shreds, got my client’s case dismissed. Then I told the judge I had somewhere to be and walked out like a BOSS.
Everybody clapped.
Okay, not really, but I was pretty pleased.
DiscombobulatedPlan0 · 3 points · Posted at 20:23:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a pretty morbid story but it's still relevant to the topic.
There was a girl in our circle of friends who ended up getting pregnant even though she's Facebook single. One day she calls me over to help her out, help her plan things out, basically having a guy around because the real father of the baby isn't there for her.
She confides into me that she wants an abortion. She kept asking me questions like, "Do you think I should get an abortion? Would you help me go through the process at the clinic?" I held a calm demeanor and said things like, "Well if you want my opinion on the whole matter, given that you're a young girl that has no job and the father of the baby probably doesn't even want the child, whoever he is, I would consider my own well being and choose to have children later."
All of her friends know about her pregnancy and they all told her that they think abortion is the wrong choice and that she should keep it, even if she ends up a single mother their group of friends will support her as best they can. She scheduled an appointment with the clinic and she asked me to drive her there, to be there for her, but she got cold feet as we were talking to the door and she broke down crying. She asked me to drive her back home and we cancelled the appointment.
Her friends found out that she almost went through with the abortion and immediately she blames me for it. She told them that I tried to force her into having an abortion and that I drove her to the clinic to get it done. I had people shouting at me left and right asking me what the fuck is wrong with me but I immediately denied any of that happened.
I found the recordings on my phone of the days I spent with her and showed everyone what actually happened in those conversations and told them the truth of who initiated action, who really wanted the abortion. There was a good silence for about a minute because nobody wanted to call out the pregnant girl for lying. I said my piece to clear my name and I blocked the girl on my phone, never spoke to her again after that day.
kittymctacoyo · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:27 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Smart move recording it. What prompted you to feel you needed to?
Motogirlmx · 3 points · Posted at 05:38:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ah yes. Ex-boyfriend getting sexts from supposed random lady. But body looked familiar from one of his rando married christian lady with a kid facebook friends.
Sooo, I opened GPS metadata on sext from his phone on my computer, googled GPS coordinates and found home location which revealed homeowner’s name as rando suspected lady.
Found zillow listing for house and images of interior of bathroom, matched to sext image on his phone. Confronted him, he continued to lie. Presented all evidence. Then calmly packed all my stuff and moved out two weekends later. 2.5 year relationship over. Do not lie to crazy investigative nerds.
IHaveABetWithMyBro · 2 points · Posted at 06:39:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a side note TURN OFF YOUR GPS METADATA
nutter88 · 2 points · Posted at 17:51:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Have a co-worker who lies about everything. One day I took a suggestion about making certain task go faster to our supervisor, and the supervisor assigned the task to the liar. Fine with me, except a few days later the co-worker comes to me and says “Hey, I figured out how we can do this a certain way and it’ll be faster.” I told him “Yeah, I know, I told Paul about it two days ago, right before he assigned it to you.”
He says “Oh, you did?” Yes, you lying fuck.
This was the most satisfying because it’s the first one I ever called him on.
luvs2meow · 3 points · Posted at 15:12:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was student teaching (at a highly desirable school to work) there was another student teacher across the hall who I knew would probably get the job before me if one became available. She knew how to talk to people and was everyone’s favorite student teacher, much to my dismay.
Anyways, the grade level was on a plant unit and I asked her what resources she was using and offered to share ones I had. She sent me this super long PowerPoint, like 60 slides. I said, “Oh my gosh, did you make this?!” She said, “Yeah, it took me forever!” She always made it seem like she balanced being this amazing student teacher while working every night as a bartender so I was impressed (but jealous she was so amazing).
Anywho, later that week I was online perusing resources to use for said plant unit and I found the same 60 slide PowerPoint she said she made, which had been posted several years earlier by another teacher online. I never mentioned it, but I did redownload it to use with the original teachers name on it so my cooperating teacher would know.
A job did become available and she got it. I am pretty sure she only lasted a year though, not sure what happened. Maybe they found her out!
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 13:32:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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BetterBeRavenclaw · 21 points · Posted at 17:42:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't know why it was satisfying to shame your friend for his porn choices, which he understandably wanted to keep private.
Honestly you sound like a shit friend. It's one thing to mention it when you didn't know he would be sore about it, but to open his phone and rub it in his face in it when he was obviously already uncomfortable is a dick move.
It's not like he did anything to you or owed you the truth about this one.
JackRWithers · -2 points · Posted at 19:23:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well his friend did go out of his way to call it disgusting, so it’s kinda hypocritical
graspme · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and my bros are open about shit like this. Hentai is great once in a while :D
Smiekes · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never satisfying
MeatyOchre · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
“Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”
kakes_411 · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
End of 11th grade, we couldn't bring backpacks so I was carrying a couple books and my thing of gum around. I leave to go to the bathroom in one of my classes, and when I come back some kids are visiting (they didn't have my period) and passing my gum around. I walked up and asked for a peice, and the kid goes sure. I take it from him and say "thanks, because it's MY GUM". He goes "no it's not dickhead, my mom gave it to me for my birthday yesterday" and I said "no you didn't, you found it over on that table next to my books" and I walked away. When he left a few minutes later I wished him a happy birthday.
Bontrager78 · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not quite the same but close
My wife is prone to dramatics and often accuses me of not “communicating “ with her and that we are somehow broken because of this. I’m defending myself of something trivial like not being home on time and I should have let her know but my communication is shiit
This whole thing is unfolding at 7 in the morning while I’m getting myself and the kids ready to get to school when a knock at the front door causes us to stop. We all look at each other in “who could be at our door this early” kind of way. I answer the door and it’s the neighbor girl that I take to school in the morning. She is an hour early. I let her in and as soon as my wife sees her she says “oh I forgot Anna is coming over early because her parents have to leave early this morning”. I’m standing there with my mouth hanging open making eye contact with my wife waiting for her to pick up on the irony of the fight that was just were in the middle of.
She follows up with “I didn’t think it would be a big deal because you would be here anyway”. I said I agree and can see that she is still missing the point.
Later that night she conceded she knew all right away that this didn’t help her argument but was too proud to concede.
XTypewriter · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not an answer to this question, but I'm looking for advice on working on my frequent lying. I caught myself lying about a lot of things and it's been getting worse. It originated from my parents harassing me to get a job while in uni and already working so it was easier to tell them I've been applying to stuff and after 2 year's of that, its escalated to other things. Mostly lying to my parents when they try to live my life for me but now it's starting to spread to other aspects of my life.
How can I overcome this?
ashrose4789 · 2 points · Posted at 22:37:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Find a counsellor. I was a compulsive liar years ago, and the best thing my parents ever did for me was take me to counselling
altxatu · 2 points · Posted at 23:51:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That’s a great question I don’t think anyone here is really qualified to answer.
My best advice is to seek some therapy or counseling.
My practical advice is just not lie. You are what you are. Own it. None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. It’s okay to be who you are. People will accept you for you, but most people won’t accept dishonesty in the long run. Think about why you want to project this image that your lies contribute to. Is that image who you wish you could be? Is it someone you aspire to be? What’s the underlying cause? Is it to impress people? Is it to make yourself feel better about something? Is it just a habit? Is it just a fantasy you set up over a normal interaction? If it’s a fantasy, maybe you can write a short story about it? Maybe that’ll help? I don’t know. But the fact that you see it as a problem is a very positive thing. It means you know it’s a problem, and you want to fix it.
p4lm3r · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I know this will get buried, but making republican SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis look like a dick on Twitter. I mean, he is an unabashed asshole to anyone that has ever worked for him, and a racist, but I got to call him out publicly on his Twitter and Facebook. Of course he banned me but not before looking like a child throwing a temper tantrum first.
So, Nikki Haley in all of her brilliance scheduled a KKK/Neo Nazi rally and a New Black Panther rally on the Statehouse grounds on the same day. As the rally wrapped up, the Nazi/Clan people were being escorted back to a parking garage where the police(I swear every badge in the state) was there to protect them. I (a white guy) was in the middle of all the New Black Panthers and their supporters.
It is at this time that Loftis tweets from his office 8 floors up about all the violence the black protesters are perpetrating and how he can see them from his office destroying property. I tweeted pics of everyone around me being completely fine, and how I was in the middle of it, and everything felt very safe even with all the slurs, hate and vitriol being spewed by the Nazis. It could have ended there but 'last word Loftis' just had to take the bait. For the next 3ish hours he spiraled into rant after rant and I just kept baiting him. It was glorious. Sitting in The Whig drinking a PBR and Tequila having this guy going into spasms of fury because I called his racist ass out.
tl;dr, called SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis out on being a racist, and he lost his shit for hours.
altxatu · 2 points · Posted at 22:48:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What do you expect? He’s republican.
justablur · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy got up in front of the CIA wall of honor and lied about the number of people who came to his inauguration the day before. I knew then that I had been right about him for years.
Sygmei · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but my dad. When I was like 10, I wanted my dad to tell me the name of a song I recorded the day before on my mp3 (recorded from FM radio).
After making him listening to the record he asks me what I was doing yesterday at 11PM (I was supposed to be asleep). I obviously answer "I was alseep of course !". He waits a bit and tells me "You lie, at the end of the song you can hear X and X only does podcasts from 11PM" (X being the name of a radio host).
At this look you could see he was mad for me not going to bed but also proud of guessing that, only by hearing the voice of X.
ermergerdberbles · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now here goes story time.
Worked in the highest escalation team in a telecom company. I typically dealt with privacy breaches and other sensitive matters, but when it was slow I'd help out with other escalations directed at the executive team.
This was around the release of the Iphone 5, where the 4S was still available. Buddy's claim was that he was offered a 4S to hold him over until the 5 came back into stock.
I pull the call, and listen in. The agent could not have been more clear. The offer was as follows:
1) NO phone today and be put on the waitlist for the 5 with a small bill credit for his patience.
2) New 4S practically for free shipped today, and NO IPhone 5.
Of course the agent goes through all the fine points for the upgrade and makes it very clear the offer is either or.
Customer says he needs to consult the wife. Agent says sure and his mute. Buddy goes " hey Susan (whatever her name was), he's offered us (repeats offers verbatim). " While wifey is deciding, he yells " fluffy (or whatever the cat's name was) get off the fucking couch". Wife confirms she wants the 4S and the order is VERY CLEARLY repeated and confirmed with the agent.
I'm barely done listening to the call and I ring buddy up. I intro myself and before I can ask him for clarity on his concerns he jumps in making wild claims that the agent also offered this and that freebie too.
" Sir, I would like to remind you that all our calls are recorded and I am confident you knew exactly what you were offered as you excitedly sought Susan's opinion. Further, you and I both know that the agent didn't off you (shit he made up just now). Also you shouldn't be yelling at fluffy like that."
He just sputters and thanks me before hanging up.
Literally my quickest resolution ever.
clumpyloaf · 3 points · Posted at 16:06:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked at a rental car company for a time... Hispanic mother and son come in to rent a car. So we go through the whole process, and I explain that he was not to drive the vehicle, as he under the age restriction. Mother agreed, no problem.
They begin talking in Spanish. Not quite arguing but the son was obviously not pleased. What they didn't know... Is that I speak Spanish. I'm a fat white guy. They never saw it coming.
I let them finish. Then explained, in Spanish, that he was not to drive the car. You could hear my boss laughing from across the office.
John74929477482 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, right before the Pokémon movie came out, there was a trailer shot of Ash walking with a bunch of Pokémon behind him. From when he frees them before the big battle with the cloned Pokémon towards the end.
My brother told me that the shot was because Ash had caught every Pokémon, to which I called bullshit. He insisted he was right.
Then the movie came out.
john_sealion · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy who thought he was an athletic god got nutmegged playing football one time. He blamed it on his injured knee. A few minutes later he started shit talking my friend who is a bit overweight and not very fit. I called the guy out for shit talking my friend and blaming his mistakes on his bad knee, he starts pretending that he never blamed anything on a bad knee but everyone else had heard.
AegisMango · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend said he had 200 fortnite wins but fortnite tracker...
kittycatdude · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to beat a dead horse but my old coworker was a major c-word and he would always be accusing me of doing this or that, and making fun of me, and I was always just minding my own damn business trying to work. I think he got called out on his bullshit by management because there was a security camera right under me and he came back all "I've been here this long and Kittycatdude has only been here for not even a year, I make more money than he does, it's all a bunch of bullshit . . ." He would also make up the stupidest excuses to blow off work, aka "I have bronchitis but I'll be better tomorrow." Thank God he eventually got fired and I feel bad for internally gloating but he deserved it for being a major prick.
XombiMetManyCreeps · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My older brother was complaining and making large posts on Facebook (Advice: don’t use it, stop using it, don’t go back to it) about how my mother had yelled at my niece’s mother in the street for 3 hours and how horrible of a woman she is.
What really happened: mother called after her from the door to ask when niece would be returning to the house next. Only took a few minutes.
Niece’s mother came over, bought niece too so she wouldn’t be alone with my brother, all was cleared up, this was not the first time my brother had tried to lie and cause drama. We no longer talk to him.
Th3Element05 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine had been talking with his boss about getting me a job. Unfortunately, it wasn't just a matter of his boss deciding to hire me or not, as the company had decided to make the position a contractor-to-hire position; meaning I had to go through a contracting company to get the job, then would be hired on as a regular employee after a period of time.
So I went through this contracting company they are using, who were supposed to pass my info along to the hiring manager (my friend's boss). It was taking a long time, according to my friend, his boss had been going through the candidates they'd been sending, but he hasn't seen me come across his desk yet.
Eventually I reached out to the contracting company about what was the hold up, and their response was that the hiring manager had decided to go with another candidate. I promptly informed them that I knew the hiring manager and that he said that he had never gotten my resume, nor had he decided on someone else to hire. Within an hour, I was getting a phone call from someone up the chain at the contracting company, apologizing and trying to explain to me that there had been a mix up with another candidate with my same name, applying for a different position at another company. Yeah, right. I don't care enough to call him out on that BS, I just want them to send my damn resume to my friend's boss so he can hire me.
A couple weeks later, my friend and his boss found out that the company was going to outsource their department to India or something within a few months, so I actually dodged a bullet. I've considered that it's possible that my friend's boss might have known about the outsourcing sooner than he was supposed to, and was being a bro by delaying and not hiring me, but it's impossible to know for sure. I also doubt that the contracting company would have scrambled to cover their ass so fast when I called them out on their initial lie, unless they knew they were feeding me BS.
castielcampbell · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked with a pathological liar who would start off big lies that she really wanted me to believe with "MANAGEMENT TOLD ME" really loud and one day I looked at her and siad "that's funny, cos she LITERALLY told me to have you go and do that in my ear over the radio five seconds ago"
Growd ass woman, someone's granny stomping her feet and hollarin cause "THAT'S NOT WHAT SHE WAAAAANTS "
radium238 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a musician, and when I was in high school I had a gig that was pretty important to my schools band. However after a random stroke of luck I ended up making the state competition for swimming, and had to find a sub for the event. I asked a bunch of my friends who played the same instrument and one of them told me he could not because he had a board meeting for a club he was in at school. I said ok, I understand and kept asking people, even though the gig was a Saturday and clubs usually never meet on weekends with few exceptions. The day of the event I was looking through snap stories on my phone and saw another friends snap story of the Bill Nye book signing event that was apparently going on in the area, and in the background I saw the dude who had a “board meeting” in line. I texted him to say I hope he was wearing sunscreen for the level of roasting he was about to experience from our entire music department on Monday.
evildaddy911 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a coworker/roommate (B) who was stealing hours. He'd gotten me hired, but then spent most of his time screwing around instead of working, so it wasn't long before I got promoted above him. New position meant I was often going to other locations, so he was "working" alone a lot. Other roommate asked me the one day why B was home so much, did he get fired? I didn't think so so I checked his hours log. Was claiming 10hr days 6 days a week, even days where I was at the location with him. His shifts those days were usually only 3-5hrs, not to mention the building wasnt even unlocked during some of the hours he was claiming to be there. So I reported it and got permission to monitor the security cameras to track his actual hours and made sure everything was being archived. He wasn't showing up at all except for the days I was at the location. So my supervisor remembered we were supposed to change lock codes/passwords regularly and did so, "forgetting" to tell B as he'd never asked for them and told B I was on a semi-permanent assignment at a nearby location so he wouldn't have that motivation of me being there. And waited. Continually checking security so wed know if he tried to enter. After 2 months we got bored so boss told him there was an issue with the pay software and so everybody was receiving physical checks that pay, dropped B's off at the location yesterday but he wasn't there. I was there when B got that call, claimed he'd stepped out for lunch, that's why the location was locked when boss had showed. It was an obvious lie as the boss hadn't told him what time he was there and it wasn't near noon. Boss called that lie out and started an investigation, ending up with B getting sued for the pay he'd received while not working, being about a full years wages. Look on B's face when boss said he was going to look into his hours was pure terror, but the best part was when i told him that if we weren't roommates he probably wouldn't have gotten caught
BabyGotBackbone · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend cancel on a huge weekend trip last minute because she said a friend of hers who worked at a bank was held up and robbed and needed her support. Horrible stuff, super understandable. But this bitch had a habit for lying. I don’t believe her at all so I called my dad who’s a local politician. This is a real hands on type of dude who, if there’s a bank robbery in our smallish town, he fucking knows about it. No such thing happened, not even in neighboring cities. So I said fuck it and stopped giving a shit about my friend and it’s been a year since we last spoke and I don’t plan on turning back. I am so much happier now.
Like... if you’re gonna lie, do better. But I guess she did it so often and was never called out for it by her enabling friends, she just got sloppy I guess.
llDurbinll · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A city bus driver hit my car in a dual turn lane, came over into my lane halfway through the turn, the look on his face after he lied to the cops about me hitting him when I said "Actually, he hit me. I can prove it because I have a dashcam in my car" was priceless.
user5778 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a know-it-all roommate. Three of us were talking about the Wu-Tang Clan and started talking about each individual rapper. To throw him off we started talking about how "The Flza" was the best. He agreed and made up some bullshit. Obviously, we called him out.
The_real_John_Smith · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex once ghosted me, turned out she wasn't a missing person and I wasn't the bad guy. Edit for bonus: The police sergeant I spoke to tried to avoid finding out if she was okay, the inspector tried to cover for the sergeant with two contradicting statements when I asked if the sergeant was okay, and I was given a written apology after calling them all dickheads (not that they have the integrity for their words to mean much).
RatedRGamer · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend told the class that his brother was in the Navy for 10 years and when the teacher asked how old his brother was, he said 22 years old lol. This was a guy that consistently lied about the dumbest things for no reason and always made up stories so it was refreshing yo finally see the class call bullshit on him
tim119 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This story I'm about to tell belongs in a behavioural therapy subreddit somewhere in this massive site, I'm not sure where tho. I used to know a guy, who was known for lying through his teeth, about everything. Even things there were no need for lying about. He had/has a serious problem with compulsive lying. But what he did to me was one step beyond what I thought I knew. I told him a story once about a time I was on microdots (lsd) and about how it cured my fear of heights, and I was able to walk across a friends window ledge just fine without freaking out (I know, not a great idea, but I was young) I liked to tell this story, and still do when the opportunity arises, so people know its deffo my story etc. But one day, maybe 10 or so years later, he starts to tell me about this time he took lsd, and it cured his fear of heights, and how he was able to walk across his friends windowledge etc. But as soon as he got to the window ledge bit, he realised he was telling this story to the original guy. He mumbled the rest of the story really quick, and an awkward silence surrounded us. I knew. He knew I knew. I knew he knew I knew. Wow! I said nothing. And stopped bothering with him from then on. I thought I had heard it all. Never a day went past when someone caught him out bullshitting.
ofthedappersort · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Went to high school with a guy who was a douchebag 80% of the time and alright 20% of the time. There was this new teacher who had only been at the school one year before she transferred to a different school due in part to several complaints made against her (physics teacher who was new to teaching so she made a hard subject that much harder). Anyway a lot of people didn't like her so just for the fuck of it I made up a rumor that one of the students at her new school slashed her tires. One day in study hall douchebag starts going on about how he knows who did it. I stone face tell him that it was just a rumor and I would know because I started it. He did the classic red faced nervous giggles, it was pretty funny.
dastarlos · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kid who sat at my lunch table senior year, bragged about seeing deadmau5 while driving, and he offered my friend tickets to snakepit.
So one little Google search told me he had a concert that night in Japan. Hmm.
makeitwork1989 · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked as a manager in a grocery store and we caught someone on camera. Stopped them as they were headed out and brought them into the loss prevention room and he kept saying over and over that he didn’t steal anything. Then we showed him the video of him shoving stuff in his coat and he just looked at us and said “oh, shit, i guess you got me”
R9THOUSAND · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This girl I know went to a big university for a semester before she dropped out. But she used to just brag and brag and braaaaaaag about how much she and her friends used to party and drink. So one day she is just talking about all things related to drinking and I asked “have you ever had a ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ shot?” And without missing a beat she goes “fuck yeah, my roommate used to make those for our parties.” I didn’t feel the need to say that I just made up the name but everyone knows that she’s all talk.
Spritzertog · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I managed a hotel, it was always satisfying when you would catch someone trying to commit fraud and you'd watch the person get more and more nervous as they realize they've been caught ... especially as security shows up.
a-living-raccoon · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Their was a new girl at my (small town) school and she lied about a lot of stupid stuff like, claiming she was amazing at hockey and that she broke a kids nose with a slap shot even though she couldn’t even skate. So I was directly behind her in line In gym and she told me a big Nate comic plot to the last detail replacing Nate with her and teddy with her friend. The detail of the comic was mr Rosa was having back pain and so mrs Godfrey used a technique that apparently helps with back pain meanwhile Nate and teddy are outside the teachers lounge and teddy gives Nate a dollar for looking inside the teachers lounge so Nate looks in and sees mrs Godfrey essentially riding mr Rosa and says 1 dollar is not enough compensation for the nightmares I’ll have over the summer. She literally explained the setup context and phrasing exactly like the comic and when I called her out she denied it. It got to the point where I showed her that exact big Nate comic.
Woodf1re · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See ex
Toshiba1point0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My maternal grandmother was a heavy drinker on her way to being a full blown alcoholic. When she came to visit, her eyesight had deteriorated to peripheral vision and had no real ability to discern color. Rather than have her find the good liquor in the house, mom stashed a bottle of Jim Beam under the sink and so the fun began. The first night after coming home from work, mom noticed the level of bourbon was above the fill line and a slightly lighter color. Mom asks me, “did you put water in this?” knowing full well it was grandma trying to cover her tracks. Mom asks grandma who vehemently denied any knowledge.The next 4 days got interesting because the bourbon then went from being tea colored to basically water. Couldn’t stop laughing about it as it was happening.
Ken_Pen · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's satisfying to catch people lying? You gotta do it, but I always feel so awkward for the bastard who got caught.
russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The bastard was lying. Fuck that guy; he's a bastard and a liar!
fairfieldbordercolli · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend try to tell everyone he worked in the Yukon for a couple of years.
I asked him if he went to the shore to see the penguins. He said yes and commented about how awesome it was.
Penguins do not live in the Arctic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Told my brother a story about a friend of mine babysitting. She was letting the kids watch Minions or something like that on one of those dodgy streaming sites on her laptop. She left it playing full screen but for some reason it left full screen and the player was surrounded with porn adverts. She has no idea how long two toddlers were being asked if they would like to fuck local sluts in their area for.
Anyway around three weeks later my brother, with his wife sitting right next to him, told me the same story but replaced my friend with his wife’s best friend who also babysits. I couldn’t believe this was actually happening, he’s always been a massive bullshitter but this was next level. Stealing my story and telling it back to me. As soon as I confronted him about it they both left the room.
SneakiestBacon · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend in high school told me he had magical powers and could shoot sparks out of his hands (he watched a lot of the TV show Charmed at the time). I was like "Oh...cool...show me" like where is this going. He "shot a spark" and I thought I saw something fly out of his hand before a little pop sounded and a wee spark fired on the ground near us. I really don't know why I didn't question him more at that point but the next time he did it a week or so later he was walking behind me. I turned around and asked him to show me his hands. He refused for a bit before eventually opening them to show a banger (a small firework thing that you throw and it makes a bang). I caught him red handed but the guy still insisted that all the other times had been real magic and this was the only time he had ever faked it. I could tell you more but that was my favourite time because he was caught in the act.
kissyoursister · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty hilarious for me and my friends. My ex-girlfriend harassed me all of last summer because I had finally moved on and was much happier. She continued to tell everybody that talked to me that I cheated on her with my current girlfriend.
I confronted her and she was yelling at me saying “you asked her out on a date in February!”. I tried to keep a straight face and said “I didn’t meet her until April.”
Her face was the funniest thing I had ever seen.
EpiceEmilie · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Organizing a formal social event (we half-seriously called it prom) at my grad school. This annoying woman who hadn't been to either of the previous planning meetings shows up and wants to change everything, allocate most of what's left of our budget after renting the venue to a photo booth, even though we'd already decided not to get one. Complains about how we haven't invited anyone outside of our "clique" (the group of people planning the event all knew each other, but we weren't some super-exclusive, super-tight friend group) to any of the planning meetings.
I pulled up the invitations to both of the previous planning meetings on facebook, showing that not only had she been invited to both of those meetings, she'd seen the invitations. She quickly changed her story and moved on to other objections, but the ten seconds of dumbfounded silence after she was caught in the lie were priceless.
DasSprig · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine from all through high school and middle school let's call him Charlie used to lie about the dumbest little things. We'd go to a baseball game and he'd talk about how he bought a jersey for his favorite(mostly unknown) player, but would never wear it or show it to anyone. Or that his parents have season tickets, but they were allways being used by other family members. Random things like that. We never really made a fuss about it, cause who really cares.
Flash forward to our group of friends all goin our seperate ways after highschool and meeting up the next summer. He returns with a seemingly new personality and going on and on about his BMW he's got down on campus and how great it is, as I'd drive us around in my toyota pos first car. I worked at the local grocery store for the summer, and a few days after this, his mom came in, we chit chat about this and that, and I mentioned the car and how cool it was for them to get it for him. She bursts out laughing and says "Oh not not Charlie, he's failed the driving test 3 times, we'll get him a clunker when if/he passes".
We were all going to hang out the next weekend, and I was armed with some new dirt to really bust his balls. I guess his mom mentioned it cause he never showed up or talked to any of our circle of friends again. Still a strange way to lose a friend of like 8 years.
WellSomeoneHadTo · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex that I was still somewhat living with got engaged. She was taking the ring off when she knew she’d see me and was denying the engagement. But then she appeared on a local news broadcast for something and was wearing the ring. I don’t know that I’d call it “satisfying” though. And I already knew she was lying, that was just finally the point where she admitted it.
cdhstarz · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My (then) wife and I were separated and living many hours apart and neither of us drove nor had a vehicle. She had lied to her friends telling them I was abusing her and she needed them to rescue her (in truth she was just sick of me and wanted out). While she stayed with them she started sleeping around (definitely not part of our separation agreement) and lying to them about me but lying to me about her friends she was making. So one night I get a phone call from her friends. She had long since moved out all the way to Florida (from Maine). They had a few questions for me because some of the bs that she had told them wasn't adding up. It was apparent immediately that she was giving them half a story and giving me the other half but the other halves we were given were all lies. After 45 minutes of "but she told me ... " we had pieced together what was happening and I had all of a sudden caught her in all of the lies. After I got off the phone with them I called my wife and asked her to clarify some things (you know the other half of the story that I now knew the truth about). She wiggled and she squirmed to not get caught in lies but I had her. After a couple of years lies, and cheating and being generally used and made to feel terrible she was on the ropes and she was confessing to everything. I don't think I'd ever felt so vindicated in my life.
NOTE: Sorry it was a time period covering 1998-2000. I don't remember detail for detail what happened. This is the condensed version.
The_Man_In_Blue · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Immigration officer here...
There's too many to list.
"Are you coming here to work as a escort/prostitute?"
"No! I don't do that!"
"We found you listed on a Russian website showing your rate. We found that website on your phone. Right before we found the texts to some American here who wants your services."
"That's different!"
Johnnyfivealive777 · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was working for this scumbag restaurant owner when I was younger. My gf at the time called the restaurant phone (before cell phones) to make plans to meet up with me when I was off work. A couple days later she tells me my boss has been calling her asking her out. My gf was Asian, and he apparently told her that he had a friend with an Asian wife, and his friend always raved about how great she was. Next day I’m not scheduled to work but I decide to stop by and talk to my boss. He owed me about $400 at the time as well. We sit down and I tell him my gf was making accusations about him. He denied everything. I paused. I told him I must be wrong and I was sorry. Then I mentioned that his friend was married to a great Asian woman. I asked him as though he had told me about her. He said he remembered telling me that the other day when we were working in the kitchen together. I nodded. I stared at him for a moment and didn’t break eye contact. I told him- “The only problem is, you never told me that. My girlfriend told me that last night when she told me you were harassing her. Now leave my girlfriend alone and pay me my fucking money, you piece of shit.” He got so nervous he ended up paying me a few more bucks than he owed me, basically dumped his pockets out and gave it to me. It was great. Obviously I quit.
Ricxz · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some guy in middle school stole my „Magic the Gathering“ cards and i knew it was him, then i had a pen with some light for invisible ink.. wrote my name on em and placed a bait. Not long later my cards were stolen, that bastard haha, i went straight onto him with a friend and confronted him about it, he said it was him, he even cut some cards to say it was not mine.. i then pulled out my pen and he started crying
SquirrelTale · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in grade 2 or 3 and I brought my prized Beanie Babies to school and some jerk of a girl STOLE them from me. I told the teachers and she lied about having them, and I told them the exact name of the bears and that my initials were on the tags. The teachers looked through her bag and lo-and-behold there they were, with my initials. Then the jerk of the girl tried to lie and say I had let her borrow them- and that lie she somehow got away with. But thankfully I got my Beanie Babies back. Fuck school bullies. And parents, this is why you label your kids' things.
colbymg · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
not me; my brother did all the work.
Everyone got 5 oreos on the trip.
Mom said she only ate her allotted 5 ores.
Brother added up how many everyone had eaten (Mom counted as we took them), subtracted from the total empty spaces, and proved she ate 6 oreos!
Grumpymule321 · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've been to Kuwait....
Oh ye well I've been to Kuw-nine
Colin_Shade · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i love going to car shows or auctions and talking to people that seem to know everything about cars and i ask them about Corvettes, if they like Corvettes i’ll say “what do you think about the 83 Vette?” they reply with “oh well i like the body style” or something. They didn’t make a Corvette in 1983
cmach86 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not much of a lie but more of a satisfaction thing.
It's winter. I open shop 7 in the morn. First guest walks in complaining how cold it is inside and that us as a business should look better after the customers. He asked if I could turn up the thermostat. I said sure no problem. I walk to the back, take a sip or two of my coffee, look at my watch and come back out. The customer immediately says oh thats much better thank you!
The thermostat is up front.
fightmealldayy · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was really good friends with another girl in the neighborhood. We were the cute little girls on the block that zipped back and forth to each others houses all the time. One day in elementary or early middle school she claimed to snowboard. I just learned to ski, and since we were “best friends” I was shocked she didn’t tell me this sooner. I really had a creeping feeling that she was lying, a very common practice to her manipulation. So I mention going that weekend to a local-ish ski place and she lists off a load of reasons that she can’t go, things like my board isn’t in good condition, it needs a wax, my gear doesn’t fit, etc. I mention renting but that’s just waaaay too much money to her, even though her parents drove her to and from school, as well as lovingly stock her doll, horse, and movie collection. Finally I tell my mom and mention how I think she is flat lying to me.
My mother and her parents were good friends. There isn’t a person that doesn’t warm up to my mom because she knows how to work the system. She decided to call them up and unravel her lie, piece by piece.
Unfortunately later that night the whole family came over to square up. When her parents get involved it was serious and we weren’t allowed to call off the friendship as long as they were there to ref. It’s awful. I’m sure the friendship would have been dead way sooner if we weren’t the cute little neighborhood friends and if our parents weren’t such good friends. My mom would tell me all the time to cut her off if I disliked her so much but her parents wouldn’t let it happen easily.
Overall, it felt amazing to catch her lie. She did it so much but I finally found my way to get her. I’m glad our friendship dissolved, it was long over due. I didn’t like asking her parents to clarify what she would tell me, but my mom? How innocent 😈
NutSackHarvesterr · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I did
ThrowThrow117 · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A stolen valor dude who said he was a Marine on embassy security detail... in Iran.
grey_lavender · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a.... online acquaintance, shall we say, who I was almost positive was faking her disability. She was *clearly* copying everything this one relatively well-known disability vlogger was doing. Eventually she started copying me. If I had a symptom, she'd have it the next day. If I was on a medication, she was on it the next day. It I had any kind of surgery or procedure, she'd complain about how she needed it too but her doctors were mean.
I started to make up diagnoses that didn't exist just to see if she'd say she had it. I told her I had Muscledosis. She told me she was just diagnosed with that. I told her I was prescribed this drug called Diphenhydramine (the generic name for Benadryl) for my seizures. All the sudden she was having seizures and taking Diphenhydramine for them, too.
She actually admitted to it when I called her out on it
thebestemailever · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had an inspector on my construction site who had absolutely no experience in this specific aspect of construction, but was very good at putting on a show at meetings when his bosses were around. We figured out quickly that he would just repeat our conversations on site to make it sound like he solved the problem. He exposed himself when he continually called short sections of pipe "puff pieces" instead of the true "pup pieces". So, right before a meeting with the higher ups at his company, my foreman and I came to the inspector with a plausible sounding story of problems we'd encountered and fixed concerning a fake part. As expected, at the meeting he put on a long winded show about how we'd had calibration issues with the flux capacitor but luckily he and his $250,000 salary came to the rescue. The awkward silence and confused faces that ensued made the whole project worth it.
In the end, he still has a job, is absolutely useless, and makes way more money than me. But fuck you Jim, fuck you.
ChuckTowards · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister enjoys making up lies about me. She particularly enjoys telling them to people when I’m present. I remember one time the family and myself were sat around the dining table and she told this long story about me, entirely fabricated. My response was simply “well not one part of that story is true now is it”. I don’t know if she forgot I was there but she went bright red, looked down and mumbled something like “oh yeah, it must have been someone else then”.
WHY DO THIS?!
WHY?!?!
russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
If she's an older sister: to fuck with you. If she's a younger sister: to fuck with you.
magnora7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just yesterday I caught a reddit mod lying to me about why he banned me from their sub. Still banned, but at least I know they're full of shit.
NerdWithoutACause · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So when I was in grad school for biochemistry, one of my lab mates was a legit pathological liar. He’d lie constantly about everything to make himself look more important, even things that were easily disprovable. Bizarrely, he’d lie right in front of the people who could refute him. Some examples that stick in my mind:
Liar: “I read three articles every night before bed.”
Colleague: “Dude, we were playing WoW together every night this week from 8 til 1 AM, you didn’t read shit.”
And
Liar: “I just took apart and cleaned the shaker, You all let it get really dirty and should be grateful that I’m knowledgable enough to fix it.”
Lab Manager: “You cleaned it because I told you to, because you didn’t properly anchor your flasks and spilled media all over it. You tried to pretend like <other researcher> caused the spill but your handwriting was on the flasks.”
And my favourite:
Liar: “I fixed the glovebox last night for <really beautiful visiting scientist>, she’s lucky I was around to help.”
Visiting scientist: “What? No, <other scientist> fixed it, you couldn’t figure out how for like 45 minutes and then <other scientist> fixed it in like five. Did you really just try to take credit in front of me??? I was right there the whole time!”
Whenever this happened, he’d blush and get quiet for a short time, but it never changed his behaviour. Unfortunately, our boss never caught on to this, and one of my colleagues got screwed out of a publication because Liar took credit. Liar runs his own lab at a university now, and I feel really bad for his students.
ClinchWork · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my ex was trying to convince me that she aint seeing anyone else while i knew that she was and with who. That relationship ended in a trainwreck. Yikes
Houseflipper407 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a coworker that when you add up all the years of things he had done like 3 years as a mechanic,7 years in Army etc. It totaled older than he was. We laughed at him all the time about it and he just kept doing it.
itsMalarky · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone I was working with (she was on an internal team that my marketing agency was working alongside) was throwing her weight around, saying she had a masters from the college I went to -- which hadn't ever offered a masters program, ever.
Such a terrible lie too, considering we were about 10 minutes from the school. At least pick some school in Europe or across the country or something.
charlie523 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work in a cellphone place within a big store. One day a dude comes in with a low end Samsung smartphone that he just bought like a week ago from us and says it's not working. He demanded a full refund. So I said okay and pried open the back to check the water damage indicator and sure enough it was bright red, the phone was clearly water damaged.
He kept lying about it saying no it wasn't and how come this store doesn't stand behind it's products and inside I'm like dude wtf we're not even the manufacturer we don't stand behind shit. He kept going on and on and getting angry at me. Then I shook the phone and heard a rattling sound, I shook some more and 2-3 pieces of rice fell out. He just stood there to process that for a few seconds and I was like, "well...".
He didn't say much after that and just paid for another shitty Samsung phone. Felt good catching his lie but also felt bad for him cuz he paid twice for a phone :(
GodAwfulFunk · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Started a new job, 50 year old guy in my training always with a story. "I'm an African King." "I climbed all the mountains." "I fucked Franco Harris' sister."
We knew he had to be full of shit but whatever, he was at least nice and charming. Let the old guy rant.
A week later he gets fired. Turns out he faked having cancer at his old job, took his co-workers paid time off, forged medical docs, etc. Turned out he really was full of shit. Not super satistying because I actually like him despite all that.
619sxb · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TLDR: let a friend borrow a jacket and they lied about finding money in the pocket.
Long version: names changed to protect their dumb identities.
In high school.. my friend Amy let our friend Diana wear her jacket after school ended (but we all stayed on campus). Amy left a $20 bill folded up as origami in the jacket but forgot until Diana was already at flag squad practice. We asked Diana if she ever saw the $20 and she said no.
So we backtracked all the steps but didn’t find anything. Amy was 99% sure it was in that damn jacket, so we asked Diana again and she emptied her pockets to prove she didn’t see or have the money.
Since she was at practice, I went to her backpack (yes I know I was wrong for this but we all had issues with her stealing stuff before too, and I wasn’t afraid of her).
Lo and behold the origami shaped $20 was just chillin in her backpack.
Once confronted she was upset I went through her bag, but she did admit to taking the money. She said she wanted to teach Amy a lesson about being more responsible (complete BS though) and she wanted us to brush it off since “you got the money back already so leave me alone about it” .. and that it was worse for me to go in her bag to find stolen money than it was for her to steal the money.
Ironically, also in high school, Diana and Amy got caught stealing at the mall but Diana dipped and let Amy catch all the charges instead.
Vslashans · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but a friend. The class were going to a highschool retreat since it was our last year, and on the second night we were emotional from the apologies of those who did wrong to other classmates (the class had this division for years and they were making up for it at the retreat). Few minutes later this guy, M, said he got his girlfriend pregnant. It was a shock since we went to a Christian school and it was unheard of for that to happen. We consoled the guy and became nice to him but we were kinda doubting cuz he’s been lying a lot. Few months later a friend of mine stalked his gf’s insta and dm’ed her saying that she’s a friend of his and asked about the pregnancy. Gf was confused and said there wasn’t any pregnancy, just that they broke up and M got a new girl at the school where me and him and a couple of our mates went to after highschool. We told him about it and he just shrugged it off. Sorta unrelated but he dropped out of school and I last saw him at prom trying to sneak in to get his girl.
creamyeyes · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catching a catfish in the act
shadowkinz · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's always satisfying to catch someone lying, but then it's just frustrating lol
Muckypreps · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Calling all in with 3rd pair on the river for a £1600 pot.
OctopusPopsicle · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My bf and I were out to dinner and I asked the waitress if I could get a Spring 44 (local) gin and tonic and if they didn't have that, I'd take a Tanqueray and tonic. I watched her as she makes me a gin and tonic with neither of those gins. She drops the drinks off and when she comes back for our food order I ask, "Did you guys not have either of those gins?" She says, "I don't think so, is this not the gin you wanted?" I say, "No." She says, "Oh, I'm sorry, the bartender must have mistaken my order."...
Bitch I saw you make it! Like, I don't care if you don't have those gins, at least come back to tell me that and tell me what gins you do have, and don't lie about it and blame it on the non-existent bartender! She must have realized she was caught because she was not our waitress after that, they had another waitress step in.
McTwitchy · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
To preface, I was adopted and call both people that adopted me my step parents.
I got home from school one day and my step parents weren’t home, so I let the dogs out in our front yard to use the bathroom. We had the only computer in the house in the living room by the front door. While I was waiting for the dogs, I pulled the rolling chair out from the desk and waited looking out glass door for the dogs to be finished. They finished their business, I let them in and put the chair back.
Step parents get home later and step dad (who is a giant douche canoe that I no longer talk to) starts yelling at me that I was on the computer looking at porn. They had set up that fair in such a way they would know if I was on the computer. He went on very several minutes yelling at me.
I did not use the computer and I insisted this and so he pulls up the page the computer is still on (I’m assuming it was the step mom that found the par in the first place). I think that’s when he realized it was porn he was looking at.
I could tell he knew at that point I was right and he was wrong but he didn’t want to admit it and start a fight with the step mom. So then he just started yelling at me for something with school.
Nice save asshole. Gah I still hate this guy.
nwrcj90 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maybe she was fucking her dads friend john?
LewDog1991 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had a flatmate (Jeremy) who was going through a rough time. He had little money so I offered to pay for him to go to therapy which he accepted. However when he was supposed to be at therapy I walked past the local Indian restaurant and saw him tucking into some onion bhajis. Rather than confront him there I waited until he was home that evening where I’d ordered a nice big curry for us :) eventually he realised I knew he’d pissed my money up the wall and admitted I was king and he was a piece of shit.
I_haet_typos · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time a girl fucked (meatphorically speaking sadly) with me and my best friend, who were both in love with her at the same time and tried to play each other out against each other for attention. I found out that she lied to me, especially about him and that she also lied to him about me. So I confronted her and gave her a chance to came out clean, but I didn't let her know, that I knew. She made up all kinds of stuff again and tried to further just lie about everything. Her face, when I revealed I knew the truth was really satisfying. My best friend still got into a short relationship with her though and we aren't really friends anymore.
Another time a girl cheated on me and her two best friends actually told me. Again I did it similarly and gave her a chance to come out clean, told her I had the feeling, that she is hiding something from me and so on, she straight up lied to my face. The moment I told her I knew the truth she begged me to forgive her. I have a hard time forgiving cheating already, but straight up lying to me at the same time is a no-go.
Though satisfying, both things affected me sadly, since my first priority in friendship and relationship is honesty. And now I kind of always expect to catch someone lying to me, but I try to not let that influence my actions to people around me and never suspect someone of doing something wrong, because someone else did it to me in the past.
PlasticFiver · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A mature student in my year at Uni used to go on about how high her grades were, sometimes after some students openly said they were disappointed with theirs and just hoped they could still pass the year. She would be condescending, act superior and generally made people feel bad (including me).
Our lecturer was leaving the Uni and I met with her to say cheerio. I was disappointed with a grade she gave me and jokingly asked who got the highest grade, she told me, and it wasn't the mature student, not by a fucking mile!
I asked the mature student (in front of our classmates), just to confirm, what her grade was, and she gleefully said 'Oh really really good, another A'. I said 'Huh, that's weird, the lecturer said other student got the highest grade in the class, and the only person who got an A'.
Cue the backpedaling.
I felt a bit guilty, but it felt so good.
Legion213 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not terribly satisfying, exactly, but every waiter ever will understand and nod their head "yup" while having a laugh. At least a few times a week, you'll get a woman at a table (it was always women) who would complain about it being either too cold or too hot in the restaurant and will ask you to change the temperature. Rather than try an explain that the temperature has been precisely calculated to accommodate and provide the optimal comfort for the other 150+ guests and crew and can't be changed for one individual, you'd just smile, nod you head, and say, "no problem! I'll go change that right now, ma'am!" Of course, you wouldn't change shit, and just go about your business. The next time back at the table, you'd ask if the temperature was better now after turning it up/down. WITHOUT FAIL, they'd ALWAYS say, "o yes, that's much better, thank you!" Always. You learn a lot about human psychology waiting tables.
ikyle117 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My former co worker at Best Buy who lied about his grandma dying for the 3rd time. I remember being at a morning meeting before our shift and when the supervisor said that he wouldn't make it because of her passing, another employee just piped up saying "Again?!"
Nexrender · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a guy at the casino I work at who has this dumbass story about how he was on chemo for 12 years straight and had a type of cancer nobody’s ever heard of but was cured by some miracle drug he cant remember the name of and that he’s the luckiest man in the world.
He’s told this story to at least 3 coworkers of mine who either had cancer or have close family with cancer. Needless to say he’s been told to shut up multiple times.
Finito-1994 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my dad’s friends swore that Manny Pacquiao had fought Julio César Chávez (the great Mexican champion)
I said he didn’t. We bet 20 bucks on it. I pulled out Pacquiaos fight record and Chavez’. They’d never fought. Plus, Pacquiaos prime would have been at the tail end of Chavez’s career. To make them fight would have been criminal.
After that he said it was a secret fight. Only on pay per view, I showed him every Pacquiao fight (On Pat per view) and he’d never fought Chavez.
He still claimed he was right but never contacted us again.
soupy_e · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy I went to uni with was telling me about a new job he'd taken. Only, he didn't know that I worked for the same company in a different location. He was telling me how he wasn't going to take it but they offered him better hour and more money.
Sure. [Generic cinema chain] has to offer you more money rather than just paying someone else a poor wage.
Cometstarlight · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think it was early high school/late middle school, but there was this girl that had been trouble for years . She just loved making drama up for attention and she didn't have a lot of friends because of it. Well, when she noticed that the other girls were becoming obsessed with Japan and anime in general, she hopped on the band wagon. It got to the point where she said she had been adopted from Japan and that she was actually Japanese. She is not Japanese in the slightest.
Well, she had convinced my circle of friends that she was Japanese and that she had been there, had a Japanese boyfriend, etc. The kicker came when she said she had two birthdays. Her actual birthday and the day she was adopted from Japan. My best efforts to convince my friends she was lying went unnoticed because they were starstruck by how "Japanese" their friend was.
Then one day a boy went to go give her a gift. I overheard his sister say how thoughtful her little brother was (and he was) to get her a gift for her birthday to which I said, "It's not her birthday. Her birthday is October __ not April __"
His sister was stunned and then I told her what had been happening over the past year. She told her brother, the crazy girl overheard and stomped over to me saying, "How dare you lie to him about stuff like this! You're a liar!" I fired back stating that I practically grew up with her and that I knew her history and called her out on her Japanese BS. My friends found out, the crazy girl admitted she lied, and she harbored resentment for me ever since. It felt good to finally stop her from taking advantage of kind (and somewhat gullible) people.
Vashgrave · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a guy this week claim he "started the man bun". When we asked how he knows he started it, he could "confirm" because his hairdresser hold him... dude is not all alright in the head...
Jorricha · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad once told me in college he was at a bar in which Otis Redding was playing and the black fellas came up and asked all their white companions to dance, to which they obliged. I didn't say shit but always knew he was a bullshitter.
Wondercat69 · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
every time yo
NiceFormBro · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Snooped my ex wife's email. Asked her who "John Smith" was. She didn't even bother to ask how I knew the dude's name.
Watching her try to explain the whole story without even questioning how I knew was glorious.
The whole time just watching the bullshit meter go off the rails. She was actually really good. Really helped me spot other bs things people have tried to feed me.
I gave her every opportunity to tell me the truth which she did eventually and then I told her how I knew.
6ixgodblocboy · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister once threw a party at my house. she said it was going to only be about 15 people and I was already having a couple of friends over for some drinks so I figure it would be no problem.
no more than an hour after I gave her the go ahead my condo was filled with about 75 people. you could barely move through the sea of people. I went to go into my room to get a break from the crowd, I was pretty upset.
I open my door and see two girls casually sitting on my bed passing my bottle of vodka back and forth.
I look and then and say "get out, you can't be in here"
one girl has this smug look on her face and cockily says "ughhh nooo??? the home owner said I could chill in here and drink"
with the biggest shit eating grin I say "hahaha that's hilarious... because I am the home owner"
their faces dropped and they ran out while I snatched my bottle back.
FrancescoTottii · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex fiancée was living overseas for a while and one time I video called her she wasn't wearing her engagement ring and I asked why, she said she took it off to put her makeup on. It was like 3am for her and she'd just gotten home from a night out. I logged into her Facebook (really not proud of this) because she was being really suspicious, turns out she was cheating on me and had been messaging a guy that night inviting him over to her apartment and he was there while we were video chatting. I also saw some tagged photos of her from different nights out without the engagement ring on.
BerserkerCrusader · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
bitch. you deserved better.
neverwhere86 · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So this guy who used to hang with our friend group in my home town was the epitome of compulsive liar.
He was known as Squeak (as in the guy from Baseketball) and would refer to himself as that. When asked his real name he would tell everyone it was Spencer, despite his driving license and his mum saying it was Paul.
According to him he was a racing driver, except he didn't have a full driving license and could only drive with a fully insured driver in the passenger with him. Supposedly there was an underground race track literally under neath one of the towns nearby too.
He also tried to convince everyone he was in the police too, despite two of our friend group actually being local police officers. And this guy was the skinniest muther-nutter you ever met! There's no way he could ever arrest anybody.
Oh and I remember one time he left us alone in his room, he went out somewhere, and we decided to rearrange his furniture a little bit, a desk from one corner to another, the bed rotated etc, harmless fun. He came back and ranted about how his wardrobe was holding down the flooring in the corner of the room or some shit, and moving could collapse/destroy his room or some shit.
Everything was always just ridiculous! I really don't know why he was in our friend group. It's a shame, his mother and sister seemed really nice and normal.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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classykid23 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It does help having friends hahahahahahahacries alone in the corner
JamesMcPocket · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I worked at Gamestop, a young dude came in and was asking about buying a used 360. It was just him in the store, and my ASM was on break in the back room. I told him I only had one of the specific 360 he was looking for, and I'd go back and grab it. The second I went into the back room, I saw him sprint behind the counter and grab something (which turned out to be an Xbox Slim Harddrive) and sprint back around and shove it into his pants. (I saw this on the CCTV, by the way.)
So I go back out front and ask him to just empty his pockets (because heaven forbid I accuse the dude of a crime I KNOW he commited). He was behind the counter, so I needed him to empty his pockets as a precaution. He started getting defensive and yelling at me and ASM (who was now next to me) for being "racist white fucks", to which my ASM replied that she was Brazilian. He didn't have a response and just stormed out of the store (which we could do nothing about).
We ended up calling the police to file a report, and also called the Gamestops near us, as thieves will often steal something, then sell/return it to another Gamestop nearby. Well, he did exactly that. He tried to sell it to the store nearby, and didn't have his ID. He ended up leaving, but unbeknownst to him, his ID was actually in the safe at that store. He had forgotten it at the store a few weeks back. They had all his information, and the police handled the rest. It felt good, man.
whiskeyvacation · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but a coworker who caught the pathological liar.
A guy I knew convinced his fellow workers he met a girl on a cruise and ended up marrying her. Supposedly her father was a multi millionaire who owned ranches in Arizona. He made up stories about flying down to visit her all the time though nobody from his work ever checked or even met her. He did such a good job with the story he had everyone believing him. Then there was a change in management and one of the new workers was suspicious from day one. So he called bullshit because when the liar said he was going to the airport, his vehicle was at his apartment the whole time. Then the liar got caught stealing from the till. He "voluntarily resigned" to avoid involving the police. Strangely enough some of his former co-workers still believe him.
Diss1dent · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old asshole boss, when he at the same time proved my theory about him correct and it was only me and his boss (to whom I had told about my doubt) the same room.
Basically I had audited his expense reports and things did not start adding up. I connected some dots and sent my report to our VP along with the suggestion that he should as my boss' manager check his calender slots etc. for some dates.
Basically this guy had been very cleverly creating bogus projects where his expenses then landed on his holidays. He was "taking clients out".
I asked my question in a matter where he was in a lose-lose situation. Dude then started coming up with ridiculous excuses. I looked at our VP and knew he knew as well.
Felt so good damn good.
CantBeatDaB34ST · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time I attended comic con new york and walked around the center floor. I came across a cosplay of sora and I excitingly walked up to the guy and told him his outfit and keyblade were fantastic. He starts gloating about how he made the keyblade (Weapon from the game he's cosplaying). I looked confused after examining it because I had the exact same keyblade at home that I bought from a previous comic con years back. I told him I found it strange that we have the same one and commented on the specifics of that replica like the woodwork and proceeded to show him pictures of mine (Completely identical). You'd think he would stop lying after being called out but he persisted on even dumber claims. He claimed that one of the voice actors for Kingdom hearts told him they finished making the game (Back in 2016 mind you) and that square enix is holding it out on us. I actually spoke to that voice actor as well and he told me they did not start recording the voice acting for the game at that moment. I have a picture of me and the voice actor and the guy who was lying out of his teeth. That was an interesting comic con.
SpermFed · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in a camera shop and a customer was saying he saw a particular item online for a certain price. I played along and asked him to show me the listing and he was fumbling about for a minute then gave up.
When ever someone wants us to price match I always ask them to either show me or we have iPads where I can look it up and show them if they are wrong.
GP96_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and 4 friends and another person lived on a floor in Student Housing while in first year of Uni, it had two bathrooms. For about a week or two there was a floater in the toilet every time I went in either bathroom. I took a photo of it after the 5th time and everyone else said it wasn't them.
A week later they all went home for a week off and it was only me staying on our floor. The floaters stopped. I don't know who it was, but it finally stopped and I caught one of them in the lie, despite not knowing which one of them it was.
musntbeconsumed · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught my brother lying, I just haven't called him on it yet because I'm wait until he starts being a dick to me. As a forword, he is very narcissistic and has to brag about all his accomplishments.
So about 6 months ago he started a YouTube channel and hired me to make a logo for him. He told me my art would be seen by thousands of his viewers. Did the work, he never got back to me and never paid me for the hours I spent fitting his very intricate request. I decided one day to find his channel, he never told me the name but I figured it out one way or another, to see if he was using the logo. He wasn't, but the kicker was the channel itself. Those "thousands of viewers" were actually about 30 a video. I pretty much told everyone he bragged to and they seemed surprised, but I'm waiting to break his ego until he says something that finally sets me off.
Bottlesostuff1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girl stole my 500 dollar textbook in middle school and crossed out my name but teacher saw she was lying
Sp00kyD0gg0 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I am good friends with a kid who is CONSTANTLY lying for no discernible reason. Recently a couple of my friends started playing Pokémon Go again, in preparation for the new Switch games, and this particular friend joined in on the mini-movement. However, he couldn’t just join - no, he had to make a spectacle. A mere day after downloading the app, he claims to have found multiple Shiny Pokémon (shinies, for those who don’t know, are super rare discolored Pokémon that have an INCREDIBLY LOW CHANCE OF APPEARING).
One problem: this guy claimed to have caught a shiny Eevee. It only takes a quick google search to find out that there’s no such thing as a shiny Eevee in Pokémon Go. So I changed my Discord image to a shittily edited Shiny Eevee and made my nickname in our server “Deception.” He hasn’t talked about Pokémon Go since.
Other highlights from this lad are: his internship at Blizzard, his father danced with Madonna, and he hit Nick Jonas with his car. None of these have happened, and it’s stupid easy to prove that none of these happened, but he stands by them.
sneakyfeet13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I want to post an elaborate lie in here and see if you all can catch me... lol
BigSeth · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but a friend of mine. My friend was supposed to meet me at the park after school. I ended up falling asleep and not going. He went and waited for me for like an hour. He went home and called me and said “hey I’m sorry I didn’t make it to the park today I just wasn’t feeling good” and I remembered I slept through and said oh it’s okay I didn’t wait long. He invited me over to his house and I went then he promptly beat me up.
Greatwhiteo · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Roommate would constantly steal food from my fridge. Whenever I would confront him about it he would lie. Once I caught him red-handed and he tried to hide the food behind his back. Couple days later I confronted him again,this time he admitted to stealing other things as well. He recently moved out taking all my bread, cheese, ham, and eggs with him f him.
PM_ME_YOUR_SNOOTS · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom works in IT, and whenever they interview someone, they'll make up a coding language or other kinds of bullshit tech terms and ask if they're experienced in it. They say yes more often than you'd expect.
Dia_del_espinacas · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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h83r · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Got denied a job via an online meeting but only after he stood me up for the first online meeting claiming I never joined. I worked for the online meeting company so I checked his account activity. He never laughed the first meeting.
I was bummed I didn’t get the job but was so glad I dodged a bullet. I wouldn’t want to work for a liar.
leftoverrice54 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Firend group of mine was renting out together during university. Junior year, we begin to suspect one of our friends, lets call him L, is not attending classes anymore. We ask him about it and ask if hes alright, but he was always concered about apperances. So he denied it.
Eventually we are all playing games at the apartment and i ask to use his laptop so i could submit an assignment for my class. He lets me use ig and as i go to log in, i notice he is still logged i to his student account. I decide to peak at the classes he is registered for, and none came up. Checked his classes from last semester too, none came up.
In hindsight, i felt more bad than satisfied since he did not feel comfortable sharing this with us. University is vslued pretty highly in today's society, but none of us would have thought of him any less for dropping out.
Nondescriptidiot · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Im a bit late, but I have a friend in my physics class who’s really academically smart but stupid in all other ways and lazy with his work. We had a large amount of homework due in and as per usual he hadn’t done it, when I asked him about it he said: “Nah I’ll finesse my way out of this I always do.” This is because the way our teacher (who is really ridiculously strict) likes to mark the work by asking each student in the class to give their answer to one of the questions. When the teacher reached my friend it was a six mark question and sir normally just shows on the mark scheme on the board for these. This time he decided to have a point from everyone, this meant that my friend had to admit that he hadn’t done that question and by extension the entire homework. He certainly didn’t finesse his way out of that one.
Spectre1-4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was playing Xbox with this guy in a clan. He told everyone he was in the Army (he was) but that he was Special Forces, Green Beret and all that shit. Started talking about how he has a condition where he has no fat, all muscle. Talked about how we were deployed to some other country (Not Afghanistan or Iraq) doing SF Ops and that he couldn’t talk about it (why mention it). Other than being a typical gung ho control freak, my way is the way kind of guy, he was alright.
We become alright friends, we add each other on Facebook. He gets ready to go on a deployment and his girlfriend is sending mass messages to the friends saying stuff like “Pray for my baby, he’s going on a deployment”. Already knowing he’s full of shit, I decide to go through his pictures and find one with one of his patches. Turns out he was in some Transportation Brigade, going on a X month deployment to Kuwait.
So this guy goes around telling everyone he’s Special Forces and going on some deployment, girlfriend asking for prayers, but really he’s on a cushy deployment to Kuwait drive people around.
Kicker is that we were playing Xbox and in the background, you can hear his mom talking about his son is in the National Guard to some cable dude. And he gets all “ugh I hate it when she says that”. Yeah, fuck outta here.
AcidBathVampire · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had this guy at a party, who was a really douchey preppie asshole, try to tell me about the weed we were smoking, when I knew that 100% of the weed at the party came from the guy I came with. "Nah, this is totally a sativa, you can taste it." It was Master Kush, a very earthy tasting strain, and in no way a sativa. I let him have it but then my buddy walked up, trying to make a sale to these guys we were blazing with, and goes "you liking that? That's good indica for you! Nice and earthy and super stony!" Lol I just laughed and dude walked away.
Bluestreaking · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Assistant Principal was a sociopath and trying g to scare me and tell me if I didn’t make her happy she would file the paperwork that I could never teach again. The thing is I had just discussed with another teacher yesterday what happens if your evaluator files the paperwork so I knew she was lying about the outcome. I mention that to her as she is trying to scare me and she gets a weird look on her face and stops discussing it. A couple days later she said, “oh it turns out they had changed it and you were right, but you wouldn’t be able to teach in this district!”
She lied a lot, about all sorts of little things. That was the only time I caught her in her face but gosh that woman just seemed to enjoy spreading misery. I hate that I laugh at this fact but a student ended up punching her and causing her to stay home for a couple days.
rotorRat · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was just recently at a fast food place getting an order of chili cheese fries to go. It was my first time getting them so I watched as the employee was making them. She was scraping the ladle in the bottom of the chili crock... the amount of chili on the fries was honestly like a tablespoon worth. She then tried to hide it under a bunch of cheese.
I asked her, "Did you run out of Chili?"
"Oh, no..." She shakes her head and bags it up.
We then go through a back and forth and she tries to tell me that is how the C-C-Fries always come. As she is processing my refund, I ask her "Why didn't you just tell me you were out of chili instead of trying to pass it off on me?" (I'm the kind of guy that wants exactly what I pay for)
That's when I caught her, the look on her face was blank and scared and it was over something so petty.
"It would have been a 30 minute wait to make more chili"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Badass little cousins (I was a teen and they were pre-teens) came over to our house for a big family Thanksgiving dinner. After everyone ate, the adults talked, the kids played, etc. They went in my room to play GTA San Andreas until it was time to leave. They asked if they could borrow it, I said no, and walked away. Next day I went to play the game and it wasn't in the case or the PS2.
Went to their house a few weeks later, immediately went to their room, opened their PS2 and guess what I saw...GTA San Andreas. I asked them when they got it, they stumbled over their words, I punched them both in the stomach, took my game back, told their mom, and left.
They haven't been back to my parents' house since and they'll never come to mine.
dugpdcv · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine in elementary school once told me that Dwayne Johnson was his uncle and that Bill Gates was his godfather. We live in Canada.
GreeleyRiardon · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At the time I was engaged something felt off. So I accused my fiancee of cheating on me. After months of guilt tripping and all that good stuff that comes from accusing someone. Found out she cheated on me day one, and multitude of times through our 6 years together.
I don't think it was satisfying at the time but it sure is now.
Bramreth · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a house mate who lies constantly - on time he was showing me a chess piece of a black king on his shelf. He was telling me about how he was playing chess with his father on a barge whilst fishing. He said the chess set was knocked over and all fell overboard but he managed to rescue that king, he said he kept it as it reminded him of "better times". Cue me and my other housemate trying to play chess weeks later. We had trouble setting up as my chess set was missing a black king. He gave it back to us very happy to gloss over the whole barge shebang.
Spydermn · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a patient come into the ER I worked at about 2 yrs ago and said they hadn't taken any drugs. The patient was a woman who was lucid as hell and kept slurring her speech when responding no after asking several times. We gave her narcan, she pepped right up and said "busted" while looking me in the eye.
IslandIdiot · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A kid at the after school camp I work at tried to tell me he had 40 kills in a fortnite solo match with a revolver. We knew it was an obvious lie but because its fun to mess with people, we played along. He realized he was caught when a couple older kids and I, who actually play the game, laughed out loud when he told us he plays on the Nintendo DS 4.
avilaavila · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son (8) went to a week long summer camp and returned home confidently confirming he brushed his teeth everyday after we asked him. Unpacking his bag we found the travel toothpaste unopened.
Catching him in that lie wasn’t satisfying at all as we realized he is a little dirt ball.
What was satisfying was being at our dentist a few days later for my regular cleaning and together with the dentist we developed a plan to scare the shit out of him next time he goes in for a check up with something along the lines of, “it appears you didn’t brush your teeth for some length of time and I am really concerned it may have caused...”
For some reason I think he will take it more seriously if he hears it from the dental authority and not his dad.
SlamminAss · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This creepy older dude tried to get me to come with him to get some shit back from his ex boyfriend "for protection" (bullshit because I'm not at all intimidating and can't fight for shit)
This guy has always given me the creeps, not because he's gay, but because he's like Kevin Spacey gay. He totally tries to take advantage of young guys like myself. So i declined.
About a month later he said he went in on his own a week after I told him I wouldn't go with him, and his ex beat him nearly to death. In a public location. And he claimed he had a horrible black eye.
I had had enough with this clown so I asked to see the black eye. He took about 10 minutes to send a photo, and the photo I got was a shittily edited photoshop of an almost cartoonishly swollen black eye, which a black eye would not look like 3 weeks later.
I then found exactly what app he used to edit that dookie-ass photo, found the EXACT black eye he edited on his face, and put it on my face. I sent it his way and said "wow, crazy, it looks just like my black eye!"
He tried to apologize but I cut that manipulative creep out of my life right then and there
Llamaalarmallama · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"So you've never messed with my computer" to a dude I shared a house with when he had a passworded zip with my chicks nuddie pics (luckily passworded) tucked away in a random folder when I was helping him fix something on his machine.
PC's were each in our own room. We had network shares set up for moving files around but that one never got NEAR one of the agreed ones.
SnoozinSnorlax · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sold cars for a year. It's incredible how many people think they can lie about things I have the clear cut info for. The offense was much more to deal with than just causally shutting them down with facts as nice as possible. And with a smile. Kill'em with kindness!
isurvivedrabies · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
i was at a house party and showed this kid a cool pocket knife and he asked to borrow it, im like alright, it was kinda cheap anyway. couple hours later i realized he still had it and i find him and ask for it back and he says he thought he gave it back to me. the kid just had the look of a piece of shit i realized at this point, so my first thought is hes trying to steal it. i find his pair of shoes by the front door and what do you know it's tucked in there for him to take home when he leaves. i go back and tell him everythings alright, i found it in your shoe, and of course he denied knowing it was there.
grumpybaldguy · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked with a guy who used to tell some tall tales. It was satisfiying because he got pretty creative with them. There was the time when he passed out and a Python got into his house and was wrapping around him, and his 80 year old dad came in a wrestled it off of him. Or the time he caught a shark with his bare hands at the beach, then made soup out of it. Then there was the time he lived in the ghetto and got in a shoot out with some thugs, and shot the "rim" clean off their car with his rifle. We got a kick out of his stories, until the day he told a high schooler we worked with about his girlfriend blowing him in the woods and him refusing to kiss her afterwards. Yeah he got fired after that one.
classypants89 · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A girl that was living with me had a lump in her breast. She told my whole family, everyone I worked with, all of my friends, and her friend (who had just had a double mastectomy) that she had stage 4 and needed emergency surgery and to start treatment right away.
I went to a separate doctor appointment (her gp) with her (she got hit in the head with a softball at a game and got a concussion) and the doctor said something along the lines of "I talked to so and so, she said you had breast cancer? I haven't heard anything! Who do I need to contact." She just mumbled some doctors name and I didn't think too much of it.
So the surgery day comes and I take her to the hospital and wait with her mom. The surgeon comes out after and said, "yup it's benign, just like I had thought". It freaking pissed me off so much, who fucking lies about cancer???!?
Anyway after I called her out she said she didn't know and thought it was stage 4 (which they do lots of testing for and didn't test her). I told her I wanted to move out. She asked if she could stay while her grandmother was in the hospital ( I did confirm this with her cousin). A week or so later, after she had been spending the night at the hospital with gram every night. I ran into her cousins and said they were going to grams for dinner, I question if she was still in the hospital. Nope she was in only for one day and the liar never even went.
Anyway I found out she had moved in with someone else and told them she had lost all of her stuff in a bad breakup (we were never together). I dropped it all off on her front porch and told the New girl to watch for lies.
TheActualUniverse · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a pizza place as a manager and we’re allowed to make personal pizzas for free there. One employee used an ingredient in his pizza he shouldn’t have, and as I was cutting it, I figured I’d take him into the office or mention something about it leter to him, as to not be rude and scold him in front of other employees.
There’s this one employee who works there who no one likes working with. We can call them A. A has issues with their parents and really looks up to the owner of the store like he were their own father. Unfortunately, this means that they’re insubordinate and likes to go above my and other manager’s heads when they thinks there’s a problem.
As the initial employee’s personal emerged from the oven, A made some comment about the topping in question. I told them not to worry about it, that I would take care of it. A then went over my head and tried to covertly snap a photo of the pizza on their phone. I didn’t say anything, and told them to go get the magnetic sign from on top of their car as I was going to cash them out.
As they walk out the door, I see them stop on the sidewalk right outside (doors are made of glass) and I see them texting someone. I immediately know they’re texting the owner, to tell him about the situation. They come back in with the sign and stand near the pizza cut station and in the reflection of their glasses, I actually see the text conversation complete with photo of pizza.
At this point I am furious, because they know better than to 1. Bother the owner with petty shit and 2. Go over manager’s heads and authorities. I again don’t say anything. I cash them out and as they’re about to leave and walk to the customer side of the counter, I say goodbye. When they turn to say it back I say, “Let me know what he says.” All the color drains from A’s face as they stutter out a, “What are you talking about?” I don’t have time for this shit, and how dare he lie to me. I tell them in the most calm and non threatening voice I can manage while shaking, “Let me know what the owner says, about the pizza. I saw the reflection of the text in your glasses.” I slap a smile on at the end, and at this point, A refuses to meet my eyes and is pale in the face. They look down and don’t to respond for a few seconds. I just shook my head and asked them to let me know what he says again. They respond in a murmur that they will, and walk towards the door.
They leave and I go sit in the office, shaking from anger and anxiety, as I’m not a confrontational person, satisfied with calling them out on their bullshit. Unfortunately, my satisfied feeling was cut short as because of them, we had out personal pizza privilege removed “indefinitely” at the time. We eventually got them back, though, and everyone continues to dislike working with A.
TLDR; insubordinate employee goes over my head and bothers our store owner with something, I call them out, but it backfires and we get privileges revoked.
riftshioku · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This girl I was talking to sent me a picture of her "friend" naked with ribbons covering her. She went on about how her friends so beautiful and everything, and then I told her it looked like Sarah Jean Underwood. It was. I found the same picture on her Twitter and called her out on it.
Carmypug · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a University and we send important documents to students through a system that tells us that they have read them.
These documents need to be completed before they can go on placements for their studies. So many times I will be called saying they didn’t see them and accusing us of not sending them.
I then tell them the day and time they read them. Shuts them up straight away!
MikeOxmaul · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old manager saying that another manager did not want me on her team. Little did she know that I was good friends with that manager (of 7 years) and she told me that they never even spoke.
I confronted my manager during a 1:1 and her face just dropped knowing that I caught her in a big lie.
bamerjamer · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a professor that knew EVERYTHING. During one lecture he was talking about the presses that form metal car doors. So he plods on, saying “so in Spring Hill, Tennessee, at the Saturn plant, they use this to make their doors.”
I say in his pause, “aren’t Saturn panels made out of plastic? Isn’t that Saturn’s Thing?”
He pauses more, then plods on... “At the Honda plant in Ohio, they use this to make their doors.”
It was entirely dismissed by the prof, but me and my classmates loved it.
hungarianhorntail679 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This was fairly recent and something kinda small but it was the final straw for my boyfriend and I.
So a little backstory. I live with my bf’s parents, my bf and his two siblings used to. Basically after a huge fight and other reasons with my bf’s stepdad, his older brother moved out. This left my bf, his little sister and I at home. His little sister is one of the most manipulative, cunning son of bitch I have ever met. Basically, she’s 18 part of the “I’m a human, so I demand respect from everyone including older people even though I haven’t done shit with my life yet to earn said respect” generation. She just acts super entitled. She’ll say she’ll do something and she never does, she’s messy, she lies about a lot of things, she steals from everyone in the house. This literally drove my bf’s mom crazy for awhile so little sister decided to move out with big brother at his girlfriend’s house. She still hasn’t moved any of her shit out and it’s been three months. Shes slept over a couple of times and this last time she stole her moms Xbox 360 from upstairs. I play in the same room that the Xbox was and I noticed it missing. I call her pretending that I think her friend (who has stolen from us before) took the Xbox. She goes along with it thinking she isn’t caught and says her friend is moving to New York (most likely another lie) and she won’t be able to get it back. Queue to a few months later and my boyfriend is repeatedly having problems with his Microsoft account being kicked out over and over. It now takes a long process to sign in because she was using my bf’s account. We also saw that her boyfriend signed into YouTube. That moment of confirmation was satisfying and yet so sad because she straight up lied to me about it. I was dumb and thought I was only one she didn’t lie to and it made me think about everything she had ever told me in the 3 years that I’ve known her. The house is a million times more peaceful without her but I hope to goodness she doesn’t get caught up in something stupid and gets her ass beat or ends up in jail or worse.
rdbonne · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Last year I organized a Secret Santa for the senior class. I asked everyone in the ap theory group chat to text what kind of presents they’d be interested in getting to make it easier for those who aren’t familiar with each other.This kid, who we’ll call Al, has a habit of trying to one up everyone and act like he knows everything. His response in the chat was that anything comic related is fine, but no comic books because he knows all of them already. I decided to challenge this. I asked him if he knows Adzuki’s delivery service, which is just something I made up. His answer was “yeah I know it, but I didn’t really get like it”. I then sent a screenshot of a google search if adzuki. He tried to defend himself saying that the title sounds like a lot of other comics. Yeah, sure Al.
Zoybaq · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A “friend” in our group wanted to seem cool and do her own thing by saying she had a boyfriend for a couple of years. She’d talk about him once in a while, and make him sound like the greatest person. He was “away” on a service trip when we were all getting together. Asked for a photo of him, and she got defensive. Eventually she did show him to us, but I wasn’t there, so I asked for the photo (someone said he looked like a friend of ours), again she got defensive, but eventually sent it, apologizing. Fast forward a couple weeks, and something struck my as off about the picture. Reverse image google search, and boom, the 6th image (at the time) when you look up “guy on a date”. Called her on it, her story changed and she struggled to keep it intact (saying she was just embarrassed of how he looked, that she wanted to impress us, that he doesn’t like taking photos, she just didn’t have any, etc). It’s crazy that someone you know and trust for years can just keep up a lie like that and go with it for so long. And hey, if you’re going to do it, at least pick a hard picture to find.
jijr · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend that lies about stuff all the time. I don't even need proof to prove it's a lie, I just tell him more than 5 reasons on why what he's saying makes absolutely no sense. He claimed like one or two weeks ago to have attempted suicide (this one is viewable on one of my posts). So, I'd say every time I catch him lying is super satisfying.
LegitTeddyBears · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
How did you just forget what you were saving up for? When they came out 10+ years apart
kestrel005 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I told my 13 year old to go to bed after his last match of overwatch.
He started another couple of games and tried to claim that he was opening loot boxes.
I play overwatch as well. I'm on his friend list. It told me he was in a QP match.
I would have let it slide but he got an attitude.
The look on his face was priceless when I confronted him.
Chingparr · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back when Myspace was relevant, I had a solo music page where I would record/post my songs. I actually got a decent amount of traction with it, and had around 12k fans on the page. I played shows occasionally in random venues in my native Indianapolis, but as a whole, the music project was more of a therapeutic exercise than a serious career move.
A friend of mine lived in Chicago and told me a local band out there and been playing one of my songs, and recorded their own version and put it on an EP that they were selling. This obviously pissed me off quite a bit, as they were attempting to market something I wrote as their own material.
So, I went on their page and saw that they were playing in Fort Wayne, Indiana (roughly 2 hours from where I lived at the time)
So, I went to their show, and of course they played my song. Afterward, I went to their merch booth to call them on their bullshit. Hilariously enough, they didn't even recognize me! You'd think a band would at least look at the photos of a person that they're blatantly ripping off.
So... I bought a copy of the demo and asked them about the song and what inspired them to write it. Their singer went on and on about losing his mother (I wrote the song about my brother committing suicide) and how much it affected him blah blah blah.
So, after his fake testimony about losing a loved one, I dropped the bomb about being the original songwriter.
Of course the singer started flipping out and backpedaled, and tried to swing his statement of writing the song to being inspired to record his own version and put his own swing on it (the song was damn near note for note copied from mine)
So, I made an empty threat of a lawsuit and demanded credit for the song. After they refused, I posted a blog entry on my page about them and uploaded my version along with theirs. There was some drama online and some cyberbullying on both sides of the argument which led to me deleting Myspace permanently.
woahdudie · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked in retail, in customer service. Had a customer come up to me FUMING. He screamed at me, ‘I’ve been over in x-department for 45 minutes waiting for someone to help me and no one has come!’
I said, ‘Sir, we just opened 15 minutes ago. But if you want to head back over there, I’ll have a sales person meet you.’
He didn’t even respond. Just stomped back over to the department.
noahsalwaysmad · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've got a coworker known for telling some pretty obvious bull shit stories about his personal life. Everyone gets it, we just kind of roll our eyes and laugh about it later. The stories escalate each time they're told which makes it even more amusing but the guy is a good worker and a good person so no one really calls him out.
We started a conversation about our significant others one night and I discussed the occurances leading up to my wife wanting her own xbox so we could game together. Nothing extraordinarily exciting but it was unique to us and fit the conversation. The next evening we worked together again, started on about video games (as the conversations often did) and he couldn't wait to tell me about how he had to buy his girl friend an xbox so they could play together.
I asked what happened, thinking maybe he relayed my story to her and she decided it might be fun to game with him too. Nope. He retold me the exact same story I had told him the previous night but with him and his girlfriend in place of me and my wife. I thought maybe he was fucking with me but he just genuinely forgot that I had told him what happened to me and made it about himself.
Edit:a word
lbauer13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My Grandma gave me a pack of custom engraved pencils on my birthday in like the 5th grade - I don't know why, but it happened. One day in class, I saw a kid at a neighboring desk using one of my pencils so I went over to confront him. He quickly denied that it was mine saying he brought it from home at which time I turned the pencil in his hand around to reveal my name. Thug life.
bklyn44 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened years ago in middle school. A classmate claimed I stole her pen and told the teacher on me. I then showed the teacher my mothers company name and number on MY pen.
chopedsuey · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In military school we had a kid who would make up wild stories. Once our group was walking doing a litter pick up at a campsite and a cougar walked by. He then told us he fought and killed a cougar with a knife... ok.... then he spoke about his parents who owned a million dollar restaurant in Cambodia and were the highest level chefs who cooked for royalty. We met his parents during a parent visit and told us he always had an active imagination.
NecroJoe · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my worst employees was late for work. It was the third time since I started really thoroughly tracking and documenting, so that I could fire him without any legality issues. He was nearly one hour late. He tried to say that it was a simple mistake: that he forgot about Daylight Savings.
The trouble is that it was autumn. If he really had forgotten about Daylight Savings, he actually would have been an hour EARLY, so he was actually TWO hours late for the time he thought it was.
The only time I didn't feel guilt or remorse for firing somebody.
daaberg · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went to visit my friend in college for he weekend. He had warned me about his roommate who lied about everything. In the first 30 minutes his roommate told a story about his aunt getting sued by a burglar that cut himself with a knife while robbing her house.
He basically told the story from this clip , which I showed everyone. Beyond ironic that he stole the story from the movie “Liar Liar”
hellooy · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work with a woman that we referred to as The One Upper. Any ailments that anyone had, she unfortunately had too, only worse. Someone had a headache? Well, she's got a migraine. From a toothache that she's had for days. Etc. Well, at one point, another employee had been having some intestinal distress for a few days. Well, wouldn't you know it, so has she. And she was boasting about how bad it was and that the other employee must've given it to her. The look on her face when the employee took a pregnancy test and it came back positive was priceless. A third employee said Well, I guess you don't have what she has then, huh? Her face just dropped.
msmomoju · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He doesn't exactly know that I caught him, but just found out my ex of 8 years was already having sleepovers and kissing his 'friend' goodnight in the car (that caused my jealousy and our break up) barely a month since breaking up--because our apartment staff had told me out of concern (thinking we were still together)
"Not acting on the feelings" my ass.
icandothat · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once had a car rental charge me for mileage. I asked them why I didn't get the unlimited mileage contract I asked for. The manager told me they don't offer unlimited mileage except to corporate customers. I showed him my friends unlimited mileage contract and then asked him to explain to me how this could have happened. Was I too stupid to understand the subtly of car rental contracts or was he just a liar. He refunded my money with no further discussion.
icetea32 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was about 10, there was this girl in my class who was super annoying, who knew everything about any subject and the most annoying thing about her was that she declared herself an artist. She would be super inspired about something and would come into a (bullshit) kind of trance, were whe "felt the universe" and would produce a poem or a drawing. She would show us her artwork in school and the teacher would always be amazed even thought it would just be a drawing she would have printed from the Internet. She was obviously bullshiting all the way and just created this character of an inspired artist for attention. (I still know her to this day and she became a pretty decent person but hates to talk about that time because it's so embarassing for her)
There was this one time she came at school and clamed she wrote a poem, because she was inspired by I don't remember which bullshit, but there was a story about her feeling the inspiration and couldn't repress it, blah blah blah. The teacher stopped everything so that the whole class could listen to the poem. She read the poem. Very beautiful poem indeed. Teacher is extatic to have such a talent in her class. Turns out that is was copied from a newspaper for kids that included a poem written by a kid every week. It was a pretty obscure publication. Except my parents started buying it for me, following her parents advice. And I had it. In my bag. I exposed her in front of the whole class. She was really pissed and tried to explain that she was the one sending the poem to the newspaper (bullshit again). It was really satisfying at the time, but now I really regret doing that. She was just loooking for attention. But still it was satisfying.
mbergman42 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Tl;dr Copied a database that proved overseas boss was lying thru his teeth and prepping to lay off my whole division.
I was at another division of my company, overseas. Our local team had been getting weird information requests from this division, about the product we had under development.
I was wandering thru the overseas engineering workstation floor, late one night. A friend from that group was working. The CAD drawing on his screen was..,oddly familiar.
He was happy to tell me about his project. His team was shadowing our development, mirroring our work to make an equivalent version. He was new enough that he didn’t realize his work was obviously a prelude to shutting my team down.
I went to the central data room and copied his database. Took it back to my home office, spilled the beans to my boss. Apparently he’s asked his counterpart about all the info requests but was told, no, these are mistakes. Overseas boss (OB) was obviously lying.
The database was pretty clear evidence. My boss called him on the speakerphone. OB denied everything. Kept denying.
My boss gave up, hung up. He said, “he’s been ordered to lie to us. At this point we’re just embarrassing him. “
We were shut down, but we had warning courtesy of my naive buddy that late night.
(Tech note: This was a while back, we used microvax workstations and I had a project access uid.)
Siconyte · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Heard a dude at a surplus shop claim to be a SEAL. I thanked him and asked him "What was your BUD/S class number?" Just wanted to see roughly how long he's been doing spooky shit for fun. "Oh, that's classified, I can't tell you that!"
The shopkeep and I both tore into the guy, BUD/S class numbers are public info. Dude ran out with his face down under verbal assault and was yelled at to never come back.
sapa_inca_pat · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Might be a little late but here it goes.
I had gone out to this karaoke bar with my friends and my girlfriend. One of our friends, Alex, is apparently a regular at this bar we’ve never heard of but we trust him that it’s gonna be good (first mistake). Anyway we get there and it’s exclusively people over 30 (were all just turning 20) and kinda empty, the only people remotely our age is this couple that just got married.
Alex starts telling us that he noticed this woman who he had hooked up with before and he starts having a conversation with her before she storms off to another part of the bar. He comes over to me and gf and starts telling us that he had slept with her and stood her up on their next “date,” we had noticed she was in her 40’s, legitimately could have been his mom. We all kind of want to leave after not too long but decide to stay to see what happens (second mistake).
Our friends start doing the karaoke thing and while some are waiting his woman Alex had hooked up with comes over and starts talking to two friends of mine, eventually she tells them she’s going to another bar and tells them to come with, and we don’t stop them (3rd mistake). They leave and instantly my friend Alex tells me that she’s crazy but she’s obsessed with him and she’s texting him a lot right now about how she wants him or whatever, me and my gf are HIGHLY doubtful but don’t say anything and just listen nodding, eventually we’re “damn Alex, it seems this lady’s really into you why don’t you show us the texts we wanna see” and he freezes for a second and starts telling us that he had forgotten his phone at home and he had his moms phone with him and he didn’t know the passcode to unlock it, because for whatever reason that makes sense in his head.
I’m like “yo but how did you text us today and how is she texting you if you’re on your moms phone.” He starts babbling about something and I call him on HIS number (I also have his moms number) and the phone in his hand starts ringing. Then he starts trying to act drunk (we saw him only buy one small drink and he didn’t finish it) and walks away. Me and my girlfriend have a laugh but it’s obvious what had just happened.
Oh and my friends that had gone with the woman ran away apparently and ended up back at the original karaoke bar cuz she was creeping them out.
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sapa_inca_pat · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Honestly not even the first time he’s lied like that to our faces. He’s known to be a pathological liar
thebrownkid · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time while playing poker, I won $50.
badxvirus · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex was over my house and while we’re watching tv, I saw her closing her open apps on her phone and thought that I saw tinder. I asked her if she had tinder and she then blew up on me saying things like “wow so you don’t trust me” etc. I asked her to show it to me but she kept saying the same you don’t trust me nonsense. She ended up storming out of my house so I downloaded tinder and what do you know, she was in the first 5 matches to display, less than a mile away. Called her out on it and ultimately ended the relationship.
dtyler86 · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In college my apartments power bill started going through the roof and we couldn’t figure out why. After some excessive investigation on my part with my roommates, I called the power company and discovered that The apartment complex had been charging us for their late fees to the power company. I threatened to sue them and they refunded all of our power bills for the entire lease term
rye381 · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife's cousin has been a compulsive liar his whole life ranging from cars that he doesnt own to jobs he has never had. Two years ago, he told us that he was going to be on Deadliest Catch tv show and they hired him because he was so good at crabbing. We never really believed him until Season 12 came out and we were able to watch it.
If you watch or watched the series the crew basically just rip on him because he has no idea what he is doing. He was letting female crabs go through when he wasn't which is pretty basic knowledge for anyone working with crabbing to not let this happen. After a few episodes they found out he had warrants for his arrest and had to leave the show. Come to find out, he had no experience crabbing and bullshitted his was through the interview process as well.
Here is a People article talking about it. It was quite hilarious and his family was extremely embarrassed about it all.
dolo_lobo · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lived with an aunt. I always locked my doors and one day something didn't feel right, so I put my surveillance camera on before I left the house. Caught my aunt in my room going through my things and then locking the door as if no one was ever there.
When I saw her. I asked her if she found what she was looking for. She looked at me like she saw a ghost lol. Then she denyed going in my room, not knowing that I knew. Shes a "church" goer and claims to be " religious" so she looked at differently in the family. So in conversation she says "I didnt go on your room, on God that I didnt go in your room". My response was I guess this is between me, you, and God then.
Boom
Guac_in_my_rarri · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So junior year of high school my English teacher assigns a literary criticism, bio crit, or historical crit. So I start aksing around to my brothers friends who are in college and many of his English friends mention they just started learning about them. So I prep for some fun, I mean hell. Turns out she's prego and the due date is the same day as the paper.
Fast forwarding: my teacher leaves on maternity leave and a sub comes in. Our original teacher doesn't let the sub take control of the class as she still has us turn in papers to her over email. I can see an issue coming but I'm not sure what it is.
Fast forwarding to the week the paper was due. This paper was at least 12 pages in length not I couldn't the MLA shit. We turn in rough drafts at the beginning of the week over email. She says we will see them back Wednesday in time for the Friday in class due date. Wednesday rolls around and only the kids she likes have their papers. So we mass email her asking about it and she sends out an email that we will have it by Thursday morning. I think, "alright I can deal with that, she's prego what do I know." Thursday afternoon comes around and nobody has their paper that emailed her. So me being relatively strong in the self advocating area, I talk to my parents then to the administration about it that afternoon. I'm at school till 6 or 7 in the evening expalinging this fiasco to the admin. Everybody that didn't have their papers get them back that Friday afternoon. Enclosed in the body if the email is "sicne you didn't turn this in on time on Monday I gave it back to you late so your final copy is late. Please follow the rules next time." I was so mad when I saw this because I turned in my final rough draft a week ahead to avoid issues like this. Monday rolls around and I kiss half a day of school because I'm taking with the admins again, showing them proof of the email, and her other messages to the class. For that whole week I had a Target on my back and the English department held the gun. The department was sticking with their teacher but didn't know the details. All in all, the headmaster gets involved, my parents get involved, the department is all geared up and ready to crucify (did I mention it was an all guys military catholic school. Stepping out of line required big balls and even bigger balls to pursue it). A meeting is planned; 6 people and a total of 14 degrees (2 English phds, the teacher with her master, my parents with master) all debated what the hell the assignment really wanted the kids to do. The English phds could not figure out why this assingment was allowed, even thought they reviewed her lesson plans, and why she had her students spending time on a topic that 5 really educated people couldn't figure out but her. So all in all the chair took the papers and graded all of them. I was told I wouldn't fail nor would I get an A. I got a 89 and passed the class. I was in danger of failing but what they found out is all the grades seocnd quarter werre thrown 15%+- either way. The kids she liked were 15%+ above last semester and the ones she didn't were the opposite way. Our grading scale was pretty tight. The grade ranges were 8-10% deep (74-82%=C, 82-92%=B, 92%+=A). I was sitting at a C and couldn't figure out why. I was strong in English. The previous semesters I was at 95%+. I suck at spelling and don't proof my shit btw. Yea so all in all she can't look at me anymore and can't teach my little brother who's in school there now. She's also still on warning from the administration. It's been 6 years I think? Anyways it was great catching her on her shit.
WindupPodcast · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh, this is wayyy too late for anybody to read, but I had a life-changer.
My wife and I moved to England to work as teachers for a year. We moved from Canada on the promise of work in a town called Colchester.
Now what we know about England you could stuff into a PBS best-of-Fawlty-Towers VHS collection. We've seen fancy Cambridge/Oxford comedians doing lady voices, a few hard-bitten detectives, read a few luminous books about hyper-intelligent mice and stupid and/or child wizards, also the food is bad.
We know nothing.
So we move into some pre-delapadated new complex (like, first day, the toilet doesn't work and you can pretty much peel the paint off the walls with your bare hands) with a bunch of Australian couples (and one really racist North-Aussie girl). They're all qualified teachers, I'm working as a school assistant, or so I think.
After a series of mis-adventures, ask for the work, please. This company works in placing "supply" teachers (TOCs, in Canadianese) at schools all over England, and we figure, Okay, this Essex place is pretty big, where we gunna work?
Nowhere.
They've got NOTHING.
There are 2 housholds of teachers in the area and NO schools on this company's radar.
Our job? Sell the company school-by-school with information packages. They have no other plan.
I should mention that we were offered guarnteed income (a certain amount per month) and the contract says they have to pay even if we don't work. But we get more for full-time work, and getting them to pony-up is a hassle. So we WANT work. They just don't HAVE any. Also, apparently, the contract I signed doesn't guarantee ME more than a pittance (more on that another time) unless I find a bunch of schools or work to sell their service EVERY DAY.
So, if you don't know England, you should know it's pretty dense (compared to where we come from in Canada), but there aren't infinite schools. We have to train and bus and walk all over the place between our town and outer-London to find work. It's exhausting and depressing (not what we came here to do), but at least it gets us out of the house.
Eventually, we get the call from this "company" - They know the problem. Problem is, there's no manager for our region (oh did I mention that every time we have a problem we have to hoof it to London? A 3-hour tour, followed by another 3-hour tour back? ). So they hire this dude from Australia.
Now right away, the ladies of teaching notice warning signs. First of all, he's the youngest guy in our whole group. Not a problem in itself, but a bit weird for this seasoned leader. He's also really immature, hitting on the teachers, getting into weird parties (like inviting a hooker to hang with him outside one of the teachers' homes at 3AM), real fake smile on him.
Now we start to hear worse rumors. He keeps offering ladies "Ice," says he can hook them up with "Ice." One group of teachers complain their home has no grass, he tells them, "Oh, you want Grass, I can get you Grass." He's always offering girls drinks. Once, while drunk, he claims he put "sales" on his resume, and hints that he was mostly moving drugs. Yes, I'm not kidding. The guy knows how to work a resume anyway.
By this point, most of our band has found work in teaching, but myself and a couple others. My wife is full-time (before this guy came along), and things had been going a little better. I end up being the main "marketing" guy (vis, foots in doors, delivering packages, selling the "brand"), and this guy is supposed to take me around. Some weeks I've got a contract with a school (I got a good rep. in a few locations, but they only need me sporadically)
He almost NEVER does. He drops me off, says he's got other work to do then disappears. Sometimes he sends me off on my own. Sometimes he's just not around. Occasionally we come in together, but then, boom, he's off.
So now, I'm being to wonder what he's even doing here. He hasn't got anyone any new work they didn't scout themselves, he doesn't seem to have much time to be in the field.
One day, I call him asking "Where to today?" He tells me to go out on my own, that "The office says I'm not supposed to go out today, I have office work to do, you're supposed to go out on your own."
Now, I'm thinking, hmmm, that sounds very bullshit. To put it politely, this drug-dealing junkie asshole is lying to us. That's my guess, obviously. I just ask a couple of polite follow-ups and hang up. That's what I do. Gather intel.
So right away, I call head-office in London. I know the managers there pretty well by now, as I call in about issues we're having or new contracts we got pretty regularly. I had other "issues" with these guys before, but we do get on pretty cordially.
All I ask is this, "Did you ask [drug-guy's name] to stay in today?"
"No?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Could you just check, because he's telling me he's not supposed to go out."
Silence.
"We'll look into it."
Well, I never heard back the result of that check. I went about my business and didn't raise the issue at all.
A few days later, we get a message. Apparently [drug-mule] had some family issues, a girlfriend thing (he has never mentioned a girlfriend, especially during all the "Ice," "Grass," and drink offers to young teacher girls) and has to return to Australia. He says he won't be able to return in the foreseeable future.
He's gone. No more word about bringing in a regional manager. A few weeks later I'm working in a bookstore on the High-street. Retail wasn't a career move, or a resume-builder, but it paid money. Also, nobody at Waterstones tried to sell me or my wife even a single rock of Crack-cocaine. Just the Momma-Mia DVD and some Beedle the Bard.
Oh, and England? Yeah, apparently it's not all Footlights and crumpets.
MadameSeRine · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I have an ex friend who is a musician in my area and has played some house shows in my home when I host them and in the general area in bars and such. Honestly he's a terrible musician and cant hold a tune to save his life, but I always respected him because he didnt care what anyone thought and would get up and play anyway. That friendship came to a head with my friend circle when an acquaintance was with us playing some music in the car with my roommate. My roommate I And his gf instantly recognize the song as his most popular one that he performs. Here's the catch though. This musician lied and said that it was HIS song and took us through his thoughts when writing it and even claimed he wrote it in response to my roommates song. So then we hear the actual song and freak out because he blatantly lied about it which in turn meant that ALL of his music is stolen note for note and word for word from other musicians which in my book is the scummiest thing a musician can do. I love covers of course, but you have to give credit to the artist who wrote them.
In response to this I took the audio file of the song (post party depression) stripped the vocals, rewrote the lyrics here and there to call him out and to let him know the jig was up. I then recorded my own version over the music for the original and sent it to him as an audiophile for him to give a listen. He never responded to the message, but his gf did asking why I sent it so I knew he had heard it. He has not contacted anyone in my friend group since and had avoided going to any shows we go to as well.
B3n7340 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Great stories here! But I was thinking, the caveat of this thread is that we automatically trust the storyteller who caught a liar. What if some of these stories are actually being told by the liar and we've no reason to doubt or prove otherwise? Someone please tell me they haven't caught a convincing liar spin a story their way before.
jrburkh · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I love how this thread makes you feel like every sorry you read someone might be making this up. I've already shared a couple of mine in response to others, but here's probably my most satisfying one. First, a little background... (Wall of text alert)
I used to work as an investigator with the government. It's interesting because we weren't typically in a position to make credibility judgments, we'd just always give the "claimant" the benefit of the doubt and it's left up to a judge to determine credibility if the case went anywhere beyond the initial investigation. This is probably a function of some legal concept, but all I know is that's just how our process worked and that's perfectly fine with me. However, that all changes when you have sufficient reason to question the witness' credibility.
This case I was working on had a critical component where I needed to know if and when the "defendant" might have communicated with the claimant. To be clear, in this circumstance, it was in the defendant's best interest to have contacted the claimant - and the sooner, the better. The converse was true for the claimant, and he was clearly aware of this.
So I was interviewing the claimant, and getting his version of whether contact had occurred and when. I ask him if they ever contacted him, and he says no. I rephrase and say, "so they never contacted you?" He reaffirms, no they've never contacted him. Unfortunately for him, part of my investigation obviously would be to collect any documentary evidence relevant to the case, in addition to witness statements. And in this circumstance I already had phone records and text messages showing he had been contacted. The text messages were more important because we could also see the content of the communication. So I start getting specific but try not to completely show my hand, "They never called you?" "Nope." "No emails?" "Nope." "And no text messages?" "Nope." Now I have him backed into a corner because these communications aren't something he would just forget about, they were a big deal in this. "So they never sent you any text messages?" He stops for a moment, and you can almost see the realization that I might have more information than I'm letting on. But that was my job - to get the witness' statement without revealing too much about what I know until it becomes useful for me to do so. "Well, maybe one, I think?" "Okay, and what did it say?" "I don't remember." Of course you don't - because it said exactly what you needed it not to say.
So I ended up drafting up his statement - he remembered receiving one text but didn't remember what it said. And when I discussed the case with my superiors I had to tell them we couldn't count on his credibility. He ended up "winning" the case - the defendant had done some wrong, but the claimant gained absolutely nothing from it because we knew this guy could be a serious problem for us on the stand.
The thing about all this is that people (on both sides of it) think it's so easy to lie through something like this, but if you're going to lie, you sure as shit better be fully aware of what information might be out there because it was my job to find it, and I took it very seriously. In any event walking this got through that sudden realization that I knew he was lying to me - it was both gratifying and disappointing.
TheLoofster · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wife made up a bunch of stuff and got a personal protection order against me. I lost my CPL, and had to give my firearms to someone else.
The protection order was granted ex parte, which means there was no hearing.
My divorce attorney, who happens to be a criminal law attorney, and I exercised my right to have a hearing by filing a Motion to Terminate.
My wife had said I harassed her and threatened her through text messages, amongst other things.
We presented my text message logs and asked her where the messages were. She got tripped up at that, and the hearing was downhill (for her) from there.
The judge agreed that there was absolutely no reason to have this protection order and terminated it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Copying my response to another AskReddit thread
So there's this really terrible stand-up comedian who's kind of notorious within the community for being abrasive and sociopathic. He only works corporate gigs where he gets paid thousands, and prides himself on doing only "clean" comedy. The only reason I won't use his name is because I had an exchange with him on my personal e-mail address, maybe I'm being overly cautious but I don't want anything to get back to me. That being said some of you will probably know who he is.
So to give you some perspective, this guy is really, really, really not funny. He tells the most milquetoast and inoffensive jokes about being biracial while humblebragging about his money and social status. On top of that, he derides other comedians for swearing and drinking, basically acting like regular people do, and sends them dozens of e-mails with pictures of him on private planes, eating steaks and stuff. Guy is an absolute tool, he has no fans and nobody likes him. He opened a few times for Russell Peters and made a fake website called "russelpeters.com" (note the one L) where the contact info linked to him, and he'd say that Russell wasn't available but he could play, something to that effect.
And the compulsive lying part: He absolutely insists that he's 35, however it's been documented in a police report (where he punched some writer who criticized his show or something) that he's 55. He is very obviously in his mid 50s and I don't know how he thinks he can get away with a fib like that. He lies about random things all the time, he came onto a podcast who invited him to clear his name but he lied the whole damn way.
The story of this guy is absolutely fascinating to me for some reason. I became sort of an "anti-fan". Looking through his facebook page, I see a post about a sitcom script he wrote, revolving around an engineer/physicist/generic fancypants smart guy who hits his head on something and comes up with a plan to open the world's first "Clean Comedy Club". At the end of the post he gives his e-mail address and says if you ask for the script he'll send it. It sounds like the worst thing ever written and I need to read it.
So I e-mail him, say it sounds like a great show and I'd love to read the script. He sends me a link, the page directs to his personal blog about his awesome lavish life. I say it looks like you sent me the wrong link, he sends it again, this time it's a video of him on a private jet. I ask again, he sends me another link, and this time it goes to his Soundcloud profile. Now the 4th time he sends me a link, it actually goes to his script!
So I'm reading through it, the first few sentences are incredibly pandering and poorly written, just as I'd expected. It introduces a post-doctoral theoretical physicist whose "IQ is off the charts". He picks up a Rubik's cube on the table and immediately solves it. Then his roommate Sheldon walks in, and... wait...
I look at the top of every page:
THE BIG BANG THEORY (FIRST DRAFT) "Pilot"
Son of a bitch.
Enroberman · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was getting a oil change in national chain place. After a few minutes of waiting, one of the mechanics call me over to tell me that I need a new radiator. He shows me a pool of green antifreeze. I open the hood, unscrew the top of the radiator and ask him what color it is. The face that he made when he saw that it was orange was priceless.
Tokoolfurskool · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My dad told me a story about him and his friends trying to catch the kid that always one upped everyone in the act. The group baited him by having one of them say that he was out hunting foxes, and his dog treed one. The one upper proceeded to tell his story of how his dog treed TWO foxes. They all laughed and said foxes don’t climb trees.
princeprada · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I had her explaining in full detail, then I dropped the screen shots card,
agoss123b · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not exactly a lie, but I caught someone stealing.
Sophomore year of high school. 16 year old me, big band nerd, I was in drumline.
Some background. We had a guy who marched tenor drums(the ones who march 4-6 drums at once) who I'll call Rodney. See, Rodney was the only guy who played tenor drums, despite their being 3 lockers for them, all stacked on top of each other. He had a movie theater(albeit a small one) set up on the bottom locker, his drums in the middle one, and a bunch of decorations in the top. In this top locker had had his lunch box for the day too.
So one day, we were eating lunch with the band director and Rodney says he could've sworn that he packed something else. A couple days later, his girlfriend who kept her food in the locker also noticed something was missing. Rodney had the same thing a couple days later, and decided, yes, someone was stealing food from his locker.
We begin planning. Ghost pepper in the sandwich? No, the person is taking snacks. Laxatives? No, won't work. We come up with a place. We'll take an old smartphone and set up a security camera. We even run the idea by the band director and he says do it, someone in his choir class is stealing it.
The next day we have the phone and the app set up. Because his locker is messy, we tuck the phone, with the camera sticking out it, in the top of a binder. We hide it behind the lunch box so that it wont see anything except for blackness when the lunch box is there. We have it set to record and send to our phones when it detects motion.
Halfway through 2nd block, my phone buzzes. I watch in a nervous joy as 2 infamously promiscuous females move the lunch box, look around suspiciously, before realizing that there is a phone. I hear "OH MY GOD THERE'S A PHONE THEY'RE RECORDING US" followed by "the phones not on its just charging you fucking retard"
It was not just charging.
They ended up ratting out a couple more girls. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my Mam said she was going out for a walk and a looked across the road later to find her answer the door for a Chinese
LeadPeasant · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In school, I had a friend, M, who was a constant liar. She was a liar all the time I knew her in primary school. Her lies were mostly impossible to technically disprove (like, "my eyes turn green at midnight" kind of shit) so if you ever called her out on her bullshit she would just double down and keep at it ("MY EYES DO TURN GREEN. ALL MY FAMILY'S EYES DO IT. ASK MY MOM") Well for a while some cutesie collectable bobble head pet toys were all the rage in my school. She started going on and on about how she had every single one of them and even made up a few like "the golden Rio lizard" or whatever. So when I got fed up with her shit I said "well, do you have anything from the water emerald series?" And my other friend, C, immediately caught on and was like "oh yeah, they're super rare. They're like the other gem series." (There was like this other series like the sparkle-eyes series of them but that was one of very few other accompanying series to the main product) So obviously she started on how she also had all the gem series, all of them, so we just kept getting more and more ridiculous about which ones, getting more and more specific. "Have you heard of the Starshine Bubblegum series? They only sell them in France." And of course she had collected all of them. By this point if she had all the collections she said she did she'd have a few thousand of these plastic trinkets. So when me and C were finally satisfied by how ridiculous she'd gotten and that she was still definitely serious about owning all these toys, we broke the news to her that we had made everything up. She spluttered and stammered and then said we were lying. From that point onward if she ever got too ridiculous (we let most shit slide) we'd just do the same thing and she fell for it every.single.time. Met her again some years after leaving primary and she had gotten better at lying, but was still as annoying and ridiculous as before.
ElusiveFreckle · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went to coffee with this guy, and halfway through the interaction we start talking about art. I'm an illustration major, and apparently he had quite the portfolio himself, so we rambled on about it for a while and showed each other some of our work.
He drops the fact that he's done a bunch of illustration work for the World of Warcraft cards. I'm dubious, as this guy's stuff isn't on par with the artwork I've seen on those types of card game cards before, but I take a shot and ask to see some of the stuff he's "done". Upon showing me some examples...Yeah, no, it definitely wasn't his. I ended up pulling the same artwork up on my phone from the actual artist's portfolio site and showed it to him. His face flushed and he launched into this story about how he let that artist, (the real one) use his work free of charge, he's just that nice of a guy, etc. The level of bullshit coming out of this dude's mouth was off the charts.
I got up with my coffee, told him to delete my number, and left.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend said that he played as toad in super smash brothers melee, until one day when he made the claim to some of our friends and I explained to him how the video supposedly proving that toad was in the game was faked by cropping the silhouette of toad out of princess peaches neutral B, and put onto one of the "new challenger approaching" images. He confessed, because he was a good person.
XTheMadMaxX · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at an info plaza for tourists and such. I will mever forget the day I had an angry older man come to the desk I work and complain to me, asking how we could charge to use a federal road and that in all his 20 years why they would do that now.
I calmly smiled at the man and said "sir, this road has been a toll road since 1956". He had little to say to that and thanked me for my help.
I get that a lot and as I write this I have already had it happen twice today. Sorry if the story is messy and quick, had to type quickly while I had a free moment.
bigshoe8888 · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in rehab in Northern California with this guy that was a compulsive liar. And boy could he spew them out, he told us that he was an Army ranger (he was 19 or 20 and had only been in for one year), that he was a cage fighter, that his dad was the biggest meth dealer on the West Coast and murdered his own mother in front of him. I left the army ranger lie alone because it was such a big part of his identity that exposing the lie probably would’ve caused him to lash out violently and I didn’t want to get sent home from rehab for fighting, he was about half my size so I wasn’t worried about fighting him, just the consequences. The one that I did get him on was he was telling everyone that him and his buddies in Iraq caught a camel spider that was the size of a house cat, he said they found it latched onto the stomach of a camel eating it from the inside out. My best friend is it 100% disabled Iraq vet (Army Cav scout) and he told me that all those photos that were going around our photo shopped, that camel spiders only get to be about 5-6 inches long (maximum) Which I verified by googling. I called him out on the lie telling him that my best friend told me all about them and I also Googled them before and that he was full of shit. He responded by saying, “are you calling me a liar?” And I responded by saying “absolutely”. Everyone that was standing around listening to his bullshit burst out laughing. It was awesome lol
chiquitabrilliant · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-husband was in school to get his masters degree in philosophy. He had done poorly in an advanced logic class and was going to retake it as an independent study. The problem was it was going to be his only class that semester, so we had to pay the cost out of pocket - to the tune of around $1,400.
Mind you, this class was an independent study and he was good friends with the professor. He literally needed to read a chapter, and answer some questions and email them to him each week.
The only other thing he needed to do in order to graduate was complete his thesis.... which was about 50-60% done I think. He had pushed the time limit on everything to the wire, and had to get it done by May.
February rolls around, he is barely working on his class / thesis. I notice, and ask how I can help... April rolls around and he tells me he got an extension to get everything finished through the end of summer.
End of May, a letter shows up from the head of the philosophy department and I opened it like we do everything else... Well, this letter said he never completed his assignments for his independent study after February, and due to his poor academic performance he was being permanently removed from the philosophy program and not able to return.
I left the letter open on the table for him to see, and he never even tried to defend his behavior. We separated two months later.
TheBrokenArt · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Didn’t happen to me, but to a buddy of mine.
My friend Mark calls me a couple days ago to catch up and bullshit as we normally do every month or 2. He had been having some issues with his girlfriend last time we spoke so I was interested to hear of any updates.
So he starts off by telling me that he has moved out of his place with his now EX girlfriend and things haven’t been so great. He changes the subject to what seems irrelevant but totally throws me off.
He said a few months ago he was trying to get her to play video games with him and his friends online. She agrees to play and meet his friends. Marks best friend was some guy he met on Xbox live a few years ago and they play together very often. So Mark wants to introduce his girlfriend and mother of his child to his best friend. They meet and get along great. Mind you they meet over a headset during like a call of duty match.
Fast forward to now. They had exchanged numbers over Facebook and began messaging each other. Marks friend uproots his life in like Minnesota and moves to Delaware to not only meet this girl in person but to move in with her.
They now live together WITH his daughter. He found out because she had left her messaging app logged in on his computer. They were probably going to break up anyway but he didn’t know it was for someone else or his best friend. And neither of them let on to what was going on.
So he logs into his computer one day recently and scrolls through hundreds of backlog messages to discover what had happened.
When he confronted her he said he just asked if she had talked to his friend recently cause he hasn’t heard from him. She had some long ass story about how he said he was going through a hard time and hasn’t responded to anyone. Could imagine her reaction when he started sending her screenshots of her messages.
Either way, still sucks for Mark. But bizarre story nonetheless.
Above_Ground_Subway · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bought a Harley Davidson recently
Went into the dealership on a Sunday and talked to a salesman and walked around then left
When I got home looked up the sales person and saw that his personal bike was a Honda
Came back on Saturday to buy the motorcycle and he said that he loves his “insert same type of Harley” a lot
Felt good to make concrete the lying salesman stereotype
RedCaribou57 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was dealing wth a stubborn and deceitful customer service rep that was trying to convince me that I hadn't been fraudulently charged for a year of a service I didn't ask for. He said that I had added it on July, so I played along and he built up a story about how I signed and how he talked to the rep that sold it to me and they remembered me etc etc. Then after he was done I asked him "so if I added it in July... Why was I also charged for it in June....?" He hung up... But it was satisfying as hell.
NipplezoftheFuture · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This will probably get buried, but one time in grad school, I had to call financial aid because my loans hadn't come through yet. (I know some of you will know exactly what I'm talking about) The lady in the financial aid office is giving me the standard run-around yet again , when she said somehing that made my ears perk up: "Mr. Nipplezofthefuture, we have not received any notification from FAFSA that your loans have been approved." I distinctly recalled recieving an email from FAFSA a week before that didn't jive with what finacial aid lady just told me. So I'm like hold on a sec, I've got this email here, let me read it to you while you're still on the phone. It reads, "Your loans application has been approved. The following institutions have been notified: X University." Then I said, "X University, that's you, right?" This was followed by a long pause. Then she asked if I could forward her the email. My loans were in my bank account the next day.
Frozenfire21 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in sales, I had been reaching out to a client about a package that we offered, I caught my coworker trying to snake the sale from me by changing the profile of a client from woman to a man in an attempt sell her first. I confronted the co-worker about these changes he had made he said "How dare you accuse me of trying to snake a sale", at that point I showed him that I could see all the edits made on existing profiles(3 days into using salesforce). He went silent when he realized that I had caught him. I left his desk hissing at him like the snake he is.
Rancerle · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm just here waiting for someone to get caught lying in this thread, that will be the right answer
MandeliciousXTC · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a guy work with us who claimed he was an ex-financial director who had retired, got bored of retirement and decided to return to a job to keep his mind ticking over.
He used to take groups of us out for meals at lunch, pay for us all pretty frequently, talk about his house in LA and show us pictures of his boats, cars etc. I did some fact checking as I was always ever so slightly suspicious of the things he had been claiming to do. The general daily chat from him portrayed this lavish life of always eating the finest steaks and drinking the most expensive wines..
Post fact checking - his knowledge of LA and the places he talked about all seemed to be pretty factual and his explanations and descriptions of the places all seemed to add up with another colleague who had also been over to LA on vacation.
Anyway... fast forward a few months and he is always constantly offering possible business prospects and fellow work colleagues use of his place in LA free of charge. Our group Managing Director decides to take him up on the offer and flys out with his entire family from the UK to LA, fresh newborn included.
On touching ground in America he receives a text to say that he has a compulsive lying disorder and everything he told him wasn’t true. He didn’t have a house or anywhere to stay. Our boss spent a fortune trying to find somewhere to stay for two weeks and wasn’t best pleased.
Safe to say he didn’t return to work the following week.
KingJamesIII98 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It took a long time for the pay off, making it even more exciting. A few years ago my brother got married, and there were a few bottles of sparking cider left over, and I took a few home. At my dad's house, I had a bottle, and it seemed that someone was drissnking out of it without my permission, so I put my name all over it, no change. I put do not drink, no change. When noone was home I grabbed most of what was left, but I left a little bit in the bottom, then brought the level back up with dish soap. It wasn't until a few months ago that I got the final satisfaction, when we were talking at a family get together about drinks, he looks at me and says "it would help of SOMEONE DIDN'T PUT SOAP IN MY DRINKS!" I just smiled and told him it was mine and I had notes and my name all over it. He just looked blankly for a moment and we got back into the normal conversation. That was the most satisfying day of my life, so simple, but so amazing.
Tl;dr: step brother drank my apple cider, I leave notes, still takes some, add soap, years later he finally says something, and my pants become moist from satisfaction.
Roxeigh · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You’d think I’d have learnt to st’eh’ away from such comments lol
111609031229 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened when I was in 3rd grade. We had a Halloween parade and were told to bring in our costumes to march around the school. I had a purple princess dress. At the time my mom was single with 3 kids and had saved up for a while to buy us all costumes. When it came time to get dressed, my costume was missing.
I was crying and asked my teacher to help me find it and she suggested that I had forgotten my costume at home to just do the parade without a costume. I went into the teachers office to call my mom (which was shared with other 3rd grade classes) and in there, I caught another little girl putting on my costume. The worst part was that her own mother was helping her put it on. I told my teacher that was my dress and the mom flipped out on my calling me a liar.
I told her I had written my name on the tag with purple marker and to check the tag. Sure enough, my name was on it.
The mom immediately starts crying and saying she couldn’t afford a costume and this is the one her little girl wanted. She and my teacher tried convincing me to let her have it. I said no and marched in the parade.
drdrillaz · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a member at a private country club years ago. When the recession hit we started frequently noticing some people playing who clearly weren’t members. Asked one of them how they were able to play. They replied that they made a tee time online. As a fully private club we didn’t allow outside play so it sounded odd. A group of us went to the general manager to ask how these people were playing. He looked right at me and said “there is no way anyone made a tee time online!!!” I then proceeded to show him how i found tee times available online for the public. He fumbled through a few apologies and said he’d look into it but he knew he was caught. I left the club shortly after and so did a lot of the membership
bananasoop · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had to proctor some students for a physics exam yesterday and one student asked if he could get a calculator from a friend in another building. Immediately the Asian student in front of him offered to use his. The guy started fumbling with his words trying to say that the calculator wasn’t the one he wanted and needed this specific one. Almost couldn’t hold back my laughter as I told him he can’t leave
Hjordt · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An old classmate was a pathological liar.
He loved bringing cake to class and boasted about having made it himself. He even took pictures of the cake on baking paper on the kitchen table. This paper was all white and not brown as paper usually get when it's been in the oven...
He had also studied months ahead of the pensum and was very willing to show us his notes he had made. Problem was the screenshots he had put in from PowerPoint was of the last year's pensum. He had gotten notes from last year's students.
He's actually a good guy willing to bring cake and help other people but I don't get why he have to keep lying about where he got it.
GrizzGurrz · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was 17 or 18 and it was a snow day. I had a few friends over to play some call of duty and go sledding later that day. After we get back to my house from sledding I notice about ~$170 missing from my wallet. Pissed as I am and know the only place I had my wallet that day was either in my truck or on my person, I knew it was someone I was with but not sure who.
Fast forward 2 weeks. At a basketball game, I overheard that one of the guys there that day had just bought a guitar and amp from one of my really close friends. The individual that bought it made the mistake of slipping up and telling one of his friends (not my friend) that he stole the money and word got back to me. I had already confronted everyone that was there that day and he swore he would never do such a thing.
Well since I now knew it was him, I thought I ought to confront him. It worked out tremendously because he and both of his parents were working the concession stand at this fairly packed house basketball game. I walk up to the counter, wait in line, get to the front and say very loudly, "so you're the one who stole all the cash out of my wallet?" And many other choice words that I'd rather not go into..He goes pale as a ghost and his parents turn red as can be. Publicly embarrassed in front of classmates, parents, teachers, you name it. Felt fucking amazing. Had my money back that next Monday.
Edit: spelling
teamramrod456 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A guy I worked with was a constant 1-upper and compulsive liar. He was a military veteran, was in the marines and made sure every single person he had a conversation knew that about him. Nothing against marines, but this guy thought it made him better than everyone else.
One day we're changing shifts and shooting the shit with the guys who came in after us. We get on the topic of police and compulsive liar claims that he was an active deputy of the auxiliary sheriff's department. He went on to claim that he recently diffused a hostage situation when he sniped a gun out of a guy's hand. A coworker of mine was married to someone in law enforcement and texted her husband about this guy. Turns out our county sheriff hasn't had auxiliary deputies since the 80's and this guy was clearly full of shit. We made sure everyone knew not to believe a word he said.
Equilibrist · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late, but here's mine.
My roommate is a pathlogical liar. He has 0 self esteem, so he lies to feel impressive. He's actually a really kind guy besides that, but I digress.
A week after a Con he went to with a mutual friend, he said that he beat the Korpiklaani Vodka Challenge (i.e. listen to this song, and everytime the word "Vodka" is said, take a shot). The mutual friend kept trying to call bullshit on him saying he wasn't drunk any night, but he kept saying he kept his liquor well (which from experience, we know is a lie).
After a couple of weeks of trying to get him to stop spreading the BS, I did the math on the challenge's alcohol consumption compared to his BMI, and proved he couldn't possibly have beaten it. He wouldn't even have lived to finish the song.
Shimasho · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents have owned a bar/restaurant for nearly 30 years in a small town. Before that we lived in a sleepy fishing town about 100 miles south of here in the mid '80s.
As I managed the restaurant one night a guy came in telling everyone how he had lived with the owners ( my dad and mom) "down south" " for a few years" dropping their names (my dad has a very unique nickname) often and loudly. The more he talks the more customers are glancing at me as I start asking questions feeding him rope. The stories get more outlandish. After about an hour I couldn't contain my laughter anymore as more and more side glances from long time customers were coming my way.
Finally I introduced myself as the owners' son and asked his name again since I had failed to remember him living with us when I was a kid at the time we lived "down south." He sheepishly paid his tab and left, never to be seen again.
Czral · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every time I talk to a right wingnut.
juggmanjones · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
an old property manager of mine was caught in a HUGE lie with the maintenance guy. my stove broke repeatedly and i started to pester the property manager. Everyday she would say the maintenance guy would knock on my door to take a look but at the time i was working from home. I tested this buy putting a big piece of paper stating "FUCK YOU (maintenance guy's name)" to see if there would be some sort of reaction. Alas, the same text was sent to me saying "so-and-so knocked on your door all day he missed you!" I reported this to the head office of the property management company and it turns our the cheques they were writing to purchase a new stove in my unit were being embezzled by the manager and maintenance guy. they ended up stealing roughly over 40k before getting caught.
Karaad · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was younger and out late at night smoking with friends, I came home and placed my almost dead phone on my desk and plugged it in. I'm very picky about where I place certain items, especially my phone.
My step brother was barred from having phone because he would only use it to ask for drugs from various people, mainly through texts, which were tracked via at&t's history service.
So I plug my phone in and go to take a shower, great shower. I get out and walk into the small foyer which has a door leading directly to my room, his room and our shared bathroom. I hear a rustle, a ripping noise and a slam. I walk i to my room and my phone isn't on its charger. We weren't allowed to lock our doors but he had locked his at the time because our parents were asleep. No problem, I use a metal rod and poke the hole to unlock the door and immediately tell him to give me my phone back, he tells me to fuck off and that he does have it, I must be stupid and lost my phone. I notice a hole in his screen for his window and ask him how it got there, he tells me to fuck off again, so I start screaming that I know he took my phone, I was on it as I was entering my room after all.
The screaming wakes up our parents, dad is in a fury, I explain the situation and he gets really pissed and busts out his laptop, I decide to walk outside to see if my phone is outside of his window, it's raining and behold, my phone is in pieces, battery removed, back plate removed, but still intact.
I come back inside "look at what i found outside of brothers window, in pieces..."
Mom and Dad at this point are on the verge of slapping brother and he is still denying it. The printer ramps up and out comes the hard facts. He took my phone and started texting every number he had on a piece of paper looking for coke, weed, heroine, pills, what ever kind of drugs he could get ahold of. "Hey dealer its me Brother, you awake? I need xxxx"
He still denies that it was him and it was all a set up, I finish drying my pho e off with a high powered blower to find out that the entire phone has been reset, pictures contacts, everything. Mind you, this was not a smart phone so transferring contacts wasn't the easiest and everything on the phone had just been erased.
Even with all of the proof, the little shit denies that he did anything wrong l, "If you deny it, you're not guilty" is his mindset.
He still isn't on the family phone plan to this date.
jurassicraider · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Friend was reading my phone over my shoulder. I began to write “stop reading my texts.” As soon as he read that he yelled “I am not reading your texts!”
DrizzlyEarth175 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Work at Wal-Mart as a cashier. I have a couple.
First one was a cash scam. Guy had me fill four visa gift cards with $500, totalling to a little over 2 grand (cause fees and tax and stuff). Told me he had a cash card so I was like "cool it'll run as debit/credit" and hes like "no, its a cash card, youve gotta hit the green cash button." The green cash button is what you hit when someone gives you exact change in cash. It basically validates the transaction and activates the cards. I was like "uhh no that's for cash, I know what button to hit" he's like "no bro, you gotta hit the green button" and I'm like "yeah, the green card button, go ahead and swipe or insert your card" immediately hit a 248 action code and blinked my light. Hes like "don't blink your light bro you ain't need to do that" and I'm like "uh yeah, I do". And he just walks away, along with his friend who had like four more cards in his hand. Supervisor comes over, I show her my screen and she's like "yeah you just prevented a scam, I'll get AP over here". I got my first raise because of it. If you're a cashier, and someone is telling you what buttons to push, immediately call over a supervisor, AP employee or manager. That's a major red flag.
The other was this guy who was buying a whole shitload of groceries. He kept trying to keep the bottom of his basket hidden from view but I didn't really notice at first and we rung out the transaction normally. He actually paid money and all was well. He was pretty nice, but then he started walking away and I noticed he had a bunch of shit on the bottom of his cart. So I'm like "sir, I'm sorry I totally didn't see all the stuff on the bottom of your cart." His attitude IMMEDIATELY changes and he's completely silent and pissed off. I ring up all the stuff and it totals out to almost 80 fucking dollars. I call AP and my supervisor to make sure they check his basket before they leave. What a dumbass. We were so busy and he had a long line behind him, who were all pissed off that this asshole thief was trying to steal shit and doing a poor fucking job at it. I hope he was really fucking embarrassed and ashamed of himself. Asshat. That could've been my job right there.
Fucking Wal-Mart.
DeusOtiosus · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had an employee at a secure facility. One of my policies was that they needed to leave their computers locked when away from their desk, especially as he had admin access.
Well one day, I walk in to this remote facility and his laptop is unlocked, sitting in the middle of the call center. So I change the background to some obnoxious Trump photo.
A contractor and I go and find him and we strike up a conversation. I steer it towards cyber security and locking computers. He tells me how he always locks his, and we’re joking around, saying how people shouldn’t leave them unlocked. Casually mention that if I catch someone doing that I would change their background to something awful.
So he heads back and we are going in the same direction. We see him sit down, and his face just turns beat red. He looks up, and there we are, me and the contractor with the biggest shit eating grins on our faces.
I have it all on video. Was all in good fun, but he learned his lesson.
workcyclecreate · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but my nana!
My dad has a pub where my nana was visiting. And this woman was telling everybody her mother had died and cried her eyes out, at which she got free beer. A couple of beers actually
So my nana, sweetheart as she is, called to the house of the diseased woman and her widower to give her condolences. Since its a small town and everybody knows everybody
But who picks up the phone? The “dead” woman herself!
The free beer drinking liar was shown the door
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Pretty much everytime a co-worker says "I have 10yrs experience" or "I used to run my own company"
Yeah??
Why do I have to even check and fix your work then?? Where is your company now??
Shut the fuck up focus on coming to work everyday.
mikekanuta · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A colleague of mine claimed she met Damien Hirst at a party and they got on really well. She said how he kept texting her and telling her how smart she was with her art. She finished by telling us how he'll still texts her asking to leave her job and work for him.
One of my friends is Damien's IT manager. So I asked him to het Damo on Facebook live for a quick chat. I said it'd be no problem at all and I'm happy to tell Damo to leave her alone. She quickly made excuses and never brought it up again.
douchebaghater · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Took over a territory after the previous rep went to work our distributor.
He was trying to poach direct accounts from me but there was never proof UNTIL an account gave me notes in his handwriting showing that he would give them 'bigger' discounts.
We met to discuss his poaching, which he vehemently denied.
I then pulled out his notes to the account and his jaw dropped.
'I,I,I,......well, that's not related to you AT ALL! That's something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!! GIVE ME THAT PAPER!!!'
My boss and his boss ended up having a 'Come to Jesus' conversation that did not go well for the distributor.
Mindfckr1620 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was working as a manager at Panera, where we typically did not question customers when they complained about things. (They usually complained about everything.)
A rough looking lady asked for the manager, as I approached I could tell she was very, methy. I asked her how I could help, and she said "I was just here and I order two peppermint mochas and there was NO peppermint! I want my money back!"
It was very busy and I just wanted her gone, but she was already pretty off so I decided to press the issue. I apologized and asked for her receipt. She replied "I went through the drive thru and they DID NOT give me one!"
I then replied loudly so the 50 customers waiting could hear "Mam, we do not have a drive thru." She stared at me surprised for a moment and said "Well I guess I wasn't here." and ran out the door.
mikekanuta · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A colleague of mine claimed she met Damien Hirst at a party and they got on really well. She said how he kept texting her and telling her how smart she was with her art. She finished by telling us how he'll still texts her asking to leave her job and work for him.
One of my friends is Damien's IT manager. So I asked him to het Damo on Facebook live for a quick chat. I said it'd be no problem at all and I'm happy to tell Damo to leave her alone. She quickly made excuses and never brought it up again.
Notrashforever · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
All these stories sound fun, I wish I had something similar to add
salttrail · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We were 16 and I talked to this guy in a game store about some random stuff and out of nowhere he started talking how he have cottage next to nearby lake. Since my father have cottage on the same lake I started asking for the location and more he was explaining the more I was assured he is referring to my fathers cottage which in the end it turns out he was. I didn’t tell him the truth but it was fun to listen to his bulshit
MrBlack103 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Really petty one here.
As a kid, I would have imaginary fights with friends. You know, pretending we were Jedi or commandos or wizards or something.
We came to a standstill when one of my friends got Halo 1, and decided he would be a hunter (enemy in the game) in all our "fights". According to him, this meant his shield could block literally every attack any of us could throw at him. "Lightsabers don't work", he said. "Guns don't work", he said. We escalated, naturally, and got frustrated but none of us had ever played Halo (parental issues with FPS games) so for all we knew he was talking about some kind of invincible psionic barrier. Thus he never... ever... "died" in our mock fights despite the rest of us taking our fair share of hits.
Fast-forward ten years, and I get to play Halo (finally). I fight my first hunter, and kill it with a rocket launcher. My friend had moved away, so I couldn't even gloat about how he was full of shit.
I mean, the shield is just a hunk of metal. "Lightsabers don't go through it" my ass....
taeoh666 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend said he went skydiving with no parachute. You can go skydiving without a parachute but then you wouldn't be here to tell me about it.
a_wallflowerr · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my ex slipped with my step mom and I caught him up
LetSlipTheDogesOfWar · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My then-wife was having an affair. It has give on for well over a year, in one form or another, as far as I could tell. She had lied so much about it, and I, of course, wanted to believe her.
Don't get me wrong, divorce is very painful, and I absolutely hate my ex's choices for what they have done to my children, but when I finally found incontrovertible proof, and she could no longer convince me I was just paranoid, it was a game changer.
The satisfaction came somewhat gradually, though, and it is still coming (I started finding evidence about a year ago). It's quite refreshing to realize that all those times you suspected something, you were right.
It's hard not to be bitter/jaded, but it's definitely nice to know that I can trust my gut.
Isuckatbattlefield4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
a Minecraft hacker saying he never hacks
PZ-Reddit · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to live with a couple of guys and someone threw snowballs at my window for 5 minutes straight. So I went outside and saw one of them and asked him: "What are you doing?" And he responded: " I didn't throw those snowballs at your window!" Me:"I said nothing about snowballs." And he geb me the 'i fucked up' look and started to run but I got him and rubbed his face with snow so it was all good.
hymie0 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
While she was testifying against me in court.
swaathis · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everytime! I can sense lies like I breathe.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wonder how many people in this thread are lying.
nuts69 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Kicking this one kid out of the air force for being a total shitbag. I asked him twice before going out "you don't have your phone on you, right?" A big problem with him was the damned cell phone. Take your eyes off him for one second and he's instantly done working and on the phone.
Left him in the truck to go do something, but looked back briefly. His eyes were downturned. Fucking phone. I stealthily sneaked around to the back of the truck and popped my head up to the window and yelled "BUSTED". He started crying instantly.
scootscoot · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A co-worker was bragging about how he wrote some software that I had written. Everyone knew I was the contact person for it, but he thought someone at an outside office did it. I gave him a “Oh really that’s very interesting! I didn’t know you had those skills!”, then I invited my team leads into the conversation. “Hey did you know X wrote that software? He did it in, uh, oh what language did you say you wrote it in?”. He went on to brag some more and couldn’t figure out why everyone kept laughing at him. Not sure he ever figured out I was playing him.
wolfgeist · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh man. So I worked at a coffee shop that was owned by a Christian/Politician (let's just call him Kevin). They hired this young douchebag kid from the youth group. He really wanted to be cool (he even wrote as much in a journal he left at work on accident). He listened to rap and just clearly tried and wanted to be a badass.
Well he was quitting and on his last day, hundreds of dollars went missing from the register. I knew that I didn't steal it so it was up to me to prove he did.
I used an email/im spoofing service to send him an email that looked like it came from Kevin, the owner of the business (the guy who had a strong presence at his church and a fairly strong political presence in our state).
Basically the email was some quote from the bible about stealing, I can't remember what it was exactly.
So the next day I was back at work and my manager came up to me and said that the kid had called Kevin crying and admitted that he stole the money. I broke out in laughter and glee, and tried to explain to her what I had done. She didn't believe me and just chalked it up to the kid having a guilty conscience.
Fine by me, but I know the truth.
gryph06 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this counts, buttttt I found out my (now ex) boyfriend was cheating on me with his ex-girlfriend. Surprisingly, I was friends with her before the whole cheating thing happened. After I found out about it, I texted her asking how many times it happened. Within minutes I received a text from my ex instead saying ‘just tell her it was the one time please’.
He was never the sharpest tool in the shed.
sakuseo · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My wedding was no alcohol (venue's policy, but we don't drink much anyways so nbd) and my mom called my sister, who put it on speaker because i was in the room, and asked to borrow her truck and all the coolers she had so she could basically be the supplier. My sister said no so my mom called me to tell me how awful my sister was and that she "just wanted the coolers to bring sandwiches for everyone." FUCKIN' NOPE!!
StuartMThomas · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew a guy who claimed The Edge hurt his arm before a show so he filled in for him. Yeah, he played with U2. :/
jerseyojo · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There's too many to name with my coworker. We all come to realize that she has an actual problem.. for instance here's a few from last night -my grandparents own Wells Fargo
-i had a stroke last week
-the guy who campus out with his telescope on my parents property is an astrophysicist. He had glasses and a badge
This morning she told me she drove to work in reverse cuz her car was fucked up but she fixed it.
Flying_FoxDK · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once I took a guy lying about eating my pizza. when I confronted him about he was like "I didn't even go into the kitchen" to which my response was "how did you know it was in the kitchen?" (big house). He then started sealed the deal when he said "I just assumed it was in the kitchen, besides I don't even like Salad Pizza". To which I responded "how did you know it was a salad pizza?" Nothing much came out of it in the end tho other than litterally everyone thought he was a piece of garbage for doing it. Also he never admitted to it even after getting caught like that.
abitobenjo · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Long story.... I worked in the middle of the night baking a year ago. There was a manager that got hired, whom the owner thought was her godsend of all holiness, we will call him Mik. She was obsessed with him. Anything and everything he said was the only facts, everything else was a lie from other employees. If the rest of the employees told her that whatever happened wasn't how Mik explained it she would still take Mik's word as truth. He didn't get along with many people except the owner.
Him and I started a project that was a success. A journalist from Forbes came in for an interview. Without telling anyone he decided to do the interview. Every sentence he told her was a lie. From the sales numbers, to him graduating from the local prestigious university. Best part was he conveniently left me completely out of equation, like I didn't even exist even though the work and business planning was 50/50. When I confront him he says something along the lines of the reporter must not have included me or had forgotten... sure...
Because I worked in the middle of the night I didn't see the other employees very often except Mik. I explained to Mik at one point what my goal was- complete community college and then transfer to the local prestigious school for computer science. The plan was more detailed, but for simplicity sake, I'll leave it at that. I end up seeing some other employees later down the road and one asks me what my ambitions are. I explain an outline of my plan. Other employee says hmm, weird, that's exactly what Mik said hes doing... flattering...
Ends up that the kid is a compulsive liar. I was having relationship issues and he explained his breakup. Couple months later he says hes been dating the same girl for 4 years. I get into prestigious school, whatcha know, Mik did too. Weird thing about the school thing is that he was only at community college for half a semester (he did have previous credits though). He said he got into the hardest school to get into at this already hard to get into University. The acceptance rate for that school is like 11% for external transfers. When I congratulated him I asked when he was doing the mandatory all day orientation. He explained he already had done it. He changed the subject very quickly, as I don't think he got as far into the lie to check out trivial things like the duration of orientation or the times. There are like 5 days for orientation that are all much later in the summer- he could not have done it already.
Fast forward, he gets caught stealing. But not just any stealing, it was desperateeeee stealing. Like, adding giant tips to credit cards. If he stooped to such an easy to get caught method, he must have thoroughly used all his other resources to steal (Note: this is an old school place of business- paper receipts, manual cash register without employee logins, etc. It would be extremely easy to steal). They found that he had added tips to multiple credit cards. When the owner fired him he sent all the work documents he had and explained that "someone stole his credit card at work and charged $400 on three consecutive days and I will be doing a charge back."
The owner finally caught on to what everyone else knew. This kid was a piece of shit. On the outside he was like I'm the golden child and will do anything for this company! But, fuck, was this kid malicious. He would throw away receipts to fuck over other managers (this was caught on camera and the boss still took his side). She loved him and would do anything to be blissfully ignorant of his malicious shit. She was literally thinking of paying for his education. Finally the stealing caught her up to who he really was. Although I feel bad for her, it is so satisfying to his shitty lying finally catch up to him.
coenw · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In an office I worked in our lunchroom and coffee corners where run by pensioners who couldn't stand not not working. Most where nice and smart people, one turned out to be extremely wealthy (different story).
One guy was a bit odd and was always bragging about his war, work and life experiences. So at some point me and a few co-workers decided to start logging his stories. Turned out that he seemed to have 142 years of working experience in vastly different fields and managed to fight in three separate wars during that time, we didn't even take the effort to calculate the hobbies..
We enjoyed his lying and talking to new staff that believed him :)
SilverKnightOfMagic · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a special daycare. Not special needs. The parent of one of the kids is always surprised to hear that I tell them their kid curses like a sailor. So one day they come in and the kid is in time out cursing like it's their Job and the mom goes ohhhhh myyy God.
sunghooter · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was my first girlfriend. At the time, I was very against smoking but I wasn’t such a stickler that I wouldn’t date a girl who smoked. I met this girl through my work at the time and we started hanging out and dating and we were together for about three and a half years.
As far as I knew, she was not a smoker. She didn’t take smoke breaks at work. I never saw her with a cigarette or a pack of smokes in her hand. None of my coworkers ever mentioned anything about her smoking. But then I noticed small little things that lead to a bigger picture eventually.
I remember one time I pulled up to her house and as I did, I saw her sitting on her porch and I was pretty sure I saw a small cloud of smoke in the vicinity of her face but I dismissed it when I parked the car and walked inside and kissed her and I didn’t smell any smoke. But I knew that I had caught her smoking and she can hide it well. After that, I was walking into a Walmart and just as I was walking in she was randomly walking out (this was during a time before smartphones were everywhere and social media was a tadpole). We were both surprised to see each other randomly and she was just grabbing a few things with her friend. I noticed that when she saw me that she had an almost shocked look on her face and quickly rifled through her purse and put in a piece of gum. We chatted for a quick minute before we said goodbye and I kissed her. The gum she was chewing wasn’t enough to keep me from detecting the slightest trace of cigarette breath but once again I didn’t care if she smoked or not so I didn’t give it a second thought. Not long after that we took a vacation together to Central Florida for a week. Being around someone for a couple years like we had at the point of the vacation, we knew each other pretty well especially demeanor and sense of humor. During the vacation, everything was fine on day 1 and day 2. But then I started to noticed on day 3 that she was a bit irritable despite being at the happiest place on Earth. She sort of stayed in this hazy funk for the rest of the week and definitely not her normal jovial self.
Despite the fact that I knew she was a smoker and I had caught her smoking no matter how fast or well she could cover it up, I didn’t care and never brought it up with her. It was a few months after the vacation when she finally told me how she knows I hate smoking and that she lied to my face for years about her smoking and how she was so scared to tell me because she “knew” I would break up with her if she smoked. That was the reason she was in a noticeable funk during the vacation because she had to go the whole week without smoking. It was really satisfying to have already caught her up in this massive years-long lie when she finally came clean and I let her know that I knew all along and that I also didn’t care.
ksbielenberg · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I work as a claims adjuster at a non standard auto insurance company. For those who haven't had to deal with the process before, I'm the person you call after an accident and explain how you or the other driver fucked up. With a nonstandard company, we deal with a lot of high risk customers and because of this we don't have grace periods when you miss a payment. This leads to a lot of lies....
I had one woman swearing up and down that the accident happened thirty minutes after she made a payment. She'd happened to have gotten paid that day and remembered she needed to pay for her auto insurance at three in the morning. I go along with it cause it's a lot easier to get people to unwittingly tell you stuff when you're being nice. Flash forward to a couple hours after our conversation when she sends me pictures of the deer she hit. Sure as shit the metadata on the photo shows a time an hour and a half before we got her payment, meaning she didn't have an active police when she hit the poor sucker. She was not happy when I called back and told her we were denying the claim, haha.
I had another one where me and my team were all positive we were dealing with a staged accident. Everyone in both cars (both of which were conveniently filled to capacity with "injured" passengers) were telling the same exact stories and everything was lining up. But the policy had only been started like two weeks ago and the 2000 beater SUV mysteriously had the most extensive coverage you could have... Nobody puts full coverage on that old of a car. Well, low and behold a couple more days go by and another team member gets a call from the policeman who'd written the accident report. Some sweet old woman, bless her heart, had seen these two cars meet up at the corner in front of her house and place the already shredded cars up to look like they'd been in an accident. Instead of just letting it slide as something weird that happened on the street, she found a way to show the cops her security camera and sent us the footage. I can't say I know exactly what happened as a result, but I know we didn't pay out and everyone in the "accident" was PISSED when they called back in and found out it was put with our special investigation unit. Not sure if they were charged with insurance fraud or not but lord I hope so.
Keeppforgetting · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now I wonder how many of these posts have lies in them to make the story more interesting/to have a story to tell at all.
balancedchaos · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex told me that her sister had died, and she needed money for bus fare to go to her sister's funeral. This ex also happens to be a lifelong drug addict, so I contacted a mutual friend who was also friends with her sister.
A little while later, I told my ex I had either really good news or really bad news, depending on how she was looking at it.
...and showed her the screenshots of her sister alive, and talking with our mutual friend.
A few stammered excuses about getting bad information later, she was gone. That's the last time she's ever asked me for money.
goku4690 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Money was stolen out of my wallet, which I had left in my toolbag, in the workplace. I lost $100. II had a feeling that my co-worker "Alex" had taken it. Mostly because he was a price of shit. I let my supervisor know and I hatch a plan with him.
Fast forward to the weekly meeting that same night, my Supervisor anounces that $200 dollars had been stolen from a toolbag earlier that night.
"Alex" immediatly pipes up and says "Goku, you lying bitch, they was only a hun'ed in your wallet!"
I received $92.50 back and the food he was currently eating during the meeting as he was walked out.
blaqmass · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had someone we knew vaguely come for an audition for our band. He gave us his show reel cd which was just a burn of Poison The Well - Opposite of December
When we called him on it he accused the band of ripping off his ideas.
Bonus Round
Had a tattooist apply for a job at our shop, submitting his portfolio, which happened to be made up of photos from one of our artists instagram.
mighthavecoffee · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a museum where everyone under 18 is free. It's a pretty frequent occurrence that the 15,16,17 year olds don't have or don't bring IDs to prove it. Another common occurrence is that 18, 19, 20+ year olds decide to pretend to be under 18 to get a free ticket.
We catch liars almost everyday in this case, but this was probably the most memorable.
There's two people, one is a student member, their friend is claiming to be 17.
Me: Oh, you're 17, do your license or permit on you?
Friend: They're a child! They don't need an id!
Me: ok, do you go to high school? Do you have a school ID?
Her: Yeah, I go to school.
Me: Do you have a school ID?
Friend: She's a child, she doesn't have ID!
Me: Ok, where do you go to school.
Her: *Local college.*
Me: You're under 18 and in college? What's your birthday?
Her: XX/XX/1998
Me: Ok, so you're 20.
Friend: YOU DUMB! YOU HAD ONE JOB!! OMG, ONE JOB!!
Me: ok, that'll be $$
Friend: (now muttering) You so dumb.
They paid and went in. For once, the customer said what I was thinking.
ItinerantMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Since I see a lot of car stories here I figure I’ll share some of mine.
Most recent: girlfriend’s car needs an oil change and tire rotation. We’re sitting in the shop when we get a call that they need to replace a tire because it has a nail in it, I say I’ll be right there and walk around the corner. The guy comes out the door in a rush to say “oh it was just the head of the nail, no big deal.” He couldn’t show me the nail head though, because they threw it out.
A few months before that, she brings the same care in to multiple shops (alone) after a fender bender and gets quoted astronomically high, like four times what it should cost, they tried to convince her the car was totaled blah blah blah. She did three different shops in one day and I said we’d go together after I get out of class. Go to another shop with her, get quoted a reasonable price and they fixed her door handle for free because they know happy people are return customers.
A shmuck of a used car salesman tried to tell me the reason the car I was test driving was sluggish every time it changed gears was because I didn’t know how to drive... I turned around, drove back to the dealership, and left without taking his card.
When I first started driving I hit a cement barrier and blew a tire out. After I replaced the tire I took the car into a shop, they tried to tell me I totaled the car because I bent some special pin that they wouldn’t even show me, said it wouldn’t even drive properly. Having driven it over there with no problems, I got in, drove it a hundred miles to a mechanic I know and lo and behold, that special pin doesn’t even exist - they completely made it up.
I’m very careful when I take my car into places these days, there’s too many people looking to screw you over for a quick buck.
KissedByFire2194 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my good guy friends (let's call him Jim) had a one night stand with some random girl he met at the bar. The morning after, the girl texted Jim frantically saying that she didn't take her birth control until later in the afternoon on the day they had sex, and therefore there was a chance she was pregnant. She told him that she needed $50 for a Plan B pill. Now, Jim was only 19 at the time and I don't think he fully understood how birth control and stuff like that works.
He gave her the $50. Less than 2 hours later, he checked Snapchat. She had posted a Snapchat story of her posing with an eighth of weed and a Big Mac meal. Now, where we come from, an eighth is around $35-40, and a Bic Mac meal is a little less than $10. She had so shamelessly finagled Jim out of the perfect amount of money for a new bag of weed and lunch. He was pissed at the time, but looking back its kinda hilarious. Although super unethical and wrong on her part.
SinfullySinless · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Used to work at a Bdubs as a captain (white shirt). I was normally scheduled from 10:30am to 5pm, as they would only have two captains work a day at this location.
The same guy would always be scheduled after me from 6pm-1am. He would always call in with some excuse that he was sick or whatever and towards the end he just stopped calling in with excuses.
So I would end up getting stuck working 10:30am to 12:30am with no notice. One day was particularly hell, then the manager of the restaurant two doors down from us (mall location) comes in and greets me. I vent about how this guy was supposed to be working right now and how tired I am and the manager just laughs and says “oh he’s working cashier at my restaurant right now!”
Now he’s never mentioned he has a second gig at this fancier restaurant and apparently when he gets double booked, he doesn’t bother telling Bdubs that he’s busy, he just calls in sick or doesn’t show. Now I’m raging but I have to make my revenge complete.
I tell the manager of my store very very very sweetly if he could go over to the fancy restaurant and go buy me a cheesecake from the counter. My manager took pity on me and would do nice things for me like that.
Manager goes over to said restaurant and sees ditcher working counter/cashier. Manager comes back red in the face spewing every swear word in the book and hands me a $50 gift card to said restaurant and told me said dude is out of the picture.
theoriginalsauce · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Since February I’d need dealing with a fight where my mother in law started heavily gaslighting me and lying about me to the point my step daughter refused to come home for six weeks.
My husband decided we needed to have a sit down and she came over with that smug “I’m in control” attitude.
Little did she know I had mountains of evidence to support my claims that she was gaslighting me, lying to my step daughter about me and lying to my husband about his family hating me. There was so much evidence on my side to the point where during this sit down even her own husband wouldn’t even look at her.
It was glorious.
That’s the short version.
Now we pretend nothing happened.
MyMumSaidImSpecial · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Care to tell the long version? I'd love to hear what happened
theoriginalsauce · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Extended version, we were working out a parenting agreement with my step daughters mom and right of first refusal was brought up. At the same time we are dealing with extreme favoritism between the kids by my mother in law. My mother in law lost her shit and started a smear campaign telling everyone in her family, in my family, my step daughter, her mother and my husband that I am insane and told my husband that if ROFR was in the parenting agreement his dad would disown him and that I’m dead to her. This went on for three weeks.
I came home from work one day and my in laws were here and decided to get it all swept under the rug via my husband and my mother in law said we’d had a miscommunication. I called bullshit and told her to leave since I’m dead to her. She didn’t, I yelled at her. There’s an Am I The Asshole post about it. Turns out I’m not the asshole. I threatened to call the police and she left.
I sent her an email stating that the consequences of her blatant favoritism and destroying of a productive coparenting relationship (with pages of examples) isn’t going to be tolerated and that she’s not welcome at our home until she works on it and apologizes to everyone she’s involved. I also explained how favoritism is emotional abuse to all children involved.
She sent this email and her response to her sister, my brother in law, my grandmother and my step daughters mom.
I almost hired a lawyer that night to sue for I don’t even know what but I wasn’t happy.
My step daughter came home the week after but refused for 6 weeks after because my mother in law showed her my email as well, told her I said she was physically abusing the kids and that I’d never let her see her grandma again. I guess she and step daughter’s mom were in agreement that a 9 year old should be given the full story. The story my mother in law was telling.
Anyways, the end came to the meeting where I clearly stated everything she had done that I had proof of either by my children telling me, school counselors, texts/emails/recordings from her to me, my husband and step daughters mom.
She never admitted fault and kept trying to put it all on me and make me look bad. Even going so far as saying I’m “good at alienating people” because I haven’t talked to my mom in 15 years. My mom is a child molesting/abusive alcoholic meth head who once broke my nose for folding the towels wrong so yeah, she’s not around and my mother in law knew all of this. I should’ve punched her in the throat there but instead I told asked her if she’d like my mom around the kids.
It went in circles until we finally mentioned that parental alienation is a felony and the lawyer that helped me with my mom is advising me in this case and that if she continues I will press charges. She backed down.
We don’t talk about it now.
Sprocket101 · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-wife. I was babysitting her daughter (my stepdaughter) why she'd gone out for a "well earned night out with the girls". She came back 2hrs after we'd agreed and I watched her get out of some guys car and kiss him passionately before she exited.
When she got in the house she was all tra la la about her night and I asked her how she'd got back as I hadn't heard any taxis. She said "oh I got him to drop me off at the end of the street" which in of itself made no sense geographically.
I then proceeded to ask her about her night and which taxi and where did she get if from and who was with her to make sure she was safe, all just to see how quickly she could make some more shit up.
Then I asked her how much it cost and how much she paid. Then I asked her if she got a discount for kissing the driver, which she denied, then I showed her the video I'd taken in my phone of the none taxi that she got out of a bit up the street under a lamp post.
Then she said she was leaving me for him (he was a bouncer) as he had a "5 year plan". I told her good luck.
I walked out there and then and went to live at my friend's before shortly moving out the country a week later and starting life again.
She called me a month later on Xmas day crying...
Turns out she went round to the guys house on Xmas Eve to surprise him and his wife answered the door.
I laughed and put the phone down. I saw her 12 years later. She looked like a hag, had no job and had just been done for shop lifting, her excuse was "I wouldn't have her back and she'd struggled to hold down a job since I left her". I laughed again and walked off. Never seen her since.
TL/DR ex wife is a whore.
bigdruid · 3 points · Posted at 18:14:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You took videos on your phone in 2006?
cheesy80s · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I just feel bad for her kid. Probably a mess, too
Sprocket101 · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oddly enough, I raised her kid from 9 months until she was 7. The ex told me that either I go back to her or she'd slap me with an injunction to stop me seeing my stepdaughter.
Awful choice to make, but way I saw it, it would have been worse to bring the daughter up in an unhappy home than to not see her. She was the only thing I missed following the split.
medusas_side_bro · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Years ago, I was at a small house party with some at the time, close friends. There was a group of three of us and we would all bring over friends the other parties we did not know. A few hours into our get together, its winding down and a few of us are sitting around the table playing a drinking game. We end up doing what young men do around that age, talking about O̶u̶r̶ ̶l̶o̶r̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶a̶v̶i̶o̶r̶ ̶j̶e̶s̶u̶s̶ ̶c̶h̶r̶i̶s̶t̶ all of the women we've had relationships with. As were going around the table we reach one guy who is so irrelevant I cant recall the name of, so we will just call him "todd". Todd brings up the countless women he's slept with and begins naming them off. (Unfortunantly my friends and I had a track record because we were douche bags.) I suppose he was just trying to seem relevant within our conversation. He then spouts out the name of my at the time live in girlfriend. I immediately knew he was bullshitting simply because I was the only person she had been with, and she was and is too crazy for me to have ever been with this person. So I let him continue, telling me when and were and how she was because I had been "wanting to hook up with her for a while now". After a solid 20 minutes into it, I finally in a drunken stammer began to explain who she actually was and how he had never had sex with her. His excuse, "oh did I say (insert name of ex 3d gf here) I ment (girl with same first name, different last name)." Which was also a lie due to the fact that I knew the second girl exceptionally well also. Was a very awkward night the rest of the night, but he finally admitted that he was lying. He brought up the truth about when and how he lost his virginity, turns out it was a girl from our school who was a very well known cheerleader and him and two of his buddies took advantage of her while she was passed out. :/ When the girl inevitably found out it happened she went off the deep end and I feel terrible about it. People can be so sick.
TL;DR went to party someone claimed to be banging my girlfriend had dumb excuses and eventually admitted that he lost his virginity via rape.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A stripper said I had a ten incher.... we both knew it wasnt true.
emshlaf · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not so much "satisfying" as it was hilarious:
I work at a preschool. One day during lunch, a little girl raised her hand.
"Ms. Emshlaf! -points at the little boy next to her- He ate his brownie before he ate his sandwich!!"
The boy in question turned to me, shook his head frantically, and wailed, "NO I didn't!!!"
He had chocolate all over his face. It was so fucking unintentionally hilarious, it was like something out of a goddamn sitcom.
jrs798310842 · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This girl me and my buddies knew said that the military was training her to become a spy because her boyfriend (now husband) was training to be a seal (washed out). She went into an extreme intricate story etc. And at no time was anyone buying her bullshit. We all called her out when some buddies (who were in the service) were asking specific questions and she just had no legitimate response. I felt really bad for her at the time. Sad little bitch she was.
ps28537 · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Before I was a cop I was a probation officer. I often used the first Probation meeting to get to know the person and give them the referrals they needed to get started with.
Things are going pretty normal with this guy until he tells me he is a combat veteran with a Purple Heart from the first gulf war. I ask him to tell me more and he tells me he was an army intelligence office and he was hit by rifle fire while sending information back via radio. I take note of this and tell him I’ll see him next month.
The next month comes and he is again sitting in front of me. I tell him I want to connect him with veterans services and organizations but could he tell me about his military service. I have so many people I see and sometimes it’s hard to remember all the detail people tell me.
He goes on to say he is a combat veteran with a Purple Heart again. He tells me he was shot in action in 1993 In Afghanistan. When he’s finished I open up his file and remove the DD214 I have inside.
His DD214 says he was in the military for three months in the early 90s and was discharged for drug abuse. I asked him if he wanted to try again and he said no.
This guy lied about everything and started filing all kind of complaints with the department and every organization he could think of. He claimed an officer came into the waiting room and punched him for no reason. Our waiting rooms have video and audio. This never happened. It got to the point no one was allowed to be alone with him and they wanted three officers present when he came.
Probation did not work for this guy and he went to prison when the judge imposed sentence on him.
Rndmuser00 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone stole my scissor.
He argued that it was his.
I've got something written down on the insides (idr what) so hah. Busted. He doesnt even know that writing exist.
mhardin1337 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good friend of 5 years was down on their luck.
Let them crash with me for six months rent free.
Never could 'find' a job and swore they were clean.
Made them take a piss test.
Results (benzos, meth, and H) ended with them going back to homeless.
personwhogyms · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy went all in and I called with ace high
_cudgel_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In HS, in the early 90s, someone scrawled "I love SomeDude" on the inside of the pay phone. Well, I'd been going to school with SomeDude for 10 years at that point, and I recognized his handwriting when I saw it. I revealed that fuckers secret in front of a gaggle of giggling girls as he was bragging about it.
I've never seen another person turn that shade of red.
Xadr123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I wasn’t the one who caught him but, I basically knew all about it before hand and was nice enough not to call him out on it for quite a while.
One day, while I was out of the house, my brother decided it was an amazing idea to smoke some weed. In the house. With my Dads pipe (a nice tobacco pipe mind you, these things are upwards of $200). My brother, being probably the worst decision maker I’ve known in my life, also decided so get lit next to the main air intake for the AC in the house. Dumbass.
No doubt, within nearly seconds of him soaring to the moon, the entire house reeks of weed. It should also be known I have a 4 year old sister (3 at the time). So smoking weed in the house was not only illegal (in my state), but not super healthy for a baby.
You bet your ass my parents found him immediately with my dads pipe in hand. He had the guts to straight up tell them it wasn’t weed and he didn’t smoke any at all today.
My brother is undoubtably the WORST liar in the world.
iliketoeatfunyuns · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a friend of mine, for some reason he lies all the time to be relevant in a lot of our group conversations. We live in Denver and a group of us just got done playing catch and I suggest "Hey do you guys want to watch that football game at my place tonight?" My lying friend replies "I can't I'm actually going to the game with my dad this after noon and tailgate before it starts, we got front row tickets." The rest of us all looked at each other with confused looks on our faces and I say "You know the game is Oakland right?!" He had the blankest look on his face and the rest of the guys get a good laugh in. My lying friend begins walking away and one of my friends yell "You better head straight to the airport from here, hope you got that plane ticket too!"
Yeah we're still friends, and sometimes friends are asses to each other because it's funny.
Sprocket101 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yup, NOKIA N80. I was managing a phone shop at the time so had all the latest stuff. It was the top dog £500 back then. In hindsight it was shit.
JamesTrendall · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The time my ex was sleeping with someone else.
I was sent all screenshots of the full convo between them both along with videos of them doing the nasty. I asked her nicely if anything had happened that night and she lied to my face. I even gave her 1 full free chance to admit everything and I'll forget it if it was a one time thing... lied... So I dropped my phone on the bed and walked out... she saw I had seen everything and chased me crying... dude she was fucking had a mutal friend that thought it was wrong and told me everything face to face. Best hour of my life watching her break down because her own life choices just fucked her entire life up.
Last time I saw her was on FB with 4 kids with 4 dad's and none of them around. She now seems to live in a prison of 4 walls and talks to no one... I feel bad for her but please don't cheat. If you're unhappy talk about it and maybe work it out or break up. Also if given the 1 time chance to admit everything and have it forgotten don't fucking lie as the person offering this only ever get out of jail free card most likely knows everything already and just wants you to admit it and either show you're sorry and forgive you or show you don't care and leave you.
ChristopherVDV · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A member of staff stopped turning up for work and didn’t make contact to explain.
Three days of unauthorised absence and he comes in to the workplace with his girlfriend waiting outside. He asks if he can grab something from his desk, but I tell him to come and have a chat in the office first.
I asked him what’s going on and he says “I’m all over the place. My mum’s cancer is back, my relationship isn’t doing well, and it’s all getting on top of me. I’m suffering from really bad anxiety, I keep having panic attacks whenever I’ve gone to call in because I’m so worried you guys will yell at me.”
I said “ok, I understand why you’re suffering. It’s a lot to take on and I’m really sorry to hear about your Mum. Take some time, but text me every morning with an update to let me know when you’re going to be back.” He says “I’ll be back at work tomorrow, I promise. Today is the first day I’ve left the house, so I know I’ll be ok.”
The next day, he’s a no show and no contact from him. I mention to a colleague about him not leaving the house, and they reply “well I saw him 3 days ago, outside [nearby company]”.
So... I called the company. I spoke to the director and asked if this guy was working for him. He says “according to him, he stopped working for you last week.” I explained how this was a lie, plus the lies he told me to explain his absence. The director got him into the office, put me on loud speaker and together the three of us had a little chat.
I’ve never heard someone struggle so much to come up with a story that miraculously meant he wasn’t lying to either of us. He failed, the director told him to leave and not come back, and I told him that, as he hadn’t actually resigned, I was firing him.
BiteyCat · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There were four of us and we were all 17-18. Only one of us had a car. We acquired a half gallon of rum. After we drink for a while we get the idea to go to the beach. We are in Kentucky and the nearest beach is Virgina beach which is about 10 hours away. We convince the poor girl with the car that it was only a “few” hours away. After a few hours of driving she was starting to catch on but I kept saying it was just over the next mountain. After driving all night we finally made it and she caught us lying. We are still friends and still laugh about it today. This was around 1999 so no cell phone/gps.
Thyri · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Customer we essentially go out of our way to help all the time had software that they tested from months. Contacted us demanding we make it live now as it was urgent. We asked for signed off approvals - they sent hurriedly ticked off points.
They go live and it’s a shit show...obviously no testing was done and the urgent ‘go live’ turns into three weeks to get everything sorted!
GrantSRobertson · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When my first ex-wife told me my mother had told her I had had an affair while said ex was visiting her sister.
I said, "Oh, really? Let's just go down and talk to her about it."
The ex BEGGED me not to go. Literally hanging onto my leg as I walked down the hallway of our apartment building, dragging her behind me.
She finally admitted that she made the whole thing up.
I seriously don't know what the hell she was thinking. That I would never ask my mother about it? That I would think my mother was the lier and never talk to my mother again? Sadly, it still took me over a year to finally divorce that woman.
zpp1213 · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had worked as a delivery driver and when I first started I realized I needed something to hold all the change in at the end of every shift (I used an office water jug). After a couple months I probably had around $40 maybe $50 in coins saved up (maybe more because there were a lot of quarters). Since this was a college job, I came home for the summer and immediately had to go away for a month, leaving the jug behind. Sure enough I came back to the jug completely empty.
It just so happens that my little brother had visited during my time away and so I asked my parents (at dinner when he visited), if they had seen anything and they said no. They asked my little brother and he denied it all but they called him out for it saying he had been the only one there in the time I was gone and since they knew they didn't do it, they called him a liar. They asked me how much was in the jar and said he was gonna repay me. I overestimated to see what he would say at $60 and he immediately defended saying, "It was only $43." Justice served.
MTKEEGAN · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend looking for a place to stay. I had told him he could crash on my couch for a night or two. He then asked his ex (who I am good friends with) if he could stay with her. He told her that he came me and I told him to fuck off. She was sitting on my couch relaying the entire conversation to my girlfriend and I, so I was able to call him out on his bullshit as he was spouting it. We aren't friends anymore
bridgeheadprod · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not exactly lying, but I was taking the written portion of my drivers test at 16 years old. I was writing, silently, with everyone else, and I took a breather, as I sometimes did during tests. Put my pencil down and relaxed my brain. The instructor at the front leans to his colleague and whispers “that kid in the third row is COMPLETELY lost”. He said it loud enough that I could hear him. So i go up to the front desk when I’m done, and the guy is marking it in front of me. My Mom steps in and says “so how did you do?” I reply, “well I wasn’t COMPLETELY lost”, while staring at the instructor. He slowly stops marking, slowly raises his head, and his eyes meet mine with this “dying inside” look. He goes back to marking and passes me. Obviously because I got the questions right.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom thought I wasn't washing when I took a shower so she said "your teachers have been complaining that you smell". So I call bullshit on her. She tried to deny it but she eventually admitted it.
The1ntern · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girl I dated in college was "going out with her girl friends", which wasn't uncommon. They were a fun bunch. So I called a couple buddies to go grab a drink and a burger. I'm halfway through my beer when she and a mutual guy friend of ours walk in together. I just started laughing until she heard me. Dude looked at me and my friends, then turned and walked through the restaurant and out the back. He was so freaked out that I didn't even need to hear any explanation from the girl. She tried, but i just laughed and pointed at our friend who clearly felt guilty to the point of just leaving her there haha. I finished my beer and left with my friends.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was dating this chick who insisted that she was a virgin when we met and played the whole "good girl" game, always taking me to church with her and whatnot. I thought it was weird that she had stretchmarks on her belly and would only make love with the lights off, though i figured she was a former fatty and was just self-conscious or something. Then one day I went to her mom's house and I noticed her take a plaque of some sort and discreetly shove it into a drawer. While she was in the bathroom, I opened the drawer and looked at the plaque, and saw that it was a kindergarten graduation diploma, for a girl whose middle name was the same as my gf's. After some light interrogating, I discovered that this girl had a daughter that she was hiding from me. Dodged a bullet there.
agen_kolar · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was notified at my university job two weeks prior to my contract ending that it was not going to be renewed. My boss, who never liked me, and her boss sat me down in their office and explained how sorry they were, but the provost decided to eliminate my position due to lack of funding. I let them do their rehearsed act, asked them questions that let them dig themselves deeper. Two weeks before, the provost met with me, reviewed my evaluations, and told me he’s glad they have me and hopes I stay for quite some time, as funding for my position had been approved for four more years. So, once these two finished their act, I said, “Well, that’s odd, because two weeks ago the provost assured me I’d have my job for the next four years, if I wanted it.” The look on their faces was priceless. I had no recourse, because I was contractual as well as within the one year probationary period and could be let go for literally any reason. Which sucks. But I get a lot of satisfaction in knowing they didn’t get to pull one over on me.
lilko_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex boyfriend stole my phone when I was sleeping and then locked himself in the bathroom. I woke up hearing him unlock my phone (I guess he figured out my passcode), and I knocked on the door asking for my phone back. He ignored me, walked outside the door minutes later, and said he “found my phone in the bathroom.” I just gave him a “are you crazy?” look. He never did admit he looked through my phone, although he was definitely lying.
Lokeystel · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who I let stay in my apartment when he was in "rough times". I had been losing shit or it been getting stolen for months and me and my friends were just baffled by how some the stuff was happening. He was alone at the apartment for some of the occasions. We didn't want to accuse a friend of that but I brought it up to him a d he blew up. He freaked out and was mad at us, immediately saying "how could wethink it's him" and "I thought we were friends" it blows over after a couple days. Then shortly after he out if no where moves back to his parents which he recently said he could not go back to. Then he asks to come over to my house and update his PC games (he has terrible internet). So me and my PAYING roommate, which he never was, told him we weren't home. We were. Immediately after that he said "the back door was unlocked I'm just gonna update real quick" well go figure we were home and the backdoor was certainly not unlocked, and he certainly wasn't even there yet. So this proved that he had a made a copy of the key and he knew he was gonna be able to get in before he was even there. I had my suspicions before and that proved it. Really sad that someone who claims to be such a good friend will lie straight to your face for years.
L3tum · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was visiting my hot ex (still my gf back then) at her school and there was one dude who was super friendly with me. He boasted how he fucked every girl in his class (including my gf). At that point my gf comes walking out, he looks at her and says "Yeah, that's my gf. That's the ass im pounding. She's so sexy!". My gf reaches us and he tries to be really smooth but just makes the whole situation awkward. My gf says "Oh, you met L3turn, my boyfriend". He literally ran away
comicsnerd · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a guy working for me calling sick quite some times. It happens. One is an ox, the other is more vulnerable. He was a good programmer, but complained a lot and was sick a lot
After another bout that he could not come to work and was bed ridden and unable to do anything, i decided to google him. This was in the early years of Google. He had told me he was also political active and I just googled his name to see what he also did.
To my surprise, he was always at council meetings and very active at these meetings and listed in the meeting minutes of these council meetings whenever he was ill.
Next time he came up with another ill excuse, I showed him the meeting minutes and fired him. Not even the unions protested.
OsKarMike1306 · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm kind of a book worm. One day, I was talking about a book I was thoroughly enjoying to a coworker and he kept bashing it, saying it was terribly written and had no substance. It felt off to me since he was saying that, but had no concrete examples of his points. The week after, I brought my book to work and he asked what I was reading. He then proceeded to reveal to me that he never read it, having completely forgotten that he was roasting it a week prior, apparently talking 100% out of his ass.
I never trusted a damn word that came out of his mouth since.
catro523 · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm sure no one will see this by now, but when I was in high school, I was dating this guy who was really untrustworthy, but kept me fooled. I had an event to go to and he told me he was hanging out with his guy friends. On my way home, we come up to a police car and flat-bed tow truck that had a car with the roof smashed in sitting on it. As we're driving passed, I looked over and realized it was my boyfriend's car. I freaked out and found out that he was at the hospital, and had my parents rush me there. He ended up being okay, and told me he and his friends were on their way home from the beer store. Later on, his friend happened to mention they were on their way home from the strip club. I ended things shortly after that. The lying and cheating got to be too much.
volvo1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is slightly different, but kind of similar:
Was playing Age of Empires 2, first game in probably 15 years. Had this teammate that was entirely focused on economy, wouldn't help me repel an incoming attack that was slowly destroying my base.
Look over to what he's doing, and he's ground-attacking my workers on gold with one of his catapults.
I am raging hard at this point, and in /all chat tell the opposing team "Red Player is ground attacking my workers on gold! and killing all of them!"
His response?
"No i didn't."
I was literally butthurt read in read that.
Anyways I told my co-worker buddy that story the day after at work, and when I told him when the red player says "no i didn't" him and another co-worker just start busting out laughing. Then i did too. I was able to trust my vision when that happened. Hope this story makes sense.
turdddit · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That would be when spez was caught faking people's comments.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was with a guy for 3 years. He told everyone he was ex army, ex fire fighter, traffic policeman and that he’d trained in the SAS! He would show people pictures of him and his “army buddies” in Iraq etc. Was amazing when I found his eBay account history to see he’d ordered the photos on there. The guy was a fantasist. He would be on a night out and he’d call me like “you’ll never know who I just bumped into, one of my SAS buddies, we just gave each other the nod”. Dodged a bullet with that one!
NAH_THOOOOOO · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Training at a new job. Was myself, two others and a trainer at the time. This arrogant, obnoxious, know-it-all says he lived in Paris for a while. We pry further, he did a semester abroad in Paris for the same University myself and the other trainee had attended. Said university has no campus in Paris, the exchange is to a small town 45 mins outside Paris by train. Myself and the other trainee had actually gone on the exact same exchange during our time at Uni. It was just nice to have one over on this chump.
hun_kneebare · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back when I was a Team Leader Trainer for a fast food company; I had a special needs employee who was the the best at sneaking away from his station and the most clever with coming up with reasons as to why he did so, let's call him Aaron. I knew they were lies, he knew that I knew (I suspected him sneaking to the restroom to play a dragon egg hatching mobile game) , but the majority of the reasons were vaguely plausible so we continued this dance for almost a year with him flirting with the boundaries of my patience and humor.
Then I caught him in the lie. It was a noon lunch rush, pretty busy both kitchen sides are open and Aaron is a cook running the grill on side A. I am running the floor, jumping in to help both sides when needed. I notice my order timer average is climbing and quickly look for who needs help. Side A has order tickets stacking and a struggling makeup table cook with no grill cook. Aaron is no where in sight. His coworker tells me he went to the restroom but has been gone a while. I jump in to assist, clear the screen, and continue jumping around but looking out for Aaron. More time passes with no Aaron and then a lull in the rush starts.
I was also waiting for a text from the next manager coming in so I had my phone on me. I feel my phone go off and step aside to look. Waiting for me were text requests from Aaron in the mobile game asking to help with multiple tasks. Each individual request had time stamps coinciding with the lunch rush. Finally, Aaron appears from the restroom and makes a bee-line to me. He makes a great show of rubbing his belly and has the saddest pouty face on that I know he can fake. He precedes to tell me how sick he feels, how much his stomach hurts, and how he was absolutley not playing around. All I did was hold up my phone so he could see his game requests.
Aaron's eyes buged out once he realized that he had been caught and the only thing he could say was "Oh" as he turned bright red. He apologized and we had a discussion in the office after his shift. We worked together a few more years, I would occasionally ask him if he was playing any new mobile games to fluster him. It felt great to finally catch him and I got a chuckle over how he went down.
JTBSpartan · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lifeguard here. Last summer, I worked for a neighborhood pool close to my house. My coworkers were really nice, save for one or two guards.
One of the guards (let’s name her Emily) asked me to cover a shift. Now, normally I’d be willing to say yes; however, I was working at a food pantry for senior service hours (required for graduation) when she asked. She all but guilted me into dropping everything and run, but after a time it got annoying, and I ignored her messages.
After I got home, I went through the lifeguard group chat and discovered the ONLY messages she had ever posted in the chat or sent to me were her asking people to cover her shifts. Our manager eventually kicked her out of the chat, and I haven’t seen or heard from her since.
Wendigo15 · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of max landis incident
https://youtu.be/fSYKd4nVno8
SupSrsRAGER · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got a really cool Boba Fett action figure on my birthday and used to play with it every single day. Then one day it just vanished and I had no idea where it went. I was sad for months, my parents would just tell me that ill find it one day in the house somewhere.
Eventually i did find it, i complained about not having it so much that it randomly appeared back in my toy box one day. I could not believe it but his jet pack was missing. It was detachable so that was a bummer but I was just glad to have him back.
Years later I was playing at my buddies house when all of a sudden I spot Boba’s jet pack on the floor in his room. I could not believe it...it was my friend all along.
Lets just say that our friendship was never the same ever again. He even still denies it to this day.
Wasp_7592 · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Way late to the game on this, but I work in bail bonds. Nearly every person who fails to appear in court has a parent, SO, employer, friend, etc. who will lie for them. “I have no idea where he’s at, haven’t seen him in months!” When we do finally track the defendant down, the person who lied is almost always the very first person the defendant calls to tell they’re going back in.
One story that comes to mind is this dude who fails to appear and is running from us and the local sheriff. 3 warrants, long criminal history, past convictions(mostly violent, abuse on a pregnant woman, battery, etc.) His mother was his cosigner, and she swore up and down she didn’t know where he was at. Acted like he was screwing her over, leaving her on the hook for $3000.00. Insisted she hadn’t seen him in months, no phone number for him. “Can’t believe he’d do this to me! I don’t have that money!”
When we found him a few weeks later, he was living one block away from her. We let him make his phone calls and get his shit together before we put him in the car and he calls his mom. 3 mins later, she shows up at the house to give him money for his books. She wouldn’t make eye contact with us. That said, I never blame anyone for not wanting to snitch on their family. On a weekly basis, we catch people in active lies. Never take it personally, though. I get feeling compelled to protect the people close to you.
qyteria · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was taking a karate/tae Kwon do class or something like that back in first grade. Some kid in my class was bragging about how he was already almost a black belt. Literally that night, I saw him come to my karate class for the first time and begged me not to tell the other kids he was lying. I can’t remember if I did or not.
doublegloved · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mother once told me she was going to do a “no alcohol” challenge and that anyone that caught her drinking would get $100 from her.
Came home early from work one day, went to go tell her something. Something felt... off, but couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Went and looked behind the couch and there was a glass of wine she had hidden when she had heard me get home. Got my $100.
Cjnaynay007 · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My roommate called out of work and told me that his 3 year old niece passed out at daycare and went to the hospital with a fever of 103. He told me to ask my girlfriend, a nurse, if she knows what could possibly be wrong. My roommate gave me updates through the day and everything. She made a full recovery.
About two months later, we go to his brothers house for his birthday. We ask the brother (father of the niece) what had happened and what the doctor said. He looked at me like I was an idiot. I turn to my roommate, who says “oh that never happened. I just didn’t want to tell until why I really called out of work.”
He got fired for lying about being sick about two weeks later.
DoSeedoh · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a girlfriend in her first year at college invite me up to visit.
She was in a sorority at the time and I was allowed to visit in her room for a short time while she attended some meeting downstairs.
While I was there I was board and started flipping through some spiral notebooks on her night stand.
I’m flipping around skimming her notes out of boredom and on the very last page of one of the books was a list of names.
Guys names.
No big deal I wasn’t a prude about it until I got to the end. The last name was one of my best friends.
His name was AFTER mine.
She came back upstairs and I said nothing, but I had tore the paper off and put it in my pocket.
She had came and picked me up to stay with her for the weekend so I just adamantly said I needed to go home.
By the time we were on the road I asked her about the the “names”. She acted all perplexed about it.
I showed her the paper and she immediately started crying. I called my friend and I was like wtf dude?
Well turns out HIS fraternity invited THIER sorority over for a mixer a couple months earlier and well, you can add the rest up.
IAmAlligatorBlood · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I confronted my wife about cheating on me. I knew more than she thought I did.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was 26, some 18 year old I slept with at a party said she was pregnant christmas eve 2 years ago. I had anxiety for weeks until I caught her lying. The idiot put the pee test in my garbage can. Knew she was lying after she left one night
Gstary · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My now ex girlfriend got a new boyfriend and as soon as that happened I supposedly molested her son. One of her pieces of "evidence" was that he was terrified of me but was putting on a show while I was babysitting him. Really? The 4 year old got perfect acting skills overnight and didnt once show any sign of discomfort and constantly wanted to play with me? Highly doubt it. Hell I even have video of us playing together that night, Luckily no one believes her
jianantonic · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"I'm really good friends with your husband!" "Really good? Because we've been divorced for three years."
SoulSlayer79 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
not my video but this is gold https://youtu.be/5vetguw_bAA
serenityak77 · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A couple of months back my mom made this big deal about my dad (stepdad) having cancer. This is about a year after claiming to have cancer herself mind you. She kept having sit downs when ever me and my wife would visit with our daughter. The part that really bothered me was when she would so openly tell our daughter he was dying and wasn't gonna make it. She kept asking if we'd be willing to look after their house while they stayed up north at a Ronald McDonald house so he'd get treatment. After we agreed she started saying in small doses how nice this "Ranch" was. A ranch that some guy who wanted to hire my dad to take care of it. After a while it just stopped being about cancer and treatments. Turned into a great job opportunity. So my wife and I figured it was all made up. That they were planning on going to this ranch and having us believe that it was because of cancer. We've never been able to confirm she has cancer btw. Then the guy who owned the ranch moved them into a condo by the beach. Long story short they had a falling out and moved back. I always look at her like "hey what happened with all that death cancer talk" but I never say anything. Pretty much now I listen to my wife who had already warned me about my mother's lies.
burghswag · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My buddy used to lie about everything. One day told our group of friends how he had done stuff with a girl I was close friends with at the time and I knew the story. Called her on speaker in front of everyone and asked if anything was true. She said absolutely not. My buddy had the balls to say “why would you do that?” I just asked him why he’d lie about it. Never responded.
Mrzeldaootfan · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
so i was in summer camp for a week(boy scouts). a large issue happened where someone shit on the litrene floor. Now this is where i decided to leave my troop. Our campsite is right accross from the pool so i would use those bathrooms( i didnt like the campsite one) and come back. someone shit on the floor and one of the "star/eagle scouts" made up a story(there was construction trucks at the time there) I was being lazy and didnt want to go around the truck so i decided to shit on the floor ibstead. The leaders BELEIVED IT. and called my mother. she was furious because she knew i wouldnt be doing that kind of thing. He then later admitted After i was punished, to lying that He was the one that did it. he didnt get in trouble whatsoever. i got punched in the face too and all the kid got was a slap on the wrist and that i was told that he was stressed out. my mother found out and i left the troop for good
viiceria · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well constantly while working tech support. Customers who called in and couldn't get online, neglected to try any troubleshooting at all in hopes I could just press a button and fix it. I rarely got an honest answer when asking whether they had restarted their equipment. When I explained that I can monitor the uptime of their router they sometimes got embarrassed and yelled at me. I don't miss that job, I really don't
YourStangerintheAlps · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Used to go egging a lot, I know, I was a punk kid. We egged another students house and the next day he came in and complained to our first hour math teacher how he was so tired from cleaning his windows last night after his dad woke him up. We drove by that night and the egg was still on his window, that filthy liar. We proceeded to egg his house 20 more times to teach him a lesson. Lying gets you nowhere.
How_Does_One_Reddit · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My step brother would steal my video games every year when I visited my dad. My mom wrote my initials on them to prove they were mine before I left. One year I found stolen games he had hidden under his bed with my initials on them and I showed my dad. I felt amazing.
He said it was my fault they got stolen because I was "bragging about having games".
I don't talk to my dad anymore.
JustFiguringIt_Out · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a roommate in college, let's call here Claire, who brought her "fancy" knives that had their own covers. Our other roommate, who we shall call Beth, never put the knives back in the covers because she thought it was unsanitary. She's always very worried about things being clean. Whatever. Claire was kinda (reaaaallllly) psycho, but I knew it pissed her off, so to try to avoid any confrontations, I put the covers on whenever I saw that they were off. But I guess she got really annoyed so she took them without telling us and hid them in her desk drawer in her bedroom that she shared with Beth. Well one day, Beth needed to use Claire's stapler (Claire had told her she could), which was in... wait for it... her desk drawer. Beth saw the knives and told us (me and 4th roommate) about it when we got home. So whenever Claire was gone (which was often as she was an RA and didn't like us very much), we'd use the good knives and then put them back. Which in itself was pretty satisfying after all the shit she put us through.
But the best was one day when I walked in and saw Claire using the knives. It went something like this:
Me: Oh so you found the green knife! That's awesome! Where was it?
C: jaw almost hits floor before she recovers and goes back to her pathologically lying ways Oh well it was all the way in the back of the silverware drawer. We must have missed it.
Me: Oh that's funny. I could have sworn Beth took everything out of that drawer the other day so she could wipe it down.
C: Oh. I dunno.
Me: Well I'm glad you found it!
It went "missing" again the next day. It was a fun game to see how many times we could mention the missing knives in front of her before she would leave, claiming to have somewhere to be.
Edit: autocorrect sucks
dejavuus · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Geeeeez, it's Her knives ffs. You guys are horrible roommates
JustFiguringIt_Out · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
No, she was the horrible roommate, I promise. I should have given more background, so that's my bad. A small list of things she did before we decided to use her knives:
Stole the couch pillows I bought the previous year and always "forgot" to bring them back even when I reminded her.
Was caught sneaking in our room one day when my roommate came home early.
Had sex with her friend (not her boyfriend of 3 years) while Beth was in the room trying to sleep.
While I'm on that topic, cheated on her boyfriend of 3 years with 3 different guys and wouldn't tell him.
I gave her leftovers from something I'd made and she snapchatted her friend saying "She thinks this is one serving. What a fatty." Friend was with me and showed me.
Tried to turn us all against each other by making up stories about each of us and telling the others.
Tried hitting on my boyfriend. And when that didn't work, tried to accuse me of being jealous of her relationship with my boyfriend (???)
Told the girl I shared a room with, my best friend Amy, that I came to her crying saying I couldn't stand to live with her (Amy) anymore. Not true.
Isolated our roommate from the previous year (before we found out she was psycho) and, as an RA, posted on Twitter about how she had "a few days left living with the worst roommate ever. Good riddance."
She's a terrible person. I feel noooooo guilt over using her knives.
Justiroth · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was pretty sure my girlfriend at the time was cheating on me. She would also tell me she thought she was pregnant when she wasn't. I actually found out years later that she had her pregnant friend pee on pregnancy tests to freak me out. It would cause me horrible stress and sleepless nights. So I ended up getting a vasectomy since I don't ever want children.
A few months later she turns out to really be pregnant.
winjamonkey · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
an ex-friend once told us he had banged a girl in the middle school (creepy I know). The problem was, he doesnt go near the school ever. These claims were very suspicious from the begining as he had been on a desperate streak of asking many girls out and being rejected. He also had very strict parents who would never allow for something like this to happen as they monitor him all the time. When one of my friends asked how they met he said she was on the dance team for the middle school and they visited the school for practice. I found out this was obviously a lie when I grabbed my brothers yearbook for that year and found no dance team for the middle school. We never confronted him though and we stopped talking soon after.
WrathOfTheHydra · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mom tried to get a jump start on a prius from a guy working at a drive in theatre. You would think with the amount of cars the dude has to recharge every night after the films he'd run into one prius. The guy was adament that the battery was under the hood even though we adamently told him it was in the back trunk area and we just needed to make some space to open it up in a minute. Had to go through the hoops of opening the trunk and showing him the battery without the right plug spots. Mom consistently through the entire hoop jumping kept asking him "Okay so you've jumped a prius before right? You've done this with a prius before?" Getting him to stumble affirm that he had followed immediately by finding the front battery couldn't be charged was pretty good.
Ninja Edit: Referencing the same drive in theatre two weeks later while at my job... Some lady asked me if we sold any portable radios. I told her our limited stock was over there, yada yada. She off-handedly notes she needs it for the drive in I had just been to. I offhandedly mention that worse case scenario they had the clothesline speakers you can put in your window from inbetween each parking spot. She then proceeds to try and tell me they don't have anymore of those speakers. She knows, she's been there twice in the last five years. I mentioned I had just been there two weeks ago and she just told me I'm wrong and walked away. What a dink.
RealPhali · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of the people I worked with at my old job told our boss he had a "family emergency" that required travel, meaning he needed the weekend off. Naturally, my boss complied, forcing me to work the entire weekend despite having already worked 50-ish hrs that week. And this wasn't the first time either. I had suspected him of lying to get out of the "bad shifts" for quite a while, but I naturally had no proof.
Cue saturday evening. Just as I'm closing up the store, I recieve a text message from my co-worker, with a photo of him and and a mutual friend at a sports bar nearby. Turns out he lied to get out of work to watch a football match with his (our) friends and had accidentally sent me the photo, actually intended for the other guy in the photo (we share first names, not the first time people mixed us up). Tired of his shit, I show the photo to our boss.
Two weeks later, he quits. Our boss had confronted him the monday after, and he had admitted to not only lying that time, but having lied to get out of shifts for months.
killeroftherose · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s a little heartbreaking that maybe 1/3 of these stories are about cheating. It makes my irrational fears a little bit worse :l
Booney3721 · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As George Carlin said, you sit back long enough, you're either dumb, stupid, or full of shit (probably not in that order).
kingcaptor · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I recently worked with someone who would brag all day about his sporting achievements, how he runs the London marathon every year, rides his bike 10 miles a day and that he was meant to be in the Olympics as a table tennis player but sprained his wrist. Bullshit like that.
One day, I was on the bus into work and saw him get on, he didn't notice me, and I didn't really want to talk to him so just kept quiet. When we got off the bus, he started walking up the hill to work, I slowly followed behind, but caught up with him when he stopped to take a breather. He told me that he was only out of breath because he'd jogged all the way in from town. I just said, "I was on your bus" and walked past him.
AnubisG59 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even thinking about it, it has never been satisfying. Just be blunt, dammit.
CreswellLane · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I woke up with an extreme hangover one day and was trying to rest through it in my living room. My stupid brother comes in and sees the pain that I am in and decides to spend the morning trying to annoy me. He starts going on and on about the benevolent fucking omelet he ate for breakfast. HE WON'T SHUT UP ABOUT THIS STUPID OMELET. He then starts rambling off all of the ingredients while I sit there, head throbbing, trying to listen to the TV over this cuck's blathering.
"Oh CreswellLane, you should've been there. I mean, this baby had tomatoes... Bacon... Ham... Turkey... Smoked Cheddar... Potatoes..." And I said, "Wait! We don't have any potatoes... You're full of shit." and he continued trying to play it off and list more ingredients but I wouldn't let it slide. I KNEW that there was no potatoes in this god damned house. Finally he starts stuttering, knowing he'd been caught in the stupidest lie in history, and just gave in and walked away.
This all probably sounds really stupid and doesn't make any sense. This is because it, in fact, is stupid and doesn't make any sense.
tl;dr: my brother is a cuck and lied to me about the ingredients in his omelet for no reason
-_-o_o · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-x4ByD3mMjIdTMC0H/Sam%20Harris%20Lying%20%281%29_djvu.txt
willockrudi · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend happens to already know every single band I happen to mention, so I make up some bullshit band name and ask them about then and the go on like "I like there old stuff a little more etc.." until I explain to them they don't exist.
Creatingpeace · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh god, I am a probation officer so I can't even count the times....
snarkyshan · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was a teenager I went on a Disney Cruise and spent a ton of time in the “teen center” hanging out and making friends. We were all sharing stories about ourselves and one of the kids tells a story about a girl he had been making out with. It was going great, but the gum in his mouth was driving him crazy, so he pulled away, turned his head to spit it out, and the second he did the chick threw up everywhere.
Sound familiar? Well, it’s a story Joaquin Phoenix’s character tells in “Signs.” Which I knew, because I was obsessed with M. Night at the time.
We said nothing... until that night when a group of us went to see the movie on the ship (it was still a relatively new release then) and that scene came on, we lost our minds on him. He swore up and down it happened to him, too, but he had trouble meeting our eyes for a while.
GREGORIOtheLION · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in Houston attending school and traveling back and forth to Dallas (my home) a lot.
Short contextual story: My father won half a million dollars on a slot machine (we were poor) and bought me a brand new Ford Focus because I didn't have anything.
One weekend while I was driving up to Dallas, I (along with a lot of people) hit a massive pothole. It put about 30 cars on the shoulder with flat tires, but not me! I had the worst luck with tires, so I was ecstatic. What it DID do, though, was put a huge dent on both sides of my wheel, that stayed there for 3 years. Every time I took the car to the dealer for maintenance, they'd ask if I wanted to fix it, and document when I said "no."
Cut to 3 years after the incident, I'm traveling back to Houston for a wedding and have my first blow-out. I get my donut on, and take it to the nearest Discount tire in Houston. I'm bored while they're replacing the tire, so I'm watching them do it. I watch them get the tire off, then an overachieving tech decides to try and bend my dented wheel back. In doing so, he literally takes a chunk out of it, ruining it completely. I think, "well, I guess they're buying me a new wheel."
The guy talks it over with his buddy, then they come to me with the wheel in hand COVERING his mistake and showing me the other side where the dent is mirrored and says, "We can't get the tire on, because you messed up the wheel when you had a blowout." I said, "give me a minute." and walked over to my car and grabbed my owners' manual where I keep ALL my receipts and show him where I had the tire replaced once and have had a tire on it with the dents for 3 years. He finally relents and shows me the torn metal that I knew was there and they proceed to order me a new wheel from the Ford dealership across town.
It was like it never happened!
SalvadorMolly · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A student was setting fires in the bathroom during a bathroom break and the janitor found evidence of the act.
I had strong suspicions of the culprit and started asking questions. He immediately starts crying and accuses me of picking on him. I ask around and low and behold I have multiple eye witnesses. Within 20 minutes I was able to find where the lighter was hidden.
As soon as I found it, I marched right back to the student. When he saw the lighter in my hand he immediately dropped the crying act and put on his tough guy act.
My detective skills paid off because eventually he started telling the truth about other things because he knew I’d eventually find out.
It_Just_Scott_Frosty · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This isn't my story but my dad's. He took his car into a Toyota dealership and had them do an oil change. Turns out they did an inspection and some minor thing needed fixing. It was a small fee so my dad payed it but thought this seemed familiar. So he went home and made a log of what the dealership had done. Then on the next oil change the same problem occurred and they were gonna charge another small fee. My dad called them on their bullshit and, surprisingly, the oil change was free that day. He has kept logs ever since and I would recommend that everyone should keep track of what they tell you that they fixed.
berthejew · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Long custody battle. Trying to prove deadbeat dad was spending the money he made on himself rather than paying back support.
The look on his face when the judge ordered him to remove his shirts was something I'll never forget.
"You can accrue thousands of dollars worth of tattoo work, but still owe 6k in child support? You're in contempt until the defendant sees 10% of it, and arrears are to be started immediately with 10% payments due in 30 days."
ben70 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We got a new project manager at work. He was alright. He claimed to be a Navy officer, and an Academy graduate.
Well... that isn't difficult to check.
The third time he started knocking his ring on the table to begin a meeting, I asked why he wasn't listed as a graduate.
It turns out he was an NCO (sergeant) and he'd lied about his experience and qualifications.
And holy shit, did he ever fire me a day later. He was gone later that week.
myrmagic · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My x wife lied to me that she was buying shoes but she was really making out with somebody in a restaurant parking lot. So satisfying walking up to that car, catching her and then her moving out a few days later. Now I have a dream life and family and fondly remember that moment.
lala56123klb · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked with a girl who was essentially the teacher's pet...even though she was extremely lazy. She did shit while she acted like she did everything and the boss allowed it. It annoyed me but not enough to ruin our somewhat friendship over. Well one Saturday me and her are working together. I was open to close while she was scheduled 8-4. She came in an hour late that morning because of some stupid excuse. It didn't bother me much because we've all been there before. Fastforward to noon. As she's sitting on her butt in the office, I'm in the warehouse doing all the manual labor. Once I was finished I came back out front to find her telling me she was headed home now because her shift was over at 2 oclock. Now mind you, I knew the schedule because I had literally checked it a few hours ago. As she's gathering her stuff I recheck the paper to see if I was wrong. Apparently she knew how to log in as a manager and change the times around and reprint a new schedule off. I came to this conclusion because in the top left hand corner the paper tells you what time the schedule was reprinted. Her dumbass didn't realize she gave herself away. I tried to give her a chance to fess up and ask if she changed it in which she denied. I pointed out the time stamp in the corner making it obvious I knew she was screwing me over and told her I was going on lunch and just left. This was the last straw for me. I blew up to my manager and made it clear that if things didn't change I would leave. Not to toot my own horn but I was the hardest working employee he had so I knew he wouldn't want to lose me. She apologized to me but after that moment I never looked at her the same. I made her stay past her organial clock out time to make up for it.
fathiaizzati · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend lying about a 101 overall Steph Curry card on nba live mobile last season. He was so sure he have it in his lineup and keep bragging about he could make it splash everywhere. When i ask him to show me your lineup he told me he sell his account to another friend (yea right). Went to nbalive.gg immediately and show him at the time the highest rated Steph in the game is still 94.
anonymau5 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A CNN reporter came and spoke at our college.
Ssdavari · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The top post on reddit right now is the diplomat for the Vatican being caught for child porn. That is pretty damn satisfying.
SingedHairyNips · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was 8 and decided it would be a good idea to bring my new gameboy to school and show it off. Well, it ends up getting stolen and i ask all over to see if anyone saw anything and this mutherfucking asshole gives me some bullshit story about seeing someone run off with it. I'm skeptical, because he is a motherfucking asshole, but believe him.
Cut to the end of the day and i go to him to get the story again so i can tell a teacher what happened and he gives me A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY! I nod and go straight to a teacher with my testimony, and his backpack gets searched. LO AND BEHOLD! MUTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE HAS MY GAMEBOY! Felt so good to catch him in a lie.
KOTORbayani · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught Andrey Smygov, the guy behind RichKidsTv, lying to me about how he messed up the car he rented from me, among 29,999 other lies. Kid is a grade-A criminal.
Deadmeat553 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in high school. She was one of the two girls I took to prom (mostly because nobody else wanted to go with her, and she was also friends with the other girl). At the time, she had the other girl and me of the belief that she had a brain tumor, and was going to be undergoing a surgery soon. She had a bit of a crush on me, and I sort of just feigned ignorance because I didn't want to deal with that situation.
A few days later, she texted me that she was headed in to surgery, and then for the next few hours pretended to be her sister, giving me updates.
Come graduation, my mother ran into her father, and asked how she was doing post-surgery. He had no clue what my mom was talking about.
After my mom told me about this, I told the other girl. I then called the liar, and after an hour of poking, I got her to admit to the lie. I then told her that I wouldn't stand in the way of her life, but I wanted her out of mine.
The liar and I then went to the same college. After a semester, she tried to contact me to see if we could be friends again. I repeated my previous statement. I'm pretty sure she transferred after that because I never saw her again.
The worst part is that when she was a child, her mother had actually died of breast cancer. How someone who had been through that could then lie about having a tumor, I have no clue.
To this day, that is the worst lie anyone has ever told me.
Agent_Q · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked with a tech at a hospital in Vegas a few years back. She was always out partying and checking herself in on FB. She'd come in wrecked every morning. One day she calls in, saying she was helping a friend. Liar shows up 2+ hours late to work and has sleep marks on her face and puffy eyes. She goes on to tell us how she got a call from a friend who had previously been missing, and turned up in Vegas. Missing friend some how managed to reach out to the liar and had been kidnapped and forced into sex trafficking. So liar claims she hit the streets of Vegas and tracked this girl down and saved her from the pimp that was holding her. While she spun this great narrative, another co-worker wrote down the overall narrative ahead of the story. Turns out that the liar had used the story before and was telling the same story. We let her go on and acted engaged, but we knew it was bullshit.
mptpatam · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was friends with a girl who would lie about the stupidest things.
She lied about having 3 different mental diseases. I can't remember which but someone at our boarding school told me it would be impossible to have all of them at once. I don't confront her about that lie because I didn't really care.
She lied about winning a couple of hundreds dollars in a skater competition. I've seen her skate. Unless she was up against 2 year olds, she wouldn't have been able to win shit. Didn't confront her about this one either because I honestly didn't care.
Some people have the need to lie about themselves to make them seem more interesting and I don't really care about that but the thing that made me cut ties with her was when she lied about her father dying of cancer.
2 weeks before he apparently died she had told he had been diagnosed. I was so sad on her behalf. I'll admit that I was a little bit suspicious since it had only been 2 weeks from his diagnosis till his departure but I knew that was possible so that it self wasn't THAT suspicious, but the fact that she was showing no emotions regarding her father dying was a little concerning, but hey, everyone grieves in different ways.
While all this was going on, my father was really sick. The doctors couldnt figure what was wrong with him and he was weighing about half of what he did 4-5 months prior. A couple of days before she told me about her fathers "diagnosis" I was told that my father had maybe 3 months left to live if they didn't figure out what was wrong with him and I had shared this with her since she was my only friend at the moment and i really need to talk to someone about it. All of this was the reason why i was to quick to believe her because who the hell would lie about their father dying when they know the person they are lying to is going through something similar?
The way I found out she was lying was when her phone rang while we where hanging out in my room and it was her father that called. At first I don't know it was her father, but it was obvious she didn't want to talk to the person. She kept answering in short sentences and yes and no. At one point in the conversation she says "no dad". She must have realised her mistake cuz she quickly said she had to go and hanged up. She immediately began talking about school work (something she never talks about) but I wasn't gonna let it slide this time. I asked "dad? Didn't your father die a few weeks back?". She quickly answered "uhm... yes he did! It was was his brother. They sound so much a like on the phone and it was a slip of tongue" and started talking about school work again.
At this point I'm 90% sure she's lying about her dad but I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt cuz I still couldn't believe anyone would lie about that. Is wasn't until a couple of weeks later when it was parent day that I was 100% sure she was lying. Her dad didn't show up or anything like that. It was when her mother started talking about him in present tense that I knew.
I cut all ties with her from that day on. I made some amazing new friends that I'm still friends with today (almost 4 years later) and don't worry, the doctors figured out what was wrong with my dad and he's doing as fine as an alcoholic smoker in their 60's can. He has some minor psychological problems, but that's mostly from his epileptic seizures he would get from not taking his medicine
Sorry if there's any spelling mistakes or if some of if doesn't make sense. English is not my first languages and I'm still learning :)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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wowsuchtitan · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
400 dollar card? I didn't realise people who played Magic the gathering had jobs
Dgmexe · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You'll run into cards of that value and more in bigger scenes. You don't need to spend that much to normally play but there are a few high value formats where decks can = the value of a new car. Need the job to fund the addiction!
Edit: card was Gaea's Cradle for the MTG fans lurking here.
arturkarlgren · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My phone had been stolen from our phone basket while in class. It became a big thing and everyone suspected each other. I use my (ex) best friends computer to log into find my iPhone, I absentmindedly press ‘save password’, then I looked at my phone and it showed that it was turned off an hour ago.
After school, a few hours later, i log into find my iPhone, and my phone had been removed from that service. So I start suspecting my best friend.
The day later, on Fr, it’s her birthday, and she says that “can you believe this, I got a black iPhone 7 for my birthday!” Which happened to be the same type of phone as my stolen phone. Now I know without a doubt that she was the one who stole the phone, but I have to prove it. So I ask her to send me the IMEI number. The IMEI is, for those who don’t know, a number unique for all phones, like a registration plate for phones. She opens my message and doesn’t answer it for 45 minutes, until she sends an IMEI number of an iPhone 6+, which meant that she got a screenshot of someone else’s phone.
The next day we go shopping, and after an hour or so I ask for her phone so I can call my dad, she hesitates, but then she realises that if she doesn’t want to give her phone to me, it would just make me think it’s her phone, so she gives it to me. I call my dad, and right after I’ve talked to dad for a while and say goodbye, I go to her settings and look at her IMEI number, which happens to be the same as my number.
The next day she’s taken into the principals office, and I get her to give me my phone back to me, which is the most satisfying confrontation I’ve done.
sdbear · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Well . . . I was looking in a mirror at the time.
Thumptherump · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my old friends from my teenage years ,who was a pathological liar, posted a picture of an ultrasound on her Facebook saying she was pregnant. When we were teenagers, she would constantly lie to her boyfriends that she was pregnant then oh no she lost the baby. I just knew this was fake. I copied the ultrasound pic to google image search and found that she got the picture from an old mommy blog. I commented on her Facebook post with the link and explained what she did. I don’t remember what happened after but it felt good knowing she knew that I knew she was a complete fake. I apologize for being such a crappy storyteller.
Trooper5745 · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not really satisfying but me and a bunch of other guys were freezing in the back of a vehicle and one guy was talking about how he had served with the 173rd in Italy and that he had jump wings. I didn’t really know the guys but others did and they said that they never saw him wearing his jump wings to which said he never felt like putting them on his uniform. I think less than a week later I head that he was being charged with stolen valor or something similar and was in the process of being dropped from the army
Aquillav · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was probably about 10 years old at the time that this happened. My freinds and my brother had this tradition of all of us getting together to play pokemon. I think the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum generation was newly released at this time, so we were all extremely excited to play. We were all in my garage with the door open. I also had a new next-door neighbor , who I'll call Steve. I think he waa fucking around with his scooter in his driveway or something. Anyway, my friends and I left our shiny new Nintendo DS's with 4 brand new pokemon games sitting in the slots in our open garage for about a minute while we ran over to the friends house, which was also just next door, to grab drinks. Not a great idea in hindsight. In that small time frame, our pokemon cartrages had magically disappeares from each of the 4 DS's. We were 10 but we weren't idiots, so it was obvious that steve had stolen the games. Problem was, him and his parents completly denied that it could have been him. They even claimed that they searched his room abd found nothing. Over a month passed, and I think at this point I'd given in and just gotten a new copy of the game. Supries suprise, though, he and his mom showed up at my front door with all four of the cartriges, and an apology note. She was practically holding him by the ear on my front porch. Best part of it was, if you counted my brothers copies, we now had all 3 games from that gen, which I hadn't before as my parents didnt see the point. Anyway, me and Steve eventually moved past it and became friends, as next-door neighbors inevitably do when you're 10.
filipieusebiohermes · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I found pictures of him and his friend (girl) f*cking on the bed that we sleep in. With the same bed sheets. He used the bed for the first time with her. I moved to another country to be with him. He told me to respect her, and never introduced me as his girlfriend until I threw a tantrum.
sexretive · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I caught my Boyfriend in his lie when he said he was graduating but he wasn’t and I had been suspicious for months and he acted like I was crazy and a bad girlfriend for not trusting him
ravenng · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
He was a co-worker of mine when I was working part-time at a coffee shop. He told lies pretty often but not all the time. I literally couldn’t listen to his stories without wondering whether he was lying or not.
So there was one time I told my co-workers (including him) that my university requires an IELTS certificate to graduate.
Him: You know I took an IELTS test twice in the past and I thought it was pretty easy
Me: Oh really wow! Which band did you get?
Him: The first time I got 6.0, but I thought the band was too low I wanted to get higher band so I retook it. The second time I got 6.9
Me: Oh.
And we all know there is no 6.9 IELTS band.
Anyway I played dumb and pretend to believe him, but told the story to the rest of my co-workers who know very clearly about IELTS.
Still talk about it nowadays lol
ohwell65 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When she was facing away from me getting ready for a date while we were married. I asked her what movie she was going to see and could see her eyes in the reflection from the mirror and watched her eye movement as she lied to me. We got divorced soon after.
bobo_brizinski · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On Facebook someone posted a joke from a meme as if it was his own. I knew this because it was trending on Imgur. I posted the Imgur link to his status and then he deleted it lol
danikatx · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is so dumb looking back, happened when I was a teenager.
I had this huge crush on one of the guys in my closest group of friends. We liked each other very much, wrote letters to each other, shit like that.
My then best friend who was obviously part of the group was going through a recent breakup which lasted a couple days, then she was back with the guy.
One day I’m hanging out with best friend and crush, and I just notice my best friend looking at my crush a certain way, and acting differently. She’s very giggly which is unusual as she usually plays it cool and very “bro-like”.
I swear my intuition is freaking spot on. So, crush and I go outside for a cigarette (I do not smoke anymore, yay!) and we’re chatting. There’s a brief pause and I say, “So... you and (best friend)?” And his eyes get huge and he says “How did you know?” And I say “you just told me.” LOL he goes on to say they had sex blah blah blah it’s whatever I move on from liking him.
So fast forward a couple hours, best friend and I go pick up some food and on the way back to her place, she starts talking about these hickey-looking bruises on her neck and chest and how “it’s from underground paintball” (lmfao wtf?) I mean she goes on and on about how she can’t believe where she got hit and blah blah blah. I laugh and say something to the effect of “Oh, (crush) said he gave them to you.” (Dumb, I know) and she starts crying in my car and begging me to forgive her and not yell (I was not interested in yelling at her lmao) and she admits she was lying.
It was dumb and kudos to you for making it this far in my dumb comment.
P.S. - she’s still my best friend lol
Memozx · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used ti call my friend only at his cellphone to go and hang out. But in consecutives days he couldnt go out saying he wasnt at home, so one day i called at his house and he answered and once again he said he wasnt home exposing his lies, after that day i still joke with that moment that was so hillarious
alexschubs · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late to the party (and this might be a bit polarizing to some people), but...
In January, I did a comedy open mic two hours from where I live because I wanted to properly prepare for a booked weekend I had (this open mic is a go-to for me when I need to prepare for something big). But there was a massive snowstorm that night, and I didn't want to drive home that night. My only friend in the city I was traveling to was a female comic who was dating a comedian from the town I'm from and is a regular at this open mic.
I told her about the shitty road situation and about how I didn't want to drive for two hours at 12am in a snowstorm, and after a moral debate about whether it's acceptable for a male comic to sleep in a female comic's apartment for one night, I asked her if I could crash on her couch and she said it was perfectly fine (direct quote - "You're welcome here).
Next thing I know, the comic from the town I'm from, who is also a personal friend of mine, starts blowing up my phone and is saying how it's weird that I wanted to sleep in his girlfriend's apartment and how I should instead get a hotel, so I had no choice but to look for other options. Luckily, a comic that I had known from awhile ago was at that mic that night and let me sleep in his frat house.
So, the lie part:
I talked to the comic about the situation months later, and he said that she didn't feel comfortable with me sleeping in her apartment (which I totally understood), but didn't know how to tell me, so she asked him to do it. However, I went back through the text conversation between me and the female comic, and she had explicitly stated that it was okay for me to crash at her place that night.
So, just this Monday, I did that open mic again to prepare for another big show, and I told her what her now ex-boyfriend said about her not feeling comfortable with me crashing there. She told me that she was, in fact, okay with it and that he lied to me about it.
Felt pretty good to finally get to the truth.
TL;DR - Went out of town for a night, bad snowstorm hits and I want to crash on a female friend's couch; her boyfriend at the time, who's also a friend, gets pissed and tells me that she's not comfortable with me sleeping there and I should find other options. Turns out, she was okay with it and he lied because he was insecure and thought I would try and sleep with his girlfriend, which was absolutely not true
Nicky0821 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister would always steal my clothes and anytime I got a new bra she would take it. My parents never believed so I went out and bought some new bras and stitched my initials really tiny in front of my parents as witnesses. A week later we raided her draw and found all of my new bras. My parents finally believed me, but the best part was seeing her face when she realized she actually got caught.
crash01 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At a very diverse nightclub type bar in northern California and saw someone with an entourage who was dressed uniquely, lots of belts, looked a little like a pirate. My curiosity got the better of me, leaned over and asked him what he does for a living. Says he is a neuroscientist and owns pain clinics in the area. I got really excited as I had been reading about that area for fun but as soon as I started getting curious he told me to talk with one of the guys following him about it.
Little later in the night I see him talking to a woman I know. Little too young for me (in her mid-twenties) but I have to admit I was still working at it with her, you never know. Anyway, the neuroscientist, who is even older than me is hitting on her and she seems to be eating it all up. Couldn't help myself, walked over and asked him a question I had just learned about neuroscience. The difference between afferent and efferent neurons, very basic stuff a neuroscientist would know for sure. He hemmed and hawed, struggled for a few minutes, bowed his head, said he couldn't remember and skulked off. Win.
Happened a couple years before the "disaster artist" came out but have convinced myself it had to have been Tommy Wiseau. The movie was based on his relationship with Greg Sestero who was born in Walnut Creek, CA...the town the bar was in. Looked like Tommy too.
aybuddy777 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We have a close family friend who plays on the PGA Tour. Known him since he was in high school. He's had the same swing coach since he picked up golf - his dad.
One time i went to a PGA tour event with his dad. We struck up conversation with a guy in the crowd, who began to brag about being the golf pro's old swing coach.
Instead of calling him out on it, we just let the guy ramble on and on. It was so mesmerizing to listen to someone lie about something so inconsequential. He basically completely fabricated an entire life story.
excited_teapot · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friends and I were playing The Werewolf’s of Miller’s Hollow. It was the second day and we didn’t have any werewolf’s killed. I had suspicions but couldn’t confirm anything because I was the huntsman. We were starting to vote and I just put it out there that I was a villager and didn’t care if it got me killed. I turned to my best friend who might I add is an amazing liar, and asked him what role he was. He told me huntsman. I immediately called him out. He was the kingpin to the werewolf’s and the game ended soon after.
BeckiAteUrPizza · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend a while ago who was a compulsive liar (lied about allergies, family members, pregnancies literally anything she could think of) I have many stories where I caught her out. This is one that sticks in my mind the most - I wouldn't say it was satisfying to actaully catch her out but it was the time where I found that I literally couldn't trust anything that came out of her mouth. So doesn't really answer the question but I'll share anyway.
She told me that she had been raped and I was the most supportive friend and didn't doubt her because who likes about something like that? Well she does. About a year later when the #metoo thing was going around she messaged me saying she felt so sorry for all the people joining in. I was slightly confused here as she was talking as if she couldn't understand how they felt etc, but she had been raped right?
Nope. I asked her how she wouldn't know how they felt since she told me she was raped before. She said ah no I just said that because I heard youd been assaulted and I thought you'd feel better if I said it too. I was actually horrified haven't spoken to her since. I didn't share that information with her so I have no clue where she got it from. Very relieved I don't have to deal with her anymore though
ZWE_Punchline · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine got caught out 6 months into lying about having heart cancer.
I'd always known of the guy by seeing him around in college, but I didn't start talking to him until this fair our college had at Christmas. Needless to say, we bunked off it, went out to buy some food, and really got to know each other. He told me that the girl he was into (M) had been seduced by his former best friend (K) while this guy (P) had only 2 weeks left to live. K had essentially "stolen" M from P, though the two weren't dating, since everyone knew he had feelings for her. I felt bad for him, but had massive respect for him in the sense that he was mature enough to treat them both kindly anyway.
I wasn't mad at M, of course, but I was pretty mad at K for being such a shitty friend, and trying to make a move on a girl P was into when he found out he had 2 weeks to live. When word of this got out, everyone in our friend group essentially ostracised K, because he was a bit of a knob anyway, and M by extension, since she chose to stick with him.
P would always say that he had surgeries, or some new health problem, and that he was on some transplant list or another, and we were always concerned for his health. Looking back, it was all bullshit - he would say that he had an operation on Sunday, but be in class on Monday, completely fine. He said one time that he had a dog, but when M wanted to come over and see it, the dog died the day before in a "terrible car accident". Stuff like this, adding up and adding up. He also said that he invested in a lot of bitcoin as a kid - this was a more reasonable one, since he seemed to have money coming out of the ass. I don't know what he did for it, or if that part is true, but he claimed to be building his parents a house abroad; considering how lax he was with spending money, I took that part at least to be true. If someone invested in 400 bitcoin and sold it near it's peak, you wouldn't assume they were lying about having a life-threatening illness.
P also used to say that the money from his investing was what kept him alive, since it got him on operation lists and all that jazz ASAP. Again. Looking back, this is clearly fake, but the guy was completely trustworthy to all of us. He was kind, generous, funny, smart, warm... a few months into this fiasco, he developed "feelings" for a girl abroad, and the two had started a long distance relationship. I say "feelings" because he was, in actuality, obsessed with M, using another girl to displace his feelings onto. He would worry this girlfriend with all of the fake ins and outs of his illnesses, and tell her he only had 2 weeks to live, but - "Thank God! The operation managed to work." This kind of thing, on and off for a while, manipulating her into loving him, for... no reason. He did the same to me too - telling me the same things he told her, getting me worried for his safety. His seeming calmness about the situation appeared more like a person who accepted that they could die at any time, rather than a person who was in no actual danger at all. He towed the line between bullshit and truth in a "that might just be plausible" kind of way.
Anyway. So, one day, about a month ago, M wants to speak to me. Apparently I give good advice, but I was reluctant to talk to her after all these months since it'd be awkward. Anyway, we sat down, and she said that she was afraid of the way that P would speak to her and try to manipulate her over text. I read some of his texts, and she fills me in as to how he acts towards her and stuff, and... hmm. It did seem fishy, actually. He seemed like a completely different person when speaking to her. Rude, sarcastic, snarky, entitled... But somehow, he had some sort of "holier than thou" twist to his words. "Everything I did, I did for you..." that sort of thing. He once claimed that our headteacher had threatened to kick him out over his health issues since he was absent so much. He showed me a screenshot of her email, saying so. However, M wasn't convinced that this was true. I was sceptical, but the fact that he had changed, the dog story that I'd now been filled in on, I was beginning to think that this guy was actually lying. I suggested that we could do one of two things, since the end of our academic year was in 2 days - we could either leave it all alone since we'd never see him again, or we could go to the headteacher, confirm/deny this email, and see if he was indeed bullshitting. We went with the second option.
We went to the headteacher's office, and it turns out that our headteacher had never sent that email. It was photoshopped, well, in fact (me and P used to have these stupid photoshop battles, so I know that he can use it decently) and he was never absent from school at all. He had a 96% attendance rate (the only reason I didn't know about this is because our timetables are drastically different - most days we wouldn't see eachother unless it was at lunch, and even then it was plausible that his or my classes for the day were done so we could have went home). At this point, the puzzle pieces were starting to fall into place. We realised that he was never off school, our headteacher had never admonished him, and he was never actually ill - his medical record was spotless. We'd realised at this point, he'd managed to lie to us for 6 whole months about having a heart condition.
We brought him into the headteacher's office with us. By this time, the people that were closer to him had also been brought in, as well as K. Watching P try to worm his way out of the lie was disgusting. He said at first that "our headteacher's email account may have been hacked." That moved on to "It wasn't actually heart cancer, it was lung cancer." Apparently his parents both had it too, since they were heavy smokers! I've met his father, and been in his car. There was not the slightest hint of cigarette smoke. That moved on to "I had a hole in my heart." That moved on to " I'm Polish and my English isn't great, something must have been lost in translation." (bear in mind, he's been living in the UK for at least half a decade, is completely fluent in English, and has job offers from banks to work abroad) It was honestly just... sad. I couldn't even get mad. I just pitied him. Watching him try to recoup after each lie that he told, and that we pointed out couldn't be true, was just pitiful. P had lied solely because his crush started dating his best friend instead of him and wanted to alienate the two because of it. He eventually said that he felt like he needed to lie because he felt like he had no friends and couldn't be accepted... but he was honestly the sweetest person I knew. He was always the first person there when something was wrong, always offering money when someone was in a pinch, always willing to go the extra mile for other people... but his whole personality was based around a lie that spawned from jealousy.
I want to say it's satisfying; it's much better that we know the truth, and I've reconnected with M and K. Imagine, if his lie had gone on for 2 more days, I'd never have known, because M never would have brought it up. I want to say it's satisfying, but... it just felt hollow. No other word can really describe it. It's a truth that no one wanted to hear, but found that we had to, in a sense. More than that, I felt awful, because I'd gone along with everything that P said, without even thinking about it. I was a little adverse to K anyway, but the level of bias I had shown without any concrete evidence of anything was a little startling. I didn't know I had it in me. Most of all, I didn't know that P had it in him.
TL;DR - One of my best friends lies about having cancer for 6 months because he was jealous that his crush started dating someone else. Gets caught out as his spiral of lies drags him deeper and deeper in, tries to pathetically crawl his way out.
More_Cowbell_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was illegally riding my unregistered beater of a moped around town (I was about 16). As I started to go down a hill I noticed a cop in the distance coming my direction. I immediately hit the kill switch and put my feet out to imitate that I was pushing it and coasting. Of course he pulled me over and asked for my license and registration - I of course had neither.
I protested that I didn't need them, since I was only pushing it around. he said "I know you're lying because as you came over the top of the hill I could see your headlight shining at me."
"HA!" I laughed, couldn't help it. "I know you are lying, my headlight doesn't work!"
He had no comeback for that and he let me go.
Basshead404 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Apieceofshit Pie (Ajit Pai) getting money from large providers and shit, none of this “I’m protecting net neutrality for the future” bullshit, he got paid to lie.
RyouBakura14 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex lies about everything. It doesn’t matter what it is. He would say the sky is orange just to tell a lie. So, over all the years I’ve known him, he’s always sworn he was allergic to coconut. I have always assumed this just another lie to, idk, make himself more interesting or unique? I don’t pretend to understand why he lies about the things he does.
So anyway, I had to take our son up to visit him for the ex’s birthday. The cake that he picked out was carrot cake. One of his favorites, he said. As I was eating it, I found coconut. And not just small amounts. How could it possibly be his “favorite” type of cake if he’s “allergic” to one of the main ingredients? I took pictures. It was one of the most satisfying moments of any of the years I’ve known the idiot. If he’ll lie about a food allergy, what else is he lying about?
jkuhl · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked at a call center for a credit card company. Had someone call in, complaining about a late fee. They wanted it waived (surprise!) and claimed they were never late.
I looked at their account.
No.
They were late multiple times over the past year.
Of course I politely refused to waive the late fee and laughed when they hung up. Look you retards, I have your account history, I know every thing you bought on this fucking card for the last seven years. Don't lie to me about how you're always on time when I know more about your spending habits than you do.
tubtown · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was this girl I was really good friends with in middle school. She’s known for lying, but she was “popular” so nobody rly cared. One day during spring break, I messaged her the normal “hey, how have you been, what’re you up to” sort of thing. And she replies “nothing much, I just went to Paris.” I was pretty confused because she said nothing about going to Paris before (if she actually went she wouldn’t shut up about it trust me) and it was about five days into spring break. So I ask, “you never said anything about Paris” and she replied with “I was going to go to tahoe but we cancelled it last minute and we had nowhere else to go.” Then I asked her to send me pictures of Paris and she told me “I didn’t take any I swear.” And finally she sends this picture - or something very similar to that, it was long ago. But still she refuses to send me any pictures of her but she sends me a tumblr photo of a girl jumping in front of the Eiffel Tower (which I cannot find) and she claimed it was her cousin Sarah. And that first photo she she me, she said that Sarah took that one. I did a reverse search on google and found the picture online (actually, many copies of the photo) and I confronted her about it. I asked her when she took it and she said on Monday, but the photo said it was taken in 2013. I told her that and she kept on defending herself. She wouldn’t give in.
BlankManTM · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'll take this as an opportunity to vent.
So there's this girl at school, she has some kind of muscular dystrophy, and I mention it because it's very likely why she's such a liar, her lies are meant to make herself look better and when I realized this it pissed me, I've known her for like 2-3 years. There are five times I've got her clean that I remember particularly, but did not say anything to her, hopefully she'll learn herself that people will not trust her.
The first time: she had been "casually" carrying around an ID of sorts because she supposedly is in a social group I guess it would be and the thing is, I actually am in that group/association/whatever (it sucks), so I actually have an ID, and in two occasions I've been able to discretely showing it to her by opening my wallet looking for something making sure it would be in her field of view, and I know she saw it, because of the second and specially fourth time I caught her.
The second time: she was in a contest thingy and she participated, she told me she had to get there by bus and that she thought some guy was following her until she realized he was part of the jury or whatever, she told me she was very frightened, but when I was checking Facebook (which up to that point I barely used) and she had posted a big-ass story about how this person had seen her ID for that fucking association and said stuff like "you don't know the luck you have, I've seen your works, I've been looking forward to meet you" and she was like "that's the best thing someone has said to me and he was a total stranger". Fuck off.
The third time: this time it wasn't me, but a friend of mine. She said she played Halo in split-screen with her sisters and who knows who else in his dad's house, my friend asked her more about the game since he's a big Halo fan, and according to what she said about the game's mechanics and aesthetics, it was Halo 5, and Halo 5 has no split-screen multiplayer, only online play. She insisted, but eventually they dropped the conversation.
The fourth time: she had posted on Facebook about a contest ran by that association "she's in", and there were three wrong things: first it was in english, we live in Mexico, second I knew that contest wasn't happening, and third the image was amateur photoshopping at best. I said nothing about it, but like two days later she mentions the contest to me and I ask "who made the contest?" and she mentioned a completely unrelated association that doesn't even exist here and is unrelated to the contest itself. She knows I'm in that other association.
The fifth time: This is the one that satisfied me the most, because it was FUCKING CLEAN IN THE BAG. Some dude presented his book to our school, and he was playing a character (although we didn't know), he mentioned that he and his team had created a machine that can erase memories, she said "ah, yes" implying she knows about the machine, the dude then said "we tested it in a rat, it was supposed to only erase one hour" she immediately said to me "it erased everything" but the man continued "the rat woke up in the middle of a park where it was one hour ago". None of us said anything, obviously, but I knew I got her, until the man dropped his act and stated quite clearly: "I was playing a character of my book", and he went on to describe the plot of the book, so that machine was 500% bullshit and I simply thought "got you".
There are many other times but they were just little things and a lot of bullshit.
Oh, I just remembered that she's "sooo good at english" but she writes "this" instead of "these" smfh.
DrK1NG · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend lied about hating a teacher I disliked. I was being a bit distant because I was upset about something so she lied to get me to relate and open up a bit. She actually really enjoys the teacher's class.
I called her out on it and she smiled and said something to the effect of "People don't usually catch me when I'm manipulating them in such subtle ways"
nolawyers · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I cross examine a defendant in a criminal trial, they lie, get convicted and then they are sent to prison. Bliss.
zomgitsduke · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Teacher here. I teach programming.
So many kids copy and paste assignments from online, and pass off that on their first month of coding, they've mastered classes, functions, and 5 libraries I've never heard of, that we don't even have installed on the computers.
The kicker? The first day I give them the assignment, it's handed in within 3 minutes so they can watch other people play video games on YouTube.
I don't tell them until the last day the project is due. They learn quickly to not cheat in my class.
Rutiau · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone I know was bragging about going to the Wimbledon final and how amazing it was to watch Novak play against Djokovic and how she was a major tennis fan. Stumbled a lot when I pointed out Novak Djokovic is one man.
stansey09 · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope someone finds one of the lies in this thread, can prove it somehow, calls out said liar, and then tells that very story in this thread.
nemes1sx1st · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was going over a job application referral letter.. Beautifully written by a Doctor who was recommending this young man... Turns out he forgot to change 1 name in the final paragraph.. Managed to change all the names except one.. Not even his referral letter.
shoulderofpallas · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't so much that I caught them lying more that I called them out for habitually lying.
In my hometown there is this local figure that's rather well known in our geek community. I first met this guy when I was in High school, going to a comic book store.
He would interrupt my group of friends and come to talk (mainly just to the women), about upcoming superhero movies... and would pepper them with the most absurd lies. Yet consistent lies.
Fifteen years have passed. I moved away from my hometown, moved back to finish school, and because rent is cheaper.
I pick up a few shifts at a friend's comic book shop, and lo and behold... this guy is STILL a regular customer. STILL telling the same absurd lies (though they tend to revolve around the MCU these days, as opposed to the Raimi Spiderman films, or the Fox X-Men franchise).
What's crazy is that my hometown DOES have a good film scene. And Iron Man 3 WAS filmed here, so even a stopped clock is right, twice a day.
So, I'm in my last month at the shop before it closes (owners relocated), so I feel no obligation to continue catering to this guy. The rest of the staff and owners couldn't stand him, but he'd always spend money (even if he insisted on a discount for being a veteran and serving in Vietnam [the guy is MAYBE in his late forties]), but at this point, all patience has run out.
So, I'm in the shop and there is a female customer buying books. In he comes, and I immediately begin to cringe because I know what's coming, so I'm trying to wrap the transaction as best as I can...
"Excuse me," he says, in an inexplicable English accent (as he was wont to do), "are you a fan of... Doctor Who?" "Uh... sure." She responds. "Did you know," he continues, in a complete nonsequitur, "that Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is being filmed here?" I roll my eyes and audibly sigh. "No it's not. The trailers are already out. Filming is wrapped." He looks to me, and gets red faced... as he's clearly not used to people calling him out. "They're doing reshoots here!" He insists. "I'm actually good friends with Johnny Depp." He claims as he turns back to the woman.
"Oh... uh... I don't really like Johnny Depp." She replies, uncomfortably, as she starts to edge out of the shop.
"Dude... you have been telling the same lies for over a decade." I finally say. "What?! How?!" He asks, flabbergasted, his English accent inexplicably gone. "You've been telling people this for years." I repeat. "Remember when 'Spider-Man 3' was being filmed here? Starring Johnny Depp as Venom?" He looks stunned and confused, probably because he tells this lie so often, he has no memory of this specific incident.
"Yeah, well... I was LYING to you!" He says, very defensively.
"Have a nice day," I say to the customer, and after she leaves, he begins to tail her...
I never saw him again after that day...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I caught myself lying, on the first date with the most amazing girl I've ever dated. Glad I stayed true with her. I know this is some wordplay BS but let me have this one haha.
Zerbo · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a paramedic, years ago we had a police officer working our district who was a lazy, condescending asshole. Normally there’s a degree of professional courtesy between cops and medics, but not with this guy. He would constantly bounce belligerent drunks to us for “medical eval” only because he didn’t want to go through the hassle of arresting and booking them.
One day this officer called us to transport a particular homeless patient was known for getting combative with medics and hospital staff every time he was transported, and had also been known to pull a knife on a fire crew before. In light of that, I asked the officer if he had patted our patient down for weapons yet.
“Yep, already did. Quit stalling and put him on the gurney. I know how to do my job, time for you to do yours.”
As he told me this I patted down the patient’s pockets and found an 6-inch folding knife. So I held it up and asked, “So you either missed this or you’re lying, which is it?”
I ended up calling his watch commander and my field supervisor backed me up on filing a formal complaint. He got placed on administrative leave for a couple weeks and then transferred to different district. He’s still a piece of shit, but at least I don’t encounter him in the field as often as I used to.
scarabic · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a roommate once that I couldn’t stand for 100 reasons but the last straw was when I realized he was using my computer for porn while I was out. This was back in a time when not everyone had a computer and certainly not everyone had broadband internet.
I didn’t confront him right away. Soon enough the primary leaseholder in the apartment moved out and I made up my mind I wanted the gross roommate gone too so I could take over the apartment and move my girlfriend in. We all talked about it one night and he said he had the same plan and threw it back at me that I should be the one to move out.
So I confronted him about how he’d been looking at porn on my computer - in front of the entire household, including the primary leaseholder (a woman) and my girlfriend. He denied it. I took him and everyone else into my room and pulled up the browser history and cache. It was all dated to a period that I’d been traveling overseas for two weeks so it was clearly not me.
He bowed his head, apologized, and agreed to move out. If you think about it, it was a fucked up thing to do but it didn’t give me any more claim on the apartment than him really. It was just the well-chosen timing of the confrontation, and the fact that I did it with several women present, that utterly humiliated him into submission. Satisfying. I have no regrets.
MsPennyLoaf · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
After months of knowing something was up with my boyfriend I finally found evidence he'd had been sleeping with another girl at our place while I was out of town for work. He made me feel INSANE and told me how crazy i was over and over. As soon as the initial sting wore off it was such a relief to know i wasnt losing my mind. It was deeeeeply satisfying. Hes obviously an ex.
kosmor · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was actually the one who got caught.
I was 6 and learning to write my letters and a few others. A friend was visiting and we got a red pen and went behind the couch.
We didn't want to get caught so I wrote my sister's name on the back of the couch.
A few days later my mom noticed tos writing and asked me about who did this.
Apparently it didn't work out so well to blame writing on my 1 year old sister.
aikaj92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened when I was working for a particularly shitty branch of a certain retail pharmacy. Most is the customers in the neighborhood were low income and were forever trying to get creative with the pricing.
One woman in particular decided that she was going to try to lie to me about the price of a bottle of shampoo. She brought it up to the register and when I scanned it, almost $30 was added to her price. She had a fit. Said she was being scammed and that the store was awful and I’d better change it before she called corporate.
What this lady didn’t know was, since this store and it’s customers were so shitty, we were chronically short staffed. This meant that I usually got saddled with a lot of inventory work in addition to manning the register. I knew damn well what price the shampoo was and where she picked it up from. So I walked her back to the shampoo aisle. She tries to stop me and points to a cheaper brand of shampoo. She says she got it from that spot, so I should give it to her for that price. Another lie. I restocked the entire aisle and this group of bottles didn’t even have an empty space among them. The row hadn’t been touched since I’d fixed it up. I walk past the portion she claimed the bottle had came from and stopped at the correct section where the rest of this brand was located. Lo and behold, one empty space, with the price clearly labeled on the shelf.
I didn’t even say anything to her. I just pointed at the price sticker. What does she do? She gets very quiet and fidgety for a moment, the huffs and says, “well that shampoo isn’t worth that much anyway”. And she storms out.
valdemargh · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school there was this girl who had read all the books. A book gets mentioned - she had read it. Us dumb, chubby boys get fed up and decide to make her a frickin’ bamboozle. We come up with a book by a famous author, the author was real, the book was not. It was titled:(translated from Danish) “Autum for the sad, fat girl”. Head first she comes:”Oh yeah, that one really got me!”. I go:”Especially the relationship with her dog, right?” SillyGurl:”OMG dont remind me.” Baffled by our great succes and embarrased on her behalf, we never told her the truth.
supplyncommand · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
lol my ex said she was staying home watching the cavs w her mom and drinking wine. i was like ya nah. drove over there. she gone
Fit_Official · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a CS major working at Walmart in college. We got a new hire one night and he was assigned to work with me in dairy. Not sure how it came up, but we ended up talking about games. He told this huge story about how he used to work for a game company and was a hero because he saved a project by "going in and flipping a 1 to a 0".
I congratulated him. I got called to electronics later in the night to help a customer (because I'm the tech guy that doesn't work in electronics). He asked why they'd call me, and one of my friends chimed in explaining my schoolwork, etc. Dude was white as a ghost and never spoke to me again.
cagapalo · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Zz
Eazyyy · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had a school friend who when he’d meet us out and about, he’d say he got into a fight on the way there or something crazy happened on his way to meet us. He was a total shithouse. There were too many times we caught him out on lies I can’t even remember an instance right now. We used to call him ‘10 men’.
Condemned782 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in 4th grade this girl kept stealing my pencils but I could never really prove it. One day I wrote my name on the side. I went in to school and she took my pencil and denied it. I said check the side. My name was on it and she gave me the pencil back and got in trouble for stealing my things.
Avander · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
They were under oath.
Toilet_Child · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my pledge brothers claimed he got accepted in Harvard on the waitlist, but didn’t go. Nobody really believed him and shrugged it off, but he kept telling everybody at pretty much every party. Eventually another one of my brothers called him out and asked for the acceptance email, which he was curiously unable to procure
MidwestBulldog · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Knew a guy who constantly had odd deaths happen to family and friends "back home". Overdoses, suicides, his 6 year old nephew getting hit and killed by a car. He would tell our group of friends, get sympathy, cry, etc. The whole grief cycle.
Then he told us his father suddenly passed away. We sympathized. Then someone asked where to send flowers, make contributions in his memory. He said don't worry. So, I thought maybe looking up the obituary could lead us to the answer. No obituary in the hometown paper. The whole week. No obituary for one of the biggest members of a major city business community seemed odd. Then someone ran into him at Home Depot on what was supposed to be his dad's funeral date. Really odd.
Then I gave it one last search for the obit. Nothing. But I did see where his Mom and Dad were getting a civic award that evening. The article had quotes from his Dad. So time goes on and we almost forgot about the weirdness.
That is until he told someone outside of our main group that his 6 year old nephew was killed that afternoon by a drunk driver on his bike. He was faking people's deaths for sympathy. He recycled a kid's death so he could have the emotional upper hand with a person.
One of the guys confronted him and asked how his Dad was and showed him a dated article from the hometown paper. He was no doubt Munchausen's by-proxy and denied every lie. He also didn't get help for it. He eventually moved away and it doing it to other people in another town. Uncool, but also a mental illness. A cruel mental illness, but nonetheless a mental illness.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always suspected my ex of being a pathological liar, but when I randomly came across their reddit account a while ago and they had comments that were blatant lies, it confirmed my suspicions and was vindicating af.
SansPeur_Scotsman · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I knew a guy who moved from London up to the north east of scotland. A few small towns attend the high school.
Dude sat in front of me in art class and said he said to a group of girls that he was in a gang, and when they asked what the gang was called, he replied with, "Assassins Creed".... which amazingly was a game that just came out.
He also lied about his dad being the first keyboardist for Nazereth, that in his spare time he made a computer virus on a floppy disk.... in 2011. He was round at a friends house and they were all taking shots of a guitar and he boasted he loved Pantera, knew all their songs and was their biggest fan. Then he didnt know who Dimebag was, and someone else started playing 'Cowboys From Hell' and he didnt recognise it.
He was always a bit, odd. Then he was all over the news for trying to blow up his paedophile dad who had children with his ex with a home made bomb. Proof - https://www.scotsman.com/regions/aberdeen-north-east/neo-nazi-connor-ward-convicted-of-plotting-terror-attacks-1-4705606
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Interviewed someone for a sys admin esque job, they list that they had MySQL experience. When asked, they said "Oh?! Thats still on there? I thought I took that off. Do you have a copy of the resume you received? I need to make sure you have the right one" after that I had to ask "you have no my SQL experience at all? You can't list anything like what a query is or how to utilize it in an application?" (Basic things that any sysadmin working with this should know, especially considering its free software, you can literally see the job posting and learn it before the interview) she couldn't answer any of the questions at all. She claimed she had redeeming qualities. By the end of the interview however none seemed that redeeming.
joknman · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a guy call into work saying he had strep throat, I responded that if he had strep he would need a doctor's note to come back to work. He texted me at midnight the same day quitting. Nice try!
Pete-Loomis · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Playing dangonronpa for the first time
Iforgotsomething897 · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
For almost two years my boyfriend said that Valentine's Day was stupid, should not be celebrated and that nobody should ever propose on that day! He was very adamant about this. Though he celebrated it for me because he knows I enjoyed it. And that's the day he proposed. He now likes Valentine's Day, I made him realize it's for guys too!
Casty201 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I got caught in the most awkward lie ever and I didn’t even mean to lie. I was making small talk with a table I was serving, they were trainers over at the local college. They said that they worked with the baseball team and I tried saying that I lived some guys on the team. What I axtually did say was “I play with those guys!” And they assumed I was in the team. They asked which coach I played for and at that point my brain was 100% mush, I could have just corr free what I said but at that point I said “uh...uh.... so just water?” It was awkward the rest of their dinner.
MeltingTerminal · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't have a specific example, but back in secondary school there was a girl that hated me for an incredibly silly reason. I won't go into it, but basically the last three years of school were spent trying to avoid talking to her (she was friends with a lot of my friends).
Occasionally she would say something that I knew was bullshit and most of the time I resisted the urge to say anything out of fear of making things awkward for my friends, but there were a few times when I did correct her on specific things (most of the time related to me). The worst part about it was that she would always try and claim that I was wrong, even though I knew with 100% certainty she was lying. No amount of explaining would get her to drop her charade.
In the first of those three years she was pretty successful at convincing people that I was the one in the wrong, but as time went on it quickly became more and more apparent that she was full of shit. She frequently tried manipulating people or twisting the truth in her favour.
By the time we'd reached the last year (and the third year of her bullshittery) most people had an idea of who she actually was and would take anything she said with a grain of salt. In the end it wasn't just me but also other people proving her wrong, and it felt good to have been a key part in making other people realise that she wasn't who she seemed to be. In this case I guess you could consider the lie to be her personality.
As an extra aside, she was also the kind of person that would brag about getting higher grades than someone else and get defensive if someone did the same to her. She was a real piece of shit and I'm glad I don't have to talk to her or even see her anymore.
pringle-prangle · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend was doing an internship at DisneyWorld. She came back to California on an injury, so she stopped by my friend's house to tell us all about her experiences working at the place where dreams come true. She went on about how she had to deal with adults being worse than children, and one such incident where she had to help set up some event thing and a family from England wanted to sit in the closed off area. She refused them a couple times because she said that guests weren't allowed to go there, and the family walked away crying.
I thought it sounded familiar, so I called her out. She copied Swoozie's Disney World stories word for word. When she didn't believe me, I pulled the video up. I don't believe a single thing she says anymore.
AuthorizedVehicle · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Many years ago my wife took her hand-written reports to Pat's Typing, and I saw Pat xeroxing her originals and asked him about it. He said he always did it, and he told me that once a minister wanted a free revision and came back and said Pat made some mistakes in his typing and showed the originals (which had been erased and corrected). Pat showed him the original xeroxes and got him to pay up.
ShamusJohnson13 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My former manager claimed he'd been to Mecca as a young child with a security escort. I never said anything, but I know he lied because he's an athiest, and I know that no non-Muslims are allowed into Mecca period. End of story. He also went on to claim he was part of the Russian Mafia and I stopped listening to his stories after that.
bramalamadingdong · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex dumped me whilst I was staying with her for a week. It was in a different country so I had no way of leaving, so we agreed to ride out the last few days together before my flight back. I don't like to be jealous or suspicious but I noticed that the texts she was getting from one of her female friends were a bit more romantic than usual. I scrolled up in the conversation and realized that she had changed the name of her ex to name of her friend in her phone. She shit her pants when I confronted her and denied it at first but came round eventually. It was horrible at the time but still oddly satisfying getting her to admit to it
kaldrazidrim · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In college I dated a jealous GF. One day I was looking through one of my desk drawers, and I noticed a stack of old photos, some with me and other girls.
The NEXT DAY I went into the same drawer and all the photos were gone. If I had not seen them the day before I would have thought nothing of it, but I KNEW they were there yesterday. I knew right away she had made them disappear.
I asked about it and she lied (not very well). I knew she was lying, she knew I knew it, but she never admitted.
hazzanad20 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was going to prank everyone on here and write the plot to a Friday Night Dinner episode and I realised it wouldn't make sense with the question. Shit
The_Shahri · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I got a ifunny meme to the front page of r/dankmemes
Yellowpickle23 · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An old coworker of mine went on this big holier-than-thou "fact trip". In it, he told me a "did you know" about the original star wars, that they used florescent light bulbs for the light Saber battles because the tech wasn't there yet. Little did he know I knew wayyy more about star wars to immediately debunk his dumb ass. His excuse?
"oh... Really? I guess, you ARE the bigger star wars fan than me"
So he basically made this crap up off the top of his head to sound smart. What a turd. I never liked him.
TrayusV · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school, I'd bring my 3ds and all of the pokemon games to school and play them rather than do school. one day, i discovered my copy of Pokemon diamond disappeared, I wasn't all that worried because i thought I just misplaced it or something, I'd turn up.
The next day at school, during class i tried to grab my backpack, but another kid had it at the desk next to me. the kid also played pokemon and was going into my ds case. he notices me and gives the bag back to me, i obviously asked about what he's doing, and he continually claims "nothing". I check my Ds case, and it's all disheveled, with the games loose in the case. And my copy of Pokemon Heart Gold was missing. I ask this kid where it is and he says "I don't know" as he puts my copy of heart gold back on top of my bag. I then figured out where my copy of pokemon diamond is. to make things worse for this kid, he let's me play his copy of Pokemon White, and he has my pokemon on his team, so yeah, busted.
The next day, when i got off the bus (me and the thief took the same bus), i followed the kid to his locker. I then, in the most intimidating way possible explain to him that i know he has my game, and that if he doesn't return it that we will "deal with this like adults", i had to be careful of what i said, as this kid was likely to go running to the admins about how i threatened him.
The next day, the thief's friend brings me the game and claims "he found it". The rest of my high school career, the thief stayed the fuck away from me.
I know this doesn't really fit the post, but fuck it, i want to tell a story.
JacksonMc12 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ok I have this cousin who always lies, but this was the best one. For context I am a 13 yr male.
My 11 year old male cousin was starting soccer, and he was already 3 or 4 weeks in. He is fast so I expected him to like soccer. One day when he around 3 weeks in he told me “dude my team sucks I carry every game, I get around 3 or 4 goals every game.” Now I’m thinking “wow he is very good!” But one thing is stuck in my mind. Whenever we play together in like a backyard, he is shit. So I was kind of happy for him. Around 2 weeks later I am at my grandmother’s house for the day cause my mom has a work thing. She is in real estate. My grandmother is pretty much the head of the family. She knows everything that is going on the family. In conversation during lunch I bring up the fact that my cousin scores three or four a game. Then she starts laughing. At this point I’m confused. What she says next makes me laugh to this day. “He just called me last week very happy, saying that he just scored his first goal that day.” To this day my cousin still lies.
sara_c907 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of my ex-friends and I had visited my boyfriend who lived in another town. Well, my boyfriend had a Blackberry he wasn't using on a regular basis and when my 'friend' was enamored with it because we were in high school and he wanted every opportunity to look 'rich'. Well, my friend and I left and the Blackberry went missing. I was already aware of my friend having sticky fingers so I casually asked him if he took it by accident. He denied it but I remember him being enamored with it so I wasn't about to just let things go. I made up a casual lie that my boyfriend would be able to find the phone via GPS tracking (this was 10 years ago, mind you) and my friend magically found it in his baggage. 😀
Sweet__kitty · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I think the most satisfying lie I caught / debunked was one my dad was trying to sell me about myself when I was like 12 or 13.
My dad was away at work and I was at home, watching TV in my parents' bedroom since my brothers were playing video games on the other TV in the living room. The phone rang. We didn't have an answering machine so it was my responsibility to get name, company, number, and what the call was regarding. The lady asked for my dad and didn't give me much of anything to pass on. I asked explicitly for the relevant information but she hung up instead of providing it.
When my dad came home he asked if anyone called for him and I said that there had been someone but they didn't give me any of the info I asked for.
He launched into a tirade about how stupid, incompetent and useless I was just like my mom/the rest of the family, etc.
I was tired of the verbal, emotional, and occasional physical abuse that he regularly visited upon the rest of the family. And I was at a point where I had enough feedback from other people, especially other adults, to know that this was bullshit and that I wasn't what he was saying I was. I finally mustered the courage to defend myself.
"IF I'M SO STUPID AND INCOMPETENT, HOW WAS I ABLE TO GET THE INTERVIEW INFO FOR THAT JOB?!" (I.e. the one that presently employed him)
That shut him down and shut him up.
I like to think that that marks the day that my dad finally had some respect for me. I wasn't someone that was going to take everything he said at face value any more, someone that was going to listen to the lies he told us about ourselves because we had nothing and no one to tell us otherwise.
staahhhpp · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend acted like she is a joker / batman fan just because of the suicide squad hype . She said that she has always been a batman fan and i said that she is just saying that because sq is hyped rn she got mad and said that thats not true and that she loves MARVEL i said "BITCH BATMAN IS DC NOT MARVEL" She still tried to talk her way out by saying she just wanted to tell us but it makes no fuckibg sense she basically helped me prove herself
hotdogoctopus · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy named SGT Braswell at a school I went to. He failed out.
Guy who always knew a little more than you or had seen something before you without being able to flesh his “je ne sais quoi” out.
One day we hatched a plan.
Next day as he is walking up to the lunch table:
Him: What are you guys talking about? Us: This special on TV we saw about frontal lobe mitochondrial extraction. Him: Yeah I saw that. It’s crazy.
As we started explaining our imaginary process to remove dreams of sleeping people through frontal lobotomies he would interject from time to time. We lost it and began laughing too hard. He figured out we had made it up. Never talked to us again. Failed out first week of phase II.
mae8e · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was complaining to a coworker about school. I guess my coworker told our napoleon complex-wielding supervisor, as she made a beeline for me and that led to this exchange: Supervisor: Mae8e, you go to [specific university]? Me: Yeah... why? Supervisor: I went there too. I studied chemistry, biology, and physics. Me: Okay. Supervisor: Yeah, I really like the library there. Me: Which library? Supervisor: You know, the library. It's so big and nice inside. Me: There are fourteen libraries on campus, which one are you talking about? Supervisor: Oh. And then she left me alone for the rest of my shift :-)
Bebe_bear · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone I work with- brief backstory: he graduated from college last year and started working in my office like 6 months after he graduated, his parents pay for everything, including when he goes out for drinks with coworkers (he once called his mom while we were at a bar and said “mommy you’re paying for my Uber home tonight!” Even though we were six blocks from his apartment), and he just got into medical school so has stopped showing up to work on time; he gets in around 11:30 and leaves at 4 or 5 but puts down 40 hours per week- was saying that he couldn’t do anything else after I left for a meeting because I left the document open. I got back to the office after my meeting (around 6pm, after he arrived in the office at 11:45 that morning) and when I texted him sorry about that I’ll close it so you can finish (after I had been sitting there for about half an hour finishing my work), he said he would do it tomorrow because he just left. Yeah right, I’ve been here for 30 minutes, you definitely left right after I did because you thought I wasn’t coming back.
symphonyofflutes · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This actually happened a few months back. My violin was in need of some work as the strings were rattling against the fingerboard due to ridges and a poor bridge. I took it to a guy who was recommended by two different people and asked for his quote. After measuring the violin three ways to Sunday he gave me a number of quotes:
£1200 to sand the thickness down and make her sound like a stradavarius (I'm a student on a budget that doesn't study music)
£650 to make it perfect by doing everything bar the sanding down
£75 to fix the fingerboard plus £200 for a new bridge (which is extortionate because he made it himself with a special type of wood)
I declined under the pretence of "thinking about it"
My friend went back a few days later, to get an idea for her "friends violin". He increased the price of the bridge by £10 and basically fobbed himself off when she said I'd been given a quote by someone for £1200 before recommending himself for the same price again.
I told a friend who's dad happened to make violins. He fixed the fingerboard and put in a new bridge all for £80 as well as fine tuning other little bits. My violin has never sounded better and I can carry on paying rent for the rest of the year
OMGWTFSTAHP · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When i was in the military, one of my soldiers came to me stating that his backpack is missing and he thinks his roommate stole it. I was thinking to myself that he couldnt be that stupod to steal such an obvious thing from his roommate. I went to their room with him and confronted his roommate about the backpack, and he said "i didn't steal his backpack, this one is mine, and i dont appreciate being called a liar and a thief". Thats when the satisfaction happened. I turned over the armstrap where my soldier had marked his name to see that the idiot tried marking out my soldiers name, but did such a poor job of it that you could still see the name as clear as day. It was so satisfying, i just said, " you dont like being accused of thievery and lying, but you stole and lied about it, you are unbelievable". Then i left and reported it to our higher ups.
MarkiMagee · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Recently my friend mentioned she has a boyfriend but things she has said about him and the relationship dont add up, she gave me her phone really quick to change music while she went to the bathroom. I looked in her Twitter app to see that SHE runs his Twitter account so it proves he isnt real!
wheezy11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had just finished work in my family's bar, long shift, 15 hours. A few people from local business' stayed back and I was having a drink beside them. The guy beside me was chatting with some girls and mentioned that he was the owner to them, I said nothing, but locked eyes with him. 2 weeks later he came in to get Ice and told them that he knew the owner. Staff directed him to me, I sorted him out and gave him the same look as that night. Still see him a few times a week and he is awkward as fuck.
AlwaysGamerQc · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A couple of years back, I was working in a restaurant, doing the closing of the restaurant alone like 5 days a week. My boss at the time was always getting back at me the next day about "This wasn't done properly" or "You forgot to do this... Again!" Every. Fucking. Time.
At first, I thought "Uhm, maybe I did forget things" So I focused more on my job. After a couple of days of her still being angry, I asked he to do one close with me and show me exactly how to do them.
I took notes of everything just to be sure I didn't forget anything.
The next couple of days went perfectly, she didn't say anything. One day, she even said that the job I did was perfect! So I did the following shift exactly the same. But, less than a month later, she started whining again about the same things!! That's when I knew she was just trying to find reasons to talk shit about me since I was closing The. Exact. Same. Way she showed me.
Needless to say, I quitted that job not long after that. She bankrupt her restaurant a couple of months later so, I guess karma caught back to her. Ha!
cosmatic79 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The time where my baby momma left me and a few days later I discovered she was married. Like still married. I had to go through court to prove I was the dad and not him. Results still pending
BiteSize_Yorkie · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Good luck!
Ushouldblaughing · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boy scout troop was hiking in the woods, and one of the 11 year olds dropped trash all over the place, and when the leaders tried to find out who it was, the kid said it wasnt him even though he had cheetos dust all over his fingers and mouth.
emily610 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Left a bag with like 25 Nintendo DS games in it at my friends house. Asked her about it later and said she couldn't find it, even though I KNOW it had been left on her bed and couldn't be lost. Later she "found" the bag and half the games were mysteriously gone! She picked out the ones she wanted to keep and returned the rest.
This was like 4 or 5 years ago but I ain't ever gonna forget it Ting Ting, ya bitch.
blouscales · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Used to be manager at Jack in the Box. Worked a 16 hour shift (kinda make my own shifts) and was exhausted but not stupid. A lady came in Drive Thru ordered Nuggets and was on her way. An hour and a half later during a dinner rush she comes back in the drive thru and claims we didnt give her nuggets and we gave her a fajita chicken pita instead and ask for 20 more. I laughed so hard on the spot because I put those nuggets in the bag and handed it to her the first time, plus since I was over seeing every thing my employees were doing, we actually had not sold or made a chicken pita the entire day. She probably had an extra or something from another time and tried to scam 20 extra nuggets during something like a 50 car rush and had to wait 40 minutes to be “politely“declined at the window.
Skydives · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Idk if anyone plays slowpitch Softball but my store manager was bragging to everyone how good he was and how he played on this great “C” ranked team. Well one weekend I’m playing and happen to run into him. I was playing on a “D” team and he and “E” team so naturally I told everyone about this tiny little lie. A lot of people lost respect for him because why the fuck does anyone have to lie about a recreational sport they do for fun? Looool.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every time my brother lies to me and I know by the look on his face that he's lying.
heftymoose · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Maury.
firstyearfear · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In middle school my best friend's CD player went missing, straight out of his backpack. We asked around and even asked on specific person but he denied it. Later that week a friend, who was friends with the person we suspected, confided us that he saw suspect #1 with the CD player. So we confronted him after school, and the guy kept on saying he didn't have it. There were like three of us, we weren't going to beat him up or anything but I guess we had strength in numbers because he caved and pulled it out of his backpack. He had written all over it in white out and nail polish or something similar to change its appearance.
ThisBlackSmurf · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guy I was in sixth form with decided to tell a friend of mine that his dad was killed by Ray Charles throwing a piano at him at a concert. Seriously.
VagrantWolf · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Caught my Ex-girlfriend cheating on me. I asked her a few nights that I was gone out of town for work what she had done, and she would give me stories about hanging with the cats and watching movies. I let this go on for a few weeks because I wasn't going to be home much anyway, so I didnt want to address it until I had the time. When I finally brought up that I thought she was cheating on me with one of her school mates, she denied it and accused me of cheating.
I calmly reminded her she had me install wifi cameras in our house because we lived in a shady area of town. They were above our door outside and in the staircase looking down on the front door, which also happened to be above our bedroom.
The look on her face was priceless, and I moved on with life when she moved out.
Shloomth · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A while after my dad moved away, his wife, my stepmom, told me that "everyone" had told her that I complained to them about how she and my dad "abandoned me." I never said any such thing to a single person. In fact I felt quite liberated when they left. So I asked, "Who told you I said that? Who told you I said you abandoned me?" and her response was, "I'm not going to throw anyone under the bus just to prove my point to you." or something to that effect. And then the subject was quickly changed.
It may not seem like any big thing to anyone else but to me it was a huge moment to finally have caught her in a concrete lie, and to watch her realize she couldn't actually back up what she was saying, and turn tail and quickly find a new attack strategy.
After having suspected she had lied about so many things, and her always accusing me of being a pathological liar for ridiculous things.
trackedonwire · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"People, don't lie...
...because you can't remember shit you said yesterday." --Whoopi Goldberg
cheerymouse · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to date this boy back in high school justin. We where about 3 years into the relationship when one night after hanging up the phone, "I love you goodnight." I had received a phone call seconds after from a close friend brian basically snitching saying, " did you know that justin is dating Lora, I just saw them making out." ( Lora was my best girlfriend at the time.)I was so confused because me and justin hadn't separated, I literally just got off the phone with him. So of course my heart drops quickly and before I can investigate. Suddenly I received a call on the other line from Lora, so I switch over and act normal obviously and she asks, "Is it okay if me and Justin date I want your permission." I flipped. "Wtf Lora he's my boyfriend why is everyone acting like me and him are no longer together.!!" Of course I call her out, your a liar! Blah blah. She starts stuttering and as much as I wished shed say I was wrong she admitted to it.. at this point I'm heated now. Hang up on her, call Justin basically to bitch him out for cheating. I dump him in the process. Lora apologizes over and over through text. Before I went to sleep I told her, "he's all yours have a great life."
They both tried to lie to me at the same time. Justin wanted to apparently cheat on me and my best friend was simply a fake friend. (Justin denied it, she admitted, Brian had snitched) I had my proof.
Highschool drama.
Mtaylor0812_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A couple summers ago a good friend of mine texted me during work and asked me to go fishing with him after work. Sounded like a good idea to me so I said why the hell not. He didn’t say where but I didn’t really care where, just wanted to get out.
He texted me back a couple hours later and said that his boss told him he has to stay and work overtime so never mind. I was a little bummed, but I said that’s fine. By now the idea of fishing sounded great to me and I wanted to go so I texted another old friend of mine and asked if he wanted to go and he said hell yeah. He told me about a spot along the river that nobody goes to that he had been nailing striper bass the day prior.
We meet up after work and we’re walking along this river bank fishing the shores, jigging our lines near the bank and I look down about 50 feet across the river and see a figure that looks an awful lot like friend number one who said he was working overtime and so I walk down closer and closer as I cast my line. By now, I’m literally right across the river from him and I’m like no shit, this is said friend. I cast out and say “working over time eh, “friends name”. He looks up like a deer in headlights and says “oh shit, hey Mikey, yeah uh, um...” completely at a loss for words. I just walked away.
He texted me about an hour after and apologized. Said he just wanted some time alone. Which I get. But he texted ME asking ME to go in the first place. The odds of us seeing each other on this random river in the woods was slim to none. I’ll never let him live it down.
joshp123000 · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was in elementary school and had a friend who lived up the street. We both loved to play with legos. We would bring bins of all the sets we had to play together. I was always very particulate in making sure I had all my Minifigures and sets before I left, as I played with them alone a lot as well. One day after he went home I noticed one of Minifigures was missing. Some shark guy with a trident. I couldn't find him anywhere. So I called him and asked if he had and he said no. The next day I go over his house and he has the same minifigure. When I ask for it back he says he got it off eBay. I then tell my mom. It takes weeks for him to finally admit that he stole it and didn't get off ebay. Needless to say, It felt pretty good to get that Minifigure back.
SergeantStapler · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Best friend in high school was a fun guy but completely full of shit to the point of absurdity. One day he said he got a job at a pizza place, and went on to pretend that he had to go to work or, if we were gonna go do stuff, he'd sometimes "call in sick" so we could chill. Stopped by the shop one time and asked them how he was doing and all they gave me was a blank stare. Apparently he'd been straight up lying about this job and had kept it up to save face. Instead of calling him out, I kept him going for a while year before finally letting him have it with the truth.
greatergod · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wasn't satisfying as I was the one caught lying. I was a kid and would lie to get noticed within the friend group. I was a bit of a show off. Once we were talking about if anyone's seen a cricket game in the ground. I said that I had. Then one guy who had actually been there asked " really what stand were you in? North or south". Naturally I had to be smart. "I was in the west stand. Had a great view too. Away from the sun." then he said "wankhede doesn't have a west stand." I had no words. Ramnath if you are reading this, Good on you to call me out. I learned a lesson that day.
JELLOvsPUDDIN · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not a great story. Had a real slacker employee who never helped out, barely did what was expected of him, constantly complained. Just an all around shitty person/employee. He said he wasn't available on weekends due to having a second part-time job. I believed him for a while, but after thinking about his general work ethic I started to wonder how someone with such pisspoor work ethic worked everyday during the week split between 2 jobs. Found out from another employee where he supposedly worked at on weekends. Reached out to that business via Facebook inquiring about his schedule in order to help me with my scheduling. Owner responded by saying no one worked there by that name. I felt dumb. Then i confronted the employee about it and was immediately satisfied by his look of dumbfoundedness. Total win
Wiseguy1878 · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This entire thread is so satisfying
caulder_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Probably too late for this thread, but I suspected my brother was stealing my money since I would lose it every now and then with no explanation, and I didn't put in much effort securing it. I placed a $5 bill flat on my dresser in plain view, but I secretly marked it and took pictures. Sure enough, the next day my money was gone. I never thought I'd get so excited over having my money stolen but I was so prepared for this.
I got my parents to sit in the coach and wait like this was the new episode of Intervention. I hollered at my brother to come downstairs with his wallet and the poor kid came running.
I gave him a chance to say what he did, he didn't, so I put him on blast and showed my parents the pictures. Needless to say, I got my money back. In hindsight it was an asshole brother move but something needed to be done because we found out he had also been stealing from Walmart and my mother, so it was a win I guess
Disera · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work retail and one of my managers is really annoying. I realize a lot of people slack off while working, but I'm not one of them. I might half ass some things, but I'm always trying to get everything done. Occasionally, this manager will wheel some freight out to me and be like "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't know you already had some. I should have asked," Literally every time. This has happened, like, at least six times by this point. So, I quickly developed the theory that she thinks I don't do anything all day and brings stuff out to me on purpose.
Well, the other day I actually didn't have any freight at that moment. So, she wheels her cart over to me and says "Oh, I thought you already had some," And in my head I'm freaking out, like "I fucking knew it. You bitch," It was both irritating and validating at the same time.
Klaudiapotter · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We had someone new about to start a position after the previous employee retired, and my boss let someone else give our new employee her job description. It was really his job to explain it to her, but he didn't know enough about it to do so. He gave her the materials she needed, but didn't tell her anything.
The lady who he let explain didn't know enough either, so when I contacted the new employee and mentioned what she'd be doing, she promptly freaked out. She'd been given a comically poor job description, and felt like it was above her level of experience, so she quit.
I confronted the lady who did it, and she immediately denied any wrongdoing and blamed my boss, who was too clueless to pull off a stunt like that. She knew I was onto her and she wouldn't look me in the eye.
daintily_cured · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What a sabotaging bitch!
lens_cleaner · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My gf's son was 5 and we caught him grabbing some extra candy from the pantry. When we confronted him about it he went ballistic in his defense. At least he didn't complain when sent to his room with no dinner.
onetimerone · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The service manager told me I was a liar for saying my truck was skipping after the CV joint replacement. He stated the vehicle had to have been driven in that way and that I was trying to screw him into making a second repair free. His mechanic found that he had neglected to reconnect the MAF (mass air flow) sensor after putting the airbox back in post repair. Fuck you service manager, you accusing douche-bag, piece of shit, I hope you enjoyed the second poop hole I tore for you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was working a beach service job. They started a city policy that anything left on the beach overnight would get thrown away by cleanup crews. We had to get a permit for everything of ours that would stay out overnight on the beach which was a hassle. I got harassed for doing my job all summer by "beach patrol" (AKA not cops). "Do you have permits for these, are you gonna set these up behind the high water mark, are you coming back tonight, random BS, etc."
One day two beach patrol guys drive by and I immediately tell them we have permits and I am right next to/behind the high water marker. Ever annoyed that their go tos for messin with me were off the table they proceed to tell me I can't use a metal shove on the beach because it can be considered a weapon. I laugh and tell them I've never heard of that and I continue digging my holes. One of them says "what if someone had an AR on the...?" "LOL don't even make that comparison dude." "We're just letting you know for your sake, we don't want the cops (who never just go down to a random beach home and do a beach inspection because they're cops and have much more serious things to do in the summer in a tourist trap) to get on to you for this, but we can get them involved if you want." I tell them "that's bull" (refrained from cussing) and that they can come arrest me then if it's a serious issue but I'm not letting you tell me I can't do my job. They storm off and say they're calling the cops. These are two late 20s early 30s men btw.
Tell my boss who was on my case the whole weekend (both for things I messed up and didn't). He's 6'5" and ripped like nobody's business and is well known in the area. He and another friend come to help me finish my set up and the patrol cruises on back by us without stopping this time. Boss says "is that them?" "Yup." He chases them down and talks with them for a good little bit. Comes back and says, "they said we are fine to keep doing what we are doing (basically admitting they were trying to give me a hard time for no reason), but I don't ever want you cursing at them again man." "What did they tell you because the closest I came to that was saying bull without the shit?" "They said you were cussing up a storm loud enough for everyone to hear and that you were being really rude and disrespectful to everyone." "LOL didn't happen, but are you saying 2 grown ass men just tattled on me because their fee fees were hurt because I didn't bow down to their all mighty beach authority?"
So they lied about not being able to have shovels on the beach, about me cursing at them and blowing up at them. Boss scared them and they change their story. Weak AF, sorry if this was anti-climatic, made me mad just remembering this.
elixan · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend through high school and college kept telling me how she was thinking of joining the swim team at our university. She said that she had been on our high school’s swim team and that the coach at our uni contacted her asking her to try out. I had never seen her swim before, but didn’t care enough to call her out on this lie.
So the week before classes start, freshman get to go early and attend events and check out the campus and stuff. She has me tag along with her to check out the swimming pools. She’s recounting going swimming with a known swimmer at our HS and the meets and stuff and I’m just keeping quiet. She talks more about how this coach at our uni is practically begging her to join the team at this point.
My mom calls later on the week to see how things are going and I casually mention the whole swim team thing and how I don’t really believe her and my mom’s just kinda like “huh”.
Like a week later, my mom calls back and says she ran into my friend’s mom at the grocery store. She told her congratulations about the whole swim team thing. Her mom asks my mom what she’s talking about, so my mom relays what I had told her. Her mom proceeds to go, “why does she do this.......”
I never brought it up, but she stopped talking about the swim team shortly after classes started. We had been friends for six or seven years at that point, yet it’s the memory that sticks with me the most whenever I wonder how she’s doing.
cardinals1996 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I took my car in for routine service and the mechanic gave me a laundry list of things I needed to fix. As he's going down the list, he gets to the battery - "yeah, you're gonna need a new battery because the terminals are corroded". However, I had just bought a new battery less than a month ago at that point and I told him as much. He began to back track and stumble over his words.
thatdarnchelsey · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This guy my best friend was dating was a total bullshitter. I think he just wanted attention, would pretend he didn’t know any pop culture references were.
“Whose Beyonce?” “What’s Star Wars?”
Every time I would say, “You’ve never heard of Star Wars?” He would say he was from Minnesota. So Minnesota doesn’t HAVE STAR WARS???? Idfk man, drove me NUTS.
SaltyBigBoi · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend was telling a story about how his dad woke him up by making strange noises snd sticking his fingers around the door, I made the joke that I would’ve slammed the door on his fingers later that day we were dismissed from school, I heard him telling the story behind me to a different kid and he integrated my joke into his story and told the kid that he slammed the door on his dads fingers and got in trouble. Then he got real quiet because I think he saw me directly in front of him. I didn’t say anything and just let it go.
sporlakles · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had one this friend that lied about nearly everything. We where around 10 years old and his parents made big birthday party for him. Everyone got him some nice gifts.
I stayed there till very end because I lived far away so my parent's friend that was also there would take me after he packed all cool stuff he brought for kids to play.
It's getting dark and all other kids are gone, I help with packing things to car and I hear birthday boy crying in home that he got Nintendo Wii game. Funny enough he was bragging about having that console in school for quite long time.
Byrdsthawrd · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In college I lived with a kid that was a pathological liar. I never much associated with him aside from when we had house parties and just generally chilling in the living room.
Over the summer, we both got summer jobs, and his was a door to door salesman for some internet company. Every day when he came home he would boast and brag about how many sales he’s been getting and how much money he’s been making. He even said that he would charm people into getting the bonus packages.
While this dude was a huge bullshitter, he would also talk someone’s ear off, so part of me thought he might’ve got some sales, but maybe he’s exaggerating his success.
One day we were out at a bar, and he offered to pick up the next round. He walked up to the bar, and I followed him because we had a large crew, and if he bought all those drinks there is no way he could’ve got them back to our table.
He asked me why I followed him and I tell him literally verbatim what I said above, and he immediately looked like he saw a ghost. I asked him if he was ok and he nodded, ordered drinks, and handed the bartender his card.
5 minutes later, the bartender comes back with his card and tells him it’s been declined for insufficient funds.
At that point I looked at him, and just shook my head.
It definitely solidified my opinion of him being a liar.
A few years later, he texted another friend asking to stay at his house for a weekend, to which my friend said no. His story was that he was coming for an interview, but it turns out he had to go to court for beating up his girlfriend. That’s when my opinion solidified into him being a lying sack of shit.
flanderdalton · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some really annoying elderly guy I worked with at a dollarama told me he saw Joy Division play with Metallica in Toronto back in 2010.
Yeaaaaaah
pmince87 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I always felt as if kids in my school would make random stories up to seem impressive or cool, so 8 year old me devised a genius plan to make up some random type of bread and ask the kids in my class if they've ever tried. I don't remember what the bread was called but it was something stupid like Flashami Bread(which doesn't exist). I was going around asking people if they've had it and this one little girl I asked nods her head yes. I call her out for being a liar and tell her the bread doesn't exist. She goes "Yes it does. It is SOOOO good..."
jlelvidge · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We were a ladies darts team and every year, we all would go away to watch the World Championships. One of the girls offered to organise accommodation as she knew personally the owner of the hotel that we planned to stay at. She worked out cost etc for us all and we all began to pay weekly in the run up. Strangely, every time we asked what rooms etc were booked, she was always pretty vague etc. However, every time we asked, she said she had spoken to the owner and everything was sorted. One of the girls was a treasurer and enquired about deposits etc but again she was vague. It was left to me to ring and ask the hotel in question. Not only had she not booked the rooms but he had no idea who she was! He was fully booked too.
macing13 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school, one of my maths teachers really didn't like me. She also had the habit of setting five hours worth of homework in for the next day, which was usually impossible to do because of other subject's work and commitments to other none school activities. As she didn't like me, she usually ignored anyone who hadn't done the work unless they were me.
At a parents' evening with my other maths teacher, she had decided to join unannounced, and spent the whole time making snide comments about me never doing work when the other teacher was trying to talk to my mum. Eventually my mum got rather annoyed, and ranted to her about how I didn't do all the work because she set stupid amount for the next day.
My maths teacher insisted that she'd never set work for the next day, and I must have been lying to my mum about it, and if I had only had one day it was probably because it was already a week late. My mum shut up then, but was obviously annoyed but had no proof that she was lying. I decided to keep my nose out of it and started scrolling though my phone.
Fortunately, my maths teacher always puts homework on google classroom (so we have no excuse not to have done it). Just as my maths teacher decided to snap at me for being on my phone, I was able to hold up and example of homework she had set, which she had titled, "Homework, yes this is in for TOMORROW!"
She sat silently through the rest of the parents evening, and I'm fairly sure the other teacher reported her to the head of the year (it's against school policy to set homework for the next day, especially if it's more than two hours of work). After that she had to give us at least two days to do homework that would take more than two hours, and she kept the snideness about me in lessons.
nms1111 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was 21 (10 years ago) and very naive, I dated a guy for about 4 months that lied to me about having colon cancer. He told me it was too hard for his family to talk about, and not to bring it up around them. He would pretend he was at chemo, when in fact, he was at home playing video games. He would talk about wanting to kill himself. Eventually, I dumped him, and when he would try to talk to me about how sick or suicidal he was, I'd just Facebook message his sister and tell her to deal with him. He actually gave up and moved on. Cray!
HobbitFoot · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When they sent me photos to fix a problem that showed they didn't do what I told them to.
phage10 · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was a PhD student sharing a house with other (mostly PhD) students. One woman moved in and the house suddenly got dirtier. And small stuff, like laundry detergent started to go missing. I went to a conference plus holiday to New York for a couple of weeks. When I returned, by box of laundry detergent tablets was much emptier than I remembered. I trusted the other two women in the house with my life.
So I count how many I had after doing some post-trip washing. On Friday of that week, I return from the post-work pub outing and found her in the kitchen. I thought I'd check how many I had left while she was here. I looked on the box at a couple were missing, I ask her. Her response: a panicked and worried, oh no, nono didn't use any. And they are bio tablets and I can only use non-bio laundry detergent anyway.
I look all over the box and find the label saying "bio" on it and like, wow, "you know this stuff better than I do" and left it at that. A couple weeks later at the pub we see some people from the lab she works in. They are all fed up of how messy she is around the lab, like we are with her at home. They tell is she was "bragging" to them about how she was stealing our detergent and no one was noticing. We never said anything, it didn't seem worth it, it was just nice to know for certain that we were right and she was guilty and trying to gaslight us. I was so happy when she moved out (after 2 years).
Blueta · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh yes. My roommate was a pathological liar and my iPhones chargers kept going missing. I put a piece of scotch tape around the part that plugged into the wall and of course she claimed it was DEFINITELY hers. So I said oh yeah I guess, I mean, I put a piece of scotch tape on mine... oh waaaait here’s the tape GOTCHABYOTCH!! Still feels good.
subneutrino · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a student who was so focused when copying his friends work that he signed it with his friend's name. It was a LOT of work as he only does anything just before report cards, when he copies anything he can get his hands on and turns it in.
It was glorious when I pointed it out to him. He lost his shit, but could only be angry with himself.
Tesco5799 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend while I was in school who lived a very dramatic life, we worked in the same place and went to the same school but she had dealt with some serious shit. After we were good friends for ~6 months it became apparent that she had very separate groups of friends, and would tell us that she didn't want the groups interacting with each other for 'drama' related reasons. After being friends with her for a few years she couldn't really keep the groups completely separate, and me and my immediate friends met her other friends and family members.
This friend had very intense things happen to her and apparently had for her whole life. It was the kind of stuff that you don't question when someone tells you about it, just tell them how sorry you are that that happened. The first thing was cancer, she had apparently had cancer when she was a teen but beat it, and was technically in remission when we met, but on her last checkup before being declared cancer free, it came back. Everyone we worked with was floored that she would come to work even after having radiation treatments earlier the same day. Luckily our manager was willing to make all kinds of adjustments for her, but my friend never took advantage of much accommodation, other than taking a day off here or there. One time she had taken a few days in a row and it came pretty close to meeting the requirements to go on short term disability, but friend was adamant that she wasn't going to do that. She also swore all of her work friends to secrecy on the matter, she didn't want anyone to know about the cancer, so no one was to post about it on Facebook etc, and she especially didn't want her family to know (who lived out of town) because she didn't want to worry them. Needless to say all of our mutual friends were relieved when the treatments were successful.
Another ongoing situation with this friend was to do with this guy lets call him Lance Vance. Now I can't remember all of the specifics of the stories about this guy, but he was no good. He had allegedly stolen money from a local fraternity, sexually assaulted her friend, and also 'raped' my friend (her description not mine) all of this well before we met. She knew Lance because he was actually the brother of one of her other friends Roger, and because of that she didn't want anyone to mention anything about Lance publicly on Facebook etc. Because Lance and Roger had their own drama/ rocky relationship, and my friend didn't want to make it even worse. She would tell us about occasionally seeing Lance at the club, or that he was in town for court proceedings or similar stories over the years without any of us (other friends) actually meeting or seeing 'Lance.'
Then about a month before my friend moved to another city she calls me very upset, and tells me that Lance just forced his way into her apartment had sex with her (ie assaulted/ raped her) and left. I told her in no uncertain terms to call the cops, she refused citing her usual reasons for not calling the cops on this guy, and we had a bit of a fight about it.
Fast forward a few years, and one of my best friends lives down the street from drama friend in the new city, and she's living with her friend Roger now, so they all become pretty close. One night my other friend is drinking alone with Roger, and decided he needs to ask about Lance. He asks something like "what is the deal with your brother Lance, and your roommate." Roger has no idea what my friend is talking about, he doesn't even have a brother. My friend then tells Roger a summary of all the stories we've heard about Lance, how he rapes women, deals drugs, steals money, etc. and none of it was true, and Roger hadn't heard any of those stories. Then the two of them started talking and called into question a lot of the things our mutual friend had told us over the years, but couldn't prove definitively that there were other lies on the scale of 'Lance.' No one confronted her about the cancer situation, but over the years I've heard stories from cancer survivors about how bad their radiation treatments were, and how it impacted their lives. They are all astonished when I mention my friend who worked an partied through it in her early 20's. Haven't talked to anyone involved for quite a few years, but I never looked at my one friend the same way after I found out about the lie.
capcom4dabarrelkilla · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Suspected ex girlfriend was cheating on me. Thank god for Snapchat location lol
trevreklaw · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We used to hang out with this dude in high school. I dont know why honestly but he was a compulsive liar. He played soccer with one of my best friends. Now we had a group of like 10 girls and 10 guys and every weekend we would hang out and he started to hang out with us. So the compulsive liar started to date one of the girls and told her that he was in the same grade as all us. He wasn't, he was a grade below us. All the guys knew this. Maybe the girls did, I dont know. When it came to graduation, he made up this whole elaborate bullcrap story how he couldnt come to our graduation to see her because he was graduating too. She fell for it. They kept dating a year after college and she thought he was going to college but in reality, he was a senior. So the amount bullcrap that dude had to make up to keep his lie going is unimaginable throughout that whole year. She found out eventually and of course broke up with him. I dont remember how she found out though. Now the question is that should we have told her? Maybe, but im not going to get involved into their drama or even start any. Wasn't my problem. Like you cant be that gullible!
harrynelson · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school, my mom opened an email from my sister's music teacher. After some confusing looks and remarks my mom calls my sister in the room and ask her "who died?"
My sister had told her teacher that a distant cousin had died so that she wouldn't have to perform at a Saturday show. She's a bad liar so my teacher sent condolences to my mom to confirm the story. My sister ended up having to go to the show and confront the teacher dead cousin-less.
miserablecauliflower · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not so satisfying, but I did catch a guy who outright lied to me. I met this guy at a friend’s birthday party. He’s really cool, and we make good conversation so I start talking to him about some goals of mine. I mention that I’ve become interested in x,y,z because my grandmother had breast cancer. The guy chimes in and says, “I totally get it. My mom has breast cancer too.”
Flash forward 30 minutes and a beer later, we’re sitting at an IHOP talking about family. He mentions that his mom had a stroke and her whole left side was paralyzed. Obviously confused, I asked him if his mom ever had breast cancer and he says no. So I asked him why he lied to me, to which he replied, “I just wanted to be relatable, it’s not every day you meet a cute girl.” ...Oooookaay.
That was the first red flag I shouldn’t have overlooked. After getting to know him, I’m almost sure he’s either an alcoholic or a compulsive liar. Plus, lying about your mom having cancer is insane imho.
I don’t know how I meet these guys.
CohenIsFucked · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had an employee call in sick, told me his Grandma had died.
I found this odd, as over the last 2 years he has been employed with me specifically the last 2 months 3 of his Grandmas had passed.
So I asked him "Man thats so bad" (buttered him up) then I said "So 2 years ago...how many Grandmas did you have? Did you have like great, great, great grandmas? Or?" he said "No, this is my 2nd grandma to pass" "So you've always had 2 grandmas" he goes "Yup, and she was my last one :("
I then said "So according to our files your 1st grandma passed away on XYZ, and then your 2nd Grandma passed on XYZ and then your 3rd Grandpa passed on XYZ, so I guess my question is how did you gain a grandma in the last few months?"
"Um"
"Go to the funeral, and when you decide to show up to work next time you can pick up your last check and collect your personal things"
This dude is so thick he goes "So I can take today off?" I said "not only can you take today off, you can take as many days off as you want"
I legit didn't see that guy for 4 months, he finally got his last check and we fired him.
tubatim817 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My old college roommate tried to say I didn't pay rent. I was living with him and his girlfriend, but since the office was strict on how many people could be in the apartment, she was paying him under the table, so it looked like he was paying 2/3rds of rent while I only paid 1/3. We got a notice saying that rent was overdue one, and that we owed 2/3rds of rent. My roommate got mad at me and that they paid on time and that it wasn't their fault. Then he said he talked to the leasing office, who said it was me who missed it. Now I always pay rent a few days early just to be sure, and I had the notice to back me up. So I just pulled out the notice, showed him the amount they was owed, and he immediately shut up.
brokenwolf · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The time my co worker claimed he had sex with Johnny cash’s cousin.
ElMagus · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
On my bed.
Atom249 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone stole my Pokémon cards and I told him to empty his pockets and it was pretty satisfying. Geez what a throwback.
TheShawnP · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me but a friend who owns several car dealerships. He's a bit of known figure in the community and also has large extended family. One day a guy walked into one of his dealerships inquiring about a car to him. This isn't something he typically deals with personally but was checking something else on the showroom floor. The guy then says " friends name said that he's giving me some ridiculous discount," all the while unknowingly speaking to the person he's name dropping. My friend said, "He'd look into it." All said and done, he ended up dinging the for 5k on the sale of the car.
Rhaifa · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister accused me of stealing the mentos from the cupboard while having them in her pockets. I ratted her out so fast.
MarcoPolpo · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's some comedy sitcom lying right there!
thelittlevixxen · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a boyfriend when I was 14 that somehow always managed to make up the most ridiculous lies. We were both freshman in high school and when the time came around to saying how old we were, he for some reason said he was 16. I thought nothing of it and chalked it up to him just failing grades. Eventually I invited him to meet my family and he told them that he was 16. A month before my 15th birthday his mom picks him up from my house and my mom mentions that she’s planning something for my birthday next month. His mom says oh yeah of course he can go, wow I didn’t know Vixen was older than my son! My mom and I both exchange weird glances since this guy had basically lied for months about his age. My mom mentions that he had said he was 16 so he was older than me. His mom says oh no! He’s 14 right now, his birthday isn’t even until 8 months from now. Queue the blood draining from this guys face until he has the audacity to start arguing with his own mother about HOW OLD HE WAS. They kept going back and forth with him saying no mom, I’m 16 remember. He didn’t cut his shit out until his mother yelled at him and said she knows how old he is because of his birth certificate.
DangOlTiddies · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:12 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a friend in high school who supposedly had a blood test for bipolar disorder.
Elfkrunch · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My coworker said “This one time I accidentally drank a whole glass of vodka by mistake. I thought it was water until my mouth got all numb.” I was dumbfounded by his utter failure.
soggylemonslices · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was married to a total ass of a guy. He constantly gaslighted me and did other shitty things. So one weekend, one of our friends invited us all over to her place. She and my hubs had some weird history, but I felt ok going because there was a big group going.
I was at work when we got the invite. My husband told me there was another couple that was already there, so he went ahead and went over to her place. I contacted another one of my friends to figure out when she would be there. That's when I found out that the other couple wasn't actually there. So, it was just my husband and the other woman.
I called the husband of the couple that was "supposedly there". Turns out, he already told my husband that they wouldn't be there for a few hours. So I called my husband back and was like "are you suuuure [other couple] is there?" He said "yes of course!" I asked "Can I talk to [wife]?" but my husband was like "well, actually, she's still on her way. But [husband] is here, I promise." I asked "ok, can I talk to him?" but my husband said he was in the bathroom. I said I would wait. He became uncomfortable. After like ten minutes of awkward silence, I was like, "he's not there, is he?" and my husband finally admitted it. I had never questioned something from him so adamantly and he didn't know how to react. He started sobbing and apologizing like crazy. I felt so validated.
It was such a shitty thing to be right about but I finally caught him in a lie that he couldn't back himself out of. It sucks that I stayed in that relationship for so long after that, but I'm out now and happier than I've ever beem.
Xexbxrxaxhx · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My last high school was a weird charter school where we only went two days a week and turned in our packets of work at the end of the unit. “Independent study” type of shit. We were all assigned a main teacher who corrected all our work. Kind of a shit setup, honestly, because if you got assigned to a math teacher, like me, not only would they be grading math, they’d also grade your science, history, and English work too. Well, it got to the end of the semester and I was planning on transferring to a normal public school for second semester. My assigned teacher, or “facilitator” called me over to the side and told me I was about to fail every class. Now, my grades weren’t the best, but I had checked my grades online earlier that day, and they were all Bs and Cs, not anything that would put me in extreme danger of failing. I asked her what I needed to turn in to raise my grades, just kind of playing along. She told me I had only turned in work for 2 out of 5 units. I had turned in my work for unit two late, but that was the only thing I could think of as everything else was turned in on time. I asked about it, and she told me that she’d just give me a passing grade if I turned in one days worth of work for all the subjects I was taking. We talked for a bit longer and I brought that up again. She continued to insist I hadn’t turned anything in. Towards the end of our meeting, my dad came in to talk to her about some other problems we were having. She told him I hadn’t turned anything in. When I was about to leave, she said “I don’t want you to have to do double work so I’ll just grade what you turned in already” and pulled all my apparently ungraded work out of her desk. That’s not the only time we caught her lying either, she said I was sneaking off campus at lunch when my parents had signed a permission slip giving me off campus privileges, told my parents I had joined the school’s GSA, outing me to them, called me “hostile and guarded” because I usually had my headphones in and didn’t have friends, and told my dad that my English teacher had been reading all my essays when the English teacher had confirmed earlier that day that she hadn’t read any of my work and actually didn’t even know my name. Anyway, parents finally believed me and let me leave the school but the teacher didn’t get fired for some reason.
horillagormone · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Student of mine missed a test because he was absent for some reason. I had marked and returned everyone's tests initially thinking that I was too lazy to write another test for him and he wasn't too clever to assume it would be the same test. Two students come to me to let me know that he studied from the tests I had given back.
So I thought ok, since the test was only MCQs I can still do something about it. So I keep the lengths of the questions the same (they were scenarios that were a paragraph long) so he wouldn't notice any difference but only make very slight changes by adding a "not" so the answer would get changed. I did that to most of the questions but not all.
Come make up test time, this kid comes in all confident that he will ace the test (he's actually a very weak and lazy student). When I marked the test, I saw that he had selected the correct answers based on the original test, meaning he got at least half of them wrong. He asked me for later how he did and I told him he got a 50% score. He was shocked and thought I was kidding. I showed him the test and asked him why he picked those answers cuz they don't make any sense.
The look on his face, not sure why he got those wrong and how he couldn't tell me why he picked those answers was priceless. I know I am mean but this was a year 11 student.
Donosaur420 · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was like 8 I “lost” my copy of Pokémon mystery dungeon blue. Later that day I was playing at my grandma’s house with my cousin who was the same age, and he showed me this new game he had just gotten, which believe it or not was the same one. I asked him to start it up and I remember him doing it with a worried look on his face, and when I saw the save file name I just took it back then and there.
macaronbaker87 · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Start with the back story on this. I work at a customer support center. The company I work for did a technology upgrade in late October, now this caused some uproar with our customers, because most of them had to set up new passwords and it was a whole new process for logging into our website. We had a huge volume of calls from the upgrade till the end of the year, so much so that we had secondary rollover support for our phones. There are only about 12 of us on the phones on a normal basis. Cut to last week, a customer called upset for several reasons, but in the complaints were that she had bee calling "lots" of time and never managed to access her account. She then said that she had called 3 previous times that morning, waited on hold for "more than 10 minutes" each time and never gotten to speak to someone. I have full access to the call logs and the records, in fact I keep an eye on the call volume to make sure hold times aren't too long. At this point in the morning, our average hold time was 28 seconds, and out longest was 2 minutes and 58 seconds. So I know this lady is lying through her teeth. I take the complaint down and file it with our official form to take care of the other things she is asking for, but I make sure to include that there is no way she had called 3 times and held for more than 10 minutes each time. Out of curiosity, I pull the individual call numbers for that day to see when she had called. It turns out she had called once right at 10 AM (which is when some of our people are still getting in, so we were a little short on the phones). She had held for a total of 1 minute and 37 seconds before giving up. I then also got interested if she had, in fact, called multiple times in the past 8 months to get help. I already had all of the call history since the conversion, buy searching for every phone number we had on file, including the number she had called from that day. I found one entry. ONE. This person had called once, about a week after our upgrade, and never bothered to try again.
TL;DR - angry customer complains that she calls all the time and can never get logged into the system, in fact had called a total of 3 times in 8 months, and had given up after a minute and a half of waiting.
Liitke · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have the ever common coworker who repeats everyone's stories. Used at least three of mine but I think the most satisfying experience must be;
I was fresh out of highschool and my boyfriend was acting very differently. His whole personality changed and was becoming increasingly more disrespectful and impatient with me. I had a feeling he was cheating so I called him out on it. He had me nearly convinced I was just being insecure and "crazy". I thought maybe I was indeed thinking about things too much or my hormones were making me perceive things incorrectly. Well one day I drove to his house early in the morning as I often did and would wake him up and hang out all day. I got there and no... No other girl or anything like that... But the idiot left hand written paper notes out in his bathroom from the girl he was cheating with. I just put them next to his face on his bed and left.
The best part is she was underage 12 he was 20... Her mother caught them and now he is a registered sex offender. Lol
JustPeKu · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I realized I had been lying to myself for a long time and after that everything became clearer.
mvsr990 · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was dating a recently divorced woman who started getting pretty squirrelly, lying for no reason. She thought of herself as a writer and had talked about trying to write erotica for a quick buck.
On a hunch, I googled her pet name for me and a couple of dirty talk phrases she used a lot. Up comes her anonymous blog about sex with me... and a lot of other dudes. Good points: I felt very flattered about the posts involving me and she could write some quality smut. Bad points: specific details made it very clear no condoms were used in the production of this smut.
I got her to come over, told her I was breaking up with her, she started yelling at me for accusing her of cheating... so I pulled up her blog. Complete change of personality, just a “you got me!” smirk.
I got tested, came out clean. She got into some extreme BDSM last I heard and never did (AFAIK) go into writing erotica professionally.
Turtle4184 · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A few years ago and about 2 months into having moved into an apartment with my then girlfriend, she tells me that she is going out to dinner with her dad and stepmom one evening. I think its kinda odd that I wasn't invited since they always invited me to various events and it was typically a given that I would attend. Anyway I brush it off and figure I'll just have a chill night on my own and watch some hockey. No big deal.
To preface this, I had caught her being unfaithful with an old high school friend of hers about 3 months earlier, but stupidly wanted to forgive her and "make things work". Anyway, I hop on Facebook for a few minutes and at the top of my feed is a post from her stepmom showing them on a beach in Florida for a happy hour. I decide to keep quiet about it, but eventually notice she never gets ready or leaves for the dinner. She ends up taking a nap and blames it on not feeling well.
I confront her a couple hours later and it turns into a big argument. She said that she was actually going to do to dinner with a female classmate that I knew, but the classmate had to cancel. My girlfriend didn't want to tell me her actual plans because apparently her mom had thought I would become jealous of my girlfriend spending time with the classmate. Again pretty sure that was just more bullshit lies as I had no issues with her classmate and had known her for quite some time already. For the next month or so, I basically ignored my girlfriend's presence entirely when she was home because I was unsure of anything that came out of her mouth. It was petty as hell, but pretty funny to see how easily it got under her skin. She moved out pretty quickly because I was "being an asshole" and made her uncomfortable.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Just yesterday my son comes out of his room and says his sister stole an egg. He had egg running down his shirt, and it was freshly cracked on his dresser running down his dresser, literally not enough time for her to have done it as she was in her own room at the time, he knew that I knew that he was lying. (These two often try to get eachother in trouble like this)
BleachOrder · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine lied about that he has Rainbow Six Siege. Yes, this is dumb and I don't know why he did that. Someday another friend and me decided to ask him to play with us until he tells the truth, because we knew he lied to us very early, and when he did told us the truth we just wanted to finish him off and were really upset.
MikeOxbigg · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sometimes people have a pair of stone lions on their doorstep. My friend's mom had a nice looking set so we decided to steal one. They weigh about 150lbs each so it was a hassle, but we got it done with a few extra hands. We didn't tell our friend that it was us who had taken his mom's stone lion, and he ended up getting grounded for a while.
Cut to two weeks later, me and a few friends (the same ones who stole the statue) are hotboxing a car and this random kid hanging out with us decides to brag about how he'd stolen the stone lion. It had been a topic of conversation in the neighborhood at that point. I shot back and said, "No dude, we stole that fucking lion."
We had both forgotten that the kid we stole the lion from was sitting right between us because we were so stoned. He was a little mad but more amused that I was dumb enough to admit it in front of him and we all gave the other kid shit for trying to take credit.
startana · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An old co-worker who was known to be a pathological liar (and a huge douchebag) claimed to have a FICO score of 890. This was especially satisfying because it was trivially easy to point out how he was clearly lying. Typically, the crap he claimed was obviously complete horseshit (my grandparents are secretly rich but live in a trailer for tax purposes kind of shit), but hard to conclusively prove to be false.
drnick5 · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Years ago, I was leasing a Brand Honda Accord. (I know, I know... I've learned my lesson) I had done all my research, knew all the formulas, and could calculate the lease by hand on a piece of paper. I knew exactly what my payment should be. From using forums, I knew exactly what the "money factor" (interest rate for a lease) should be based on my good credit of about 760 at the time.
As I'm sitting at the salesmens desk, he gives me an application to fill out, and goes away (I'm guessing to talk to the sales manager). He comes back, and hands me a sheet of paper, showing my car payment, which is much higher than I had calculated myself. I look at the sheet and find the money factor is much higher than expected (something like .00240, or about 5.7% interest) when I had expected to qualify for their lowest, which was something like .00162 (about 3.8% interest).
I looked at the sheet of paper, and said "wow, the money factor is .00240?"
The dealer replied "Yeah, its really low huh?"
I said "Uhh..No, that is crazy high!"
I then asked him "How can you quote me an interest rate, when I'm still filling out the credit application??" and waived the application in the air.
The salesmen got flustered, and said "uhh, let me go talk to my manager". 10 minutes later he came back "well, they didn't want to give it to you, but we fought for you, and got you a lower rate". I looked at the paper, and it was exactly what I expected it to be.
I'm guessing he saw a young kid, and just assumed I had no idea about buying cars, or how a lease works and figured he could get one by me. I can only imagine how many other people they've screwed over with this same tactic. Fuck car salesmen!
On the plus side, I haven't had to go through this again, as 12 years later, I still own the car (bought it off the lease) and plan to ride it into the ground.
Higs4nrg · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend told me he was going on a date with a girl that was in our math class later the same day.
That night I was at a party with another group of friends I saw the girl with another guy there.
The next time I saw my friend I asked hin how the date went that night knowing it didn't happen, and he lights up and says "It was awesome I got a blowjob!"
I didn't even call him out because I felt bad he got ditched. He's the kind of guy who needs people to think he's great with women, but it's not really the case.
lovatt · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a prison officer I would be here all day.
Hostile_Unicorn · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh my god I love this
There was this girl named Kimmy who was a perpetual liar to find ways to flirt with people. My roommate ended up hooking up with her, and she now hates his guts.
So I was at a party in college and was chatting with these two guys, Diego and Tommy about the new Zelda game that was coming out.
Right after my conversation ended with them, I walked inside to a drunk girl named Kimmy saying that, "Diego is fucking someone in his room and my keys are in there. Can I crash at your place?"
I then opened the door and said, "I found Diego."
She was trying to come to my place to cuss out my best friend and roommate.
Later on in the night, she lied about it AGAIN and then I told her to stay inside while I talked to Daniel outside and then we just left. Love the story, hate the interactions.
checker280 · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There’s a Union Strategy called I Lie, You Swear. It usually works like this. Boss: how come the work wasn’t done yet. Partner: there was an accident down the block. The Fire Department made us move. Then we lost access. Boss: is this true? Me: I swear to god. Depending on the circumstance, how familiar the bosses are with what we actually do and how long it could take, or if the boss knows we are lying and is just hoping to catch us in a lie, stories can get very elaborate and very amusing.
ProfMcGonaGirl · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I once went on an online date with a guy that lied about everything to the point it was a mental illness. He said he was the president of Victoria Secret, lies about his age, said he played football for my rival college (he was only 4’ 11”), and said he was Jewish which I had mentioned in my profile was important to me. The only thing he seemed to tell the truth about was what high school he went to. Which happened to be the same high school my cousin went to. So after that crazy date, I went to my cousins house and we looked through his freshman yearbook since this guy was supposedly older than us. Wasn’t in there. Then we looked in his senior year book. Turns out he was a freshman when we were seniors so he was 6 years younger than he said. He even had a different last name, an Irish sounding one instead of the Jewish last name he had given me. I simply texted him a photo of his freshman yearbook picture with his real name visible. It was pretty wonderful closure.
Kiloniner7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Freshman year of high school this kid who was a serial lier told me he bought a rc airplane from my dad. I asked him which one and he replied with "a 747". My dad only sold 3 models and none of them were even close to a 747. I decided to go with it just to see what he what he would come up with. He made us the most absurd story about him flying it under water and the cops showing up. After that day I would make up a bullshit story everytime I saw him just to see how he could insert himself into my story. Apparently he chopped off his brothers arm while dueling with chainmail armor.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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smellexisb · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Which band was on the shirt? I think this is an integral part of this skillfully woven tale.
godiebiel · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never, fuckers never admit to lying ... always "you remember it wrong" to "I never said that" ...
gnarcotics1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my last job, my training group was a group of 15 or so people, about 6 of us in the group got rather close during the whole training, and kept in touch even though we were all in different departments. One of the girls in this mini group (We'll call her Mary) was a real cutie, she would model clothes for some local businesses on the side. She was a really polite, laid-back, friendly person. There were two particular people who kind of kept themselves attached to her during training. I'll call them Steve and Tim.
Steve was about 10 years older than her, and if i'm being completely honest, they were more platonic/brother, sister type of thing, they just had a lot in common, he even went along with the jokes about all the time they spent together and didn't really care much. Tim on the other hand was something else, I wouldn't say he was a sleazeball, but would always seem to be inserting himself into conversations or try to appear as the alpha whenever she was within earshot.
So one day, we are on the floor each sitting with our mini trainers watching what they did to learn the system and me, Steve, Mary and one of the other newbies are chatting in between calls. The conversation skirts towards how some people follow Mary around like puppy dogs. Mary's a smart gal and she's noticed it as well and she whispers something like "Tim's kinda weird isn't he?" and we kinda acknowledge he's been toeing the line of innocent and awkward. I guess Tim overheard it and got pissed off because he just kept his distance from us.
Come to find out, Tim went to HR complaining that Mary was talking crap on him and trying to slander him or something like that. Mary finds out through the grapevine about this and starts freaking out, she likes working here and doesn't want to start any drama that never really should have started. We smooth things over and eventually things die down.
5 months later and we're all in the thick of it at our work. Mary, Tim and I are all in the same department, but Tim has the late shift while Mary and I have an earlier shift. One day I'm in my manager's office having my quarterly review, and Tim comes in asking how to file a complaint, because Mary was slandering him again. My manager asked what happened, and he said that she went to his supervisor earlier that day, and was talking crap about him and random stuff. Now, like I said, Mary and I have the early shift, I get in at 6am and Mary gets in at 7. I knew for a fact that Mary was sitting at her desk the whole time because her cubicle is right next to mine, unless this happened within the last 15 minutes, Tim was spewing BS.
My manager asked when it all happened, and he said around the time he got in, which was a good 2 or so hours ago, so I knew he was making it up. I quietly interject saying something like "I don't want to get in the middle of this, but I know for a fact that Mary was at her desk the whole day." Tim said that she must have done it on her break and I told him that Mary had been at her desk during her break and I knew because her break was scheduled after my break and I always tell her when I'm off break so she can go on hers and she just stayed at her desk and watched Netflix.
Tim started backpedaling saying that it was actually yesterday, my manager then went for what I guess you could call the dagger when she said that she could have his supervisor come in and get the story from her. At which point Tim said he decided he didn't want to file the complaint because it would be too much work.
Bobbicorn · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
(Sisters in shower, need to talk to her)
bang on door Me: Hey I need to talk to you
Sister: What?
M: I NEED TO TALK TO YOU
S: WHAT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU?
M: Yes you can
S: No I ca- I mean WHAT?
hamaad_khan · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was a senior prefect in high school - each senior had to manage their own team and was given school events to help out at / organise. There's no real of knowing the truth but one of my prefects told me she can't come cos she got stung by a wasp in the foot.... She hardly used to come to help out anyways but this was a lie too far
Babpy · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a girlfriend once that had to move out of town, I didn't want to do a long distance relationship but she wanted to try. We were younger and broke so it was difficult to visit regularly, because of that we decided to video chat with each other every day using a website called ylive! The thing about ylive was that they had both private chat rooms and public chats that one person would host. eventually we started going into the public chats and talking with different people. There was this one guy Chad (real name, fuck Chad) whose chatroom was always popular so we ended up going in there pretty often.
So this goes on for a while and one day my girlfriend calls me and tells me that some friends she has out in the new city are having a beach party and they were staying at a beach house over the weekend, I say "okay have fun" and didn't think much of it because I'm a fairly trusting person. Well that weekend I'm bored and decide to go on ylive and see what is going on and I see that Chad has a private chat room which seems odd, but whatever. I go into a different chat and a guy private messages me and says "hey man, you need to go check out Chad's chatroom". I try to join his room but he denies it, so I decide to make up a fake screen name that sounds female, his dumb ass decides to let me into the chat, and wouldn't you know it, there is my girlfriend in his room. Not his chat room, his physical room, with her arms around him while they are looking at the computer, kissing his neck. I call her, she picks up and I ask what she's doing, she says "about to go swimming in the ocean!" I reply with "have fun with Chad you stupid bitch." And hang up, being able to see her face was priceless as she put her phone down and ran to the computer to turn off the chat.
TLDR; Caught my girlfriend cheating on my on webcam.
Lufbery17 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Asked to work more hours during the next contract year and was told by my boss we didn't have the money and never would/did. I then said the budget for each of the past 5yrs said otherwise. I got yelled at severely for calling him a liar to his face, but had a 45% raise when I came back the next week. Was the first person apparently in the 6yrs of that guy being around to successfully negotiate a raise.
Moral of the story: Dont lie about the budget when the budget is public record.
mimidaler · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"did you write on the wall" "no" "do you know who wrote your name on the wall" "the cat"
viodox0259 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a casino. Majority of my time is spent dealing poker . its cfl season. This bitch calls in sick , and on every single tv in the poker room , there she is in the crowed. Moral of the story , dont paint your hair pink .
drsameagle · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked for one of three companies that shared a common right-of-way. One of the companies had a consultant who proposed a modification to the right-of-way to accommodate a testing structure. The terms of the common ROW agreement meant we all had to agree to the modification. The consultant sent me a message saying that he wanted my approval, that both other parties had agreed to it already, and it was the most optimum location.
The modification would have been a huge pain for us and I couldn't see why either of the other companies wanted it that way. I asked for a meeting on the topic with the other three companies. We met and the consultant made his pitch and that we should all agree now so he could get started with the contracts.
Nobody said anything, until the one company said that he was okay since the other two of us were. I said I hadn't approved it, and in fact it was going to be a pain for us. Then the first company (whom the consultant worked for) said they didn't like the location either, but the consultant had said that it was the only place we others had agreed to.
Consultant was lying to all of us and he was caught. Prime company fired the consultant a few days later, and the test structure was built on their private ROW before it joined ours.
ExtraterrestrialLees · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sister is a compulsive liar. But a couple months back she told me she was driving around with some friends and they got pulled over. Supposedly from what she said was that cop searched the car and found an ounce of marijuana. She boasted to me about how she ratted her friend out and that she got arrested. That next week she was posting pictured with said friend on facebook.
Umami-Me-Nami · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Suspected an (ex) gf was cheating on me with a co-worker. She assured me nothing was going on. She failed to pick me up one night, so on a whim, I called said co-worker house and asked to speak to her. Guess who got on the phone. Her shit was packed the next day.
Edit: I ended up walking home.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at Dominos and sometimes I'll get a call from a customer saying this/that is wrong with their order so naturally I have to investigate it to see what I can do.
When someone phones up we can see in store comments the staff might make about a customer - it's usually to say they are owed This or that amount.
This one customer phones in and starts complaining that they supposedly had a hair in their pizza - immediately I know this is sketch because we have to wear hair nets but as soon as I pull up the customer's info it's filled with comments like "she's a lying bitch always asking for free stuff".
Turns out she says it every-single time she gets an order.
kesaluner · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex casino croupier seen lots of bull but thus ones my favourite.
Tl;Dr I speak Thai and called someone out who claimed to speak it.
Sent onto a roulette table, large group of people having a nice drink up will whilst gambling. Listening in whilst dealing the game ( Got to get involved to make some tips) about this ladies amazing travels around Asia. She bangs on about how she loved to get involved with locals and how she loved their languages and cultures. Asked her myself did she go Thailand ? She replies yeah and goes on about how it's amazing and she is going back soon. I told her " that's amazing can you speak it?" Her mates all pipe up "Yeah she speaks it REALLY well!!" "Oh wow that's cool I could have taught you some but maybe you can teach me?" I asked. Now the whole table is intrigued and focus on us whilst I continue taking bets and dealing. I said, (in Thai) to her "how spicy do you like your food?" She calmly sneers at me and responds "That's not Thai your speaking". I'm initially dumbstruck ( I have been at this point with a Thai gf for three years and she is heavily pregnant with our daughter and in my house with my stepson) whole table looks at me like I'm the stupid one!! Taken aback I ask her in Thai " do you speak Thai?" She just sneers more and shrugs to her mates and then I change tactics ignoring their chuckles. I ask her to teach me how to say "how are you?". She says makes some bullshit Thai like phonetics that are completely incoherent rabble. I look her dead in the eyes and said "That's not right" it's..... All the table has gone frosty now.. annoyed at me ... as their precious mate is in the right with the exception of one guy at the back eyes wide grinning at me for more.
Ah hah! Perfect timing ! Mr dao makes his way over to me to say hi ( local Thai restaurant owner). I wasn't supposed to speak to much other languages whilst dealing ( security risk) but it's going to be worth it. I go full fucking Thai town on him doing my wai chatting for a good two minutes glancing over at this ignorant girls increasing horror and her "freinds" sniggering increasingly exacerbating me. Then I tell mr Dao she can speak Thai also..( in Thai)!!! He turns to her but she has made a move to the loo ( she must have read my signs). This one guy out of her group grins at me says "told you all she was full of shit" necks his pint and disappears also. Next forty minutes was dead silence with the occasional "sorry" from her group and didn't see her again that night!! Bloke later gave me a tip for " making his night and calling that stupid twat out"
thekingofpie · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
my friend said his dad drove a r34 gtr and I showed him a picture of an rx7 on my phone and asked if it looked like that and he said the google image of a mazda rx7 was his dads exact r34. lol
Winiestflea · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had this one Spanish teacher throughout all of middle school, I hated her with a passion. She was always smug about everything and acted as if she was the smartest person in the whole world, kept bragging about her qualifications.
I switched to another school after middle school, that year it was discovered that her college diploma was fake.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I spent twelve years in the RAF and most of those were working to support the Nimrod aircraft at RAF Kinloss in Scotland.
September 2006 and a Nimrod with a full crew is lost over Afghanistan. Saw the faces in the papers and a few were familiar. A few weeks after it went down I had got back from my offshore trip, I work on the rigs, and I am in the pub and there is a holidaymaker making out that he was an ex Nimrod pilot and he knew some of the guys etc etc. I asked him when he was at RAF Kinloss as I used to be based there. He is very vague and my Walter Mitty radar starts pinging. I ask him some questions any Nimrod pilot would know and its clear he is lying. Any Nimrod aircrew guy would know what D609 and D807 meant, what the max fuel load was and what Honkers Stew contained etc etc. He tries to lie his way out of it but gets so flustered that he admits he made it up. Turns out he was a trainee pilot in the RAF in his youth but flunked out of training.
He was invited to leave and informed the only reason I hadn't already punched him was because I would not have been able to stop. An ex Royal Marine behind him felt otherwise and physically ejected him from the bar.
I don't understand grief whores who do this, its utterly sick.
sweflo · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a cousin thary to this day (we're in our early 40s now) will brag and make up things he says he has done, but especially skills he have. When we were pre-teen he was going on about how he was pretty much a Judo prodigy, and how he was sooo good at badminton. I was really fed up about all this bragging, which I was fairly sure always were lies. This particular time I had a great opportunity to nail him at least one of his brags, I had the past few months gotten into badminton and was very familiar with all the lingo. So I asked him "Badminton, huh? You any good?" Oh yeah, he was competing left and right. I was like "Me too!" (He started to sweat a bit). Then I went in to invent all kinds of made up badminton rules and terms, and he just kept agreeing with me that he knew all about that. After a half hour or so of this I looked him in the eye and called him out on it. He just melted away a bit... I then asked his sister about his Martial Arts skills and she was a bit confused first, then she told me he had gone to check out the training ONCE but he was too intimidated to actually try it. And to this day he STILL keeps this shit up, but most everyone in the family takes it all with a grain of salt and roll our eyes at him. Except his mom, and in her eyes be is like the most awesome guy in the universe, and I guess that is how ours suppose to be. :-) He is married now with kids, and it's amazing how extraordinary his kids are at everything. According to him, that is... ;-)
sgee_123 · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked as a District Attorney and was doing traffic court. Pretty much where people come in with their traffic tickets and we try to offer them deals so they don't clog up courtrooms with speeding tickets. One lady had come in and had 4 tickets and there was an accident where she was at fault (per the police report). Swore it wasn't her and that it was a mistake. Previous co-worker bought it, but told her to come back so we could get the reports and body cam. When she came back I pulled her file, she still swore that it wasn't her, but this time her story was more in depth. Pulled up the body came, and guess who's the driver? The person sitting right in front of me.
I was pissed she thought she was going to get away with it, so I didn't show her the video, told her we believed it was her and would be moving forward on that basis, and set her for a trial. On the issue of identification. Not smart.
thechaddster · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My soon to be ex wife snorting vicodin.
paulmallcopblaurt · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my friend suspected that somebody was talking behind his back, so when he was in a party on ps4 with him, he said he’s getting food and muted his mic and listened. After a few minutes, the ex-friend started to talk behind his back. He then unmuted his mic and called him out on it.
iamtherarariot · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had housemates who I got along with well, but they were quite bad for nicking stuff. I had a pair of brand new, relatively expensive earphones. I left them on the coffee table under my workbooks when I’d gone to stay at my girlfriends, I knew exactly where I’d put them. Upon returning the following day, I pulled out my book and instead were a pair of cheap shitty headphones. Only my housemates had actually been in the house. I confront them; they’re like, oh no! I haven’t seen them! I leave the room to get a drink. I come back the earphones have been hastily stuffed in my backpack. That was quite satisfying.
mellowcoffee · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:14 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Quality manager at a manufacturing plant asked me to do something not part of my work instructions to try and fix a product. I knew what the problem was (the part was out of spec but she accepted the parts as being ok). She was adamant her fix would work. I did it on one but not the other. Told her A was one that I did it to and B was one I hadn’t. I had in fact not done anything to A and had done what she asked to B. She claimed A was so much better then B. She did not like when I told her it was actually the other way around and if she had done her job right at the beginning she wouldn’t look as dumb as she does right now. She quit two weeks later.
Metal___Barbie · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I didn't get to do the catching, but satisfying nonetheless. SO had a friend that I never really got on with & caused a lot of arguments (typical 'bro' type, with zero respect for my existence). I always felt it was a really strange friendship & that this kid was not a 'true' friend.
One morning SO gets a call from his bank's fraud department - "Sir, have you taken 3 Uber rides this morning?" "No... I haven't used Uber in ages." The girl just goes "Uh oh" and starts rattling off charges from Uber and UberEats. It totaled to around $800 over the last couple months. (SO is historically awful about bleeding money & not checking his transactions, so he just thought he was spending a lot). She asks if he's given his card to anyone ever and it dawns on him that he had let the friend borrow it to call an Uber.
He asks the friend who maintains that he hasn't used it, but I get the impression he knew the jig was up. SO finally says "Hey man, check your Uber account, maybe you just forgot to switch cards." Lo and behold, there's his card number.
Of course, more lies about that he didn't realize it. Then he started lying about paying it back. "When I get paid on Friday." "I'm coming over tonight with $100". "I'll bring $200 to work tomorrow". Etc. To this day, he's paid back $50 of it.
I was immensely satisfied that this kid had finally done something that proved how sketchy he was, without a doubt, and that I'd likely be rid of him. SO was satisfied a little bit, as we recently had had a conversation about his poor money management and he'd been consciously trying to do better - he WAS doing better, he was just being stolen from. OTOH, it was really sad to watch him come to terms with his friend's true colors.
Bullnettles · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not quite the same as catching them in the lie, but worth sharing the story.
In college, my cousin comes down from his school for a drunken weekend. We go out with a few friends and acquintenances to a frat party that was trying to rush my new buddy and I. Well, cousin's peacoat comes up missing after a drunken night, and he's sure of where he'd left it. I ask the acquintenances (fellow rushees) and they say they hadn't seen the coat. Fast forward a few weeks and we get a knock on the door. "Taylor stole your cousin"s jacket. It's in his closet." Feeling pissed, but suspicious, I ask my buddy to come with me to their room. Taylor and other dude (Ryan?) start fighting like hell and one stabbed the other with something (want to say scissors, but I don't think that's right) at some point. I don't remember, I'll ask my buddy tonight. Did get the jacket while they fought and avoided the hell out of them from then on.
pathasahat · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
. . Mmmmmmmmmmm . .
X.x..
Portland
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odiebro · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a lazy fucker work for me awhile back- I pulled out some prep tables to sweep under them and found a mess- including a to-go order slip dated for the night before.
I ask this lazy fuck if he swept under the prep tables last night because I knew he closed:
"Oh yeah, totally bro"
"So why did I find a slip from last night under their on a pile of food debris?"
"Oops."
idnyy · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My close friend isnt a bad person, but tends to lie a lot but it's almost like a condition in a way. But anyway, my parents both work for the state, and specifically my mother works for child support services or in that area. My friend, a few years back, was talking to my parents during a visit and claimed how he got a starting job as a manager for a department in the state.
Well my mother hardly ever believes him, so she asked "where?" Since he mentioned the state and she could look it up easily, he said "xxx" department I dont recall, but basically it was the department that managed her job or somthing like next department over; so essenchaly she knew he was lying instantly. My mother started to smugly pressure him on some questions and his answers were kinda shaky at best and ended the convo quickly by trying to talk to me and my pets as a semi distraction and then quickly left. My parents cracked up so hard and knew he was BSing from the start once he said "manager" but the fact that he happend to name the one they worked at as a connecting department so she knew, just, made it icing on the cake.
Bonus lie with same guy:
Used to "rent" from us and stay in our house for over 2 years in college, claiming his father would pay rent even tho we didnt require it, but wanted some help around the house as we were both Eagle Scouts. TL;DR eventually the father "paid rent" since he stayed longer than expected, giving us maybe 3 months of rent which gave us roughly a few hundred to make up for the 2+ years he stayed. Since he was with us for so long and then leaving shortly after claiming they paid rent and helped around the house every month...which once again was a blatant lie we as a family could all see.
TL;DR: Good friend, but him and his father tend to lie a lot. Unsure as to why, but it's always funny.
BelmoTheGamer · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Later when someone is here is finally caught for making up shit on /r/askreddit threads for virtual internet points.
duhderivative · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girl at my high school lied about getting into UCLA and UC Berkeley before the acceptances were even out. She didn’t apply early and she stuck with her story despite the mistake.
FucktheLannisters · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I’m a hair dresser now but when I was still assisting my boss hired another assistant. She was moving up fast and I was a little jealous being as I had worked there longer. She was always bragging about being allowed to do haircuts and blowouts knowing that all I wanted was to do hair. She told my boss she had her temporary license and was going for her full license but she kept failing the test. One day she was talking about how she’s been doing hair for two years now without a full license just her temp. I’m not sure about other states but in new York a temporary cosmetology license is good for 6 months and can only be renewed once after that for another 6 months. I told my good friend who is a stylist that I think she was lying about having her temp because if she has been working for two years it’s been expired for a whole year. If you do hair without a license it’s illegal. If she were to get caught my salon would face a huge fine. I never told the boss until she got fired for something else but it gave me peace of mind that she was only getting by by lying.
crumbycanadianpoutin · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TL;DR: In an attempt at one-upmanship, an acquaintance invented a V8 Hemi go-kart which needed to be triple clutched to shift. Immediately got defensive once he realized he was figured out. Haven't talked to him since.
My friend brought over his friend to hang out with us back in like the 8th grade, my first time meeting the friend I had him figured out. We got on the topic of go-karts because my grandfather built us grandkids one to cruise around on (it went maybe 20 km/hr nothing crazy). But anyhow my grandfather was a truck driver and I spent lots of time around trucks, my grandfather and his trucker buddies, and knew all of the jargon.
Here's the lie, the friend starts telling me about how his cousins had coincidentally also built a go-kart over the winter and had mounted a V8 Hemi engine to it (in my mind it was plausible if it were more of a dune buggy type thing) but what gave him away was when I asked him about what they did for a transmission, since my grandfathers go-kart only had 1 gear, there was just the clutch pedal and only 1 speed. Well he starts explaining how this transmission was custom built, so strong that they had to "triple clutch" to shift.
Well as many of you have already figured this out, this kid was a total bullshitter, as I began to explain to him what double clutching was i could see it in his face, he immediately became defensive saying that I didn't know what I was talking about and that him and my friend shouldn't hang out with me because I'm too confrontational and was trying to make him look like an idiot on purpose etc. Like he seriously went off on at least 10 different excuses as to why I created this scenario to make him look bad... Yea I never seen him since that day, my buddy still hangs around with him to this day (has it been 16 years?).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a (not so great) friend who ended up getting spun out, so I started parting ways with her slowly.
She started with small lies and I didn’t mind much, but one day I SAW her nab a pair of handcuffs from my room. They were just decorative but I called her out right then and she said “I don’t know what you’re talking about” so I let it go.
I went to hang out at her place and left my hat on her couch and came back one minute later to get it. Favorite hat, wore it ALWAYS and everyone knew it.
She said “it’s not here” and I insisted like, “dude, it was literally just here on your couch”. “Ummm nope I don’t think so, maybe check your bag or something” ( her acting all sweet). Since I couldn’t get her to confess I left, pissed off inside.
For days after I kept calling and asking about it and she said “nope, not here”. I went to hang a couple weeks later and went to use her bathroom. There it was! Sitting on the floor of her closet door, just barely visible. I said “dude!! You’ve had my hat! I knew it!” She played dumb and tried to make it seem like I was crazy.
Messed up thing, when I went to help her do yard work (for free) at her moms house, I told her I took a roll of TP for my place cuz her mom had a zillion and I was completely broke. (I pictured it as fair trade for the work and was outright honest about it).
She yelled at me when we got in her car saying “you stole from my mom?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!”
Don’t trust friends who do blow.
Edit: oh that wasn’t satisfying at all, I guess I just needed to vent to someone about that.
ShrekInAPotato · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Politically involved. Be warned. Had a recent discussion with a friend about gun control, and he doesn't keep up with current events too often. He said that there weren't any mass shootings in Texas and I easily proved him wrong.
JumboDaddyRein · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend in my first couple of years of high school who me and some of my other friends realised was a pathological liar. He would lie about anything for no reason at all. One time he was telling us that he worked for IGN (because IGN totally hires people with 0 experience who live in New Zealand) and that they had sent him a review copy of Batman: Arkham Knight. We usually didn't call him out on his lying, just ignored it, but one of my other friends called him out and he begun to get so angry and flustered. He obviously knew he was lying and it was hilarious to watch him try and save himself.
Blankman06 · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend worked as a cashier and was checking out a veteran who was eligible for a military discount. Another employee passing by overheard the transaction and asked what war he was in. He said it was the Vietnam war. The coworker launched into a detailed account of his uncle's experience in the war that was word for word the speech the boat captain gave in Jaws, including the sharks picking off the soldiers stranded in the water, just short of "their eyes were black, like dolls' eyes." The veteran did not indicate that he recognized it as obviously fictitious but my girlfriend almost lost her shit listening to such an obvious lie.
NomadicRobots · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
She was always talking about her neighbor that she had a crush on and always would visit. One day when I was at her house I said that I wanted to meet him. She said I couldn’t because no one else knew about him and she didn’t want people seeing us walk to his house or something. From then on anytime we were outside at dark she would point to a random person and tell me that was him. So finally I decide to google him turns out she was pretending to be friends with a famous actor who lived in the other side of the world. I confronted her about it and she just stared at me then walked away.
ForTheCulturee · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When GTAV first came out a friend of mine at school the weekend after told me and my friend group about beating it over the weekend. But then I pulled up the progress bar on my stats menu and seen friends progress alongside mine and it had shown he was in the same spot as me. I have no idea why he lied about beating the game but I caught him
his_rotundity_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My best friend has a serious issue with lying. I don't know what it is. He's done it since we were way young and now into adulthood. When we were in our early 20s, we shared a pretty wide network of mutual friends. I've maintained that network of mutual friends over time, but he has summarily ruined those friendships as a result of his lying.
A few years ago, he went through an especially bad lying spat that I can't explain. He would lie about simple to serious stuff. In terms of simple, "I can't hang out tonight, I'm going to a concert." I drive by his house on my way home from work because I live down the street and sure as shit, his lights are on, his car is there. Next day, "The concert was incredible, man. You should've come."
A more complex ruse was him telling everyone he had finally enrolled in school and was almost done. His mom even mentioning to me how proud she was. I, however, was really skeptical. Why wouldn't I be? He worked odd hours and often worked overtime, so I couldn't figure out how he was managing both schedules while I worked part-time and could barely manage that while finishing my undergrad.
Incidentally, the school he chose to say he was finishing his degree at was also one I worked at. I frequently needed to, as part of my job, look through student records. Well, one day when I was especially frustrated with him lying about literally everything, I decided to look him up in our student database (full disclosure, I don't know if this was a FERPA violation). I wanted so badly for this relatively large lie to be true, it would show me he wasn't a complete compulsive liar, maybe just a storyteller from time to time.
I searched his name and DOB. Nothing. So I search just name. Plenty with his name but none with his DOB. I tried other permutations using his middle initial or even +/- 1 day off the DOB, first initial full last, etc. Nothing.
What this means is he never even submitted an application to the school, let alone enrolled in any classes. In either case, we'd have his information. The next week, I asked how his classes were going. Conveniently, he had dropped out because he had received a "promotion" at work. Sure, buddy.
A couple years later, in an instance of him thinking my memory was short, he created another lie that confounded the promotion lie. He had never received a promotion, the one that caused him to drop out of a school he never so much as applied at. We don't talk much anymore because of this.
As time went on, I began to value his place and contributions to my life less and less. Advice and comfort from friends is only as good as its source, especially if that advice or comfort is grounded in experience. But with a compulsive liar like this, you can never truly know where from or why they're offering the advice they do. When he and I talk now, it's usually very one-sided with him subtly explaining how I need to get my life together, learn this, learn that. Trouble is, I have a master's degree, am a career professional, and my shit is together. He and his girlfriend are living rent free with his parents. He's been unemployed for almost a year, not seriously looking for anything either. His current lie is that he's pursuing some professional certification but it's been a year and at last check, he still hasn't even began.
I think the lying behavior is actually beginning to catch up to him.
DemonikAriez · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never anymore, my boss makes up a new lie by the minute.
meruhd · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:36 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I worked retail, there was a customer who would purposely come in when we were about to close, grab a bunch of stuff that were the same brand as a coupon she had, and then would claim every item was marked cheaper on the shelf and would demand the coupon be honored for the wrong item. Usually the cashiers would make the price changes just to gtfo for the night, but she came through my lane and I worked past closing anyway. I called a price check on every single item (some 20 items), and checked her out 30 minutes past closing. Every single price challenge was a lie, almost every coupon was for a different item or couldnt be doubled, and it was so satisfying to watch her frustration that I didn't just cave.
She didn't buy the majority of the items, and she stopped coming into our store after that. This kind of thing is super common in retail, but this woman took our store for a lot of money over the course of a few months.
theloren · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:43 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Friend announces she brought us a bottle of some alcohol from Germany. I asked her why the bottled had a sticker only found on items comercially imported and then resold locally in retail stores. This sticker is not used for incoming personal imports at airports. She did not recover well from it. Oops.
lovelydovey · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is going to get totally buried, but here we go. One of my friends in high school was a pathological liar. One particular lie that she made up was that she had a long lost brother who was in a British band she liked. She actually made it sound plausible. We both went to their concert when they came through town and waited after the show to meet him. She doesn't want to say anything, but pressured her to go talk to him. He has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. It was kind of cringey. Even after that she still maintained that they now talk all the time and have a real connection now. Yet she could never introduce any of her friends because he was in a different time zone and it was always inconvenient. We drifted apart after that because the lies just kept getting bigger and I couldn't play along anymore.
cmdwedge · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Once had to do a road trip for work with my own vehicle, Canberra to Sydney, then about 5 trips between a hotel and training centre, then back to Canberra.
As it was my own vehicle, rather than claiming petrol etc, I could just claim a standard rate per kilometre. So I wrote down how many KMs I did, put in the claim, and the boss came down like a ton of bricks, telling me that I was lying and he 'knows how far it should have been' and came up with some figure literally less than 100km than I had written down - maybe a $60 difference in the claim.
I was sure that I'd been meticulous with writing down all of my KMs, so I had a brainwave and logged into Google Maps, and punched in each and every destination one by one. My calculation was exactly what Google Maps estimated.
Printed it out, took it to his office and left it on his desk. Payment went through and it was never discussed again.
softandteeth · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My childhood best friend catfished me when I was 14. She said "I know this boy who youd totally like" and gave me his number (one of those texting apps that gives you a new number). She was texting me as this person for a few days before I realized that this person had all of my friend's texting mannerisms (like always using "cuz" not because, "...." to end every sentence, and other things). I finally figured it out when I asked if we could meet up and he/she made up a bunch of excuses.
After that, I said "you know you text exactly like Friend does. Pretty weird huh?" And never got another reply.
WERECOW711 · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When we were younger my friends and I just went to our first comic con. All of us had to leave early that left one friend being there alone with his dad.
At a Boy Scouts meeting we were talking about it and my friend that stayed after told a story that went like this “oh dude when this guys left I was walking the floor and there was this little boy crying and a Wonder Woman and flash cosplayer helped him find his dad”
Halfway through that story I realized that he ripped this story straight from a post that I saw on iFunny (leave me alone I was like 12) and once he was done I said “that’s crazy dude cause that sounds just like this post I reposted on iFunny” and he got red as a fire truck. I still bring it up and rag him on it
mainfingertopwise · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I confronted my (ex) wife about cheating. We married too fast and too young, and then I took off for Iraq, and that's always a great combination. The first lie was that she faked a rape report to cover for a potential pregnancy. She didn't expect that the Marines or my friends at home would take it do seriously. That like broke down pretty quickly, but, she seemed interested in staying married, and so was I, so I never confronted her.
Years later, she I discovered her cheating again. I was done. I started getting confirmation and information. Then, when I was ready, I, came home from work one night and told her about:
me knowing about her affair
me having read her emails and texts
having called her dad and told him that she was lying about not being able to go on their annual father/daughter vacation, which is the only time he gets to see her. (She told me she was going, but was actually going away with the dude.)
asked for a divorce
It was a pretty liberating feeling.
And it's still satisfying. She got married again less than a year later (not even to the dude she was cheating with.) Her mom didn't even go to the wedding. That was cool. They're now divorced, and that's cool. And now, she's with (not sure if they're married) a dude ~20 years older than her, who's a total weeb and a neckbeard. That's cool, too.
It's petty as fuck, but it makes me feel less shitty about wasting my life since the divorce.
bigDIEter · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Dwight Howard getting caught by Stan van gundy during a pre game media session is one of my favorite moments.
sastill89 · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work in tech support and a conversation that started with “it’s not been in any water or anything” almost invariably ended up with me finding water...
turtleneckdisaster · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol
SyDnEy284 · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahh yes! Something I can contribute to! When I was 15 and a freshie in high school, I started dating a sophomore. He was my “first love”. Anyways, the douchebag after a month started becoming mentally and sexually abusive. The final straw for me was after I had a pregnancy scare, and he told me it was my fault and that he wouldn’t be in my life if I was pregnant. After I found out that I was, in fact, not pregnant, I called him over to my house to break things off. The kid had the nerve to tell me that the day prior he was in a lacrosse accident and broke his rib and it was puncturing his heart and there was no way to fix it. He then proceeded to tell me he only had a year left to live and I can’t break up with him because if I did I would be a monster. Well, I knew it was bullshit so I did it anyways. He even went as far to tweet, “If you only had one year left to live, how would you spend it?” After that I never heard from him again (6 years later) until a few months ago. I saw him at a bar in my town and just laughed to myself. He quickly left the bar after noticing me.
bpkratz · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I was in college I had a buddy who everyone knew was a compulsive liar. He was a good guy otherwise and his lies were harmless, mostly just making stories seem cooler than they were typical college braggart stuff. There was one story he kept telling that drove us all nuts. He would start off by saying his Dad used to be a drug smuggler back in the 80's. He said his dad talked about meeting Pablo Escobar and actually witnessing a man being executed shortly after meeting Pablo. He said his dad had spent some time in jail where he met a Colombian who taught him all about cocaine. Apparently he had been in jail for smuggling weed. Well he goes on to say his dad hired airline pilots to smuggle kilos of cocaine across the border in small prop planes and used flight attendants to do the same on commercial flights. He even said his dad stole away a Colombian bride , but was not killed for it because Pablo had his back. If you have not seen the movie or figured it out the movie Blow with Johnny Depp was basically the story he was telling about his dad. So all of us knew he was full of shit and I had a friend come over to hang out and drink one night. He proceeds to get a little tipsy and starts with the story again. Truly believing that we all took the story seriously. We had to hold back laughter for a good 10 minutes while telling this story to my other friend. New friend says at the end, "Isn't that the movie Blow?" We all lost it and he was mortified. Good times
RobotSkeleton · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ironically, ITT: Liars
SpaceShip_Elevator · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TL;DR, Family story. Dads first girlfriend crashed dads car and used her dads car (same car, different color) to pretend she didn’t crash it
Ok, this is a family story that we tell all the time, my dads first girl friend let’s call he Emma. My dad was 17 and he had just gotten a nice car, have no idea the car all I remember is it was black (that’s important) Emma was going out to go to one of her friends house to pick her up and ran a Red light, completely totaling the car, beyond repair and then replaced my dads car with Emma’s dads car, her dads car was Navy blue and when she brought it home she told my dad that that was a gift and the paint looked better, my dad didn’t have the time to look into the cars color change until like 3 weeks later when the insurance claim came in the mail and that he had to pay for his crashed car.
You can say the relationship ended with a crash. Also my dad returned the blue car and was forced to by a new car.
30yovirginwizard · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My friend told me he was banging the ex girlfriend of a mutual friends for advices. Few months later, I'm back to enjoy my sweet sweet holidays and she's texting me, she wants to meet me because I'm ignoring her in our group chat (a pretty large one most of the people I know and a bunch of others are in).
I thought it was a joke at first but she was adamant about it, we setup a meeting at a restaurant with my friend and we text more after that.
She's finally asking to visit me at home. I decide to let her in and it became obvious that she wanted stuff to happen between us. I get my friend benediction first and we make out.
As good old buddies, we're talking about how hot she is and what she's up to when suddenly, we're getting that she's actually playing the "I'm starting to have feelings for you" card and the "hope you're only mine cause I'm only yours". After some investigation, it appeared that she was banging a lot of folks we knew and she played these cards with me too. Oh boi was it fun to cockblock her when we knew everything ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Sidewayseclipse · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Anytime you catch a sibling
Reggicide · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girl I work with seems to be a compulsive liar. Was out at drinks post-conference. It was myself, her and this other guy. She was boasting about all the languages she's apparently fluent in, like French, German and Russian. I don't speak Russian but I learnt it for a little bit and said the one thing I know how to say confidently which is "vi ponymieta pongliske?" (Apologies for my butchered phonetics) which means "do you speak English?". She just stared at my with a blank face, stuttered a little and continued to keep boasting to the guy about other stuff. I tuned out from there.
lostnspace2 · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
From reading the posts, all I can say is people are lying sacks of shit
DiscountFreedom · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Co Worker told me Hillary didn't delete 30,000 emails. What a sweet day it was when we found out the truth.
Strykernyc · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Didn't happened to me but someone very close. Girlfriend said she was going with her female friends to a restaurant. She forgot to end the call and he heard his girlfriend tell her friend about meeting a guy at a club. He showed up at the club with friends and an engagement ring. He end up changing phone number because the girl wouldn't stop calling him asking to take her back
MkMyBnkAcctGrtAgn · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I left my hydroflask on a table at work when I worked late one night. Came in the next morning a few hours after everyone else. Couldn't find my hydroflask anywhere, was asking around everywhere. After a few hours said f it, I going to check the cameras, and sure enough one of my coworkers chucked it in the trash.
Texted said coworker "Hey are you sure you havn't seen my hydroflask, I'm pretty sure it was on the table I left" they replied "No, havn't seen it today" I replied "well I just watched you throwing a temper tantrum on video and tossing it in the trash." A few minutes later " I'll buy you a new one "
analfartbleacher · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
this one makes me rage. please tell me more
does that asshole still work with you? did they ever buy you a new one. did they have any explanation? gimme more im literally salivating
MkMyBnkAcctGrtAgn · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Lol literally happened last Friday, still waiting. I'll get it though or I'll be petty as fuck until I feel I've gotten my 39.99 back.
analfartbleacher · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
wow haha. i hope justice is served
Poet_Warrior · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In 2000 I worked as an Fueler, fueling airplanes. While in the middle of a standard refuel, with me directly underneath a wing (the fuel tanks are in the wings), the wing flaps suddenly came down. Took me by surprise, but I shrugged it off. Usually when the airplane mechanics need to turn on the wing flaps, they would let me know. Turns out the mechanic didn't do the standard walk-around the airplane (like the pilot does), and didn't check for obstructions. Which is why he didn't tell me the wing flaps were coming down. Wing flaps came down into a small tractor, causing quite a bit of damage, I imagine in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mechanic swore up and down he did his walk-around, and let me know. Until they asked him to describe me, the Fueler. When he couldn't describe me, Management knew he was lying.
Complic8 · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sent coworker with 10$ to get banannas. Came back with 4.99 worth of banannas. Told him i needed receipt. He had to go back to get it kuz he dropped it. Etc etc. Came back and i recorded him telling me he didnt have the extra 5. Then he patted himself down a lot and *discovered the 5. Lol. On video.
spiderqueendemon · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like to put my initials and the date on my oil filters, and on the edges of my car's intake and cabin air filters. It's easy and it gives me an excellent excuse for owning lots of Sharpie markers, even the fancy metallic ones. I also note down every oil change, every filter change and all maintenance generally along with every tank of gas ever in a cheerful little notebook with a glitter cover, because A. yay for sparkly things, and B. if one's going to be treated like an idiot and talked down to anytime one does anything with one's hobby, one might as well have the fun of really rubbing it in.
So far I have caught two dealerships and one quickie-lube place (on account of that killjoy obstetrician banning me from my own car repair for the duration,) trying to claim my car is overdue for maintenance when it is not. The best one was the first dealership, because when the maintenance tech who had been doing recall work attempted the upsell, the salesperson I'd been incidentally chatting to had already been a little startled by how much I knew about the model of car we'd been discussing, plus we had much the same taste in cars, which is always nice.
So when I informed the tech that no, this was not my air filter, because "first of all, this is a [model number] filter and my car takes a [different model number], secondly, I don't use [filter brand], third, it lacks the marking I put onto all my filters, and [Salesperson], would you be a dear and get me your manager, please?" that got to be rather interesting.
Turns out that maintenance tech was deeply hated by the people in sales (serial lunch thief, can you imagine?) and Salesperson was only too delighted to get a manager and corroborate my account of the attempted fraud. I don't buy cars from dealerships generally, but I've sent many a friend to Salesperson specifically, and their new maintenance techs are good people. I know because Salesperson brings me in to gently haze the new ones. He's dating a friend of mine from work and we see one another socially, and the running joke is that if I ever break tradition and buy from a dealership, it'll be when he hires a tech that impresses me. Or if they ever beat my credit union on financing and private-party on price. Someday, perhaps.
modernvintage · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my university’s hearing for my sexual assault case, the guy who did it said that he was “100% sure” I grabbed his arm as he was leaving. When his girlfriend (who he called as a witness) was up for questioning, she said that I hadn’t touched him. I asked her if she was “100% sure” and she said that she was. Because of the way that hearings of this nature work at my university, he was able to hear the question being asked, and hear her response, but was entirely unable to interject once he realized what was happening. The panel knew they were lying and he was ultimately found him guilty, and it was incredibly satisfying to follow up with his girlfriend and let her know that her boyfriend had been 100% sure of the opposite — I’ve never seen someone fumble for words like that.
OhNoPeach · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at a party once, we were around the fire pit, and this guy starts retelling the comedy bit Christopher Titus has about him drunkenly trying to jump over a beach fire and falling in, but he started it as “I was at a beach party one time”. I was the only one who knew it was a comedy bit. I told a friend there and he looked it up to confirm. The guy was too young to have actually been there. I didn’t have the heart to call him out on it.
Correus · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Deployed to Kuwait running convoys into Iraq, had a kid in our platoon lie about nearly everything in his life, he lasted about about two months in that theater before threatening suicide if he had to go on another mission so they flew him stateside. When he was a fort Riley he decided he needed a promotion so he promoted himself from private First Class to corporal and came to the conclusion that he also had earned a combat action badge and an expert infantry badge. Needless to say this was caught almost immediately by the cadre and he was made to write a letter of apology to every service member on post who had earned one of those badges. I found him on Facebook a year or so later and all his pictures are army photos that were taken of different units. I asked him about the photos and he claimed that he got put in an active unit in fort Riley then immediately got deployed to Afghanistan. When i pointed out that I had seen his file when I was doing admin work for our unit he blocked me and I haven’t talked to him since. The very last thing I heard about him was a news report that he had stabbed a marine vet outside of a strip club in Fargo ND. Screw your Brandon you’re he biggest shit bag I’ve ever met!
ariaelizabeth · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
a friend from primary school was certainly a compulsive liar as a child - the main one I remember is her telling people that she had a rabbit that lived in her back garden she lived less than a two minute walk away from me and I’d been to her house multiple times. she 100% did not have a rabbit aha
foreignsoundingname · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My boss told me that I needed to work faster (data entry), and that because I wasn’t getting enough stuff done, she had to come in on weekends and work on the other work-station to catch up (gesturing to the work station that she was allegedly using on weekends).
I knew for a fact that the monitor at that work-station hadn’t been operational for at least two months. I checked it after her admonishment to see if maybe they had fixed it, and lo, it still didn’t work.
howdoulikedemapples · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sorry if this offends anyone but it truly is the most satisfying one for me to date.
Step daughter behaves like her shit dont stink. I've known for a long time that she's a manipulating greedy little cow but until last night it was only my opinion and I wouldn't ask my partner to believe me. We've had a few conversations about her but I dont push it.
Well, last night my SO received a call from a friend asking if he knew his daughter was in the news paper. Unbeknownst to myself or SO, his daughter had used her friends identity to get out of a misdemeanor with police and been caught. She was in the paper for being convicted of identity fraud, lost her license and got a $700 fine.
All while playing that her shit dont stink.
Whilst I feel sorry for my man having to realise his daughters a cunning, manipulating liar, I am glad that it's out in the open.
The worst thing is that she's not sorry for what she did, had the cheek to brag about her friend forgiving her and tried to turn it around onto my partner that he could feel upset at 'your daughter' as she likes to say. I said to message and say that she's been snapped, stop lying and dont try the guilt trip anymore because he doesn't feel guilty.
This bitch is a psychopath. I'm glad his eyes are opening.
ElfScammer · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex-friend of mine, who I knew from the start of high school, was a pathological liar.
Among a variety of maybe-true-probably-not stuff he said, the line we all felt especially suspicious about was that he 'never slept'. He was not an insomniac, nor did he claim to suffer from insomnia, nor was he describing the symptoms of insomnia: he claimed that he never slept, ever, because his brain worked best at night. Of course, most of us knew he was lying, but it's hard to just call someone out on something when he's also surrounded by people who believe him and are prepared to defend what he says.
Then I went to sleep round his house with some other friends on his birthday and we found him asleep on the sofa the following morning. Just one of the many lies he told that he was eventually outed for.
(Also part of the reason why he's an 'ex-friend'. He got annoyed that we kept calling him out on his lies so he stopped talking to us. Still see him around school though.)
lisaandi · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a cook at a restaurant, one of the other Cooks kept saying my rice was flavorless. What I ended up doing making 2 batches of rice over 2 days that were identical. One had tumeric and the other didnt. Of course he said my rice was flavorless until he tried the one with tumeric in it. After that no one trusts his opinion anymore. I say he smoked one too many cigarettes and he can't taste so good anymore.
TangledPellicles · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went into a mechanic at Monro and told him to check the brakes because I thought it was time for the drums to be replaced, and left the car with him. In retrospect maybe that wasn't a wise thing to say up front to an unknown mechanic. He called me later to tell me the drums looked like they'd been replaced in the last 12 months, and I wouldn't need new ones for quite a while. Never figured out how I got new brakes, but that guy's been my mechanic ever since.
HandZongHong · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is a juicy thread
masterflashterbation · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
An ex-girlfriend from a long time ago told me she and some friends and co-workers were going on a little 3 day weekend trip a state over. I worked with one of the girls boyfriends. The trip was legit with multiple people going and plans made.
One night I was talking to this co-worker and he told me they had to cancel the trip. However, my gf at the time didn't tell me this. Later I asked her how the plans were going to see what she'd say as I suspected some fuckery. She said it was still on and was looking forward to it.
I can't recall what instant messenger she used at the time (this was like 12 years ago). She used my secondary desktop computer to game and chat and all that. I decided to set her messaging app to save all conversations to a shared folder that I could later look at as text files from my primary machine.
Turns out that trip was indeed canceled. She basically reserved that time to go meet some dude for an extended weekend while using the previous trip as a ruse. It took me like 2 minutes to find their scandalous back and forth chats talking about how they couldn't wait to spend the weekend together and what they'd like to do to each other.
I printed up a few of the more explicit and damning exchanges and left it on the table before work the next morning. We lived together and I rolled out about 2 months later after finding a good place to live.
solcarbine · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend worked in the mall and wasnt feeling well. Her manager had to come in to cover for her, but clearly didn't want to. So her manager pretended to call her son to see if she "needed to go home" because of a turkey in the oven or something. While she was on the phone it started to ring..she didn't even dial a number
jackhackett80 · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Went to the liquor store and was in line behind a guy with a bandage on his head talking about the stitches he got from accidentally closing the bathroom door while his head was in the way...freak accident. What really happened was the guy was drunk and was lying on his front sidewalk bleeding with a baseball bat in his hands. I know that because I'm the one who found him and called 911 to help him a few days prior.
mwma0307 · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was this girl at my school who pretended she knew everything. She knew about every artist, every new song, all the indie movies, etc. my friends and I knew she was full of BS so we decided to make up a band from Australia called “The Surfboards” ( a boy band similar to One Direction). One day she was sitting with us and we started talking about the Surfboard’s new album and asked if she heard it yet. She replied “yeah! It’s pretty good!” And we just kept the conversation going, but were all satisfied knowing she was a lying piece of shit. Didn’t have the heart to call her out right then and there though.
ckellingc · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I've posted this one before. We had a compulsive liar hired when I worked at a major retail chain. When I say "compulsive liar", I mean "you could ask him how his ice fishing trip was in August, and he'd swear on his life that he caught 20 fish".
So one day, he's chatting it up about how he used to be a millionaire in England (we are in the midwest US), because he was part of a test show that the Osborne's copied (or stole from him as he would put it). So I looked it up online, and shocker, he's full of shit. So I call him out, mainly becuase nobody wants to deal with this kid so they let him lie about every fucking little thing to the point where you can't trust him to do even the simplest of tasks without having to double check it. His eyes get big and he says "well, we pay people thousands of dollars to make sure it doesn't appear on the internet". I told him it'd be impossible to keep every mention of it off the internet, and brought up some BS about how I even checked the dark web, which can't be monitored. His eyes got big, he turned around, and walked away.
So I followed him. "No, you can't just lie about shit like that." He ignored me and kept walking, trying to avoid the situation. I kept following him, I didn't care I was making minimum wage for someone who made literal magnetitudes more than I did. Eventually he told me that maybe he wasn't a millionaire, but he did have money.
A few weeks later he left the job because our AT&T rep had to install a signal booster, because our store was surrounded by hills and we didn't get great reception and he thought the FBI installed it to spy on him. Never saw him again.
TheFireSwamp · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So I wish it was more satisfying but I can't really bring it up as it's a superior and my Dept could retaliate.
But I reported a supervisor who isn't actually a supervisor (essentially is still given the power even though it was removed due to poor management) for outing a protected status of mine.
They apologized after HR said something. Claimed they discovered the accidental disclosure (I do believe it was accidental, but it violates federal law and federal law doesn't protect stupid) and felt so bad they told on themselves and just had to apologise from guilt. My coworkers all know about this status and I've told a few about the lie, so they all know this person is sketchy AF
livinglik3larry · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had one of those yugioh duel disks when i was younger and they would leave these little indents on the back of your cards if you didn’t use cases. a lot of my rare cards started disappearing when my friend came over. so one day i was at his house and found all my cards that had gone missing from my deck. he tried to claim they were all his but he didn’t realize they had the marks on the back and he was also left handed (duel disk only came right handed). so yeah called him out on his bullshit.
bucksnrt1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:16 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex-girlfriend. She would tell her controlling girl-bff EVERYTHING that happened in our relationship and often give bad advice. Even if the advice was fine, I would like to have some things in our relationship between us, which I think is a pretty standard desire.
So one day I decide to bring it up. I ask her to stop telling the friend every detail of our lives. She tries to explain that she doesn't, but then reluctantly agrees. I go to the bathroom and while in there I get a text. It was my ex, texting her bff every detail of the conversation she just had with me, only she sent it to me by mistake. That was fun.
argonautweekend · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never confronted the guy but I did get a 35 dollar bottle of "moonshine" for free.
So a guy i went to school with(acquaintance at best) worked with me for a brief period, and one day he was talking about this moonshine he made which was 90% abv or something, and was apple pie flavored. Okay, neat. Sounded awesome. He offered me a jar for free.
So after work I go over his house to get the jar. Im in his room and he's talking and I see a jar that looked just like mine but with label on it, a brand Ive seen at the liqour stores. Its obvious mine is just a delabled jar and he didnt make it. I had to question it. I said "hey whats this jar?" and he goes "ohh...my friend had some moonshine and puked it up, so thats whats in there." Looked nothing like puke.
So I go home not knowing what to expect. I taste it and am doing shots of it. I planned on getting trashed in high grade moonshine. It tasted so good, just like apple pie, but I was confused as to why I wasnt drunk as hell after a few shots. Turns out it was only 35% abv instead.
So the next day I see him and ask him "hey how strong did you say that stuff was?" and he goes "uhhh, my friend was helping me make it and he screwed up the batch and it didnt come out as strong"
Okay, buddy. Never brought it up again, guy is a known serial liar. But hey, I got a jar of delicious apple pie moonshine for free.
Though it is sad he paid full price for an item them gave it to me for free as a lie claiming it was his own. Oh well.
dagreenman18 · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work at a dealership so kind of on the daily. No that dealership across town did not give you 10k off the car, 2 years of oil changes, and a free pro pack while paying 200 a month on a 40k car.
That’s only a slight exaggeration
PalmzOFire · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Quite a few years ago my friendship group would regularly talk on MSN before going out and hanging around town.
One weekend a friend of mine came online to brag that he'd just lost his virginity to this girl from another school. He starts going into detail about it, I didn't want or need to know about it so I just closed the window and didn't respond for a while.
A year or so later he started dating a girl we were both friends with and popped back up on MSN to tell me he'd just lost his virginity with our mutual friend. He probably forgot he'd told me a complete lie the year before.
RippinDankBonks · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My now ex gf thought it would be a good idea to lie to me about being pregnant "as a prank." I wouldn't have been nearly as mad had she cut it off right there and told me it was a joke. She ended up lying to my face multiple times over the course of 4 hours and giggling with her best friend behind my back. I was pissed so I drove home. As I calmed down I started noticing the plot holes in her story. First off, I wore protection and her excuse was that the condom broke and she stopped taking her BC without telling me. I know this sounds weird but I specifically checked to make sure the condom didn't break so there was plot hole number one. She then berated me for checking the condom so plot hole number 2. Plot hole number 3 was that they couldn't get the pregnancy test to see positive so they drew on it with marker. In hindsight I should have noticed it but I was panicking and not thinking straight. I called her on my way home and told her to take a 2nd pregnancy test in case of a false positive. She lied and said she did without telling me. After calming down and putting the pieces together I called her and gave her an ultimatum. Tell me you were lying or I'm breaking up with you. She stuck to her story and when she lied again I hung up on her. She then proceeded to spam call me both on her and her brother's phone apologizing profusely. I called her up the next day and broke up with her. I'm still great friends with her brother so occasionally I hear stories. Last I heard she committed credit card fraud and her current boyfriend is incredibly disrespectful to her parents and makes her sleep on the floor at his house.
sisterjerry83 · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
At my job there are a lot of people who are close friends outside of work. This can be hard when you are a 24 hour facility and a group of employees all want to go to Puerto Rico together. But we try to accommodate and offer overtime to fill their shifts. One of the guys who took the overtime to help out is friends with the group on the trip. The night he had agreed to work extra he called out, saying he was sick. We couldn't find anyone else to come in so we're short staffed. A few hours after the shift I saw pictures on Facebook...of him in Puerto Rico! I was so angry. He had agreed to an overtime shift weeks ago, when someone else could have had the flexibility to take the shift instead of him, then decides to take the trip and not tell anyone until the last minute. I sent screenshots to my boss. He tried to say that the pictures were not from that day...that they were old. My boss asked him for his flight information to prove it. He then came clean.
LemonAssJuice · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A lady comes into our meat market all the time and tells us about her horses.
They were always winning races. Like always.
Seemed like once a month they’d birth a new colt and she’d raise them, then send them down to Florida to race.
We had no reason to believe she was lying.
Until her mom came in with her and we asked how they did this weekend.
“We haven’t raced horses in 20 years.”
Shock and awe folks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Literally any interview with dr Phil about an abusive parent that say that their kids say that the other parent abuses them, then get caught up in their lies
smashpokie · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One time I’d thrown a little party with a $7 fee for Chinese food. Simple as that, everyone except one person attended, saying he got caught up with his mom. Fair enough, shit happens. Wasn’t going to return the money because I’d made it explicitly clear before hand to everyone that if you paid and couldn’t make it— sorry. Going towards food.
Few days later, I hear him detailing a story about how he fucked an 8th grader (we were sophomores), and smoked meth for the first time. Next day they kept the smashing going, and that he just knew the next day (the Monday following) he’d need to get high to deal with school. Sure enough, he did.
Turned out to be the same weekend that I had my party, and couldn’t go because he was busy stick his dick in someone younger than him, doing hard drugs.
The following week, he follows me home (he did this nearly everyday. He had a thing for me, but I wasn’t interested and had made this known in a kind way.) and asks for the money back. He starts saying all this stuff about his grandpa being sick (he’d had a lung removed because of cancer or something, so this wasn’t too far fetched if he’d used it to begin with) even though he’d originally blamed it on his mom. He’d wanted it for a pipe he wanted off someone, so that was another reason I wouldn’t give it up if I had the money.
I tell him and point out he’d said his mom wouldn’t let him go, and he tries to stick to his story on his grandpa, but also tried to mesh it in his original story. I got kinda frustrated because he wouldn’t leave me alone about it, so I ask him about the situation with the girl, and so on. He clams up and tries to say it was a few weeks before, but he knew I’d caught on, and eventually gave in and tried to demand it. I went inside and locked my door, and it wasn’t brought up again.
Just an extra: few months later, I had a Christmas party he was invited to because I felt bad, said he couldn’t go, turned out to be with his druggie girlfriend. She broke up with him halfway through our party, pleads to come over. My now boyfriend (at the time major crush) just takes my phone, texts him random shit, and leaves it be. Posts pitiful snaps to his story and asks me if I’m mad at him a bunch of times.
He was just an all around kind of shit guy, a couple months ago after a choir concert, he talks to my boyfriend and when I walk over straight up calls me hot in front of him. My boyfriends a kind of chill and underspoken guy, and he knew this. He just awkwardly laughs and says, “Yeah she is.” facepalm
xxkoloblicinxx · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was at my first duty station fixing F-15's for the USAF. I wasn't quite super new but also wasn't quite experienced. I had just been tasked to drive a lift truck (basically a fork lift.) Across the flightline to pick up a part in an area I wasn't familiar with. It was about a mile of taxiway down and back. I took the side routes there the first time and then when I got there and couldn't find the location described I went back on the main route along the taxiway in case my shift lead drove by. I find him still at the building sorting stuff out.
So, let's paint a picture of this guy, he's been in the career field for about 15years, has been in charge of our shift for a few months and has already proven less competent than the average newbie. But he is very good at throwing everyone else under the bus, he'd already been caught disobeying orders regarding how late to keep people working. And despite being quite book smart in our job, seemed to have no real world experience with it. He sucked at his job and as a result made the rest of us work harder, so everyone hated him. I'd gotten into it with him a few times but he outranked me by a lot so it's not like I could do much.
Back to the story. So I ask him where I needed to go and turns out I misunderstood his initial instructions. No big deal, he was on his way out there to meet up with me anyways. On the way there the hubcap of my lift truck falls off. Now, there are people whose job it is to make sure these things work. They sign them out to us every day. We inspect them to cover our asses but things get missed. In the short term I screwed up here by not inspecting the lift well enough. I stop, boss comes back asks what is up. I inform him that the 4 screws holding in the hubcap are MIA. I have no idea when they came loose. They could be anywhere along the taxiway I drove down and back. A huge search area sure, but it's not uncommon for something to go missing and the entire flightline needs to be searched. Anything that could possibly get sucked into a jet engine needs to be found. It is rule #1. Arguably the most sacred rule in aircraft maintenance. As I tell my boss this, Jets begin to taxi. Legally speaking, and I mean it's mandated by law his response should have been to pick up the radio, and inform the powers that be, and they would stop the jets, the flightline would be walked, and then the jets could go. It would be shitty, but it's not the end of the world. His response was instead to say "I'm not going to stop launches for a FO search." (FO being foreign objects.) In front of the entire shift. I said "fine, it's on you."
He kept me tasked all night, I reminded him twice about the screws and he kept blowing me off. Finally at the end of the shift I brought it up one final time in the office with again the rest of the shift around watching. He freaked out at me "You didn't look for them!? You should have started a FO search earlier when it happened!" I lost it. I yelled back at him "You told me, clear as day, in front of the entire shift that you were and I quote! 'Not going to stop launches for a FO search.' So, if you want we can take this down to the production superintendent's (my boss's boss.) Office and when this whole thing wraps up we'll see who has more rank!" He looked around at the office filled with people who wanted nothing more than to see him gone, knowing full well they would call his bullshit about him doing something very illegal. And simply said "we'll handle it." And he covered it up with some bullshit. I nearly went to the pro super anyways but our next highest ranking guy pulled me aside and talked me out of it because he was leaving soon anyways and something like that would just keep him in our hair that much longer.
Last I knew he had a desk job that no one really cares about.
what_is-life · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
get an email from the boss at 930am when i just get to work. she said she couldn't come in cuz she was stuck in houston cuz of bad weather (I live on the East Coast). I reply and say I hope she gets home safe and all that good stuff. i leave work early at like 4:30pm and stop at the grocery store on the way home to get some stuff. guess who i bump into.......
slicktrx · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
very late to the party but will try this on.
I moved to a relatively quiet and clicky country town some 10 yrs ago with my girlfriend at the time (now wife, yesss) for work.
We lived in a rented town house where the highway entered the suburbs.
One Friday night before midnight, we hear a really strange "bang". We glanced at each other because of its oddness then looked out the upper storey window. A car tyre went speeding past. I slid on my shoes and went out onto the front yard. The road was covered in smoke.
Being from a rougher part of my home town, im used of seeing cars set on fire and expected the same deliberate act as i walked up the road to find a car parked a blaze.
I called the cops and continued up to the car as close as I could. It was less than a minute since the bang but the fire was intense and i could only get 20 metres from the fire due to the heat.
Taking the opportunity to watch a car burn, I kept drinking my beer at the car kept exploding till the cops arrived.
Cops came, i immediately said i was not involved- just watching the spectacle - and they told me to go home.
Monday rolls around and my colleagues are all standing around to talk about the incident on Friday night. The local paper had published an article also.
A colleague turns to me and starts telling me holding the paper how the car contained two drunk youths who hus a pole. the cabin was reduced to 6 inches across. turns out the car i witnessed burning to the ground contained two people in it.
I was quite taken back with thus news and whilst it was settling in, the storey continues with one of her close friends telling the harrowing tale of being first on scene, trying to rescue the occupants and calling the cops.
I retorted with a "bullshit" where I was then promptly handed the paper with the story in it with a glum gentleman standing in front of a wreck, the "witness".
Proceeded to debunk all the story in great detail.
I didnt last long in that town but it did call out a pathological liar everyone had suspected. I am at peace with it though.
Jrklingerman · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school, 5 of us sat together at lunch. This one time, weeks before the incident below happened, slightly creepy boy A threw an apple which landed in ketchup and made a huge mess, which caused a big commotion.
One day when I left the table to sit with my then girlfriend. Boy B, a good friend of mine, but also a huge liar to everyone (except me for the most part) came over to the table that my girlfriend and I were at, claiming that boy A threw an apple and landed in someone's ketchup and splattered everywhere. Boy B said to my girlfriend and I "they're all acting like it was me! Go over and they will say I did it, but I swear I didn't". I went over and the 3 other boys all told me it was him.
I worked with and got along well with the IT department, which they all had access to all the security cameras in the district. I asked if I could see the camera footage from work, but they refused.
I always gave Boy B rides home, so the day of the event, I asked him about it again. Then I told him I watched the camera footage from lunch to see if he would change his story, and all he did was laugh. Silence the rest of the way home from him
marlow41 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had this friend in college who just always had a story about everything. He seemed to have a story for everything. We were all big into gaming and he was always a competitive player in such and such game. Well one day he made the mistake of claiming to be really good at Tekken 3.
23-0. I've never dumpstered anyone so hard at anything in my life. I'm not really honestly even that good at the game. He was just full of shit and refused to give up. I didn't say a word about him lying, I just kept kicking the shit out of him.
OrbDeceptionist · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Double whammy here:
Had a roommate in college. Noticed that my ADHD medication supply seemed to be dwindling a little bit. I left my medication in a toiletries bag in my bathroom. He had a shared bathroom with another roommate, and would oddly come in at times to talk and then say he was going to take a shit in my bathroom. But I prepared and counted, let him "shit", then went back in and counted them again. Walked up to him and calmy asked him to give it back, to which he broke down and told me he had an addiction problem and because of his past abuse could not get the medication and felt he had to steal it from me. So then he started talking about going into a good rehab program and disappeared for a week. I asked the girl he was dating what he was doing, and she said he was just in his hometown hanging out with her. After "coming back from therapy" he took trips to the pharmacy and wouldn't say what he was taking and started locking his door every time he left the room. A week later or so, one of my friends said that the guy offered him a pill to help him study. I asked him what it looked like, and Bingo! He totally got himself a prescription for the med after telling me he was blacklisted for it.
HEADTRIPfpv · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My sons mother and I are not together so we have split custody. At the time of this incident his mother and I did not really get along. One day I drop him off and a few hours later I got a call telling me he was complaining about his head hurting and she said his eyes looks off-putting so she took him to the er. Later in the day she tells me he had a concussion and pretty much said it happen on my watch and how dare I not know and continued to tell me what a POS I was. I then called the doctor and was informed he did not have a concussion and said he just had a headache. Confronting her with this new information felt very good.
JwRich43 · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I saw the text between him and his ex first. He deleted it because he thought I didn't see it and he didnt want me seeing it. I asked him who texted him earlier today and he was like no one. I was like your such a liar lol i already saw the text dumbo
Ghost_Toast · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Several years ago, my buddy and I were in a class together. During down the me we happened to be talking about what to do on the weekend. We decided we were going to find the movies from Home Alone and Home Alone 2 that Kevin watches and uses the audio from. Angels with Filthy Souls and the sequel. The instructor from the class heard us and said he had those movies and he would let us borrow them. We looked them up that night and found out they didn't actually exist. Just made up for Home Alone. We keep bugging him the entire class to borrow them and he kept coming up with excuses why he forgot them or couldn't find them.
Plasmalaser305 · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was telling my friend about a game I'd picked up recently, and he told me he'd played it since day one, and had loved it since release. Surprised, and somewhat suspicious, I asked him if he'd hit the level cap, and he said that he had. I asked him how being level 100 was, and he told me it was kind of boring. The game only had a level cap of 30, and he just switched topics when I called him out on it.
Inmanelectric · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t like to lie but I was once caught out big time in a classic George Castanza moment .
piccini9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't know if satisfying is the right word, but someone had a toolkit of mine that I had misplaced on a job-site, (he stole it) and he tried to sell it to a mutual friend, who told me about it. So, I gave the guy a chance to come clean, and said, "Hey Bruce, you ever find that toolkit of mine?"
He said, "No, it must have walked off the job-site."
I said, "That's funny, because Charlie told me you tried to sell it to him yesterday."
He returned it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My family helped out a friend of my brothers last year. She's gotta be a compulsive liar. She would tell my parents, my brother and I wildly different stories, about her mother, her schooling, her counsellor and her social worker, and she'd beg us not to tell one another. We never knew what the fuck was going on. Eventually she moved into student housing and things settled down but she was still lying. My parents were going to let it go; she's just a kid and she's got no support from her family. I just stopped taking anything she said seriously and distanced myself from her.
She confronted me recently and I let her have it. I gave her every instance in which she'd told my family completely different stories. She swore up and down that she'd never lied to me, that she'd never lied to my parents either. Then she started accusing me of spying on my parents and brother, going through their phones and listening to their conversations. I just walked away.
That night she called mum in tears. Told her that I'd attacked her and was throwing wild accusations around and that I'd been hacking their phones. She was worried that I was on drugs and that I was possibly going to kill myself. She told mum to make me see a doctor and begged her not to tell me that she'd called.
Mum calmly explained that we had told each other everything, that we all knew she was lying and that if we couldn't trust her to tell the truth then we couldn't help her anymore. She texted me afterwards and said my mum was having a psychotic break and she was worried my dad was abusing her. -_-
We all cut contact, except my brother because she's sucking his dick now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work for a guy whose stories are always 'the fish was THIS big' and would constantly change depending on who was being told the fib.
One night we were working away and out of the blue he told me it'd be in my best interests to start looking for a new job (I work permanent part time, 4 hours on a night shift as I'm joining the army next year and this jobs pays the bills) because I have no future in the business i currently work in. Told me he'd spokenwoth the big boss and a few others and they agreed with him apparently.
His b.s. story fell apart when I went and talked to the bug boss and the 'others' about this as it put shits up me thinking i was about to lose my job and theyhad no idea wtf I was talking about. Confronted Captain Douche Bag about it after I was damn sure i had all the facts straight and he got all defensive but eventually the truth came out that he made it up to try and get me to leave for reasons he wouldn't tell me about.
Told him if it happened again to me or to any others on my work team I'd take it straight to head office and make sure he couldn't try bully anyone again.
Dylmcf · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My parents had this thing called a “Green Dot” they convinced us that when we lied they could see a green dot on our foreheads , every time my older brother would lie he would whisper “There’s no such things as monsters” funny now that you think of it
JonathanTL96 · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A girl at work would fake her parent's death in a car crash. She was devastated, and, like she was kind of nice to the rest of us, so were we towards her. We were supporting her in whatsoever she might have needed to cope with the fact that her parents are dead. Eventually, more info starts coming out from her, and she's still not over it after 4 months so we're still supporting her emotionally. For some reason, the manager of our company decided to ring her next of kin, who happened to be her mum, as she wasn't changed yet from the system. Surprisingly enough, the lady answered and she was alive and kicking. The girl got fired shortly after
Amirn · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I pm
Patman1416 · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:56 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The final lie of my marriage. Wife was cheating since day one. Leave on deployment, ends up cheating again. Me still trying to work through everything kept giving her chance after chance. Coming home to a house that got robbed due to the fact no one was staying there for a month, a dog that lost a leg because she was too busy hanging out with her side dude, and the fact she didn’t even show an ounce of sympathy for anything. It took a while to come to terms, but I can say that final lie/affair was the happiest moment of my life looking back.
YasserPunch · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I started working out in college and I was a skinny guy. By the third month of lifting weights I was able to bench 60kg (~132 pounds) which isn’t a lot but I was pretty proud of that weight. I met this guy who now I regard as a compulsive liar and we were making typical chit chat. He asks me how much I bench and I tell him. He says he bench 85kgs (~187 pounds), I don’t make much of it other than that he might be stronger.
Cut to a couple weeks later, he’s at the gym benching and he looks like he’s doing 50kgs. I thought he’s warming up so I say I’ll do my warmups then join him. When I start with my usual weight he jumps trying to match it, but he’s struggling to as 10kgs (22 pounds) is a big jump. So I say “want me to lower the weights for ya”. I didn’t make mention of the fact that he said he benched more than me, but it was still satisfying.
No_life_I_Lead · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was doing a course part of my job, this guy claimed he was the creator of "lucky patcher" I asked him a few basic questions that anyone familiar with the app should of been able to answer fairly easily: can you and how to patch google play; is it better to root phone or not; how to turn on or off various options; I even wrote the author name and he didn't even click. The guy didn't have a clue but was still adamant he was the author. Turns out no matter what the guy said (about anything) it was a lie.
I took the piss out of him the whole 6 weeks I was on the course and he didn't click. He was a pure prick.
ManOfNinetyNine · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The factory I work for doesn't follow safety rules at all. One day some safety people came in looking at the machines only. One co-worker came over and told us another co-worker got busted for not wearing safety glasses. A few minutes later, I walk over to the guy that "got busted" and said "So I hear they caught you without safety glasses." He said no that's a lie. Then the co-worker who told the lie came over and told me out right that he didn't say the other guy got busted at all. So in front of like 3 people I busted him for his lie. I told him "Yes you did say that. I was standing over there and you told me directly."
He tends to lie like that A LOT.
idwsjnc · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
One of our Linux servers rebooted unexpectedly when our windows guy was at the data center. Looked through the logs and saw the usb keyboard was inserted and then alt-ctrl-del was pressed. He obviously plugged the keyboard into the wrong server and tried to login.
Asked him about it and he swore up and down he didn’t do anything. Showed him the logs, and he was dumbfounded. He didn’t work there very long.
summerntine · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:50 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex-roommate caused a lot of problems for me and another roommate at the time. We had met her freshman year of college (the "bad" roommate was my dorm roommate and the "good" roommate was friends to both of us). Over time we noticed how sly and manipulative she was turning out to be. It started with little things like asking the same favors every day or telling a story and pretending to forget the correct details when someone corrected her. For the second year of college we moved into an apartment together (which I now realize was a mistake). "Good" roommate and I noticed more annoyances; for instance the thermostat would be on full blast when we would return from class, her room was full of old rotting food and dirty clothes, and we eventually realized that she was a manipulative, compulsive liar. Long story short, I return from a hometown visit to see "good" roommate seething, standing next to the fridge. She had caught "bad" roommate drinking straight from my milk container, eating "good" roommate's cookies, and a few other food items missing. "Good" roommate had marked her coffee creamer's bottle with a marker to track the amount inside, didn't use it for a couple days, and notice the creamer levels had fallen. We presented the evidence to her, she got really upset, moved out at the end of the lease, and we have stayed away from her since. I had a lot of headaches those couple of years.
TLDR: Bad roommate annoyed the crap out of me and good roommate, eventually we caught her stealing our food and haven't spoken to her since her awaited move-out.
poorfolkbows · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend/catfish wanted to write a children's book. As she "wrote" them, she'd email me the chapters. One day, I decided, on a whim, to google the names of some of the characters. It turns out that somebody else wrote the book, and it was published. I didn't tell my girlfriend/catfish that I knew she was lying. Instead, I ordered the book on Amazon and mailed it to her.
DarkSideNS · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Shitty friend owed me money and said he didn't have anything on him. My puppy jumped on him and $20 fell out of his pocket. Told him to walk home and that was the last time I ever hung out with him. I loved that damn dog.
wellerccs · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was summer and my brother and I have identical desk fans, however I went to turn mine on for the first time that summer it didn’t work, thinking it’s a bit odd as it worked fine last summer I do a classic swap-aroo with my brothers fan. An hour later or so my brother goes to use his, finding it doesn’t work he immediately comes to my room and accuses me rightly of swapping the fans. However, his accusations were enough to tell me he made the accusation as he was in the knowledge that one didn’t work before he turned his on. Thus confirmation in my mind he had already swapped them, on presenting this to him ‘how do you know I swapped them, you’d only know that if you knew one was broke, and you wouldn’t know that about mine unless it was in-fact yours’. He then walked off and said nothing more about it.
Baby_Vegeta · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me and I don't remember the whole story, but it went something like this: - A bunch of friends watching a movie in a room - Roommate gets a text/phone call - Says he has to go because I just called (didn't realize I was in the room) - Everyone else knew I was there and he got called out for it
staggernaut · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every week, me and the guys would gather for a WWE2K tournament that we called Mania. After two weeks or so of The Rock being reigning champ, I noticed that Randy Orton's overall rating was seemingly higher, now better than The Rock. So, I did my research and plotted to take him on and humiliate him the next week. I let my other friends in on it beforehand, but the tournament came down to our fateful match. I don't recall the details of it, but I kicked his ass, he got pissed. I revealed how we knew about his cheating and I've never seen him redder than that. All of us had a good laugh at his shitty behavior, right there in his own home. I don't think there has been a Mania since then.
Zer0Summoner · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Cross-examining cops. I can't identify a single time that was the most satisfying because it happens so often, but once you get it out there, you feel like going out, buying a football, coming back in, and spiking it on the floor in front of the jury box.
ctedrick13127 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My son is autistic. My MIL claimed that she knew so much about autism, always telling me how to do this or do that when taking care of him. My neighbor was a good friend and had a nephew that had the same diagnosis, so she talked to me about him a lot. One night, my MIL came to spend the night at our house as she did a couple of times a month to see the grandkids. She had come over and we went to the neighbors house to hang out. We were all sitting around talking about the nephew of hers and the funny stuff he did, the cute stuff. I went to the bathroom, and I heard them talking about how the nephew had decided to try to wake her up in the morning several years ago by screaming in her face while she was completely asleep, because he didn't understand how else to wake her up. They went on to another subject, and I came back, and we finished the night, went to bed. The next morning, my son is sitting in the guest bedroom with the MIL and i walked in and started talking. She proceeded to tell a story about how my son had woken her up by screaming in her face that morning and how funny it was. She didn't realize I could hear her in the bathroom.
druj85 · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
8th grade. Buddy trying to be cool says he's so wasted. We point out to him that O'doul's is non-alcoholic
jeff_the_nurse · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was a lunch thief at work, and this one bitch insisted that it wasn't her. One morning, I vigorously shook my soda before putting my lunch in the fridge. Around noon, I went into the break room, only to find her drenched in Diet Coke. Truly amazing.
supervy · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was dating a guy who was madly insecure because he would frequently add random attractive girls on Instagram and like their pictures and message them. This happened before we were officially a couple so I let it slide and never mentioned it.
While we were dating I made an extra instagram account for my side business but never used it much. He had totally forgotten I was following him and since he was the only one that account followed, it was very easy to track his activity.
I eventually noticed he would sometimes cover his phone when looking at Instagram. Additional red flags included him freely using my phone to look stuff up, but being overly protective of his own phone if I even glanced at it. I always sensed he was somewhat insecure because he tends to lie about his height by an inch or two (he’s shorter than the average guy but hasn’t come to terms with this). He also talked a big dating game and would show me girls he’s come close to bagging.
It all snowballed when I grew weary of his Napoleon complex—we were constantly fighting anyway. I check his Instagram and notice his flurry of activities trying to get the attention of randoms to stroke his ego dick. I finally confronted him about specific girls by simply asking “Who is Sally?” just to see what his answers would be. He first claimed they were friends from a while back. He would also claim that they started following him and he only followed back to be nice. Obviously I had screenshots to prove otherwise, but after calling him out he couldn’t even defend himself.
I gave him a few more chances but he couldn’t help himself. He was also very addicted to weed—to the point where he was consistently irritable and lethargic—and promised he’d stop but he never did despite his attempt at therapy.
You would think he would learn his lesson on being a terrible liar by now but a day after we broke up, he asked if we could make it work again. Little did he know a mutual friend had already discovered he was already on bumble looking for matches and let me know. I asked him how he could possibly want to get back together when he was already back on bumble—he was a complete deer in headlights and apologized profusely and tried to admit it’s all from insecurity. He said something about how he needs to keep working on himself but I knew it was over for good.
About 9-12 months later after I began dating someone new he reached out to me knowing this. Tells me he’s changed and asks if he can have one last closure conversation. This is insane to me considering I’m now dating someone I respect. I decline and tell him this, and he didn’t like that I wouldn’t even give him a chance to explain his new sense of enlightenment. So he becomes a bit hostile and asks me to at least send pictures we shared together. Coincidentally around this time, I also hear through the grapevine he’s been semi dating a rebound girl while asking me to meet him up. I tell him it wouldn’t be fair to my new guy or his girl to do such a thing and that such a request was crazy disrespectful. Caught once again, he finally leaves me alone.
I would later hear from various sources that he’s back to smoking a shit ton of weed. Funnily enough, one of my girlfriends told me she got catfished into going on a date with him, showed up and he’s considerably shorter than the height he had in his dating profile (she didn’t know he was my ex). After finding out he dated me she proceeds to tell him he fucked up big time. It’s been over 3 years since we’ve dated and justice continues to be served to my ex to the point where I feel sorry for him not being able to break the cycle. He’s a very normal looking guy, socially capable, and can definitely get away with his height given that he’s extremely successful in his career. Oh wait, he was fired for lying about something at work...unfortunately this is the type of guy who’s smart enough to always get a new well paying job in an industry that surrounds himself with the same insecure tools.
Moral of the story, don’t date insecure people. Don’t date someone who can’t give up their addictions with honesty. Follow the red flags. Also, don’t be an insecure person before you get into a relationship. You can have insecurities but if you aren’t at peace with them don’t drag other people into your shitty baggage.
RickSanchezNCF · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Growing up, we had this "friend"--Jason. He was this guy in our group who... well, we had never really invited him into the group. But, he kept on showing up anyway.
There wasn't much wrong with the guy... he was just... egotistical... and a compulsive liar.
Like, it's important to emphasize here... I'm not just arm chair diagnosing this guy as "compulsive liar".
It took us a good number of years... but we were eventually forced to conclude that "yes" he don't just lie occasionally... or his statements are unreliable...
No. We learned that this motha***** just couldn't restrain himself from spillin' falsehoods in every conversation he participated in.
So.
What do you do?
Well, this is what you do:
One random day, my friend Snack walks into the house where we all lived.
Snack has food in his hands and says, "oh man you guys, I just saw the sweetest Camaro downtown while I was picking up my sandwich... like, white, with orange speed stripes".
"Oh yeah. It's pretty sweet. I've actually driven it once. I know the owner, through work."
"Oh yeah?" Snack says. "Thats pretty cool, what's the purple sticker on the front fender for?"
"Oh! That purple sticker... That's his racing club. That sticker is for when he goes to drag races in Denver..."
"Oh really Jason? The white Camaro... with orange speed stripes... and a purple sticker on the front fender?"
"Yeah"
"oh yeah?"
"yeah, super fast"
"well... I doubt that Jason."
??
Jason just turns his head.
"I DOUBT THAT VERY FUCKING MUCH JASON!... BECAUSE THERE IS NO WHITE CAMARO DOWNTOWN. NO SPEED STRIPES. NO PURPLE STICKER. I MADE IT ALL UP! BUT YOU JUST COULDN'T HELP YOURSELF! ... YOU FUCKING LIAR".
Jason blushed and left the house.
RichFortune · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a guy I worked with lie about every little thing compulsively
He was only 24 but had been and done so many different things. He’d studied medicine at university and been in the navy for two years. Also been a firefighter for a couple years then studied biology. And that’s the stuff I can remember
He also lied about his job a lot. He’d misplaced a file and everyone was looking for it all morning. When they found the file (on his desk the whole time) he blamed me for putting it there and not telling him except I was in a meeting all day so hadn’t been in the office
I eventually used to enjoy calling him out on his bullshit but everyone else would tell me I was being harsh and he was causing no harm leave him to it. Every time he’d start telling stories about where he’s been and what he’s done I would always press him for details until he said something that proved he was lying or if he stated a fact I knew to be wrong I’d just let him dig further until I proved him wrong.
Anyways the most satisfying time I caught him lying was when we were sat in the office talking about our worst customer experiences. I told them a story about a customer kicking off at me when I worked at McDonald’s (another story for another time)
The very next day I come into the shared kitchen on the floor and he’s telling someone the story I told yesterday as though it happens to him. I walked in made my drink and then said “Was this between your first degree and when you were a firefighter or your second degree and working here?” He just stumbled over his words and walked out
A small thing but very satisfying. Never understand why people insist on lying over stupid things
SlantedViews · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Teammate in high school had a Hyundai Tiburon that he claimed was awd and a turbo that was pushing 25 pounds of boost. One day I looked under his car and found out it was fwd and not awd. Then I asked him out the turbo and he sent me a picture of the one that had been “taken off”, which I google it and the exact picture came up. Then I knew he was full of shit, never said anything but I know everything else he would say was bullshit too.
monkeiboi · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Some huge douche guy on a forum (pre-reddit days) was posting how he has a bombass car and an extremely hot girlfriend, included pictures of said car and said girlfriend, who was indeed extremely hot.
One problem, this chick i recognized, because she actually dated my best friend (6'5" Van Wilder motherfucker who could actually pull in extremely attractive women like moths to the candlelight), so i knew that she didnt live ANYWHERE near where this guy lived. Also she was in reality a single mom, who did some amateur modeling, which was where he lifted the pictures online from, he claimed she was some super famous foreign model or something.
So i blasted him for that. And it turns out that the same way I knew he was lying about the girl, some OTHER forum user happened to recognize the pictures of the car...as belonging to HIS friend, whom he got to post proof of life pictures in front of.
Douche eventually got worn down by the constant ripping and deleted his account
DirtyPrancing65 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Definitely not satisfying, but when I was young (8 or 9) I was saving for a build a bear. I did all of the research on clothes and different types of animals -- I knew exactly how much I needed and how long I would have to save my allowance for. It seemed like every time I checked my stash, there wasn't as much money as there should have been.. so I moved my money around a lot in case one of my friends knew where it was and was skimming.
It took me twice as long to save for that stuffed animal as it should have, but by then I was just so happy to finally have it that I didn't care about anything else. Years later it occurred to me that everytime I moved my savings to a different hiding place in my room, I was so proud of where I hid it that I would show my mother to brag.
Found out later she had been taking money out of my biological dad's wallet for months too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Catch my friend in a never ending loop of lies I just kept letting it go on to see how deep they would dig themselves it was pretty damn funny how they reacted when I finally just said shut up
Gsurhijrsee · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:30 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A couple didn't turn up to my birthday party but expected me to go to theirs
I was very hard having spent the entire you're buying for him her and the baby! And they couldn't spare me one evening
So when the wife invited me I said "no I'm not coming because you didn't come to mine"
She said we couldn't get a babysitter
I said "that's funny your husband told me he lost his phone and didn't get my invitation text till two weeks later so one of you is lying'
Obviously I was dropped immediately but I was just about to Ghost them anyway
_LulzCakee_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:41 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
LOL
Ive caught people quite a few times, but one of my favorites is when someone tried to blow me off by saying he got into a car accident and sent me a picture of his bashed up front bumper.
Sonething seemed off about it, so I use image reverse search.
The same exact picture was the first that popped up with a link from a few years ago, as well as a few other websites.
Asshole saved a picture and pretended it was his. He could have just said he didnt want to chill.
Grommzz · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I have a couple of good ones..
Story 1 An ex of mine worked at a childcare centre, and would get up early to catch the bus each day to work. We'd been together about 7-8 months when I was at the shopping centre one day and saw a mutual friend of ours who worked with her.
Grommz - oh hey Jess how's things.. Jess - not bad, how are you guys going, how's Ex going with finding work ? Grommz - finding work ? Jess- oh err.. nevermind I shouldn't of said anything Grommz - no what's happened I have no idea what you're talking about. Jess - I'm sorry I didn't know, but they fired Ex about 3 months ago. Didn't she tell you ?
So yeah, Ex had lost her job 3 months back, didn't tell me and was still getting up when I'd stay over and going god knows where at 7am in the morning to pretend she was catching the bus.
The satisfaction came the next time I stayed over. I waited until the morning when getting ready for work myself, and just blunty asked her why she was bothering when she had no job to go to anyway. Jess told me everything.
Story 2 So I was young, and having a great time with a slightly more mature women. Me mid 20s, her mid 30s. She'd told alot of mutual friends she'd had a very hard life, ex husband that beat her up, she'd lost babies and all sorts of horrible stories you just don't really don't tell tails about when enough people live those out for real.
Anyway her big fish was that she had survived ovarian cancer, which had spread pretty badly over the course of her treatment so she'd had to have a full hysterectomy. Me being young stupid me.. ok it sounds horrible, but we still went at it like rabbits. Things eventually ran its course and we didn't see each other so much.
I hadn't spoken to her for about 2-3 weeks when I got a message saying she was in hospital feeling really sick and was scared she was pregnant. I did my best to seem "concerned" but also was careful not to feed her attention crave. She basically begged me to go help her and said how we were going to have a baby, how could I leave her in this situation. She even sent me a photo of some generic hospital name tag to try prove she was there.
Even after I called her out on how completely impossible it was to get pregnant with her past she just played it off as a form of "meant to be miracle".
Tl;dr. Older woman couldn't have kids but apparently I have magical cancer curing jizz and she got pregnant.
Katieeohs2417 · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine was living with me for a few months last year. At the time i was prescribed ambien XR and I had a few spare regular ambien pills left from a previous prescription. While getting ready for bed he asked me if I wanted him to get my medicine for me. Hm. “No thanks I’ll get it after I wash my face” So I go to wash my face and do my other nightly routines things. I come back out and tell him I’m going to bed. He goes to his room for bed as well.
I then go to take my XR for the night and realize there are four missing. I ask checked my regular bottle and low and behold three were missing.
I go to his room and calmly ask him if he took some of my ambien. He was also prescribed and usually ran out early because he would pop five to eight of them claiming they don’t work any more. He said “no I swear I didn’t touch your ambien. You know I’m all about honesty”
I then proceed to show him the numbers on the bottom of the bottles I wrote the previous day to keep track of how many I had left. (I had some go missing the week before so i stared keeping track)
I can’t imagine how embarrassed he felt. Dude had a drug problem.
alexmunse · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was the manager of a Subway restaurant and my best worker called in and said he was in the hospital with a cracked vertebrae from falling in the shower. The guy was a good friend, an excellent worker and I was genuinely worried about him, so I told him not to worry about it because I would cover his shift if I couldn’t find someone else to do it. Now, his was a closing shift and I had been there since 6:30am, and the closer doesn’t leave until around midnight, but I was willing to work for him. I also had plans to go to a local music festival with my girlfriend and meet up with my dad and uncles who were in from out of state, but I AHS to work Blake’s shift. My girlfriend saw him at the music festival. I was more angry at him because I had been worried that he might be paralyzed. Fuck You, Blake!
Second. I worked at a pizza place with a blowhard pathological liar. He would come in with fake bandages on him because of the “bar fights” he got into every once in a while, or his “MMA training got super rough” or whatever. Anyway, he was off for a few days to go to a metal show and when he came back, he had a picture with the lead singer of the band, and that was pretty cool. Until I went to his house and the lead singer of the band was also there. As a cardboard cutout. He stood in front of the cutout to take the picture, turns out he never even went to the show. Years later, I ran into him at a local bar and he tried to fuck my sister in law.
Fuck you, Roy Bowling.
mnoble473 · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I spent about an hour reading only this comment section. One of the best askreddits I've seen
googleitmofugga · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
same. Ive been here way too long today
angry_artichoke · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My fiancé’s sister is a pathological liar no joke. She once lied that her brother (my fiancé) DIED in a car accident. She has also lied about being raped several times. She abandoned her children and would post that her one child was very sick and in the hospital (even when he wasn’t). She finally began posting that she was homeless all over Facebook. I finally had enough of it after talking to her mom and Dad (who both said that they would come and get her). I commented on her status and basically put her on blast in front of everyone about all her lies. She threatened to call the police on me because i was “harassing a suicidal person” What a joke.. anyway, People who totally buy into her stories ended up messaging me and telling me how terrible I am. But the reason this is the most satisfying time I’ve ever caught someone lying is because I no longer have to associate with her!
aBadBadSucculent · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I dated a dude on and off through my junior and senior years of high school who turned out to be a compulsive liar. He told me on our first date, to get my sympathy, that he had a half brother who died tragically in a head-in collision back when he lived in Canada (he also claimed to be Canadian). Because he was my first boyfriend I bought it for like six months. Had a conversation with his dad after he went to college, who told me that he did NOT have a half-brother, nor was their family from Canada. Later he cheated on me, dumped me over the weekend and posted his new relationship on Facebook before I could tell any of my friends we had broken up. He’s presumably lying to other people now, but hopefully no one is as gullible as I was.
zonk3 · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:47 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm in advertising and a few years ago I had boss who went nuts on me during an executive meeting where I presented a final proposal for a product ad. He literally screamed liked Harvey Weinstein at me in front of the 25 execs there, claiming I had made up the copy and that the claims I was making for the product would get the company sued for years on end and how stupid could I be, etc.
He then DEMANDED to know where I got the ideas for such statements in my ad copy, to which I pulled out a binder and slapped it on the long oak table, where every single word I had written was copy/pasted from his own work on a previous version of the product from three years earlier. I read each line from his, and then read the EXACT SAME LINE from mine.
They looked at him and he knew he was busted. He screamed to dismiss the room, everyone but me. I was fired on the spot, but I got my few things from my desk and smiled all the way to my car, laughing all the way home!
cookiestartswithc · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Friday. Caught someone committing insurance fraud with irrefutable proof. There are lots of clients that you think are sketchy, but you don't have the proof. This was really satisfying.
TMNewtBoy · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
As a teenager I shared a room with my younger spoiled brother, sadly spoiled in all the most negative ways. He had a bad temper so my mum would just give into him and my dad just ignored everything. Either way he consistently borrowed, stole and sometimes sold my clothes and possessions. Parents just assumed innocence without proof as a way to avoid a huge fuss. One day I came home to find a pair of my jeans on my bed torn almost in half. Asked my brother about it and pointed it out to my parents, blank looks all round. Then as my brothers friend came into the house I asked him brightly if it had been funny to see my brother tear his trousers that morning. The friend told a great account of it happening while I stared at my brothers cringing face. Super satisfying. Parents did nothing more than say he should have told me. Weirdly I think this was harder on my brother than on me. They basically had stopped trying to be parents to him.
dot-zip · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Sitting in an empty classroom during my off period in high school. A group of obnoxious/cringey emo kids walk in. A girl with blue hair starts to tell a story of this "crazy guy" who got let out of an asylum and lives in a town near by, who she's buddies with. She says he has huge gauges, and she once locked a padlock on one and threw out the key. This story is literally directly from a popular tumblr post
pr0t0cl0wn · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Guy was bragging about being a division 1, two sport athlete. Hockey goalie and football place kicker. Said he was a backup goalie for a current NHL star and then transferred to another school to be their starting kicker and was roommates with an NFL Star WR. The guy was always full of shit, but I was curious and he was legitimately a kicker on the team while this future NFL guy was there, but then I looked up the hockey goalie and he didn’t even play a single game at school 1 until the WR was already done playing football at school 2.
Not even sure what the point of the lie was, he could have just said “I was a kicker at XYZ University” while Player X was there, cool seeing him blow up from when I knew him back then”
Slammed_z31 · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I went from working at a used car dealer to a luxury car dealer. At the luxury car dealer a customer brought a car in from the used dealer I worked for previously and asked if we could inspect it. We made a few basic recommendations and let her have it back. She flips her shit saying we damaged her car during the inspection. The pictures from the used car lot hadn’t been taken off the website so I zoomed in and could clearly see the damage from before she bought it. Texted a manager I was on good terms with and he said she made a big deal about it there too. Showed her the pictures and the texts and asked her to leave. Feels Goodman
InterdimensionalTV · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ex-friend of mine who turned out to be a massive douche was claiming he had gotten into some "heavy petting" with this girl we knew in the back of her car. Well my good friend (who I met through the ex-friend, was just in his wedding actually) was sick of his shit and called the girl up and put the phone on speaker. He asked her straight up if she did it and she basically said "ew oh my god no". He started crying and ran away. Sounds mean but shortly after this he tried to take my ex on a date and called my mother "a whale" when I called him out so it turned out to be very satisfying.
If it sounds like high school bullshit that's because it is. It happened years ago now but it still makes me laugh almost a decade later.
Scottftwk · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/81119437/convicted-fraudster-wayne-eaglesome-behind-christchurch-backpackers?rm=m
I lived with a famous New Zealand con man for six months; heard hundreds of lies. Just read some of these articles on him, they’re brilliant.
Ask_if_Im_Satan · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh goodness I don’t even know if this counts because it was so stupid.
I was managing a McDonalds and there was this one employee I really wasn’t too fond of. But it being a McDonalds and as long as you’re not killing someone, you can usually get away with a lot.
So this kid would call in and tell us how he had to drive his grandfather to chemo since he recently got his license. I mean, even at McDonald’s we wouldn’t say no to that. Also, to clarify, I was a shift manager, not running the store, or else he would have been out of there much sooner. He did the least amount of work possible and said some of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. He’d been brought up to the GM before, but the GM was a spineless bitch who was so two-faced it hurt. The only thing she did to control her crew was the fear that she would talk behind your back.
So one day I was sitting in there before work, talking to a good friend of mine, when the kid showed up because he was a friend of my friend. We were talking about girls, when he piped up about how he was seeing this one girl. He even told us about how whenever he called off to drive his grandfather to chemo, he was seeing her! His grandfather never had cancer in the first place. I was in awe. I told him, “You do know who I am right? You know that you just flat out told me you’ve been lying about your shifts?” And he just said, “oh yeah.”
The shitty thing was was that the GM still didn’t fire him until he just no called no showed a couple of times after that. But I have no idea how you can be stupid enough to tell a superior you’re lying to them.
Ashaliedoll · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I read a really good one on here where the guys Dad's friend had lied about basically his entire life including being in the military and that his wife and child were dead (they weren't) OP's dad had passed by the time anyone knew.
pandabow · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:45 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Back in middle/high school there was this guy my cousin hung around who always acted like he was in to her. I didn't like him for various reasons and incidents, but they weren't bad enough to show what a stupid person he was. One time he was courting her a poem and said he wrote it. I copied and pasted that shit into Google so fast while I was next to my cousin. We found the poem word for word and I knew I finally had proof he was a little tool.
anaj13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Girlfriend denied cheating on me for months. She must have forgot that her location was shared on snapchat because she said she was at the house when in reality she was behind a billiards hall. Thought that was strange so, I took my break from work and drove to the location right up the block. She parked my truck in the parking lot next to the girls car. I walked up to the girls car and right there they were groping eachother making out. I opened the door and said what the fuck before they even knew what was going on. All she could say was fuuuuck in a whisper. smh never been so hurt.
chconnor · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:12 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was really hoping someone would be caught on this sub lying about a lie they “caught” someone in. META
jamntoast3 · 1 points · Posted at 01:08:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work doing customer service and there are, of course, security questions people have to answer and we can only speak to the owner of the product. Occasionally people pretend to be someone else to get stuff done. It's usually harmless even though it's technically fraud. When we get really lucky there might be two names on the account and the person calling as someone else also has to be verified as themselves for one reason or another, which they can't because they already said they are someone else. They get all mad and hang up. So satisfying
angreesloth · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
M?.
MichaelSchirtzer · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When i was a kid my parents used to put me to bed and I was always convinced they were watching my favorite movies without me.
One night I pretended to be asleep and snuck down the stairs only to discover they were in fact watching my favorite Ninja Turtles movie. To this day, my parents still claim they just "left it on by accident...."
Sure, mom.
littleredfoot · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:17 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a terrible, abusive ex-boyfriend who gaslit me constantly. He was paranoid that I'd leave him and spent a huge amount of energy spying on me, scaring away my friends, all the while convincing me that I was crazy and he was just doing normal boyfriend behavior to keep me safe.
Id like to point out that I never cheated, or even tip-toed the line of cheating on him. At this point in the relationship he'd threatened all of my male friends with violence so I didn't even have a guy I could have been talking to. Never the less, he regularly asked to borrow my phone and I was suspicious he would go through my phone to spy on me.
Sure enough, he borrowed my phone for 10 minutes to "watch YouTube". When I got my phone back I asked him if he did anything else on it but he said no, just YouTube. Well you can open a tab that shows all your active applications and the order they've been used. He went through my Facebook, email, Facebook messages, text messages, and through my Google drive. I held this up to his face and he absolutely floundered. It was the first time but not the last time I'd catch him doing this. He'd send out threatening messages to people and delete them. He'd read my messages, delete contacts, and block people on my social media without me knowing.
I eventually used all of this to dump him on his ass and never look back. One of the best decisions I ever made in my life. The unfortunate side of the story is that I'm very uncomfortable letting people touch my things, even loved ones that I trust. When a coworker, significant other, or parent asks to use my phone or computer, I'm always watching out of the corner of my eye and I don't think that habit will ever go away.
PM_ME_SOME_HOPE · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Was playing on a minecraft server with some friends, and one of them "happened" to find a giant diamond cluster right near my mine. Left it there to show it off, made a big deal of it. I recreated the seed, went to the exact coordinates, no diamonds.
Paulius2444 · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
On vacation in my teens, I met a whole bunch of people my age and we started hanging out.
One night, we're sitting around a camp fire on the beach and someone pulls out an acoustic guitar. A few of us can play, so we're handing it around, playing a few songs, desperately trying to impress the girls.
So, I've just finished 'Blackbird' (My go to: sounds complicated and impressive, super easy to play), then I hand the guitar off to the next guy who says "If no-one minds, I'd like to play a song I wrote." Then he goes into a detailed explanation of how he wrote it, what it's about, what it means... then says "It's not very good, but I kinda like it."
He starts playing... and it's 'Present Tense' by Pearl Jam.
He's playing and singing with his eyes closed like a proper bellend... then I notice a girl across the fire with the same WTF expression on her face as I have. I catch her eye, nod towards the guy and she mouths "That's Pearl Jam." I mouth back "I know."
We let him finish. He puts the guitar down and acts all emotional, saying something about how he's sorry, but the song makes him sad because it makes him think of the friend he lost who he wrote it about. Everyone's saying how amazing it is and how he should be a professional songwriter.
Girl across the fire says "Yeah, it's really good. Shame Pearl Jam already wrote it."
Deer in the headlights moment. He looks at her and says "Errr, I don't know what you mean."
I say "She means that song you just sang is Present Tense by Pearl Jam. It's on the No Code album. Unless you're secretly Eddie Vedder, you didn't write it."
Fucker sticks to his guns. He did write it. It was about a friend he lost. Dude's caught red handed and won't budge. Eventually storms off saying something about how he 'won't be called a liar."
It was particularly satisfying because him being a dickhead was a great icebreaker for me and girl across the fire. Best vacation ever.
Zasatienosco · 1 points · Posted at 02:34:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Person "K" was trying some preschool tactics to try and get me to admit something that never happened and also to coax some information they believed I was withholding...except I never withheld info..sigh
Person K: Yeah we talked in depth about everything in life before ...and one time "B" said, "I can just marry Zasatienosco".
Me: You're lying. B would never say that.
Person K: Yeah B did.
If they legit talked and became close friends....K would definitely know that B has a marriage pact with J. (And by the way, everyone in our social circles know this fact. Also I am like basically known as B's older sibling who always watched over B...It is like an indisputable fact.)
K is a complete outsider and was trying to bark into a territory they did not know using real dumb ways of drama pulling. Because by the time I got know K they have seen me with B all the time as I was best friends with C (at the time).
But several years past and it had events that K was not aware of (and shouldn't because they were not in the inner circle and were not close to any of us).
So the lie showed pretty badly but this idjit kept insisting and I was laughing internally at how stupid our conversation was. As an amusement, I even tried to see if they would get the hint I was aware that they are completely bullshitting...but no.
What a dense individual.
Anyway that's when I started to plan out how to remove this drama llama leech from my life.
Nyu727 · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:19 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nothing all that interesting but my cousin gets really angry at video games and one day we were playing that racing game mode they had in Destiny for a little while and we were coming up on the finish and he slammed his vehicle into me clearly trying to mess me up so I would lose but in the end it had no effect and he crashed costing himself the race, he flipped out started yelling and going off about how I purposely crashed into him which I told him no you crashed into me and he denied it. Well luckily this was on the PS4 which records the last 15 minutes of gameplay constantly so I showed him the clip which clearly showed him slamming into me out of nowhere, He got real quiet and then stopped playing soon after.
phantom42 · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Student turns in his programming project. The other lab instructor and I take one look at it and hold him after lab. This is back way before things like github or stackoverflow.
"We have reason to believe this isn't your work."
"No, it's all mine."
"This work is more advanced than anything you've done, and it looked like something we've seen somewhere else before."
"Well, I found some stuff on the internet and I sort of adapted and rewrote some of it."
"Some of this stuff doesn't look adapted."
"I mean, I reused some of the stuff."
"I don't think you wrote any of this."
"I wrote parts of it."
"No, I wrote this. You turned in my work. You didn't even take my name out of the comments."
"Oh..."
He had found a sample project I had written for advanced students on the network drive, grabbed it and tried turning it in as his own work.
Rebeeca · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:22 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Busted someone in an online community using fake selfies they stole from someone’s Instagram (to prevent back searching from working)
She disappeared for a while then tried again a year later with the SAME fake selfies.
KaikesPokeCards · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:59 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but I'll tell my story anyway. There's this one girl in my class that is a compulsive liar. Everything that comes out of her mouth is at the least an exaggerations, and at most a complete falsification. It's all for attention, especially when she's trying to show someone else up.
I'm a very big fan of a certain band, and I follow all the members on social media. Once, somehow, by ridiculous pure luck, I managed to strike up a conversation with the girlfriend of one of the members, and we actually messaged each other for a while. I was 100% starstruck, and its still the highlight of my life. Unfortunately we've only been in contact once since then, but either way, it honestly was the greatest thing ever to me, as I look up to her as well as the band member. I'm sure I sound incredibly lame but that's not the point of the story.
I told this girl about it, because at this stage we were still "friends" and she also is a fan of the band. The next day, she came up to me, and said "Oh, last night I started talking to [youtuber] and he said he likes my theories about his characters so much that he was going to use it in his videos!"
Bitch what?
First of all, my "celebrity encounter" (who isn't even a celebrity, just dating one) was someone with well under 100k followers/fans. HER celebrity encounter was with a youtuber with almost 7 million followers. Also, it happened the same day as mine? wow!
So here's how I caught her out:
"Oh, show me the messages, and I'll show you mine!"
I opened the DMs, and scrolled through half an hour of solid conversation.
She said "maybe he wouldn't want me to invade his privacy by showing you..."
"Oh, no, if he was willing to discuss upcoming videos plans with one fan, I'm sure he wouldn't mind someone who isn't interested taking a look too! I won't even read the messages."
She went completely silent, and left the room. It was the first time I had the confidence to call out her bullshit, and basically ended what was left of our friendship. Amazing.
RealStanak · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I caught my older brother lying about eating my chocolate. The fucker told me he hadn't eaten it, whilst having a chocolate stain on his pure white shirt. After arguing for a few minutes I broke into laughter and asked him if he could explain what was on his shirt.
Thegolden13 · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
11th grade, we had this program at our school where for part of the day we would ride the bus to this separate school to learn hands on things. Had a lot of friends on this bus ride, and this one kid, who happen to be a compulsive liar about literally everything. An example: he was the world champion in Yugioh, yet couldn't name 5 cards.
On this day in particular, we were talking about girls and whatnot, normal teenage bullshit, when he comes out of left field, with "ive slept with like 43 girls! No big deal." Without skipping a beat, I follow up with "name 10 of them." And the bus goes silent. He starts to stutter out random names that are super generic, realizes he can't think of any more names after 4, then chooses the "I was drunk most the time so I don't actually remember their names."
Now I know this is typical 'that happened' style, but everyone started laughing and cheering, giving him a hard time, ect. I felt bad for making him look stupid, but he dug his own grave.
T-N-A-T-B-G-OFFICIAL · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:15 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Man, this thread hurts way more than i thought it would. I thought it would mainly be like shady car mechanics getting shown what for and people getting back at their terrible bosses/professors or just shitty friends, but most of them seem to be like cheating SO's. I have so many times catching people lying but most of them are exes because ive never had a relationship where the other person didnt cheat. Also have caught a shop stealing viper parts out of a truck i had and another one trying to steal brand wilwood calipers i just modded onto the rear axle of the truck myself prior to a fuel filter change and inspection. Fyi: would recommend replacing your fuel filters each time you find yourself replacing a fuel pump or swapping into brand new injectors. They can apparently suck if theyre the thread in types thats a 3/8ths fuel nut but around a 16mm line nut, as the previous guy who worked on a truck i have knows because i looked under there once, said nope, and took it to my trusted shop for a repair. Previous shop didnt even look at the state of the twisted fuel lines under the truck that the transmission pan was leaking like old faithful before they sent it back to me with a "100% okay" and inspection charge of $250.
jmarsalona · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Worked with a girl who was a compulsive liar, not only was she a compulsive liar but she took other peoples stories and rearranged some of the places/names w/e to make them into her own. This took a little while for me and my other co-workers to catch onto but once we did everything about her finally made sense (she had a lot of 'secrets' that just kept coming out of the wood work like ants).
Anyways, one day we were all talking about past pets we had had, I had just told everyone about a pug our family had named Pugsly and how Pugsly would often fart and it would smell awful but it was just so comical because he was pug! So about a week later the compulsive liar decided to bring up the subject of pets (she must have forgotten our huge conversation we had had a week earlier) so she brings up this story about how her family had a pug when she was younger and how her pugs name was Pugsly and how he just had the worst farts!
Everyone in the room just stopped, looked at me, and my one friend piped up and said "Thats so weird, because (lets call myself 'J') had a pug with the same name and story!" Yea that girl realized we all knew her dirty little secret, she ran away crying acting like we should have sympathy for her. Pretty sure she was clinically insane too, shit got real weird after that and her lies grew out of control. She was eventually removed from our place of work because we work with weapons, and in her mental state she was unfit for duty.
There are some really scary people out there and sometimes they come clothed as the most innocent looking ones.
Tlaloc001 · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:58 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In middle school, I had a friend who would lie about everything, especially video games. I decided to one up things and come up with shit that was even more ridiculous. At the end of 8th grade, I called him out for his shit, and never spoke to him again.
Pinsir929 · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:36 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had a friend that was really confident in his science. He was actually good always top of the class. My other friend wanted to play a little trick with him so he said “ hey dude have you heard about this new metal called “adamantium” which like the new strongest metal on earth?” And my science friend was like “ was dude I saw that too then he started blabbering on about they are gonna use it on aircrafts and shit. We both knew before going into the conversation that adamantium is just some fictitious material which was supposed to be wolverines claws we managed to hold a straight face until the conversation ended.
cinnamonstyx · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:16 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Before the divorce, my ex started acting strange. Busy on her phone, would put it away when I entered the room. I began to suspect she was having an affair. But with whom? I finally saw enough that I came to the wild conclusion that she was having an affair with a female friend. Absurd - I confronted her and all was denied.
Fast forward a year after the accusation. I checked her Amazon account to see where she was spending money and found she'd purchased "Living Two Lives: Married to a man while in love with another woman" and "Dear John, I love Jane: Women write about leaving their husbands for other women." She'd been reading them since before I made the accusations, but when I confronted her, she said she started reading them because I accused her.
When I found the books, my heart nearly beat out of my chest. The image that came to my mind was (strangely) Indiana Jones. I'd found an artifact of my wife's disregard for our marriage. I was simultaneously horrified, angry, and excited that I had my reason to divorce her. To this day, she denies an affair and maybe nothing ever happened between the two of them, but I never got a straight (no pun intended) answer about some of the issues surrounding all of that and we are divorced. I'm much happier now.
PanzerBiscuit · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:08 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm an exploration geologist by trade, and a lot of what I do is interrogate data, interpret it and try and come up with an exploration programme for a specific tenement or project.
Once these plans are made, the exploration team gets together and we discuss and critique each others plans, in the presence of the senior geo and exploration manager. This way we can assign a priority to each project, as well as allocate personal and funds to each project.
One of my "supervisors" a Project Geo, submitted my programme as her own in one of these meetings, tried to assume ownership of ideas, interpretations and modelling that I had done, and then forwarded to her for review. Pretty ballsy move in my opinion. At the end of her presentation, I began asking her very technical questions, that she should have been able to answer had she actually done the work. After she was giving very vague responses I called her out on it, I said that report is mine and you are presenting my exploration programme as your own. The exploration manager asked if it was true, she said yes. BUT. she wasn't presenting it as her own, it was a collaboration and she was presenting it on MY behalf. Well that was news to me. At that point I did't care, I got the credit I was due. Happy days.
After the meeting she pulled me aside and said that I handled that very unprofessionally and made her look incompetent. I replied with "You made yourself look incompetent". She still hates me to this day. Worth it.
Paregon · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mother’s dumbass boyfriend had her convinced he was affiliated with the mob, and then when he was talking about his great uncle “Vinnie” that was a famous mobster I asked him if he was the guy that chopped off the horse’s head and sent it to some guy to send a message. I told him I heard about him in my AP United States history class, and he was all like “yeah! That was my uncle Vinnie”
TL;DR: I exposed my mothers boyfriend about not being in the mob by describing a scene from The Godfather
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nice username
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:56 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
ty
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:01 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
You're welcome
Knafa · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:37 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This kid in middle school would always lie about random things to seem cool. One time he mentioned that Triple H was his uncle. I asked him what his real name was and he replied with a name that had 3 H's in it. Called him out and said nah dude his name Paul.
littlestbobo · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
A woman and her boyfriend came into the bank I worked for with her boyfriend claiming she did not make an atm withdrawal. She didn't know the transactions were time stamped and admitted she did the transaction immediately before and after which were less than a minute apart. When I pointed out the timestamps she started stammering, her boyfriend gave her the stink eye and said "liar", turned around and left.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:53 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Them: I’ve never signed a letter of agreement in my life. We don’t do that here.
Me: Okay. So then am I safe to assume that the letter of agreement we have on file for (person) was signed by someone else that has the exact same name, job title, and works at the exact same company as you do on (date)?
Them: Let me check the records for (person). Oh. Well each case is different.
Me: even when they have literally the exact same circumstances and the only thing that would be different on the contract is the person’s name it applies to?
Them: Oh. We’ll sign it and send it back by the end of the day.
Me: That’s what I thought.
JardinSurLeToit · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:30 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Years ago, I was renting a room in my house. I guy said he was a doctor in his email to me. He didn't anticipate the crazy way I interview people. I just chat and ask the person real questions about what they're saying. He made the mistake of discussing some medical stuff where I had some basic knowledge...he didn't. What a dope.
Mrbasie · 1 points · Posted at 08:55:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The inauguration
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:06 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Nobody went to that
justnodalong · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:39 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
my dad. he was supposed to give my brother his laptop and then he accused me of taking its password. my sister and i opened it up and there it was. I called him stupid liar and he tried to beat me but at least now everyone thinks he has dementia and hopefully he goes to a home. i wouldn't be surprised if he did, he's always forgetting stuff, like a LOT
vmcnick · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:43 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Given that tires are a significantly smaller purchase, it is absolutely essential that the reps at the company (yes they are salespeople, even if you didn’t know it) ask for your business. The likelihood that the customer goes along with it is pretty high. End of story. It’s really that simple. And nothing is stopping them from being repeat customers if the service is executed properly/quickly like jiffy lube usually does.
To put it simply, Jiffy Lube takes in 5 billion a year because they do this. Your strategy doesn’t scale, sorry.
StupidDopeMoves · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:00 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is one when I was caught lying:
I was probably in like 3rd grade. I went to stay with my brother's God Mom and her husband for the a couple weeks one summer. Her niece was also staying for the summer. She was much older and also a mean girl. Anyway, we were having a convo where I mentioned our pool. I was legitimately trying to tell her a story about one of those little cheap plastic pools parents get for the summer...she misunderstood what I was saying and she was INCREDIBLY impressed. As a dumb kid I figured - why not go with it? She thought I was cool for once and she'd never be at my house anyway.
Well, tragically my brother's God Mom died shortly after I returned home. The funeral was going to be in our state so the niece and husband came to our house. Somebody must have told the niece the truth about the pool because when she came in she almost immediately brushed passed me...walked to the back of the house and dramatically opened the curtains to reveal the sad plastic pool in the backyard. She didn't say a word - just smirked at me.
dvjust_as_soon_as · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:04 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Hey wormy i got another hook for you, jihadi lives matters
Black_rose1809 · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:03 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was just lately at work before school ended. I work at a School as a Medical Aide, basically a cheap school nurse. One of my duties is to ensure that all my students are current with their immunizations. All my students were compliant this year so all I had to do is send letters with the students to remind parents to make sure they are still current for next school year if they are 6th graders, 7th graders and 8th graders. My Assistant principal who was leaving this year wanted me to send the same letters at the end of the year by mail. I said that’s fine and I was going to make my separate letters but my office manager asked and we decided to work with the registrar secretary to send them with the report cards. So I made me letters but I was never told when the report cards were going to be sent until the day before. I went the next day before school (taking college course during summer) and dropped them off.
I thought it was fine and I was done for the summer until August. Until one day I got an angry text from the old AP that why were my letters not sent out. I told her I worked with the secretary and we agreed to send them with the report cards. She then changed that she wanted me to re write them then because they all say “it’s almost the end of the year”. I was upset, because it’s 2 hours of printing each letter because each one had different letters and separating them. Then it’s 3 hours of folding each letter (with my two children btw). It’s 514 letters to re do! I told her to just send them since even if I sent them at the end of the year without report cards it will say the same. I explain this and said that if I am to 5 hours Of work then I might have to ask for a work day during the summer. She told me the principal said no and I have to come to do the work for free. Because this is not acceptable!
I decided to call my principal to make sure this is true, sure enough he said no and that it’s fine, I don’t need to come in and he’ll get someone to re do the letters or just send them and not to worry since she’s not in charge of me anymore.
Black_rose1809 · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:23 on June 30, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not me, but I had an online teacher who we thought was nuts, accusing my whole class of Medical Assisting that we were cheating but later found out she was right to be paranoid about it.
So one of our requirements was to take a business English and math class online for our program. I was ok with it and did my work like I was suppose to. I didn’t think twice about her rules which was basically she wanted us to do our work and show our work by taking pictures of the paper. A bit unorthodox but eh.
The teacher worked really close with our Medical Assistant teacher/director and at first she would tell us as a warning to do our own work, which is ok. But then after a while the MA teacher started to yell at us that someone is cheating and we need to stop. We didn’t know who was cheating but we tried our best to not do that. But it was apparent that our online teacher was becoming more paranoid because after a while our MA teacher told us that she was starting to leave emails and phone calls in the middle of the night to her about the cheating and seemed to be obsessed to find who is. She would send spreadsheets and such and my MA teacher got so tired she stopped answering her and told us to just pass the class.
We started with 25 and Little by Little we lost some people. One of them was this narcoleptic woman who was a bit weird but nice. The teacher didn’t like her much but eventually she got kicked out because she missed too much classes due to the flu. (She’s important to the story)
Later on, 4 years later I still didn’t know about who did the cheating or if it wasn’t even one because that teacher was nuts to me. But one of my friends who was with me in the program told me it was the Narcoleptic lady! She was cheating off with another girl together at the library but no one never said anything.
Now I feel bad for the online teacher but can’t do anything about it now.
HollowScope · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:05 on July 9, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was caught in a lie that I thought would never be proven.
Spring break before my senior year of high school my buddy's family took me on vacation with them. We went to the cape and spent a lot of time on the beach. My friends father had some kites and after the second day or so I decided to try my hand at it.
I was alone on the beach on a pretty windy day. After a few minutes of kite flying my grip must have come loose and the kite just flew away. Not wanting to tell my buddy's father I wasn't careful enough I told him the string snapped and I threw out the handle.
No big deal, he took it in stride. The next day we decide to take the car further in on the beach and have a bon fire away from a majority of the spring breakers. My friends father parks the car and we're all taking in the scenery when he says "Is that the kite?!"
I shit you not, we happened to park not more than 50 feet away from where the kite landed. We walked to the kite and he's wrapping up the string and comes to the handle and just looks at me for a moment before laughing his head off. I was so ashamed but even I let off a chuckle between the tides of guilt.
HeWhoMustNotBeNamed7 · 1 points · Posted at 10:01:37 on August 4, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:35:35 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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BimsyClustercamp · 4 points · Posted at 14:16:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't believe this actually happened. I think you're a big fat liar.
jewrassic_park-1940 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ironic
babysalesman · 3 points · Posted at 14:09:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I uhhh... I have bad news for you, Frankie.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:32:15 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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hr_shovenstuff · 3 points · Posted at 15:48:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
What else would you be, if not superior?
RedPillSavage · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When you play along with the liar’s story, already knowing he/she’s lying LOL
ilikebutteryfries · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My female cousin and her brother go to the same school, and the brother was in this pretty popular group of guys.
One day I'm invited to hang out with them and one of the guys (lets call him Jack) was the class president of their school. He was pretty outgoing, but most of the time he was pretty awkward but funny at the same time, all in all I thought he was a cool guy.
My cousin (lets call her Kathy) apparently hated Jack, every time he was mentioned she would try to say something bad about him, but somehow her tone didn't match her accusations. I wasn't actually sure if she disliked him or not, so one day he was brought up again, and she began saying like 'ugh I hate that guy,' and someone else in the group asks why, then she tells us about how he says stupid things or whatever. I jokingly told her she was jealous because she wasn't getting his attention. She was quick to deny it, but her face got pretty red after that. She didn't say any more after that, so idk if she was actually lying or not, but I felt like she had a crush on him and her reaction was pretty funny.
Neoshinryu · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had spoken to a cashier about not receiving personal calls while clocked in, unless it was an emergency. She had been walking around the sales floor talking on her cell phone to her husband, when I have signs all over the front end that say NO CELL PHONES. I really don't hold them to this rule as long as it's out of customer view. She obviously abused this though.
So I doing the lowest level documentation (Coaching, out of Coaching-Counseling-Final Job Warning-Termination in the write up chain) and consider it job well done. I even indicate in the write up that this is not just cell phones, but DO NOT USE THE COMPANY PHONES either.
Cut to a little over a week later and I'm watching my front end while she is on lunch. As she returns and clocks back in I step about 12 feet away to put a few items back on the shelf. As I am returning to the front I see a gentleman walking around looking for someone to ring him out. My cashier is standing in the photo printing area... on THE PHONE. RIGHT AFTER RETURNING FROM LUNCH.
So I calmly ring out the gentleman waiting as she sprints back over saying "I'm sorry u/Neoshinryu, I was on the phone with a customer!" As soon as the gentleman walks away I turn to her and say.... "The phone didn't ring. Did you call the customer yourself?"
She starts laughing(nervous laughter kind of way) and says "I'm so sorry, I don't know why I lied!"
Policy dictates I give a Final Warning and no matter how angry this made me I have to be consistent, but this is the closest I've ever went to going full on dark side as a manager and telling her to get the hell out of my store. ಠ_ಠ
I have to add I love my staff, this cashier was far and away an outlier
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 15:37:27 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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LemurLo · 21 points · Posted at 17:20:04 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Ahh you’re one of those cunts
jewrassic_park-1940 · 10 points · Posted at 17:41:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why is he a cunt,if your ass didn't have time to study then at least ask before the test if your deskmate can help you.
LemurLo · 4 points · Posted at 05:09:33 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yea I agree with that but standing upfront of the whole class when you could’ve just said fuck off is a cunt thing to do
FuzzyChrysalis · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My work friend's story. Where we work people attempt to switch price tags all the time when no one is looking. One day a man was taking tags off of things just a few feet away from my friend, in plain sight. When he approached her he and his wife became enraged at her accusing them of being thieves, and the wife threatened to call the police, she even took her cell out and staged a completely fake phone call to 911. Eventually they left and no police showed up. My friend and the supervisor giggles about them after they left.
R-JOON · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A girl I was seeing (we weren't together at this point, but still all "i love you" and "there's nobody else") told me she was going to dinner with a friend/coworker. I had a bad feeling in my gut and something told me that I should go with a friend to see what was up. A day or two passes, I decided to look at her IG at some picture she posted that day. I noticed a comment that said "I was your server that day. You and your other half are adorable!"
She came running when I fucking caught her, and it felt really good to tell her to get the fuck out of my place, slamming the door behind her.
hardinmathclass · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:40 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was bartending, and I carded this girl who ordered a drink. She looked maybe 19 or 20, so I carded her. It was an out-of-state ID (red flag), so I was suspicious. Normally I would try the bendy trick (you can bend a real ID all the way back, but a fake one will usually snap), and/or call a manager over, but I wanted to have some fun.
While I was getting someone else’s drink, I asked if she was in school.
“Yeah, at University of XYZ!”
“Cool! Me too. I’m a freshman,” I lied.
“Hey! Me too!”
…
csdspartans7 · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fell for that one with a cop. He said oh you’re a freshman??? I said uhhhh uhhhh I was held back twice...... im really stupid. Ended up getting off. I gave a fake name and everything and the guy just said he’s of age. I think after spending a lot of time talking to him about my future plans he felt putty for me and let me go
Rithium · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Mmm, my ID would snap and it's real. In fact it's coming apart right now because my wallet bent in a weird way and left a crease in my ID that if I go any further, it will split in two. How accurate is that trick?
hardinmathclass · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It wouldn’t just start to come apart. It would snap. Immediately.
Taylor555212 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Met a guy in a lab once and my first impression was to stay well away. Over time, he grew on me and we became friends. Always had a big fish story about whatever:
—A year ago he was making $90k but quit to go to college
—He could throw a 90+ mph fastball and used to play college baseball
—Could lift hundreds of pounds more than he looked like he could lift, etc.
I usually just let that stuff slide in conversation because it didn’t happen too often. Well eventually his gf breaks up with him and he’s pretty down. I play matchmaker between him and this old flame I had who I was still friends with. Cool girl.
I notice that four days after they meet, they’re just all over each other. I realized he was lying to her every chance he got about himself. She fell for it all.
This upset me because I set them and I felt it was on my reputation if he was going to be like that, kind of like recommending someone for a job, so I went over to her house one evening and told her that I was worried he was lying to her and wasn’t fully genuine. I also said I was just giving her a fair warning and to do what she wanted with the info, because she’s an adult. I asked for privacy about the conversation and of course the first thing she did was tell him about it.
Cue him absolutely livid with me for lying about him behind his back. Drama ensues and he has her on his side, not like I cared that much. I finally tell him that if he can prove he was a collegiate baseball player (the biggest reason she fell for him), I would rescind all my statements and apologize. I ask him where he played.
He tells me the school and I look on their rosters for the years he could have possibly played, which were the previous 3 years. Nowhere on there.
“Whatever man you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Okay... so I email an assistant coach and ask if he’d ever played for them. I get a reply that says Nope!
“...”
Didn’t hear from him after that. Two weeks later, the girl texted me saying she should have listened to me.
My gf at the time thought it was all very stupid, which it was, but if someone’s going to dig their own grave that deep and spit in my face, I’ll be happy to cover them up with the loose dirt.
Boy_O_Boy · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened to me but when I was a around 13 my cousin came over to visit. I was in my "clean the pipes" every shower stage so i really didn't have morals back then. I stole my cousins phone after we went to the pool that day and when we went back i got ready for my shower. She asks if I've seen it and i say no and now my whole family is looking for this phone. So now I hop in the shower and start doing the dirty deed. Im seeing shit that i didnt even know was possible ( first time on a porn website) so i start choking the chicken. Half finished the phones buzzes. I silence it. It buzzes again. Twomore times. Silenced. I was becoming agitated that my video kept getting paused. I resume and im almost done when it buzzes one more time. I was so annoyed that I yelled " I DONT HAVE YOUR PHONE!" Shit. I realized what i had done. I finished, destroyed the evidence, hopped out of the shower and when i got out i saw my cousin. She found the evidence and she was pissed, I was grounded for a few days.
Tl;DR: stole my cousins phone to beat the meat and self incriminated myself mid process while in the shower.
LiBiD24 · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
a girl i was dating had 2 tattoos - a girl's name on her wrist, & someone's initials down the middle of her back. she told me the girl's name was her god daughter, & the initials were of a friend who died in a car accident in high school, & she was in the vehicle. (she later had that tattoo covered up by a feather with FREE written around it, which i thought was strange.) 2 yrs later, she joins the Navy, & after a very painful break up, i find out the initials were her ex-bf's, & the name on her wrist was that guy's daughter. the moment i found that out, it was like i had an enormous weight lifted off my chest, & i knew i had avoided disaster. the type of person that can lie about someone dying in a car accident, is a pretty twisted individual.
MrTacoMan27 · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:48 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Literally everyone at r/tifu
Irrelevantstars · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:33 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work w/ kids and after they go to the bathroom I always ask them if they wash their hands. They say yes and I ask them to come over so I can check. They then proceed to put their hands behind their back, walk over to me and I just point towards the sink. It makes me feel like a good teacher haha
lost_ce92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s never satisfying catching someone lying 😒
pjcircle · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:52 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Can we rename "ask Reddit" to "how can we relate any question to President Trump".
Camero32 · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Make a different sub called r/connecttotrump
nutzpdug · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See ex
MooseKnocker · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I work in a pharmacy. This happens a lot "I didn't get my meds" checks cameras and calls them out. "Oh I just found them thanks"
Suhn-Sol-Jashin · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:39 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
The time when I reminded everyone reading this that they lost "the game" by convincing them that they didn't forget about it.
tardytime · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You are just the worst kind of person...
Suhn-Sol-Jashin · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like making people lose.
the-effects-of-Dust · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My ex “had lung cancer” but adamantly refused to let me go to his treatments with him. Eventually, after months of things just not adding up and me stumbling upon his craigslist profile (back in 09 this was something my friends and I did for kicks) I followed him to his “chemo appointment”. He never had cancer. He was a prostitute. I watched him get out of his car, into another car, drive to a swanky house, follow a man into said House, and come out an hour later covered in sweat with his pants undone and shirt buttoned wrong. I went home, packed my shit then and there, and never spoke to him again.
If he’d told me straight up that’s how he made money I would’ve been okay with it. It was the lie that pissed me off. Like really? Who the fuck lies about having cancer?!
Edit to add more of his ridiculous lies He told me he was a Navy SEAL. Partly true, he was in the navy, as a cook, but got kicked out for fighting too much. He was the first bassist in some metal band (he wasn’t, and could barely play bass). He told me he’d spent 3 years in prison for beating up the guy who raped his sister. He did actually go to prison, but it was for robbing a little old lady that owned a sub shop (he used a toy gun, gun lil detail), and was caught at the BAR NEXT DOOR bragging about how he’d robbed this Vietnamese woman. He also had a shitload of meth on him.
He would also lie about random shit that was so stupidly easy to catch him on. Like one time he came into the bar I worked to meet some friends. They went outside to smoke (re: do coke together) and when the ex came back in he said he’d gotten in a fight with one of the guys and “didn’t you see him sucking his lip? I busted it wide open!” The dude in question had zero marks on his face.
He also once gave me a line of coke, and literally moments after me snorting it informed me I’d actually just done meth.
Real stand up guy.
Extreme_Goose · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
So i went to this tutor and he was really abusive, he would hit kids for random reasons and had harsh punishments, eventually my mom took me out cause my brother went to one class there and realized how abusive this guy was and she took us out, but my math skills were very poor so she had to send me back cause we were new to the country and didn't know that many people and the people my mom knew kept recommending this dude.
So when I came back, he moved up the fee for tutoring from 60 to 70 dollars, and I thought the price was a bit too much and i always thought tutoring was cheaper. Any ways, he kept on changing the price each time and it came to about 100, and since we didn't have that much money since we just started a life here, my parents both had to get 2 jobs.
So, 5 months had passed by, i was complaining about this to my boyfriend at the time, who went to this tutor with me and his mom about how we had been changing the price (this is when he recently changed it to 100) and how they felt about this. They both told me he hadn't changed the price and that it has always been 60. Turns out this guy has been tricking my parents into paying them 100 a month and they have been working their butts off because they wanted me to do the best at math and it had been wasted. So my mom furiously walked into his place and asked if everybody was paying 100 in which he said yes but my mom rallied up the other moms and his face was priceless.
My mom took me out any ways, the last I heard, that place is booming and so many kids are going. Have to take lower level math though.
HecarimAB · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:22 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This girl I was talking to thought I was talking to girls over tinder and accused me of talking to her friend. I asked if the girl she was talking about was Hannah or Megan and she said Hannah. I wasn’t talking to a girl named Hannah or Megan so I caught her trying to trick me. Jokes on her cause I was sleeping with other women.
ashrose4789 · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Why bother dating someone if you're just going to sleep around? Promiscuity isn't a big deal these days, sleep with whoever you want. Just don't act like you're going to commit to one person.
HecarimAB · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
We’re weren’t dating, we were talking
the_alliegator · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Complimented a girl’s shirt in middle school. She said, “thanks, I made it myself!” I saw the tag sticking out as she walked away.
Iamjacksreddituser · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I rang the doorbell to my house as I locked myself out. And after 2 times no one came and answered. Then on the third the guy who lives next to the door who never answers the door came and said said seriously "sorry, I didn't hear the first 2 rings". Needless to say I saw right through it and when I challenged him as to how knew there were a first 2 if didn't hear them, he had no comeback.
furtiveraccoon · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:38 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone tried to claim their tax, but one duke was already dead.
And you can guess what my two cards were
stormycloudysky · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I called in "sick" to work and waltzed into my parents house later that day and my dad said "Ohhhhhhh, so you're playing hooky today then."
He had decided earlier that day to drop by and say hello (which he had never done). Luckily he thought it was funny.
sarbot88 · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:28 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Employee said her mum was dying in hospital from a car crash because she wanted to go home early- I called her Mum 🙄
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:10 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Someone tried to send me a right tit and pass it off as a left. But I suspected something was up, so did a reverse image search on the mirror. Turns out it was not only a right tit, but it wasn't even their picture. Felt good to call them out, so that was satisfying. But I was left with no new left titties. :\
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's never satisfying when I catch someone in a lie.
It's either saddening or annoying. I already have trust issues in general, and they either disappoint me when I trust them or they confirm that trust issue.
I_R_Teh_Taco · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:11 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Executed a werewolf as jailor in town of salem
qwert320 · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:23 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
We were halfway done with our organic chemistry final exam when three students walk in, obviously very late. They told our professor they just got done helping change an older mans tire. (Hoping the professor would excuse their tardiness and still let them take the test). My professor thanked them for doing a good deed and proceeded to grab three blank pieces of paper from his drawer. He wrote a small note on each paper, gave them to the students, and told them to sit on opposite sides of the classroom.
The three students started to look very nervous when they looked at their exam. After the test I learned what my professor had written down on each paper: "Which tire did you change?" Turns out each of their answers were different. They failed their exam and then failed the class.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 4 points · Posted at 15:07:02 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This is an old story, I first heard it in the 1990's. It's fine to tell a story but you don't have to pretend it happened to you.
Justhereforhugs · 2 points · Posted at 14:57:04 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Isn't that a very, very old joke? I've seen it in a couple of places both as a cartoon and written joke. Anyways, if it's true he pulled of a old joke on three students. Good for him :)
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 2 points · Posted at 22:37:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not true. He also heard the old joke but tried t pass it off as his own story
filthy-vans · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My best friend through childhood did something similar. We skipped school one day in grade 9, we were 13-14. She had always been a manipulative girl with zero respect for her Mum & sisters. The eldest daughter in a family of 7 girls. Her lack of respect moved to myself & my family when we hit higher school years. Let’s call her J.
So, we’ve skipped school & we’re hanging out at my place. I think we were looking in my mums room for a pack of cigarettes we could pinch one from. J points to a pile of clean clothes on my Mums bed & the rolled up pair of new nike socks Mum had bought while shoe shopping for me a few days earlier. (Nike was huge at the time, and we lived in quite a poor area with poor families, the socks were almost a treat for my Mum).
Next morning I’m walking down the street to collect J on our way to the bus stop for school. I kid you not, I tune up at her place & she’a got my Mums socks on. I was fucking stunned. How do you approach someone for stealing your Mums socks? For reference; she had already washed/worn them since purchase, they were not brand new. I looked at J & said something to the effect of “oh , you got some new nike socks too hey?” Knowing her she had this bs story lined up about how she got home & her Mum had bought them for her that day, she bought her a 3pack of different colours. Never saw any other colour except my Mums which she wore into the ground. Told my Mum. We never knew how to address it as we’d known J & her family since J & I met in grade 2 at 6-7 years old.
This was one of her tame stories. Like folks who travel down the path of theft, starting small & moving up, so did J. First it was my Mums socks, then it was any male I set my sights on. She successfully coerced 2 high school crushes of mine to be her boyfriend; once in grade 8, once in grade 9.
There was a love triangle between her high school boyfriend & my boyfriends best friend L. Cutting a long story short - my boyfriend B moved back to his home country towards the end of year 9, I was heartbroken. His friend L, J & I were close so we’d go for night drives, smoke cigs & just hang out. L & J were seeing each other at this time. We go back to L’s place to hang. J & I had been drinking that night. I laid down on the bed & J nestled next to me & said she wanted to make out with me to get L excited. I was used to her silly tricks so I kissed her a few times half heartedly & rolled over to sleep while they make out. Wake up out of nowhere, room is dark & L is on top of me, about to do the deed/possibly started. I freak out & see J sitting there watching angrily. I push him off me & J runs out of the house screaming that I’m a slut.
Next day at school - everyone is under the impression that I banged her sometime boyfriend. Not that I was sexually assaulted while under the influence. Back then I believed that it was my fault because I was underage drinking with a guy. We were well known in high school as the popular party girls. Everyone “knew” & J turned them all against me.
Within the year I found out that J had an abortion. I was by her side when she was home. I spoke to my boyfriend who I stupidly told under strict rules not to say anything. He hated her & told one of his friends. That friend, let’s call him C, told the whole school. J turned it on me again, almost rightfully so though as I betrayed her trust. She told everyone that I was jealous of her so I made up the abortion story. I was hated by the masses again.
Once we were out of school she realised she needed to change tactics. 1) None of the boys I was interested in thought J was a good person. 2) She’d settled down with someone at 17 so she couldn’t actually take my love interests. (They are still together and have 2 spawn) (Bonus Round - the person she shacked up with is C! She knew he told the whole school she had an abortion & she had 2 kids with him)
That’s when J started telling my partners I’d cheated on them so they would leave me. I cut all ties with her when she pulled it on someone I really cared about. We’re not together now but he was the first man to treat me with care & I wasn’t about to let that ice cold bitch ruin my life any longer.
A little while after school people we knew started seeing her for what she was. J was a compulsive liar who used manipulation to get what she wanted, whatever that was. I hope those who knew us as the 2 best friends joined at the hip see the lies she created. She really did leave her mess through my life. I don’t really do friends now.
Tipsy_Owl · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:26 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
I was with a friend in a shop and he asked him “do you know so and so?” He was introducing me to this guy but it took a very weird turn. He said “yeah, I know her” and continued to talk about me. It was obvious he didn’t know it was me standing right there.
imprakrut · -1 points · Posted at 18:57:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened when I was in school. One friend brought an expensive chocolate and asked my another friend to share it with me.
Later that friend became reluctant to share the chocolate. So during the break when he went to the toilet, I took that chocolate from his bag and ate it.
During the end of the break, I asked him if he was willing to share it now.
He lied to my face saying that he can't because he already ate it.
Later when I told him that I already ate the chocolate, the look on his face was priceless. He was caught lying and he didn't have a chocolate to eat!
Brighteyes720 · 3 points · Posted at 19:13:59 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Haha. Damn dude. You were being a bad guy by eating the whole chocolate and he was the worse guy only after he lied.
Tbf though, I did this quite a lot with my sister and vice versa.
admiralCeres · -12 points · Posted at 17:05:19 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Total lie. Obama was such a liar.
ignost · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That was satisfying for you?
UnknownOverspoken · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:31 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Comments like this make me appreciate the NHS so much more.
Murfdirt · 0 points · Posted at 17:11:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a military Air Traffic controller not the most satisfying but a good one that happened this week on the tail end of a busy night shift:
Me at 3am (back story) ..I taxi a 747 from the east side of the airfield to the west side of the airport using the runway instead of the min taxiway due to construction on the main taxiway. Then I cleared him for takeoff.
Phone rings as I get done clearing 747 for takeoff.
Me: this is X tower.
Pumpkin spice latte drinking pole smoker "big shot" maintainer working his one weekend of the month: stop that 747! He can't taxi on that closed... There is a NOTAM! THE TAXIWAY IS CLOSED! Basically, you can't have aircraft on that taxiway. Do you know that? I mean I was watching him and he drove right over the cones. We need to have him shut down present position to check his engines for debris, I saw FOD get sucked up by the aircraft.
(747 is midfield airborne and I'm rolling my eyes as I listen to him explain the situation.)
Me: Sir, you saw the 747...taxi on the main taxiway... And, his engines sucked up a cone from the closed taxiway?
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM: Yes! He needs to be checked out!
Me: No he didn't. No he doesn't.
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM: what!?!
Me: no he didn't, hold on... (on freq) "747,change to departure, g'day. (back to phone) what were you saying again?
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM: I saw his wings over the cones!
Me: no you didn't, I taxied him. That NOTAM you are referring to has been in effect for the last 3 weeks. Not to mention there is no concrete on that closed portion yet. If the 747 would have taxied down that taxiway and over the cones you are talking about... He would have struck 4 pieces of heavy equipment, fell into a 200'x1000'x2'deep dirt hole. Now I'm no Engineer, nor am I a maintainer of any kind but seeing as how it's 3 am and i am just an Air Traffic Controller. Why would all of that happen and the pilot still call ready for departure?
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM:......... From my angle it...
Me: alright, (my initials) (it signals to people end of the message)
PSLDPS"BS"MWHOWOTM: (initials) click.
Edited for formatting
russells-crockpot · 2 points · Posted at 21:27:24 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
raises hand NOTAM?
Murfdirt · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:18 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Aviation advisories for nonstandard stuff. Like construction, closures, wing tip restrictions, etc.
Megandapanda · 1 points · Posted at 01:26:46 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not to be that girl, but I can't read this due to the formatting. It just looks like a giant wall of text to me.
Edit: much better, thanks!
qu33fwellington · 0 points · Posted at 19:53:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Small, but I once had a roommate that was just awful. The other tenants and I put up with her shit for a year (smoking cigarettes in the apartment, being constantly fucked up on xanax, never taking the trash out, never getting a job because her parents paid her rent, never buying food for the house but eating ours, throwing parties where our things got destroyed, etc etc). Come move out day I caught her trying to take my modem and router. Knowing she'd pull something like that due to her past behavior, I'd saved receipts for months. When I caught her taking it, she insisted she'd bought it (first off, with what money? Second, fuck you). I whipped that receipt out so fast, like you wouldn't believe. After all the crap she'd put us through it was so satisfying to watch her face crumple as she begrudgingly handed over MY things. She's now an 'Instagram model' and had to move back in with her parents because no one else we knew would live with her and she was too lazy to find someone on Craigslist. Bye bitch.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:46:57 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
My high school sweetheart (2007) had a secret facebook account. I found his account, reset the password, and then made his page into an advertisement for cross-dressing enthusiasts. He was furious! I felt great :)
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 17:34:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Because you posted it saying “I guaranteed she was a virgin” and that’s laughable
xman720 · -1 points · Posted at 17:40:00 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
There was this guy I worked with a few years ago named Dave. Dave was absolutely the worst, we were all sure he was a compulsive liar. You could name anyone in the world and Dave would say he knew that guy. One time, I got tired of his antic so I decided to ask him, straight up, if he knew Tom Cruise. The idiot actually said he knew Tom Cruise, so I figured this would be easy. We actually called up Tom Cruise and to my utter bewilderment Tom Cruise was on his contacts and he answered the phone and started talking about how he wish they talked more and how they were buddies in college. I figured Dave got lucky on that one, so I decided I would try someone else. I asked Dave, straight-up, if he knew Donald Trump. He not only said he knew Donald Trump but that Donald Trump gave him money right after college so Dave could start his own small business. I knew this was so far out of the truth, but he pulled out his phone and Trump was on his contacts. He called the number and the literal president of the United States asked him how he was doing since he sold his business, and said the two of them should get a beer after Trump's not so busy.
I couldn't believe it, but I knew Dave was probably just getting really lucky. So finally I said "Okay Dave, Pope Francis. You don't know Pope Francis." Dave had a stupid grin on his face and said "Sure do, I went to Catholic school with Pope Francis in 3rd and 4th grade." I knew he was lying though because its not possible to just call Pope Francis so it wouldn't be easy to catch his lie, but he insisted that Pope Francis was a good friend and that he would buy plane tickets for the two of us to visit Vatican city and meet Pope Francis. I could believe how utterly full of lies this guy was so I bit. Sure enough in another week, he had plane tickets, paid for by himself. We flew out to Vatican city and went visited the Vatican while the pope was giving a speech there. Idiot Dave walked up to the security guys and before he even reached them I could see them yelling "Hey! It's Dave! I haven't seen you in forever!" Dave said he would go up to the Pope before his speech. I fall over laughing at how delusional this guy is.
Unfortunately, as I'm waiting in the crowd, I'm amazed to see both Dave and the Pope walk onto the balcony, the Pope with his hand on Dave's shoulder like some old friend. Everyone starts cheering and I absolutely lose it, there's no way Dave knows the Pope. Just then, a guy standing next to me nudges my shoulder and asks, "I don't know if this is a stupid question, but who's that weirdly dressed guy on the balcony standing next to Dave?"
I guess this isn't technically a good answer to the thread since I'm still waiting to catch Dave in his lies.
That's the last thing I remember before I had a heart attack.
itwillmakesenselater · 0 points · Posted at 16:28:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Does this have to be IRL or can busting someone on reddit count? Cause that shit could take all day.
lejefferson · 0 points · Posted at 16:37:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's never satisfying to catch someone lying. It's awkwad and uncomfortable for everyone involved. I usually just end up feeling embarrassed for the person.
russells-crockpot · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:14 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Fuck that person! That person is a liar!
Oisyr · 0 points · Posted at 17:00:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Had a buddy like that growing up. We decided to do the same thing one day but with a video game we came up with. He was completely in the know with this make believe game.
hockeystud87 · 0 points · Posted at 17:56:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Everyday on reddit...
Da_Majestic_Flamingo · 0 points · Posted at 19:11:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Thanks was playing go-fish with my hole family and someone asked for a 7 and I had all the 7s
russells-crockpot · 0 points · Posted at 21:01:05 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you had all the sevens, wouldn't you have put them down to score?
PTMoney18 · 0 points · Posted at 19:23:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
"No collusion!"
Kerish_Lotan · 0 points · Posted at 20:26:03 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
See: The most recent Time magazine cover.
https://imgur.com/a/QnfC0NO
mantatucjen · 0 points · Posted at 20:45:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You can do this pretty reliably by turning on Fox news
Orangecup05 · 0 points · Posted at 20:52:29 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I hope nonsense counts.
I was working as a non emergency patient transfer specialist. A lot like a paramedic minus the tragedy.
My partner, a mother of three in her 50's and I were waiting with our stretcher for a patient to finish up his appointment for a tube change in interventional radiology.
To pass the time, my partner decided to start talking about random things with me. And she eventually got onto the topic of the universe and more specifically horoscopes and how accurate they are.
Horoscopes are complete nonsense. We all know that.
So I said to her that I'd be happy to read her a horoscope and then she can tell me if it really is absolutely accurate for her. So I ask her birthday, she's a Scorpio.
I read a horoscope to her and she's really excited and says that yes, that's definitely spot on and it's making so much sense to her, specifically as a Scorpio.
And that's when I show her the page I was reading and put my finger on the one I had just read.
I read Aries to her.
Boy was she upset with me after that!! Worth it.
Horoscopes are lies. It's all nonsense. Snake oil.
Kali_kade · 0 points · Posted at 21:21:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It happened when i reconnected with and started dating my current S.O. My then best friend had invited both of us to her house for a party. She even made bets with people about how long it would take for us to start dating.
Well, flash forward a month and it went public that we were dating. All of sudden his ex is calling him up with all these little details that not many people would have known about us. And around that time i started noticing my then best friend getting super jealous of me. Oh, and she claimed that she was no longer friends with his ex.
The lie: Ex best friend had contacted his ex just to be a snake. I cut off all contact with her once I found out what was going on. She ended up throwing a little hissy fit that caused her to loose all her friends.
hub_batch · 0 points · Posted at 22:10:01 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
In freshman year World History we did presentations weekly, just short ones where we went over a topic for the next chapter. This kid, (we'll call him Dave), goes up and starts his presentation. Given that these were freshman level presentations, they were usually awful and full of full length paragraphs. This one was, and he stands there reading the whole thing.
The lie: I noticed the text, on his white presentation, had a slight off white highlight. A telltale sign it was from Wikipedia. After he's done reading this novel, in the beat of silence I say: "You know, when you copy-paste from Wikipedia, you should really make sure your text matches your presentation."
Dave missed out on points for that week. I was just so tired of seeing my classmate's garbage presentations and watching them get points for it later. (No hard feelings between me and Dave, happy graduation bro :) )
Brooke1648 · 0 points · Posted at 23:02:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Not completely on topic, but in fifth grade one of my friends told me that she was born with six toes. I was sure that she was lying and got really mad at her for trying to deceive me. The next day she brought a picture to school of her as a baby. Sure enough, she was born with six toes.
AD_ARCANA_TUTANDA · 0 points · Posted at 23:50:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
TLDR; destroyed Christmas as I caught my parents in a lie
I was a four year old girl who loved the fuck out of Christmas (still do), but alas my belief of Santa Clause didn't last for as long as my love for the holiday has. I was one of those kids that would leave out a plate of cookies and a thank you note that I had scribbled myself. That night I fell asleep early to wake up at dawn for Christmas morning. My room was right next to the living room, where the tree stood in between, being close to my room.
I was very fixated on catching Santa in his act this year. This was my year to bust that little fucker, or so I thought. I surveilled the tree for what seemed to be the entire night, with the door ajar. I get out of bed at the crack of dawn, with the house completely still, everyone sleeping, except that suddenly there were presents underneath the tree! the cookies were GONE, and my thank you note replaced with a letter from "Santa" - none of which were there a half hour ago.
I remember feeling so frustrated that I didn't get to meet Santa, or his deer, that my mission was unsuccessful and that I lost out on sleep, but that's when I opened up the letter from Santa. As beautiful and sweet as the note was, thanking me for the cookies and apologizing that I didn't get to see him arrange the presents himself, since his invisible elves do it for him as his bones hurt - it was ruined by the fact that it was written in none other than my own dad's hand-writing. How could a 4-year-old know that, you ask? Well, my father was an artist with a very particular & unique penmanship. This was the moment that my illusion of the 'Christmas fairytale-magic' crumbled apart, as I realized my own father forged the note. Since I was the first one to wake up, I figured the rest of the house was asleep.
I sat down by the tree, note in hand, soaked in betrayal, waiting for my parents...until I thought of a better plan; wake them the fuck up and confront them. So my lil 4yr-old livid self walks over to my parents bedroom, (who were awake by the way - shocker - I know), and very loudly proclaims that Santa had arrived. My parents are gleeful, excited, and overjoyed assuming they've successfully stretched the lie for yet another year. I continued standing there, not yet finished with what I had to say:
"He left me a letter."
"Wow, that's so nice of him! What did he say?!"
"Either of you want to tell me why his note was written by dad?"
Silence. My mom looks puzzled for a sec. My dad's face DROPS. The ultimate "oh shit" moment, I could see it in eyes. His 4yr old kid had caught on to their bullshit, this is the year that it ends and the magic stops, this is when the lie dies. My mother and father jump on the defense "no sweetie, that's impossible" , "Maybe both dad and Santa just happen to have a similar handwriting" as if I could continue to believe such a lie. Dad even goes as far as rewriting the note in a different fake script, to argue that the potential evidence disproved my theory as his handwriting was completely different (as was suggested by my mom). Watching them stumble over about how Santa is so totally real and travels every year by sleigh from the north pole, etc. - I wasn't buying it, so I asked them to prove it. Go into your nightstands and find your signatures for comparison. As they slowly "looked", I went over to my dad's painting studio to look into his notebook but didn't have to go that far, as the back of one of his canvases was left turned over, covered with his own handwriting. I held it up alongside "Santa's" letter. They were a complete match.
Eventually, after about a half hour of going back and fourth, they finally confess and tell me the truth, explaining the story and mythos of Father Christmas, traditions, etc. I will never forget just how satisfying it felt to catch my parents in a lie.
Etaec · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:48 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
5 or 6 yr old
googleitmofugga · 0 points · Posted at 18:29:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
This would sound believable if you were 6, 7yrs old but FOUR?
Your attention span and critical thinking skills were impressive for a 4yr old. just saying
furious_20 · 0 points · Posted at 04:14:09 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I'm a teacher and catch kids lying so often it isn't fun at all anymore. My main concern is over the course of my 22 year career as an educator is teenagers have generally gotten more and more terrible at lying.
nolo_me · 0 points · Posted at 12:03:41 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
"Satisfying" is a really odd word. I'm not satisfied when I catch someone lying to me, I'm disappointed they lied to me.
ROARscaredyoudidntI · 3 points · Posted at 14:04:56 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
So you have no story to contribute ?
nolo_me · -2 points · Posted at 14:10:34 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
It's not really something I hang onto, taking pleasure at catching someone in a lie is a character flaw nearly as bad as lying.
Edit: ooh, folks really don't like that mirror held up to them.
endritn · 0 points · Posted at 14:13:21 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
The Truth About Lying
bigk777 · 0 points · Posted at 19:09:28 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
I used to work with a guy that would tell you a story, then forget he told you months/year later and tell you the same story but now story is more....puffed up.
Every time he told the story it would be a bigger and bigger version of said story. Really dude?
peterwzapffe · -5 points · Posted at 15:53:58 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When I realized Preacher and Christianity as a whole was full of shit.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 13:42:57 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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BeardsuptheWazoo · 11 points · Posted at 13:57:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Your story has no connecting part to show him lying about anything. Just that he got hurt and then got picked up.
cool story bro
Dravarden · -1 points · Posted at 16:52:13 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I gave my friend my old graphics card so he could upgrade his computer, turns out his old PSU was not powerful enough to power it (gtx 750 > gtx 770) so him and another friend went and bought a PSU that I told them did not have the required connectors, which are 2x8 PCI-e power connectors, but his friend insisted that his PC at home with the same graphics card works just fine with 1 PCI-e power cable connected.
Nothing I said would change their minds so they went ahead and tried the graphics card. Next thing he messages me? a picture of a black screen that says "Please power down and connect the PCI-e power cables for this graphics card"
Maybe next time they will listen, luckily the shop accepted the PSU return.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:07 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Wheres the lie?
Dravarden · -1 points · Posted at 18:11:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Bulletoverload · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That's not a lie that's just ignorance. As a computer tech, I see it a lot. People like to think they know what they are talking about. Any profession will see this, really.
Dravarden · -1 points · Posted at 21:02:46 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
sure, that happens, but in this case it wasn't. He helped him build the computer and knows his stuff, he just lied to be an asshole towards me/because he thought i didn't know anything
Bulletoverload · 0 points · Posted at 21:29:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Oh. The way it was worded made me think he was just clueless, I didn't know he actually misguided him on purpose. Ass move
Niggasbecookin · 0 points · Posted at 23:03:21 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My Pastor when he told me the myth of Jesus.
untg · 4 points · Posted at 23:29:53 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Are you saying this was the most satisfying time where you caught someone lying? Can you please elaborate how you caught him lying?
[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 15:52:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:22:20 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
You in the right thread Private?
34HoldOn · 2 points · Posted at 08:04:38 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
From one veteran to another: Shut the fuck up. Nobody's impressed by you, nor should they be. You're not an impressive or virtuous person just for joining the military. If you want to get your ass unquestionably kissed, then go find the crowd that whines about football players kneeling for the anthem.
dvjust_as_soon_as · 0 points · Posted at 23:20:59 on June 28, 2018 · (Permalink)
From one veteran to another: your opinion means nothing just like my opinion means nothing. What gives you the moral authority to pass judgement on somebody and tell them to be quiet? You're not a impressive or virtuous person just for joining the military like me so what makes what you say anymore valid? It doesn't if you needed the spoiler.
34HoldOn · 0 points · Posted at 00:04:50 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Now, you'll notice the key difference here is that I never claimed to impressive or virtuous, I just called you out for talking some stupid ass bullshit. You're the one who started in with your "Jealous of us for signing our names and going where we were told". Which is some stupid shit that you got off of a moto shirt if I've ever seen it. And it's condescending as fuck.
Everything else you've said is nothing more than another way to say "Waaahh my opinion". Well, no shit it's your opinion. And dumb ass opinions have the right to be called out. And from the looks of it, I'm far from the only one who thinks you words were fucking stupid. And if you don't believe me, visit any veteran community here. You'll find that they're not filled with people who think they're special for "Signing that blank check". You can reflect on it, or you can take another week from now to reply. But what you said was fucking stupid. And it deserved to be called out. And it was. Next.
dvjust_as_soon_as · 0 points · Posted at 00:19:23 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
Yeah thats the glory of being in america on social media i can say stupid things and people will take me seriously and get triggered and then say their opinion means more lol its satire
34HoldOn · 0 points · Posted at 00:23:42 on June 29, 2018 · (Permalink)
I guess you think I was born yesterday. The "Lol I troll" you excuse is older than you. I would have had more respect for you if you just stopped replying.
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Hookedongutes · 2 points · Posted at 19:07:34 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don't think I should give two hoots about the guy who lied to me about having a girlfriend. Then convinced me he was dumping her for me. (I'm dumb for trusting him) Then told me he did the deed. And lied about that.
Catching him and letting her know she was cheated on was the best thing I did. I stood up for myself. That was satisfying. What kind of hurt is he feeling that he thinks that's okay to do and why should I feel bad about it?
You can't have both. If you cheat.. there are consequences. If you lie about something as big as that.. there are consequences. It's not a difficult concept.
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Vallanth627 · 5 points · Posted at 14:06:42 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Let your brother do his thing. You'll regret this behavior later in life.
slk55 · -1 points · Posted at 17:15:37 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
If you like your doctors....you can keep your doctors.....fucking liar......
derpeedame12 · -1 points · Posted at 17:51:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My younger brother’s pathological liar of his oldest sons mom decided she wanted to go out one night when my nephew was about 3 months old and, since my bro told her she should stay because they were short on cash, she left and didn’t come back. I helped him out by watching him while he was at work and since my daughter was 6 days younger and they were both very mellow kids it wasn’t a problem and I adored him. Couple of years later she was living with her dad and wanted to spend time with him. My brothers cool, it’s his mom. Dumb broad thought my bro should pay her for watching her own kid. Since he told her to shove it she decided to try and get partial custody so he’d have to pay support.
During school age our kids went to the same school so my bros week I’d pick them both up and watch him until my bro got off work. In 8th grade she got a wild hair and decided she wanted full custody. She tells her lawyer she’s been a great mom and she should just get him on my bros weeks since he couldn’t pick him up. Why was I doing it, “he didn’t even know me!” Wtf! Goes to court, spreads more lies of my bros lack of commitment and me being a stranger, blah, barf, blah. Judge pulls my nephew into his chambers and they come back out. She gets chastised for lying and she ends up with the same visitation and having to pay back support. Yeah, screw if Rebekah! I know longer have to play nice cuz they’re 21!
PoopyMcpants · -1 points · Posted at 18:21:10 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This time on Reddit when I caught a user with an obvious toxic sock puppet account.
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jjg0750 · -1 points · Posted at 18:28:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
A co worker said he never eats at Chick fil a on sundays because it is too busy.
Same person hated the baggers at Save a lot because they smash his bread.
sgtbake · -1 points · Posted at 18:54:26 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Never. I’ve never been in a position to enjoy catching someone in a lie. It has happened many times in my career, but I’ve never gained satisfaction from it because it has ALWAYS been the lies of a superior. When you’re a subordinate, I’ve learned, you must tow the line, or pay the price. Shining light in an upward direction doesn’t illuminate anything.
lgermanrn · -1 points · Posted at 19:56:11 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
been reading through these comments for like half an hour and only just remembered this.
So there's a tumblr post that is a few years old about a girl stating how much tea means to British people. She then tells a story about how her and her mother had an argument and her mum made her a cup of tea as an apology. She then apparently poured it down the sink and made another.
Less than a week ago, a girl (from south africa), who lives across the road from me posts a status on facebook telling this exact story but instead of it being about her and her mother it's about her and her brother.
When i was younger I never used tumblr but i loved reading tumblr posts on facebook and followed a bunch of pages so I had seen this story at least twice and I instantly recognised this.
I commented, saying "Isn't this a tumblr post?" and screenshotted it in case she deleted it. Sure enough, in the next half hour or so, I get a notification saying '[Redacted] replied to your comment on facebook.' Now, this is either her deleting it or actually replying, so I checked. As i had expected, she'd deleted it. I commented something about her deleting it and she just replied "yep." Now, her mother posts a comment on the status about how her and her brother are always arguing or something in an attmpt to back her up. It sounds completely forced, itherwise I would have backtracked and thought "Wow, this really happened!"
Even to me this sounds stupid and made up and I thought i was having a bad dream or something because this is the stupidest thing I, myself have ever seen someone my age do so blatantly.
carterthekidr6 · -1 points · Posted at 20:26:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This one could be considered NSFW
I made a stupid joke about a pussy cat and it was a squirting joke and i.told my friend. He then was like HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? Then he told my other friend and then I asked them and they said they have a inappropriate sister. The other one said, I kid you not, said I HAVE A LiTTLE SISTER. His little sister is 4. He Clearly has no idea what squirting is. It was disgusting.
enjoimark · -1 points · Posted at 20:29:55 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I worked for a company for 4.5 years. Within 4 months I became assistant manager, and my manager made it clear that she had cancer. Hodgkins lymphoma, to be exact... and she states she has had it since 1988. She took every opportunity to tell any and everyone she could. Tons of customers felt sorry for her, employees as well, and she would take off weeks and months at a time for chemo treatments.
I didn’t believe her from day one. I’ve had multiple family members die of cancer, and I knew what chemo treatments did to you. It was a struggle just to come to work every day, watching her make people feel sorry for her. We caught her cutting her hair in the bathroom a few times, and she’d come out saying “omg look my hair is falling it from the chemo”. When her husband would come in the store, I’d purposely mention the cancer. He would just look at me weird and not say much.
So I made it a life goal to out this woman. I quit that job, went to college for the IT field, and decided I must get a job in the medical field. 2 years later I landed a job at the local hospital, and had access to medical records, radiology images, so on.
The very first thing I did was look her up. I found only a few records, but the first one I pulled up was from 6 months prior to that date (1.5 years after I had quit). It clearly stated “no prior cancer” in the records. I looked up the others... none of them said anything about cancer. As a matter of fact this lady was perfectly healthy, nothing wrong with her.
Of course I couldn’t say anything... I had already broken HIPAA law, and telling anyone would just land myself in a world of trouble. So I’ve just kept it to myself... but the satisfaction I got from finding out the truth was one of the best feelings in the world.
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Dr_Brian_Pepper · 0 points · Posted at 22:06:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
just imagine being this dumb, that you cant even focus on the question asked but refute to politic talk.
BONESandTOMBSTONES · -1 points · Posted at 02:09:55 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Even at a young age I rarely lied and I hated doing it. It came to the point when I told her to own her shit and I'm not doing that for her anymore. Like don't bring me into your false world. Great parenting mom.
Bufferkiller · -1 points · Posted at 21:45:33 on June 25, 2018 · (Permalink)
They gave us about a minute of hot water for the first couple of weeks. I graduated basic in December, and it got insanely cold there at the end.
ConceptHut · -5 points · Posted at 17:50:47 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
When leftists say something and it's obvious it's nonsense. Such a good laugh that gives me.
stonerplumber · -14 points · Posted at 13:36:51 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Recently took my phone in to get looked at the guy did nothing and said it wasnt repareable but said dont worry we got a promotion where your balance paid off if you just buy a new phone said it only lasted till the end of the day. I told him the phone worked so id wait as soon as i got outside the sound worked again.
thenamesbootsy · 17 points · Posted at 14:38:45 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Punctuation marks are overrated anyway
jewrassic_park-1940 · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Uncle Jack and the horse
34HoldOn · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:18 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
That one never made any grammatical sense anyway. It inserts unnecessary commas. All they had to do was add the word "of" after Jack.
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r/thathappened
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someguy7734206 · 4 points · Posted at 16:48:32 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I like the idea of a public shaming bot, but a public shaming human will have to do for now.
warmonger19 · -2 points · Posted at 16:01:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It was extremely painful when this first happened but now it is very satisfying. A girl I graduated with from Highschool had stayed in pretty good contact with me in college. Shared her struggles with me and I tried to carry her. One day she tells me I was one of five individuals who did the same thing for her and that she was going to ghost me. Which began the 3-nights of conversations—revealing each and every little lie. My favorite lie was when she said I wasn’t good enough to her. Her last words to me had said I was too good to be true, making a complete reversal in that short time. This is so satisfying because I actually doubted myself and believed her—that I didn’t treat her or anyone right. After 3-nights of conversation it turned out that I was doing the right thing all along. Moral of the story for me: listen to what others say, but don’t blindly believe them, especially if the belief is of yourself.
failoutboy · -2 points · Posted at 18:15:09 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I don’t have any actual good ones but a few weeks ago on Overwatch, there was some dipstick in voice chat calling all of us trash players. I argued back because it was funny to hear him try to insult me (“you ugly woman”) and think he could get a reaction out of a 14 year old boy. He died, talked shit about me not trying to protect him, a dps. Like what? I’m a Hanzo, shut up. He calls me a piece of shit, says he as all gold medals and tries to avoid my question when I ask him his stats. Me, with gold 30 kills, asks him how many kills he’s got. He responds “I’ve got 40 you ugly cunt” and I feel all of the stars align as I prepare to tell him. “I’ve got gold actually, you fuckin’ loser, and I have thirty.” And then the best thing ever, “Shut up you’re a girl” and doesn’t try to even listen to anybody else in voice chat. Pure gold. Reported him and the next time I logged on to find he got a punishment.
Bakkenjh · -2 points · Posted at 19:24:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I recently disclosed to my Taekwondo teacher that I had also been taking judo from another teacher. The taekwondo teacher got really mad and at one point accused my judo teacher of not buying a building because he didn’t really have enough balls. I told my judo teacher this, who then messaged my taekwondo teacher.
The next time I saw my taekwondo teacher, he exclaimed: I never said that about his balls! I’m like: yeah you did. He’s like: no I didn’t. I’m like yeah you did! He’s like: well if I said that then it’s for good reason. Yeah right, friggen liar. Trying to make it look like I was lying about what he said. I’m no longer associating with that Taekwondo class lol
cypher437 · -3 points · Posted at 16:33:49 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
About two year ago I was on the subway and some girl was laying down on the guys lap with a jacket over his head, clearly giving him head. It was like 3pm so the train was kinda empty but and I said, "excuse me is she sucking you off under there?" he's eyes popped out his head as he went red and said "No" so I got up to pull the jacket off and he quickly stands up and knees the girl in the face.
Fuck liars.
SpaceGeneralAmerica · -3 points · Posted at 16:36:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
This happened recently while I was playing as SCP-173 on a Garry's Mod SCPRP server. A big rule is that you can't handcuff SCP-173 and restrain them, you can only use a cage.
This one player, Pete, broke that rule, blindfolded and gagged me as well, a statue, and then started punching me, acting like he had made me his bitch. I was screaming at him the whole time about he broke the rules, wanting his head. And when another SCP researcher showed up and told him he couldn't restrain me, this asshole has the gall to say I had asked to be restrained, while right in front of me. Where I could hear him and was screaming he had broken the rules.
I believe my rage was so pure it straight up broke SCP-173's key feature of being frozen when looked at just so I could chase him down and snap his neck.
pookydabear · -2 points · Posted at 17:12:08 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
My mom has a really close friend and sometimes would spend most of her time with him rather than me. She said she was coming home to cook me dinner but I tracked her phone and found her at his house, 15 miles away.
LisaLove2020 · -3 points · Posted at 03:30:05 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
Long sad story.... someone asked me to notarize something..... I found out later, when The Police knocked on my door.... that the person and documents were fraudulent. I found out the real "Crystal" was 5'10" and the imposter he brought to my home is 5'3".
I could have gotten 5-10 years in jail for fraud and/or perjury.
There's a lot more lies and drama and evil from that man -- but I don't want to spend any more time thinking about him. :(
OOOOOOUUUUUUCCCCHHHHHH. :(
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 04:57:01 on June 24, 2018 · (Permalink)
In high school I had a class mate who was extremely entitled and a real nuisance to everyone where he would get into arguments with the teacher and the last thing he did that really got on my nerves was that he would be very boastful and try and act as though he was 'bad' well one day he was boasting to the teacher about how he supposedly spent a night in jail and since I was really just done with his shit I interrupted him while he was boasting and said 'Oh what did you do steal a Snickers bar?' so I start mocking him and making up what he would be telling his cellie 'Yeah man I am here for stealing a snickers bar what about you?' Causing him to shut up where when ever I would catch him in a lie I would remind him about the Snickers bar jab where I would say 'Oh what did you do this time and does it involve a snickers bar?'
daBO55 · -11 points · Posted at 13:37:25 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Me and this dude got in a fight and he snitched about it and said I stated it so I pulled out a clip of him saying he was gonna kick my ass
EnterSadman · 7 points · Posted at 17:08:02 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I bet you're both wholesome people.
PreEntertain · -4 points · Posted at 17:57:23 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
I had this abusive girlfriend. Total bitch. Beat me physically, controlled me emotionally, and I suspected that once she had cheated on me. She denied it. I let it slide for just about a year, and I found out that she had started blabbing to her girlfriends about how big my dick was. So much so that one of them was a little too interested.
Instead of breaking up with her and pursuing the friend, I decided to fuck the friend. Friend told another friend. Fucked that friend too! Then, my favourite awful thing I did was fuck her brothers girlfriend. (He was a douche apparently with a small dick too.)
Eventually I decided that there was much better pussy out there than the abusive gf, so I decided to break up with her. When I did she was apparently distraught and couldn't believe it. She kept begging me to stay, asking me WHY WHY WHY!! and I told her "I slept with someone else"
And here's where her lie comes out.
"OOhhh no its ok! I cheated on you too! It was a one time thing" and confirmed my single suspicion. With a grin on my face, and her future sister-inlaws crotch sauce still on my mouth from the night before, I gave her our final kiss goodbye and left her at her home.
I walked away so damn proud of myself. It wasn't because she cheated on me. It was because she treated me like shit. Fucked her one friend a few more times and then found the love of my life who I have remained loyal to for years.
Lawson-RL · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:06 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
That is the most bs story I have ever heard in my life.
UDPviper · -6 points · Posted at 17:33:17 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
Every day with Trump, but there's no satisfaction.
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Lawson-RL · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:44 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
r/thathappened
lost_ce92 · -8 points · Posted at 19:41:54 on June 23, 2018 · (Permalink)
It’s never satisfying catching someone lying 😒